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Accident report submitted to Police Inspector Blandon from Lieutenant Steve Healy.

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Place, 15th Street and 4th Avenue, time 2.45 p.m. March 11th. Remarks.

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Ernest Bowers, age 34, was crossing intersection at signal light change from green to red.

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A car driven by Theodore Tobey made a legal right turn from 15th Street into 4th Avenue.

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Hey, hey, look out! Hey, hey, look out!

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He hit him!

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All right, come on now, come on, let me through here. All right, stand back. Let's have a look.

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He's a hurt pat officer. I didn't see him. Honest, I had the right of way.

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He's passed out. Hey, one of you people call an ambulance.

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I'll call. Yeah, all right, you. OK, move back, move back.

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He's bleeding. Here, I'll prop up his head. Yeah, yeah, use his jacket. Here, I'll hold him.

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Golly, he's limp. He looks like he... Just like he's dead.

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Yes, Ernest Bowers felt like he was dead.

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Ernest Bowers suffered from catalepsy, a strange disease.

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He carried at all times a note in his inside jacket pocket stating that he was a cataleptic,

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and that in the event of seeming death his wife should be immediately notified or his doctor in the event his wife is unavailable.

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The letter also requested that no autopsy or embalming should be performed on his body for 72 hours,

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although in his particular case the duration of the attacks were usually four hours or less.

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Ernest Bowers also wore a sterling silver bracelet with an inscription reading, Do not embalm me.

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I am not dead.

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Catalepsy is a disease of the nerves and mind.

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The physical condition of the cataleptic when he's under a spell closely resembles death in all aspects,

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including the primary stages of rigor mortis.

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Officer Abbott was on the scene of the accident.

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He administered first aid to the injured man before making out his report.

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There, that ought to stop the bleeding. Looks like just a cut in his forehead when he hit the ground.

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Nothing much.

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Well, he can't be hurt. Bad officer. I didn't hit him hard.

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Yeah, that's right. It looked like just a little bump. That's all.

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All right, all right. Clear back, clear back. Let's have a little air in here.

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I'd have to take down some information. All right, what's your name?

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Theodore Toby. Here's my license.

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Hey, hey, you kids. Where those kids do?

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They picked up something off the street. I saw them.

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There's the ambulance.

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Here it comes. Gee, I hope he's all right. It doesn't look like he's breathing.

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By gosh, he ain't.

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All right, I told you to get back. Come on now. He's back, all of you.

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I'm glad you got here, doctor. He's out cold.

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Hello, officer. Let's have a look here.

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Yeah, I'll say yes.

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All right, let's get him away.

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He's dead.

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Well, anyway, it didn't happen in the ambulance.

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Okay, we'll take him away. Keep him back, will you, officer?

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All right, keep back. All right, clear out. The show's over.

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All right, it's the second one today.

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Yeah. Well, let's go. Come on.

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Hey, whose coat was that he was laying on?

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I don't know. Did you pick it up?

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No. Hey, officer.

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Yeah?

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Where's the coat?

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Yeah. Oh, my golly, it's gone.

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Okay. Never mind. Let's go, P.

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Hey, what's the matter with you?

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Oh, I'm fine.

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Ernest Bowers had lost the identification of his condition.

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The letter was in the inside pocket of his jacket.

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The silver chain he wore on his left wrist

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had snapped and fallen to the pavement.

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Two youngsters picked up the chain.

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Robert Minelli, aged nine and a half, and Tommy Sonner, eight.

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You? Yeah. Maybe we should give it back.

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Yeah, what for? So he can keep it?

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Scor on the back of your father's shop, Bob.

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Sure is a nice chain.

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Hey, there's writing on it.

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Maybe it's the guy's name. Would he hurt bad?

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Nah, just a little bump.

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What's it say?

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Just a second. We'll be out of the alley.

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Yeah, Pop's gone home to eat.

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Well, let me see it.

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Well, wait a second, will you?

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It says, do not im...

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Oh, do not something me.

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I am not dead. It's screwy.

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What'll we do with it?

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Sell it, dopey.

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That's stealing, Bob.

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It ain't stealing. We found it, didn't we?

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When we try to sell it, they'll ask us where we got it.

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What'll we tell them?

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Nothing. Use your head. You know what we'll do?

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What?

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We'll use Pop's welding torch. We'll melt it down.

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He told us not to use it.

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Pop ain't here, is he?

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No. Well, come on.

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There it is. Yeah.

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Here, put it on that brick.

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Okay? Yeah.

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Be careful.

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I don't know too much about this.

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What are you kids doing there?

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Huh?

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Oh.

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Hello, Pop.

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Nothing, Mr. Minnelli. We ain't doing nothing.

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Nothing, huh?

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I thought I told you kids not to go near that torch.

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Well, we want to melt this down.

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Give me that.

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Now, what's this all about?

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We found this chain, Papa. We want to melt it down and sell it.

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Who's easy?

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We don't know, do we, Tommy?

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No, no, we don't.

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Where'd you get it?

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We found it.

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Come on, let me have it.

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There's nothing wrong, Pop. We just found it. See, it's ours.

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Let me see. It says something.

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Do not embalm me.

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I'm not dead.

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Okay. What's that?

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It's screwy.

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Where do you find it?

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In the street. Honest, Pop. I asked Tommy.

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All right, all right. Go on and get out of here, please.

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Well, how about melting it down, Pop? We can sell it and buy some baseball.

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All right. I'll keep it back.

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Pop.

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Look at Tommy. See it?

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Yeah, starting to melt.

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See how he does it?

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Keep away, I told you.

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It's all melted.

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They sold the melted chain to a dealer for a dollar thirty.

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One dollar and thirty cents.

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But the coat, the coat was the principal thing.

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In the coat, in the inside pocket was the letter.

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The information about Bauer's condition was in the letter.

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The instructions that could save his life.

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The coat was picked up from the street by honest Jerry Murdoch.

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He was a very good man.

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He was a very good man.

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The coat was picked up from the street by honest Jerry Murdoch.

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Now there's a big sign near the corner of 15th Street.

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It says, Honest Jerry Murdoch, swap shop.

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He brought the coat into a store, rummaged around on his shelves until he found some cleaner.

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Then started to clean the bloodstain.

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I'm looking for a sport jacket.

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Just a minute.

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And now, what kind?

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Conservative.

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Yeah. Will you come over here, please?

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Sure.

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Yeah, something on that order.

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Well, pick out what you want there.

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How much do you want to spend?

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About five bucks.

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These cost more.

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How much?

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From eight to twelve.

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Over here we got some cheaper.

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These don't look so hot for eight bucks.

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From eight to twelve.

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I'll take a look.

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No, these don't appeal to me.

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What size do you wear?

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Forty.

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Well, here. We'll try this one on.

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This one's conservative.

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Kind of tight around the shoulders.

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Yeah, it looks cheesy.

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Well, I guess you ain't got one of those.

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Wait a minute. What's your hurry?

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I'm just putting a new one in stock.

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Over here with the counter.

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That looks all right. What size is it?

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I don't know. Here, try it on.

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Yeah, that feels all right.

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Kind of stiff in front here, though.

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It's almost new, ain't it?

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You'll break it in.

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Feels like cardboard or something.

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You want it? Five dollars.

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Okay.

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There might still be a couple of stains on it.

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I ain't had time to take up,

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use some cleaner on it, or bring it to the tailor.

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It'll be better than new.

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Here's a five.

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Ernest Bowers was brought to the receiving room

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of the Vedder General Hospital, the time four ten.

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If Bowers was going to awaken, it would probably be

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before six forty-five.

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Intern on duty, Dr. Weldon, made out his report.

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He wrote it down while standing near the telephone switchboard.

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Now listen, honey, get this guy's wife on the phone,

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if he's got a wife.

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Here, here's his wallet.

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Another dead one?

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Yep. That is a macro.

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I'm gonna stay that way, too.

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His home phone is here. I'll give it a whirl.

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Let's see.

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Yes?

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This is Vedder General Hospital.

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Is there anybody by the name of Bowers at home

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that's Bowers? B-O-J-

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Just a minute.

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She's going to see. How did it happen?

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Accident. Automobile hit him.

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Funny.

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What's funny?

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Superficial cut on forehead.

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Apparently heart failure.

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I'm gonna request an autopsy.

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I'd like to find out whether the heart disease was chronic or not.

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Hello?

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Oh, here she is again.

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Nope, nobody home.

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Is Mr. Bowers married?

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His wife says he is.

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Where can I reach her? There's been an accident.

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I don't know. She's out.

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Will you tell her to call the Vedder General Hospital?

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Yes. What happened?

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Mr. Bowers is dead.

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Can't reach her, huh?

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Nope.

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Gee, I'd sure like to do that autopsy.

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Maybe later.

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After he's gone to the morgue.

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Get me the orderly room.

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Okay, use that one over there here.

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Okay.

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Hello?

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Hello, Payne?

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Yeah?

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This is Dr. Weldon.

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There's a delivery for you to go to the morgue.

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Oh, now?

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Yeah.

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Oh, I ain't had nothing to eat since, uh...

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, since lunch.

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Go on now. It's down in receiving room B.

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The papers are down there, too.

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Uh, can I wait a few minutes?

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It's gotta go now.

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They'll want to start the embalming so they can go home.

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How about sending one of the other boys?

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I don't care, just as long as it gets there.

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It was then 422 in the afternoon.

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Dr. Theodore J. Weldon left, uh, honey at the switchboard

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and walked upstairs to the intern quarters

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and settled down to reading the sports page of the afternoon paper.

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At that moment, if anyone had been in receiving room B

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of Better General Hospital where the body of Ernest Bowers

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lay on the patient carriage,

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they could have seen a fly crawl slowly across the face of the dead man.

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They would have seen his nose twitch.

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And now, Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood sound stage, Wally Mayer,

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who as police lieutenant Healy heads an all-star cast of Hollywood radio players in Dead Ernest.

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A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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Henry Prince had purchased the coat in which the letter was that could save the life of Ernest Bowers.

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When Henry Prince left the secondhand clothes store, he stopped to have a chat with some friends,

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made some purchases at the grocery store and started home.

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The time, a few minutes after five.

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He lived about two blocks from the scene of the accident.

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His wife was waiting for him.

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Well, how do you like it for five bucks?

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It looks all right.

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What's that? A spot?

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Where?

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I'll take it off for a second.

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Yeah, sure. I wonder what it is.

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Oh, he said there were a couple spots. Queen will take them off.

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Yeah, it looks like it might be.

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What's this in the pocket?

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I don't know.

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Oh, honestly.

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To whom it may concern, please open and read.

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Oh, that's what must have felt stiff.

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This note is carried on my person wherever I go.

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It is to advise responsible parties that I am a cataleptic,

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that if it appears as though I am dead, I am not,

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and that my body is not to be molested for a period of 72 hours,

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neither by autopsy nor by embalming,

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although the maximum periods of my attacks usually do not exceed four hours.

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Please telephone my wife, Mrs. Margaret Bowers, Fulton 11231.

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This is a boarding house, address 841 and one-half,

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with 25th Street.

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If she is not there, please try, ask Mr. 43422.

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This is the number of Dr. Benton.

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It is of vital importance. It may mean my life.

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Thank you, Ernest Bowers.

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That's a funny one.

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Where'd you get the coat, Henry?

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In Honest, Jerry Murdoch.

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I wonder what we can do.

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I think it's probably forgotten already.

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Somebody sold the coat to him, forgot to take the letter out.

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No, it doesn't sound like something a guy would forget.

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Oh, the devil.

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Well, it might be important.

328
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Look at that, Henry.

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Those spots look like blood.

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Now too dark.

331
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That's the color blood turns.

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I'm going to telephone that number.

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Go ahead, but I think you're wasting your time.

334
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All right, all right.

335
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I don't want to mess around.

336
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Oh, shit.

337
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Hello.

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I'd like to talk to Mrs. Bowers.

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She ain't in.

340
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Well, how do you know? You didn't even go...

341
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She went out, and you ain't the first after her.

342
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Who else wanted to get in touch with her?

343
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Somebody, I don't know who.

344
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Oh, well, thank you.

345
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Hey, you see, you're wasting your time.

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Try that Dr. Benton.

347
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Oh.

348
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That's gonna be fair.

349
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One, two, three, four.

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Two, two.

351
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Look, I'm hungry.

352
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Oh.

353
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Oh, busy.

354
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How about some dinner?

355
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It's cooking, it's cooking.

356
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You know, I just can't get it out of my head.

357
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That guy, whoever he is lying there,

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people thinking him dead when he ain't.

359
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They be doing things to him.

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What's him bombing?

361
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Well, he do that at the morgues, preparing his body for burial.

362
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I think they take all the blood out of his veins.

363
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Well, that would kill him if he wasn't already dead.

364
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Well, it couldn't kill him no better.

365
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Henry, I'm gonna find out about that coat.

366
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Where's this place you bought it?

367
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On this jiffy.

368
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Oh, now, wait a minute, Francis.

369
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Look, I put in a good day's work. I'm tired.

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Listen.

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I don't want to run around the city

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looking for something I don't even know about.

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Well, I'll go myself.

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How about me at home here while you go out?

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I want to eat. I'm hungry.

376
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Well, dinner won't be ready for another 15 minutes anyway.

377
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Where is the place?

378
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Oh, all right.

379
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I'll go with you.

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Oh, why don't they answer?

381
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What?

382
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Well, he ain't back yet.

383
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What the signs say? 10 minutes?

384
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Yeah, but those guys put up signs like that

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after going away for an hour.

386
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Well, we can wait just a few more minutes, Henry.

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Oh, come on, Francis.

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Hello.

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Is, is, is Mrs. Bowers in?

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No.

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Mr. Bowers?

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No, he's dead.

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Oh, he is?

394
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That's what they tell me.

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Look, would you...

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You're bothering me, lady.

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I got a meal set on the table.

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I can't be answering a million questions.

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Yeah, listen, all I want to know is when Mr. Bowers died.

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How do I know? Ask Mrs. Bowers.

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She'll be home soon.

402
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Oh, yeah, thanks.

403
00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,000
Well?

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Mr. Bowers is dead.

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I found that out.

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Well, see, I told you.

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Well, what about the letter then?

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What if he ain't dead?

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What if they only think he's dead?

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Well, what do you want to do, wait here all night?

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No, I'm going to go down to that place

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where you bought the coat.

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You're going traipsing around the whole city?

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If I have to.

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Well, without me then.

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Well, all right, all right.

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Do as you please.

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I'll be home. I'm hungry.

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If you think more of a crazy letter

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than you do of feeding your own husband,

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then that's all.

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What do you mean, that's all?

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That's what I said. That's all.

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Oh, Henry, the trouble with you

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is you just don't have no imagination.

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No, I just don't have no imagination.

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I'm just a home-loving guy. That's all.

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I don't go sticking my nose where it don't belong.

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Well, go on home then.

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I'll find out about it.

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Busy, busy, busy.

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How can a doctor's line be always busy?

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Say, pardon me.

434
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Sure, sure. What do you have?

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I just want to find out about the man next door.

436
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Do you know when he'll come back?

437
00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,000
Who, honest Jerry? No.

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Any day?

439
00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,000
No, there's a sign on his door

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that says he'll be back in ten minutes.

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I'll be back in ten minutes.

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00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,000
I'll be back in ten minutes.

443
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I'll be back in ten minutes.

444
00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:15,000
I'll be back in ten minutes.

445
00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:16,000
I'll be back in ten minutes.

446
00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:17,000
I'll be back in ten minutes.

447
00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,000
I'll be back in ten minutes.

448
00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,000
I'll be back in ten minutes.

449
00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,000
I've been waiting for him for more than a half hour.

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Maybe he went home.

451
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Oh, yeah.

452
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Do you know where he lives?

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Search me, lady.

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Well, he will come back.

455
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He's usually there when we close up here.

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That's about seven o'clock.

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Yeah, well, thank you.

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Oh, officer.

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Yes, ma'am?

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Officer, do you know where the fellow

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who owns that swap shop lives?

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No, ma'am, I don't.

463
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Oh, well, I wanted to get in touch with him.

464
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There's a sign on his door.

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Why don't you ask him, ma'am?

466
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There he is now, just going in.

467
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Oh, gee, thank you.

468
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Mr. Murdoch?

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Mr. Murdoch?

470
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Yeah?

471
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Oh, gee, Mr. Murdoch, I'm glad you came back.

472
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I was just having a bite of tea.

473
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Yeah.

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Come on in.

475
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Thanks.

476
00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:02,000
What can I do for you?

477
00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,000
You sold my husband a jacket,

478
00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:05,000
a sports jacket this afternoon.

479
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,000
Did I?

480
00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,000
What kind?

481
00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,000
It was a light blue one.

482
00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,000
It had a few stains on it.

483
00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,000
Oh, I'm sorry.

484
00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,000
I can't take anything back once it's sold.

485
00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,000
No, no, I don't want to give it back.

486
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Where'd you get it, Mr. Murdoch?

487
00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,000
I don't even know which one you're talking about.

488
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I sell a lot of stuff.

489
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It must have been just a few hours ago.

490
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Blue, blue with thin red boxes.

491
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Oh, what about it?

492
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,000
Where'd you get it?

493
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,000
What do you want to know, fool?

494
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,000
Well, because there was a letter in it,

495
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an important letter.

496
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I don't know.

497
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,000
How can I remember where I got it?

498
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Long ago. Was it long ago?

499
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I don't see where it's any of your business where I got it.

500
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It may be important.

501
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I've been trying to reach the numbers.

502
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The doctor's number's always busy,

503
00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000
and his wife isn't home yet.

504
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,000
I don't know what you're talking about.

505
00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,000
Please, I'm busy. I've got lots to do.

506
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Yeah, but you've got to tell me.

507
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Just listen, look, tell me one thing.

508
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Did you have the jacket in here a long time?

509
00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:52,000
Well...

510
00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,000
Oh, please, it's very important.

511
00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,000
Well, no.

512
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No, I just got it this afternoon.

513
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Oh, but where did you get it?

514
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,000
You said one question.

515
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You asked it, I answered it.

516
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That's all.

517
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,000
There was blood on it.

518
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,000
That I can't help.

519
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,000
Now, if you even excuse me...

520
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,000
Oh, no, listen, Mr. Murdoch, you've got to tell me.

521
00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,000
Please.

522
00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000
I don't have to tell anybody anything.

523
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,000
Mr. Murdoch, I may be all wrong.

524
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,000
I'm probably just crazy doing this, but...

525
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,000
But listen, if that man's alive

526
00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,000
and they do anything to him,

527
00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,000
I'll just never get over it.

528
00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,000
I'll just never be able to live with myself.

529
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,000
What are you talking about?

530
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000
Well, listen, listen, there was a letter

531
00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,000
in the inside pocket of that jacket, you see.

532
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,000
It said that Ernest Bowers was a cataleptic.

533
00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000
What's that? You mean he goes into...

534
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,000
No, no, no, no.

535
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,000
A cataleptic is somebody who looks like he's...

536
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000
He's dead at times, and he isn't.

537
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,000
He goes into a spell, and it looks as though he's dead, you see.

538
00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000
And sometimes they take dead bodies to the morgue.

539
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000
They bomb them, and that means

540
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,000
they take all the blood out of their veins.

541
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,000
Now, this fellow Bowers is a cataleptic.

542
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000
I don't know whether he's dead or alive,

543
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000
or even if he's even worrying about this letter,

544
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000
but I've got to find out.

545
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,000
Well, there was...

546
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,000
What? What?

547
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,000
An accident before that.

548
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,000
Where? Who was in it?

549
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,000
I don't know. Believe me, lady.

550
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,000
I didn't know anything about all this.

551
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,000
You think this guy who was taken away in an ambulance

552
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,000
was a catalepsy?

553
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,000
That coat. Was it his?

554
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,000
Yeah, lady, but it was left there in the street.

555
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,000
They drove away and left it.

556
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:14,000
Who?

557
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,000
The ambulance.

558
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,000
What ambulance?

559
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,000
Oh, I don't know. It was on the corner.

560
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,000
The cop was there. He told somebody to call an ambulance.

561
00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,000
It came and took the man away.

562
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,000
Is that the cop? Is that the cop out there now?

563
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,000
Yeah, but look, you've got to protect me.

564
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,000
I ain't done anything wrong. I don't know anything about...

565
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:38,000
Officer! Officer!

566
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,000
Ernest Bowers lay on a slab in the morgue.

567
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:46,000
If he were alive, probabilities were that he would regain consciousness before 6.45.

568
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:51,000
The two embalmers on duty at the time had decided to get a bite to eat

569
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:56,000
when the phone rang.

570
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,000
We're going out to eat. Yeah.

571
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,000
I know another one just came in. We got it here.

572
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,000
Well, what's the rush?

573
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:07,000
No, no, we just want to grab a cup of coffee, and then we'll get right on it.

574
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,000
Well, is it our fault if it comes in just when we want to have a...

575
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:11,000
a what?

576
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,000
We can go home after?

577
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,000
Oh, well, that puts a different complexion.

578
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,000
Okay. Yeah.

579
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,000
Hey, what time is it, Tony?

580
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,000
It's 6.30.

581
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,000
Doc says if we embalm this one now, we can go home.

582
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,000
Well, let's start in then. I'm hungry.

583
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:27,000
Okay. Let's start the motor.

584
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,000
Hey, young guy, ain't he?

585
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,000
Yeah. I was speaking to the wife about that yesterday.

586
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:33,000
Oh, get the injector out, Tony.

587
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,000
And she was saying more and more people die older and older.

588
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,000
Hey, here. Looks like we can open through the neck.

589
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,000
Yeah. Hey, give me a piece of that gauze.

590
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,000
I said the way she should be around this place a while. We get them all ages.

591
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,000
Hey, want me to do it?

592
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,000
Oh, that's all right. You get the injector ready.

593
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:49,000
Hey, look at him.

594
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:54,000
You never think that such a little thing like his heart stops beating could make him dead and not alive.

595
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,000
Yeah, hold it steady now, will you?

596
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,000
Yeah.

597
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,000
Okay, you ready?

598
00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,000
Just a second.

599
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,000
Yeah.

600
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,000
All right. Here we go.

601
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,000
What's the matter?

602
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000
My glasses. They're clouding up.

603
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,000
I'll take them off.

604
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,000
Oh, no, it's all right. I'll just clean them.

605
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,000
What did the wife say to that?

606
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,000
What? Oh, about all ages?

607
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,000
Yeah, yeah.

608
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,000
Oh, she didn't have anything to say.

609
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:19,000
Only that most of the guys we deal with probably come to a violent end.

610
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,000
Well, there's something in that.

611
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,000
Oh, okay. I got my glasses cleaned.

612
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,000
All right.

613
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,000
What's...

614
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,000
Hmm.

615
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,000
What's the matter?

616
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,000
They're steamed up again.

617
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,000
Funny. Every time I bend over near...

618
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000
I wonder.

619
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,000
What?

620
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,000
Oh, it must be my imagination.

621
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,000
What?

622
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,000
I could have sworn this guy was breathing on my glasses.

623
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,000
Oh, is he?

624
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,000
No. How could he?

625
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,000
Well, come on, and let's go. It's quarter to seven already.

626
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,000
Yeah.

627
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,000
Hold it, hold it. I'll get the phone.

628
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,000
Let's get this started first.

629
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,000
Okay.

630
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,000
Now we'll just...

631
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,000
Al.

632
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,000
What?

633
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,000
What?

634
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,000
What's the matter with you?

635
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,000
I thought I saw the guy's hand twitch.

636
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,000
Oh, don't be silly.

637
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,000
Oh, boy.

638
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,000
Oh, it gave me a scare.

639
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000
Hey, let's wait a second. I'll get the phone.

640
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,000
Oh, no, it'll probably be another job. We'll never get out of here.

641
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,000
Let it ring.

642
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,000
That might be my wife.

643
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:16,000
Oh, well, if people are gonna hang up before you can pick up the phone...

644
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,000
All right, come on now. Let's get this thing over with.

645
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:20,000
All right.

646
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,000
Okay.

647
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,000
Now, give me the knife again.

648
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,000
That's it. Now I'll make a nice, neat little inc...

649
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,000
Tony.

650
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,000
Yeah?

651
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:34,000
Look, I'm bent over like this.

652
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000
I ain't gonna move.

653
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,000
My glasses are full of steam again.

654
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,000
Oh, Lord!

655
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,000
Is...

656
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,000
Is he alive?

657
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,000
Hey, look at me.

658
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,000
I'm shaking all over.

659
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000
Look at him, Al.

660
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000
Look at his lips.

661
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,000
Listen.

662
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,000
I...

663
00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,000
I...

664
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:28,000
Shut that thing off.

665
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:34,000
Apparently, the life of Ernest Bowers was worth a dollar and 30 cents for a silver bracelet

666
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:40,000
and five dollars for a blood-stained jacket to honest Jerry Murdoch.

667
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,000
Their petty thefts brought a man to the brink of death.

668
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:49,000
As, uh, as for the busy telephone in Dr. Benton's office, it wasn't busy at all.

669
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:56,000
The good doctor had unwittingly replaced the receiver on the stand incorrectly.

670
00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:01,000
There's, uh, just one more episode which perhaps doesn't belong in an accident report,

671
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,000
but which I would like to include.

672
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:12,000
After regaining full consciousness, Ernest Bowers put in a telephone call from the morgue.

673
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,000
Hello?

674
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,000
Hello, Mrs. Brawley. Is Mrs. Bowers in?

675
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,000
I don't know. I didn't see her come in.

676
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,000
Josie, see if Mrs. Bowers is home.

677
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,000
Who is it?

678
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,000
This is Mr. Bowers.

679
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,000
Who? Mr. Bowers?

680
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,000
They told me he was dead. The hospital called us.

681
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,000
I know, Mrs. Brawley, but they made a mistake.

682
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,000
Oh, well, here she is.

683
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,000
Hello? Hello, Ernest? Where are you?

684
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,000
Well, darling, it's quite a long story. You see...

685
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,000
Never mind. You just get right home, you hear?

686
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:59,000
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