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Suspense - "Dead Ernest" (Old Time Radio, 1947) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Ernest Bowers suffers cataleptic attacks that can imitate death. After
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: an automobile accident, he is mistakenly presumed dead. From CBS
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  Speaker 1: Radio on May 8, 1947, it is Suspense, Dead Ernest,
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  Speaker 1: Episode 8. As Lieutenant Steve Healy and Officer Abbott trace
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  Speaker 1: the case through police and coroner procedures, the safeguards meant
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  Speaker 1: to prevent a terrible error have been separated from Bowers.
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  Speaker 1: A medical warning letter and an engraved bracelet carry warnings
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  Speaker 1: that may not reach those who need them. Junius Matthews
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  Speaker 1: plays Bowers with Wally Marr as Healy and Howard Duff
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  Speaker 1: as Abbott. The script is by C. Legg Lester and
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  Speaker 1: Merwin Gerard. William Speer directs. And now we return to
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  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Roma wines taste better. Because only Roma selects from
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  Speaker 2: the world's greatest wine.
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  Speaker 3: Reserves for your pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: And now, Roma Wines, R-O-M-A. Roma Wines presents... Suspense! Tonight,
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  Speaker 2: Roma Wines bring you Mr. Wally Mayer in Dead Earnest.
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  Speaker 4: A suspense play produced, edited, and directed for Roma Wines
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  Speaker 4: by William Spear.
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  Speaker 2: Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your
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  Speaker 2: enjoyment by Roma Wines. That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. Those better
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  Speaker 2: tasting California wines enjoyed by more Americans than any other wine.
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  Speaker 2: For friendly entertaining, for delightful dining. Yes, right now a
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  Speaker 2: you Wally Mayer in a remarkable tale of.
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  Speaker 5: Suspense!
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  Speaker 4: Accident report submitted to Police Inspector Blandon from Lieutenant Steve Healy.
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  Speaker 5: Place 15th Street and 4th Avenue. Time, 2.45 p.m. March 11th. Remarks.
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  Speaker 4: Ernest Bowers, age 34, was crossing the intersection as signal
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  Speaker 4: light changed from green to red. A car driven by
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  Speaker 4: Theodore Tobey made legal right turn from 15th Street into
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  Speaker 4: 4th Avenue.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, hey, look out!
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  Speaker 6: He hit him!
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  Speaker 7: He hit him! Hey, officer!
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  Speaker 6: Oh, look at those cameras.
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  Speaker 7: Officer! Here's the guy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's bleeding. All right, all right. Give him some air.
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  Speaker 3: Come on now, let me through here.
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  Speaker 5: All right, stand back. Let's have a look. Is he
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  Speaker 5: hurt bad, officer?
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  Speaker 6: I didn't see him.
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  Speaker 5: Honest, I didn't. I had the right of way.
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  Speaker 3: He's passed out.
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  Speaker 2: One of you people call for an ambulance.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you. Okay, move back, move back here.
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  Speaker 7: He's bleeding.
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  Speaker 5: Here, I'll prop up his head. Yeah, use his jacket. Here,
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  Speaker 5: I'll hold him. Golly, he's limp. Feels just like he's dead. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: Ernest Bowers felt like he was dead.
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  Speaker 4: Ernest Bowers suffered from catalepsy, a strange disease. He carried
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  Speaker 4: at all times a note in his inside coat pocket
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  Speaker 4: stating that he was a cataleptic and that in the
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  Speaker 4: event of seeming death, his wife should be immediately notified
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  Speaker 4: or his doctor in the event his wife is unavailable.
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  Speaker 4: The letter also requested that no autopsy or embalming should
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  Speaker 4: be performed on his body for 72 hours, although in
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  Speaker 4: his particular case, the duration of the attacks were usually four.
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  Speaker 5: Hours or less.
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  Speaker 4: Ernest Bowers also wore a sterling silver bracelet with an inscription.
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  Speaker 5: Reading, Do not embalm me. I am not dead. Catalepsy
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  Speaker 5: is a disease of the nerves and mind.
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  Speaker 4: The physical condition of the cataleptic when he is under
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  Speaker 4: a spell closely resemble death in all aspects, including the
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  Speaker 4: primary stages of rigor mortis.
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  Speaker 5: Officer Abbott was at the scene of the accident.
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  Speaker 4: He administered first aid to the injured man before making
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  Speaker 4: out his report.
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  Speaker 3: There, that ought to stop the bleeding. Looks like just
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  Speaker 3: a cut on his.
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  Speaker 5: Forehead when he hit the ground. Nothing much. He can't
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  Speaker 5: be hurt bad, officer.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't hit him hard.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, officer.
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  Speaker 6: I saw it. It looked like just a little bump.
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  Speaker 2: All right, now, clear back, clear back.
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  Speaker 5: Let's have a little air here.
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  Speaker 6: I'll have to.
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  Speaker 5: Take down some information.
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  Speaker 3: What's your name?
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  Speaker 5: Theodore Tobey. Here, here's my license.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, hey, you kids.
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  Speaker 3: Now, what do those kids do?
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  Speaker 10: They picked up something off the street.
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  Speaker 5: Well, here it comes. I hope he's all righted. Doesn't
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  Speaker 5: look like he's breathing. My gosh, he is. I told
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  Speaker 5: you to get back.
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  Speaker 8: Now, come on.
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  Speaker 5: He's back. All of you here. All right. Let us
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  Speaker 5: through here, please. Hello, Doc. Glad you got here.
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  Speaker 3: He's hot cold.
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  Speaker 5: I'd say he is. Have a look. Well, let's get
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  Speaker 5: him away. He's dead. Well, anyway, it didn't happen in
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  Speaker 5: the coach. Okay. We'll take him away. Keep them back, officer,
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  Speaker 5: will you? Okay. Keep back. Come on. Clear off. Show's over. day. Yeah. Well,
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  Speaker 5: let's go.
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  Speaker 3: Whose jacket was that he was laying on?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Did you pick it up?
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  Speaker 9: Nope.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, officer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Where's the jacket?
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 5: The jacket, the guy's jacket.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, uh, oh, by gosh, it's gone.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, those kids are gone. Never mind. Let's go, Payne.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Ernest Bowers had lost the identification of his condition. The
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  Speaker 4: letter was in the inside pocket of his jacket. The
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  Speaker 4: silver chain he wore on his left wrist had snapped
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  Speaker 4: and fallen to the pavement. Two youngsters picked up the chain,
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  Speaker 4: Robert Minnelli, age nine and a half, and Tommy Stoner, eight.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, that cop yelled at us.
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  Speaker 8: Did you hear him? Yeah. Maybe we should give it back.
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  Speaker 7: No, what for?
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  Speaker 8: So he can keep it? Let's go around the back
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  Speaker 8: to your father's shop, Bob.
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  Speaker 3: Sure is a nice chain.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, there's writing on it.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe it's a guy's name.
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  Speaker 7: Have you heard that?
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  Speaker 10: Hey, what's it saying?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, just a second.
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  Speaker 7: We'll be out of the alley. Yeah, Pop's gone home
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  Speaker 7: to eat.
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  Speaker 8: Can you read it now?
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  Speaker 3: Wait a second, will you?
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  Speaker 10: It says, do not.
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  Speaker 3: Involve, do not something me.
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  Speaker 6: I am not dead.
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  Speaker 3: Not screwy.
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  Speaker 10: What do we do with it?
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  Speaker 8: Sell it, Dopey.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's stealing, Bob.
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  Speaker 3: It ain't stealing.
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  Speaker 8: We found it, didn't we?
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  Speaker 10: When we try to sell it, they'll ask us where
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  Speaker 10: we got it.
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  Speaker 6: What do we tell them?
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  Speaker 7: Nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Use your head. You know what we'll do?
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 6: We'll use Pop's welding torch.
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  Speaker 8: We'll melt it down. But he told us not to
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  Speaker 8: use it.
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  Speaker 7: Pop ain't here, is he?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 8: Well, come on. Oh, there it is.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Now, here.
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  Speaker 8: You put it on that brick.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: There, be careful.
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  Speaker 5: What are you kids doing?
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, hello, Pop.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Minnelli.
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  Speaker 10: We ain't doing nothing.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing, eh?
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  Speaker 5: I thought I told you kids not to go near
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  Speaker 5: the torch.
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  Speaker 10: Well, we want to melt this down.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, come on.
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  Speaker 8: Give me that.
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  Speaker 5: Now, what's it all about?
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  Speaker 8: Well, we found this chain, Papa, and we want to
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  Speaker 8: melt it down and sell it.
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  Speaker 3: Chain and melt?
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  Speaker 5: Who's this? You don't know, do we, Tommy?
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  Speaker 10: No, no, no, we don't.
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  Speaker 5: Where did you get it?
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  Speaker 8: We found it.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, come on, let me have it.
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  Speaker 6: Well, there's nothing wrong, Pop.
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  Speaker 8: We just found it, see?
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  Speaker 3: It's ours.
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  Speaker 10: Shh, shut up.
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  Speaker 4: Do not embalm me.
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  Speaker 5: I am not dead. But what.
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  Speaker 5: What's that?
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  Speaker 8: It's screwy.
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  Speaker 5: Well, where you find it?
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  Speaker 8: In the street. On us, Pop. Ask Tommy.
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  Speaker 5: All right, go on. Get out of here.
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  Speaker 10: Well, how about.
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  Speaker 3: Melting it down, Pop?
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  Speaker 8: We can sell it and buy some baseballs.
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  Speaker 5: All right. I'll be back.
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  Speaker 10: Look at Tommy.
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  Speaker 8: You see it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: It's starting to melt.
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  Speaker 6: You see how he does it?
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  Speaker 3: Keep away, I told you.
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  Speaker 8: It's all melted.
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  Speaker 4: They sold the melted chain for $ 1.
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  Speaker 2: 30 to a dealer.
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  Speaker 4: $ 1.
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  Speaker 5: 30.
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  Speaker 4: But the coat, the coat was the principal thing. In
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  Speaker 4: the coat, in the inside pocket was the letter. The
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  Speaker 4: information about Ernest Bower's condition was in the letter. The
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  Speaker 4: instructions that could save his life. The coat was picked
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  Speaker 4: up from the street by honest Jerry Murdoch. Now there's
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  Speaker 4: a big sign near the corner of 15th Street.
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  Speaker 5: It says... Honest, Jerry Murdoch. Swap shop.
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  Speaker 4: He brought the coat into his store, rummaged around on
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  Speaker 4: his shelves until he found some cleaner, then started to
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  Speaker 4: clean the bloodstains.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I'm looking for a sport jacket.
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  Speaker 10: Ah, just a moment. What kind?
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  Speaker 3: Conservative.
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  Speaker 10: Ah, come over here, please.
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  Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Mm, yeah, something on that order.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, uh, just pick out what you want. Uh, how
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  Speaker 10: much you want to spend?
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  Speaker 5: About five bucks.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, these cost more.
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  Speaker 3: How much?
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  Speaker 10: From eight to twelve. Now, over here we got some cheaper.
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  Speaker 3: These don't look so hot for eight bucks.
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  Speaker 10: From eight to twelve.
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  Speaker 7: Over here.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll take a look.
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  Speaker 5: Here.
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  Speaker 3: No, these don't appeal to me.
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  Speaker 10: And what size do you wear?
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  Speaker 3: Forty.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, here.
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  Speaker 10: Try this one on. Nice and conservative.
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  Speaker 4: There.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of tight around the shoulders.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, tight.
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  Speaker 3: It looks cheesy. Well, I guess you ain't got what
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  Speaker 3: I want.
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  Speaker 10: Wait, wait, wait a minute. Wait, what's your hurry? I'm
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  Speaker 10: just putting a new one in stock over here by
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  Speaker 10: the county.
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  Speaker 3: Huh? that looks all right.
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  Speaker 5: What size is it?
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  Speaker 10: I don't know. Here, let's try it on you.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 10: Now, how's that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that feels all right.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of stiff in front here.
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  Speaker 10: It's almost new, ain't it? You'll break it in.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like cardboard or something.
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  Speaker 10: Look, you'll want it $ 5.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 11: There might be still a couple of stains on it.
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  Speaker 11: I ain't got time to take them out. You use
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  Speaker 11: some cleaner on it to bring it to the Taylor's
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  Speaker 11: Hill spot. It'll be better than new.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Here.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the $ 5.
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  Speaker 4: Ernest Bowers was brought to the receiving room of the
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  Speaker 4: Vetter General Hospital.
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  Speaker 5: The time, 4.10.
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  Speaker 4: If Bowers was going to awaken, it would probably be
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  Speaker 4: before 6.45.
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  Speaker 5: Intern on duty, Dr. Weldon, made out his report. He
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  Speaker 5: wrote it down while he was standing near the telephone switchboard.
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  Speaker 6: Hello.
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  Speaker 8: This is the Veta General Hospital. Is there anybody by
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  Speaker 8: the name of Bowers at home that's Bowers? B-O-W-E-R-A.
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  Speaker 7: No, nobody home.
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  Speaker 5: Is Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Bowers married?
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  Speaker 7: His wife thinks so.
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  Speaker 8: Where can I reach her? There's been an accident.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know. She's out.
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  Speaker 8: Will you tell her to call the Veta General Hospital? Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: What happened?
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Bowers is dead.
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  Speaker 5: That's funny.
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  Speaker 3: Just a superficial cut on his forehead.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's cardiac. I'm going to go.
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  Speaker 4: Get me the orderly room, honey.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, use that phone there.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: This is Dr. Weldon.
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  Speaker 4: There's a delivery for you to go to the morgue.
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  Speaker 5: Morgue now? Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I ain't had anything to eat since.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. Since lunch. Go on now. It's down
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  Speaker 5: in the receiving room.
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  Speaker 4: The papers are down there, too.
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  Speaker 6: Can I get a sandwich first?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 5: Go on. Get going.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, why can't I wait a few minutes? It's got
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  Speaker 6: to go now.
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  Speaker 4: They'll want to start the embalming so they can go home.
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  Speaker 5: It was then 4.22 in the afternoon. Dr. Theodore J.
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  Speaker 4: Weldon left Honey at the switchboard and walked upstairs to
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  Speaker 4: the intern quarters and settled down to reading the sports
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  Speaker 4: page of the afternoon paper.
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  Speaker 5: At that moment, if anyone had been.
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  Speaker 4: In receiving room B of the Vetter General Hospital where
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  Speaker 4: the body of Ernest Bowers lay on the patient carriage,
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  Speaker 4: they would have seen a fly crawl slowly across the
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  Speaker 4: face of the dead man.
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  Speaker 5: And they would have seen his nose twitch.
• 12:37
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  Speaker 4: Wally Mayer, who, as Police Lieutenant Healy, heads an all-star
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  Speaker 4: well calculated to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 1: Dead Earnest.
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  Speaker 4: Henry Prince had purchased the coat in which was the
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  Speaker 4: letter that could save the life of Ernest Bowers. When
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  Speaker 4: Henry Prince left Honest Jerry Murdoch's second-hand store, he stopped
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  Speaker 4: to have a chat with some friends, made some purchases
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  Speaker 4: at the grocery store, and then started home.
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  Speaker 5: The time? A few minutes after five.
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  Speaker 4: He lived about two blocks from the scene of the accident,
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  Speaker 4: and his wife was waiting for him.
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  Speaker 7: Turn around a little bit, will you?
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  Speaker 3: How do you like it for five bucks?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, it looks all right. You lose some of that weight.
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  Speaker 6: It looks better.
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  Speaker 8: Wait a minute, wait a minute. What's that, a spot?
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  Speaker 4: Where?
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  Speaker 8: Take it off a minute. Here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I wonder what that is.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he said there were a couple of spots. Cleaner
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  Speaker 3: will take them off.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it looks like it might be. What's this in
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  Speaker 8: the pocket?
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  Speaker 10: Hmm?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: Heaven's sake. To whom it may concern, please open and read.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's what must have felt stiff, huh? Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: This note is carried on my person wherever I go.
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  Speaker 9: It is to advise responsible parties that I am a cataleptic.
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  Speaker 9: That if it appears as though I am dead, I
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  Speaker 9: am not. And that my body is not to be
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  Speaker 9: molested for a period of 72 hours.
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  Speaker 8: Neither by....
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  Speaker 9: Autopsy nor by embalming although the maximum periods of my
• 16:05
  Speaker 9: attacks usually do not exceed four hours please telephone my
• 16:09
  Speaker 9: wife Mrs. Margaret Bowers at Fulton 11231 this is a
• 16:12
  Speaker 9: boarding house address 8411 half west 25th street if she
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: is not there please try to ask Mr. 43422 this
• 16:21
  Speaker 9: is the number of Dr. Benton it is of vital
• 16:25
  Speaker 9: importance it may mean my life Thank you, Ernest Bowers.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a funny one.
• 16:31
  Speaker 8: Where'd you get that jacket, Harry?
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Right on. It's Jerry Murdoch.
• 16:34
  Speaker 8: Gee, I wonder what we can do.
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: Well, nothing.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: It's probably forgotten already. Somebody sold the jacket to him,
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: forgot to take the letter on.
• 16:39
  Speaker 8: You sound like something a guy would forget.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: No, the devil.
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: Well, it might be important. Say, look at that, Harry.
• 16:45
  Speaker 8: Those spots look like blood.
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: No, too dark.
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: That's the color that blood turns. I'm going to telephone
• 16:51
  Speaker 8: that number.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Well, go ahead, but I think you're wasting your time.
• 16:54
  Speaker 8: Oh, you'll hush, will you, a minute?
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, for crying out loud.
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: Keep still.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: Hello.
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: I'd like to talk to Mrs.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: Bowers.
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: She ain't in.
• 17:08
  Speaker 10: Well, how do you know?
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: You didn't even go to find.
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: She went out, and you ain't the first after her.
• 17:13
  Speaker 8: Who else wanted to get in touch with her?
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: Oh, somebody. I don't know who.
• 17:16
  Speaker 8: Oh, well, thank you.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: There, you see? You're wasting your time.
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: I'll try that doctor.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, for heaven's sakes. You're turning into a regular busybody.
• 17:24
  Speaker 8: Well, think of somebody else.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm getting hungry.
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: Oh, hush, will you?
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: Oh, hush, will you?
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: How about some dinner?
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: It's cookin'. It's cookin'. Honestly, I can't get it out
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: of my head. That guy, whoever he is, just lying
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: there and people thinking I'm dead when he ain't.
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: Maybe doing things to him. Gee, what's embalming?
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, they do that at the morgue. It's preparing his
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: body for burial. I think they take all the blood
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: out of his veins.
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: Heaven's sakes, that'd kill him if he wasn't already dead.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Couldn't kill him any deader.
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: Harry, I'm going to find out about that coat. Now,
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: where's this place you bought it?
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Now, wait a minute, Frances. I put in a good
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: day's work. I'm tired. I don't want to run around
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: the city looking for something I don't even know about.
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: Well, I'll go myself.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: How about me at home here while you go out?
• 18:06
  Speaker 10: I want to eat.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: I'm hungry.
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: Well, dinner won't be ready for another 15 minutes anyway.
• 18:10
  Speaker 10: Where's the place?
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, all right. I'll go with you.
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: Pardon me. What's wrong?
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: Where's Harry? We want to find out about the man
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: next door. Do you know when he'll come back?
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: Oh, honest, Jerry?
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: Are you there? No, he isn't.
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: Harry, listen, go take another look, huh? I'll try that
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: number again.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, crap.
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: I have to say, I'm hungry.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: They answered.
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: I'm using this... Oh.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Well, he ain't back yet.
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: Well, what does this sign say? Ten minutes?
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but those guys put up signs like that if
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: they're going away for an hour.
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: Well, we'll just wait a couple of more minutes.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, come on, Frances. Wait.
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: Is Mrs. Bowers in? No.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Uh, Mr. Bowers.
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: He's dead. He is? That's what they tell me.
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: Well, look, listen, will you please... You're bothering me, lady.
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: I got a meal set up on the table. I
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: can't be answering a million questions.
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: All I want to know is when Mr.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: Bowers died.
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: How do I know?
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: Ask Mrs.
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: Bowers. She'll be home soon.
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, thanks.
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: Well?
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: Bowers is dead. I found that out.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, you see? I told you.
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: Well, what about the letter, then? What if he ain't dead?
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: What if they only think he's dead?
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: What, do you want it to wait here all night?
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: If I have to.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Well, without me, then.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: Well, just do as you please.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: I'll be home. I'm hungry. It's after six. If you
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: think more of a crazy letter than you do of
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: feeding your own husband, then that's all.
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: What do you mean, that's all?
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Just what I said. That's all.
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: Oh, Harry.
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: The trouble with you is you haven't got any imagination.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: No, I haven't got any imagination. I'm just a home-loving guy.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: That's all. I don't go sticking my nose where it
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: don't belong.
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: Oh, well, for heaven's sakes, go home, then. I'll find
• 20:00
  Speaker 8: out about it.
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: Fine.
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: I think it's something beside your stomach once in a while. Officer!
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: Officer!
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am?
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: Do you know where the fellow who owns that swap
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: shop lives, Honest Jerry Murdoch?
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: No, ma'am, I don't.
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: Oh, dear. Gee, I want to get in touch with him.
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: There's a sign on his door saying.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Why don't you ask him, ma'am?
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: There he is now.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: He's going in over there.
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: Gee, thank you.
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: Mr.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: Murdoch?
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: Oh, gee, I'm sure glad you came back.
• 20:25
  Speaker 10: Come in, come in. Just out having a bite to eat.
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: Yeah, listen, you sold my husband a jacket, a sport
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: jacket this afternoon.
• 20:31
  Speaker 10: Did I? What kind?
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: Well, a light blue one with little red boxes in it.
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: It had a few stains on it.
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: Oh, sorry, I can't take anything back once it's sold.
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: No, no, no, I don't want to give it back. Listen,
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: where did you get it, Mr. Murdoch?
• 20:42
  Speaker 10: How can I remember where I got it?
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: Long ago?
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: Was it very long ago?
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: I don't see what's any of your business where I
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: got it.
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: Well, it may be important. I've been trying to reach
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: the numbers. The doctor's number's always busy and his wife
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: isn't home yet.
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: I don't know what you're talking about.
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: Look, tell me one thing, just one thing. Did you
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: have the jacket in here a long time?
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: Oh, please, listen, it's very important. Well, no, no, I
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: just got it in this afternoon.
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: Well, where did you get it?
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: Look, you said one question, you asked it, I answered it,
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: that's all.
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: There was blood on it.
• 21:09
  Speaker 10: Well, that I can't help.
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: Listen, if that man's alive and they do anything to him,
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: I'll just never get over it. I'll never be able
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: to live with myself.
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: What are you talking about?
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: Listen to me.
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: There was a letter in the inside pocket of that jacket,
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: you see. It said that Ernest Bowers was a cataleptic.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: What's that?
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: He goes into fits?
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: A cataleptic is somebody who looks like he's dead at times,
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: and he isn't.
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: He goes into a spell, and it looks as though
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: he's dead. You see, sometimes they take dead bodies to
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: the morgue and bomb them. That means they take all
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: the blood out of their veins. Now, this fellow.
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: Bowers is a cataleptic. I don't know whether he's dead
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: or alive or even if he's worrying about this letter,
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: but I've got to find out. I, uh.
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: I.
• 21:48
  Speaker 10: There was.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: What? What?
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: An accident before.
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: Where? Who was in it?
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 21:51
  Speaker 11: Believe me, lady, I didn't know anything about all this.
• 21:54
  Speaker 11: You think that this guy was taken away in an ambulance?
• 21:55
  Speaker 11: Was it a catalepsy?
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: That coat. Was it his?
• 21:58
  Speaker 10: Yeah, lady, but it was left there in the street.
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: They drove away and left it.
• 22:01
  Speaker 11: Who?
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: The ambulance.
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: What ambulance?
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: It was on the corner. The cop was there. He
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: told somebody to call an ambulance. It came and took
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: away the man.
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: Is that the cop out there right now?
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but look, look.
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: You've got to protect me.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: I ain't done anything wrong.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: I didn't know anything like this had happened.
• 22:12
  Speaker 10: I would never have taken the coat.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: Officer!
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: Officer!
• 22:15
  Speaker 10: Officer!
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Ernest Bowers lay on a slab at the moor. If
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: he were alive, probabilities were that he would regain consciousness
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: before 645. The two embalmers on duty at.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: The time had decided to get a bite to eat
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: when the phone rang.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but we're going out to eat.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: Another one just came in. We got it here. Well,
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: what's the rush? No, no, we just want to grab
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: a cup of coffee.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: We'll get right on it.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: Well, is it our fault if it comes in just
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: when we want to have a.
• 22:55
  Speaker 10: Oh.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Oh, we can go home after?
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: Ah, that puts a different complexion on.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: Hey, what time is it, Anthony?
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: 6.30. Good.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: Doc says if we embalm this one now, we can
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: go home.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: Well, let's start in, then. I'm hungry.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: Okay, I'll start the motor.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Young guy, ain't he?
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: I was saying to the wife about that yesterday.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: Oh, get the injector out, will you, Tony?
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: She was saying more and more people die older and older.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Here.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like we can open through the neck.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Give me a piece of that gauze.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: I said to Velma, she should be around this place
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: a while. We get them all ages.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: You want me to do it?
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: No, no, you get the injector ready.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Look at him.
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: Hmm?
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: You'd never think that such a little thing like his
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: heart stops beating could make him dead and not alive.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: Now, hold it steady, will you? Yeah.
• 23:53
  Speaker 11: Ready?
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Just a second.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Here we go.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Hmm.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: What's the matter?
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: My glasses.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: They're clouding up. Take them off.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: That's all right. I'll just clean them.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: What'd the wife say to that?
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: What?
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: Oh, about all agents?
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: Oh, she didn't have anything to say. Only that most
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: of the guys we deal with probably come to a
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: violent end.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: There's something in that.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: Okay, I got my glasses clean. Now, let's see here.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Hmm.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: What's the matter?
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: They're steamed up again. That's funny. Every time I bend
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: over and knit, I wonder.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: What? Ah, it must be my imagination.
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: What?
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: I could have sworn this guy was breathing on my glasses.
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: Is he?
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: No, how could he? Well, come on then, let's go.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: It's a quarter to seven already.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Oh, hold it, I'll get the phone.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: No, no, let's get this started first.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: Now, we'll just... Now.
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: Huh? I... I.
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: What's the matter with you? I.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: I thought I saw this guy's hand twitch.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: Don't be silly.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Give me a scare.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Let's wait a second. I'll get the phone.
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: No, it'll probably be another job, and we'll never get
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: out of here.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: Now, let her ring.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: But the doc said we could go home after.
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: Oh, all right.
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: Well, come on.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: Let's get this thing over with.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: Now.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: Okay, now, give me the knife again.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: Now, I'll make a nice, neat little incision right... Hey, Tony.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Look, I'm bent over like this, see?
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: I ain't gonna move. My glasses are full of steam again.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: Oh, Lord.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Is.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Is he alive? Hey, look at me.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: I'm shaking all over.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: Look at him, Al. Look at his lips.
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: Huh?
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: Listen, I... Shut that thing off.
• 26:11
  Speaker 11: No!
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: Apparently, the life of Ernest Bowers was worth $ 1. 30 for
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: a silver bracelet to the boys who ran away with it,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: and $ 5 for a blood-stained jacket to honest Jerry Murdoch.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: Their petty thefts brought a man to the brink of death.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: As for the busy telephone in the doctor's office, it
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: wasn't busy at all. The good doctor had unwittingly replaced
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: the receiver on the phone stand incorrectly. There is just
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: one more episode which perhaps does not belong in an
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: accident report, but which I would like to include. After
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: regaining full consciousness, Ernest Bowers put in a telephone call
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: from the morgue.
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: Hello.
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: Hello, Mrs.
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: Brawley.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Is Mrs.
• 27:42
  Speaker 10: Bowers in?
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: I'll see. Josie, see if Mrs. Bowers is home. Who
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: is it?
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: This is Mr. Bowers.
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: Who?
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Bowers?
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: They told me you were dead.
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: The hospital called and said.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: I know, Mrs.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: Brawley, but they made a mistake.
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: Oh, well, here she is. Hello? Ernest?
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: Where are you?
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: Well, darling, it's quite a long story.
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: Well, never mind.
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: You get right home, you hear?
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: Your dinner's getting ice cold.
• 28:24
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• 28:25
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• 28:35
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• 29:24
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• 29:40
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• 29:42
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