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The Amazing Mr. Malone: Cleanliness is Next to Godliness (EP1048) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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Thanks so much for your support. You can support the show at support dot
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Great Detectives dot net. And now it's time for an episode for our program
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today, but it's got a different title than last week. The episode we
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played you from nineteen forty seven was titled Murder and Mister Malone. After in
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April of nineteen forty eight, it was actually retitled as The Amazing Mister Malone.
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The initial press reports as Digital l aftp Notes said that the series was
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to be renamed John J. Malone for the Defense, which I guess still
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did not make a whole lot of sense as Malone wasn't appearing in court.
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Unfortunately, that episode we played last week was the only episode from the sixty
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six episode run of Murder and Mister Malone. And unfortunately this episode is the
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only episode we have from the first forty nine episode season of The Amazing Mister
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Malone, starring Frank Lovejoy. And we'll have a little bit more on mister
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Lovejoy after the show, but whatever you call it. And there's also a
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new routine here that we'll discuss after the show. But here now from the
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from August twenty eighth, nineteen forty eighth, the nineteenth episode of The Amazing
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Mister Malone. Cleanliness is Next to Godliness. The Amazing Mister Malone, Operator
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Operator, Get Me the Office of John J. Malone. The American Broadcasting
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Company presents The Amazing Mister Malone, an exciting half hour of mystery, created
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by Craig Rice and starring Frank Lovejoy. L o'cow is the city of Chicago,
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the time, the present, and the hero of these weekly adventures.
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The Amazing Mister Malone. Malone is the name John J. Malone, Attorney
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and counselor. Alone and tonight, I'd like to turn the spotlight on the
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old cliche cleanliness is next to Godliness. As a case in point, I
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give you Tony Milano mister Milano is one of Chicago's biggest operators. He runs
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half a dozen nightclubs in towns, and rumor has it, if you'll been
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on a little more action, mister Millano can accommodate you there too. Of
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course, to run an enterprise of this kind, he needs help, and
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that's where Georgie Kelk comes in. Kelc is his right hand man, but
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Tony never believes in letting his right hand know what his left hand is doing,
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which no doubt explains Georgie's battleman as he walks into Milano's private office with
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a nondescript little man. And so here he is. Tony is here the
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one. Yeah, Grimes, this is mister Milano. See, it's a
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great pleasure. Mister Milano. Wait, I tell my missus. You're not
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gonna tell your missus anything. Huh, this is sticky between us, Grimes.
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You know what I mean? Oh sure, mister Morano, anything you
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says to step back a little like a google fella. Uh what mister Milano
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doesn't like people breathing into his face. It sped to Germ you know what
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I mean? Oh, I'm sorry, that's okay. Did the Georgie tell
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you what I wanted? No, how could I I didn't know myself.
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I was saving it for a surprise. Mister Grimes, you're the janitor.
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The bettermore apartments, you know, Janet, I'm a superinten Oh, I'm
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terribly sorry. I mean the superintendent. You got a tenant looking there named
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Reed? You mean Jackly or you better? He's a swallow. He's a
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mister Grimes, and I was so close. Now how about you letting me
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and mister Kelke here in Jack's apartment. I couldn't do that. I know
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that won't be right. I give you a hundred bucks. All you gotta
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do is longly you pass key two hundred. All I want is the key
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for just one hour. Oh what are you going to do, mister?
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Or nothing? That will get you into trouble. You said that, I
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said that two But I'll let you chease on me. Okay, you want
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to shake it if you don't mind, let's just say it's a deal.
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Mister Milano doesn't believe in shaking hands. Oh, Jo, you know what
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I mean. Give mister calcul the key. Hey, mister Reed, that's
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all right for yourself, Tony. I don't approve of this whole idea.
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There are a lot of things I don't approve of Georgia, but I don't
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let them make me unhappy. See if there's anything in the days. Hey,
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hey, will you take a look at this? You got something?
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Yes? Indeed, Jack obviously doesn't believe in banks. I bet it's close
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to the twenty g's in his bundle. Put them back. I just put
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that back. Okay. Hey, what's what's this thing here? That's a
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rabbit's foot, rabbits of foot. Yeah, it's supposed to bring you lucky?
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What's this charm attached to it? With the Jack reed and Jean with
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this and me, you can't lose who's the gene? Oh? It must
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be the gal who's pictures on the piano. Hey, that's what I call
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him. Good looking girl. Find out who she is and where she lives.
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Yeah, and put that the rabbits of foot in your handkerchief? What
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for I wanted? Now? Look, Tony, this whole thing here.
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It doesn't cost a half a buck maybe, but it's worth half familiar to
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me. Wrap it up to Georgie. We take it home. Oh,
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Chris, why if it is my old Altony Milano? Have you been your
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son of a gun. Put it there if you don't mind chase you and
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your gerals, you know, Georgie care of course? How are you,
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Georgie mine? That's down chance you were. You're not too busy. I'm
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never too busy for you, Tony. But you know how it is when
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you're a politician, your time isn't your own. They're always out slaving for
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your constituents. Yeah, what's the matter. Anybody giving you trouble? Yeah?
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Oh, you just say the word and read what I said the jack
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karad He opened up a place two blocks of her mind. Oh well,
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I'll take care of that. I'll shut him up so fast. Do you
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think you're kidding? Well, I don't understand. Reid couldn't operate five minutes
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without you. Are you cut it out? Tony? You know someone was
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to walk in now, they wouldn't realize you're kidding. I'll tell you what
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we'll do. I ain't going to do anything, Christie. When I'm buy
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somebody, I expect them to work only for me. You know what I
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mean, for keep's sake. Man, You don't realize what you're doing.
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I've got a wife and two kids. There get by on your insurance.
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Tony, Please, you've gonna listen to no breathing in my face. So
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Christie, it's a very undersanitary. You've got to give you a break.
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I was taking this whole thing out. I'll talk to read. Uh it
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took you long enough, Tony, what were you waiting for? I just
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want to hear what he's got to say. Here is that the rabbit's foot
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we got from Jack Reed's apartment. Oh, here is putting his hand.
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Okay, maybe it will bring mister Christie Locke where he's gone. I got
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that step all wrong, mine, I'll show you. Hey, Rex,
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give me the wine wang blues. I want to show Marge that break.
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I want you, Patsy go away. But I'm busy. How are you
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sed to here? Oh? Oh, I'm sorry, mister Milano. I
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didn't recognize you. That's all right. You got a girl, a singer
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in the show named the Jean Jean Patterson. Yeah, that's the one.
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Sure an. Yeah. Would you like me to show you her dressing room?
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I appreciate. Oh that's okay, Tony, What oh I mean,
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mister Milano? Say you wouldn't have a spot for a hook from one of
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your I just thought i'd ask no harm trying. You know, you see
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it? Hey, yeah, yeah, Hey Jane, Jane, you decent?
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You want here? You got company? Hello? Who are you?
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Tony Milano? Well, I'm glad to be some service, mister Millano.
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Hey, well are you you're going to invite me? Why should I?
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It's all for a draft the standing here, you know that's how most people
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catch a cold. What do you want, mister Milano? Just to get
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acquainted? You see? I saw your picture somewhere. Gee, you can
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call me to me? Not really, what's the matter? Gee? Don't
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you want to be my friend? Well it's a wonderful offer, mister Milano.
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But you see I already got one. Oh you mean Jack Reed?
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Who told you about me? And Jack? I got a spies? Oh.
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I don't know where they forgot their information, but apparently it's a reliable
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source. So you see it. I can't be friends. I'm terribly sorry,
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mister Millana. But if you can't leave your name and address, you
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will let me know if there's an opening. Well, I wouldn't hold my
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breath if I were you. That's all right. When I see something I
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like, I'm a very very patient man. Goodbye, Jean, don't forget,
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don't forget to give me a call. Hello, Jack, No,
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No, I can't free it. Wow, how are you? Lieutenant Pie?
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Fine? Now let me stop you playing. Ah, I was just
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tying around. Hey, it brings you here, can't you guess? I
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told that Jack, so for mine not to fluck me the pluck. It's
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a little tougher wrap than that. Jack never seen this rabbit's foot before,
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I'm afraid not. But I'll be glad to read you the inscription on the
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charm. It says to Jack, read from Jean with this and you get
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that, Lieutenant, Oh, then it is yours? Not necessarily, am
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I Jack? There's no use being KG already checked it with a jeweler.
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He told me it was bought a couple of weeks ago by a girl named
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Jean Patterson. Where'd you find it in the one place we shouldn't you know?
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Chuck Christine, boss the Pelham District. Yeah, mister Christy just got
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himself a new territory. I think we've had enough riddles for tonight. He
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was murdered at five o'clock this afternoon. Well, well, right near the
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body, we found your trinket. Looks like losing that foot was the worst
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possible luck for you in that rabbit. Let's go, Jack, I get
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a car downstairs. You are listening to the amazing mister Malone. Today,
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more than ever before, Americans must be made to realize that freedom and the
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rights of the common man are a precious heritage. History has proved that people
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start to lose their freedom the moment they think it's forever secure. That's why
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we must all work at keeping our American heritage of freedom. For freedom is
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everybody's job as a good citizen. Remember your American heritage and work to defend
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your individ your liberties. Do this by taking a more actual part in the
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affairs of your community and in fulfilling at all times the duties of American citizenship.
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Now back to the amazing mister Malone, and that's where you as truly
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got into the act. And without even seeing the script. But six hours
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after the arrested Jack Reid for the murder of Chuck Christie, I was pounding
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the pillow at home. I was right in the midst of a horrible nightmare.
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An eighth like face was bending over mine, tickling my throat. With
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a razor, and suddenly I made an interesting discovery. There was no dream.
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Come on alone, Get up. You're asking the impossible, comrade.
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If I ever moved now, i'd be minus ahead. And you know something,
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I'd look better without it. You put that razor away? Do I
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look weak minded? Don't expect me to answer that while you're caressing my throat,
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Or you shouldn't wipe me him alone, I know I got the skin
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you love to clutch. Say you're a regular vaudeville show, ain't you?
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Ain't I? What's your name? Friend? Rube Gelder? Rube Gelder?
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Yeah, I work for Jack Read You know him. I know him well.
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Early tonight the police picked him up for the murderer of Chuck Christi,
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the politician. Yeah, lucky thing for that cop. I wasn't a wrong
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otherwise, otherwise I would have broken his back for I let him walk off
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with the boss. What just all got to do with me? Well?
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I love that guy. When Jack says to me, robe go out and
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get a lawyer, he decided to give me the business. Yeah, so
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you're the best mouthpiece in Chicago. Don't seem possible? It isn't. Well,
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we'll soon know. I'll tell you what you're gonna do. You're gonna
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get dressed and go down to see Jack and you're gonna get him out.
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How many you had better? Did it ever occur to you once I'm out
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of your side, I might tell his story to the police. And did
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it ever occur to you that it might occur to me to visit you some
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other night with this razor for the next time. I might not bother to
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wake you up to see what you mean? Then what are you waiting for?
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Malone? Get gone? Holy idiotic stunts? Wait, I get my
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hands on rubs, So help him alone. Don't upset him. Well,
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I want you to know I never suggested that piece of business doing. I'm
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sure you didn't. But Small he seems awfully fond of you. He's nuts.
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I don't know. I keep Moranda. I'm sorry you got me your
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hamm alone? That's all right? What are you calling him for? I
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thought you were ready to go. Don't you want me for a lawyer?
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Sure? But I get it. You kill Christy? Why should I?
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But the police have a pretty convincing theory. They believe Christy was selling your
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protection for your club. So so maybe Christy was told to close you up,
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Tony mill Well, I couldn't Tony have killed Christy, but he could
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have one of There are a couple of things that argue against it. One
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Tony had Christy in his hip pocket. You don't generally destroy what you control.
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There's even a stronger argument than that. What the rabbit foot they found
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their Christie's body. That's a frame. You generally carry it with you.
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No, I don't believe in that stuff. Last night I saw it.
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It was in my desk. Anybody else have a key to your apartment?
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No? Oh, that's just Then. About this gal who gave you the
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rabbit's foot? What's her name? Jean? You think this gene? No?
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No, I want her kept out of this. Malone. You're asking
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me impossible. She's got nothing to do with this. Suppose you let me
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decide that for myself. I want to Yeah, hello, Jean. No,
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but that can be easily remedied. My name is Malone. And you
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heard me singing one night and you decided I was a good or good dream?
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Not quiet. You say I'm a lawyer, Well, when I want
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to see somebody, don't call me. I'll be tied up. With Jack
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read Jack reed. Didn't you see this morning's papers. No, they're holding
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him for the murder of a politician named Christy. Maybe you better come in.
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What's it all about? Well, you see this, Christie, I'm
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not interested in that. How am I involved? Well, they found a
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rabbit's foot you gave Jack near the body? Malone? I didn't even know
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Christie. No one says you did. Gee, well, I'm hoping to
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accomplish. Tell me your plans. I'm not interested. Jack's got some nerv
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ring in the end of this. Well, in all fairness to him,
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lover, it wasn't Jack's idea, don't tell me it was yours. Yeah,
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well, thank you, mister Malone. This is just the kind of
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publicity I love. They don't seem to realize your boyfriend's and a jammy may
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go to the chair. I'm off sorry for Jack? What about me?
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What about you? I got my career to think, gov. And if
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you'll excuse me, mister Malone, I'll give it some thought right now,
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All right, all right, take it easy. Yeah, mister Milano,
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and you're Jean Patterson. Would you mind telling mister Milano. I'd like to
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see, isn't here. But when do you expect it? Never? Now?
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If I were use sister, it's nobody. It's Jeane. Hello,
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missus Patherson, it was Geane. You have what you say? Then you
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don't want to be friends? Change the month? Should I troll around?
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Tony? You're crazy? Genie, come one, dang yay. This is
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quite a place, nicer than Jack Reeves. Wow? Different? Who picked
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up this color scheme? You don't like? White? Reminds me of a
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hospital. It's very undecepting. Oh yeah, course, sit down, sit
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down? Maybe maybe like a drink. But there's something else I like you
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just to name it a little private all right? To Georgie, you heard
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the lady? What's the matter with you? Tony? Go on? Beat
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it, Ginny and I got a lot of things to discot. You crazy.
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You know she wasn't sitting here by my alon. Go on, sister,
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blow like that. I listen, Sis, I'll get out, Okay,
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Tony, I'll see you around. Don't bother mister Milana. You're all
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right do the low life. Look look what he did to my knock.
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Are your cat? And maybe I make it? No, no, no,
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we mustn't take a chance on infection. You sit there, baby,
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Tony be right back, and then we're going to have a nice long talk
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mind power Robe. But then we talked, Malone, what's wrong with this?
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Well? I did like it, Tom, I followed that Jean Patterson
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And what do you suppose she went? Where to see Tony Milano? Tony
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Milano, be sure about that? Robe? I swear on my mother's grave.
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I wonder where they first Smith. It couldn't be so long ago.
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Jean's been going with Jack ever since she came into Chicago. What happened?
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Would have got along Swell? The bus was nuts. I mean the Milano's
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apart. Oh how should I know? I'm not peeping? Tom? Oh?
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Yeah. A couple of minutes after she walked in, Georgie Kelp came
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out. Tony's boring. Yeah, he was rubbing his jaw. Sounds like
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they might have had trouble. Well, what do you think, Malone?
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You did all right? Robe. Let's hope I can do as well.
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Well, there it is, Lieutenant. What more can you want a little
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proof? It's as obvious as a hole in your head. Tony framed Jack
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read could be for a million reasons. I love how you throw those figures
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around. Well, it's true. Now suppose Tony had a yen for Geene
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Patterson, so he kills a politician he has in his pocket just to get
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rid of read all right, maybe that came later. Maybe Tony didn't have
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Christy in his pocket. We know Christy was selling him out. How do
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we know that? Well, Jack was still operating. He couldn't do it
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without Christy's help, changing horses and minstry. Yeah. Yeah, Well,
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the more I think about it, I bet it's the real reason Alano had
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an exclusive on Christie's services. When Christy double crossed him, Tony put him
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away. And what about that rabbit's foot? I don't know where Morlano got
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his hands on that, but if you work hard, Enuf, you'll find
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the answer. Your amazing. Yeah, you're making sense for a change,
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And you believe my client was framed. Yeah. The only thing that bothers
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me is how to prove it. Well, jeor Gykelk must have been along
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with Tony at the time of the killing. You don't think Georgic talk.
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He might have his stage did What What do you mean let Jack raid go?
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Are you stark rating? It's not only chance? What do you think
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will happen when Tony finds out the police no longer suspect Jack raid. But
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I don't know either. Let's find out hot in dying. I'll be ready
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and just missed. Hello, Jean, Jack smiter, An't you glad to
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see me? Chris Darling? Just such? Is it? Dra that Malone
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is quite a lawyer? Then they know you didn't kill Christy? That was
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my impression. Smarter Jeane, you're thinking of hedging again. I don't get
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you, Jack. I heard about you and mister Millano. What Rube filled
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me in on the gory details. Listen, Jackie, gotta believe I was
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only doing it for you. I mean it. I thought I could trap
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Tony too, making some mugrition. I gotta hand to you, Gene,
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that's a that's a nice piece of ad living. When I cross you,
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you'd cross your own grandmother if you started to do you any good. What
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are you gonna do now? Baby? It's on me a question of time
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before they pick up your new meal ticket. You think you so smart?
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Well, Tony's twice the man you will him. Do you think he's gonna
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take this landown? No? What's she gonna do you'll just watch and see,
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mister Reed, you just watch and see. Yeah alone, I never
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want to know. How are we doing, Lieutenant Great? What do you
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mean? Pt of yours is working? Like a minute? Letting Jack Red
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go Surfay started the ballroom? Why did I tell you? I'll bet Tony
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Millana doesn't know where he's at. Probably what about Georgie Kelch you hear from
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him? Yeah? I figured he'd be scared silly. What do you have
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to say? Not very much? I will they talk to reasons one,
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he ain't in the moon too. He's gotta pull it to he's head.
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I want to see you alone. You are listening to the amazing mister Malone.
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Now back to the amazing mister Malone. Twenty minutes later, I was
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down at headquarters. When I walked into Lieutenant Brooks office. The first one
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I noticed was my client Jack Read. He didn't say anything. He just
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shook his head sadly and motioned towards the desk. And then I saw Brooks.
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It's lucky I did, because he was sighting a revolver at him.
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It isn't the amazing mister Malone. I got a good mind. You haven't
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got a good mind, and put down that gun. If you had any
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brains, I swear it, blow them out. What happened you tell him,
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Jacket, Well, I went up to Georgie Keelch's place about eight thirty
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to night. And what did you do that for? I told you to
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stay away. I see now it was a mistake. Anyway, Georgie was
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certainly surprised. I think if it had five minutes more I would have gotten
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the whole story. Well, suddenly the door opened. All I saw was
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an arm and a gun. I yelled at Georgia to get down, but
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I was a little late. It was a shot. A second later someone
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tossed that rod into the Roman almost brain me. Got the gun there?
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Yeah, I want to see it. Yeah, what about Prince larrea one?
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It's as clean as a baby's thoughts? Whose gun is it mine?
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What? Yeah, it's an old one I had in my apartment. Well,
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how did my rabbit's foot get near Christy's body? Here we go again.
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Listen, Louke Kenneth. You looked into that angle. What's the story?
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The superintendent of the house, a boy named Grime as the only pass
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key. You think there's Grimes might have done business with Tony Milano. We're
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checking that now. When he finished, give us a call. We'll be
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over Tony's. You worried about Jee. I know Jack too. You don't
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understand alone got him out. He's a pretty good lawyer. Now you listen
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to me. Now, you got nothing to worry about it. Didn't Tony
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say he take care of you? I know you will tell on't is it?
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Yes? Hello, Tony Malone, Jeane and I were just talking about
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you. Well, I appreciate that, you know Jack read don't you sure?
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How are you, fellow? He's a boy, Malone, I'm a
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what the boy? Where were you around eight thirty the night? Why,
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that's the time Georgie Chuck was murdered. Not a good old George. He's
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a good old Georgie. You got an alibi for that time. Yeah,
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yeah, I was right here, And of course Jean's your witness. That's
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right now. Look, I don't want to be involved. Sure, you
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got your career. What's the matter now? Don't you remember we were sitting
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right there. You're lying, Tony. You sound like you can pro with
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Jack. I can't. He's the one who shot Kelk. You're out of
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your mind. You didn't see his face? No, I didn't have to.
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Is he got bandage? He's got on his knuckles? What did you
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pick that up to him? None of your breathiness? Shut up? He
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had consulted me. I didn't think that was possible. Go on, Jack,
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what about the bandage? Well, when he tossed the gun into the
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room, I noticed you were alive. I don't think so. Whoa come
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in, lieutenant? How did you make out? Could be better? Superintendent
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admits he sold Tony here. The use of the pass key for three hundred
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bucks. What are you saying alone him? Nothing until I see a lawyer.
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What's wrong with me? You mean you mean you take my case?
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Well? At all defenders? I think I could get you off of Georgie's
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murder? Are you out of your mind? Blow? Now? Don't you
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think I can? Jack? No Ah, you're just saying that because you
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killed him. Let's have had a Jack? What for? Jack? You
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got it the first time you killed Georgie Kelk. I don't know how you
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do it? Molaw? Shall I tell you a single lieutenant? No?
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You don't need it? All right? What's the real story? It'll all
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come down to Jack Reid's eye. There poetic justice, he thought. Once
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we figured that Tony killed Christie and plane of that Rabbits, what figure Georgie
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Kelt's murder was the same routine all over again? That's it what convinced otherwise
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Jack's gun? Why was that any different from the rabbits wood? Remember you
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told me there were no old fingerprints on it? There weren't. Well obviously
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then Georgie's killer had to be wearing gloves. How do you ride at that?
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Jack claimed? He chucked the rod into the room right after the shot,
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taking no time to wipe it all. So so later Jackie said,
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he you Tony was the man because he spotted him by that bandage and his
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knuckles. But the murder of war gloves? How could you see a bandage?
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You couldn't? Oh see how simple it is? Well, being simple
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minded yourself must help you. Yes, does when you work up to that
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state, you'll find out. Well. You know who I'm sorry for,
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Yeah, Geene Patterson, and I was poor girl. He tried to play
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both ends against the middle, wound up with nothing. I begged your pardon,
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where are you going? Well? I I owe Gene something for putting
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away both her friends. Maybe I can further her career. Ever heard the
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story of the Blase character who thought nothing could surprise him until he tried murder
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and he was shocked to death. I'll pay you in on all the details
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next week, So I whant to pick me up at my office at the
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same time I'll be waiting for you. Good night. Rank Lovejoy was starred
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as John Jay Malone. Our program was written by Gene Wang, with the
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by Bill Russol, music by Rex Corey. The Amazing Mister Malone is produced
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by Bernard el Schubert and now this is Dresser Dolls Diad inviting you to tune
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in next week. The events and characters depicted in this story were entirely fictional.
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At any resemblance to actual places or people living or dead is entirely coincidental.
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The amazing mister Malone has come to you from Hollywood. This is ABC,
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the American Broadcasting Company. Welcome back. Well this I don't believe.
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I'm actually fairly certain that they did not get this naming thing of using a
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proverb as a sort of way to name an episode. They did not get
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that from the book. But it was one of those things that did stick.
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Even as other actors came on to play the role of John J.
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Malone, The big highlight I think for that episode was the guest star,
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the client turned murderer Jeff Chandler. Jeff Chandler actually playing doubles here and just
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a little bit before he would begin his great role as mister Boynton on Armiss
34:23
Brooks, which, outside of his work in Michael Shane Detractive Fiction fans will
34:30
remember him for is probably his greatest radio claim to fame. And of course
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I mentioned we would talk a little bit about Frank Lovejoy, and he was
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just a very talented actor. Did a lot of things over radio. The
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one that he's best noted for is Nightbeat, which was one of the more
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unique mystery programs, but he had a lot of programs before not Beat.
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His run here as John J. Malone, even though we only have two
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episodes of it, was one hundred and fifteen episodes playing John J. Malone.
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Coincidentally, the series was set in Chicago, where his best series,
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nine Beat, would also be set, so I guess preparing for that,
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and we'll also play another series with Frank Lovejoy. Love Joyce just he was
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one of those indispensable people. We've heard him do guest spots on Box thirteen
35:39
and The Adventures of Frank Rice, and I personally have been surprised some of
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the places I ran into him as an actor. He was the first voice
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of a narrator for This Is Your FBI and also on Life with Luigi.
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I ranked him forty two among number forty two among radio's most essential people,
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and I think he definitely deserves the ranking. All Right, well, we'll
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have another actor, Gene Raymond in the title role as John j Malone in
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next week's show, and longtime fans will note that the sad fact of the
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lack of preservation of these ABC programs is not unusual. Of the between the
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Gene Raymond and Frank Lovejoy episodes, there were one hundred and sixty five episodes
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of Mister Malone over ABC. Of those, we have a grand total of
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four excuse me, four out of one hundred and sixty seven is the total.
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And then we have eight episodes, all eight that were done over NBC.
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That was That was something that was pretty typical for ABC since there were
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less networks out there and therefore that were ABC affiliates, so there were less
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transcription disc made. The one exception to this really really sad to say is
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Danger Doctor Danfield one series will never play here because it was just the worst
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detective program ever made and all twenty seven episodes survived. Wow, now that
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is sad, all right? Well, now we do from sad to happy.
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