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get through the program after the show. Now it's time for today's episode of
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Pursuit. We had two lost episodes between last week's show and this week's,
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so here from December eleventh, nineteen fifty one is Pursuit and the Locknest Skillers
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and No Whur's you thurs you Hey picking back? You know the shadows of
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his own world. And then the man from Scotland Yard, the famous Inspector
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Peter Black, of the dangerous relentless pursue when man hunts man. In just
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a moment, Now with Ben Wright start as the famous Inspector Peter Black from
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Scotland Yard, we bring you tonight's story Pursuit of the Lotness Killer. Sergeant
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Muffed and I had left King's Cars Station at four o'clock in the morning.
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It was past eight that evening when we arrived by motor car in the village
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of Bannock in the north of Scotland. We've been called there by the Chief
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Constable of Inverness to invest the murder which had taken place two days before.
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A car had been dynamited on the road and its driver, James Corgey,
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immediately killed. I left muffat to arrange for rooms at the one and only
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in and then went to the police station. And I came in I saw
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two uniformed men playing grass for the death. Ah oh, now, how
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many times mistake tell you you cannot make that move mcniche. I thought you
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were in the looking he was, Hey, so I see Diardant Druss,
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Hey, how do you do I'm Chief Inspector black Cotton Yard. Hey,
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I think the Chief comfortable? Don you that I was coming? Hey?
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He did? Yes, I have a fan that you've had a spot of
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trouble here spot we hell, but he's taking care of Natalie now, thank
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you. Oh I rang the Chief earlier this afternoon. We've got the man
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that did the dodgy work. So thank you very much. But you can
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go back to England. Oh well, good show. Hey is it not
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Constable magniciall? Thank you to remember your place. Fasten your button. You're
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on duty. All right. You do not have to fashion deal tied the
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man comya, but he will I know, Garden sim I don't know if
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I could have a word with him, not much use. He's not likely
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to say anything, even if he is a murderer. He's just Scott.
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Yes. Well, but because I don't doubt that you've got your man.
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But for my record, you understand, I do have to write a report
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to the Chief Constable. All right mcniche get the key, you've got it?
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No, I gave it to you. Oh that's right, so you
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did? Where did that put it? Ah? Here is the little beastie
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similarly taken to Windverness in the morning. There's no use going the next besides,
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and Caro's not behaving. I understand, shouldn't have wake him up.
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He didn't get more sleep last night. That's his own thought, Garden said,
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wake up, put on the like mcniche, I, Garden, no,
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he's gone to us. He's gone that he took the bars out of
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the window for him. Well, starting to don't mind. I think I'll
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stay a little while. The village of Bannock is about a quarter of a
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mile south and west of lock Neet. It's small enough to be visible.
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I'm very few men, but in common with other villages, it lives,
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breathed, and contained the pro quota of passions. It remained to be seen
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where the Banock also contained an escaped murderer. We left Consabo macniche to section
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question the villagers and then not hit sergeant draws adder toward the lake and the
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cottage of Gordon Sin. I didn't think he's such a few, but he
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might have gone home to Maggie Oh as his wife. I how did you
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find out final note or that he murdered Jim Scroggie. Yeah, Oh,
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it wasn't difficult. Everyone knew he'd had words with Skorghi. Everyone knew he
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kept dynamite on the police. But you didn't arrest him immediately after the car
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was blown up. No, I had any suspicions, but I would not
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act until I found the proof. Ah, I found it this morning.
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Sim's dynamite was gone. He wouldn't tell what he'd done with it. His
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wife didn't know. Then. One of the villagers will remember seeing him skulking
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about James Scotty's house three days ago. It was at night. Answer,
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you're resident, What about the car? If you mean that I find traces
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a dynamite? No, but there wasn't a much left of anything. Eh,
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right the house you sit back from the road. We'll have to take
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the path from here. That's the lake through the trees are. If the
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moon comes through, you can almost see the other side. God'd like to
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live at the year. Say why Movid? It's toast too late for me.
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What's there the lockless monster? Sergeant? Now it's a loon, Mavid.
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And by the way, Rod, what about our old friend the monster?
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Is he or isn't he? There's some that say they've seen it?
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Have you? I don't know one side talk. Oh well, you know
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what shadows can do, Inspector, the only place to live for those who
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are lonely. It might be a lesson lighting. Then, if you don't
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mind, Inspector, I'll do the talking for us, all I know,
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Maggie. Yeah, I thought that I go around the pat and take it
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in there and try to make a run point again if you want to,
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surgeant, but you'll find it a wheel bit with the backs of the lake.
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A good letter shot this place, sir, And that's a you're not
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a Nathan of about it. I'll ever look at that light, sir?
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Would you be nasty blacking? Hello, Maggie, but you want John Ross
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policeman. No, no, Maggie, it's not my fault. You know.
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Perhaps you comes to rist me now, Nay, it is garden.
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We want Guardian. You took them away with you your very self. He
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got out. He's a polishman from London. Keep Inspector Black and Sergeant Market
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chief constable at Inverness called them up. So you see, Maggie's a serious
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thing. Nice Muger is a serious thing. If you're seeing part of garden,
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will you tell me? Nay, I'll have to sess them. Then
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you'll have to set mind you general, I'm not inviting you. You better
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stay out here of it. You can't buy post. There was a low
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peach fire burning in the heart A single oil lamp. Click it on the
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sideboard, and the woman who was the next work was gone, but not
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I'm pretty and it's like I remained with her. While Garden brought that to
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the other rooms. We could hear you're opening moving about a do you know
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you see? I know? What about the dynamite? I don't know.
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It wouldn't have been hidden in the lost, would he might be? Why
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don't you look? I'm going to you're a foolish, foolish woman for a
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b the law? Where is he? Why should I know that? If
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you do? Now you can't help in this when I have nothing to say?
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Would you like a cigarette? Missus him? You'll thank you. I
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don't really had three cigarette stubs in here. They belong to Rodin. I
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haven't seen the art, say since this morning, since he was taking I
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seem would you mind telling me what it was? Your husband and James Squaggy
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quarreled. Alban Oh A little thing, A very little thing, just a
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set of all all h I Rodin mentioned the boat two weeks ago when James
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brought it back. It kept it said, the red room, and that
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was ang. Mhm, it's no inside the horseman, no, Maggie seem
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but the last time be a good sensible woman. Has he come here to
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the neck? I'm not Matt. You are right, Marfa. He was
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standing just outside with sergeant. Go inside. Maybe you'll be less healthier than
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you went before. Go inside, Marfat the pace. I the tree over
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there, Hey, look what on the lake? No, no, it's
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gone. What did you say? I don't know. It was a shadow,
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and it was, oh, well blast the shadows. I'm glass your
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leg. It's not that I'm worried about. We separated, went In said
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to Mumpy. I looked back to the cottage once as I neared the line
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of trees, and I saw missus tim I flying against the doorway. My
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head returned to the lake. Then she was gone. Five minute place I
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found Muppet lying on the bank a few peep in the lake. I taken
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the charge and brass, and the sound of the police systore was alien in
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that wild highland country. Oh can you sit up? Oh? Oh,
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where did it go to it what I don't know. I mean there was
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there was something here that you come out of this ship over there, Yes,
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but there there's nothing that it couldn't The brush is going out of the
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lake, most of it and not it. Where were you well sare?
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I was keeping an eye out in and I understand it, legging noise,
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light and flagging stumping it in the water. I see, and then you
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came over to investigate. I couldn't see a blessed Mom tells you why hit
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the window? I was saying that I'm straying the light. Well, the
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luckless months. I didn't give you that batter on the head, mother,
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And I don't know what it was. I remember my back. Listen to
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them bushism when somebody meet me? What's that side of grass? Old man
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good good? A live samption and what kind of un running questions to day?
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Right? Something or somebody attacked him. I'll tell you about it on
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the way back to the village. We're going back. What about sin,
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I don't know, but we're taking white fem knows something. That's the point.
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Maggie can be awful obstinate. I say, can you manage now?
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Mother? Yes, come along, Maggie. So you're really going to lock
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me up? Genre Nay, but I'm going to ludge you with missus Vuss
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where we can know where to find you. Man, you try to find
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yourself, mister Bucky, tell me again, now slowly? No, wait,
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here's the sergeant. Tell it to him. What's the fashion? Mcniche,
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mister Bucky, you taught him. I can't make up a world of
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what you're saying here. Hello, Maggie, Hello, mister Buggy, it's
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a sergeant. Or are speaking? Slowly? Man? Slowly? Somebody dead?
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Where? Where? Who is it? In the beginning road? All
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right, I'll be up in a few minutes. Don't touch anything. Troubles
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Hey, trouble you hear this? Magicine, there's another murder. Your garden's
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done. Andrew Stewart this, No, No, it's not true. Didn't
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he believe a word? But Maggie, I've killed no one. Cousin,
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sim I think you were in the cell how same way I got out.
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I came back a few minutes ago. No. I couldn't have very well
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been in two places at one time, could I? Now? The second
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act of pursuit of the lock Nest killer Gordon sim was a tall man of
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about forty five, with a long and friendly face. He didn't look like
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the sort of man would commit murder. But then I did, Doctor Criffin.
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I'd them in the cell window and it was obvious that he had needed
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no I'd have to escape. The remaining bars were easily moved in the decomposing
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cement. Comes up mcniche rode up on his bicycle to the Imma Gary Road
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on the outskirts of the village. We questioned, Sin, where did you
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go to garden? H don't you think it's baba useless to go on in
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this way? You'll have to be held accountable for another murder? You know
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another? Haven't you done one year? And I didn't expect to in this
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life? Why did you come back? I respect below there was a wee
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bit business to attend to. It was attained to I come back. Did
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you go to your cottage? No? Where did you go? Then?
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I came back here? You did not go out to the inver Garry Road
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and murder Andrew Stewart. I have not a king Standrew, nor any man.
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I'll have to put the handcuffs on your garden if you must, yes
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to tell Maggie, there's Nathan to say. It will be quite all right.
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You'll see Monteter was left in damaged to stand god over the prisoner and
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sageant Grass and I drove to the sea in the latest guy. When we
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got there, McNeice was standing beside the body, and an elderly farmer carrying
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an now walking stick with waiting with him. That's the way I've found him,
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mister Ross. Like side of the road yesterday now a carib sighting.
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Gee, what were you doing that, mister buggie? If you don't mind
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my ask, how did you mind? Mister Ross? One of the cows
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his cowed. I'd walked to the village for some more medication, because on
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my way back I found the anger. You met no one on the road
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coming or going, but they want a toll, except, of course,
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mister McNish on his bike. He's stopping to ask the vaguness in Gold and
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Simponi. I was on with him. Hey, that's right, learning being
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taken, do you now, Constable? Hey robbery, he's got a couple
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of pounds in his puppy. I watch too, Gold, How close are
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we to the lake? He's just over the rays one hundred yards maybe more.
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Uh huh? Where did Seord live? Oh? That's his part down
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the road. You can see the lights through the trees there. Yes,
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as he live alone except for a man who comes to help with the work.
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But he's up at Invergarry. But to get married. I see.
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Look, I think we better move the body to the village. There's not
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much more we can do tonight. Come on, let's get out of this
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wind. The next morning, mapit and I dammined the remains of the car,
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which had been taken to the local galad. It was an old Morris
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Curley owned for twenty three years by the lake. James Coggie, I'm part
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in the extra whiles here? How did the set? She edition didn't have
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a self start as there? We can dismiss that. Ah Hello, what's
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they say? It looks like bits as spring? Now where did they go
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underneath? I'd say sick? Yeah? All right, yeah. A dynamite
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must have been passing down the here, but it couldn't go off it unless
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we got pus could it? Chip? No? Wait a minute, love
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at hand me that Stana? Will you get it here? You are?
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Thank you? Ah? Oh so that's it? Yeah, that's been it
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before, very neat watch it, Hughes is run back in the exhaust.
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Manifold here won't ignite unless the car is running. But he got to give
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me quite away before he blew up. Oh he could. But if a
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spark touched that fusee and sooner or later it had to Ah. Yes,
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somebody knew quite a lot about the operation of the car to work with that,
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and we've got to find that harm mechanically minded. Gordon Simmy, he
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wasn't true. He had dynamitic his cuddage, but he had never driven a
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car in his life, and as far as we could learn, had no
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knowledge of their operation. Yet untirely circumstantial evidence the prisoner was guilty of both
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crimes. I astarte to prous to let me interview the wife again, A
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learn what is the use of this? Do you want to see your husband
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hang so he won't if he is not guilty? He want he isn't.
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Will you tell me why he had dynamite? Deli, I'll tell you nothing
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too. And this is sam You realize that once he's taken in the nets
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and formerly charged, he'll either tell the truth. I can't. I can't
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why I promised God then I can't help you. Please. It was at
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the law. That's why against the law. Godman wanted to build a duck
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for the boat instead of on the shore. He was going to use the
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nicely? Why did he didn't want to go through all the trouble of licences
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and waiting for commission? And that's all? Yes, m hm. Did
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anyone else know James Gorby? That nobody knew? With me? Not acting
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with James was about your luck, truly it was. She wouldn't have killed
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James of anyone. Do you know who did kill him and killed andrews Juan?
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Missus Sim, no, I don't. Your husband would tell us,
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Oh, somebody stole that dynamite from your cottage, and you know who it
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is, don't you? I did, Oh, all right, missus all.
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I spent the next two days and Danak Sargeant Brass together. We questioned
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the villagers and investigated the background that the persons involved. I went to the
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lake where Margaret had been attacked, and when a small boat was found hidden
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in some rushes near the Intergarry road, I was fairly sure that we had
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our answers. Missus sim was brought back to the police station, sitting down
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my key. No, susim, just start at the beginning. During the
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war, you were employed at a factory in Inverness Way you know. Yes,
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at that time you met a man who later moved here to Bannaker.
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His name was James corgy Y. Yes, your husband was fighting in North
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Africa at the time. Yes, you didn't tell your husband about this when
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he returned house. She I didn't. I love Gordon, Yes, but
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he did find out. Goana, that's all oh niche bring in the prisoner.
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I no, no, I can't know to ve No, Muggie,
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I'm sorry, may what have you told him? She has told us about
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James Coggy mister Simon, then I did. It was nothing to do with
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her. No, that's not true. The factory and Inverness was a Murtor
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assembly works, was it not. Yes. When the war was over,
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j Is gorgy st was down here. He wanted to take up again.
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The threatened to tell Gordon I've told them and put it on his car.
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That's not true, No, Gordon, what's the use of Maggie? Now?
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Why did you guys have that? Now when you broke out mistice in
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him to make me promise not to tell. He wanted to take the blame
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him knew about Jane's Gordy. He found out what I'd done. I'm sorry
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about your sergeant, but you held me putting the boat in the water.
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I had to hit him. I didn't want you to know. I mean
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to see Maggie, you grow up to the other side of the village.
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I thought it would be safer to come back that way. What happened.
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I ran into Andrew Stuart on the road as I was walking back. He
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tried to stop me. Thought I was asleeping. I suppose I had to
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hit him too. But when Andrew trolling, he broke his head open on
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a stone. She's a good woman. She was lonely in the war.
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That's all. I'd have done the same thing as Gordy myself. The only
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reason I found it was when I was over to get my orlocks back.
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I saw my gie go in the dynamite. Don't do the cat saw that
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I'm not going to happen. I'm equally guilty. I knew That's why I
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was willing to take the plane. It was a strange trial. Neither I
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had criminal minds. That both had criminal incent. The defense was pathetically simple
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and possibly in some other countries might have been justified. However, murder had
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been done and both were conducted pursuit, and the pursuit is ended. Welcome
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back. Well don't you like a cheery story to start half the week?
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This is one of those everybody killed somebody and everybody goes to jail for some
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theme plots that they did on Pursuit from time to time. I thought it
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was actually pretty good. The accents did seem a little bit off, but
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I don't know that maybe because I spend too much time listening to British radio
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and have had some of my expectations for this set a bit high. But
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at any rate, we will go ahead and turn to some listener comments and
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feedback, and I have a question here from Rain. Rain says, I
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really enjoy your podcast and iPhone app. I'd recently gotten back into radio drama
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about two thousand and eight or nine when I discovered a channel on my satellite
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radio in a new car that had Golden age radio content and I like the
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Detective Show's best. Later I found this podcast. But regarding the app on
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my iPhone, are the podcast searchable for example, is there a way to
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go directly to episode eight nine nine without twenty minutes of scrolling. Answer to
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your question is yes, there is. Actually when you open up the app,
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if you scroll down just a bit right at the top of the list
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under the episodes, there's a search bar. It's got a magnifying glass on
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Keenan on your phone. The second question for shows available through archive dot org,
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like Philip Marlow or yours truly Johnny Dollar, you do you have additional
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episodes that aren't available there. That's a good question for the most part.
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For series that are available there, for the majority of them, we don't
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have anything extra add We do have a few episodes of Johnny Dollar we'll be
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sharing that haven't yet been added to archive dot org, but which I'm fairly
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sure will be shortly. As I've said before, the vast majority of programs
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we do here available on archive dot org, and there are a few shows
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that are on other websites and locations that I've found across the Internet, and
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a very few that get from some other source, but probably somewhere in the
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neighborhood of ninety five percent of programs are available on archive dot org, not
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always necessarily in the same quality, but nevertheless available. The main thing we
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get here is a commentary plus play through the series in order, particularly when
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I don't make a mistake on that. All right, well, we're going
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to go ahead in and discuss, ever so briefly my efforts with Run for
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Heaven's Gate. If that's not of interest to you, or if you're listening
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to this after October twenty fourteen when it wouldn't be applicable, and feel free
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to skip it. But I do want to go ahead and talk about my
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participation in Run for Heaven's Gate, in which I'll cover fifty two point four
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miles over the course of four half marathons in five weeks, and also the
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situation with HIV AIDS orphans in India. There are hundreds of thousands of HIV
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AIDS orphans in India. Either their parents have died or the children have abandoned.
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These children face starvation and a future without hope. Send Hope has established
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Run for Heaven's Gate program began in Boise at a grassroots level seven years ago
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to raise funds for these children in India, with walkers and runners doing four
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half marathons in the fall to raise funds to support these orphans. I heard
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about it at church and decided that this year I was actually going to do
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it, and I've been training for it since March. It's been quite an
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experience. Prior to this year, the longest I'd ever walked or run was
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five k or three point one miles. Prior to Run for Heaven's Gate,
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Saturday was my sleep end day. Now I'm getting up early and going to
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bed early on Friday instead. And through this whole process of going through the
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training program with the local run walk group, I've been introduced to a whole
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new world where people take things like goo that's gu to prepare for long runs,
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and where it really does make sense to pay extra for good shoes because
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good shoes are cheaper than physical therapists. Well, I hope that this process
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helps me be more fit. I have to admit that there's no way I
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could ever undertake this sort of thing except for the fact in India there are
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children whose futures lay in the balance between life and hope and death and despair,
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and Run for Heaven's Gate gives me an opportunity to make a difference in
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