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Police Headquarters: Andy Green Killing and Mrs. North Robbery (EP1280) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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But now it's time for today's episodes of Police Headquarters we're missing episode twenty two,
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so we have episode twenty one and episode twenty three. Episode twenty one
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is the Andy Green killing an. Episode twenty three is Missus North's a robbery?
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No relation to mister and Missus North, but let's go ahead and take
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a lesson. Is calling cruisers fifty night cruisers? Five nights lights ago twenty
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three forty one rex first? A disturbent? That's all? What's happened?
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I don't know? A man shotting here? Who is here? What's going
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on? The man shot? Where? Man is? Mother? Drum d?
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Come on, get out of the way there, we're there there,
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Holy mo hoo. Is that Mike Andy Green? He's been out of the
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plain COEs he care for a month. Quick, give me a hand here?
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Hey, look at my that can? Let's Gordy wreck? How is
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he? Kid? He did? Hey? Where are you going? Thank
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you to things like this officer just going outside for a breather? There,
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that's what you think? Ring not get over here? Tim, Yeah,
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just come along and don't make no fuss. Young fella here he is Mike?
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You work here? Yeah? What's your name? Eddie Myers? See
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this man shot? Yeah? I guess so gues So. Yeah, well
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that is anybody else in here when he was shot? No, sir,
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nobody except and the guys who shot him. Did you see them? Yes,
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sir, better take that phone and call in Tim. I'm taking this
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kid down a headquarters for questioning. Come along, son, Oh it is
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I understand it. You were the only other person in the lunchroom tonight when
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Detective Green was killed? Is that right? Yeah? And if we're going
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to find out anything about this, it's up to you to tell us all
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you know, right, I guess it is, sir good Old. Are
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you ready? Nineteen? How long have you been working at the Red Star?
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Just a little over a month. What did you do before that?
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Oh? Nothing much, I guess I was looking for work. And I
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say, what time did you come to work tonight? Eleven o'clock? I
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work until six in the morning. And what time did Detective Green come in
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the lunch room? Just after midnight? Sir? Okay, Now, did
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I want you to tell us everything that happened after Detective Greens came into the
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lunch room. Don't omit a thing. Tell us everything just as you remember
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it. Well, I was polishing the coffee iron when he came in.
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He hung his hat up on the rack and came over and sat down at
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the counter. I thought, give me a hamburger and a cup of coffee,
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kid, Yes, sir, everything on the burger, got the onions
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right cold outside, not very it's pretty cold along about three in the morning.
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How do you want it well done? Yeah? Not very busy in
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here tonight? A yeah, never are You can have a lot of business
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right, yeah, but it ain't been so good lately. Coppy. Now,
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yeah, there you are. Say, kid, you haven't seen a
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couple of guys around here with a truck, have you not tonight? Why?
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Nothing? Just skip it. We got a customer, kid, come
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for you, sir. I want to see this copper cop. Yeah,
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this guy's are fain closed, ain't you? Oh? I copper hey,
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look out, look out behind you. That'll fix you. You jerdy dick.
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Hey, what's a big idea? Shit? He say you you blow
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his head off? You get him? I think throw, I throw.
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They're just about the time they called the cop. I see, well,
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it's a lucky thing for you that you made that dive. Kid. Otherwise,
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we've been trying to solve a double murder. There's no witnesses at all.
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You think you'd know these men if you saw them again, you bet
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your life. I'd know these two guys fifty years from now. Good handy
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those pictures of Seboli and Gotsias in the basketbare right right? Yes, take
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a look at these two birds, kid, Are those the men who killed
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Green? Yeah? Both of them? Good guess, capt'n. It wasn't
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much guessing about it, Mike Andy Green had been failing that gang for a
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week. They found it out, and Rock Speggotty decided to put the finger
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on him. Had Rotti. Yeah, he's the head of the Waterfront gang.
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That lunch room was a perfect spot for the job. At a door
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at each end. One of these mugs of greens attention from one door,
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while the other rat slipped in and shot him. That's the way they done
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it, cap'n. Don't worry. We'll send those two rats to the chair,
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and this kid here is the one who'll do it for us. You're
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you're long going to lose your memory when the time comes for you to tell
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it to the jewelry? Are your kid? No? Sure? Them guys
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shot a cop and they ought to have to. Hey, good boy,
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he will make a perfect witness. Take him down and lock him up.
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Hi, so you can't do that? I That ain't right? Come in?
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Is he captain? Not at all? Sit right? Thanks? What's
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on your mind? Mike? Well, I've been talking to that kid we're
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holding as a witness against the Volley and Gosha. Yeah. Yeah, Well
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you know he's probably worried about the job of his captain. He's afraid if
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he's telling in jail and for the child the groups runs the lunch room will
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have a new boy. Well you know why I'm holding him, don't you,
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Rally, Yeah, you're afraid he'll run away. Not at all.
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That kid's on the level. He'll take what do you holding them for them?
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Because his life wouldn't be worth two cents if he let him out of
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jail. Oh you mean? I mean that's nothing would suit Gottious and toold
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him more than to have the state star witness out of the way. Yeah,
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but we got Savali and Goshes and the jail awaiting time to make any
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difference. Rocks Padrati to have the kid bumped off an hour after we turn
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him lose, Maybe he'd do it himself. Deal with himself. Yes,
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we've got two of his Rodman and the Jug and the Clinton gang got another
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one of them last week. Rocks is probably getting short handed. There's every
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possibility that he do the job himself. Gosh, Cap, you've hit the
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nail on the head. What do you mean? Look for a year almost
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we've been trying to get the goods on Padrali. Every time we think we
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got him, hire some clever mouthpiece and slips out enough to yes, this
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We use the kid as a decoy. Decoy, Yeah, a decoy to
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get Rocks Padrali out in the open. Listen, let the kid out of
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jail, send them back to his job. Wilson and I will watch him
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every minute. We never let him out of our sight. And if Padrali,
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you're ready, one of his mom make a move against him. We
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love him red handed. No, nothing doing, Mike right, what's wrong
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with the idea? Oh? First place is too rusky. Second places wouldn't
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be fair to the kid. Yeah, but Wilson and I'll watch him every
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minute. Nah, I'm afraid of it, Mike. But we want to
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get our hands up for Drolley, don't we. You know that we'll give
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my play a chance to work. I'll be responsible for the kid. Come
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on, what do you say, cappen. It's a big risk, yeah,
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but it's worth it, all right, I'll do it. Yeah,
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here's an order to the jailer for the kid's release. Trail him every minute,
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Yes, sir and Mike, Yes sir. Heaven help you if anything
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happens to that kid. Hello, kids, Well, how they've been treating
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you? All right? They've been doing all I can for me, I
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guess, and seating you all right. I can't complain. I do wish
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they let me out of here, though. It took me three months to
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find that job at the lunch room. And if i'd back inside of a
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wake Joe get another boy. He told me that today. That's what I
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came down to see you about. I've been talking to the captain. He
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says, you promise not to run away before the trial. He lets you
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go back to your job. Gee, gee, got it'd be swell.
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You wouldn't try to take it on the lamb, would you? No,
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of course not. I want to see those mugs. Get what's coming to
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him, don't I? All right, kid, get your things. I'll
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take you to your room and you can get back in your job tonight.
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Gee. Thanks, that's so all right. Oh here, here's a newspaper
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got your name in it. You'll probably enjoy reading about it. It tells
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how you were released and sent back to work. Thanks. I ain't never
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had my name in the paper before. Well the prope it ain't in there
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again and in a different story. What's that? Oh? Nothing? Nothing?
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Come on? Come on here, well the pay chent? What do
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you want? Force cover? Coffee? Same? Here is coming it up?
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Yeah? Are anything else? Anything else? Sports? Now? No?
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Why don't I give it to him and have it over with bot?
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I'm running this show, all right. But after it was me? Come
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here ahead? Something else? No? Here? They had a row in
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here the other night. Yeah, killed the detective. It's in the papers.
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I got my name and I read it. Did you see this guy
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get bumped off? Yeah? I was standing right here. They shut him
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down without giving him a chance. But the cops got him. All right.
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You've put the finger on it. What do you mean? I mean?
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You identified them? Yeah? Down at headquarters? Who was easy?
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How's your health? Kid? Hey that feels fine. You don't look so
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good to me. Huh, you look sick like you, like you needed
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a change. I never felt better in my life. Let's kid, you're
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sick, you need a change your climate. Yeah it's five hundred bucks.
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Take it and beat it. I don't care where you go, but get
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out of town. You you you're kidding me. Yeah, wait a minute,
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take up that dough kid, get out of town. Don't let nobody
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know where you go, and don't come back. I'll scram gee, I
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gotta sink this over. We'll make it snappy O. Why monkey with a
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clown? Let me give it a one gutter? Well, what about it?
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Kid? No, sir, nothing doing. Listen you. I know
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what you're trying to dope, But I won't play your game. I'm gonna
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stay here and I'm gonna see that those dirty rats get what's coming to him.
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Okay, Spike, do your stuff. Hey, Eric, the bulls
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is way quick, right, rap that gun fight. He'll get the same
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thing I bought done. Yeah, I prop it, I'll drop it.
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What's the matter of my so no cap? The door and my end were
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stuck or stepping? Did they get the kids? I'm afraid so I saw
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this gunk pump too japping. I'll get around behind dot com and find out
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quick. I'm all right, thank god for that sh I'm sorry, kid.
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I was watching everything, but when I tried to crash through the door
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back here, it was stuck. It wasn't stuck what. I figured that
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it was too big a job for me to watch both doors, so I
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nailed that one up. Well, I'm glad that Rodman missed you, kid,
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or it has been cracking for both of them. Well he didn't miss
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me. What do you mean? I had him shyed up when they came
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in here, and when I was drawn there coughing, I stuck this inside
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my coat. Houn't this for a bulletproof vest? Look cap? For the
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love of a waffle drizzle these headquarters, that's a lot of plays. Take
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the girl of the Michael Talk stations, the operator hood side for her from
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the line went dead? Hold it you gotta show a call car d All
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right, what's the dress registered to J W North three too O five Wood
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Terriers, Apartment three three two O five Wood Terrace, Apartment three. Get
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signed to my room and to take my desk. I'm going on an investigation.
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Walk up all right, up there this way? What's the dope of
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the caller says, and all of some Dane call police headquarters, and then
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the line went dead. Telephone operator hurts some grives for help or something,
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and the supervisor called me at the line house tide the door locked? Yeah,
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well almost These outside doors and apartment houses are locked at night. Ring
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the bell for the danger. Right there it is. Did you see any
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why John in the building when we grove up, I thought I was sole
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all over this side downstairs. Somebody's fully with the locked down with Kenny.
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This is the woods job my head. I'm always heaving to get up in
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the middle of the night. All right, all right, stop mumbling to
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yourself and so us for an apartment three years? Yes, good way,
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mister captain. Did you bring that guy to life? Knock on the door
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in right almost think there's nobody in homeless the captain, I will find out
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about that. You did it. Back to your room and got some clothes
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on and got back here again. No luck with Kenne you can see anything?
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Who's the keyhole? Looks like the lights around and there see anything there?
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I'll beat out the door. Okay, there's a door open down the
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hall. It was all the rockers you live in this apartment. In the
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next apartment here, that's all the trouble. Did you hear anything in this
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apartment a few minutes ago? I know I didn't. Why I don't know.
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Give us a hand with this door. Okay, what look, lieutenant,
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there's a woman lying on the floor. Yeah, and she's bounding gags.
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Quicked up your hand here, could I be assistan? Yeah? Take
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her p yeah, yeah, hey you know this woman. I know who
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she is. That's all. This is north And take this knife and cut
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the fips from her ankles very well. I got the water ed. Okay,
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well I get it. The bathroom should be right through there. Oh
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yeah it h I think you just see the rubber wristily with you? Do
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you think tight her up? It looks to me like is it Get man
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in a bed in the next roll mine? I get mad in two bullets
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holding this part. He's going in a bed in there. Here. You
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take out of missus north right well, right in here, lieutenant, to
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get the water here there there he is, m h yeah, dead all
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right to them right through the head. Yeah, the streams and cut around
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the hook here Robert. It must have come in the room by the window
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lay all over the all the year mark of a robbery, a duel casey
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wallet. Yeah, and you better get a call in in this right away.
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I see if you can scare up a phone in this guy's apartment next
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door and call in. Got doctor Evans and a couple of fingerprint men out
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here right away. Well, what's the dope, doctor, It's very evident,
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Lieutenant. Two shots entering the forehead and passing entirely through the head with
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the calls death. The man died without loving. Do you think he was
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shot while he was asleep? Yes, at least everything points to that conclusion.
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Then that explodes the burglary. I am also no yag, Not even
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a couple of amateurs are going to shoot a man just for the fun of
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doing it. They might shoot up the guy they were robbing woke up,
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but they wouldn't commit murder without cause. What the woman the next room tell
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you. I haven't talked her yet. When she came to she was hysterical.
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I thought it best to get your report first and then talk to her.
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Well, that's all I can tell you until after the auto play.
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There's one other thing I'd like to know before you go doctor, what's that?
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How far away from the man's forehead there was the gun held fairly closed
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a lot over the foot. I see all right, doctor, Thanks,
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I'll get the autop there report this afternoon when you finish here. Lead by
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the kitchen door. Well, yeah, I'm going in the next room.
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Kind of quiet, I'll talk to her. Uh he is a north I'm
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Lieutenant Marshall. A man in the next room is your husband. I believe
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that's right. Man. I wanted to just try to be brave and tell
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us just what happened here tonight. Oh God, let me just try to
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stop crying. Man, I'm gonna be a lot easier. Right, that's
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better. Now, just start at the beginning and tell us every Yes,
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John and I had been to an early shom He was tired and went right
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to bed in just a minute. So what time was this? Miss noise?
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About ten o'clock? Go ahead, Well, John went right to bed,
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not being very sleepy. I sat up for a while to read.
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I had been reading for perhaps ten minutes or so when I I heard a
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window open in your husband's room. Yes, I thought it was John and
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didn't pay much attention. Then I heard voices so I got up to investigate
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him. Who come along? Come along? So I went into the room
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and then grabbed me by the throat and pushed me out of the room.
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I struggled with him, but he threw me down on the sofa and he
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started choking me. I heard John wake up, and the man who was
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choking he called to someone in the next room to shut that guy up.
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I was almost unconscious, but I remember seeing a man standing at the foot
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of John's bed take out a gun and fire dust. Then I think it
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some time later, I came to and found that I was tied. The
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room was so still I knew that something terrible had happened. So I rode
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off the sofa and worked the gag out of my mouth and upset the telephone
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again. I remember calling for the police, but I guess I'm not a
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saint to the game. Was your husband carrying a large sum of money tonight,
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Why yes, you will. Several hundred dollars had to be and were
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they jewels in your jewel box? And much value some of them were?
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Now it looks like a couple of hold up men came in here tonight.
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Your husband tried to scuffle with him and was shot. Lucky they didn't turn
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their guns on you. Man. Did you get a very good look at
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the Linden lady? Oh? Yes, Can you give us a description of
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these two men? I'm afraid I can't. You see. It was very
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dark, but surely you must have noticed something about them. Well? Are
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they were dressed in docks? Houston msked. That's all I don't know is
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why did John struggle with him? A right man? Just try to calm
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yourself. You'll have to put yourself together for the inquest. The coroner's jury
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will hold an inquest, you know, probably in the morning. I suggest
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you lie down here and try to get some sleep. I'll leave an officer
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on guard, but I'll try. We'll be back in the morning. I
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meantime, don't worry. Come on, Ed, Oh just a minute,
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I wonder if you'd show me just where you were lying when the hold up
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man was choking. I was lying across the foot of the sofa here like
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this, and you saw the other bandit shoot your husband. That's all man,
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Come on, Ed, you'll see in the morning. Is not that
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Dame's the biggest liar I ever heard? Yeah? No, no, I
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know it. Come on there, you go to talk to this all on
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the next apartment here? What's the name on the door? Double? Would?
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Oh? You stilled up, mister Wood. Yet I couldn't go to
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sleep after what happened here tonight. Believe me, I am moving the first
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thing in the morning. Yeah, and perhaps it's a good thing we came
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in here to see you tonight, to see me. Yes' your mine?
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By no, not at all? Come in all right. No, I
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can't understand why you didn't hear those two shots in the next apartment. And
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I'm mister Woods, I can't either. Perhaps the burglars use a silencer,
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that may be. How well do you know missus North? I hardly at
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all. I've only seen her a few times going in and out of her
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apartment, I see. And mister North I didn't know him either. Now,
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mister Woods, as near as we can figure out, the shooting took
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place at ten fifteen. What were you doing at that time? Oh?
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That will probably explain why I didn't hear the shots. You see. I'm
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a rabbit radio fan. I was listening to the Philadelphia Symphony. They were
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playing the Bronze Symphony number four tonight and it's a very ponderous thing, very
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loud. I probably would have heard the shot even if it'd been fired in
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this room, right I had. Would you ask missus North who step in
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every dist minute place? Yeah? Thing lud, But really that's all right?
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Would It's very nice to have missus North sitting in there all alone with
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a dead man in the bedroom right in here? All right? Come in
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his North, get on over here, please? You you know, mister
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Woods. I believe we've never been introduced. How do you do, mister
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Woods? How do you do? Oh? That's no way to right?
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Why don't you too? Get friendly? What do you mean? Go on?
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Got friendly? That's not the way for sweethearts to act? Why are
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you? I don't think that you've been pulling the wool over my eyes.
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That's cry I can siftly say, Missus North, that, without a doubt,
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you are the poorest actress I've ever seen, And believe me, I
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have seen some bad one. I won't be a party to this, and
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I wouldn't want to either if I were in your shoes. I sat down.
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Now listen, miss North, you steal the beans. Right from the
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start. You said you heard your husband call out and the medical examiner said
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that the man was asleep when he was shot. That's my sleep when he
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was shot. That's mistake number one. Mistake number two is when you said
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you saw this second man standing at the foot of the bed fire two shots
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into your husband. There are two things wrong with that. First, you
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can't see the foot of the bed from the sofa in your living room.
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And second, a man standing at the foot of your husband's bed couldn't hold
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a revolver within twelve inches of your husband's head as in this case. I
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won't stay here annoy, Yes you will. You made some mistakes too,
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would And the first place you said you were listening to the radio at ten
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fifteen the night, Yes I was. I was right here in this room
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listening to the Philadelphia Symphathy. That's all I would. You made your mistake
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by just one night. You see, I'm somewhat of a radio fan myself.
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From the Philadelphia Symphony is on tomorrow night, not tonight. Now,
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we were going to sit right here in this night cozy room with our hands
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folded in our laps until you two decide which one of you kill that man
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and which one of you helped to do it. H welcome back. I
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have to man on that first one. I wasn't terribly impressed with the police
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in that case. Uh letting a civilian be the bait for criminals and not
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letting him know he's the bait. It's one thing if you know, brave
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citizen, Uh volunteers and says absolutely, I'll go back to work, even
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knowing they might come me down. But good thing he was on his feet
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anyway, and now we know where Ethelbert got his first job. The voice
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of the witness in that first case was none other than John Gibson, who
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played Ethelbert Stacey on Casey Crime Photographer series we will eventually get to And that's
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only the second voice I recognized in this series so far, the other being
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Hanley Stafford. The second case was well solved, but it wasn't terribly impressive
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because you were because basically they took down the incredibly ill prepared and incompetent murderers
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who just assumed the police won't check anything. All right, Well, that
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will be all for today. We will be back with you on Monday with
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