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  The FBI in Peace and War. The FBI in Peace and War Another great
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  story based on Frederic lar Collins copyrighted book, The FBI in Peace and War
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  Drama, Thrills action. Tonight's story dumb luck, Oliver. I looked at
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  the window. Now was read your movie magazine? I read it. We'll
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  go in the club car and have a drink. I bloom, Amy,
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  I am trying to read the newspaper, flew Oliver walk in the air plane.
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  This takes too long. What are you reading? Well, I'm reading
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  about a Texas millionaire who dropped dead two days ago and left three and a
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  half million dollars to a college with one hundred and seventy five students. How
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  much is that a piece? Am reading about dead people? For? That's
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  morbid? Amy, go buy another movie magazine? Why about dead people?
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  Oliver? It because my little idiot girl, I don't think you should call
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  me that, even joking. Well, because, my dear, I don't
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  see any reason why that college would get all of the Texas millionaire's money.
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  I'd like some of it myself. Who wouldn't Has he got wrote not a
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  one? Poor guy? Yeah, it's very sad, So how would you
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  get some of that money. Well, I don't know his background yet,
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  but he was only forty nine, and it's always possible that he secretly promised
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  to marry or even married some poor girl, and then died without ever mentioning
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  that fact with the executors of his estate. He had a girl. Well,
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  it's possible, isn't it. And when this poor deceived little thing reads
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  the paper, he's dead. Naturally, she's going to turn up with her
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  lawyer and with letters in Charlie's handwriting, chow you the millionaire Charlie Emmett.
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  He deceived her? Huh, Well, it's possible. So where is she
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  now? Well, she may be right here in this compartment for all I
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  know where you, dear. I never even heard of the guard that you
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  mentioned him as a matter of that. Yes, dear, I get it,
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  or you do. Yeah, I'm here, that's right, and you
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  are Malaia right again. How much could we get out of it, Oliver?
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  Well, if it worked enough to buy you a reversible mink coat,
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  who ever heard of it? Jeezing, it'd be too hot a mink out
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  of it, probably would. Yes, let me see the paper. I
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  told you what was in it? I know, But if my boyfriend dropped
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  dead all of a sudden, at least I order read his notices. Why
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  Oliver Dean Santley wanted by our bureau or a fraud and forgery was one of
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  the most intelligent swindlers in the business. During his various prison terms, he
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  studied law, practiced penmanship, read avidly on every subject under the sun,
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  and prepared himself for more swindles. His campaign to have braud the estate of
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  Charles Emmett of Texas was researched down to the minutest detail. He spent days
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  on county records, looked up old newspapers, visited every town the Texas man
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  had lived there. With the full background and his girl Amy standing by,
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  Santley called on the executors of the em of the state, and then he
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  showed me these letters from Charlie to the girl. I just wouldn't believe it.
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  I thought I knew all about chum. Are you assure, sir?
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  Naturally? I asked him some very pertinent questions. Oh, he has the
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  facts offer, but how did mister Emmett. Of course, that's the first
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  thing I wanted to know. How did Charlie manage to keep it secret,
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  and why, well, why a simple He didn't intend to keep it secret.
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  She lived in California and he was going to bring her here. Of
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  course, she was associated with some nightclub. But Charlie obviously intended to Marrier
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  on his next trip West. This lawyer who represents he's a California man,
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  but it really seems quite confident he studied our statues, sorleft. What is
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  she asking for us? Well, we didn't come to specific terms, but
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  it sounded like two or three hundred thousand. My guess is that we finally
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  agree on something between ten and twenty thousand. Of course, sir, the
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  estate is not legally liable in a manner like this. I know it isn't,
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  and so does her lawyer. He's presented her claim quite frankly, on
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  a nuisance basis, save the estate bad publicity and save embarrassment to the university.
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  I suppose that is worth something. I'm afraid it is. Of course,
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  I said we'd want to talk with the young lady before we come to
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  any decision. Naturally, I thought you might do that. Author be glad
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  from what I gather from mister Santley, she's not an intellectual bombshell. You'll
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  have to handle her with the techtile try, sir. Also, it's possible
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  that she's merely an adventuress who met Charlie on one of his busines strips and
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  is trying to cash in on a good thing. But you said he wrote
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  her a letter. Oh yes, he did. You know. In many
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  ways Charlie was a brilliant man, but when it came to women, that's
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  off in the way, sir. Yes, I'm afraid it is. No
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  man who has a million dollars ought to be allowed to write anything but business
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  letters, especially after age party. All right, Now, where did you
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  meet him? Amy? I met Charles at the Club sixteen in Los Angeles,
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  where I was fulfilling and singing and engagement. What's wrong now you're reciting
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  it like you were reading it. Well, I did read it off that
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  paper he gave. I know you did, Amy, But the idea is
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  on No, no, no, no, I can't take any more till
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  after writ eat. I'm sorry, Oliver, But once I learn about me
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  and Charlie, that's it. That's the way to say it. You and
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  Charlie. That actually sounded as if you were his girlfriend. Certainly. What
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  you have to do, Amy is believe that. Think of the exciting place
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  as Charlie took you, how much fun you had together, how sweet he
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  was. How one night you know about the palm springs? And he said,
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  gee, Amy, I sure we'd love to see you in a natural,
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  sober blue mink cout Amy. Charlie was a romantic guy, not a
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  walking bank account. Couldn't he express his romantic feelings in a practical way?
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  Come on, come on, let's eat. Oh well, get it,
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  Oliver, honest, I will. When do I have to see the lawyer
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  in a couple of days? Could we have chop Suey tonight? Oliver?
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  If they have chopped Suey in Texas? They have everything in Texas, everything,
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  especially money, and I'd like very much to get my hands on some
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  of it. Although there were very few leads on Santley, we did get
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  some encouragement when one of his victims gave us a business calling card, but
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  Santley had left while posing as a lawyer. The address on the card was
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  a non existent number on a street in downtown Chicago, but we figured that
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  something must have prompted Santle to name this street, so we began checking with
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  Santlee's photograph. We canvased building on the street in the nightclub. We finally
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  came up with something. Let me see that picture again. Yeah, that's
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  him, the big blow hard. What's she wanted for a swindle? I
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  know it. If I told her once, I told her a hundred times.
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  This guy is a phony layoff. Told who mister Grogan, er Amy,
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  that dumb beell. But oh no, he's distinguished looking, she says,
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  And I say, who is Amy? Mister Grogan? She used to
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  sell cigarettes here. She was so dumb. I was keeping an eye on
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  her. I see, no, you don't. This was strictly on the
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  up and up. I'm not the marrying kind, but if I had a
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  been, I gather this young lady. She did. He called for her
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  one night a year ago, and she just never came back. Have you
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  any idea where they went, mister Grogan, Sure I have. I could
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  practically give you a map. Every couple of months, he sends me postcards.
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  There ready wish you were here, love Amy. We'd like to see
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  those cards, mister Grogan. I tear them up every time I get.
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  When I'm so mad, I tear it right up. But the last one
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  was from Dallas, Texas. How long ago was that I don't remember.
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  A couple of weeks, maybe more. You think she's still went sampley all
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  she says on a postcard is dear Eddie, wish you were here, love
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  Amy. She puts her tea on wish. But you're sure the last one
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  was from Dallas. I'm positive, mister Grogan. Do you happen to have
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  a picture of the girl? Yeah, yeah, I got one. Hey,
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  but look, she's a good kid. I don't want anything to happen
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  to her except she should learn or listen. With the cooperation of the Dallas
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  police, we began an intensive search of the city. We didn't know,
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  of course, that Santley was working on a swindle in nearby fort Worth,
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  and that the former cigarette girl Amy was playing a leading part in this.
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  And then when Charlie never wrote again, well, I just got in my
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  room and waited and waited. I know how you must have felt, miss
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  Harmon. It was just awful. I'll bet I waited and waited and then
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  waited all. Bet you want to know anymore? No, I think we
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  have all the facts. We didn't want to bother you but I'm sure mister
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  Santley explained it. Yeah he did. I said, I don't mind talking
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  to someone like you, mister Winters. Well, thank you. I always
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  admire lawyers. They know everything. Well, not quite. You're kind of
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  young to be a partner in or aren't you, mister Winners. Well,
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  I'm thirty four. That's not very young. That's practically a baby. Do
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  you think so? Charlie was forty nine, Yes he was. He worked
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  too hard, didn't he. I'm afraid so you shouldn't work so hard,
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  mister Winters. Oh, I'm afraid. That's the nature of our business.
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  But look, I don't have to work so hard that I couldn't take a
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  client. Well you aren't exactly a client, but well, whatever your legal
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  status, would you like to have lunch with me? Miss Harmon? Now
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  Act two of Tonight's story, Dumb Luck. With pictures of Santley and Amy
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  Harmon in the hands of every law enforcement agency in the vicinity of Dallas.
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  Agent Reynolds and I began checking the fanciest hotels and night spots. Sampley likes
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  to be seen spending money in the best places, And then I thought we
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  might go to the Blue palms for dinner. Oh I can't, Oliver,
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  I got to eat with mister Winters. Oh you do. He says,
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  you'd better talk to me again. He talked to you yesterday, I know,
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  and the day before that. Here I know. He says there are
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  a couple of things he wants to clear up. I see you said I
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  should go along with him, didn't Jolifer, Yes, I did, and
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  you've gone along very nicely. Amy. Now I think it's time he returned
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  to California. I don't know anybody in California, Oliver, Amy, dear,
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  you're not actually going there. You're just telling mister Winters that now you've
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  handled your under the deal beautifully. Now I come in and clean up.
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  Oh, Oliver, Yes, you could get put in jail for what you
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  were doing, couldn't you now? What brought that up? Nothing? I've
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  just been thinking, that's all. Oh you have. You don't think I
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  can think? Do you? Of course I do. Now you don't.
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  But mister Winter says, I'm very perceptive. You're what What does that mean,
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  Oliver? It means that mister Winters does in no trouble when he sees
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  it, As is often the case, our big break in the search for
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  Santley came from an unexpected source. An elderly man who worked in the back
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  newspaper for a room at the Dallas Library saw Santley's picture in the post office
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  and called at our Dallas office, and he came into my room three or
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  four times for back upies of the papers. Do you know what he was
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  looking for, mister Harris, Yes, sir, I do, because I
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  helped him. He said he was doing a magazine article of mister Charles Emmitt,
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  and mister emmittt made all that money in oil. Is that the man
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  who died just about a month ago? Yes, sir, he was only
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  forty nine when he dropped stone dead in his office chair when I said commentary
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  on the herd of Burley of Modern Living, Yes it is. I'm seventy
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  seven. Now we exactly the same as I did today. I graduated from
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  high school. That's remarkable, now, could you tell us, mister Harris?
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  I attributed it mostly to a substantial breakfast and at least one egg days,
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  sometimes two eggs. Mister Harris, do you happen to have a copy
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  of the paper on the day Emmett died? Yes, sir, we do.
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  May we see it? Please? Of course, sit down, gentlemen,
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  only take a minute. How do you figure the ankle? Steve?
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  Well, if he gotta swindle the dead man, he certainly would have.
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  But barring that a dead man's estate, it's as good a guess as any
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  Yeah, how where does this cigarette girl fit him? Amy? Yeah?
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  What about Amy Harmon's Harmon? Yes? Did you did you enjoy your steak?
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  It was delicious? You didn't eat very much. I'm not hungry.
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  What are you thinking about, miss Harmon? About last night when you were
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  asking me what did I want most of anything? Oh? I used to
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  think that if I had a mink coat, I wouldn't want anything else in
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  the world. Know, all of a sudden, Yes, I don't know
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  what I want? Oh, except maybe a vacuum cleaner. Uh, a
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  vacuum cleaner? Yeah? Still ask me why? I don't know? What
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  do you want? Mister Winters? Me? Yeah, I want you to
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  have dinner with me again tomorrow night and the next time after that. I
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  can. I'm going back to California. What but miss Harmon, Amy,
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  you can't go so soon. We got my ticket already. I'm going in
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  the morning. We've got so much to talk about. Yeah, I know,
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  stay one more week. I can't. Three days, I can't.
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  Mister, my name is Author, I can't, honest, Author, I'd
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  like to Amy, stay one more day. There's something very important I want
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  to ask you. But there are other considerations relating to a family situation and
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  certain people. Amy, stay one more day, please, Amy, just
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  twenty four hours? Well, I guess I could stay that much. Twenty
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  four hours. Couldn't hurt anybody credit. Within twenty four hours of our visit
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  to the library, we were in the offices of Gordon and Winter's, a
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  law firm which was acting as executor of the Emity State. We gave mister
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  Gordon the facts on Oliver Sangley and his partner, Miss Amy Harmon. I'm
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  afraid my partner, mister Winters, is going to be very upset about this.
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  He he seems to have developed a genuine infection for this young lady.
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  We've only seen her picture, but he's obviously attracted, quite and warm hearted.
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  A matter of fact, I rather took to him myself. She reminded
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  me, well, never mind, that's immaterial. Where is mister Winters now?
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  Mister Gordon, we'd like to talk to him too. Well. Now,
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  I'm sure this won't surprise you, but he happens to be with miss
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  Harmon right now. She was supposed to return to California today and mister Winter's
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  persuaded her. For Arthur, he's really going to take this hard. Do
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  you know where they've gone, mister Garden? Yes? I told him to
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  go out to my country club. We have a swimming pool out there in
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  an excellent kitchen, and my partner, mister Winters, is thirty four years
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  old and as far as I know, has been extremely shy of women.
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  Oh, this is going to be Yes, Arthur, where are you in
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  my office? Sir? I just got in. I thought you're out my
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  club, I was, sir, but now I'm here in my office.
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  Well, come right in now, will you author this important? Yes?
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  Sir? Oh this is very peculiar. Gentlemen, Do you mind if I
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  handle it any way you want? Mister Gardner, thank you very much.
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  I just wish I knew what there was to handle them. No, Arthur,
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  come in, Come in, Arthur. This is Agent Stevens and Agent
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  Reynolds of the FBI. FBI. Yes, I'm afraid I have bad news.
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  For you author. Miss Harmon already only, sir, on the way
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  to the country club, he told you, yes, or the whole swindle.
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  She couldn't go through with it. When she got through telling me she
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  had such a headache, we stopped at the drug store for asburn. She
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  went in the front way and out the back. I've been looking for all
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  day. I suppose you, gentlemen they are. I don't feel very well,
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  sir. In fact, I'm gonna be quite ill. Will you excuse
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  me from all of course, I'll be right back this Gordon. We're going
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  to pick up Sadly the girl might want him. Yes, I think that
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  would be advisable. Oh, poor UPA. He's really taking it hard,
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  isn't he. We picked up Oliver Santley at his hotel, and several days
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  later we found Miss Harmon after she'd gone to Chicago to get back her old
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  job. Miss Harmon was arrested and remanded to jail to face formal charges.
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  During the first day in jail, she had a visitor, Good morning,
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  Amy, So what are you doing here? With your permission? Amy?
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  I'd like to represent you in this action? What's that? Uh? I
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  want to handle your case as your lawyer. Oh h that is if you're
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  not already represented. I'm not represented. Good. Then let's go over the
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  details so that Arthur, you didn't have to do there. Yes, I
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  did teach you. Yes, I I think undue influence has been brought to
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  bear on you by mister Sandley, that you were coerced into this act,
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  which I feel I can convince a jury was and is repugnant to your nature.
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  What does that mean? Oh, I say you can kill me on.
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  I'm gonna try. Oh why so, I think I'm going to cry?
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  Well, that's all right, go right ahead. We have half an
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  hour. Oh oh yes, poor kid? Am I I think? So?
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  What Arthur? Yes, do you want to kiss me? Yes?
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  But not now, Amy. First, we've got to figure out what we're
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  gonna tell the jury. Miss Amy Harmon, ably defended by her lawyer Arthur
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  Winters, was given a one year suspended sentence by a sympathetic judge, but
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  Oliver Santley, whose long records spoke for itself, was sent to a federal
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  penitentiary for five years. We haven't checked up on Miss Harmon since the case,
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  but we feel sure she's still enjoying dumb luck. And Tonight's story to
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  Rita about pray. The thought of Amy Harmon Martin's Lane was author Winters.
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  This radio dramatization for the FBI in Peace and War was written by Louis Pellettiers.
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  These programs are produced and directed by Betty Manderville. All names in characters
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  used on the program are fictitious. Any similarity to person's living or dead is
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  purely for Wincinnati. This program is based upon Frederic Lacollins copyrighted book The FBI
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