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Dragnet: The Big Jump (EP4652) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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  Speaker 1: for your support, Denise. Now from January eleventh, nineteen fifty
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  Speaker 1: here is the big jump.
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  Speaker 2: The story you are about to hear is true, only
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  Speaker 2: the names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
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  Speaker 2: a detective sergeant. You're assigned the homicide detail. A man
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  Speaker 2: crouches on the window ledge of a downtown building thirteen
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  Speaker 2: stories above the street. He threatens to leap to his
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  Speaker 2: death within the hour.
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  Speaker 3: Your job stop him.
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  Speaker 5: It was Thursday, September sixth was warm in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: We're working the day watch out of homicide detail. My
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  Speaker 5: partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Steve.
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  Speaker 6: My name is Friday.
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  Speaker 5: I was on the way back from communications and it
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  Speaker 5: was one twenty eight pm when I got to room
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  Speaker 5: forty two homicide.
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  Speaker 7: You ready to skip it?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Am man? What's up? It's got the call Third and Temple,
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  Speaker 6: you know, Fitzroy Building, thirteenth floor.
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  Speaker 9: They got a jumper, right then?
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  Speaker 6: That's how's it? Right? What's the story?
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  Speaker 10: Skipper took?
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  Speaker 6: Could go? Not much to tell. Guys perched out on
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  Speaker 6: a window ledge thirteen floors up, threatening to jump. Yep,
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  Speaker 6: what time you got round now?
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  Speaker 9: One thirty three?
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  Speaker 6: Not much time? What the guy and alleged you, sir? Notice,
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  Speaker 6: well what do you mean? He says he's going to jump?
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  Speaker 6: At two o'clock.
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  Speaker 5: One six pm, Ben pulled the card to a stop
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  Speaker 5: at Third and Temple. We double parked near the intersection,
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  Speaker 5: started across the street to the building on the northeast
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  Speaker 5: corner was a steel frame structure with a block granite facing.
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  Speaker 5: The stone lettering over the main entrance read R. H.
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  Speaker 5: Fitzroy Building, nineteen twenty seven. The immediate area had been
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  Speaker 5: blocked off in all directions. The sidewalks directly adjacent to
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  Speaker 5: the building on Third Street and on Temple Street had
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  Speaker 5: also been cleared of all pedestrian traffic. Hundreds of curious
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  Speaker 5: onlookers jammed against police lines at the fire side of
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  Speaker 5: the intersection, reaching back for.
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  Speaker 6: A full block in either direction.
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  Speaker 5: Hundreds more packed in behind them. Thirteen stories above the
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  Speaker 5: pavement was the center of attraction, the figure of a
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  Speaker 5: man standing upright on a narrow ledge, looking down at
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  Speaker 5: the crowd on the street directly below him. Men from
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  Speaker 5: the fire Department's rescue squad were hurriedly stretching out nets.
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  Speaker 8: We entered the building, took the elevator to the thirteenth floor.
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  Speaker 6: Who's stand by A Pierce Giver Bechel and Wiseman. I
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  Speaker 6: saw the crowd gathering in the street. On the way
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  Speaker 6: back from lunch, looked up and saw a guy on
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  Speaker 6: the edge that came right up.
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  Speaker 8: How long has the guy been standing out there?
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  Speaker 6: About fifteen minutes?
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  Speaker 9: Sure drawing a crowd. Must be a couple of thousand
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  Speaker 9: people down there.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 10: How was that room number?
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  Speaker 6: Friday thirteen oh five. Yeah, it's down on this way.
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  Speaker 6: There's Bechel Beck. I been watching for you. The office
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  Speaker 6: is down here. Okay, how's it stand now? He's still
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  Speaker 6: out there ready to jump. We got twenty two minutes
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  Speaker 6: to figure out how to stemp them.
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  Speaker 9: What's the story anyway?
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  Speaker 6: I let the doctor tell you. Go ahead through here, nurse,
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  Speaker 6: where doctor Turner go?
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  Speaker 9: He look down to meet doctor right, he's bringing him
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  Speaker 9: right up.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, this is Captain Steve Homicide in this Lenaham. How
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  Speaker 6: do you do? Right? Friday?
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  Speaker 10: Rame?
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  Speaker 6: Nurse? Here's how he climbed outside this window here? Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: right now, he's standing on the ledge about twelve feet
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  Speaker 6: to the right of the window. The ledge is about
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  Speaker 6: fourteen inches wide. No other windows closer to doing No,
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  Speaker 6: this is it? Did you try to talk him out
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  Speaker 6: of it? Get him back inside? We took a turn
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  Speaker 6: at it. Yeah, Wiseman crawled out on the ledge. Talk
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  Speaker 6: to him so did I. It's one of the queerest
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  Speaker 6: jumpers i've come across. What honey mean, got a hammer
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  Speaker 6: with him, carpenter's hammer. Whenever you get close to him,
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  Speaker 6: he takes a cut at you. Wiseman wasn't looking for it,
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  Speaker 6: had a duck fast he almost went over.
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  Speaker 8: Was there any other way to reach him?
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  Speaker 6: Double checked the whole lay out. This window is the closest.
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  Speaker 6: What about lowering a man from the roof, white piece
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  Speaker 6: of corners up.
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  Speaker 3: There, a big overhang.
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  Speaker 6: Put a man down on a rope and he'd be
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  Speaker 6: hanging three feet from the side of the building. Wouldn't
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  Speaker 6: come close to the guy?
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  Speaker 9: How about this doctor you mentioned Beck? You figured he
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  Speaker 9: can yell?
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  Speaker 6: It's worth a try this Lenand yes, sergeant, you saw
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  Speaker 6: it happen. You know better than I do of what
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  Speaker 6: doctor Turner's idea is. Would you fill these men in place?
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  Speaker 6: Make it brief surely.
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  Speaker 8: Now this man on the ledge, who is he?
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  Speaker 6: Do you know?
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  Speaker 11: Walter Harrison's his name. He's one of the doctor's patients.
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  Speaker 11: His sister brought him in for a routine check up.
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  Speaker 11: That was about one o'clock.
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  Speaker 6: How old is the man? Forty one?
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  Speaker 11: His sister told us. He's been complaining of the back
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  Speaker 11: ache lately. While the doctor was examining him and mister
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  Speaker 11: Harrison flew up all of a sudden, he yelled out
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  Speaker 11: we were trying to cripple him, that we wanted to
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  Speaker 11: kill him. Oh excuse me, please sure doctor Turner's office.
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  Speaker 12: No, I'm sorry, not that that you know him. We
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  Speaker 12: have an offline of trouble.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, all right, fancy, Well what happened after Harrison started
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  Speaker 8: to act up in this land?
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  Speaker 11: Doctor Turner and I tried to hold him. He shoved
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  Speaker 11: his both out of the way. He hit the doctor
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  Speaker 11: in the face. Then he ran to the window, got
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  Speaker 11: out on that ledge and crawled along the side of
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  Speaker 11: the building.
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  Speaker 6: He's been there ever since.
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  Speaker 9: Miss Harrison is a mental case.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, he's been for ten years, been in and out
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  Speaker 11: of the State hospital at camer Allot a couple of times.
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  Speaker 11: Sister Ru's been taking care of him.
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  Speaker 6: She was here.
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  Speaker 12: What has happened?
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  Speaker 6: Where is she now?
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  Speaker 11: Next door the treatment room, Filma, that's the other nurse
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  Speaker 11: she's looking after Miss Harrison.
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  Speaker 6: She's pretty clock. Tried to talk to a skipper. Not
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  Speaker 6: much help so far. You said the doctor's been treating
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  Speaker 6: this mister Harrison.
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  Speaker 11: No, he just came in for a physical check out.
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  Speaker 11: Doctor Wright's been handling his nomal condition. That's where doctor
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  Speaker 11: Turner is now getting right. He has his office in
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  Speaker 11: the next building.
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  Speaker 8: Uh, what time you got, ben?
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  Speaker 9: Hm, it's getting short, nineteen minutes to two.
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  Speaker 6: How about the time element back? If he's gonna kill himself,
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  Speaker 6: why is he waiting for two o'clock to do it?
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  Speaker 6: It's got me. He scribbled a note out there, threw
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  Speaker 6: it down to the street. One of the men the
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  Speaker 6: rescue squad grabbed it and run it up and I
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  Speaker 6: got it right here. Let me see. And I look
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  Speaker 6: at that too. And you want my life? They want
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  Speaker 6: me what's his next one? Oh?
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  Speaker 10: Dead dead?
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  Speaker 6: They want me dead here. I'd like to pray first.
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  Speaker 6: I'll jump at two o'clock, I'll what's this last thing?
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  Speaker 10: Ben?
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  Speaker 6: I can't read this.
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  Speaker 9: Let me see it. I had two o'clock don't touch
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  Speaker 9: my body that said don't touch my body.
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  Speaker 6: Now you saw the guy close range back. What do
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  Speaker 6: you think he's serious? I don't know. I'm not even
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  Speaker 6: gonna guess.
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  Speaker 9: How about me going out and talking to him, skipper,
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  Speaker 9: It might work and we'll do that.
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  Speaker 6: Ledge is fourteen inches wide, Romera. If you slip by,
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to explain it to your wife and kid.
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  Speaker 5: Well, how about me giving it a try. That jumper
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  Speaker 5: case last October I was on that one.
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  Speaker 6: It's volunteer duty, Joe. I'm not gonna order you, you
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  Speaker 6: know the rest of Yeah, I'll watch it. You want
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  Speaker 6: to stand by here at the window bend. Okay, let's
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  Speaker 6: get that window up, says Lines. Yeah, there's blind.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, I'll give your hand with the window.
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  Speaker 9: All right, Hope she goes a little stuck.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yes, all the way up. Huh it goes Okay,
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  Speaker 6: make careful now, huh yeah I will, Joe, Yeah, back.
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  Speaker 6: I don't forget about that hammer the guy's got. It's
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  Speaker 6: just my guess. Yeah, what's that? The guy might want
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  Speaker 6: to die. I don't think he wants to do it alone.
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  Speaker 8: One PM.
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  Speaker 5: If we could take Walterer Harrison's word for it, we
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  Speaker 5: had exactly seventeen minutes to talk him into a change
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  Speaker 5: of mind before he plunged to his death in the
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  Speaker 5: pavement thirteen stories below. I crawled out of the window
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  Speaker 5: and started enging my way along the narrow ledge went slow.
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  Speaker 6: I kept my eyes on Harrison.
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  Speaker 5: He stood about ten feet away from him, looking down
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  Speaker 5: at the crowds jamming the streets below.
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  Speaker 8: I edged along to within eight feet of him. He
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  Speaker 8: didn't seem to notice me.
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  Speaker 5: It was a fairly tall man, about five foot ten,
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  Speaker 5: medium bill of dark hair. He was wearing gray pin
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  Speaker 5: striped trousers, a white shirt, no coat, no necktie. I
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  Speaker 5: got to within six feet of him. He raised one
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  Speaker 5: arm and made a motion with his fist at the
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  Speaker 5: crowd below.
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  Speaker 7: Had a lot. You're dirty, take a man of don't you.
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  Speaker 12: You are fetched me out?
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  Speaker 13: Rst you?
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  Speaker 7: What ever done?
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  Speaker 8: I kept edging toward him. He still didn't seem the
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  Speaker 8: notice man.
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  Speaker 6: He turned his body a little.
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  Speaker 8: He kept pounding the side of the building.
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  Speaker 6: With a hammer.
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  Speaker 5: I got a look at his right hand and that
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  Speaker 5: he held the carpenter's hammer. I got to within five
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  Speaker 5: feet of him. A narrow liner passed overhead. Harrison looked up.
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  Speaker 5: He muttered some thing. Then he turned he saw me.
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna kill you.
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  Speaker 14: It's all right with me, Waller. Why do you want
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  Speaker 14: to kill yourself? You're only gonna hurt people.
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  Speaker 12: You don't care about people, You don't care about me.
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  Speaker 14: What am I doing out here. Well, you got it wrong, Waller.
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  Speaker 14: A lot of people care about you. They want you
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  Speaker 14: back inside and want you where it's safe.
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  Speaker 15: You're another one of those. You want to get your
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  Speaker 15: hands from me. You want to cut where you are.
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  Speaker 12: Not I'm going to kill me.
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  Speaker 8: It's all right, Water, you can kill me. I want
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  Speaker 8: to help you first.
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  Speaker 12: You stay back. Don't you mean anymore? I got this
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  Speaker 12: hammer and out smash your face for the hop, smash you.
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  Speaker 8: I only want to talk. I know we can straighten
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  Speaker 8: this out.
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  Speaker 12: I'll do it my way. You understand my way. I
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  Speaker 12: know who you are. You you've been after me before.
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  Speaker 12: I know what it's all about.
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  Speaker 8: I know you do Water, but you got it wrong.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 14: Look, you're gonna jump up this building at two o'clock.
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  Speaker 8: That's in fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 9: That's right, you bet I hand all right.
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  Speaker 14: Now, Let's let's talk it over for five of those minutes. Huh,
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  Speaker 14: can't do any harm. I'm not gonna hurt you. How
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  Speaker 14: about it?
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  Speaker 8: Okay?
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  Speaker 12: Why should I talk to you?
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  Speaker 14: Because I care about what happens to you. So does
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  Speaker 14: your sister, so to a lot of people.
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  Speaker 12: Well, then you're like a lot of people.
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  Speaker 15: You want to get your hands on me right that
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  Speaker 15: those animals down there, the whole dirty pack them, they
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  Speaker 15: want to grab on them and get all.
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  Speaker 12: Around close and put their hands on me.
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  Speaker 14: Well they're not gonna do it, of course they're not.
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  Speaker 14: Nobody's gonna hurt you. You know that, don't you bet
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  Speaker 14: your life?
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  Speaker 12: They're not. You see that dirty.
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  Speaker 7: Pack down there.
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  Speaker 15: Well they don't know. But I'm gonna jump right to you.
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  Speaker 15: I'm gonna jump right through all would.
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  Speaker 14: They won't even attach to me, and I could do
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  Speaker 14: it right down minute, Wallace, we'll forget your promise.
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  Speaker 12: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 7: What promise to a clock?
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  Speaker 14: You wrote that down yourself. They said you wouldn't jump
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  Speaker 14: until it was two o'clock.
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  Speaker 12: Was no promise, I just wrote it down there, so
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  Speaker 12: just two o'clock.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, when your sister believed it, we gave her the note.
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  Speaker 14: She says, that's your promise. Now you're gonna make a
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  Speaker 14: liar out of yourself.
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  Speaker 12: You're you're the liar. Ruth didn't say that. She didn't
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  Speaker 12: say it was a promise.
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  Speaker 8: You gotta take my word for that. All right, Let's
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  Speaker 8: go in and ask her how about it?
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  Speaker 12: See see Ruth inside?
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  Speaker 8: Sure, man, come on, take my hand water all.
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  Speaker 9: Right, all right, I'll take your hands, patch.
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  Speaker 8: Your step lookout, will you do?
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  Speaker 7: You'll get back to get back now?
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  Speaker 12: Next time I want miss, I'll.
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  Speaker 7: Straight your whole harm you.
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  Speaker 12: You think you're pretty smart, don't you. You're trying to
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  Speaker 12: trick me. Well, I've told you before.
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  Speaker 13: I know who you are.
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  Speaker 12: You're trying to get your hands on.
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  Speaker 14: You promised your sister two o'clock. You're still gonna break
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  Speaker 14: that promise.
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  Speaker 12: I'm not like you in that pack down there. I
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  Speaker 12: don't break promise.
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  Speaker 14: Everybody knows that water. They trust you. Come on, how
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  Speaker 14: about talking this thing out?
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  Speaker 12: What time is.
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  Speaker 6: One?
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  Speaker 8: Fourteen minutes to go?
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  Speaker 12: How do I know if that's the time?
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  Speaker 8: Now? You can look at my watch there, right.
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  Speaker 12: Why don't you stand back? I told you before you
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  Speaker 12: stay away.
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  Speaker 8: I just wanted to show you the time. That's all
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  Speaker 8: all right.
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  Speaker 14: You can look at that big clock up the street,
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  Speaker 14: see the one on the side of the whole bart
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  Speaker 14: building up there?
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  Speaker 10: Fourteen?
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  Speaker 12: How do I know that's right? How do I know
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  Speaker 12: they're not even with you too?
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  Speaker 14: You already said it, big company. They don't care about
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  Speaker 14: you or me. They got a business to run their clock.
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  Speaker 8: They don't care what happened.
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  Speaker 12: No, all of course not, they don't.
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  Speaker 2: They don't care.
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  Speaker 12: All right, Well, i'll just keep an eye on.
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  Speaker 8: That clock, all right. You don't mind if I talk
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  Speaker 8: while you wait? Do you?
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  Speaker 12: That's plain? What's it doing without dam or?
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  Speaker 8: It's just an airliner, probably on its way into Bourban.
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  Speaker 12: That things been by before. It's flying low too.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I guess I didn't notice. What difference does it make?
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  Speaker 15: Probably watch flying back and forth. Maybe they're the police,
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  Speaker 15: so they're trying to do something. They're trying to get
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  Speaker 15: their hands on me.
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  Speaker 8: Oh let's see. Yeah, might be their plane. It's a
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  Speaker 8: big one.
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  Speaker 15: Sure, sure, they're trying to do something. Coming right by here,
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  Speaker 15: flying law. It's the same one I can see.
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  Speaker 12: Look what do you see there on the wing?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: What's that the number right there on the wing.
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  Speaker 12: It's the same one that passed over a few minutes ago.
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  Speaker 8: So you get away from me to give it me.
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  Speaker 12: You thought you tricked me. You didn't know I had
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  Speaker 12: my pocket knife. Well I can kid you with it now,
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  Speaker 12: I can kill you right now.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I told you before. It's all right with me.
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  Speaker 8: Just look out there, watch your step on the ledge.
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  Speaker 15: When you should have cut your hand off. I should
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  Speaker 15: have cut your whole arm off and throw I went
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  Speaker 15: to those animals down there.
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  Speaker 12: Look at that blood all over your hand.
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  Speaker 14: Tell I'm sorry, Walter, It's not your fault. I just
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  Speaker 14: wanted to talk the whole thing over, to tell you
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  Speaker 14: how your sister feels.
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  Speaker 12: You're a liar.
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  Speaker 15: I knew it when I looked at you, and I
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  Speaker 15: know you'll get away. You'll get away before I kill you.
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  Speaker 14: But there's only one thing I can tell you. There's
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  Speaker 14: sits the root sitting inside there, and she's worried, sick.
• 15:23
  Speaker 8: She's waiting for you. He wants to take your home.
• 15:27
  Speaker 8: How about it. There's no reason for all this. You
• 15:29
  Speaker 8: know that, don't you.
• 15:31
  Speaker 10: I'm sure you do.
• 15:32
  Speaker 14: Your sister and your family they care about you. They
• 15:35
  Speaker 14: want your home again, They want you with him. There's
• 15:37
  Speaker 14: no reason to be standing out here, now, is there.
• 15:40
  Speaker 12: You you wait un two o'clock, mister, Yeah, I'll show
• 15:43
  Speaker 12: you the reason.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: One twelve minutes left. I made my way along the
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: ledge through the window back into the office. Doctor Wright,
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: a man who'd been treating Walter Harrison for his mental sickness,
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: was already there with doctor Turner.
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: While the nurse bandies my hand. Captain Steve ben and
• 16:01
  Speaker 8: I talked with him.
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: I've treated Harrison for ten years, on and off. I
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: guess he showed some improvement, not much definite paranoid tendencies.
• 16:11
  Speaker 9: Did he ever try this before, doctor, right?
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: Not to my knowledge. His sister might tell you more.
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: I really don't know what to advise you to do.
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: He's never been this violent before using a hammer, and
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: I think, yeah, that's fine, thank you. There's only one
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: thing I've got to know, doctor, Is it worth letting
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: another one of my men go out there on that ledge.
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: I'm afraid that's your decision, Captain. It may help, it
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: may not. I know the patient, but I can't read
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: his mind.
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: It's just thinking we might bring Harrison's sister to the
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: window and have her talks on.
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: I think that might help, Doctor, very possible, it might.
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: And a spot like this time in the same boat shore.
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: It's all guess what you think Harrison's really gonna be
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: ready to jump at two o'clock, doctor, From what Sergeant
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: Friday tells me, Yes, I think you would jump. We
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: got to come up with something. We can't just stand around.
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: What the guy take a dive down thirteen story. I
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: wish I knew the answer. It's got to be one someplace.
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: It's got to be an answer. Let's check your watch.
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: We've got ten minutes to find it.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: You are listening to drag met authentic stories of your
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: police force and action.
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: It's a sworn duty of the peace officer to protect
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: the lives of the citizens of the community in which
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: he serves.
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: That isn't always.
• 17:31
  Speaker 8: Limited to protecting the citizens.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: From criminals and lawbreakers.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: Oftentimes the citizen has to be protected from himself. The
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: drunken driver can do as much harm to his own
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: person as he.
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: Can to others. The same for the narcotic addict.
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: The same for mental incompetence such as Walter Harrison.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: If he was being assaulted, robbed, or shot at by
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: a gunman, it would have been no more serious. Harrison's
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: life was in jeopardy. Trying to save him had to
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: be the first consideration one. Sergeant Jack white Man east
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: his way out on the ledge of the thirteenth story
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: and kept Walter Harrison busy talking anything to keep his mind.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: Off the jump.
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: Captain Steve got on the phone and talk to the
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: manager of the whole.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Art building, a twelve story structure three blocks away, with
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: a large clock set into either side of it, the
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: same clock Harrison was keeping time by.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right, just so you don't make it look
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: too obvious. Okay, mister Wallis, thank you. They're going to
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: do all I can. That's hope it works. You know,
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: what do you say they're going to start slowing down
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: the clock in the building right away. If Harrison goes
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: by that time, it's going to be a long ten minutes.
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: Well how much they figure they can stretch it about five.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: Or six minutes without making it look too obvious when
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: you sure you use it. Let's hope Harrison doesn't catch on.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: Manager said, they'll stop the clock when it's a minute
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: to go. It'll never reach two o'clock, skip, Garramarow. I
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: just checked with the rescue squad down the street. They're
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: stringing out more nets. You know, they're not guaranteeing anything.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: How do you mean they're worried about those ledges jetting
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: up from the building every other floor. They say, if
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: Harrison jumps close enough, he's bound and hit one of them.
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: He does, he'll be dead before he reaches street level.
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: Nets down there won't do him any good.
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: Nothing we can do about it.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: Something else we'll have to hand over the locker they
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: come up with.
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: Any ideas, Ben just one sounds like a good word.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: What's that? They figured, like we did, the overhang on
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: the roof is too wide to lower a man directly
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: down on topp of Harrison to grab it.
• 19:14
  Speaker 9: I think it might work if they try this.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: Put a man in a rope sling just over the
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: edge of the roof, lower him down toward Harrison as
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: close as possible without death, give him a good line,
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: let him try to rope Harris. I don't know they
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: got any candidates to try it. Yeah, one guy's been
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: on the rescue squad for years, supposed to be an
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: expert with the lasso capvin, Oh my, do it? I
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: don't know.
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah, what happens if he misses Harrison?
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: Who knows what happens if Harrison jem happened.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: I just got off that ledge in a hurry. He
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: came at me with that knight see any closer to
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: the window, and backed off again. Something else that clock
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: in the Hobart building. Yeah, pretty sure he's wise to
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: that gimmick. He's given it up. What do you mean
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: the two o'clock deadline. He's not going to wait for it.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: One five pm, especially equipped police car w loud speakers
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: mounted on the roof was rushed at the intersection of
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: Third and Temple Streets, opposite the Fitzroy Building. Sergeant Jack
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Wiseman took Walller Harrison's sister Ruth down in the elevator
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: to the street. She got on the police car microphone and.
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: Started talking to her brother over the loud speakers.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: Word was passed to the special detail of men from
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: the Fire Department's rescue.
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: Squad standing by on the roof of the building. They
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: went to work.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: Captain Steed went up to the roof to see if
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: he could assist them. Ben and I waited in the
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: office on the thirteenth floor. The nurse, Miss Lenihan and
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Jean Becknel were with us. One fifty seven pm, the
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: men on the roof started to lower the man from
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: the rescue squad in the rope sling. He held a
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: double strength lasso in his hands. The end of it
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: was wrapped around his body and tied securely. Ben and
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: I watched from the window. We looked along the narrow
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: ledge Walder. Harrison stood erect and motionless, an open pocket
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: knife in one hand, his feet poisoned the brink of
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: a thirteen story jump. The voice of Harrison's sister drifted
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: up from the loud speakers down on the street.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: What Walder, can't you hear me?
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: Miss Role?
• 21:07
  Speaker 11: I want you to come home with me?
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Walder? Please?
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: You don't want understand?
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: All right?
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: I've benish you for sure.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: If you look that. Yeah, there's nothing wrong.
• 21:19
  Speaker 12: No one's going to hurt you.
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: Why do you want to help you, Walter?
• 21:25
  Speaker 12: Please?
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: I can't see, Jill.
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: They're letting the man down.
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah, coming slow, you know that.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: Don't you.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: Come home with me?
• 21:37
  Speaker 11: Please, I'll take care of you.
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: I'll see that. You're saying that you're all right?
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Joe haws Harrison doing? Can you see?
• 21:46
  Speaker 14: Yeah?
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: He's looking down, not moving at all.
• 21:49
  Speaker 12: Nobody's gonna hurt.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: You, believe me.
• 21:53
  Speaker 14: These anybody your friends, they want to help you. Hear me,
• 22:01
  Speaker 14: water help you?
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: That's it? What man coming down on the rope. He's
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: just above Harrison.
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: Now hear your friend. You get to trust me, your ship.
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: Your.
• 22:15
  Speaker 12: You to trust me?
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I see the man now he's righting bron now.
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: Nothing last, already, keep your fingers crossed. What is it?
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: What's happening? And lest so he's throwing me?
• 22:37
  Speaker 12: Get away for a minute, Miss Joey missed water.
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: Wait a minute, Harrison, very away from it, man and
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: pull him out of the way. He's still on the ledge.
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: I'm going out, joe Wait a minute, it's only a chance.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, why don't you get him mad at you, saying
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: anything and sorting anything to make him go for you.
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: If you can get him down to this window, I
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: can grab him.
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: If I get him by the window, I'll hold onto him.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: Huh Yeah.
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: When you grab him, try to lean as close to
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: the building.
• 23:02
  Speaker 12: As you can.
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: It's none much to lean on the other way. One
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: nine pm. I got through the window and out onto
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: the legs.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: The crowds jamming the streets below had swollen almost twice
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: their size. A few blocks away, the big clock on
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: the side of the Hobart building read five minutes to two,
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: but Harrison wasn't looking at it. He still had his
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: eyes fixed on the pavement thirteen stories beneath us. He
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: torn off his collar and his shirt was ripped open
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: at the neck.
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: He waved his arms and shouted at the crowd below
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: as he tottered along the ledge toward the corner of
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: the building, away from the window.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Though I was supposed to lure him into in his
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: right hand, he still held under the open pocket night.
• 23:38
  Speaker 12: You're not gonna get your hands on me.
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: You're not even gonna get close.
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: Wait a minute, Harrison, watch it, you watch me, mister.
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: I've got a do right froot him down there for
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: dirty animal. Jujia's what I Wait a minute, I got
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: a message for you from his sister.
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: Root. Now do you want to hear it?
• 23:54
  Speaker 10: You?
• 23:54
  Speaker 12: You won't get your hands on me, none of you.
• 23:57
  Speaker 12: I'll see you lay this.
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: You're a phony, Harrison.
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: You're a pony liar.
• 24:02
  Speaker 12: I'm a whale, heard me.
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: You're not kidding anybody.
• 24:05
  Speaker 12: You don't think I can jump? Huh where you're what?
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: Anybody can jump?
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: Any phony can do that.
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: It doesn't take anything.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: Those animals down there in the street, any one of
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: them can do that.
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: You're just like one of them.
• 24:17
  Speaker 12: I've still got this knife. I've used it before, I
• 24:21
  Speaker 12: can kid it.
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: You couldn't kill anything.
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: You haven't got the cut. You're a phony.
• 24:24
  Speaker 12: You're alive, You're you're a rotten liar.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: I can cut you to peace.
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: Oh you talk me, Harrison, but you're all talk.
• 24:31
  Speaker 12: I can cut you to patience.
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: You haven't got me, fool mister, not for a minute.
• 24:35
  Speaker 12: I've cut you to pieces.
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: You haven't got half the nerve. You're a phony in
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: your nose. You're a rotten liar. Stands the going, stands
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: to the hawkstone. Oh you talk a real good game,
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: but that's about all.
• 24:48
  Speaker 12: You're all I saw.
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: I still have my knife and right now, yeah, sure
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: you will.
• 24:54
  Speaker 12: You're backing away.
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: You're a fright. You're a pony, Harrison. Nobody's afraid of
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: a phone.
• 25:00
  Speaker 12: He cut your rough.
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: I'm waiting for you. Come on, no matter, Arison, you're not.
• 25:08
  Speaker 12: You're not waiting.
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: Stay stealing and stop talking away. Don't stop. I'll tell
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: you you come and get me.
• 25:14
  Speaker 14: Huh.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: I haven't got enough nerve. You're just talking again.
• 25:18
  Speaker 14: I'll talk.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: Huh.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: That window.
• 25:20
  Speaker 12: You gotta stop by the window, and and then I'll
• 25:23
  Speaker 12: cut you to piece.
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: All right, Harrison, here, now you go ahead, prove your rough.
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: Pony.
• 25:32
  Speaker 12: All right, I'll show you.
• 25:36
  Speaker 15: You're running right wrn it dropping cut you run the world.
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: Get you the fee robbing the rubber.
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: Don't look out, clapp.
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: And they're gonna fall.
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: Well, how close can it get? Nurse just wonderful, can't
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: tell you?
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: Are you all right?
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah? Fine?
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: Would you mind getting Captain Steve Horse please?
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: You know who is extruly right? Right? Yeah? It was
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: a rough one minute, Darren, looked like you were both
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: going over the side. Yeah, thought I lost to Joe.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: Well you didn't have to worry. No, no, you told
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: me which way to lean.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: On September tenth, the sanity hearing was held at the
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: County Hospital Psychopathic Ward, City and County of Los Angeles,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: State of California.
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: In a moment the results of that hearing, after.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Being examined by six psychiatrists, Walter John Harris was judgmentally incompetent.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: On his sister's request, he was committed to a private sanitarium.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Seven months later, Harrison took his own life by hanging.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: You have just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: from Official five. Technical advice comes from the Office of
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police. We
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: the people is next with Stories of Today on NBC.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back. Really a great episode and different from your
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: typical Dragnet story. Listening to the series, you really appreciate
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Stacy Harris's range as an actor. Plays a lot of criminals,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: mad men, ordinary citizens, occasionally other police officers, but they're
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: not all the same. A great example of this is
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: this episode, because most recently on Public Domain Video Theater
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: we featured the Human Bomb, the first TV episode of Dragnet,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: where he played another character who was a bit disturbed
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: in Vernon Carney, who was threatening to blow up city Hall. However,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: it's a very different performance, as Carney's more of a
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: monomaniac and the man in this story is more paranoid
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: and disturbed. In so many ways, one big role of
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: modern storytelling is show, don't tell, and Friday's explanations of
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: why the police do things they do tend to violate
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: that rule, but nevertheless, I think it's helpful as it
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: communicates information that explains the actions in a way that
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I think are hard to otherwise. You can imagine a
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: listener thinking, Okay, it's horrible that this guy's going to jump,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: but you try to talk him down. He's violent, He's
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: determined to jump. What are you guys doing risking men
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: trying to save someone who doesn't want to be saved.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Friday's explanation makes their point of view clear. It's like
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: any other citizen in danger. Part of the job is
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: being willing to put your life at risk in order
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: to protect the lives of citizens, and if you're not
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: willing to do that, you don't really belong on the
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: police force. It was tragic that he ended up killing
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: himself anyway seven months later, but following Friday's reasoning and analogy,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: that would be like if you're a police officer and
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: you save someone from an armed robbery, only for them
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: to get killed in a mugging seven months later. I
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: also like the part of the end with Friday's remark
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: that he was going to be all right because Romero
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: had told him the right way to lean. It's a
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: classic bit of camp humor to diffuse a situation and
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: did not dwell on the fact that you just nearly died.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: It's in the same vein as when at the end
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: of the City Hall bombing or radio version the human Bomb,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Friday slips and falls on the steps of City Hall
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: and sent the bomb flying, which could have killed him
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: and probably some other people had done major damage to
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the City Hall, but it didn't go off because of
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: how the device was rigged for a hard pull, and
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Romero just kind of stood over him and said clumsy.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: It really indicates the thoroughness with which Jack Webb had
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: researched the police and the amount of time he spent
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: with him, that he picked up the cadences of their
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: humor and works that into the scripts. Well, now we
• 30:58
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  Speaker 13: Where all right, doc? Now it's your turn. You mentioned
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  Speaker 13: the letter, Yes, yes, here read it? You quite are
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  Speaker 13: all alike murderers. Honest people aren't safe from butchers like you.
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  Speaker 13: If the law won't punish.
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  Speaker 10: You, I will be avenger.
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  Speaker 13: Now she went to a lot of trouble, didn't She
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  Speaker 13: cut out all the letters on the magazine. She reads
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  Speaker 13: like a woman could be a man. Of course, I
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  Speaker 13: suppose you handle this, haven't, June?
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  Speaker 10: You mean fingerprints? Yes, I guess so.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't know what it was. Of course, Well it
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  Speaker 6: doesn't matter. Dark. She probably wore gloves.
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  Speaker 8: I wouldn't worry too much about it. You wouldn't worry
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  Speaker 8: about it. No, no, it's not addressed to you.
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  Speaker 13: No, no, no, take it easy. I only meant we
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  Speaker 13: get hundreds of poison pen stuff like this every year.
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  Speaker 13: Ninety nine percent of them turn out to be crank
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  Speaker 13: letters and the other one percent, Lieutenant, what do they
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  Speaker 13: turn out to be?
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