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Hearthstone of the Death Squad: The Marriage Annulment Murder Case (EP1696) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: But now it's time for today's episode of Hearthstone of
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  Speaker 1: the Desk Squad from December thirteenth, nineteen fifty one. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the Marriage Annulment Case.
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  Speaker 2: Annulment Murder Case.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight we again present the famous Hotstone of the Death Squad,
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  Speaker 3: implacable Manhunter of the Metropolitan Police in one of his
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  Speaker 3: greatest investigations entitled the Marriage Annulment Murder case with Peter
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  Speaker 3: Cappel as Conrad Faulkner and Peggy Sandford as Isabelle Gomez
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  Speaker 3: and now Inspector hath Stone.
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  Speaker 2: In the marriage annulment murder case.
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  Speaker 3: As the curtain rises, we see the luxurious living room
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  Speaker 3: of Conrad Faulkner, who is handsome, graying, and middle aged.
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  Speaker 3: He is looking in a puzzled way at his very
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  Speaker 3: young wife as he holds in his hand a newspaper
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  Speaker 3: clipping which he has just given him, and we hear
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  Speaker 3: him say the words that lead to one of Inspector
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  Speaker 3: Hathstone's most famous their cases.
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  Speaker 4: This newspaper clipping, My dear Glenda, why did you give
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  Speaker 4: it to me?
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  Speaker 2: From? Where does have come from?
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  Speaker 5: This afternoon's paper? Read it, Conrad.
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  Speaker 4: It's about some man and his wife whose marriage was annulled.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't know the people.
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  Speaker 5: Their marriage was annulled in court because it was proved
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  Speaker 5: they never lived together as husband and wife. Yes, so
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  Speaker 5: it says, But Conrad, I wouldn't ask this if I
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  Speaker 5: thought it would hurt you. But couldn't our own marriage
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  Speaker 5: be ended the same way? I mean, by an nullman?
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  Speaker 5: It's so much easier than divorced.
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  Speaker 4: So my sweet little wife finally comes to the conclusion.
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  Speaker 4: As I warned her, marrying me might be her great mistake.
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  Speaker 5: You did warn me, Conrad. But when father died and
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  Speaker 5: left you my guardian, I felt helpless and alone. I
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  Speaker 5: wanted some one to protect and care for me. I
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  Speaker 5: never thought I couldn't be made to.
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  Speaker 4: Believe it that one day love would come to you. Huh,
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  Speaker 4: And now you find it.
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  Speaker 5: Hair, Yes, deeply, terribly, Conrad.
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  Speaker 4: I needn't ask, Glinda. Is he of your age?
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  Speaker 5: I'm turned between love for him and duty and gratitude
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  Speaker 5: and affection for you. But I'd rather die than live
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  Speaker 5: without him.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not unprepared for this, after all, it's the course
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  Speaker 4: of nature.
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  Speaker 5: I blame myself. When I first saw what was coming,
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  Speaker 5: I should have put him right out of my mind,
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  Speaker 5: but it was like lightning from the sky.
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  Speaker 6: Comrade.
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  Speaker 4: Don't tell me anything more, Glenda. There are limits.
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  Speaker 7: Where are you going, Conrad?
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  Speaker 4: To my club, where I shall stay until we have
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  Speaker 4: the matter of an annulment of our marriage settled. Don't worry, it.
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  Speaker 2: Will end well, Conrad.
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  Speaker 5: You don't hate me for this.
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  Speaker 2: Hate is a bitter word.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, and the fantastic world in which we live. Who
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  Speaker 4: can predict what I may meet this young lover of yours, Glinda,
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  Speaker 4: be his best man at your wedding.
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  Speaker 7: Conrad, good bye, own Eric, right away.
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  Speaker 2: Hello Eric, Jacksons begins, Eric.
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  Speaker 5: This is slander. I told Conrad, and he said it
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  Speaker 5: was all right, right, Eric, there was something in the
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  Speaker 5: way he said it that makes me afraid. Afraid, something
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  Speaker 5: in the tone of his voice, something in his eyes I've.
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  Speaker 2: Never seen before.
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  Speaker 5: If he frets you out, Conrad isn't the kind who threatens.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me exactly what he said, Glenda.
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  Speaker 5: I told him I didn't want to.
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  Speaker 8: Hurt him, but that I loved you.
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  Speaker 6: And and and early the following morning, we see the
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  Speaker 6: cold and calculating Inspector Hearth Stone of the Death.
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  Speaker 3: Squad with his assistant detective Sam Cook, in the pastel
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  Speaker 3: tinted bedroom of Glenda Faulkner. It's peaceful beauty contradicted by
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  Speaker 3: the horribly mutilated body of Glinda, which lies sprawling across
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  Speaker 3: her bed.
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  Speaker 2: We hear the inspectors say.
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  Speaker 9: The filthy sight scend. Clearly, this is a murder of hate. Inspector,
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  Speaker 9: saving your one, This wasn't enough. I counted ten places
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  Speaker 9: across her breast. The butler who reported the murder says
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  Speaker 9: her husband wasn't home last night. Yeah, he said, he
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  Speaker 9: spent his night of his club. I wonder why you
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  Speaker 9: gotta be air Bohne, Nah, butler wrung him.
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  Speaker 2: Up at the club.
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  Speaker 9: Hand me that newspaper on the floor beside her bed, Hey,
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  Speaker 9: Inspector HM, curious the leading story was kipped from the
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  Speaker 9: front page. That's yesterday Afternoon Star Telegraph. Inspector.
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  Speaker 2: I guess she cut it out with that scissors on
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  Speaker 2: her sewing table.
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  Speaker 9: M she couldn't have, Sam. These are pinking scissors. They
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  Speaker 9: don't cut a clean line, but in the pattern of
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  Speaker 9: a saw. Were the only scissors air Inspector Sam phoned
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  Speaker 9: the Star Telegraph find out what story they carried on
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  Speaker 9: the third column of yesterday's late edition.
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  Speaker 2: Lesser, A phone down the hall, Come in, you.
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  Speaker 4: Are, Inspector Hotstu Conrad Faulkner.
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  Speaker 2: This murdered woman's husband.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, but do not ask me to look at her.
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  Speaker 4: She was so young, so lovely.
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  Speaker 9: The issue at this moment is to discover her killer,
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  Speaker 9: Mister Faulkner.
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  Speaker 4: If only I had not chosen last night, of all nights,
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  Speaker 4: to spend.
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  Speaker 2: At my club. You cannot undo the pest.
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  Speaker 9: No doubt you had an excellent reason for leaving your
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  Speaker 9: wife alone less net a.
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  Speaker 4: Late business meeting, Inspector Hartstone. And every minute of my
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  Speaker 4: absence can be accounted for.
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  Speaker 9: Aren't you getting a bit ahead of yourself?
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  Speaker 2: What? I didn't ask you for an alibi?
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  Speaker 4: But isn't the husband usually suspect when a wife is murdered,
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  Speaker 4: Inspector Holtstone, Not always? You are a clever man, Inspector Holtstone.
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  Speaker 4: I present the alibi, for I have a premonition that
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  Speaker 4: sooner or later I will be accused.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps you are the clever one.
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  Speaker 4: Even at a time of tragedy, one cannot forget self
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  Speaker 4: preservation is the first law of nature. Perhaps you can
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  Speaker 4: throw some light on this newspaper, mister Faulkner newspaper, Have
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  Speaker 4: you any idea what the subject of the story clipped from?
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  Speaker 4: It was not the least idea inspector.
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  Speaker 9: Detective Cook, and I found it beside your murdered wife's bed.
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  Speaker 4: It is completely a mystery to me. But how could
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  Speaker 4: it bear on glen as?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, Sam Star Telegraph says the story cut off from
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  Speaker 9: that paper was about a couple who had their marriage
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  Speaker 9: and nulled because they never left together as man and wife.
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  Speaker 9: Mister Faulkner, perhaps the information Detective Cook gives me has
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  Speaker 9: a direct bearing on your wife's murder.
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  Speaker 4: But how inspector?
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  Speaker 2: On what terms?
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  Speaker 9: Did you leave your wife when you left to spend
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  Speaker 9: the night at your club. When did you last see
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  Speaker 9: her alive? Do you return to this house during the night?
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  Speaker 9: What is your true reason for leaving?
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  Speaker 4: The reason I gave business? Glenn and I parted on
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  Speaker 4: the happiest I know nothing of this newspaper story of annulment.
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  Speaker 4: It does not concern me.
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  Speaker 9: It concerns me when a girl, obviously twenty five years
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  Speaker 9: younger than her husband is murdered.
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  Speaker 4: I was Glenda's guardian before a marriage. Her father and
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  Speaker 4: I were long business cothics. Why merchants of international repute.
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  Speaker 4: I am Barcelona, he in New York.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: On his death he appointed me her guardian.
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  Speaker 2: You have already said that.
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  Speaker 4: Then Glenda left alone in the world, sought the wisdom
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  Speaker 4: and protection of age, and asked me to be her husband.
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  Speaker 4: Our days were happy.
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  Speaker 9: And ended in her murder, a murder associated in some
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  Speaker 9: strange way with a newspaper story about a marriage annulment.
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  Speaker 9: So the question is what was your young wife seeking
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  Speaker 9: to end her marriage to you by annulment because you
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  Speaker 9: had never lived together as man and wife.
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  Speaker 4: The suggestion offends me. Only one person had the motive
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  Speaker 4: to murder my wife, who a young man who was
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  Speaker 4: forcing unwelcome attentions upon her, Inspector Hotstone, and whom she
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  Speaker 4: ordered out of her life yesterday. His name is Eric Jackson, E.
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  Speaker 2: Jackson, and Fannie the may inspector. One minute, Sam, it.
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  Speaker 4: Is not found a Detective Cook. Here is Eric Jackson's address,
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  Speaker 4: Inspector Hotstone.
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  Speaker 9: Hmm, you give his address as your own office, mister Faulkner.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Inspector Eric Jackson is an employee of my phone. It
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  Speaker 4: is there where my murdered Glenda met him, only to
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  Speaker 4: have him form the unwelcome infatuation that cost her murder.
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  Speaker 9: Detective Cook, and I will see this man, mister Faulkner,
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  Speaker 9: hoping of course, that it will relieve you.
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  Speaker 4: If suspicion it will, Inspector, I'll have my butler show
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  Speaker 4: you out, you rang, sir, show these gentlemen to the door.
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  Speaker 9: Picket this way, Inspector host who don't trouble picket we
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  Speaker 9: know the way.
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  Speaker 2: Good day, mister Faulkner. Picket, bring me a double whiskey
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  Speaker 2: and sword.
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  Speaker 9: Better way till the cops get out of the house.
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  Speaker 9: That hostel is a slick one.
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  Speaker 4: And what are you talking about.
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  Speaker 9: About this newspaper clipping? I heard you and the missus
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  Speaker 9: arguing about yesterday afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Sir?
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  Speaker 4: Where did you find it?
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  Speaker 2: I venture you.
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  Speaker 9: Dropped it out of your pocket in front of her
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  Speaker 9: door when you came.
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  Speaker 2: Back to murder last night.
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  Speaker 9: I'm offering it for sales, sir, to the highest bidder.
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  Speaker 9: It's between you and the cops. Suppose you start off with, say.
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  Speaker 4: Ten grands, give me that clipping and leave this house. Picket.
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  Speaker 2: There's mister Faulkner's office, Inspector. Hearts done for mic.
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  Speaker 9: We're wasting our breath talking to that Eric Jackson, the
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  Speaker 9: guy he's trying to put that finger on Sam. We
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  Speaker 9: have only suspicion without evidence so far that Falkner murdered
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  Speaker 9: his wife.
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  Speaker 2: I'm interested in his butler odd situation. You mean Bekett.
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  Speaker 2: He served two terms for blackmail. What are you now?
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  Speaker 2: Here's the door. Yes, you wish to see someone I respect?
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  Speaker 9: The hat stand or the death Squad, Office of Criminal Investigation.
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  Speaker 8: This is a detective Cook, Polly, but nothing has happened
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  Speaker 8: to you.
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  Speaker 2: I heard you say you were Inspector Hertstone. Can I
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  Speaker 2: help you? We're looking for mister Eric Jackson. Is he around?
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  Speaker 2: I'm Eric Jackson.
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  Speaker 9: But why we're investigating the murder of your employer's wife. No,
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  Speaker 9: Missus Conrad Faulkner. She was found murdered in her bed
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  Speaker 9: less than an hour ago.
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  Speaker 2: The murdered.
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  Speaker 8: No, No, that is what you get, Eric Jackson, for
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  Speaker 8: your illegitimate love match with that girl, mister Faulkner's wife
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  Speaker 8: or yes, sister Isabelle Gomez. I worked long for mister Faulkner.
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  Speaker 8: I see all this brewing murder had to result. I
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  Speaker 8: accuse Eric Jackson the man you have come here.
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  Speaker 2: To arrest Clander Hurd. Oh why didn't I call the police?
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  Speaker 2: And time?
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  Speaker 9: Might assume by that, mister Jackson, that you had knowledge
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  Speaker 9: Missus Faulkner was in danger of being murdered.
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  Speaker 8: Of a certain he knew in advance he killed her.
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  Speaker 8: He would have to know.
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  Speaker 9: Suppositions and accusations don't solve murders.
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  Speaker 2: Miss Gomez, Have you evidence evidence?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 9: What facts?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 9: I hear your facts later, Miss Gomez, I suggest we
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  Speaker 9: go into this office. Mister Jackson heres, Inspector Heartston. It's
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  Speaker 9: mine Eric. Suppose you start by telling me why you
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  Speaker 9: thought missus Faulkner was in danger of being murdered. Glenda
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  Speaker 9: was because she loved me, and I've heard the contrary,
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  Speaker 9: but go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: She phoned me late yesterday afternoon that her husband.
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  Speaker 9: Had agreed to have their marriage terminated so she could
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  Speaker 9: marry me.
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  Speaker 2: She told her husband, Conrad, that she was in love
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  Speaker 2: with me.
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  Speaker 9: Did she say whether the marriage was to terminate by
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  Speaker 9: divorce or annullement announment? Oh, she didn't, But she did
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  Speaker 9: say there was something in her husband's eyes, something in
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  Speaker 9: the tone of his voice when he agreed to end
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  Speaker 9: their marriage that put her in deadly.
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  Speaker 2: Fear of it. Why didn't you report that to the police.
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  Speaker 9: She wasn't murdered because she asked for a divorce or
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  Speaker 9: because of our love.
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  Speaker 2: For each other, Inspector Hertstone.
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  Speaker 9: No. Glinda was her husband's ward as well as his wife.
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  Speaker 9: He was also the executor of her father's estate and
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  Speaker 9: the sole custodian of the fortune her father left. Yes,
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  Speaker 9: he embezzled every cent of her money, and the books
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  Speaker 9: of this company will prove it. Glinda became suspicious of him.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't a.
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  Speaker 9: Murder of passion, Inspector Heartstone. It was a cold and
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  Speaker 9: calculated murder to keep her husband from behind prison bars.
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  Speaker 2: Let me throw a new light on the case.
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  Speaker 9: I'm an expert account and I know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 9: An inspector Hertstone. Yes, there's another reason Conrad Faulkner wanted
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  Speaker 9: Glenda out of the way. What reasons That woman in
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  Speaker 9: the outer office Isabelle Gomez, the one who accused me.
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  Speaker 2: Of murdering Glinda?
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  Speaker 9: How Why because they worked the theft of Glinda's money
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  Speaker 9: together and want to be off together. And I can
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  Speaker 9: prove that too. Do you take to cook same inspector?
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  Speaker 9: Bring Isabella Gomez in a here Edie Jackson accused her
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  Speaker 9: of fifth and murder.
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  Speaker 3: A Stone of the death squad and the marriage annulment
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  Speaker 3: murder case continues in just a moment. Is this show
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  Speaker 3: coming to you on your car radio? How are your breaks?
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  Speaker 3: The pedal getting too close to the floorboards, and how
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  Speaker 3: about your light's horn?
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  Speaker 2: Win she a wipers? If they're not in shape, you're
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  Speaker 2: taking chances, why do it? There are repair shops everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: And now back to Hearthstone of the Death Squad and
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  Speaker 3: the Marriage annulment murder case. Investigating the murder of lovely
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  Speaker 3: young Glenda Faulkner, brutally stabbed to death in her own bed,
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  Speaker 3: Inspector Horthstone is told by her older husband, Conrad Faukner,
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  Speaker 3: that Glenda was receiving unwelcome attentions from Eric Jackson, a
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  Speaker 3: young man of her own age who works for him.
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  Speaker 3: Suspicion begins to point at Conrad when the inspector discovers
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  Speaker 3: a newspaper beside the murder bed with an item about
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  Speaker 3: a marriage annulment cut from it, and upon his questioning
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  Speaker 3: Eric Jackson, Eric accuses Conrad and Isabel Gomez, also employed
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  Speaker 3: by Conrad, saying that Isabel helped Conrad to embezzle his
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  Speaker 3: wife's fortune and that Conrad murdered his wife to prevent discovery. Now,
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  Speaker 3: a moment later, at Conrad Falkner's office, Inspector Hortstone is
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  Speaker 3: saying to his assistant, Detective Sam cookjective.
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  Speaker 9: Cook, bring Isabella Gomez in here. Eric Jackson accuses her
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  Speaker 9: the fifth and murder.
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  Speaker 8: It is a lie, I do not see.
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  Speaker 2: I do not murder. I didn't say murder, Inspector Hartstone,
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  Speaker 2: I said, fat one minute, that swine you pay Eric,
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  Speaker 2: shut up.
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  Speaker 8: He's a swine, a big detective cook. Eric, I Inspector Hartstone,
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  Speaker 8: but she will not deceive you. What do you wish
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  Speaker 8: with me?
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  Speaker 9: I wish to know why you're wearing only one earring, Isabelle?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 8: I must have dropped it in the other room.
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  Speaker 9: I go, see, No, you needn't. Here is its mate,
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  Speaker 9: a black jet earring. I picked it off the ground
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  Speaker 9: directly under the window of the bedroom where Glinda Faulkner
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  Speaker 9: was murdered.
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  Speaker 8: Those earrings, they can be bought at any department store
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  Speaker 8: in New York. Every woman you meet Meresdom, they're the fashion.
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  Speaker 2: We'll check up on that one, fair sester. Heaven help me.
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  Speaker 9: Then she is Glanda's murders Inspector Hertstone, And I'll prove
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  Speaker 9: by a dropped earing.
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  Speaker 2: It is not my hearing, Eric Jackson.
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  Speaker 9: The earring was not the only clue I've found beneath
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  Speaker 9: the window. What another this star sapphire cuffling?
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  Speaker 2: Can either of you identify it?
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  Speaker 8: Eric, Isabelle, I have never set eyes on it.
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  Speaker 2: And you, Eric, I think it's Conrad Faukner.
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  Speaker 8: You lie, it is not mister Faukner.
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  Speaker 2: You think it is the murdered girl's husband's coupling.
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  Speaker 9: Eric, I'm not certain, Inspector Hartstone, but it looks like
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  Speaker 9: one of those he wore. Thank you, Eric and Hu,
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  Speaker 9: Miss Gomez. You will both please go to your homes
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  Speaker 9: and remain there. This office will be closed and sealed
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  Speaker 9: for police inspection.
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  Speaker 2: Come along saying.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, Inspector, I'm out of step, Inspector asked, and slap
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  Speaker 9: me down. But why are we penching that dame? Do
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  Speaker 9: you think we could convict her on the evidence of
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  Speaker 9: this earring alone? Same with the census she and the
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  Speaker 9: murdered girl's husband were at Tosum. We got her hair
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  Speaker 9: ring and his cuffling out off the murder scene.
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  Speaker 2: Right. So what are those newspapers she got onto your arm, Inspector?
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  Speaker 9: Two copies of yesterday's Star Telegraph. Same with the story
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  Speaker 9: of that highly interesting marriage and nulment checked in pencil
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  Speaker 9: on one.
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  Speaker 2: Where'd you get him?
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  Speaker 9: In the waste paper basket in the reception room of
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: mister Falkner's office.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: But he may not.
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: Have put them there at marriage and Norman clipping seems
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: to be turning up everywhere. We'll confront Faulkner with it
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: Sam at his house within the next few minutes.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Inspector Halthstone come in.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here too, mister Faulkler.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: My apologies, Detective Cook. My butler Picket left my employees
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: suddenly and without reason, so I answered the door myself.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: A Butler Pickett is a known criminal and blackmailer.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: You astonish me, Inspector Halthstone. I failed to check his
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: reference when I employed.
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: Oh does this cutling happen to be yours, mister Faulkner.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Yes, it is one of a sets that was presented
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: to me. I never wore them. I put them aside
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: in my desk at the office. You were found it there,
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: of course.
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  Speaker 9: No on the ground directly beneath the window of your
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: murdered wife's bedroom.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: How it got there I cannot say. But this newspaper
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: clipping may interest you, Inspector Hartstone.
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: Newspaper clipping, h it does very much, especially as it
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: is a marriage a nullman's story from yesterday's Star Telegraph.
• 22:18
  Speaker 9: My butler Picket attempted to blackmail me for ten thousand
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: dollars for it. He overheard my wife Glinda presented to
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: me as a possible way to have her marriage to
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: me annull Really, so you admitted, now admit that your
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: wife came to you to have your marriage annulled.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Just as I thought, I agreed to her play quite readily.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Ours was a marriage of convenience rather than love, Inspector Hartstone,
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: we did not lived together as man and wife. Our
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: marriage could have been annulled, but I thought no more
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: of this clipping until Pickett attempted to use it as
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: a means of blackmail for no earlier.
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: Today you complimented me by calling me clever, and I
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: returned it by saying, perhaps you were the clever one.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: You were very gracious, Inspector Hotstof, But now is no
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: time for pretty words. Undoubtedly you have come to reveal
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: who murdered my wife.
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: There is such a thing as being too clever, mister Faulkner, I.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Quite agree, Inspector. After all, the proof of the pudding.
• 23:24
  Speaker 9: Is in the eating, and figuratively speaking, neither you nor
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: I have eaten yet. But the records of the police
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: show that the refusal of a wife to live with
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: her husband provides a prime motive for murder.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Good day, mister Faulkner.
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: I'm not asking you this time why we're not making
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: a tench Inspector, Sam, radio headquarters from the car one
• 23:48
  Speaker 9: to search.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: This house for the butler pickets body. Right.
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: Two, Have the police auditors checked the books in Faulkner's office,
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: And third is a car back to headquarters quickly, Sam.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Now back in Inspector Hothstone's grim office of.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: The death Squad. We hear Detective Cooks.
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: Say, I'll give it to you a fast, Inspector. The
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: butler Pickett's not dead. He's drunk as a lord, shooting
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: money like Christ. Get on with it, Sam. Report on
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: Isabel Comez, the murdered Glenda. Faulkner's husband Conrad is putting
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: up for Isabel in a lush apartment on East fifty
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: third Street. You got our black jet air ring and
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: his cufflink already found at the murder scene. Get onto
• 24:32
  Speaker 9: the auditor report on Fuckner's book, Sam, Right here.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Sir, let me see it, and that's time to read
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: it myself.
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: The solution is in Faulkner's books, Sam, and in this
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: neatly cut out klipping the marriage and Nubman story in
• 24:49
  Speaker 9: the Star Telegraph. Yeah, I got everybody outside, Inspector Hotstone, Faulkner,
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: isabel and Eric Jackson.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Bring them in, Sam. The case is solved a man,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: all of you.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: I reached the conclusion, Inspector Halthstone, that your cleverness is
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: bringing my wife's killer to arrest.
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: Mister Faulkner, an order of your books reveals that every
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: dollar of your wife's estate held in.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Trust by you was embezzled.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: That is not a clever solution, Inspector.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: It is impossible.
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: Neither was it clever of you Faulkner, to put up
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: to this woman, Isabelle Gomez in one of the most
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: expensive apartments in the city.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Is passionate love?
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: Proof of murder, Inspector, I proudly say the money Conrad
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: Falkner spent on me was not embeeddled from his murdered wife, Glinda.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Let me at her.
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: It's like I said, Inspector, doctor killed Glenda. He embezzled
• 25:41
  Speaker 9: her money. Isabelle helped him murder her. You have all
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: the evidence her hearing his couplink proof of a five
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: hundred thousand dollars frazy, Eric how kill and Eric Jackson
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: is a murderer. What Eric, Yes, Eric Jackson, you're a fool.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Heartstar, You're not fit to be a police officer.
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: I deal it evidence, and you gave me too much.
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: You planted Isabelle's black jet earring on the scene. You
• 26:11
  Speaker 9: planted Conrad Faulkner's coupling along with it. And you cut
• 26:15
  Speaker 9: this story of the marriage and Nullman from the newspapers.
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: That's a why you cut it out with these shears
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: found in the search of your room, Eric, Glenda cut
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: it from the newspaper herself in her room with her scissors.
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: The only scissors in Glenda's room were pinking shears cheers
• 26:31
  Speaker 9: that leave the pattern of a saw.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: You gave her the story.
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: Eric gave her the idea to ask her husband for
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: an annulment of their marriage so you'd be free to
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: murder and have her husband accused he.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Embezzled her money. The proof is in his book.
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: The proof in his books is that you Weddy Jackson
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: forged entries and took the money.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Here's proof you did all right, Heartstone.
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: I did Detective Cook charge him with wilful murder, take
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: him to the cells.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Out of that, Derek Jackson, st.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Is it not as I said, Inspector Hearthstone, you are
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: the clever one, not I.
• 27:12
  Speaker 9: Through your sheer stupidity, for you made me believe you
• 27:16
  Speaker 9: were perhaps the most clever suspect I've ever met in
• 27:19
  Speaker 9: my long experience as a police officer. But that's not
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: a heal there. It's my job to bring murderers to heal.
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: And your wife's killer will end up in the electric chair.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: And thus Heartstone of the Death Squad right solved in
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: the files of the Marriage Annulman murder case. The part
• 28:00
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• 28:04
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, an interesting way to put that, I guess.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: So if I'm understanding, Heartstone almost got the wrong guy
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: because he thought that the guy was very clever in
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: fact as a murderer. In fact, it was that the
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: reason he looked very clever as a murderer was that
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: he was very stupid as someone who wasn't a murderer. Wow. Well,
• 31:26
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