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Suspense - "Dead Ernest" (Old Time Radio, 1949) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Ernest Bauers is struck by a car at a city intersection,
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  Speaker 1: and a rare cataleptic condition leaves him appearing dead. A
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  Speaker 1: police accident report, missing medical warnings, and the urgent need
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  Speaker 1: to establish his true condition set events in motion from CBS.
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  Speaker 1: This is suspense Dead Earnest listed as episode four with
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  Speaker 1: an original broadcast date of March second, nineteen forty nine.
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  Speaker 1: Pad O'Brien stars with Alan Reid, also heard in a
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  Speaker 1: script by Celig Lester and Mervyn Girard. Now back to
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  Speaker 3: Suspend the Night.
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  Speaker 4: of the most famous of suspense plays, produced and directed
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  Speaker 4: And now Autolite presents Pad O'Brien in the tail well,
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  Speaker 4: calculated to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 5: Accident Report to lease Inspector Blandon from Lieutenants Healy Place,
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  Speaker 5: Fifteenth Street and Fourth Avenue, time two forty five pm,
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  Speaker 5: March eleventh, remarks Ernest Bowers, age thirty four, was crossing
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  Speaker 5: the intersection as the signal light changed from green to red.
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  Speaker 5: A car driven by a Theaterre trophy made a legal
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  Speaker 5: right turn from fifteenth Street into Fourth Avenue.
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  Speaker 3: Much wrong, guys, so cold, he's bleeding right clear?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 5: Come on now, w.
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  Speaker 3: Alright, stand back, Nah, let's have a look. Is he
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  Speaker 3: hurt that eye? I didn't see him, honest, I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I had the right away, and he's passed down. One
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  Speaker 3: of your people come for ambulance. Yeah, yeah, you there, Oh, Kate.
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  Speaker 7: Move move looking, he's bleeding, he's beating.
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  Speaker 3: Here, I'll prop up.
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  Speaker 2: His hand here, use his jagget eg here, I'll hold him.
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  Speaker 3: Golly, he's limp. He feels just like he's dead.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Ernest Bowers felt like he was dead. Ernest Bauer
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  Speaker 5: suffered from catalypsy, a strange disease. He carried her all times,
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  Speaker 5: or note in his inside jacket pocket stating that he
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  Speaker 5: was a cataleptic, and then in the event of seeming death,
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  Speaker 5: his wife should immediately be notified or his doctor in
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  Speaker 5: the event his wife is unavailable. The letter also requested
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  Speaker 5: that no autopsy or embombing should be performed on his
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  Speaker 5: body for seventy two hours, although in his particular case
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  Speaker 5: the duration of the attacks were usually four hours or less.
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  Speaker 5: Ernest Bauers also wore a sterling silver bracelet with an
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  Speaker 5: inscription reading, do not embalm me I am not dead.
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  Speaker 3: Catalypsy is a disease of the nerves and mind.
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  Speaker 5: The physical conditions of a catalyeptic when he was under
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  Speaker 5: his spell closely resemble death in all aspects, including the
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  Speaker 5: primary stages of riga mortis. Officer Rabbit was on the
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  Speaker 5: scene of the accident. He administered aid to the injured
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  Speaker 5: man before making out of.
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  Speaker 3: The report and stopped the bleeding. Looks like just the
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  Speaker 3: cut on his forehead when he hit the ground. Nothing much.
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  Speaker 3: Oh what's your name?
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  Speaker 8: Is Toby Theodoretoby? Yeah, here's my life?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, hey, hey, you kids?
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  Speaker 3: What do those kids do? They picked up something off
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  Speaker 3: the street?
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  Speaker 9: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Here it comes. I hope he's all right.
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  Speaker 8: Eye.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't look like he's breathing. You know, my gosh,
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  Speaker 3: you ain't. I told you to get back. Come on now,
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  Speaker 3: he's come on. I'm glad you're here.
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  Speaker 10: Doc.
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  Speaker 3: He's out cold. Okay, h I'll say he's out cold.
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  Speaker 8: Let's get him my wife, he's dead.
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  Speaker 10: Well anyhow, it didn't happen to Okay.
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  Speaker 11: We'll take away.
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  Speaker 3: Kick back, yeah, kick clear round, Come on.
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  Speaker 8: One today.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah there, Well, let's go.
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  Speaker 8: Whose coat was that he was laying on?
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: Did you pick it up? No?
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  Speaker 3: A officer, Yeah, where's the coat? H Well, gosh, it's gone. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: never mind, let's go.
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  Speaker 5: Bank and his bowers had lost the identification of his condition.
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  Speaker 5: The letter was in the inside pocket of his jacket.
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  Speaker 5: The silver Chainey wore on his left wrist had snapped
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  Speaker 5: and fallen into the pavement.
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  Speaker 3: Two youngsters picked up the chain.
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  Speaker 5: Robert Manelli, aged nine and one half, Tommy Stoner eight,
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  Speaker 5: Let's go.
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  Speaker 9: Around the deck to find a chaperon.
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  Speaker 12: We choose a nice chain. He is writing there. Maybe
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  Speaker 12: it's a guy's name.
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  Speaker 3: Is he her?
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  Speaker 8: Be?
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  Speaker 3: Just a boom?
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  Speaker 6: What's it say?
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  Speaker 12: Just a second, we'll be out of the alley. Yeah,
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  Speaker 12: Pop's gone home. Indeed, what's it say? Wait a second?
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  Speaker 12: Will you? It says do not in bomb, do not
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  Speaker 12: sumthing me?
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  Speaker 13: I am not dead.
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  Speaker 12: It's screwy when we do it. There, sell it thor baby,
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  Speaker 12: we can buy some baseballs and stuff. Yeah, but when
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  Speaker 12: we try to sell to ask us where we got it.
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  Speaker 12: When we tell him nothing, use your head, you know,
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  Speaker 12: we'll do what We'll use Pop's walgen torch.
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  Speaker 3: Will melt it down.
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  Speaker 12: Or he told us not to use it.
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  Speaker 13: Pop ain't here?
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  Speaker 6: Is he?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 9: Well come on.
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  Speaker 13: There it is?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah here, put it on that brick. Okay, yeah, be careful.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, what are your kids doing?
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  Speaker 11: Oh? Holo?
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  Speaker 14: Pop?
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  Speaker 12: Nothing mister Minnelli when we ain't doing.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing nothing huh, I thought, I told you kids, not
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  Speaker 1: going out that torch.
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  Speaker 3: We want to melt this down, give me that.
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  Speaker 8: Ah.
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  Speaker 3: What's this all about?
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  Speaker 12: We found this chain, Papa, and we want to melt it.
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  Speaker 3: Down and sell it it.
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  Speaker 12: We don't know, do we tell me?
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  Speaker 3: No, No, we don't.
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  Speaker 12: There's nothing wrong, Pop, We just found it.
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  Speaker 3: See it's ours, O, not.
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  Speaker 8: Umboom Me, I am not dead. What's that?
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  Speaker 12: It's screwy?
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  Speaker 3: Where did you find it in the street?
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  Speaker 12: Ernest Papa asked Tommy.
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  Speaker 3: All right, go and get out of here.
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  Speaker 12: How about melting it down, Pop, We can sell it
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  Speaker 12: and buy some baseballs?
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  Speaker 8: All right, keep back.
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  Speaker 3: They melted it and took it to a gold and
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  Speaker 3: silver dealer.
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  Speaker 5: They sold the melt of chain for a dollar thirty
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  Speaker 5: one dollar thirty cents. But the coat, the coat was
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  Speaker 5: the principal thing in the coat and the inside pocket
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  Speaker 5: was the letter. The information about Ernest Bauer's condition was
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  Speaker 5: in that letter, the instructions that could save his life.
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  Speaker 5: The coat was picked up from the street by honest
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  Speaker 5: Jerry Murdoch. There's a big sign in the corner of
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  Speaker 5: fifteenth Street. It says honest Jerry Murdock swapshop. He brought
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  Speaker 5: the coat into his store, runners around in his shelves
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  Speaker 5: until he found some cleaning fluid, and then started to
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  Speaker 5: clean the blood stain.
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  Speaker 3: Well the first sport jacket.
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  Speaker 15: Just a moment, okay, conservative, Oh will you come over
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  Speaker 15: here please?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, something on that order?
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  Speaker 3: Pick out what you want? How much you want to spend?
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  Speaker 8: Five bucks?
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  Speaker 3: East costs more? How much I made the twelve?
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  Speaker 6: They don't look so hot for eight, buts I.
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  Speaker 3: Make the twelve?
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  Speaker 15: Say wait a minute, Wait a minute, I'm just putting
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  Speaker 15: a new one at stock over here by.
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  Speaker 3: The common.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That looks all right.
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  Speaker 8: What size it?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know? Hey, trying to.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, hmm, yeah, it feels all right. Kind of stiff
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  Speaker 6: in front here though.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's almost snow. You'll break it in.
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  Speaker 6: He's like cardboard or something.
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  Speaker 15: You want it five dollars? Okay, it might still be
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  Speaker 15: a couple of stains on it. I ain't had time
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  Speaker 15: to take out. You was some cleaner around it to
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  Speaker 15: bring it to the tailors.
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  Speaker 3: Be better than.
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  Speaker 6: Lou Yeah, here's a five.
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  Speaker 5: Ernest Bowers was brought to the receiving room of the
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  Speaker 5: better General Hospital and various routine tests were made. The
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  Speaker 5: time for ten fifth Bowers are going to awaken it
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  Speaker 5: would probably be six forty five.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor Weldon made out his report.
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  Speaker 5: He wrote it down while he was standing near the
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  Speaker 5: telephone switchboard.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, this is the Better General hospital. Is there anybody
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  Speaker 16: by the name of Bowers at home? Bowers Bowe Rs.
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  Speaker 11: Now nobody home?
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  Speaker 13: Is mister Bowers married?
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  Speaker 11: I hope so living in finn Where.
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  Speaker 13: Can I reach her? There's been an accident.
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  Speaker 11: I don't know she's out.
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  Speaker 16: Will you tell her to call the Better General hospital?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah? What happened?
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  Speaker 13: Mister Bowers is dead?
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  Speaker 9: Can Richard huh No, I'd like to do an autopsy.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, Well, what'll I tell the wife when she calls?
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  Speaker 3: Well, if it's pretty soon, I'll talk to her. We've
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  Speaker 3: still got those tests to go through.
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  Speaker 8: Then I'm off.
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  Speaker 4: If it's more than an hour, he'll probably be on
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  Speaker 4: the way to the morgue.
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  Speaker 5: At that moment, it was then four twenty two in
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  Speaker 5: the afternoon. At that moment, if anyone had been in
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  Speaker 5: receiving room be a better General hospital where the body
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  Speaker 5: of Ernest Bowers lay on the patient carriage, they would
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  Speaker 5: have seen a fly crawl slowly across the face of
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  Speaker 5: the dead man, and they would have seen his nose twitch.
• 11:01
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  Speaker 1: Those day was the first day of spring it I've
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• 12:14
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  Speaker 4: well calculated to keep you in.
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  Speaker 3: Suspend accident report continued.
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  Speaker 5: Henry Prince had within his power the opportunity to save
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  Speaker 5: the life of Ernest Bowers. He had purchased the code
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  Speaker 5: in which was a letter that could save him. When
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: he left the second hand store, he stopped to have
• 12:37
  Speaker 5: a chat with some friends, made some purchases at the
• 12:40
  Speaker 5: grocery store, and started home. The time a few minutes
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  Speaker 5: after five. He lived about two blocks in the scene
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  Speaker 5: of the accident. His wife was waiting for him.
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  Speaker 8: Well, how you like it for five bucks?
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, it looks all right. That was that spot
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  Speaker 17: were Yeah, take it off a second.
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  Speaker 6: I wonder what it is, I said, There was a
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  Speaker 6: couple of spots cleaner will take them.
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  Speaker 17: Love you know, it looks like, Hey, what's this in
• 13:05
  Speaker 17: the parget? I don't know to whom it may concern, Please.
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  Speaker 13: Open and read.
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  Speaker 3: That's what must have felt stiff.
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  Speaker 17: This note is carried on my person wherever I go.
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  Speaker 17: It is to advise responsible parties that I am a cataleptic,
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  Speaker 17: that if it appears as though I am dead, I
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  Speaker 17: am not.
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  Speaker 3: What's that?
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  Speaker 13: And that my body is not to be molested for
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  Speaker 13: a period of seventy two hours, neither by autopsy nor
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  Speaker 13: by embalming, although the maximum periods of my attacks usually
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  Speaker 13: do not exceed four hours. Please telephone my wife, missus
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  Speaker 13: Margaret Bowers, at fullt and seven seven eight three seven.
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  Speaker 13: This is a boarding house address eight four one and
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  Speaker 13: a half was twenty fifth Street. If she's not there,
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  Speaker 13: please try Axeminster four three four two to two. This
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  Speaker 13: is the number of doctor Benton. It's a vital importance.
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  Speaker 13: It may mean my life. Thank you, Ernest Bowers.
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  Speaker 6: That's a funny one.
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  Speaker 13: Where'd you get the coat, Henry?
• 14:06
  Speaker 6: Honest, Jerry Murdos, wonder what we can do? Nothing, It's
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  Speaker 6: probably been forgotten already. Somebody shold them the coat and
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  Speaker 6: forgot to take a letter out.
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  Speaker 17: It doesn't sound like something to go. I'd forget might
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  Speaker 17: be important. They look at that, Henry, Those spots they
• 14:19
  Speaker 17: look like blood. No, too dark, that's the color blood turns.
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  Speaker 17: I'm gonna telephone that number ahead.
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  Speaker 6: I think you're wasting your time.
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  Speaker 13: Me Hell all, I'd like to talk to missus Bowers.
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  Speaker 11: She ain't in.
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  Speaker 13: Well, how do you know?
• 14:39
  Speaker 11: You didn't even know she went out and you ain't
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  Speaker 11: the first to call her.
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  Speaker 13: Who else wanted to get in touch with her?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 11: Somebody I don't know who?
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  Speaker 13: Oh, well, thank you?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you see, you're wasting your time.
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  Speaker 14: I have the strangest feeling, Henry. She must be a
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  Speaker 14: terrible position to be in. To have everybody think you're
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  Speaker 14: dead when you ain't. You're helpless about it.
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  Speaker 6: Well, go ahead, go ahead, I can see I'm not
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: going to win this time.
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  Speaker 8: Eat it.
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  Speaker 13: I'm busy.
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  Speaker 6: How about some dinner?
• 15:08
  Speaker 13: Oh, it's cooking. I just can't get out of my head.
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  Speaker 17: That guy, whoever he is, lying there and people thinking
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  Speaker 17: him dead when he ain't.
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  Speaker 13: Maybe doing things to him. What's them bombing?
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: They do that at the morgue. It's preparing his body
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  Speaker 6: for burial. I think they take all the blood out
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: of his veins.
• 15:23
  Speaker 13: And I would kill him if he wasn't already dead.
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: He couldn't kill him.
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  Speaker 13: No debt, Henry, I'm going to find out about that code?
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  Speaker 13: Where's his place? You body?
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: Now wait a minute, Francis, I put in a good
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: day's work.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: I'm tired.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to run around the city looking for
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: something I don't even know.
• 15:34
  Speaker 13: Oh, then i'll go myself.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: Well, how about me at.
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  Speaker 9: Home here while you'll go out. I want to eat.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: I'm hungry.
• 15:39
  Speaker 13: Then I won't be ready for another fifteen minutes anyway. Now, look,
• 15:41
  Speaker 13: where's the place?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 15:42
  Speaker 9: All right, i'll go with you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he ain't here.
• 15:54
  Speaker 9: He locked up.
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  Speaker 13: What's the sign? Say? Ten minutes?
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but those guys put up signs like that if
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: they're going away for an hour.
• 15:59
  Speaker 13: Oh we'll wait a few. Come on, frand look you
• 16:01
  Speaker 13: wait here. I'm going in the cigar story to tell us.
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  Speaker 6: Once you make up your mind to something, nothing can
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: change it, unless it's an invitation of polka.
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  Speaker 9: Gain, very very funny.
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  Speaker 13: Look you wait here? Seven seven?
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  Speaker 11: Hello?
• 16:32
  Speaker 13: Is missus Bowers in? No, mister Bowers.
• 16:35
  Speaker 11: No, he's dead. He is, that's what they tell me.
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  Speaker 13: Well wait a minute, oh darn seven seven.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: Hello?
• 16:52
  Speaker 13: Look I just spoke to you.
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  Speaker 11: Will you really bother me? Lady? I got a meal
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  Speaker 11: set up on the table. I can't be answering a
• 16:58
  Speaker 11: million questions.
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  Speaker 13: But all I want to know is when mister Bauers died.
• 17:03
  Speaker 11: Ask missus Bowers, she'll be home soon.
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  Speaker 13: Thanks. I mean, darn, who is that doctor's life?
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  Speaker 11: Is he?
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: Well?
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  Speaker 13: No, look same as before. Mister Bowers is dead. I
• 17:27
  Speaker 13: found that out.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: I told you what about the letter?
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  Speaker 13: Then what if he ain't dead? What if they only
• 17:31
  Speaker 13: think he did?
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: What do you want to do?
• 17:33
  Speaker 9: Wait here all night?
• 17:34
  Speaker 13: No, but we ought to wait a little while. Maybe
• 17:36
  Speaker 13: we can find out where he lives.
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: You're going traps around the whole city. I have to
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: well without me, then, as you please, I'll be home.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: I'm hungry.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: If you think more of a crazy letter than you
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: do a feeding your husband And that's all.
• 17:47
  Speaker 11: What do you mean?
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: That's all just what I said, That's all you know.
• 17:50
  Speaker 13: The trouble with you is you don't have no imagination.
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: No, I'm just the home loving guy, that's all. I
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: don't go stick in my nose where it don't belong.
• 17:56
  Speaker 13: Go on home. Then I'll find out about women.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: A different turn of speech, another question if the boarding
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: house women were more cooperative if she knew the facts
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: of the case.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: I took an interest in the death of Ernest.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: Bowers if if If at the hospital.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, events were pursuing their normal course.
• 18:22
  Speaker 16: Couldn't reach anybody, No doctor, I tried just a few
• 18:25
  Speaker 16: minutes ago. That boarding house woman snapped my head off.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Well we're finished with a test.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: She wish we could do that autopsy maybe later after
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: he's gone to the morgue.
• 18:35
  Speaker 13: Want me to try again.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: No, get me the orderly room.
• 18:39
  Speaker 13: Okay, use that one there.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Ah, pain, Yeah, there's doctor Weldon. There's a delivery for
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: you to go to the moring.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: No.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I ain't have nothing to eat. Yeah, since lunch,
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: go on, No pain, it's down in the receiving room.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: The papers are down there too.
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: Oh, I can't wait a few minutes.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: It's got to go now. They want to start embalming
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: so they can go home.
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: About one of the other boys.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: I don't care, as long as he gets there.
• 19:03
  Speaker 16: Okay, you want me to keep trying to reach his home.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: The rushes off anytime, though, going to the morgue, tell
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: you what you're gonn wait till his wife calls here.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: She should be home pretty soon. I guess I'll be
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: here all evening.
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: I want to talk to her all right.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'll get your wires crossed.
• 19:28
  Speaker 14: Dear, Oh, mister Murdoch, Oh, I'm glad you came back.
• 19:35
  Speaker 13: I've you saw my.
• 19:37
  Speaker 14: Husband jacket, sport jacket this afternoon? Yeah, I light blue
• 19:41
  Speaker 14: and it's had a few stains on it.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: We can't take back anything once, so no, no, I don't.
• 19:45
  Speaker 13: Want to give it back. Where'd you get it, mister Murdoch.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: I don't even know which one you're talking about it?
• 19:49
  Speaker 14: It must have been a few hours ago, blue with
• 19:51
  Speaker 14: thin red boxes.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Oh that one? What a bother?
• 19:54
  Speaker 13: Where'd you get it?
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: What do you want to know for?
• 19:56
  Speaker 13: Because there was a letter in it? An important letter?
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know. How can I remember? I got it
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: long ago, long time. I don't see where it's any
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: of your business when I got it?
• 20:03
  Speaker 13: Maybe important. I've been trying to reach the numbers.
• 20:05
  Speaker 14: The doctor's number is always busy, and his wife she
• 20:08
  Speaker 14: hasn't even hold I.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Don't know what you're talking about now, please, I'm busy.
• 20:11
  Speaker 14: You got notts to do, but you gotta tell me
• 20:13
  Speaker 14: just look look, tell me one thing.
• 20:15
  Speaker 13: Did you have the jacket in there a long time?
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Wow?
• 20:17
  Speaker 13: Look please, it's very important.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Well no, no, I just got it in this afternoon.
• 20:23
  Speaker 13: Oh where did you get it?
• 20:25
  Speaker 15: You said, one question, yes, and I answered, that's all
• 20:27
  Speaker 15: that was blood on it.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: I can't help no, I feel excuse you.
• 20:29
  Speaker 13: No, no, Look, you must tell me.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: I don't have to tell nobody.
• 20:32
  Speaker 16: Not.
• 20:32
  Speaker 13: Look. I may be all wrong. I'm probably just crazy
• 20:34
  Speaker 13: about this.
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: Look.
• 20:35
  Speaker 14: But if that man's alive and didn't do anything to him,
• 20:37
  Speaker 14: I'll never get over I'll never be.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Able to live with myself crazy. You said, it all
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: sounds crazy to me.
• 20:42
  Speaker 13: Listen, there was a letter in the inside pocket of
• 20:45
  Speaker 13: that jacket. It said that Ernest bauers but was a cadileeptic.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: What's that he goes in the fits?
• 20:50
  Speaker 13: Oh no, no, no, catileptic. You know, somebody looks like
• 20:53
  Speaker 13: he's dead at times and he isn't. He goes into
• 20:55
  Speaker 13: a spell and looks as always dead.
• 20:57
  Speaker 14: Sometimes, you know, they take dead bodies to the morgue
• 20:59
  Speaker 14: and they am bomb them.
• 21:01
  Speaker 13: That means they take all the blood out of their veins.
• 21:03
  Speaker 13: I just tell a borers he's a catalyptic.
• 21:06
  Speaker 14: I don't know whether he's dead or alive, or even
• 21:08
  Speaker 14: if he's worrying about this letter, But I just got
• 21:11
  Speaker 14: to find.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Out well, there was an accident before.
• 21:16
  Speaker 13: Where who's in it?
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Believe me, lady, I didn't know anything
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: about all this.
• 21:20
  Speaker 15: You you think that this guy was taken away an
• 21:23
  Speaker 15: ambulance could be one of them the cataleptics.
• 21:26
  Speaker 13: That coat was it his?
• 21:27
  Speaker 15: Yeah, lady, yeah, but it was left there in the street.
• 21:29
  Speaker 15: They drove away and left the ambulance.
• 21:31
  Speaker 13: What ambulance, I don't know.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: It was on the corner. The cop was there. We
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: told somebody call an ambulance and came and took away
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: the man.
• 21:36
  Speaker 17: The cop I saw a cop outside of eyes waiting
• 21:38
  Speaker 17: for you, was at the same cop.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it looks like you gotta protect me. I
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: ain't done anything wrong. I didn't know anything like this
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: would happen.
• 21:44
  Speaker 15: I would never taken a coat if I thought.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: The andern hist bowers lay on a slab in the
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: marg we were alive. Probabilities were that he would regain
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: consciousness before six forty five and the two and bombers
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: on Judy at the time. I decided to get a
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: bite to eat. When the phone rang, Anthony answered.
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: Well, we're going out to sea. Yeah, and all other
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: ones just came in.
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: We got it.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Here yo, Well what's the rush?
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: No, No, we just want to get a cup of
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: coffee and then we'll get on it. Okay, is at
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: our fall If it comes in just when we want
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: to have a right we can go home after. Well,
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: that's puts a different complexion on it. Okay, yeah, well.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: What time is it?
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: Our six steady Doc says if we abombas went, now
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: we can.
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: Go home and let's stet in and I'm hungry. Okay,
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: I'll start them outed young guy in it. Yeah.
• 22:48
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I was speaking to the wife about that yesterday. Yeah,
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: I'll get the inject out to me. Yeah, And she
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: was saying, more and more people die, all the renoved
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: it here, it.
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: Looks like we can open through the mac Ye give
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: me a piece of their goods.
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: So yeah, I says to her. She should be around
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: this place at Why we get him all ages?
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: You want me to do it? No, you get the
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: injector ready?
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: He look at him.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: She never think that such a little thing like his
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: heart stops speeding could make him dead, not alive, all
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: his steady Well you yeah, ready for just a second, okay,
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: all right, here we you go.
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: What's ther man my glasses?
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah, clouding up, will take them off?
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: No, no, no, I just clean him.
• 23:45
  Speaker 10: What the wife said to that, huh oh oh about
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: all ages? Yeah, she didn't have nothing to say, only
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: that most of the guys we deal would probably come
• 23:54
  Speaker 10: to a violent end.
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well there's something in there. Okay, got them clean. Right,
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: here we go.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: What's the matter?
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: It's steamed up again? Every time I bend over there,
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: I wondered what it must be my imagination? Why?
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I could have sworn this guy was breathing on
• 24:26
  Speaker 10: my classes.
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: Well is he? How could he?
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: Well, come on and let's go.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: It's a quarter seven already.
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, all that there, I'll get the fall.
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: Let's get this started phase. Okay, we were just out.
• 24:46
  Speaker 10: Well, I, what's the matter with you?
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: I thought I saw a guy's hand twitch. Don't be stupid, for.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Get me a scarell. Let's waite a second.
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: I'll get the phone. There'll probably be another job and
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: we'll never get out of here. Let it ring.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but the doc said we can go home after
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: if all right?
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: All right, come on, come on, let's get this thing
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: over with.
• 25:11
  Speaker 10: Oh okay, yeah, give me the knife again, Tony.
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: Yeah, look at here, I'm bent over like this. I
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: ain't gonna move. My glass is up full of steam again.
• 25:34
  Speaker 9: Ho, he.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Is he alive?
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: I can shake to look at him out, look at
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: his lips.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Listen, shut off that motor.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: Apparently the life of Ernest Bowers was worth one dollar
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: and thirty cents for a silver bracelet to the boys
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: or ran away with it, and five dollars for a
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: bloodstained jacket to honest Jerry Murdoch. Their petty thefts brought
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: a man to the brink of death. Oh there just
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: one more episode, which perhaps doesn't belong in an accident report,
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: which I'd like to include. After regaining full consciousness, Ernest
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: Bauers put in a telephone call from the more.
• 26:53
  Speaker 9: Hello, hello, missus Bully. Is Missus Bowers in?
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: I don't know, I'll see. Did Josie say, missus Bowers's home?
• 27:03
  Speaker 11: Who is it?
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: Well, this is mister Boss.
• 27:08
  Speaker 11: Mister Bowers. But they told me it was dead the
• 27:11
  Speaker 11: hospital call.
• 27:12
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I know, Missus Bolly, but they they made a mistake.
• 27:18
  Speaker 11: Well he she is, Hello, Ernest, Where are.
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: You well, darling? It's quite a long story, you see that.
• 27:26
  Speaker 11: Never mind, you get right home here, dinner's getting nice cold.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Pet O'Brien for a great suspense show. Now Here is
• 27:47
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• 27:50
  Speaker 9: I still got my coat of my head, Bolo well half.
• 27:54
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• 27:56
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• 28:52
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• 28:54
  Speaker 5: It's been a pleasure for me to join this fine
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: cast and bringing you another suspense play. I'm a suspense
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: fan of long standing, and I'm just as anxious as
• 29:02
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• 29:05
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• 29:09
  Speaker 5: Die Twice.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Another gripping study in.
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• 29:23
  Speaker 2: written by Celi Gleicster and Merwin Girard, with music composed
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: by Lucian Morowake and conducted by lud Bluskin. The entire
• 29:30
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• 29:50
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• 29:52
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• 29:54
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• 30:17
  Speaker 1: We leave the city streets and hospital corridors with suspense
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: and dead earnest. Good Night, and thank you for sharing
• 30:24
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