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A Life in Your Hands: Professor Allenby Murdered (EP0886) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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to get into today's episode. This one is another one of those rehearsal recordings
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with no music, but here is Professor Allenby murdered anything, Elizabeth Rodgers.
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Here's something that's a keg. I know from the alumni secretary at the university.
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He suggests you come visit a few days. Every time I go up
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there, I'm tapped for part of a new baseball diamond or a stained glass
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window in the chapel. You never seem to mind this a keg. It's
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worth it to talk with some of my old professor again. At least you'd
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be away from murders in time. Maybe so. I can't think of any
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reason why a killer would pick a town that small or a campus that quiet.
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But you never know. You never know when you may be called upon
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to testify to an act of violence in what you have become involved quite innocently,
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even now, somewhere in that small town, perhaps at the college,
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there may be a crime in the making. So will that phone ever stop
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ringing so we can get on with this Doctor Allenby. No, no,
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I have no comment. I told you newspaper people before. I have nothing
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further to say about my discovery. No, no, I told you I
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have nothing to say. Goodbye. Hello, Hello, Is this a desk,
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missus Crowe? If anyone else calls, tell them I've left the faculty
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club. I can't be reached. Thank you. Now back to my speech,
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Babow, I was summarizing. I believe let's start the recording that you
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have just compared Kalara Temple with other important discoveries when I stopped the machine.
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These recordings on tape are certainly perfect, and my discovery of Kolara Temple will
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at last prove my theory, namely that the Mayan people came from the Orient
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through what we now know as Alaska down the Pacific coast into Mexico and Yucatan.
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Further, and equally important, our findings will disprove much of the air
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or invention and deliberate pretacy created by that prolific offer of journey to the Hidden
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Valley and the Golden Serpent. I am sure you can all identify the master
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of misinformation to whom I refer. That was a very pointed Bob and mister
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Weimer, that was my intention. Barlo Weimer's a fraud, a disgrace to
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anthropology. Yes, why doesn't the machine go on? But the tape is
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still running. The pause is when you've stopped for a glass of water.
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Oh yes, yes, sir, I did. I didn't lose their attention
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either. You can't blame them, As you said, the greatest discovery since
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King Tut's tomb was opened in nineteen twenty two. By now, I am
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sure you are wondering about my future plans for excavation. I will lead an
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expedition to the interior of Yucatan as soon as possible. We will return with
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a golden treasure that will beggar the dreams of Spanish conquistadors. Thank you for
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your attention, exceptional paper doctor Elleny. Yes, yes, Barlow. Nice
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of you to record it for me. I was glad to do it.
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Good of you to feel that way. What's wrong with the machine When the
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tape runs out, it always sounds like this. There's no excuse for that
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confounded noise. There we are, Yes, well, thank you, Thank
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you again. I made a copy of your speech, Doctor, What would
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I do with it? I have no machine to play it on. I
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mean a transcript, a typewritten copy. Well, tell someone else to bother
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me and never mind the copy, Barlow, I am coming. Wait a
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minute, who is it telling me? Yes, message for you, Hi,
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Doc Rocky is the naming Rocky Man. Like I told you on the
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phone. You said you had a message hits from me. Doc. This
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faculty club is private. How did you get in here through the front door?
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Tipped my hat and slip the bouncer of five the idea I'll help you,
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laxed. Do take it easy. I think I can do, Doctor
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Alleny, stay here, Ballow. I want you to hear every word of
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this conversation. Now, Martin, say what you have to say and get
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out. Okay, Doc, I see here in the paper you found yourself
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some antique that's loaded with pots and pans made out of goal. Come to
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the point. I know guys who would finance a trip that you could tell
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if they could get their hands on a piece of solid gold treasure. Nah,
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you know where the stuff is. I know who'll back the trip.
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This is preposterous. He's suggesting that you turn over the treasure Canora to hoodlums.
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Get out. We fenced the stuff for you and give your cut.
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Will you leave my room? I well, not through talking. I believe
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I can end the conversation. Hand me the phone, Ballow. Give it
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at your part. That's better. It says here in the paper you've got
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a map of the place, Doc, Well, maybe that'll do. I'll
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ask my business partners and i'll check back with you later. Take it over,
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So long, Doctor Allen Bay telephone the police, tell them to arrest
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that man. No, no, this is ridiculous. I'll simply tell the
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dorm and I refuse to see him again. How did he know about my
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speech anyway? The newspaper, I men, she did say that. Let
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me see the paper. I'll go on to my room now, Fla,
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you stupid. You did this my entire speech, word for word, you
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and that infernal recording machine. At no time did you mention that the report
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was confidential. I've been charitable with you, Ball, I've overlooked your incompetence
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as my assistant and your jealousy, knowing full well you're a fool, a
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clumsy student, and a worse teacher. No, by heaven, nil,
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why malor I would thrash the brilliant doctor avnby get out of here, Wimer.
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I read your speech, Doctor. It was never supposed to be credited.
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So these things you say behind my back, stay away from me.
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You call my work errors, inventions, deliberate fantasy. You dare speak of
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me in this manner. You are a frauden. For twenty five years,
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while you spade from your campus, read your books and showed off before your
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students, I lived in jungles and your fever fuck with the native studied and
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wrote. Now you tell me I'm a fraud, you who found the temple
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of Calara after you read my report telling approximately where the center of myan culture
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was, look at it. That's a lie. Did you read mister Wymer's
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report? Doctor Allenby, get out, get out, follow me all I
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go. What I'll never forgive you, I'll repay you when the time life.
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I'm a liar and the fool good evening the deak. Please, mister
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Panford, do you have a gotten Wimer registered Weimer? Oh? Yes,
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Room four or seven school. I'm ringing mister Weimer. Thank you. Doctor
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Allenby told cheat knock out. Two men are bothering him. Allenby's an old
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fuss budget I heard him talking to you, mister Panford. How did I
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know he wouldn't want to see any reporters. His speech was in the paper.
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Only the man wasn't a reporter, he said he was. I'm sorry,
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there's no answer in four oh seven any message from mister Weimer. No,
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thank you, man said doctor Allenby was expecting him five dollars, and
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you were sure. I certainly can't blame doctor Allenby for good evening the death
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is that you missus kron Hello, Professor Ballow, I'm think taking a letter
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and I'm coming on the word I can't spell. Maybe one of us will
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know. Professor Barlowe can't spell a word. No, what is it?
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What's the word? Professor? You remember years ago they opened the tomb in
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the king's tomb in one of the pyramids, that they called him King Tut,
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King tut gug. That's all I remember. I'm sending this letter to
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another professor and quoting doctor Allenby. I just can't say king tut. The
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full name is tutung common, Oh, dear, he has to have a
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full name. It took done common challing to call the library. Mister Banford
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suggests you called the library. That's a very good idea. The number is
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a comment for nine two, oh, isn't it? Would you get it
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for me? Please? Just a minute, I'm ringing the library. Library,
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go ahead, lease, would you mind checking the spelling? I'm the
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name of Jean Tot of Egypt is pronounced to common. Oh, we're about
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ready to close, almost ten o'clock. I would appreciate it. Well,
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I'll have to go to the reference room and take me a few minutes.
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I don't find prey so'd yourself? Is he going to look it up for
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you? But yes, I told her i'd hold the live. I hope
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that will tie up. You'll switch poor missus cool. I'm not very busy.
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I could hold the call here bring you when she comes back. No,
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no, no trouble. I'll just go up and taking my letters,
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all right, provider mister Gravit Kenneth Harmon Andsner Publishers on twenty Park Avenue,
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New York. The bar. I hope by now you have looked over my
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lady's draft on the bank of script and find it what you imagine that Professor
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Barlow thought we could sell a two towns coming or whatever. It is one
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of the few around here that gies the help any credit. Most of them.
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You're just like just a minute, just a minute, young man.
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Where do you think you're going? I told you once to night pal,
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I've got business with doctor Allenby he told me to keep you away from his
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room. That's all. Now you get out of this building before I call
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a police. Okay, okay, lots of ways to skinner cap What does
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that mean? Skip it? Hooracious? See you raw? Did you see
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him the same man he tried to break in here again? That nerve for
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you today? Doctor Nallanby presented his people to the Other County Society and caused
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the dead. See you know how a hyran can build on the cloud.
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Well, Good evening the Death. This is Gordon Wymer Borrow seventh. I'm
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checking out in a few minutes. I want to my bill ready so I
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can pay with evening. Thank you, Yes, sorrow Seven's bill ready?
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He's checking out? Que how long should it take to look up a simple
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word in a reference book? Good Evening the Death. Hello, Hello,
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this is the Death. Hello Doctor Allenby. Oh, which by its pan?
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Something's wrong with Dr Allenby's line. Appreciating your cooperation, truly I can
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hear mister Barlow all right? Hello, Hello, and mister Barlow Hello,
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this is the library. Hello. Can you hear me going on that word?
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Hen with an over the youth? Thank you, thank you very much
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good time. What's wrong with this switch boy? Hello? Hello, doctor
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Allenby? What's Allenby? Mister Panford? Doctor Allenby doesn't answer his phone.
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It's off the hook. But I can't get him to answer that newspaper color.
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Maybe he got in the back way. Call a policeman's crow. I'm
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going upstair. Be careful, be careful, mister Panford. Go on,
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mister Panford. Doctor Ellenby was lying at the table, face down, arms
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outstretched, with a dagger in his back. His telephone was lying on the
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floor beside him. When did the police arrive a few moments later? Thank
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you, mister Panford. That'll be all corner corner Roman, Yes, yes,
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what is it you want? My name is Jonathan Kay. I am
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an alumnus of the university, and I have many friends here. I'd like
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to offer my services in what capacity. I often serve as a meekest curii
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in cases of this kind as Oh yes, yes, of course, I
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believe I recall your name, Athan Kay. That will certainly pull up a
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chair. Thank you, Quiet, quiet, everybody. This gentleman is mister
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Kay. He has a national reputation for serving as an amicus curii, a
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friend of the court. He's kindly offered to help me in this inquest.
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Understand now he represents no one, simply uses expert knowledge and experience and his
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ability to cross examine to get at the truth. Anything more, mister Pig,
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I believe that covers it. You go right ahead a call Rocky Martin.
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I am not satisfied with some of his answers. Mister Martin, will
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you return to the stand. Will you tell us again what you did after
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you were ordered to leave the faculty club the first time or the second time?
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The second time, I'd drive for the nurse place it's open, buy
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a cup of coffee, and try to figure out what to do next.
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Maybe I call my partners and tell him I'm getting the brush off. Maybe
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I forget the whole thing. Can you prove you were in a cafe at
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the time doctor Allenby was killed. One of the girls on the counter might
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remember me. I gave her a little routine, she says, get lost.
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We'll check on that. Will you tell us why you who came to
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the campus to see doctor Allenby? I stopped them down for a hamburger.
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I see in the paper about a professor in those, but to lay hands
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on buried pleasure, and being a small boy in hid, I figure it'd
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be good to pick up the dock and go digging. I call long distance
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a few other guys who say they'll bankroll the trip if the doc guarantees a
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payoff. What next is logical? I'd go see the doc and he refuses
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to cooperate. He is insulting. It calls me a hoodlum. Free So
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you threatened to return and take the map that shows where the treasure is located.
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I say, maybe the map will Though Chief of Police North Carters testified
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the doctor Allenby telephoned and said you threatened to take the map. He asked
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for police protection. Maybe the doc was upset. Ask the little guy over
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there, mister Barlow, he heard what I told Allenby. Why did you
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try to see doctor Allenby again? Give him a little time and people change
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their mind. You know what was his answer? Like I say, I
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never popped the question. I never got upstairs. That will be all next,
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please, Professor John Barlow. Professor Barlow, mister Martin says you were
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present when he talked to doctor Allenby. I was what happened at that meeting,
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mister Martin entered the room as I was about to leave. He presented
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his proposition to doctor Amandy, who they refused to be a party to it.
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Mister Martin mentioned something about the map and said he intended to return.
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Was his manner threatening? He's a large man. He resented doctor Allenby's refusal
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to cooperate. Was doctor allenby concern? He said, it was ridiculous.
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When did you leave doctor Allenby's room after mister Wimer came to see him?
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Mister Weimer, yes, a professor from another university. Did he threaten doctor
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Allenby? He said he would never forgive doctor Allenby and would repay him when
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the time was right. And when did you leave doctor Allenby? Nine thirty
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or so? I was flustered? You see, I had displeased him by
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giving a copy of his speech to the newspapers. Did you argue Doctor Allenby
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had a violent temper, but I have weathered his toms for over twenty five
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years. You left his room and went to your own. Yes, I
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had some letters to Dickie. You stayed in your room, Yes, you
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were on the same floor near Allenby's room, Yes, a few doors away.
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You heard no unusual sounds, no loud conversation. No, I really
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can't remember. Thank you. That'll be all. Mister Gordon Wimer. Please,
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mister Weimer, you were in doctor Allenby's room on the night he was
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murdered, and you threatened him. That is correct. Why did you go
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there? I was called a master of misinformation? Then you had a case
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for libel. I had every motive for murder. Where were you when Allenby
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was murdered in my room? Becky? Was your room on the same floor
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as doctor Allenby's. I refuse to answer. I would do anything in my
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power to keep his justified executioner from big captured. Quiet quiet, please,
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Coroner Brohman, I would like to request a recess until tomorrow morning. At
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that time, I would like to cross examine an innocent bystander to the Allenby
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murder. In compliance with mister Keig's request. This coroner's jury is now a
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journ and we'll meet again tomorrow morning at ten o'clock. Do you recognize the
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three men seated directly in front of you. I do. There's Professor Barlow
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and the next His name is Martin, Rocky Martin, I believe, and
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that's mister Weimer. And the night of the murder, mister Weimer asked for
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his bill and tried to leave as the police came. He resented being detained.
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When he heard what had happened, he started to cheer. I believe.
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Mister Wimer called you earlier in the evening, a few minutes before doctor
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Allen Pavid murdered. He said he was leaving. I was surprised he was
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in his room because I had rung a little while before. There was no
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answer the first time this, mister Martin, Are you sure he left the
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building? He walked towards the door. That's all I saw, Coroner Braughman.
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Doctor Allenby was murdered a few minutes before ten o'clock. At that time,
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mister Wimer did not answer the telephone in the room where he said he
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was packing. Also, the police report the waitress at the cafe does not
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remember mister Martin. Now, missus Croll, there were other calls. Will
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you tell us about the professor Barlow call? Yes, he couldn't spell a
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word. That king from Egypt king chucked. He needed the full name,
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and the library checked it up for him. Professor Barlow called the library,
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waited while someone found the spelling of tutakamon. He asked us first, mister
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Panford suggested the library. You looked up the number and no. Professor Barlow
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head it handy. What time was this? A little before ten? He
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was still waiting on the phone when doctor Allenby's light flashed. This testimony definitely
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establishes the presence of Professor Barlow in his own room at the time of the
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murder. Now, I want you to remember each sound you heard on the
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switchboard, Say, one minute before the call from doctor Allenby's room, mister
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Bimacow, a minute before Allenby's phone fell to the floor. Yes, what
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was his room? Number? Four oh seven? Go on. Professor Barlow
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was still dictating his letters while he waited for the librarian. Yeah. Then
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doctor Allenby's light went on, and I answered, but I couldn't hear anything.
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I thought the switchboard was broken again. What did you do? I
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kept saying, hello, anything else? I opened the key. I could
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still hear Professor Barlow. Then the librarian told him how to spell the word,
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and the professor thanked her and hung up. Nothing else no other sound.
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That switchboard makes funny sound. In a while, I did hear it
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sound like applause, people clapping, like applause, people clapping. Since the
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time we talked last night, Missus Crow, I have had a chance to
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record on this tape machine a crowd applauding. Will you kindly listen and see
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if this is what you've heard? No, no, that's not right.
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It was lighter further away. I don't exactly know how to tell it to
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you as what's that? Nothing to be alarmed about. The tape has run
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off this role. The end is flapping against the machine. No, don't
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hit it off. That's it. That's what I heard. Thank you,
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missus Crow. That will be all. Mister Barlowe, you have a tape
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machine. I dictate all my letters, As Missus Cow told you, I
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was doing my letters when I was waiting for the library. I'm glad you
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finally remember you're called the library, Professor Barlow. Yes, of course,
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now that it was mentioned, corner Browman, the testimony of our innocent bystander
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Lottie Crowe can be interpreted in only one way. Professor John Barlow killed his
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friend doctor allenby a man of your standing should be careful about accusing people.
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Mister Kig, doctor Allenby and By were hated enemies, mostly because he never
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noticed you. I was his assist and had taken his abuse for twenty five
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years. You saw two other men who might be blamed for his death.
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You did what you wanted to do for a long long time. I was
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in my room. It was very simple. You needed three minutes to walk
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down the hall, pick up a dagger doctor Allenby kept on his desk,
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and kill him and return. You knew Missus Crowe and mister Panford would be
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flattered. And remember that you asked for a spelling You knew the library would
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take at least three minutes to find the answer, and mister Panford they Professor
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Barlowe had the phone number at his elbow. He would have had the idea
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himself if mister Panford were not resourceful. I see nothing to deny. You
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have no proof. You knew every switchboard operator checks long calls to see if
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the parties are still talking. And so you were heard talking dictating letters tape
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recorded hours before you heard the tape recorder Missus Crowe, while Professor barlow was
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down the hall, murdering his friend. He didn't get back in time.
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There was an unexpected struggle. Doctor Allenby's telephone fell to the floor. Barlow
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hurried, but the tape had run out and was flapping against the machine.
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He picked up his telephone, talked to the librarian and hung up. I
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deny, how do you spell trudoc commons U t A N kham with an
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um lot over the you. That is right, professor, And you learned
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that spelling years ago. No archaeologist or anthropologist in the world would miss it.
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I hated him. He would shame I would, he said, I
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would stupid, not even the good teacher Carner Browman. I recommend that you
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instruct this jury to find that William allen Babe died at the hands of his
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assistant in the anthropology department, Professor John Barlowe, an anthropologist who couldn't spell
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King Tutt's full name. Was that what got you on the track, mister
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Kate? Well, if you remember that fact was not mentioned until missus Crowe
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took the witness there, that's you right. The tip off was Professor Barlowe.
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He said he was the murdered man's friend. He was anxious to help
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find the killer. No trace of hate, and yet he admitted he had
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weathered twenty five years of Doctor Allenby's storms. If anyone is persecuted and held
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down long enough, hate bills and someday it flares out. I still think
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King Cutt had something to do with it. Professor Barlowe should have remembered the
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curses of death found in the tomb of Tutta Common. He might have asked
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the library how to spell a different form good night, welcome back. Well,
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this is probably my least favorite episode of A Life in your Hands so
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far, because really the solution was telegraphed and it's uh, you know,
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I saw it kind of from the beginning that what he was doing with the
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recording. Maybe I've just been listening to too many detective shows, but this
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one seemed just way too obvious and easy. So hopefully they'll step it up
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a notch for the last episode of the series. We'll play next week.
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