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

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: After a street accident, Ernest Bowers is separated from the
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: safeguards that identify a condition which can make him appear
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: to be dead. As Police Lieutenant Steve Healy retraces the events,
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Bowers is carried through official medical and mortuary procedures, while
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: an important clue lies elsewhere. From CBS with Wally Marr
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: as Lieutenant Healy and Junius Matthews as Ernest Bowers, this
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: is Suspense, Dead Ernest, Episode 8, originally broadcast May 8, 1947.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: The script is by C. Legg Lester and Merwin Gerard.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: We now take you back to the original broadcast.
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: Yes, Roma wines taste better because only Roma selects from
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  Speaker 2: the world's greatest wine reserves.
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  Speaker 3: For your pleasure. And now, Roma Wines.
• 0:55
  Speaker 4: R-O-M-A. Roma Wines presents... Suspense! Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr.
• 1:07
  Speaker 4: Wally Mayer in Dead Earnest. A suspense play produced, edited,
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  Speaker 4: and directed for Roma.
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  Speaker 5: Wines by William Spear. Suspense!
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  Speaker 3: Suspense.
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  Speaker 2: Radio's outstanding theater of thrills is presented for your enjoyment
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: by Roma Wines.
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  Speaker 3: That's R-O-M-A. Roma Wines.
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  Speaker 2: Those better tasting California wines enjoyed by more Americans than
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  Speaker 2: any other wine. For friendly entertaining, for delightful dining. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: right now a glass full would be very pleasant. As
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: Roma Wines bring you Wally Mayer in a remarkable tale of.
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  Speaker 5: Suspense.
• 1:50
  Speaker 6: Accident report submitted to Police Inspector Blandon from Lieutenant Steve Healy.
• 1:55
  Speaker 6: Place 15th Street and 4th Avenue. Time, 2.45 p.m. March 11th. Remarks.
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  Speaker 6: Ernest Bowers, age 34, was crossing the intersection as signal
• 2:05
  Speaker 6: light changed from green to red. A car driven by
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  Speaker 6: Theodore Tobey made legal right turn from 15th Street into
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  Speaker 6: 4th Avenue.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, hey, look out! He hit him!
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  Speaker 6: He hit him!
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  Speaker 7: Hey, officer!
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  Speaker 8: Oh, look at those cameras.
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  Speaker 6: Officer!
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  Speaker 7: Here's a guy like him.
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  Speaker 5: All right, all right. Give him some air. Come on now,
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  Speaker 5: let me through here. All right, stand back.
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  Speaker 9: Let's have a look.
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  Speaker 7: Is he hurt bad, officer?
• 2:31
  Speaker 8: I didn't see him.
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  Speaker 5: Honest, I didn't. I had the right of way. He's
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  Speaker 5: passed out. One of you people call for an ambulance. Yeah, you. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: move back, move back.
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  Speaker 8: He's bleeding.
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  Speaker 9: Here, I'll prop up his head.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, use his jacket. Here, I'll hold him. Golly, he's limp.
• 2:48
  Speaker 5: Feels just like he's dead.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, Ernest Bowers felt like he was dead.
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  Speaker 6: Ernest Bowers suffered from catalepsy, a strange disease.
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  Speaker 9: He carried at all times a.
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  Speaker 6: Note in his inside coat pocket stating that he was
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  Speaker 6: a cataleptic and that in the event of seeming death,
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  Speaker 6: his wife should be immediately notified or his doctor in
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  Speaker 6: the event his wife is unavailable. The letter also requested
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  Speaker 6: that no autopsy or embalming should be performed on his
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  Speaker 6: body for 72 hours, although in his particular case, the
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  Speaker 6: duration of the attacks were usually four hours or less.
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  Speaker 9: Ernest Bowers also wore a.
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  Speaker 6: Sterling silver bracelet with an inscription reading, Do.
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  Speaker 9: Not embalm me. I am not dead. Catalepsy is a
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  Speaker 9: disease of the nerves and mind.
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  Speaker 6: The physical condition of the cataleptic when he is under
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  Speaker 6: a spell closely resemble death in all aspects, including the
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  Speaker 6: 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 6: He administered first aid to the injured man before making
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  Speaker 6: out his report.
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  Speaker 5: Eh, that ought to stop the bleeding. Looks like just
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  Speaker 5: a cut on his forehead when he hit the ground.
• 4:05
  Speaker 5: Nothing much. He can't be hurt bad, officer.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't hit him hard. That's right, officer.
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  Speaker 10: I saw it. It looked like just a little bump.
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  Speaker 5: All right, now clear back, clear back. Let's have a
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  Speaker 5: little air here.
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  Speaker 9: I'll have to take down some information.
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  Speaker 5: What's your name? Theodore Tobey.
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  Speaker 3: Here, here's my license.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, hey, you kids.
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  Speaker 5: What do those kids do?
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  Speaker 8: They picked up something off the street.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, here it comes.
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  Speaker 5: I hope he's all right.
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  Speaker 8: Doesn't look like he's breathing.
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  Speaker 9: My gosh, he is.
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  Speaker 5: I told you to get back. Now, come on. He's back.
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  Speaker 5: All of you here.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Let us through here, please. Hello, Doc. Glad you got here.
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  Speaker 5: He's hot cold. I'd say he is. Have a look. Well,
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  Speaker 5: let's get him away.
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  Speaker 3: He's dead.
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  Speaker 10: Well, anyway, it didn't happen in the coach.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: We'll take him away. Keep them back, officer, will you? Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Keep back.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 5: Clear off.
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  Speaker 11: Show's over. Come on.
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  Speaker 5: It's the second one today. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's go.
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  Speaker 10: Whose jacket was that he was laying on?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Did you pick it up?
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  Speaker 12: Nope.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, officer. Yeah? Where's the jacket? What?
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  Speaker 6: The jacket.
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  Speaker 10: The guy's jacket.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, uh.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my gosh, it's gone.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, those kids are... Never mind. Let's go, Payne.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Ernest Bowers had lost the identification of his condition. The
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  Speaker 6: letter was in the inside pocket of his jacket. The
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  Speaker 6: silver chain he wore on his left wrist had snapped
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  Speaker 6: and fallen to the pavement. Two youngsters picked up the chain,
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  Speaker 6: Robert Minnelli, age nine and a half, and Tommy Stoner, eight.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, that cop yelled at us. Did you hear him?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe we should give it back. Now, what for? So
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  Speaker 8: he can keep it?
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  Speaker 7: Let's go around the back to your father's shop, Bob.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, sure is a nice chain. Hey, there's writing on it.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe it's a guy's name. Will you hurt that?
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  Speaker 8: Hey, what's it saying?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, just a second.
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  Speaker 8: We'll be out of the alley. Yeah, Pop's gone home
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  Speaker 8: to eat. Can you read it now? Wait a second,
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  Speaker 8: will ya? It says, do not im- ball- do not
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  Speaker 8: something me. I am not dead.
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  Speaker 7: That's screwy.
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  Speaker 8: What do we do with it? Sell it, Dopey. Well,
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  Speaker 8: that's stealing, Bob. It ain't stealing. We found it, didn't we?
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  Speaker 13: When we try to sell it, they'll ask us where
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  Speaker 13: we got it.
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  Speaker 8: What do we tell them?
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  Speaker 11: Nothing.
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  Speaker 10: Use your head. You know what we'll do?
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 8: We'll use Pop's welding torch.
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  Speaker 7: We'll melt it down.
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  Speaker 8: But he told us not to use it. Pop ain't here,
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  Speaker 8: is he?
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  Speaker 13: No.
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  Speaker 9: Well, come on.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, there it is.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Now, here. You put it on that brick.
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  Speaker 8: Okay?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. There, be careful.
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  Speaker 5: What are you kids doing? Huh?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, uh.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, hello, Pop. Nothing, Mr.
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  Speaker 14: Minnelli.
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  Speaker 8: We ain't doing nothing.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing, eh? I thought I told you kids not to
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  Speaker 7: go near the torch.
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  Speaker 8: Well, we want to melt this down.
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  Speaker 15: Come on, come on.
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  Speaker 7: Give me that.
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  Speaker 3: 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 5: Chain melted?
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  Speaker 7: Who's this?
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  Speaker 8: You don't know, do we, Tommy?
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  Speaker 7: No, no, no, we don't.
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  Speaker 5: Where 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 8: Well, there's nothing wrong, Pop. We just found it, see?
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  Speaker 5: It's ours.
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  Speaker 3: Shh, shut up.
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  Speaker 4: Do not embalm me.
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  Speaker 3: I am not dead.
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  Speaker 9: But what.
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  Speaker 9: What's that? It's screwy.
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  Speaker 3: Well, where you find it?
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  Speaker 8: In the street. On us, Pop.
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  Speaker 7: Ask Tommy.
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  Speaker 9: All right, go on.
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  Speaker 10: Get out of here.
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  Speaker 8: Well, how about melting it down, Pop? We can sell
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  Speaker 8: it and buy some baseball.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be back.
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  Speaker 9: Look at Tommy.
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  Speaker 8: You see it?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. It's starting to melt.
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  Speaker 8: You see how he does it?
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  Speaker 5: Keep away, I told you.
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  Speaker 8: It's all melted.
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  Speaker 9: They sold the melted chain for $ 1.
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  Speaker 4: 30 to a dealer.
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  Speaker 9: $ 1.
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  Speaker 5: 30.
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  Speaker 6: But the coat, the coat was the principal thing. In
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  Speaker 6: the coat, in the inside pocket was the letter. The
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  Speaker 6: information about Ernest Bower's condition was in the letter. The
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  Speaker 6: instructions that could save his life. The coat was picked
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  Speaker 6: up from the street by honest Jerry Murdoch. Now there's
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  Speaker 6: a big sign near the corner of 15th Street.
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  Speaker 9: It says... Honest Jerry Murdoch. Swap shop.
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  Speaker 6: He brought the coat into his store, rummaged around on
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  Speaker 6: his shelves until he found some cleaner, then started to
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  Speaker 6: clean the bloodstains.
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  Speaker 10: Uh, I'm looking for a sport jacket.
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  Speaker 9: Uh, just a moment.
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  Speaker 13: What kind?
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  Speaker 5: Conservative.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 9: Come over here, please.
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  Speaker 11: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 5: Mm.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, something on that order.
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  Speaker 13: Hey, uh, just pick out what you want. Uh, how
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  Speaker 13: much you want to spend?
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  Speaker 3: About five bucks.
• 9:17
  Speaker 13: Oh, these cost more.
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  Speaker 5: How much?
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  Speaker 13: From 8 to 12. Now, over here we got some cheaper.
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  Speaker 3: These don't look so hot for 8 bucks.
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  Speaker 13: From 8 to 12. Over here.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'll take a look. Here.
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  Speaker 3: No, these don't appeal to me.
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  Speaker 13: And what size do you wear?
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  Speaker 11: 40.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 13: Here, try this one on. Nice and conservative.
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  Speaker 11: There.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's kind of tight around the shoulders.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, tight.
• 9:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks cheesy.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I guess you ain't got what I want.
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  Speaker 13: Wait, wait, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 12: Wait, what's your hurry? I'm just putting a new one
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  Speaker 12: in stock over here by the county.
• 9:51
  Speaker 5: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: Nah, that looks all right.
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  Speaker 5: What size is it?
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  Speaker 13: I don't know. Here, let's try it on you, huh?
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  Speaker 9: Now, how's that?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 10:00
  Speaker 5: That feels all right.
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  Speaker 13: All right.
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  Speaker 10: It's kind of stiff in front here.
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  Speaker 13: It's almost new, ain't it? You'll break it in.
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  Speaker 3: Feels like cardboard or something.
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  Speaker 13: Look, you'll want it $ 5.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 10:10
  Speaker 12: There might be still a couple of stains on it.
• 10:12
  Speaker 12: I ain't got time to take them out. You use
• 10:13
  Speaker 12: some cleaner on it to bring it to the Taylor's
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  Speaker 12: Hill spot. It'll be better than new.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Here.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the $ 5.
• 10:25
  Speaker 6: Ernest Bowers was brought to the receiving room of the
• 10:27
  Speaker 6: Vetter General Hospital.
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  Speaker 9: The time, 4.10.
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  Speaker 5: If Bowers was going to awaken, it would.
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  Speaker 6: Probably be before 6.45.
• 10:36
  Speaker 9: Intern on duty, Dr. Weldon, made out his report.
• 10:38
  Speaker 6: He wrote it down while he was standing near the
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  Speaker 6: telephone switchboard.
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  Speaker 7: Hello.
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  Speaker 8: This is the Vetter General Hospital.
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  Speaker 7: Is there anybody by the name of Bowers at home?
• 10:50
  Speaker 7: That's Bowers, B-O-W-E-R-A. No, nobody home.
• 10:53
  Speaker 5: Is Mr.
• 10:53
  Speaker 7: Bowers married? His wife thinks so.
• 10:56
  Speaker 8: Where can I reach her?
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  Speaker 7: There's been an accident.
• 10:59
  Speaker 8: I don't know. She's out.
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  Speaker 7: Will you tell her to call the Vetter General Hospital?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: What happened?
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Bowers is dead.
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  Speaker 9: That's funny.
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  Speaker 3: Just a superficial cut on his forehead. Well, that's cardiac.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to go. Get me the orderly room, honey.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, use that phone there.
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 11:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 11:22
  Speaker 5: This is Dr. Weldon.
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: There's a delivery for you to go to the morgue.
• 11:25
  Speaker 14: Morgue?
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 11:26
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 11:27
  Speaker 10: I ain't had anything to eat since.
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. Since lunch.
• 11:30
  Speaker 9: Go on now.
• 11:31
  Speaker 3: It's down in the receiving room. The papers are down there, too.
• 11:33
  Speaker 10: Can I get a sandwich first?
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: No. Go on. Get going.
• 11:37
  Speaker 10: Oh, why can't I wait a few minutes? It's got
• 11:39
  Speaker 10: to go now.
• 11:40
  Speaker 4: They'll want to start the embalming so they can go home.
• 11:46
  Speaker 9: It was then 4.22 in the afternoon. Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Theodore J.
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  Speaker 6: Weldon left Honey at the switchboard and walked upstairs to
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  Speaker 6: the intern quarters and settled down to reading the sports
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  Speaker 6: page of the afternoon paper.
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  Speaker 9: At that moment, if anyone had been in.
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  Speaker 6: Receiving room B of the Vetter General Hospital where the
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  Speaker 6: body of Ernest Bowers lay on the patient carriage, they
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  Speaker 6: would have seen a fly crawl slowly across the face
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  Speaker 6: of the dead man.
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  Speaker 9: And they would have seen his nose twitch.
• 12:29
  Speaker 4: For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you an all-star cast
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  Speaker 4: of Hollywood radio players, headed by Wally Mayer in Dead Earnest.
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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 5: Dead Earnest.
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  Speaker 6: Henry Prince had purchased the coat in which was the
• 14:37
  Speaker 6: letter that could save the life of Ernest Bowers. When
• 14:40
  Speaker 6: Henry Prince left Honest Jerry Murdoch's second-hand.
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  Speaker 9: Store, he stopped to have a chat.
• 14:45
  Speaker 6: With some friends, made some purchases at the grocery store,
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  Speaker 6: and then started home.
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  Speaker 9: The time?
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  Speaker 5: A few minutes after five.
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  Speaker 6: He lived about two blocks from the scene of the accident,
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  Speaker 6: 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: I didn't like him for five bucks.
• 15:00
  Speaker 7: Oh, it looks all right. If you lose some of
• 15:02
  Speaker 7: that weight, it'll look better. Wait a minute, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 7: What's that, a spot?
• 15:05
  Speaker 9: Where?
• 15:06
  Speaker 7: Take it off a minute.
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  Speaker 11: Here.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 15:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah. I wonder what that is.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, he's sat there a couple of spots.
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: Cleaner will take him out.
• 15:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it looks like it might be. What's this in
• 15:16
  Speaker 7: the pocket? Hmm?
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 15:19
  Speaker 7: Heaven's sake. To whom it may concern, please open and read.
• 15:23
  Speaker 9: Well, that's what must have felt stiff, huh?
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 15:27
  Speaker 11: This note is carried on my person wherever I go.
• 15:30
  Speaker 11: It is to advise responsible parties that I am a cataleptic.
• 15:38
  Speaker 11: That if it appears as though I am dead, I
• 15:41
  Speaker 11: am not. And that my body is not to be
• 15:46
  Speaker 11: molested for a period of 72 hours.
• 15:47
  Speaker 7: Neither by.
• 15:50
  Speaker 11: Autopsy nor by embalming, although the maximum periods of my
• 15:57
  Speaker 11: attacks usually do not exceed four hours. Please telephone my wife, Mrs.
• 16:01
  Speaker 11: Margaret Bowers at Fulton 11231. This is a boarding house,
• 16:05
  Speaker 11: address 84111.
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: West 25th Street. If she is not there, please try
• 16:11
  Speaker 7: to ask Mr.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: 43422.
• 16:13
  Speaker 7: This is the number of Dr. Benton.
• 16:16
  Speaker 11: It is of vital importance. It may mean my life.
• 16:20
  Speaker 11: Thank you, Ernest Bowers.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a funny one.
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: Where'd you get that jacket, Harry?
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: Right on. It's Jerry Murda.
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: Gee, I wonder what we can do.
• 16:27
  Speaker 9: Well, nothing.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: It's probably forgotten already.
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: Somebody sold the jacket to him, forgot to take the
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: letter on.
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: You sound like something a guy would forget.
• 16:33
  Speaker 12: No, the devil.
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: Well, it might be important. Say, look at that, Harry.
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: Those spots look like blood.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: No, too dark.
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: That's the color that blood turns. I'm going to telephone
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: that number.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Well, go ahead, but I think you're wasting your time.
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: Oh, you're hush, will you, a minute?
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Don't keep crying out loud.
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: Keep still. Hello? I'd like to talk to Mrs.
• 16:59
  Speaker 9: Bowers.
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: She ain't in. Well, how do you know? You didn't
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: even go to find... She went out, and you ain't
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: the first after her. Who else wanted to get in
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: touch with her? Oh, somebody. I don't know who. Oh, well,
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: thank you.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: There, you see?
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: You're wasting your time.
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: I'll try that doctor.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, for heaven's sakes.
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: I'm turning into a regular busybody.
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: Well, think of somebody else.
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: Well, I'm getting hungry. Oh, hush, will you? Oh, hush,
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: will you?
• 17:21
  Speaker 14: Oh.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: How about some dinner?
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: It's cooking. It's cooking. Honestly, I can't get it out
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: of my head.
• 17:27
  Speaker 11: That guy, whoever he is, just lying there and people
• 17:30
  Speaker 11: thinking I'm dead when he ain't.
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: Maybe doing things to him. Gee, what's embalming?
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: Oh, they do that at the morgue.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: It's preparing his body for burial. I think they take
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: all the blood out of his veins.
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: Heaven's sakes, that'd kill him if he wasn't already dead.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Couldn't kill him any deader.
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: Harry, I'm going to find out about that coat. Now,
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: where's this place you bought it?
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Now, wait a minute, Frances.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: I put in a good day's work.
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: I'm tired.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: I don't want to run around the city looking for
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: something I don't even know about.
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: Well, I'll go myself.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: How about me at home here while you go out?
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: I want to eat.
• 17:59
  Speaker 13: I'm hungry.
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: Well, dinner won't be ready for another 15 minutes anyway.
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: Where's the place?
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: Oh, all right. I'll go with you.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Pardon me.
• 18:13
  Speaker 13: What's wrong?
• 18:17
  Speaker 9: Where's Harry?
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: We want to find out about the man next door.
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: Do you know when he'll come back?
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's Jerry?
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 18:22
  Speaker 12: Oh.
• 18:23
  Speaker 13: Are you there?
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: No, he isn't. Harry, listen, go take another look, huh?
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: I'll try that number again.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Oh, crap. I have a safe.
• 18:28
  Speaker 12: I'm hungry.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: They answered it.
• 18:46
  Speaker 13: I'm using this.
• 18:47
  Speaker 11: Oh.
• 18:48
  Speaker 9: Well, he ain't back yet.
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: Well, what does this sign say? Ten minutes?
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but those guys put up signs like that if
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: they're going away for an hour.
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: Well, we'll just wait a couple of more minutes.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, come on, Francis.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Wait. Is Mrs. Bowers in?
• 18:57
  Speaker 12: No. Uh, Mr.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: Bowers.
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: He's dead. He is? That's what they tell me. Well, look, listen,
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: will you please... You're bothering me, lady.
• 19:07
  Speaker 10: I got a meal set up on the table.
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: I can't be answering a million questions. All I want
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: to know is when Mr. Bowers died. How do I know?
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: Ask Mrs.
• 19:15
  Speaker 15: Bowers.
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: She'll be home soon. Yeah, well, thanks.
• 19:19
  Speaker 15: Well?
• 19:19
  Speaker 12: Mr.
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: Bowers is dead. I found that out.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Oh, you see? I told you.
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: Well, what about the letter, then? What if he ain't dead?
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: What if they only think he's dead?
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: What, do you want it to wait here all night?
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: If I have to.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Well, without me, then.
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: Well, just do as you please.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: I'll be home.
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: I'm hungry.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: It's after six.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: If you think more of a crazy letter than you
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: do of feeding your own husband.
• 19:37
  Speaker 13: Then that's all.
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: What do you mean, that's all?
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: That's what I said.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: That's all.
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: Oh, Harry, the trouble with you is you haven't got
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: any imagination.
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: No, I haven't got any imagination.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: I'm just a home-loving guy.
• 19:46
  Speaker 10: That's all.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: I don't go sticking my nose where it don't belong.
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: Oh, well, for heaven's sakes, go home, then. I'll find
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: out about it. Because something beside your stomach once in
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: a while.
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: Officer, officer.
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: Yes, ma'am?
• 19:59
  Speaker 11: Do you know where the fellow who owns that swap
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: shop lives, Honest Jerry Murdoch?
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: No, ma'am, I don't.
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: Oh, dear. Gee, I want to get in touch with him,
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: and there's a sign on his door saying.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Why don't you ask him, ma'am?
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: There he is now.
• 20:10
  Speaker 11: Huh?
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: He's going in over there.
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: Oh, gee, thank you.
• 20:13
  Speaker 11: Mr.
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: Murdoch?
• 20:14
  Speaker 11: Yeah?
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: Oh, gee, I'm sure glad you came back.
• 20:17
  Speaker 13: Come in, come in. Just out having a bite to eat.
• 20:19
  Speaker 11: Yeah, listen, you sold my husband a jacket, a sports
• 20:22
  Speaker 11: jacket this afternoon.
• 20:23
  Speaker 13: Did I? What kind?
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: Well, a light blue one with little red boxes in it.
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: It had a few stains on it.
• 20:28
  Speaker 13: Oh, sorry, I can't take anything back once it's sold.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: No, no, no, I don't want to give it back. Listen,
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: where did you get it, Mr. Murdoch?
• 20:34
  Speaker 13: How can I remember where I got it?
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: Long ago? Was it very long ago?
• 20:37
  Speaker 13: I don't see what's any of your business where I
• 20:39
  Speaker 13: got it.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: Well, it may be important. I've been trying to reach
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: the numbers.
• 20:42
  Speaker 11: The doctor's number's always busy and his wife isn't home yet.
• 20:45
  Speaker 13: I don't know what you're talking about.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: Look, tell me one thing, just one thing. Did you
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: have the jacket in here a long time?
• 20:50
  Speaker 13: Well.
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: Oh, please, listen, it's very important.
• 20:53
  Speaker 13: Well, no, no, I just got it in this afternoon. Well,
• 20:56
  Speaker 13: where did you get it? Look, you said one question,
• 20:58
  Speaker 13: you asked it, I answered it, that's all.
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: There was blood on it.
• 21:01
  Speaker 13: Well, that I can't help.
• 21:03
  Speaker 11: Listen, if that man's alive and they do anything to him,
• 21:05
  Speaker 11: I'll just never get over it.
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: I'll never be able to live with myself.
• 21:08
  Speaker 13: What are you talking about?
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: Listen to me.
• 21:11
  Speaker 11: There was a letter in the inside pocket of that jacket,
• 21:13
  Speaker 11: you see. It said that Ernest Bowers was a cataleptic.
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: What's that?
• 21:17
  Speaker 13: He goes into fits?
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: No, no, no.
• 21:19
  Speaker 11: A cataleptic is somebody who looks like he's dead at times,
• 21:22
  Speaker 11: and he isn't. He goes into a spell, and it
• 21:24
  Speaker 11: looks as though he's dead. You see, sometimes they take
• 21:27
  Speaker 11: dead bodies to the morgue and bomb them. That means
• 21:30
  Speaker 11: they take all the blood out of their veins. Now,
• 21:32
  Speaker 11: this fellow Bowers is a cataleptic. I don't know whether
• 21:35
  Speaker 11: he's dead or alive or even if he's worrying about
• 21:37
  Speaker 11: this letter, but I've got to find out. I.
• 21:40
  Speaker 13: There was... What?
• 21:41
  Speaker 15: What?
• 21:41
  Speaker 13: An accident before.
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: Where?
• 21:43
  Speaker 13: Who was in it? I don't know. Believe me, lady,
• 21:44
  Speaker 13: I didn't know anything about all this.
• 21:46
  Speaker 12: You think that this guy was taken away in an ambulance?
• 21:48
  Speaker 13: Was it a catalepsy?
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: That coat. Was it his?
• 21:50
  Speaker 13: Yeah, lady, but it was left there in the street.
• 21:52
  Speaker 13: They drove away and left it.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Who?
• 21:53
  Speaker 13: The ambulance.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: What ambulance? I don't know.
• 21:55
  Speaker 13: It was on the corner. The cop was there. He
• 21:56
  Speaker 13: told somebody to call an ambulance. It came and took
• 21:58
  Speaker 13: away the man.
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: Is that the cop out there right now?
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, but look, look.
• 22:01
  Speaker 13: You've got to protect me. I ain't done anything wrong.
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: I didn't know anything like this had happened.
• 22:05
  Speaker 13: I would never have taken the coat.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Officer!
• 22:07
  Speaker 13: Officer!
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: Ernest Bowers lay on a slab at the moor.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: If he were alive, probabilities were that he would regain
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: consciousness before 6.45.
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: The two embalmers on duty at the time had decided
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: to get a bite to eat when the phone rang.
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: Yeah, but we're going out to eat.
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I know.
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: Another one just came in. We got it here. Oh,
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: what's the rush? No, no, we just want to grab
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: a cup of coffee. We'll get right on it. Well,
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: is it our fault if it comes in just when
• 22:45
  Speaker 10: we want.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: To have a.
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 22:48
  Speaker 10: Oh, we can go home after? Yeah, that puts a
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: different complexion on.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 22:53
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 22:55
  Speaker 10: Hey, what time is it, Anthony?
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: 6.30.
• 22:57
  Speaker 13: Good.
• 22:58
  Speaker 15: Doc says if we embalm this one now, we can
• 23:00
  Speaker 15: go home.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Well, let's start in, then.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: I'm hungry.
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: Okay, I'll start the motor.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Young guy, ain't he?
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah.
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: I was saying to the wife about that yesterday.
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: Oh, get the injector out, will you, Tony?
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: She was saying more and more people die older and older.
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: Here.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, looks like we can open through the neck.
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 23:21
  Speaker 9: Give me a piece of that gauze.
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: I said to Velma, she should be around this place
• 23:26
  Speaker 10: a while. We get them all ages.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: You want me to do it?
• 23:30
  Speaker 10: No, no, you get the injector ready.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: Look at him. Hmm?
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: You'd never think that such a little thing like his
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: heart stops beating could make him dead and not alive.
• 23:40
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: Now, hold it steady, will you?
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Ready?
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Just a second.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Here we go.
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: Hmm.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: What's wrong?
• 23:58
  Speaker 10: My glasses.
• 23:59
  Speaker 9: They're clouding up.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Take them off. That's all right.
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: I'll just clean them.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: What'd the wife say to that?
• 24:07
  Speaker 11: What?
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: Oh, about all ages? Yeah. Oh, she didn't have anything
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: to say.
• 24:10
  Speaker 15: Only that most of the guys we deal with probably
• 24:13
  Speaker 15: come to a violent end.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: There's something in that. Yeah.
• 24:17
  Speaker 10: Okay, I got my glasses clean.
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: Now, let's see here.
• 24:22
  Speaker 13: Hmm.
• 24:24
  Speaker 10: What's the matter? They're steamed up again.
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: That's funny.
• 24:29
  Speaker 15: Every time I bend over and knit, I wonder.
• 24:33
  Speaker 13: What?
• 24:35
  Speaker 9: Ah, it must be my imagination.
• 24:37
  Speaker 10: What? Well, I could have sworn this guy was breathing
• 24:41
  Speaker 10: on my glasses.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: Is he?
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: No, how could he?
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Well, come on then, let's go.
• 24:48
  Speaker 10: It's a quarter to seven already.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: Oh, hold it, I'll get the phone.
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: No, no, let's get this started first.
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 24:56
  Speaker 10: Now, we'll just.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: Stop.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: Huh? I.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: I.
• 25:01
  Speaker 10: What's the matter with you? I.
• 25:03
  Speaker 10: I thought I saw this guy's hand twitch.
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: Oh, don't be silly. Phew.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: That gave me a scare.
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: Let's wait a second.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: I'll get the phone.
• 25:14
  Speaker 10: No, no, it'll probably be another job, and we'll never
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: get out of here.
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: Now, let her ring.
• 25:18
  Speaker 10: But the doc said we could go home after.
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: Oh, all right.
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: Well, come on.
• 25:22
  Speaker 10: Let's get this thing over with.
• 25:24
  Speaker 13: Now.
• 25:25
  Speaker 9: Okay, now, give me the knife again. All right.
• 25:29
  Speaker 15: Now, I'll make a nice, neat little incision right.
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: Hey, Tony. Yeah?
• 25:38
  Speaker 10: Look, I'm bent over like this, see? I ain't gonna move.
• 25:43
  Speaker 15: My glasses are full of steam again.
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: Oh, Lord.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: Is.
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: Is he alive? Hey, look at me.
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: I'm shaking all over.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Look at him, Al. Look at him. Look at his lips.
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: Huh?
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: Listen, I.
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: Shut that thing off.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: Ah!
• 26:41
  Speaker 14: Apparently, the life of Ernest Bowers was worth $ 1. 30 for
• 26:45
  Speaker 14: a silver bracelet to the boys who ran away with it,
• 26:49
  Speaker 14: and $ 5 for a blood-stained jacket to honest Jerry Murdoch.
• 26:55
  Speaker 14: Their petty thefts brought a man to the brink of death.
• 26:59
  Speaker 14: As for the busy telephone in the doctor's office, it
• 27:02
  Speaker 14: wasn't busy at all. The good doctor had unwittingly replaced
• 27:06
  Speaker 14: the receiver on the phone stand incorrectly. There is just
• 27:13
  Speaker 14: one more episode which perhaps does not belong in an
• 27:16
  Speaker 14: accident report, but which I would like to include. After
• 27:21
  Speaker 14: regaining full consciousness, Ernest Bowers put in a telephone call
• 27:26
  Speaker 14: from the morgue.
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: Hello. Hello, Mrs. Brawley.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Is Mrs.
• 27:34
  Speaker 13: Bowers in?
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: I don't know. I'll see. Josie, see if Mrs.
• 27:39
  Speaker 10: Bowers is home.
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: Who is it?
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: This is Mr.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Bowers.
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: Who?
• 27:45
  Speaker 10: Mr.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: Bowers?
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: They told me you were dead. The hospital called and said.
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: I know, Mrs. Brawley, but they made a mistake.
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: Oh, well, here she is.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: Hello?
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: Ernest?
• 27:55
  Speaker 10: Where are you? Well, darling, it's quite a long story.
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: Well, never mind. You get right home, you hear? Your
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: dinner's getting ice cold.
• 28:16
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  Speaker 2: for Suspense the well-deserved title of radio's outstanding theater of thrills.
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  Speaker 4: Dead Ernest, heard this evening, is one of the plays
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  Speaker 4: upon which the Peabody Award was based. It was repeated
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  Speaker 4: by popular request. Next Thursday, same time, Roma Wines bring
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: you Mr. Robert Mitchum as star of Suspense, radio's outstanding
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  Speaker 4: theater of thrills. Produced and directed by William Speer for
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California.
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  Speaker 1: That brings us to the end of Suspense, Dead Earnest,
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  Speaker 1: first heard in 1947. Follow Suspense for more classic broadcasts.