Dragnet: The Big Elevator (EP5029)

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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April twenty fourth, nineteen fifty two, here is the Big Elevator.
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The story you're about to hear is true. The names
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have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant.
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You're assigned a homicide detail. You've got a call from
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the receiving hospital in your city. A dead body has
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been left in the hospital elevator. There's no lead to
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the identity of the corpse. There's no apparent cause of that.
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Your job investigator.
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Drag Net the documented drama of an actual crime. All
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the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
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Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
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side of the law through an actual case transcribed from
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official police files, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment,
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drag Net is the story of your police force and action.
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It was Wednesday, November ninth. That was foggy in Los Angeles.
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We were working the night watch out a homicide detail.
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My partner's Bill Lockwood. The boss is Captain Lrmon. My
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name's Friday. It was eleven, twenty eight pm when we
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got to the third floor at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital,
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doctor Terrell's office right right to see You've been waiting
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for you. We made it as soon as we could. Doctor, Like,
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have you meet my new partner, Bill Lockwood, Doctor Carroll.
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Bill, how I think I've seen you round Lockwood?
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Yes, sir, how I understand you got a problem talk
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with the start.
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Odd one after a few minutes after eleven, you want
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to sit down a minute, I'll fill in.
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Before we go back and take a look at the body.
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Thanks very much.
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I understand it's a woman that right, Yeah, Grace Morgan,
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she's a night nurse son duty. She told me she
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was sitting at the desk checking over.
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Some patients cards.
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It was about five ten minutes after eleven when she
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heard the elevator come up. She heard the elevator stop
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and the door's open. Kept on checking the cards there,
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didn't pay any attention to it, and then she realized
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nobody got out of the elevator. She looked up and
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the elevator doors were still open. She saw this young
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woman slumped over in a wheelchair sitting there in the elevator.
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A woman was alone with her. That's right.
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The nurse went over and wheeled her out of the elevator.
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A woman was wearing a nightgown a bathroom over that.
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She's unconscious, nurse called me. The two of us took
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the woman into a treatment room, examined her. She was
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dead in any indication, how long the body was still warm,
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She didn't lived in dead a short time, any idea
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of the cause of death. And then there's a couple
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of abrasions on her right shoulder, another one in the
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right temporal region. Not positive, but I don't think any
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of them were severe enough to cause death.
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No other markings at all.
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No, she seemed to have been in good physical condition. Know,
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it's a strong smell of alcohol, though, could be cheap
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and drinking.
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Here's a nurse. Pretty sure.
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The woman came up the elevator alone. Possibility one of
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the attendants might have brought her up.
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No.
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I checked for the attendant on duty down the first
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floor lobby, Ray Collins. He didn't bring her up. He
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said a man came in the lobby about eleven o'clock
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said he had a sick woman out in his car.
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He asked for a wheelchair to bring her in. Ray
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asked if he could help, but the man said he'd
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take care of it. It's all Rady knows about it.
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He let the man have a wheelchair, then he went
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in the back room to change some linens on the
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ambulance striction.
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Any possibility one of the other attendants might have brought
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her up on the elevator.
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No, Collins was the only attendant on duty.
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I'd like to talk to him. Is he still around?
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Yeah, I knew you'd want to see him. He was
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off duty eleven thirty. I held him over. He's down
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at the corner having a sandwich. He'll be back in
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a few minutes. What do you figure, doctor, I think
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the one could have operated the elevator self possible, not
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too probable, though it's a self operating elevator automatic. Someone
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could have wield a woman into the elevator, pushed the
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button for the third floor, and then stepped back. We're
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taking her straight up.
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Yeah, the nurses sure the elevator didn't go back down
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after it got up here.
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Positive, she heard the elevator doors open. They stayed that way.
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She kept waiting for someone to come out, and that's
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what attracted her attention.
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How about identification the woman have a person or anything
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like that.
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Not, No, all she had was what she was wearing
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nightgown slippers in the bathroom.
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Let's go back and have a look on of swimming.
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Okay, have it? You saw the only markings on the
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body of those abrasions on the shoulder and the forehead. Yeah, yeah,
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you don't think that's why she's dead. You any ideas
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at all? I wouldn't want to say Lockwood strange one.
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Then I have to wait for the autopsy. How about
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the wheelchair? The woman came up in dockwards it though
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back here in the same room with the body, and
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I gave notice it wasn't to be touched.
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I knew you'd want to check it.
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Oh far in here, all right, just spoke in here?
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Yeah, sure, no thanks, No over here on the table,
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nurse put the woman's clothing over there, nightgown, slippers, bathroom
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I see. Seems to be a fairly young woman, i'd.
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Say, in her early thirties.
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Nice looking girl, well groomed nose, her hair and fingernails,
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well kept bruised.
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There on her head. Took a pretty good blow to
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cause that.
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When you say, yeah, it might even be worse than
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it looks hard to say right now. Other abrasions I.
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Was telling you about right here along the clavicle seem
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to be fairly distinct for or forum.
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That's all of them.
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Uh, it's it, like I say, we'll no more after
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they post the money. Take a look at the clothing,
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O're he? You want to check over the bathrobe bill, Yeah, there's.
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No label here, size marking though, size thirty four, just
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an ordinary rayon nightgown seems to be fairly new. It's
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not damaged. Nothing in the bathrobe, Joe. Both pocket's empty,
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no visible marking. Manufacturer's label here fairly common.
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Trade name Lodi Marks.
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No, none showing we can have a crime lab check
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them over.
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How about the slippers, though it's the same nothing.
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Do you fellows want me to notify the corner, No,
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we'll get a doc.
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We have to call in for the crime lab crew. Anyway,
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it looks like a rough one.
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We don't even know what we've got.
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And figured if somebody murdered the woman, why did they
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bring her here to die?
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Yeah, she was sick or.
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Hurt and they were worried enough about it to bring
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her here. Why do they want to get rid of her?
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Leave her alone in an elevator? Yeah, it doesn't make sense.
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Somebody's got something to hide. Sure could use a lead
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man puts her on the elevator and sends her up
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three floors. Who she is? How she died? I don't
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even know where she came from.
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No choice when we start at the beginning, Yeah, ground floor,
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eleven fifty two pm. The receiving hospital attendant Ray Collins
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returned and we interviewed him.
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In doctor Terrell's office.
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He told us substantially the same thing the doctor had
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told us at a few minutes past eleven o'clock that night,
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a man entered the lobby of the hospital and asked
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for a wheelchair to move a patient up to the
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third floor. Colin stated he gave the man the wheelchair,
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the man refused his offer of assistance, and Collins went
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on about his work. He didn't see the patient, he
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didn't see any car park outside, and he was able
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to give us only a partial description of the man,
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himself a male Caucasian about thirty five years old, short,
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heavy built, old dark hair.
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The group from the Prime Lab arrived and began their investigation.
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The body was.
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Photographed and fingerprinted, and the wheelchair was also dusted for prints.
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The clothing was packed up to be taken downtown for
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further examination. After the men from the Prime Lab left,
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Bill Lockwood began a canvas of the immediate neighborhood for
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possible witnesses. Meantime, I checked with the rest of the
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hospital person out.
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On the patience. They could tell me nothing.
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Twelve thirty am I met Bill back at doctor Terrell's office.
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How'd you do? Joey?
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Lock After the nurses and some of the other attendants
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they couldn't help any checked with a dispatcher on incoming
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and outgoing ambulance.
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There's nothing there? What about you? No good?
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Most of the business places around here a lock up.
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Talk to the newsboy down at the corner. He was
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about the only one in the street. He didn't see anything.
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Sure going slow and then might give Bergmann a call
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see if he's got the woman's princes classified that.
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How about the corner show up yere?
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Yeah, I think he's in there now, yes, ma'am give
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me station two five five seven, Yeah, that's right, late
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in print, All right, let me talk to Bergman plice right, yeah, Dean,
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Joe Friday.
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Now we're still over at the hospital. And do any
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good to those prints? That's what we figured How about
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her princes? Yeah?
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Okay Dean, thanks, yeah right, we're still betting a thousand
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when you say they make her princes? Nothing in records
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on her. Dean's going to set along a set to
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Washington see if they got anything.
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How about the wheelchair? Any prints there?
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Oh?
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The nurses and Doc Carrell's that's all we figured on that,
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didn't we how's he luck? Sure is?
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I checked with missing persons while you were up. There's
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nothing there either, I mean, how about finish this up here, Holly.
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We better get back to the office. Joe, Yeah, I
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think I got something for you here, you know.
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Nurse at the switchboard got a call a minute ago.
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Man's voice wanted to know the condition of Colline Cheswick.
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Nurse checked the list of patients, didn't find anyone by
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that name. The man insisted she's here. The nurse asked
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him one time the woman was admitted to the hospital.
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He told her at eleven o'clock tonight. Now, man said,
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I know she's there. I brought her myself along.
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With doctor Terrell.
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Bill Lockwood and I went down the hall and talked
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to the nurse who'd received the phone call. She told
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us that she tried to question the caller as to
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his name and his relationship to the allegation Carla Chaswick,
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but the man refused and hung up. We put in
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a call to R and I and asked him to
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run the name for us. There was no one for
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that name in the files. We went back to the
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doctor's office and started checking through the telephone directories.
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In the northwestern section.
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We found a listing for a missus Carla z Chaswick
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on North Capitol Avenue. We called the number but there
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was no answer, and we checked with the office, told
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him what we had and we were going to follow
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through on it. One eighteen am.
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It was only a possibility, but it had to be
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checked out.
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Bill Lockwood and I left Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, got
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in the car and drove out to the address on
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North Capitol Avenue. Was a large apartment house, fairly new.
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The name on the mailbox for apartment eighteen was missus
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Carla Chaswick. We rang but there was no answer. We
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finally had to get the manager out of bed, Missus Herbert.
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We identified ourselves and explained the reason.
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For our visit.
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She got a pass key, showed us upstairs to the
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second floor and let us in apartment eighteen. There was
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no one there, but there was evidence of a recent
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party within a matter of hours. Half filled cocktailed glasses,
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an empty whiskey bottle, a glass bowl containing partially melted
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ice cubes. An end table in the corner has been overturned.
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In the bedroom, women's clothing was scattered on the floor
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and on the dressing table.
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On the mantel in the living room there was a
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picture of a woman did.
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You notice anything unusual about her at that time?
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Is her?
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I mean anything out of the ordinary.
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Oh, don't think so. She'd been drinking some I'm pretty
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sure of that, and that's not unusual for missus Cheswick.
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She drinks quite a bit, parties and things, runs around
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a lot.
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Yes, you didn't notice anything about her face, No cuts, bruises.
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Anyone, No, nothing like that.
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Why and you told her she had quite a few
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men friends. Do you know any of their names? Where
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they live?
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No?
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CA's they to do? She was just rooms.
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The tenants.
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I didn't try to get acquainted. It didn't have much
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in common with her. The other tenants isn't either a
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matter of fact, she kept pretty much to herself, her
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and her friends.
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I see now about this party she had last night
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with Herbert. They say, you don't know who was there
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with her?
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No, I'm afraid of don't.
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When I called her on the phone to ask her
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to quiet things down, I heard that one man's voice talking.
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That's about all.
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Though I couldn't tell you who was there?
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Was there anyone at all that you know of? It
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was close to her, I mean someone we could talk
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to about her.
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Well, her husband. I suppose he's the only one close
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to her. I know he comes around every month and
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takes care of the rent. Kind of peculiar thing, but
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I never questioned it. I figured it's their business live
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and let's live. You any idea where we can find
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the husband, I'm not sure. He works at a machine
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shop out near Glendale. I have these home address in
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my rent book downstairs. If you want it, yes, man,
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we'd like to have that if we could.
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Would you happen to know how missus Cheswick and her
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husband got along, I mean the separation of there.
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Was it friendly or did they still quarrel quite a bit?
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No, as far as I know, they got along all right,
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as long as they didn't have to live together. For
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mister Cheswick, I's sorry for him. It's going to take
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it hard his wife. I don't know whether to blame
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or pity or she was a terrible disappointment to him,
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that's all. I had a long talk with him once.
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Seemed like such a nice man, hard worker, and he's
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a wife. He was so disgusted, I mean, drinking all
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the time, going out with different than men. Bitter disappointment.
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He told me how well or did he see violent
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on the subject iming did he feel angered toward his wife, wh.
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Just pit a City'd rather have her dead than go
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on the way she was.
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We checked through the dead woman's apartment for names and
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addresses of some of our men friends, but we found nothing.
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The crew from the crime lab went over the apartment thoroughly.
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The only evidence found were fingerprints on some of.
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The cocktail glasses.
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Along with the apartment manager, missus Herbert, we went downstairs
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and she gave us mister Chesswick's home address and also
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his place of employment.
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Two thirty am we got to a phone and called.
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Cheswick's home, but the people he was staying with told
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us that he wasn't there.
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He was working the.
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All night shift at a farm implement factory on Glendale Boulevard.
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Three to zero five am, Bill and I drove out
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to the factory and checked with the night personnel superintendent.
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He directed us to the factory repair shop, where Chesswick
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was employed as a welder. The forarman at the repair
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shop pointed him out course Chaswick was working on the
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welding line.
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A tall, thin man slight build.
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Bill Lockwood and I went back and introduced ourselves.
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Say any Cheswick. That's my name. What can I do
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for it?
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Like to talk to you for a few minutes as
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we could. It's about your wife, Donna. What's the matter
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of seeing trouble again?
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It might be better if we can step outside and talk.
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It will take very long, all right.
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I gotta finish up this little job here. If you
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don't mind waiting a couple of pieces of tube, It
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won't take a minute.
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Here you go right ahead.
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You might stand back a couple of steps.
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This thing pops a little okay, thanks, Ah, too much oxygen.
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I have to light it again. Ah, that does it?
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Don't look at the flames go bast of your eyes.
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Yeah, I know.
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For suring their money, don't they Yeah?
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They seem to a lot of work.
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Manish just tacond hair. Okay, that's got it. Now, what's
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this about my wife? Sergeant? What's the matter?
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Well, I understand you're separated from missus Chadwick.
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Yeah, that's right about a year ago now. Finally gave
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it up as a bad job. Wasn't anything I could
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do for nothing else anybody could do for her hopeless.
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Well when's the last time you saw?
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First of the month went by the pair of Rent
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dropped in and say hello, that's all.
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I stay away as much as I can. No good, plumb.
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That's about all you can say about her. James to
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admit I was eating married to? Or why do you
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ask anyway?
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The wife's dead, mister Cheswick?
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Uh? Yes, but she died late last night. Found her
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at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital.
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Oh, because I've been expecting something like that.
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I can't feel sorry. Probably the best thing for ither
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have to.
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But we're not sure.
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I wonder if we could step outside triby a lot
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easier to talk with it.
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Yeah, all right, fine, over here, we can duck out
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the back way.
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Okay.
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You say they found her at Georgia Street, huh?
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Or was it she in an accident? I say it
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doesn't look like that.
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We're gonna have to wait for the coroner's report.
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What time do you check in at night for work,
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mister Cheswick.
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We're supposed to be on the job by ten o'clock.
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I punched in before that tonight.
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Why teen question?
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I suppose I've been around the Planet'll watch for your
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check in a ten and you've been here ever since?
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Yeah, that's right.
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You can ask any of them what's the pitch You.
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Think I had something to do with it, Charlie getting killed?
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Well, we didn't say that, Cheswick.
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Your wife's dead and we have to check out all
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the leads, all the possible suspect.
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Well, I don't know how it happened, but I didn't
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have anything. I lived nine years with her. I was
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just nine years of my life, booze parties, going out
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all the time.
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She wasn't my wife. She didn't know what the word meant.
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I understand she's been running around with different men lately.
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Do you have to know any of them?
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Oh? I don't know.
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I couldn't care less. Stupid dame, Sergeant. That's the easiest
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way you can let her off. I tried to make
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a go of it, wasn't any good. I worked for her,
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try to give her everything she wanted. Didn't make any difference.
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Yeah, it's a bum Some of them must be born
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that way of bum day.
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I could have killed her. I had reason enough to.
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I didn't.
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How about your wife's drinking him?
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But did she do most of it at home or
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did you go out.
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To the bars?
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I always at the bar.
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Only one place she ever went to place on Nathan
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Rosewood right on the corner. Went there all the time,
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six seven nights a week, hang over the bar all night.
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I'd like to put up with that for nine years,
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so drinking, going off somewhere and weekend I'll come. It
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lasted that long, Chesswick, I don't know. I guess I
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should have had my head examined her just the bomb.
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I figured I could change her. Kept trying. They were
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worked out. After drinking, she'd have these terrific headaches, would
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make her sick.
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I'd stay home from.
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Work and take care of her, wait on her hand
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and foot. She always made promises, nothing but a liar.
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Soon as she got well, she'd start it all over again,
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the same thing. Yeahs the bumb tramp, no good at all,
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no good.
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Tramp, no good tramp.
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Chadwick, mister Chesswick is.
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All what you do, Carley, She's dead.
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Probably when the dead woman's husband there was Cherswick recovered.
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We continued questioning him, but we got nowhere. Before we
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left the plant, we checked his time card, talked to
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the machine shop foreman and some of the men Chesswick
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worked with.
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We got the same story. All along the line.
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Chesswick had showed up for work at nine forty six
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pm the night before, and had not left the plant
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since that time.
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Four thirty five am.
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Bylla and I got in the car, drove back to
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the office and typed up a fifteen point seven report
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for Captain Wrman.
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Eight thirty am.
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Over in the County Morgue, the body of missus Cheswick
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was being posted.
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A few minutes past ten.
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Am, Bill Lockwood and I drove out to the bar
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in the corner of Eighth and Rosewood, the same bar
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where Ernest Cheswick told us his wife did most of
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her drinking with a typical neighborhood talk heal lounge in
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the early morning, two customers sipping beer at the bar
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under the bar, the manager busy.
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Washing glasses and bringing in supply.
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We called him over and identified ourselves.
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Popular girl married, old Ernie Chesswick separated.
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Now, yeah, do you know she was in here last night?
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That's right?
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She was hardly missus Knight.
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Why would you have to know about what time she
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left last night?
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Thirty about that mine? I sat frona there downtown in
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the bar' no better than me?
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How's that he left with us?
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You are listening to drag meth authentic stories of your
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police force and action.
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November tenth, Thursday, ten fourteen am, the manager of the cocktail.
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Lounge pointed out the man at the end.
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Of the bar who was supposed to have left the
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place shortly after eight o'clock the night before with the
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dead woman, Carla Cheswick.
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Bill Lockwood and I.
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Went up to the man, identified ourselves and questioned him briefly.
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He appeared tense and highly nervous. He told us his
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name was John Gables, an assistant sales manager for a
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downtown jewelry. Concerned, he didn't deny that he was in
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the bar the night before, but he refused to admit
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that he left with missus Cheswick. He insisted he didn't
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even know her. We asked him to a comper how
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he spent his time the night before.
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He refused.
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We got him a car and drove downtown.
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To the City Hall while Bill took the suspect of
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the interrogation room.
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I stopped by the R and I counter and had
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to make a run on Gables. He had no.
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Previous criminal record. I called him morg but there was
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no report on the autopsy yet. Ten fifty two am
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I signed in at the office brief Captain Lorman on
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the developments, and then I haded down the hall for
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the interrogation room.
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We had a couple of drinks together, and that's all
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it was to it. You didn't ask anybody who was there.
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She got up and left by herself. I didn't go
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with it. Jill Eables, who was just telling me you
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did see missus Cheswick in the bar last night. I
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had a couple of drinks with us.
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Why did you hold out, Gable?
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Why couldn't you told us that when we asked you,
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I didn't remember. Then you came up to me and
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the bar started asking questions. I got a rattle. Did
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make a different?
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So?
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I didn't even know her name, said those couple of
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drinks with him, and then she got up and left.
503
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That's all. I didn't go out with him. And the
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bartender says, you did, sure of it. He says he
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can get half of another people to back him up.
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He's wrong, He's got to be. He's thinking of somebody else.
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Well, if you didn't leave the bar with miss Chesswick,
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when did you leave?
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I don't know. At five to ten minutes later, I
510
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get where'd you go? Then I walked around a little bit,
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got a little fresh air, and I went to a show,
512
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which one I don't remember the name of the places.
513
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So n rose with a couple of blocks down from
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the bar or pictures you see. I'm not sure. I
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had a couple of drinks.
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I went to the movies. You don't even know what
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you saw.
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I told you I had a couple of drinks, feeling
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pretty good. I just don't remember that song. Not much
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of an hour bar gave us talking about it.
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I don't mean Alabama's dead, mister, you were with her
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the last time she was seen alive.
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It wasn't with her. I don't care what anybody tells you.
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I wasn't with this movie. You say you went to
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What times you get.
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Out at the midnight? I think I don't remember.
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Where'd you go after that? Bar?
528
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Had a few more drinks, and then I went back to
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my hotel. Which bar was a place on West Seventh.
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I'd go there sometimes. I know the bartender.
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What times you leave there?
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Closing time two o'clock? And then I went back to
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my hotel.
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You say you know the bartender there, I guess he'd
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be glad to vouch for you. I mean that you
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were there when you said you were.
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I don't know. Maybe not. He was pretty busy last night,
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maybe didn't notice me. How about your hotel h the
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desk clerk, somebody like that. They should be able to
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tell what time you got in. Don't you think they
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wouldn't know. I always carry my key with me. I'd
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go into side door. They wouldn't know what time I
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got in.
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What are you trying to sell? Mister? What are you
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talking about?
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You knocked around town from eight o'clock last night till
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past two o'clock this morning. You can't think of anyone
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that could watch for you where you were, what time
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you got here, what time you left?
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I can't think of anybody right now. I don't take
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down names and the dresses every time somebody looks at me.
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What's the difference, anyway? I didn't have anything to do
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with a girl.
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This difference gable attendant at the hospital. He got a
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good look at the man who came in and asked
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for that wheelchair. He gave us a man's description that
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fits you pretty close, So it doesn't mean anything.
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He could make a mistake too, just like that bartender.
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They're all wrong. But you's know what you're trying to say.
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Look, as far as I'm concerned, I only got one
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thing to say. I had a couple of drinks with
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Karla last night, and that's all. She left by herself.
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I didn't even go near the apark.
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How do you know she had an apartment?
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Well, you told me, you said, so, you know, we
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didn't say anything like that, And I guess I heard
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around the bar. Maybe she mentioned to me, Yeah, that's
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probably it.
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Why don't you come off at Gables?
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Come off what.
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I don't even know what you getting.
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We want a straight story, and we're not getting it.
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You told us she didn't even know the chairs with
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women before last night. You didn't even know her name,
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that's right. And why did you say Carla? Just a
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minute ago you said I had a couple of drinks
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with Carla. They say that that's what you're saying. Maybe
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I just hadn't remembered. I was drink quite a bit
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talking to her. Maybe I just remembered, won't.
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Do Gables story, doesn't know water? How about it? I
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don't know. I was drinking quite a bit. A lot
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of things I don't remember.
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How I've given it to a straight What do you remember?
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I thought about it, thought about it all night. The
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more I went over, the worst it got. I just
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couldn't remember. I knew what it did sound like in court.
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I couldn't tell it that.
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We couldn't tell what.
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I didn't kill her. I didn't even touch it. You
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gotta believe that. I left the bar with her about
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eight fifteen, eight thirty. She invited me up to her apartment.
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She was pretty well gone. I had quite a few drinks,
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got there and had some more to drink, and Karla
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got up and started for the kitchen to get some
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more ice. She tripped, I think stumbled a little bit,
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and then she fell down. I think that's the way
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it was, all right, go on. She tried to get up,
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and then she fell again. Wasn't a bad fallow. I
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figured she just passed out. Got some cold towels, ice water.
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I tried to bring her around. It wasn't any good.
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She was white as a sheep. I got scared. I
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didn't know what happened.
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What'd you do that?
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I don't remember. I just kept trying to bring her around.
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I don't remember any of it very well. I don't
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even know why she fell down, could have hit her.
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Gable.
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Do you think maybe that's why she fell down? No,
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I don't know. I don't think so, I don't. I
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don't think I was mad at her for anything. I
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think we were having a pretty good time. I just
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don't remember, that's all. I'm not sure about any of it.
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It was no good at all.
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Did you kill her? Gable?
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No, Sergeant, I swear it, as far as I can remember,
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I didn't. We were having a good time, that's all
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I know. I know I wasn't mad. I'm not a
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nasty drunk, not as far as I can remember. Anyway,
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What did you do when you couldn't revive missus Cheswick?
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He brought her to the hospital.
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Yeah, the shape I was.
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In, I couldn't figure anything else to do. I got
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her in the car, drove down to Georgia Street. I
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put her in the elevator, pressed the button and sent
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her up. I'm a married man, you know. I didn't
626
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want any scandal. I didn't want to get involved, and.
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You didn't feel he Is that what you want us
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to believe.
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I don't know what to tell you. I don't remember
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if I killed her. I think i'd know it. I'm
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sure I would. I just don't remember. I got it.
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Pterrogation room Friday time. Yeah, that's uh, this is I
633
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got a pencil I gave be sure. How was that?
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I see?
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No possibility? Yeah, I see. Okay, thanks a lot. Yeah, sure,
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we'll pick it up later. Bye bye.
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Yeah. Joe Corner's report just finished the autopsy.
638
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Sorry, Gable s all right, it's all cleared up. What
639
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do you mean while you're free to go if you like,
640
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we're not gonnology?
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What was the pitched? Joe Corner's report.
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Primary cause of death was a massive cerebral hemorrhage hemorrhae
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into the ventricle.
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Could have been a blow on the head, couldn't it?
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You figured that could have done it.
646
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No.
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Secondary cause was a brain tumor, a big one. Corner says,
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she's had it for years. It must have caused her
649
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a lot of pain. Probably would have counted for the
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drinking and the tumor. Wrote on their hemorrhage. That's what's
651
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killed her, I.
652
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Say, Corner says. Erosion of the blood vessel.
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By a brain tumor probably grew caused pressure on a
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blood vessel finally gave way caused the hemorrhage, and.
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That killer if she just died, I didn't have anything
656
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to do. She died and I didn't kill her.
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Yes, sir, that's right. Feel free to go if you want.
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Thank God, you know officers, I'll tell you the truth.
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I didn't know the answer. I didn't know if I
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killed or not.
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I really didn't.
662
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Drinking so much, I came to and there she was dead.
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I didn't know what happened. I really didn't. I didn't
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know the answer.
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Now you went up on that stable. We thought we did.
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The story you have just heard was true. The names
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were changed to protect the innocence.
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On Thursday, November tenth, the meeting was held in the
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office of Captain of Homicide. In a moment the results
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of that meeting, with the filing of the official autopsy
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report by the county coroner, John Gables was cleared of
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all charges. He was released from custody immediately. The death
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of missus Carla Cheswick was listed as due to natural
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causes by the Coroner's Jury.
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Ladies and Gentlemen.
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Last year's traffic death toll was thirty seven five hundred,
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a seven percent increase over nineteen fifty The National Safety
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Council believes that the best way to promote safety on
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the road is for each of us to know and
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obey traffic laws.
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To read and heed traffic signs. So be careful.
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The life you save may be your own.
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You have just heard drag myth a series of authentic
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cases from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office
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of Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police
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Department Technical advisors Captain Jack Donaho's Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant
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Fans Bracier heard tonight were Martin Milner, Vic Perrin, and Gwendolino.
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Script by Jim Mosy, music by Walter Schumann. Hel Gibney speaking.
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Now it's coveror Spy on NBC.
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Welcome Back. There are a couple of moments in this
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episode that I really appreciated. The questioning of the husband,
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Ernest Cheswick really captures a lot of emotion. He spent
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nine years trying to get the relationship to work, is
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still paying the rent, but is now in this separated status.
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And in this brief scene you capture the sort of
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anger and frustration at the broken promises and the end
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of this self destructive cycle. But then Finally, when that's
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all done, you get to the real core sadness that
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this person you spent nearly a decade with is gone,
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and I appreciate the emotional complexity of that scene. Very
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well done. And then the interrogation, which shows how sometimes
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someone in a less than ideal situation might have trouble
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giving account of themselves to the police even though they're innocent.
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And it also shows the danger of leaning too heavily
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into a solution before a full investigation was done. This
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wasn't a case where they leapt as far as Friday
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and Jacobs did in the Big Casing, but it still
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shows that you can get out in front of the evidence,
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particularly with Friday's closing line. Listener comments and feedback now
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and we go to YouTube for some comments on the
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Big Show. Catherine rits a great ending, and Mildred writes,
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I have fond memories of the Greyhound Buys station when
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it was on sixth and Los Angeles Street. And also
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I had a manager whose wife cheated on him and
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got pregnant with someone else's baby. Instead of getting divorced,
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he raised the sun as if it was his own.
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I'm not sure if the boy ever knew that the
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man who raised him was not his real father. Well,
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thanks so much, and I guess that is an example
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of that story in the episode happening in real life.
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Then we have some comments on our listeners survey and
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uh Jeremy writes. Uh Uh in Toronto writes when answering
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what aspect I enjoy most about this podcast, the survey
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only allowed me to pick one between the hosts content
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and guest. I selected content, but I feel that separate
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separating the host from the content is a bit of
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a disservice to the host. Adam grant their many shoes.
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I could choose to listen to with similar programming, but
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I choose to listen to the great detectives of Old
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time Radio because of the insightful, professional, and entertaining commentary
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provided by the host. Adam's commentary is an important portion
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of the content of the show. Well, thanks so much, Jeremy.
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I appreciate the perspective. And David over in Scotland says
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the show is fantastic. I love the Sherlock Holmes series,
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and Paul writes anything with Philip marlowin. I assume that
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Paul approved of our vacation week programs. Well, now it's
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time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and
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I want to go ahead and thank Damien, Patreon supporter
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Thanks so much for your support. That will do it
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for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us
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will be back next Thursday with another episode of Dragnet.
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But join us back here tomorrow for another episode of
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, where.
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If you are.
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Willing to pay me, will if you can dig up
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the information I want, I'll maybe you a check for
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one hundred bucks American immediately journey only.
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For in the steam booth services.
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Okay, two hundred Now listen, there's a little idol, the
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mailing Buddha.
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It will. I saw it only this morning here in Paris,
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where at the shop of Monsieur dubuisson On he was
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mored in only a few weeks ago. And the price
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on it well, for such aware and exquisite piece, most
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reasonable how much time? Thirty two million francs.
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Good, that's around eighty thousand dollars.
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So it must be the McCoy.
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You wish me to. Shall we see upteam it for you?
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You mean steal it? What?
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Of course?
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With you?
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But for our price?
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No, no, think I hope.
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You'll be with us then in the meantime, send your
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comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow
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Se Ataho. This is your host, Adam Graham, sogn and
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