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Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Lloyd Nolan.

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In tonight's presentation of Suspense.

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Tonight, Auto Light presents a true story of crime and punishment.

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The fame of this actual case rests with the singular qualities of its characters.

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The detective is no better than ordinary and the killer is a man without a future.

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The story is called, The Man with Two Faces.

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Our star, Mr. Lloyd Nolan.

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Hello, Mr. Wilcox.

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And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light.

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And now, Auto Light presents, The Man with Two Faces, the documented story of an actual crime starring Lloyd Nolan, hoping once again to keep you in suspense.

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They dug him up on my birthday. He was six feet tall and four feet under. It was just an accident.

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They were digging in a cellar and they found the buried packing case. They hauled it out and opened it.

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Inside the case, they found a steamer trunk. They opened that. He was jammed inside, doubled up, his knees against his chest.

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All he had for company was a pile of quicklime. He was wearing a blue suit, a big smile, and two holes in his skull.

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The best dressed skeleton you ever saw.

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My name, Palachek Gus R. Detective Lieutenant, badge number 1416.

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I've been a cop for the city of Cleveland for 19 years. The last 14 of them, I've worked out a homicide.

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I'm not a child of hidden. I'm not a Sherlock Holmes. I'm strictly average.

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I try to make it with what I've got. If that doesn't do, they call for a smarter man.

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They should have had one around the day they dug up the skeleton.

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We completed our preliminary investigation at the spot where the packing case was uncovered. There wasn't much.

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I drove back downtown to check with a medical examiner.

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Hey, Sam, how's it going? Oh, hi Gus. Happy birthday.

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It sure is. You about done with him? Just finished. Don't envy him.

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Find anything at all? No question it's a homicide. Where'd they dig him up anyway?

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Basement of an empty building out on Euclid Avenue. Hey, by the way, how long would you say he's been dead?

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About three years. They had to dig him up on my birthday. There's a few things here that might help you.

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What's that? Possible description of the victim. It's only partial. I figured it out from the skeleton.

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Size of the bones, general structure. What else? This piece of bridge work here.

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Put in a little leg work. You might find the dentist who made it. You go through the clothing?

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Here's the label that was sewn inside the coat. Custom tailor since 1885, 10th near Parkway.

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That's it. Dead at least three years. That's the way I figured three years. Looks like a long hike for you, Gus.

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Let's hope it's not for nothing.

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As I say, masterminds don't run in our family.

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I have a tough enough time figuring a homicide that's three hours old, let alone one that's gone on for three years.

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With me tracking a killer, strictly hammer and saw work. I grab what I figure is the strongest lead and start hiking from there.

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The next day I checked with the custom tailors who had their label on the suit we find on the skeleton.

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This suit here? That's right. It's got your label on it. You remember who you sold it to?

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What's the matter? Is this some kind of a joke? I don't pound a pavement for lairs. What are you talking about?

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This isn't my suit. It's a fake. Huh? Look, my whole life I never made a suit like this. It's a fake.

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Somebody took my label and sewed it into a cheap store suit. You sure of that?

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Naturally I'm sure. Here, look. Yeah? Look at how it's made. This is not hand stitching. It's stitching made by a machine. Cheap store suit.

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The label on the suit was an obvious plant. Something the killer figured throws off the track.

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This being true, then why did he leave behind something as telltale as a piece of bridge work in the mouth of his victim?

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I had another talk with a medical examiner. We double checked the victim's remains.

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I don't see what we're going to prove from this piece of bridge work.

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Say, what's the average number of teeth a man has? Full grown male? 32.

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And how many did you count in the victim's mouth? 31. Only had one extraction of molar. I could tell that.

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Oh, I see what you mean. Only one tooth pulled. Yet he had a bridge loose in his mouth with four molars in it. That's 35 in my book.

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Yeah, three more than any normal man could possibly have. Yeah.

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Well, why would the killer plant a piece of bridge work? What for? When I find him, I'll ask him.

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That made two phony plants the killer had made, the piece of bridge work and the suit label.

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I looked for one more. I found it. The victim's hair had remained intact. It was dark brown and gray. I took a couple of specimens and had them checked.

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Someone's playing games, Gus. How do you mean, Doc?

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A specimen of the dark brown hair. It's fine, silky texture. Uh-huh. Gray hair's thick, coarse. Big difference.

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Possibly could have come from the same head? Not a chance in the world.

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Three phony plants. The bridge work, the label, and the hair.

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I began to wonder about the packing case and the steamer trunk the skeleton had been found in.

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The trunk was a cheap mass-produced item, three years worth of mildew wrecked any chance of picking some kind of a lead from it.

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The packing case which contained the trunk was a little different. There was block littering on one side of it.

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It spelled out the name of George Gallagher.

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Below that, it read Harrisburg Avenue, but where the street number would have been, the surface of the packing case had been scraped away.

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I started to work on the packing case angle. I had the manager of one of the factories in town that makes them look at the case.

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It wasn't standard size. It was a custom-made job, built to hold the murder trunk and nothing else.

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That's when the leg work began, weeks of it, months. February, March, April, May.

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I covered every factory that made packing cases for a hundred miles around. It got me nothing. I kept at it.

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June 5th. I checked the small box factory about 50 miles south of town. The manager's name was Higgins.

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Let's see now. I thought I recalled it. Huh. Oh yeah, here it is.

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The same dimensions I gave you, Mr. Higgins?

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Exactly. An odd-sized case. That's why I remembered it. Yeah, this is it, all right.

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Did you take the order for it?

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No, Carl did. Carl Pearson. He was the other clerk.

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How do you mean, he was?

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Well, Carl's dead, poor fellow. Sick for a long time. He passed away three, four months ago.

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What do you have the name of the man who ordered the case, Mr. Higgins?

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Right here. It was George Gallagher. Yeah, Gallagher.

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And you people delivered the packing case?

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Uh-huh. That's right.

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Where?

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Harrisburg Avenue, at number 6913.

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The first real break in six months, it had finally arrived.

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I felt pretty good about things on our way back to the city. The feeling didn't last long.

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When I got to the right block on Harrisburg Avenue, I found out that the delivery address for the packing case did not exist.

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6913 Harrisburg Avenue was a vacant lot.

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I started canvassing every house in the neighborhood. No one had seen a packing case of any size delivered anywhere near the vacant lot.

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It took a week of climbing stairs, pushing doorbells before I found a neighborhood gossip who claimed that she had seen the packing place delivered.

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Her name was Emma McKenzie.

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Why, yes, of course I remember it. I remember seeing it standing there that day.

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Standing where, Mrs. McKenzie?

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Well, right at the front of that empty lot down the street.

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Large packing case. Half of it blocking the sidewalk.

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Oh, it certainly made me mad.

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Well, how do you mean mad? What made you mad?

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Well, there were a couple of nails sticking out of the case.

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And on my way to the store that afternoon, I happened to pass by it and my coat got caught on one of the nails.

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My good black coat. Oh, it made a terrible rip.

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I see.

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Yes. I turned to this young fellow standing next to the case, and I really told him.

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I remember very well. It was just last year.

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Excuse me, ma'am, you said last year?

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Yes, that's right. Happened about a year ago. Well, maybe a little longer.

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You're sure that it wasn't two or maybe three years ago?

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Oh, no, I remember distinctly. At the most, I'd say it couldn't have been more than, well, 14 or 15 months ago.

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Well, now, this young fellow that was standing next to the packing case, you remember, you happen to remember what he looked like, ma'am?

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Well, not in any detail, no. He was tall, though, on the thin side. And he had buck teeth, I remember that.

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Use foul language.

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But how old would you say he was?

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Oh, not more than 28 or 30.

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Uh-huh. Now, how about his hair? You remember what color it was?

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Why, yes, it was blonde.

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When I finished talking to Mrs. McKenzie, I didn't know where I stood.

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Either I was wrong about the killer's hair being dark brown or gray, or else there was more than one man mixed up in the homicide.

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And more important, the case was only one year old.

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So somewhere along the line, the medical examiner made a mistake, a big one.

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Maybe it was the quicklime that threw him off, I don't know.

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The important thing was he was wrong. So the basement of the building wasn't vacant at the time the body was buried.

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I checked back with the owners of the building and found out that at the time it was occupied by a laundry that had since gone out of business, the White Star laundry.

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The owner and manager turned out to be Amiron Wagner.

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I finally located him and his home on the south end of the street.

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The night of the 4th of July. It was a big gray house set well back off the street.

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Wagner was an Austrian immigrant, pleasant, cooperative.

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I interviewed him in the dimly lighted living room.

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It was a hot night. Outside you could hear the kids with their fireworks.

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What can I do for you, Lieutenant?

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It's just a couple of questions for you, Mr. Wagner, trying not to hold you up.

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Oh, that's all right. I'm not going to get into any trouble.

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What is it you wanted to know?

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You owned and operated a laundry in the basement of a building downtown on Euclid Avenue, is that right?

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Yes, that's right. We are out of business now though, have been for some time.

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You closed down about 12-14 months ago?

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Yes, that's right. We didn't have much luck.

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I'd like a straight answer, Mr. Wagner. Did you ever know a young fellow by the name of George Gallagher?

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Mr. Wagner?

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Yes, I know the boy. I guess I should say I knew him.

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You tell me anything about him?

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Well, he came to me one day asking for a job.

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George did. I thought he was a nice looking fellow. He was tall and blond and clean looking.

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I hired him as a night watchman in the laundry.

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He seemed to like the job. We got along fine together.

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Uh-huh, go ahead.

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One night I went back to the laundry to get my briefcase. There were some tax papers that I wanted.

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After I got them, I went down to the basement to say good night to George.

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He met me on the stairs. He had a crazy look on his face.

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I didn't know what was wrong with him. I didn't know if he was drunk or what it was.

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What did he do?

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He screamed at me, go back, don't come any further, come down here and I'll brain you.

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I got out as fast as I could. I thought he'd been drinking.

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You happened to see what he was doing down in the basement?

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No, no, no. He had a shovel in his hand. That's all I remember.

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All right, what happened? Did you fire him?

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I didn't have the chance. He left that night. He never came back.

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Did you read in the paper about the body that was dug up from the basement?

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Yes.

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You think Gallagher's responsible?

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Well, I don't know what else to think. I can never forget it.

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He came up the stairs toward me, screaming at me, holding that shovel, screaming.

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And his hands.

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Yeah?

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Both his hands.

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Covered with blood.

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And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. Lloyd Nolan, in Elliot Lewis's production of The Man with Two Faces.

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A true report, well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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I talked to Myron Wagner for another hour, but I got nowhere.

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He was sure that time and date he'd seen George Gallagher in the basement of the laundry, and he was sure he'd seen blood all over Gallagher's hands.

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He couldn't give me any idea who the victim might have been, and he didn't know a thing about Gallagher's possible whereabouts.

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I asked him why he didn't report it at the time, and he told me he was afraid the bad publicity might hurt his laundry business.

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The next break came in early October.

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We found a pawn shop in the downtown area that had loaned $20 on a watch to a George Gallagher almost 22 months before.

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The watch had never been redeemed.

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It had a name engraved on its back, Albert L. Henderson.

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The city directory had an A. L. Henderson listed at a Hanford Street address.

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I checked it out.

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A dark-haired woman who identified herself as Mrs. Henderson answered the door after the preliminaries I showed her the watch.

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Yes, my husband's watch. Where did you get that?

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Where's your husband now, Mrs. Henderson? Is he home?

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No. I don't know where he is.

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Well, when do you expect him home? Can you tell me that?

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Well, no. You see, he's gone. He's got in some trouble. He ran away.

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When was this, ma'am? How long ago?

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Oh, about two years. Two years in November next month.

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He was partnership in business. He stole the money. He ran away.

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You have any idea where he is now, Mrs. Henderson? You ever hear from him?

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No. Never. No letters, nothing. He went away one day. He never came back.

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Uh-huh. Who told you about your husband stealing the money? His business partner?

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Yes. Mr. Hoffman. Myron Hoffman. Senoist man. Albert was lucky to have him for a partner.

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I don't know why he did that.

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Now, about this watch, Mrs. Henderson, did your husband ever pawn this watch at any time?

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What? Pawn his watch? Oh, not Albert. That's the last thing he would let go.

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One thing I can't understand. Why didn't you ever make an attempt to find your husband?

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File a missing persons report.

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Why should I want to find him? Thief. No good. Let him stay missing. I don't want to find him.

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This business partner of your husband's, ma'am, this Mr. Hoffman, where can I get in touch with him? Do you know?

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No. I guess I don't. He went away, I guess, I think, a year ago, maybe longer.

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You got any idea where he might have gone?

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Well, I don't know. He seemed to talk a lot about New York City. I never asked him, but I thought that's where he came from.

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They were always talking about New York City, him and John.

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Who's John?

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That's Mr. Hoffman's nephew, John Mueller. He worked for my husband and Mr. Hoffman in the business.

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Oh, I see. Well, I'd like to locate them if I could, ma'am. Can you describe Hoffman and his nephew for me, please?

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Well, I guess Mr. Hoffman was about 50, 52, gray hair, about my height, 5 feet, 6 inches.

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Ah.

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His nephew John was tall, little 10 maybe. He had blond hair. He was a young fellow, about 30 years, I think.

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Now, you're sure of that description, are you?

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Oh, yes. They came here to the house for dinner a few times, both John and Mr. Hoffman. I knew them.

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Would you give me a description of your husband?

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Albert? Well, he was a big man, as tall as the nephew John, dark hair, gray eyes, 43 years old. He was a heavy man, 180 pounds, I think. Why do you want to know, officer?

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How about your husband's teeth, Mrs. Henderson? At the time he disappeared, did he still have his own?

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Oh, yes. Albert had wonderful teeth, strong.

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Uh-huh. Did he ever have one of his teeth pulled out, you know?

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Yes, just one. Why?

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I guess that does it.

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Does it? Well, this makes no sense. I don't think I like this.

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No, ma'am. I don't think Albert liked it either.

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The next day we got out on all points bulletin on Myron Hoffman and his nephew John Mueller, alias George Gallagher.

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We finally tied in the last piece of evidence.

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The day after I took a train for New York City, I spent the better part of a month there, legwork, phone calls, more legwork. It didn't go for nothing.

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December 13th I took the train back to Cleveland. Next morning I checked in with Captain Rogers in charge of homicide.

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How'd it check? How'd it go? Good trip?

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Eh, tired. I think we made the grade, Captain.

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What's the story?

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I got enough here to start a novel. Here's page one.

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Yeah?

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Mr. Henderson's business partner, Myron Hoffman. He's from New York, all right. He's got a record there long as you're on. Bunko, forgery, narcotics, grand theft, robbery, everything but murder.

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Here's a collection of his mugshots.

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Oh. None of them too recent.

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No, I know. That's the only drawback. Last one taken 12 years ago. It's pretty interesting, though. Here, take a look at those profile shots.

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Yeah. A whole lot of difference in the world.

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See? Left side of his face. How about that? Looks pious enough to pass for a saint.

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Huh. Queer one.

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Put it next to his right profile shot of him. It's swear it wasn't the same man.

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Looks like the worst thief in the world.

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Not a bad advantage, huh? Saint on one side, thief on the other, two on one.

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Well, what does it mean?

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All right, let me lay out the rest of it. Now, this Hoffman's nephew, John Miller, he used that George Gallagher alias.

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Yeah.

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I found his sister. She told me she hadn't seen her brother for three years. So I took a flyer.

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I got the name of Mueller's dentist from his sister, looked him up, showed him the bridgework. We took off the skeleton. He identified it.

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He made it for John Mueller, Gallagher, five years ago.

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All right. Oh, where does that leave him?

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I'm still guessing. Now, nobody gives up their bridgework, not without a struggle, anyway. I think we've got another body to look for.

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Yeah, fair guess. Hoffman and his nephew killed Henderson.

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Then Hoffman killed the nephew, took his bridgework, planted it on Henderson's body and buried it. Anything to throw us off the track.

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That's my guess.

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The owner of the laundry, Myron Wagner, that story of his about the blonde kid, the shoveled blood on his hand, kind of makes a liar out of him, doesn't it?

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No big change.

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What do you mean?

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He was a liar long before we met him.

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December 15th, my birthday, one year right to the day.

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I left the office, got in a car and drove to the south end of the city. I pulled up in front of the same gray house, got out and walked up the stairs to the front door.

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The name on the bail box was still the same, Myron J. Wagner.

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He answered the door himself, ushered me into the same dimly lighted living room. He was calm, relaxed, perfectly at ease.

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It was very good of you to come, Lieutenant Palachek. The early evening, good time to visit.

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It's not a social call, Mr. Wagner. A few things I want to talk to you about. You want to get your hat and coat?

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My hat and my coat? What is it you mean?

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We want you downtown, Mr. Wagner. A couple of questions we'd like to ask.

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Questions? About the Gallagher boy, you mean? I told you everything the last time you were here, Lieutenant Palachek.

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Now look, Mr. Wagner, this happens to be my birthday. I got a family. I want to get home early tonight. I'll put it straight to you.

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Put it straight?

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Yeah, I'll draw you a road map. Now for a whole year I've been pounding my feet east, west and south in the city and out of it.

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I'm not a smart cop, Mr., but I can still put one and one together. It adds up to you, Wagner.

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Now how about the hat and coat?

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It adds up to me, Lieutenant Palachek. I don't think I understand.

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Number one, your name's Myron Hoffman, not Myron Wagner.

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We've got your mug shots, your prints and exemplars of your handwriting from New York to prove it.

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Number two, you killed Albert Henderson and buried him in the basement of that building where you had your laundry.

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And besides that, it's odd, though, and you killed your nephew, too.

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You, uh, you assume this or you have proof? Which one?

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Ninety percent proof. Your hair, Wagner, I'll bet on it. Same kind that was planted on Henderson's body. Same color, same texture.

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There's a bum bet, Mr., right from the start. Why'd you try?

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You... you want me to get my coat?

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Yeah, I'll go with you.

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Hey, uh, I'm just curious, Wagner. You want to turn on the overhead lights?

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Yes. My face. Is that it?

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Lord. Good Lord.

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There are two sides to a face, Lieutenant. Look at both of them. You will find one of them is good.

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We'd better get your coat.

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Uh, just one thing. My friend Henderson, my nephew John, as you say, just as you say, a bum bet. Why did I even try?

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Hey, Wagner. What's the matter? Wagner!

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The deputy coroner got there a half an hour later. He ran a fast check on Wagner and he put his money on a heart attack. The autopsy confirmed it.

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Later on I tried to explain what it was like, I mean, standing there and watching Wagner's life suddenly drop out of him.

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He turned to start for the door when his hands went up to his chest. I reached for him, but not in time.

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He straightened out on the floor. That's when I noticed his face.

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The left side. The side that made him look like a saint. It was changing in front of my own eyes.

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The whole face, the whole side of it, fading all into one. Like a thick brown stain over the skin.

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The same look as the right side of the face, dirty, dark, twisted. It was all there. It was frozen into his eyes and his mouth.

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All the evil in the world in one face. I saw it happen. I saw it with my own eyes.

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