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A Life in Your Hands: Truck Engine Murder (EP0862) · 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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of our listeners. Thanks so much for your support. I had to do
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a bit of detective work to figure out where this show should go. Oh
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it's It's listed as undated on the Radio Gold Index. However, given the
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number of shows made during the nineteen fifty two season, which should be seven,
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this fits most comfortably immediately following last week's show. So here's best we
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can tell. From July seventeenth, nineteen fifty two is A Laugh in Your
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Hands and the Truck Engine Murder. The National Broadcasting Company presents Earl Stanley Gardner's
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A Life in Your Hand with the car running? How did he die?
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Where was the buddy? Listen while we place A Life in your Hand.
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You never know when you step from the safety of your home when you may
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witness a land depth and be called upon to testify as to what you saw
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and heard. Murder is a dark enigma that strikes fear into the heart of
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man. Strange, baffling, mysterious, but the darkest crime. One man
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can invent, another man can unravel. Such a man is Jonathan Kegg,
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created by Earl Stanley Gardner, the world's most popular writer of mysteries, creator
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of Perry Mason, doug Selby and other outstanding character Good evening, mister,
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Kay, how are you fine? Thank you, William? And you have
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been damn you know how any I haven't seen you around the country, Willingly.
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I've been busy catching crooks heavy. No, I let the authorities catch
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name, William, That's their job. Don't mind hems kag. Just what
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do you do anyway? See your name in the papers on tamber where I
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don't quite get it. The Latin name for my work probably throws you a
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meekis curia friend of the court in that private eye. No. Indeed,
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in some cases of murder or larceny or whatever it is, I try to
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help the authorities find the guilty person through cross examination. Can you stay working
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at a job like that? There's more work than I'll ever get around to
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an act of violence comes suddenly, the witnesses aren't expecting it, so they
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fail to notice the tales. And if I show again, actor, if
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I bit, I can tell you one went an. You may have a
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chance to prove your powers of observation. Someday, William, you never know
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when you may be called upon to testify to an act of violence in which
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you have become involved quite innocently. Even now, somewhere in the city,
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there may be a crime in the making. Get out of my house,
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Laure get out. But listen to reason, will you. We used to
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be friends. I started you in the construction business. Yeah, you made
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the dough and I did the work. Now I'm squaring there's enough building going
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on in this country for both of us. Your bids are so low you're
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losing money. What's the idea, Okay, I'll give it a straight Larey.
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I'm going to run you out of business, that's the idea. I'll
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undercut every bid you make until you have to fold up. And that goes
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for the Tahoma River bridge too. You've never done a bridge job in your
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life. After the meeting in Humboldt tonight, I'll do one. I'm offering
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them a bridge for less than you'd take to build a house. You're through,
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Jack, washed up? All right? Teach you the business. I
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bring you up from a pub. I told you to get out. Go
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on, I'm leaving. Sure, might as well stay out of the bidding
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tonight. I'll be there, Clayton, I'll be at that meeting. Heave
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your boys at home. If you know what's healthy for you mean, there's
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busted nose. I know who paid those goons to rough me up last week.
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I wouldn't pay anybody. Oh no, we're pals. That's all I'm
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gonna take from you. Oh boy, listen, you're ruining my company.
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I've had to lay off man, my foreman, my best truck drivers.
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Now you're saying I had you beat up. You can't touch me as a
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businessman, your reputation. Don't push me too far. I'm warning you get
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out. I didn't tell you to come over here and cry. And you
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hear me. Tell him I heard you. That's the last to Jack Laray.
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You did a swell job. Bart. What's the matter with you?
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Larrey's tough. You know he's tough. You can't stand up to him like
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that and expect you. You're begging for trouble. Bars, I can take
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care of him. Look at you. If somebody hadn't come along, those
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men would have killed you. The other night, Bart, you told me
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so yourself. I was doing all right. I knocked out two of them.
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There were four. We're worrying about me. Kid. Jack Larrey hate
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you, Bart. I can't blame him. I'm reckon his company. He
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has reason to hate you. He did teach you the business. You were
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friends, and knowing you're sounds like you're on his side. I'm just trying
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to make you be careful. A man like Laray, when he knows he's
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been double crossed, really double crossed, he might do anything and think it
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was right. Okay, Okay, I don't want to hear any more about
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it. Don't bid on the Tahoma Bridge. Stay away from that meeting and
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humble tonight. Let him have the job. You don't need it. I
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need the work. I need work. So Jack Laray won't get it.
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I'm gonna smash him, hit him where it hurts his precious reputation, his
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company. Watch Bart, Clayton Gold Baby, your supper is ready, Go
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ahead and eat bighearted tonight. Huh, don't I have to wait around for
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your kid brother to show up? You might be late for the meeting and
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humbled, Yeah, hey at eight o'clock. Where is brother Joey boy?
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Anyway? I don't know you're gonna wait and meet with him? H our
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big happy family. I'm not hungry, Doris. When's Joe gonna move?
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Get out on his own. He's been hanging around here two years. Ever
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since he got out of college. He's been helping you with your works.
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That's what he thinks. Him and his engineering degree. Joe does it college
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style, and I go along behind him. Patch up when I can junk
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the rest. He's costing me money. I'm telling you, Doris, get
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that punk kid out of our house or so help me out. Hello,
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sis Hi, Joe, give me some more cough Supper's ready, Joe,
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Sit down, Joey Boy. Sisters waiting for you. I gotta wash up
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first. Here's a towel. Thanks, sis us things out on a job
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rain held us up. We may have to lay off tomorrow. So matter,
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didn't the professors let your work in the mud. No used to pay
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men for standing around in the tool Nobody stands in the tool house when bart
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Clayton's around. Sure, Oh I am, I drove one of the works
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home. It's it's in the garage. I'm catching cold and didn't want to
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stand around and wait for Limey to come pick me up. That trucks stay
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on the job. I told you that. I want him ready to go
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when the drivers get there in the morning. I'll have it back by then.
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Since when do you get to work on time? I'll drive it and
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leave it on the job tonight on my way in from Humboldt. You're going
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huh? Who said I wasn't. I didn't think you'd take another job.
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We're behind on this one. I'll get the bid. We start building that
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bridge the first of the month. Eat your supper, Joe o cases.
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The boys are complaining. We're driving them too hard to complain and complain and
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tell them to go to work for Lorey. You too, I wouldn't mind
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losing you. I'll tell him part he wants morbitat. I lost my appetite.
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I better get started. Maybe you ought to leave the truck here.
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It was missing when I drove it home. I'm going to take it back
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to the job. Part if the truck doesn't work right, drive our car.
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It'll be darken and all. I fix the truck before I leave here.
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I don't mind getting grease on my hands. I'm no college boy.
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I'm a mechanic. I'm a ditch tiger. I'm a truck driver. I
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did it the hard boy. I was just trying to save your trouble.
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I'm not going to have trouble. I'll fix the engine before I leave.
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How many times I can't stand it anymore? You take an each other like
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I'm going out. It's raining, so you old out out of the door.
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I don't care. Maybe you'll be gone when I get back. Both
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of you are take it easy, honey, week alone. I hope you'll
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get to build your brigs. I'm hope hurting Jack the ray makes you very
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happy. I hope the more coffee tea. You haven't finished this coffee yet.
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The rain sounds pretty nice to be under. A RUFFO wouldn't want to
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be out walking in it for Miss Clayton. And we can see real good
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living next door. Yeah, she ran out the back door kind of sudden.
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She slammed it hard, crying too. Oh, I suppose we were
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all fighting again, poor little thing, Yes, poor thing. I think
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it's the brother. Tools a family, unless they have youngsters, and that's
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different. You just said tools a family. I think it's the brother.
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But I don't suppose he has any place else to live or a thing.
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It's a pity. Oh how I would hate to live with that man,
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Barton Clayton. See you know what I mean. But it just sounded funny.
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Well, he is a terror when he gets riled up. I've heard
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him say terrible things to missus Clayton and her brother. And he does work
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hard. Yes, that's a strain on a man for a thing. Yes,
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it's just too bad. Oh here, I want to put your feet
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up on the chairs. It might be comfortable. They say it helps the
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circulation too. Oh look, look dear he Oh he's mad too, going
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in the garage. Maybe he's gonna leave her and didn't take a suitcase.
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Probably wanted something out of the tool shed. He's starting his car. Sounds
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big. Maybe it's the truck. We don't know much about trucks. I
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don't know about cars at all. I always wanted one, well, maybe
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somebody always wanted one with white spokes in the wheels. Don't make them that
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way anymore. I thought about driving right up to prayer meeting in a car
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with glue. There she is, or came back from the alley, second
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of arms went to the store. I guess it's a wonder she stays with
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him, the way he talks to her. No way to understand why people
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love each other. No, nice though it is. It is nice.
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Somebody else back there in the alley. I don't see anybody gone now.
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I guess where were they but the garbage cans. Probably straight dog. But
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I know somebody when I've seen somebody. I don't mistake straight dogs to understand
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why people love each other. Yes, yes, it is in more coffee.
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I haven't touched this yet. Well, you just tell me when you're
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ready. I tell you, lou Rain sounds pretty nice if you're inside.
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I never was one to go paddling around like a dust. When she's coming
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out again, Oh my, she's mad. Don't go into the garage.
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Oh they're gonna have a terrible fight. I just knew it. Maybe we
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can hear see something terrible and awful. See somebody's running up the drive to
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the man who was here earlier with mister Clayton's friend killed you, and I
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know I'm not get away and sit right here, mister Keg behind the desk
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next to me. Thank your corner willis. I don't mind telling you this
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in Chris is wearing me down. Three days, same stories over and over
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here. I still think there's more to Mark Clayton's death than accidental carbon monoxides
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are tricky. I don't know what he'll see. What we can find out
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now, I sure do, thank you, mister Kenny. I debated with
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myself for mad about calling you and having your drive way out here to Keney
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County. But I'm glad to help if I can corner. Oh, it'll
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be a big help, all right, I don't mind telling you that I've
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been What are they all shambering about? Quiet? Quiet in here? In
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a minute people heard I called you. They started piling into the room,
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some here at dawn this morning. I don't know you will ready to begin?
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Sure? Sure? Quiet? Quiet? Now? This is Jonathan Keg.
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You all know his reputation, and those of you who don't, I'll
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explain. Mister Kag isn't here to represent Denny side. He's not far against
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anybody. He's what they call and a meek his CURII a friend of the
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court, in this case, friend of the coroner of Caney County. He's
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after truth and justice. You want to take over, miss Keig, I'd
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rather you would ask the questions if you don't mind, all right, Joseph
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Kerwin Kerwin, come up here where we can talk to you. Take a
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chair, being over to show off you're a full name. Joseph Harlowe Kerwin,
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brother in law of Bartin Clayton. Yes, sir, I describe your
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activities the knight of the murder. Why came home from work, drove the
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truck into the garage. I went in the house, washed up, and
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I was finishing my supper when my sister screamed, hey, you and Clayton
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quarrel that evening then. Yeah, it wasn't exactly that I'd been working for
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him. He told me I was fired, might as well goes somewhere else
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to look for a job. He was kicking out of his house. In
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another way, I guess that's right. You know, whether it is or
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not, that's what he was doing. You'd had a lot of fights before,
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maybe motive enough to kill a man. I didn't go out of the
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house. My sister told you. I was there when she came back from
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the store. Calm dash and the calm down. Now you didn't like the
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way your brother in law treated your sister, did ye? No? He
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was mean to her, talk around. If he ever laid a hand on
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her, I would have would have killed him. Quiet. You're a graduate
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engineer, aren't you? Yes? And the night of the debt. You
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excuse me, mister Corner, mister Kerwin, was mister Clayton also a college
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trained engineer. He was a self made man. Made it the hard way,
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and he never forgot it, and he probably never let you forget you
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made it the easy way. Is that correct? Yes? You resented this,
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didn't you? Yes, you're excused this corner. Clayton died from carbon
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monoxide poisoning. Could that be the soul cause there was a lump on his
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head, but the carbro monoxide killed him that it might have been accidental there,
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I don't think it was. Clayton got beat up by goons wig or
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show ago. They broke his nose, but there was a fresh lump on
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his head when I examined him. I think somebody knocked him down and the
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carbro monoxide finished him. It couldn't have been suicide. Not Bart Clayton.
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Who's your most logical suspect, Jack Lay. Let's talk to him. Ellaray.
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Come up here, mister Lay. Why were you at the Clayton house
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that evening? I wanted to find out why he was bidding low and every
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construction job in the county so low they lost money. Bart told me why
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he was out to ruin my company. What did you plan to do about
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it? Clayton drove a truck for me fifteen years ago. I taught him
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everything he knew about the construction business. I helped him start his company.
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Do aim about it? Well? I left, but I was mad and
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rover ola while thinking. Then I went back to talk to him again.
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You were supposed to be going to a meeting and Humboldt, that's right.
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Weren't you going to see Clayton there? I wanted to get to him first,
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trying to talk some sense into his head, Like I say. I
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drove back to the house, parked, and then I heard doors scream.
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I ran down the driveway. She and her brother saw me. Dora started
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to yell. Joe said I'd killed Bark and Missus Clayton says you engineered a
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beating for her husband sometime last week. Part didn't thought I did, but
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I didn't. I'm a business man. I wouldn't do a thing like that
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to a competitor. You hated him, you know you hated him, Missus
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Clayton. I've warned you before another outburst like that and I'll have you taken
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out here. Let's talk with missus Clayton now. I'd like to hear her
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story, all right, miss King, and go on back to your chailery
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up here, Missus Clayton, please, Missus Clayton, and I want to
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make this as comfortable as possible for you, but you'll have to help me.
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I'm very tired. I've answered questions for days. I go on,
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mister kid, you understand that it's quite possible that your husband was not murdered,
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that he met his death accidentally. He was killed, I know he
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was. How do you know Larray threatened him make quarrel not more than an
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hour before your brother admits he didn't like mister Clayton either. Joe was in
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the house all the time. Bart was killed in the garage while trying to
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get the truck sticks. Somebody came up behind him, and what was wrong
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with the truck? I don't know. When Joe came home, he told
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Bart it wasn't working right. I tried to talk him into driving the car.
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But didn't you drive it to the store? No, I will do
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you often walk in the rain store was only a block away. How did
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you happen to go out to the garage after you came home. Joe told
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me Bart was going to make him leave the house. That made you angry?
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Yes, so you went to the garage. Yes, I come,
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Bart lying on the floor. Was the truck engine running? No? What
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I heard him trying the starter? When I came back from the grocery store.
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Were the garage doors open? They were all closed. The door of
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the tool shed, the small door into the garage, and the big doors
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were all closed. You didn't hear an engine running? No? Yes,
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yes, I did it. It must have been when I came back from
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the store. But you just said you heard the starter as you returned from
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the store. I'm confused, But but I did hear the starter, and
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I think the car must have started. I don't really know. And you
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believe your husband died between the time you came home from the store and went
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out to the garage. I don't know what happened except that Jack Laray killed
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him some Well, now, missus Clayton, what did you do after you
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discovered the body? I called Joe and what did he do? Well?
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You stopped to talk to Larray? Did you see Larray? I saw I'm
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running up the driveway. If your accusation is correct, and Jack Laray did
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murder your husband, why did he return to the scene of his crime?
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A few minutes later? He question occurred to you and missus Clayton, No,
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can you approve you didn't quarrel with your husband in the garage? Stop
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it. You're trying to confuse me. That man fills parte Ray. He
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did it. He threatened my husband part kicked him out. The ray King
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tied to the garage and maybe he was hiding. Oh that's it. He
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tried to get away. We saw him running a quiet, quiet in here,
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Coroner Willet, Quiet everybody, yes, mister Kig, Coroner Willet,
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I would like to request to recess until tomorrow morning. At that time,
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I would like to cross examine an innocent bystare. I can't stand any more
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questions. He's guilty. I want the ray funny. I'm running this inquiry,
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Missus Clayton, in compliance with mister Kig's request. This coroner's jury is
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now adjourned, and we'll meet again tomorrow morning at nine o'clock. Jonathan Kegg
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is about to call another witness. That witness could be if it were,
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could you remember what you have heard? It would be vital that you do,
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for in this coroner's inquest, you would hold a life in your hands.
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Chicago listening to history as it is being made. Jonathan Kegg has called his
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next witness two witnesses, two old lad neighbors at the flat, save them
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a new trusty and sessions. The sisters are before the coroner. Ladies,
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it's not proper practice. We couldn't, mister Willard. We just couldn't do
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that. We go every place together. I wouldn't know what to say if
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Lou wasn't Whitney. One witness testifies at the time. That's the standard procedure,
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and we'll just have to pews. Why I'd be too nervous up here
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alone, nervous and upset. Under the circumstances, Coroner will it, I'd
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recommend that this inquest grants special privileges to these ladies and allow me to cross
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examine them together. They both heard sounds surrounding the death of Barton Clayton,
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sounds that I believe having a important relationship to the death of bart Clayton.
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What under the circumstances, Mister k will waive our rule and grant your request.
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Please go on with your question and bring another chair over here. Johnson,
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if you will take your seats please, yes, certainly, are you?
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Ladies? Lou and Sarah Prescott live next door to the Clayton Hall.
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Is that correct? We'll neighbor and the east. Where were you between seven
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and eight o'clock on the evening of bart and Clayton's death, and our bedport
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is screened? Will you describe in your own words what transpired during that time?
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Go on, see you start, lou Well, i'd ready eat well,
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all right, well, ready, after we'd finished supper, Joe drove
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in the driveway with the truck. Did he usually bring a truck to the
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house, Not as once in a while. According to other witnesses, the
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truck was not performing properly. Did you notice any indication of mechanical difficulty?
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I beg your part, as he means with the truck winning all right.
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You don't know much about car. We've never had one. Did you notice
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the engine coughing or sputtering? No, it was all right so far as
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I could tell. Joe left it growing when he got out to open the
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garage door. Then he drove it inside and closed the door, and we
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heard it running fine. After this, will you describe the Clayton's garage.
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It's beat and there's a tool shed on the west side. Do you know
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the construction material of the building, Well, it looked like cement, before
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it was painted corner. Well, it's such a building as practically an air
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tight room entered through double doors from the outside through the tool shed. Now
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to continue, When did you see missus Clayton after Joe went in the house
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a few minutes later? She ran out the bed door. How was she
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dressed in a light coat and no hat on her head? She looked very
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angry. Was it raining, Well, we thought it was strange. Did
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she'd go for a walk? She always did that for they quarreled, go
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for a walk to cool off. When did you see mister Clayton Just before
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Missus Clayton came home, as she did to the store, she was carrying
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a grocery set. You saw mister Clayton go into the garage. Yes,
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look mad too. We heard him trying to start his car. Are you
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sure whether it was the passenger car or the truck? Well, Lucy,
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at the time, she thought it was the truck. I did say that,
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but I couldn't be posit. Did you hear an engine running? Well,
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I'm not sure. No, No, just to start a going round
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This is Clayton. Yes, did you hear an engine running? Yes?
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I heard when I came back from the door. Are you sure it was
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not running when you left the house before you went to the store. I
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remember you were angry. You might not have noticed as you walked out.
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I don't know. I don't know. Leave me at all. I believe
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we have a clear picture of what happened after the time Clayton entered the garage.
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I saw somebody in the alley by the garbage can, which was a
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straight dog. I told you they'd see I know, a stray dog.
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When I see I didn't see anybody in late. There wasn't anybody. Ladies,
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ladies, please, yeah, very sorry, we apologize. Tell me
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when you saw Jack Laray He ran up the driveway from the truck after doors
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and her brother who were out in the back, and Joe yelled, you
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killed buff, didn't she said he did? You murdered him? True,
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he's killed. In present part, I don't be enough running jury, quiet,
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quiet mood. A few more questions, ladies, Yes, mister King
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in this inquest, the sounds you heard are important. Try very hard to
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remember accurately. Certain Joe Kerwin drove the truck into the garage. He closed
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the big doors, then he walked out through the tool ship. Is that
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correct? Yes? Yes, did you hear a car engine running after Joe
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Kerwin entered the house? Oh? Yeah, it ran quite a while.
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The motor was running after he entered the house. You're short of that.
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That's why we thought it strange that mister Clayton did trouble starting the truck.
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It has been going quite well. Thank you, ladies. We are now
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on the track of a killer. Yes, mister King, Mark Clayton died
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of carbon monoxide poisoning. The garage was a lethal chamber before he walked into
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it. Deadly fumes had come from the truck engine. He was working on
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the motor when he was overcome and fell to the floor, injuring his head.
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What's your evidence, mister King. The Trescott sisters have told us they
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heard the engine running and heard it stop before Clayton went into the garage.
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I heard it running two on my way home from the grocery show. No,
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missus Clayton, on your way to the store, you were upset angry
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when you left the house. If you had not been, you might have
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noticed the engine running in the closed garage. If you had noticed, you
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could have saved your husband's life. No, coroner, will it. The
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only way the testimony of our innocent bystanders, say to lou Trescott, can
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be interpreted, is that Joseph Kerwin planned the death of his brother in law,
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bart Clayton. Joe, you knew Clayton was to leave the house a
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few minutes after you came home. You left the truck running in the garage,
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with just enough fuel to fill the room with gas before the engine stopped.
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You hated your brother in law. You wanted to take over his construction
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company, and knew you could if your widowed sister asked you too. When
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you saw Jack Larray running toward you, it was your brother who shouted you
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killed bart. Until that moment, you had no idea your husband was dead.
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Only the murderer would have known. I thought you'd be better off,
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I've thought, Coroner Willet, I recommend that your jury find that Barton Clayton
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died at the hands of Joseph Kerwin. Mister Kig, Now that it's all
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over with the trial, there's one thing about this case is still bothers me.
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What is it? The Trescotts issues. He went out him anyway,
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We sure he saw someone out in the alley just before the murder was discovered.
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That's right, Say saw it and Blue didn't. What do you think
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it was, mister King? I didn't bring it out in court, but
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for the rest of my life I will believe sincere and without question. At
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what say Prescott saw? Asked mister King was simply a stray dog. Oh
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oh, and mister Kig, he asked Corner Willet, as the coroner of
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Kenney carry for people. I want to thank you for finding the real murderer
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of Barton Clayton. I appreciate that, Corner. And when will we see
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you again? Mister Keg. As jamikis curia, I don't know just where
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I'll be, but whatever crime occurs, you will be sure I shall again
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offer my services as a maker's curia, whether it be in criminal court,
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at a coroner's inquest, or in the judges chambers. Good Night, good
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night. A Life in Your Hand is created by Earl Stanley Gardner, with
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script by Doug Johnson, directed by John Cowen. Jonathan Kegg is played by
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Calvin Caddell, with musical effects by A. Dell Scott, conducted by Whitey
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Berkeway, engineering by Bill Knight. This has been a partially transcribed Bell production.
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And this is George Stone extending a cordial invitation for each of you to
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see with us again next week, when the National Broadcasting Company will again place
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back. I really like it when a keg goes in and he's performing his
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duty for a corner's inquest. I tend to find that a little bit more
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believable than him doing it at a trial that it would be tough, I
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would think, to get opposing counsel and a criminal trial to agree to let
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some independent party come in the interest of justice. It's basically kind of legal
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fantasy in that way. It seems a lot more credible when he comes in
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to help a corner's inquest, which is just investigating. All right. Well,
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