August 31, 2025 • 63 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a noteworthy attempt to revive in American radio dramas like Inner Sanctum (1941-1952) and Suspense (1942-1962). Radio dramas were widely considered "dead" 12 years prior to this series. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, or simply Mystery Theater, was created by Inner Sanctum creator Himan Brown and ran on CBS from 1974-1982. The show, much like older radio dramas, was introduced by a host (E.G. Marshall in this program), who steers us through the creaking door to start the episode. Many voices from the golden age of radio were featured, including Richard Widmark, Bret Morrison, Agnes Moorehead and many more.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
We'll invite you now to stay tuned for the Mystery Theater.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Come in welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I'm e. G.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Marshall.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I am a parcel of vain, striving by a mere chance,
held together. Sometimes, perhaps in the silence of the night,
when there is a moment for quiet reflection, pause to ask,
what is this burning package of desire known as the body?
What is this seething mass of chaotic thought known as
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the mind?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Think about it.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Some of the answers you will frighten, amuse, and astound you.
Our mystery drama, The Smoking Pistol was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Howard da Silva.
It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and
Anheuser Busch Incorporated Brewers. A Budweiser. I'll be back shortly
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with Act one.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Budweiser presents beer talk. A lot of people like their
beer ice cold, but too cold can be too bad
for the flavor of great beer. Take Budweiser. It's brood
and beechwood age to taste best at about forty degrees.
Of course, if you're on a picnic and the Bud's
on ice and nobody brought a thermometer.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Go right ahead. It's nothing to get hot about. And
I suppose you headquarter Saint Louis, Missouri. I'm E. G.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Marshall, host of Mystery Theater. It's Christmas time and you
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to ten times Square Station, New York, one, double three six.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I'm Madame Roses, rosa d'Or a Madame Roses bound.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
In France. Romance is a national passion.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
So is Madame Roses, Madame morsas perfume and eau de cologne.
There's never been a romantic fragrance poor, a most beautiful
interpretation of what it means to be a woman. But
why wait for him to make a gift of it?
Discover madame mousas for.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yourself, said Chris custodiet Ipsos asked the ancient Roman poet juvenile.
But who is to guard the guards themselves, those who
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watch over us, those to whom we entrust the right
to use the awful power of the state in our name.
As you can see, it's not a new problem. For
the guards themselves are also human, which means they are
neither better nor worse than the best or the worst
of us. This has been a bad day for Detective
Lieutenant Harry Reinefield, quite possibly the worst day he has
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ever known in his life.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Harry, I I don't know what to tell you. I'm
so sorry. I saw him, Jim, I just saw him.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I got uh hot coffee here. He was laying there.
Let me pour you a cop. He didn't even look dead.
What's he doing in the morgue? I said, here, drink this, Harry,
drink it. What's this twenty one year old kid doing
laying on a slab in the morgue? He don't even
look dead. You wanna go home, Harry, But then you
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look close and there it is. Maybe you should come
home with me, Harry, just a little black hole.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Stay with belling me tonight, Harry, and get some sleep.
And it's my fault. No, it isn't.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
He was crazy to be a cop. Why do you
wanna be a cop? I asked him, go to college.
I told him. He went to college. Yeah, they he graduated,
He joined the cops. What did he need it for?
I the department twenty five years. Shouldn't that be enough
for one family? He could have made something out of himself.
He made something out of himself. Yeah, well, here's how
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it is. Right now. I'm out to get the punk
that killed my boy. I know how you feel it.
If I have to spend the rest of my life,
I'll get him. And Jim, this is between you and me.
Don't expect me to bring him in, Harry, look at me, Jim.
Harry Reinfield Detective Lieutenant Harry Reinfield Ace homicide sleuth. That's
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what it says in the paper. There's something new. All
those cases I solved. We used to sit around and
laugh at the stories they wrote about me. Remember, we
know what police work is, don't we, Jim, don't we? Sure, Harry?
All those cases I solve for the city, for the law,
for the taxpayers, for the department, Well now I'm going
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to solve one for me. I'm gonna crack one, break
it wide open, nothing. Oh, buddy's gonna stop me. And
when I get my hands on the Harry, sit down.
Don't you give me orders? And you're superior. I got
the right to give you orders, not today. Sit down.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
We got him what I said, We got him.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You you brought him in? Yeah? Who who have you got? Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
He was there on the corner of Collins and Maple,
a gun in one hand, Jerry's wallad in the other,
some glassy packets of horse scattered on the ground. Go ahead,
what more do you need? What more does the DA
have to produce? For first degree? It was a drug
bust and the punk had a gun? And yeah, yeah,
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what's the punk's name?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Mason? George Mason? Has he got a sheet? Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Some little stuff? Break and entry and assault? Where is
he down in the holding pen? I want to look
at him, Harry.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Would that be such a good idea? I want to
see the Punk, that killed my son. Maybe you shouldn't, Harry,
not now, not the way you feel now. I said,
I'm going down to the tank on your feet. Punk,
what's your name? You have a name, don't you? Okay,
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that doesn't matter. So you confessed yet, let's hear the
answer Punk as he confessed him. He won't say a word.
You won't say a word, quiet, little Punk. Right, So
let's go over what happened again. There's this young undercover
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cump and he arranges to make a buy from you, right, Punk,
on the corner of Collins and Maple. You meet, you,
hand over the junk, he flashes the badge and you
pull a gun, right right, Punk, what's the matter? Answer me?
He doesn't have to talk, Harry, and you pull the trigger,
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you kill the cop. That's what happened, right, Harry, You
know the law better than anyone else around here. He
doesn't have to say a word. Oh yes he does.
He does, and I'm gonna make him sing a lout
of song you ever heard? Are you crazy? You can't
off this kid up. He's gonna talk.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Jim, lay a finger on him, and you destroy the case.
He'll get away with it. Judge you'll have to.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Throw it out a car. Never gonna get the car, Harry,
you're crazy. No, Jim, he killed my son. Put that
gun back in the hostel. Don't try to make me, Jim.
You're a police officer. I'm also a father. That is,
I was a father. You took an oath to uphold
the law. There's another law in all the law, an
eye for an eye. Now, Punk, you're gonna die, Harry, confess, Punk.
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Don't go to meet your maker with a lion your soul.
Don't go with a in your heart. Confess. Now, Confess
to me, and I'll forgive you, and I'll send you
out of a world clean. You're crazy, Harry, Come up, Bunk,
Confess before I pull a trigger. Jump him, conor what
hold on? I'll kill him? Go ahead, conn the hold on?
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Can't stop me. You ask for honey.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Here, Harry, drink this what happened.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
We had to subdue you, as they're saying, goes.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Subdu Yeah, I'd be on the other side of that
subdue from time to time. Yeah, you know how the
other half lives. I see I'm home. Yeah, Carter and
I figured it would be best to bring your hair.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
You would have killed that punk, I would have. Can
I give you back your gun? Yeah, Harry, take some
time off.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You got plenty coming to think about it. Eh, I'll
think about it. You want to come over the house
and stay with Ben and me for a while, No, Jim,
I'll stay here. You shouldn't be alone, I know, but
I'm gonna be alone for the rest of my life.
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All right, all right, I hear you.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Yes you're Lieutenant Ryanfield. Yes, yeah, I come in. Well,
it's very important important.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I'm sorry, mam. I can't consider anything as being important today.
I just buried my son. I know I was at
the funeral. Well well then, I'm I'm sure you know
how I feel.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Not now, but I will because a few months from now,
I'll be coming home from my son's funeral.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
My son is going to die. Everybody says. So that's
because everybody says he killed a cop.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Look, ma'am, my name is Mason. Esssee Mason Mason.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
I'm George Mason's mother. I must talk to you.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
We don't have anything that's saying we chose me, missus Mason. Look,
I don't want to see him impolite or anything like that.
But I must ask you to leave. But he didn't
do it. The evidence speaks for itself. I don't care
about your evidence. Well, what do you want me to do?
What the city hays you to do? Find the killer?
The killer has been found. My son is innocent. How
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do you know? As he told me? Oh? Oh sure, yeah,
that makes everything different. Your son is a pump in
many ways. Yes, I can't deny that he's already done time.
That's a matter of record. Once for breaking entry, yes,
and once for a soul yes. And he was at
some those times too. Uh No, No, so he's not
a little angel.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
No, No, he's far from it. But he's not a murderer.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Look, lady, I just can't stand here and talk to you.
You'll have to excuse Please please let me in. I
thank you. What do you want me to do?
Speaker 7 (12:35):
I've already told you find the killer now, Lieutenant, you
had a good boy. I don't, and it's my fault.
I was busy, very busy. His father ran out on
me many years ago, and I got a job in
personnel and I made something of myself. But I guess
I neglected.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
George missus Mason, please believe me. I can't do anything
for you.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Tell me how he could always buy the wrong kind
of friends. But you know, no matter what kind of
trouble he got into one thing, he never did. He
never lied to me. And he said to me, mother,
I didn't kill that cop.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I didn't look Missus Mason. Let me tell you something.
I've had experience in these things. He has to hold
on to you, you're always got and so he has
to deny it. But I believe him. And by denying
it to you, he denies it to himself because he
doesn't want to believe he committed murder. I believe him.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Yeah, why don't you believe him?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Why should I believe him?
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Because you're the best detective on the force.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Okay, look, missus Mason, I can understand how you feel.
What you're asking me to do. Is I am? I
asking you to do the thing you do best. I need.
The papers don't believe what you reave.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
Oh it isn't true what they say that Harry Rinfield
is an intuitive to take that he has a feel
for how a case should do.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
That was just newspaper talk, Missus Mason. On the basis
of information and evidence assembled by the police department. The
district attorney has asked for an indictment. It's over. Have
you been fair to me? Lieutenant? I don't know what
you're talking about. I think you do. Have you been
fair to my son?
Speaker 7 (14:22):
Of course, he's only a young punk in your eyes,
but he is entitled to justice.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You'll get it in court, but he isn't getting it
from you.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Now, do one thing, Lieutenant. Please assume that it wasn't
your son who died. Suppose it was just another homicide
victim and you were the investigating officer.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Now would you be satisfied? Missus Mason? I have to
ask you to leave.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
All right, all right, I'll go, But I'd asked the
question and you have to answer it.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I don't have to answer to you, that's true, you don't,
but you do have to answer to yourself. He had
the gun in his hand, doesn't deny it. He had
my son's wort. He doesn't deny that either. What's everybody
supposed to think? Then?
Speaker 7 (15:12):
I don't know what everybody's supposed to supposed to think.
I want to know what Lieutenant Harry Reinfield thinks. What
ideas are in his head. What does he see? I
know my son is innocent. Won't you prove it? Lieutenant.
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Speaker 3 (19:08):
The victim a young undercover cop named Jerry Reinfield. The
suspect with a smoking pistol in his hand, Young George Mason,
the detective. The victim's father, Lieutenant Harry Reinfield. The case
is open and shut, that is it should be. But
the suspect's mother, Bessie Mason, believes her son is innocent. Well,
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faith can move mountains, or so we've been told.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Missus Mason, I I must ask you to leave, all right.
I'll go.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Because I know the kind of man you are, Lieutenant.
You swore you wouldn't rest until you found your son's murderer.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
He's been found. Are you sure? Are you sure? What
are your plans, Leona?
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Planned?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
I haven't made any How are you going to? I
suppose so one day. Thanks for taking me to dinner, Dad, Thanks.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
For calling me Dad. I guess today it would have
been official. Yeah, I'm sorry, Leona. A quiet little wedding,
that's what we wanted. You'd have made a good wife
for a cup.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
How do you know you've known you such a short time?
Wool Wind courtship.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
That was Jerry love at first sight. It's the only
kind there is. Jerry.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
He met me at a party on a Friday night.
He proposed to me on Saturday morning. I said yes,
Saturday afternoon, Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
He tried to talk me out of it.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Why he suddenly realized, he said, how dangerous a CoP's
life can be. He didn't want me to be a
CoP's wife, especially his wife doing undercover work.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
He'd made a lot of enemies.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Yeah, I know, after some pretty good arrests, there were
threats made.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
On his life. Oh we all get those. He tried
to talk me out of.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
It, but by then it was too late.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I I was in love with him too. I know
how you feel, Leonner, but you're only twenty two. Life
has to go on. I suppose it does, although I
wonder why you think so now. But I will pass.
He'll find another guy, I know. That's why it's so awful.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
That night, he he was supposed to come over for dinner,
and he said, I I'm I'm gonna be late. I
I have to meet a fellow all the way across town,
corner of Collins and Maple. I said to him, Cherry,
this is confidential.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
How can you tell me? And he gave me.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
That smile of his and said, you mean I can't
trust you, honey.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I used to tell his mother everything too. You're not
supposed to, you know. I was so scared. It's such
a dreadful neighborhood. And he laughed and said, if you're
out to make a drug bust, you don't usually go
to the high rent district. One consolation, at least they
got the killer Yeah, we got the killer. The latest
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man power allotments a L lot? Is that one L
or two two elves? Huh? What are you doing here?
My son goes on trial tomorrow. Look, missus Mason, I
tried to get you at home, but you're never there.
Missus Mason, I've already told you there's nothing I can.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
Know what you told me. I've come here to ask
you a few questions.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I'm busy, and besides, there's notions.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
You should have asked yourself. Now, who was your son
supposed to meet?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
We know that a drug pusher, right.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Not any one of great importance, just a.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Pusher your son.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Let's say it was my son. Why would my son
kill him?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Because A your son spotted him as a cop or
B After my son identified himself, your son decided to
shoot it out.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
You're forgetting c your son's gun was still in his
host your son felt safe?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Why?
Speaker 7 (23:55):
Because he knew he was going to pick up a
small potato.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
That describes your son, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
But small potatoes don't kill cops.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Why?
Speaker 7 (24:05):
You know perfectly well if my son was pushing drugs,
he'd be part of an organization. You know they protect
their own. You know that he would get a suspended sentence,
maybe a few months in jail. That's how it usually
works out. Why kill reasonable logical? But your son just
lost his head. My son didn't do it, and your
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son wasn't there merely to catch a small time pusher.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
He was being set up by Who am I a
law officer?
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Do I have the resources of the police department behind me?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Why would my son be set up?
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Well, maybe he was too good a cop, maybe somebody
didn't like him.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
If your son didn't do it, why was he there
with a gun in his hand? Why don't you ask him?
The other officers in the case have asked him, then,
why didn't they listen to his answer? Really? Listen, missus Mason,
you know I'm right. What do you want from me?
Why are you angry?
Speaker 7 (25:04):
I'm just a mother and not a very good one.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Now.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
All I know is my son tells me he's innocent,
and I want to believe it.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I want to believe it.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Look, it's all right, I'm sorry, I bothered you.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Please excuse me, Okay, Pete, I'll bang on the door
when I want to see it. Oh God, don't leave
me to sell me. He'll kill me, I shut up,
see you later, Pete, don't go, He'll kill me. I
should shut up. Well, what do you want the truth? Punk?
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I got a name, It's George, George Mason. To me,
you're still a punk. You can't kill me. I'm not
gonna kill you. What do you want from me? What
are you doing here? Your mother wanted me to talk
to you. My mother, you mean, my old lady asked
you to come here, and I'm doing this for her sake. Yeah. Yeah,
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Bessie's still a good looking dame, isn't she. I'm going
to let that pass, but don't press your luck. And
she's cut up about me. Yeah, it's the only time.
What do you mean, it's the only time. She never
knows I'm alive except when I'm in jail. Is that so? Yeah?
She's a very busy ding.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
You know, works at a big important job, runs with
big important guys.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Look, I'm not here to talk about her. I want
to talk about you. She always gets guys that do
things for I don't care what it is, you know,
even something like this, Well, look you're here. What happened
that night? You wouldn't believe it? Would well? Tell it
to me? Then I already told it a lot of times.
Make it one hundred and one. Let's start with what
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we've got. You were on Collins and Maple. Huh, Yeah,
you know Collins and Maples. It's a place for all
kinds of you know, weird characters. And you were looking
for some loose change. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I'm coming down Maple, and just as I get the Collins,
I hear.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Voices, voices saying what I don't know, just voices. I
can't make out the words anyhow.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
I hear a shot, and I hear steps running off,
but I hear somebody moaning. So I go around the
corner and it's dark. I see someone laying on the ground.
I bend down. He's dead.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Huh, how did you know he was dead?
Speaker 5 (27:33):
You can tell when somebody's dead. So I figured, why
does he need his wallet? Where he's going? He don't
need nothing, So I reach inside his jacket and that
is now. I hear footsteps coming around Maple see, and
I get scared. There's this pistol laying on the ground,
so like.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
A chump, I pick it up. Maybe I need it,
you know.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
And the next thing I know, these two guys pointing
guns I mean, and they yell free police officers.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And that's the story. Yeah, some story. I told you
you wouldn't believe it. Go back to the voices. Now,
I'm not even sure they were voices. But what were they? Then?
Speaker 5 (28:16):
Well, you're walking down the street, mind your own business.
You hear like a hum of you.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Know, maybe people talking. Who pays attention? And then banged
the shot. You say you heard footsteps running off? Did
you see anybody by the time I turned the corner?
Whoever it was got away? What did the footsteps sound like?
For crying aloud, what do footsteps sound like? Were they
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heavy footsteps? Did it sound like it was a big guy,
heavy step? Oh? I see what you mean. No, no,
they wasn't heavy. They they were light light. Yeah yeah,
you could.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Almost pitch your guy to you know, but the sound
of a what Yeah, yeah, I see what you mean.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, okay, get over it. How do you picture this guy?
Speaker 7 (29:07):
Well, no, no, wait a second, wait a second, I
don't pitch him as a guy at all.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
It was a dame. A dame.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Yeah yeah, Well listen, when a dame is running down
a sidewalk, a dame with heels, you know, it makes
a sound like a wrap top click click click, you
know a dame.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Huh, yeah, Why didn't you say this before? Nobody ever
asked me before? Who believe me? You do? You believe me?
Or you just try to score some points with the
old lady. I think it's time I got out of here.
Speaker 9 (29:48):
Harry.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
We were all through this. We went over it with
his partners, Carter and Fordyce. He said to them, I'm
making a contact at Collins and Maple nine o'clock. They
were They had to back him up, They had to
keep out of sight. They saw him go around the corner,
then they heard the shot. When they got to him,
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he was on the ground and the punk, this George Mason,
was standing there with the gun in his hand.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And they didn't see anybody else. Didn't hear anybody else?
You want to ask him again, he'll get the same answer.
The punk says he heard someone running away.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Oh sure, what's the matter with you, Harry?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Way of reacting to your son's deaths Suddenly this.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Concern for the killer, who says he's the killer?
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Harry, you're talking to me. He was standing there with
the smoking pistol. Now we're satisfied he did it. So
is the DA In a matter of weeks, so will
nine judges and a jury.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Well maybe I'm not satisfied.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
It can be a problem if your attitude becomes known, Harry.
Once he's quitted, that's the ballgame.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I'm not sure of anything anymore.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Ever since Ruth died, your son has been your whole life.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
And now suddenly he's gone and you've got.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Nothing and nobody. Well, that has nothing to do with it.
This missus Mason is a very good looking woman, and
that has nothing to do with it. You're sure about that.
You're lonely, Harry. She means nothing at all to me. Nothing.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
I got a hunch about this case, Harry. The two
of them, the punk and his mother, they could be
working this together. Played you for a sucker?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah? Maybe? Will you admit it's possible, anything's possible, everything's possible,
all right, all right? What are you going to do?
I'm going to nail it down how I don't know yet.
I've got a hunch, and as far as it goes,
it's crazy, But I'm going to run it down all
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the way down. As it stands.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Right now, the district Attorney has a good enough case
to get a verdict of murder in the first degree
against George Mason for the murder of Officer Jerry Reinfield.
He had the smoking pistol in his hand. Why shouldn't
Lieutenant Harry Reinfield be satisfied with that and let the
law take its course. Why, I'm sure we'll find out
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in Act three.
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Speaker 3 (35:38):
The world, according to Lieutenant Harry Reinefield, is a place
of feelings and hunches. Yes, people do pay lip service
to something known as facts, but there's nothing factual about
the truly important things in our lives. Do we consider
facts when we love? Do we look for facts. When
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we hate, do we require facts to support what we believe?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
And what is a fact?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Anyhow do any two people look at the same so
called fact in exactly the same way?
Speaker 2 (36:14):
You busy, Harry? Yeah? Doing what I'm looking through his file?
Which file is that? The threat file? What for? These
are all the letters we get threatening to kill cops? Harry?
This is stuff written by nuts? Who else commits murder? Harry?
Speaker 5 (36:35):
This thing is so obvious. George Mason has to be
the killer. What are you doing to yourself? This is
how I work?
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Is this the theory we're going on? Now?
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Some nut sends a letter threatening to killer cop, then
he sets Jerry up.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
We're just following a certain line of inquiry and seeing
where it leads us. Oh yeah, well let me know
when you get there. Look at this, a plain piece
of white paper, neat cleaner type, very good typing, uh
fresh black ribbon. So your average nutletter is type badly
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on an old machine, with hardly any black at all
in the ribbon. You still haven't told me what this proved.
The strike in each letter is even and this was
done by a typist, okay, not to know how to type,
so what But listen to this. I intend to get
even with you for what you did to someone I
love more than anyone else in the world. What was
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done to him will be done to you. And that's it.
That's all of it. And somebody wrote that kind of
note to Jerry. No, it's addressed to me to you, see,
Lieutenant Harry Reinfield.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Okay, for the sake of argument, somebody's out to get you.
So they called to set up a trap, but the
call goes to the wrong Rhinefield, to your son Jerry instead.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
So it's mistaken identity. If I could only find the
machine on which this was typed, oh sure, there are
only a million typewriters in the city.
Speaker 7 (38:21):
Look, Lieutenant, I told you I couldn't make out what
their voices were saying.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Now just relax. You're not giving me any help. The
voices now, they were low. I can hardly hear them.
Well what did you hear? Just be quiet, don't say
a word. You're walking down the street at night, it's dark, deserted,
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you approached the corner. You're aware of voices. I told you,
Because why do you say you heard voices? Because come on,
tell me, Because why do you say voices. Why not
noise from a trump or while the dog bargain.
Speaker 7 (39:06):
Because because they were human voices, I mean people, They
were saying words.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
What words? I don't remember. There's there's no way I
can remember. Don't quit on me. Now, I wasn't paying attention.
Maybe I don't remember the words. Can you remember how
they were said? How they were said? Yeah? Didn't sound
angry like an argument? An argument? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I think so. Why it sounded like a fight? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Yeah? One word I can remember, one word, crazy?
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Crazy?
Speaker 7 (39:44):
Yeah, that was the word. The doords you're crazy? And
then the shot and the dame ran away. I mean
I heard what had to be it dame's footsteps running away.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
You heard him say you're crazy? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (39:58):
Yeah, yeah, not a Can I concentrate? That's what I heard,
But don't ask me to remember anything else.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
That was all I heard. It's enough. The question is
what did I ever do to anybody that would make
some dame want to kill me? Harry? Where are you
getting all this from the note? The note was written
by a woman. How do you know? We agree it
was done by a professional typists. There have plenty of
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men who are professional typists. Yeah, yeah, but George Mason
says he heard a woman's footsteps.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
If I were in the spot George Mason's in, I'd
say anything or.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Work with me on this, would you? What did I
ever do to anyone that would make some dame want
to kill me? Now? This note was received on April
the eighteenth, which means that whatever it was, it happened
before that date. Now, what did I do it be
to me? You were the one who said it could
have been mistaken identity. Someone's out to get me. They
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called me to set me up, except they get Jerry
by mistake. So this dame meets Jerry and says, Lieutenant Reinfield,
I'm gonna kid you or something like that, and she
has the gun and Jerry says, you're crazy. That's what
George Mason heard. The question is whose husband or whose
boyfriend did I kill? You didn't kill anybody, Harry. I
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know that in all the years on the force, I
never had to fire a single shop Whose husband or
boyfriend did I send up for life or who died
on account of me?
Speaker 5 (41:30):
You better forget that letter and the file and let
justice take its course.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
Lieutenant oh oh, he loves is Mason.
Speaker 7 (41:48):
I've just come from the courtroom. The jerry will find
him guilty.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Missus Mason, I've I've done what I could have You
what more do you want.
Speaker 7 (41:59):
I don't want my son to pay for a crime
he didn't commit.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
I'm going to tell you something, Missus Mason. You can
take this anyway you like. I didn't have to do
anything at all. It wasn't my case. You understand. You
talked me into trying to open up something that was
already closed as far as the department is concerned.
Speaker 7 (42:16):
I thought you were proceeding out of a sense of duty.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Oh that's just conversation. Look, I went as far as
I could, and it wasn't easy. What I'm doing could
be prejudicing the state's case against your son.
Speaker 7 (42:29):
Well, our lawyer doesn't seem to be getting much mileage
out of that.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
I don't know why I'm doing this. I am I
doing this because you're an attractive woman.
Speaker 7 (42:39):
We're very much alike in certain ways. We go by intuition.
I followed mine all the way, and usually you go
all the way with yours, except this.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Time, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 7 (42:52):
Now, don't fence with me. Are you protecting somebody who?
Speaker 2 (42:57):
You tell me?
Speaker 7 (43:00):
There's one last question? What would you do as a
matter of routine in an ordinary case that you haven't done?
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Here? Nothing? I done absolutely everything. I'm yes. What it's
not important here? What's not important? Well, going on the
theory that your son is innocent, who knew my son
would be on that street corner? Well? Nobody? Nobody? Well,
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there's two partners, I eliminate, then nobody else. There was
nobody else, Yes, there was somebody else. Who. Oh, that's impossible.
It's impossible. Is it impossible? Or do you want it
to be impossible? Missus Mason? I need your help here
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here read this note.
Speaker 7 (43:52):
I intend to get even with you for what you
did to someone I love more than anyone.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Else in this world. What was done to him will
be done to you now. I know. I believe that
Jerry was killed by mistake. Maybe that was how the
killer wanted to get back at me. Who's the killer?
The one who typed this note? Now, the person who
knew where Jerry was going to be? That and I
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also had the machine on wish this was typed. I've
broken the case. Are you still willing to help? Yes?
Speaker 7 (44:34):
I'm sorry to ring your bell this lad. I just
moved into the building. Do you have a typewriter?
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (44:42):
Why well miss oh, I see your name is Lewis,
Leona Lewis, Miss Lewis, my name is Smith, missus Smith.
I have to fill in this lease form and drop
it off to the landlord's office first thing in the morning.
And my typewriter broke down.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
I know it's an imposition. Oh, it's all right, come in.
Speaker 7 (45:04):
Uh see, I have an electric and when something.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Goes wrong there it is on the table. Uh. You
don't have to take it out of the cave. Oh,
thank you. Oh, I see you're packed. Are you moving?
Speaker 7 (45:17):
Yes, going back home home the Midwest. There's nothing here
for me anymore.
Speaker 12 (45:27):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (45:27):
This is a very good machine. I keep it that way,
learned it from my father. He was a first class machinist.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Was Yes, he died. Oh, oh, I'm sorry to hear
that was he ill. He had a sickness. There's no
cure for have have we met before? I don't think so.
You look familiar. What was uh? Uh? What was the sickness?
Speaker 7 (45:57):
A broken heart? You see, my brother had been sent
to prison. Oh that's awful.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
And my brother died there in an accident.
Speaker 7 (46:08):
Oh, I wish I knew why you look so familiar.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
I know I've.
Speaker 7 (46:13):
Seen you somewhere. Whoa fish da? Thank you very much,
miss Lewison. When my brother died, it killed my father.
The grief was too much to bear. Well, I understand,
but those things can't be helped.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Who don't say that I was able to help it? Really? Yes,
very much.
Speaker 7 (46:36):
Wait, now I know where I've seen you before. Your
name isn't Smith, it's Mason. Your picture isn't to Night's paper.
Your son is on trial for the murder of that cop.
Don't say that cop. He was your fiancee. So that's
where you wanted to sample for my typewriter. Yes, and
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I've got it. Well, you won't keep it. I don't
see how you can can can take it from me?
I can just don't make me use this now.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Shooting shooting won't won't help you.
Speaker 7 (47:11):
It'll help me. No, No, no, you can't. You can't
kill me. I won't have to you.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
See, first, you will place that paper you typed on
the table.
Speaker 7 (47:20):
That's it, And now you will walk into the closet.
It's not gonna help. We know that you killed Jerry Reinfield.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
Who knows you? What can you prove?
Speaker 7 (47:31):
I'll destroy the paper, I'll lose the typewriter where no
one can ever find it. And it all comes down
to your word against mine.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
Why why did you kill him?
Speaker 7 (47:42):
The idea was to kill him so his father would
know how it was with my father. But he must
have been a nice boy. Yes, that's why I had
to kill him quickly. I was I was starting to
fall in love with him. Okay, now get into that closet,
open the door, and so now to get out of here,
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get rid of the gun and the typewriter.
Speaker 9 (48:14):
Hello Leona, Hello Leona, says Lieutenant Harry Reinefield.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
Of course, goodbye Leona might be more appropriate. I can
inform you that Leona Lewis was found mentally disturbed and
is serving an indeterminate sentence. I shall return shortly.
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In Italy we celebrate many traditional holidays and feasts. There
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Speaker 3 (51:22):
Well, now you talk about facts, and yet wasn't it
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes himself who said the
decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle
than any articulate major premise. Yes, it was, And so
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This is WR New York and RKO General Station. It's
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Speaker 11 (52:36):
News for New York City bus and subway service cutbacks,
Telephone company next on rate increase, Carton names too.
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It's thirty degrees.
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That's minus one celsius in clear mid Manhattan. Why the
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as last night? Lo in the upper twenties. Hi, John
Wingate with the eight o'clock report from w R News.
This includes the nightly column the financial review, The New
York Trented Authority has announced it plans a series of
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bus and subway service cutbacks beginning January one. The TA
will try to trim thirty million dollars in expenses over
the next eighteen months. The savings are required by the
Emergency Financial Control Board to balance the budget. The TA
will lay off one hundred eighty one former City and
Housing Authority policemen who have been working as change both clerks.
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Subway service reductions will include elimination of the IRT Bowling
Green South Ferry Shuttle in Manhattan, the b MT Franklin
Avenue Shuttle in Brooklyn, and independent Double A service in Manhattan.
Services will be trimmed during late night hours on the Double, G, N,
and B trains instead of operating ten car trains during
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non rush hours. Train lengths will be reduced during off
periods to four, six or eight cars to save money
on power and maintenance. There will also be increased headways
between buses, ranging from an extra five to twenty minutes
during non rush hours on most routes in the Five Borrows.
The State Public Service Commission has thrown out New York
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Telephone Company's request for a three hundred and ninety three
million dollars rate hike, telling the phone company to back
up its figures better.
Speaker 2 (54:21):
The Commission rule that.
Speaker 11 (54:22):
Documents filed by the phone company last month did not
contain enough information to judge the case properly. Phone company
had filed a pile of documents one foot thick. The
PSC ordered the phone company either to cancel its request
for a rate in Greece or to agree to postpone
further action until it supplies additional information. Yet another investigation
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underway involving the flu vaccination program.
Speaker 2 (54:46):
W or's Ed Nash has that story.
Speaker 12 (54:48):
Several states, including New Jersey, have started an investigation to
determine if swine flu shots can cause Giambahret syndrome. This
syndroma afect the nervous system. It can cause partial but
temporary paralysis. Six cases were found in New Jersey last month,
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and four of these involved patients who had received flu immunization.
About twenty five cases in various states are under investigation
by health departments and the Federal Disease Control Center. The
New Jery Zy Health Department has notified all doctors in
the state that the investigation is underway. The Department are
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seeking information on all cases that were diagnosed during the
past two months or any that may occur during the
next three months, whether or not the patient had been immunized.
This is ed Nash Wor News.
Speaker 11 (55:48):
Convicted killer Gary Gilmore ordered his attorneys today not to
fight his execution. They in turn asked Utah's Fourth District
Court to dismiss a petition which sought to have Gilmour's
death sentence tossed out on the grounds it was not
imposed quickly enough. At the same time, Gilmore's mother asked
the U. S. Supreme Court to reconsider its decision yesterday
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which lifts the say of execution for Gilmore.
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of your life. President elect Carter has added two more
names to his cabinet list, announcing the apartment of businessman
economist Michael Blumenthal as treasure Secretary and Congressman Brock Adams
of Washington State as Transportation Boss. Carter said both men
had intense and complete knowledge of their areas. Carter told
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an Atlanta news conference that the economy is in worse
shape than he anticipated three or six months ago. He
said he would confer with his economic advisors on plans
to stimulate the economy, but added that he leans to
job opportunities. At his afternoon news conference, Carter revealed that
former IVM Vice President Jane Pfeiffer is asked not to
be considered for a cabinet post. There had been white
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widespread speculation that missus Piper would be named Commerce Secretary.
President Ford told leaders of Congress today he might approve
a pay raise for high ranking federal officials and members
of Congress. The raise, perhaps his highest forty percent, would
go to the top twenty five hundred people in government.
Mister Ford said he would not like the rays coupled
with a new code of ethics on the disclosure of
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outside income. Pentagon sources reported a select commission headed by
Foremaster not Frank Borman, deserves the speedy readmission of cadets
who left West.
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Point in the recent cheating scandal.
Speaker 11 (58:37):
Stock market story to come w or our seven ten
news time six minutes past eight o'clock. She's promised to
reimburse the emergency fund as soon as the lottery begins.
Speaker 2 (58:48):
Bing.
Speaker 11 (58:48):
Crosbie will sing Quite Christmas on the steps of City
Hall tomorrow as Mayor beam lights.
Speaker 2 (58:55):
The city's official Christmas tree.
Speaker 11 (58:57):
Crosby's wife, Catherine will also take part in the public
ceremony tomorrow afternoon. At four thirty an inmate sentence to
a clean up detail at a Brooklyn criminal court mopped
his way to freedom this morning. The man, twenty eight
year old Oliver Wendell Stevens, mopped his way down the
hall to an open court room, mingled with the crowd,
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and then made his escape. Stevens had only a month
and a half to go on his six month sentence
for petty larceny and bail jumping. One prison spokesman said
he may just have wanted to go home for the holidays.
The State Supreme Court jury in Albany has begun deliberations
in the corruption and larsny trial of Assemblyman Allen Hockburg,
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chairman of the Assembly Ethics Committee. Earlier today, the jury
received a two hour charge from Judge William Krangle. Hockburg
is accused of trying to buy off a primary challenge
in his Bronx Assembly district by offering a job and
political support to his potential opponent. The Metropolitan Taxicab Board
of Trade announced today that it will seek a thirteen
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percent fare increase for New York City taxi ride spokesman
for the organization of fifty four taxi fleets said it
will ask that the initial charge for a cab bride
be raised from the present sixty five to seventy five cents,
and the subsequent charge be ten cents for each one
seventh of a mile instead of the percent ten cents
for one six of a mile. Spokesman said the hikes
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would raise the cost of the average two point four
mile cab ride from the present two dollars and thirty
cents to two dollars and sixty cents. The fare increased
requests follow a tentative agreement between the cab owners and
the taxi drivers. We'll have moderating weather to come, and
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of course the knight's headlines w or seven ten us
time twelve minutes past eight p m.
Speaker 15 (01:00:52):
My name is Reidi Chaubux and here in France my
vinteg Chabu Champagne.
Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
Is so highly regarded it costs a.
Speaker 15 (01:01:00):
Not as much as piper moet or man. Ah that
prices change when Champagne leaves France. For the piper moett
or man to get to America, they go through large
importers who mark up the price substantially then to distributors
who add at least another twenty percent, and finally to
your store. But Charbo is shipped directly from my vineyards
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to my exported director, Monsieur Portier.
Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
In New York.
Speaker 15 (01:01:26):
He then distributes them to fine wine shops where Charbo
vintage champagne is sold for only eight ninety nine, about
five dollars less a bottle than Piper Moet or Man.
Try Charbo and pay only for fine champagne, not for
its journey across the Atlantic.
Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
Charbo the importer champagne without the importer's profit, imported by
Patrici Portier in New York, New York.
Speaker 11 (01:01:52):
Now the weather Watch update for New York City in
Vicinity clear and breezy, but not so cold.
Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
As last night.
Speaker 11 (01:02:00):
In the upper twenties, Partly sunny with moderating temperature Tomorrow
highs from forty five to fifty, becoming cloudy Tomorrow night,
with the chance of rain late dead night or Thursday.
Low Tomorrow night thirty five to forty and the high
Thursday forty to forty five. The chance of rain is
ten percent to night in tomorrow, increasing to forty percent
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by late tomorrow night. Winds southwest to ten to twenty
miles an hour, with some higher gust. Tonight in mid Manhattan,
it's clear, thirty degrees fahrenheit minus one celsius, humidity forty
seven percent. Whend is southwest at twelve gusting to thirty
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miles an hour. We've still got those winds. Barometer thirty
point twenty five and it is falling.
Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
The Top stories of the hour.
Speaker 11 (01:02:53):
New York City Tranted Authority announces it plans series of
bus and subway service cutbacks starting January first. Authority says
it must trim fat from budget. President elect Carter names
businessman economist Michael Blumenthal as Treasury boss, and Congressman Brock
Adams from Washington State to head Transportation. That's the eight
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o'clock news. John Wingate reporting next news on this station.
Always the moment it happens, we get there, next scheduled news.
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I'll be back at nine o'clock to night
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What is this seething mass of chaotic thought known as
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I'm Madame Roses, rosa d'Or a Madame Roses bound.
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In France. Romance is a national passion.
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interpretation of what it means to be a woman. But
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Discover madame mousas for.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yourself, said Chris custodiet Ipsos asked the ancient Roman poet juvenile.
But who is to guard the guards themselves, those who
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watch over us, those to whom we entrust the right
to use the awful power of the state in our name.
As you can see, it's not a new problem. For
the guards themselves are also human, which means they are
neither better nor worse than the best or the worst
of us. This has been a bad day for Detective
Lieutenant Harry Reinefield, quite possibly the worst day he has
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ever known in his life.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Harry, I I don't know what to tell you. I'm
so sorry. I saw him, Jim, I just saw him.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I got uh hot coffee here. He was laying there.
Let me pour you a cop. He didn't even look dead.
What's he doing in the morgue? I said, here, drink this, Harry,
drink it. What's this twenty one year old kid doing
laying on a slab in the morgue? He don't even
look dead. You wanna go home, Harry, But then you
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look close and there it is. Maybe you should come
home with me, Harry, just a little black hole.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Stay with belling me tonight, Harry, and get some sleep.
And it's my fault. No, it isn't.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
He was crazy to be a cop. Why do you
wanna be a cop? I asked him, go to college.
I told him. He went to college. Yeah, they he graduated,
He joined the cops. What did he need it for?
I the department twenty five years. Shouldn't that be enough
for one family? He could have made something out of himself.
He made something out of himself. Yeah, well, here's how
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it is. Right now. I'm out to get the punk
that killed my boy. I know how you feel it.
If I have to spend the rest of my life,
I'll get him. And Jim, this is between you and me.
Don't expect me to bring him in, Harry, look at me, Jim.
Harry Reinfield Detective Lieutenant Harry Reinfield Ace homicide sleuth. That's
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what it says in the paper. There's something new. All
those cases I solved. We used to sit around and
laugh at the stories they wrote about me. Remember, we
know what police work is, don't we, Jim, don't we? Sure, Harry?
All those cases I solve for the city, for the law,
for the taxpayers, for the department, Well now I'm going
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to solve one for me. I'm gonna crack one, break
it wide open, nothing. Oh, buddy's gonna stop me. And
when I get my hands on the Harry, sit down.
Don't you give me orders? And you're superior. I got
the right to give you orders, not today. Sit down.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
We got him what I said, We got him.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You you brought him in? Yeah? Who who have you got? Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
He was there on the corner of Collins and Maple,
a gun in one hand, Jerry's wallad in the other,
some glassy packets of horse scattered on the ground. Go ahead,
what more do you need? What more does the DA
have to produce? For first degree? It was a drug
bust and the punk had a gun? And yeah, yeah,
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what's the punk's name?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Mason? George Mason? Has he got a sheet? Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Some little stuff? Break and entry and assault? Where is
he down in the holding pen? I want to look
at him, Harry.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Would that be such a good idea? I want to
see the Punk, that killed my son. Maybe you shouldn't, Harry,
not now, not the way you feel now. I said,
I'm going down to the tank on your feet. Punk,
what's your name? You have a name, don't you? Okay,
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that doesn't matter. So you confessed yet, let's hear the
answer Punk as he confessed him. He won't say a word.
You won't say a word, quiet, little Punk. Right, So
let's go over what happened again. There's this young undercover
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cump and he arranges to make a buy from you, right, Punk,
on the corner of Collins and Maple. You meet, you,
hand over the junk, he flashes the badge and you
pull a gun, right right, Punk, what's the matter? Answer me?
He doesn't have to talk, Harry, and you pull the trigger,
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you kill the cop. That's what happened, right, Harry, You
know the law better than anyone else around here. He
doesn't have to say a word. Oh yes he does.
He does, and I'm gonna make him sing a lout
of song you ever heard? Are you crazy? You can't
off this kid up. He's gonna talk.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Jim, lay a finger on him, and you destroy the case.
He'll get away with it. Judge you'll have to.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Throw it out a car. Never gonna get the car, Harry,
you're crazy. No, Jim, he killed my son. Put that
gun back in the hostel. Don't try to make me, Jim.
You're a police officer. I'm also a father. That is,
I was a father. You took an oath to uphold
the law. There's another law in all the law, an
eye for an eye. Now, Punk, you're gonna die, Harry, confess, Punk.
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Don't go to meet your maker with a lion your soul.
Don't go with a in your heart. Confess. Now, Confess
to me, and I'll forgive you, and I'll send you
out of a world clean. You're crazy, Harry, Come up, Bunk,
Confess before I pull a trigger. Jump him, conor what
hold on? I'll kill him? Go ahead, conn the hold on?
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Can't stop me. You ask for honey.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Here, Harry, drink this what happened.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
We had to subdue you, as they're saying, goes.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Subdu Yeah, I'd be on the other side of that
subdue from time to time. Yeah, you know how the
other half lives. I see I'm home. Yeah, Carter and
I figured it would be best to bring your hair.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
You would have killed that punk, I would have. Can
I give you back your gun? Yeah, Harry, take some
time off.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You got plenty coming to think about it. Eh, I'll
think about it. You want to come over the house
and stay with Ben and me for a while, No, Jim,
I'll stay here. You shouldn't be alone, I know, but
I'm gonna be alone for the rest of my life.
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All right, all right, I hear you.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Yes you're Lieutenant Ryanfield. Yes, yeah, I come in. Well,
it's very important important.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I'm sorry, mam. I can't consider anything as being important today.
I just buried my son. I know I was at
the funeral. Well well then, I'm I'm sure you know
how I feel.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Not now, but I will because a few months from now,
I'll be coming home from my son's funeral.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
My son is going to die. Everybody says. So that's
because everybody says he killed a cop.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Look, ma'am, my name is Mason. Esssee Mason Mason.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
I'm George Mason's mother. I must talk to you.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
We don't have anything that's saying we chose me, missus Mason. Look,
I don't want to see him impolite or anything like that.
But I must ask you to leave. But he didn't
do it. The evidence speaks for itself. I don't care
about your evidence. Well, what do you want me to do?
What the city hays you to do? Find the killer?
The killer has been found. My son is innocent. How
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do you know? As he told me? Oh? Oh sure, yeah,
that makes everything different. Your son is a pump in
many ways. Yes, I can't deny that he's already done time.
That's a matter of record. Once for breaking entry, yes,
and once for a soul yes. And he was at
some those times too. Uh No, No, so he's not
a little angel.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
No, No, he's far from it. But he's not a murderer.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Look, lady, I just can't stand here and talk to you.
You'll have to excuse Please please let me in. I
thank you. What do you want me to do?
Speaker 7 (12:35):
I've already told you find the killer now, Lieutenant, you
had a good boy. I don't, and it's my fault.
I was busy, very busy. His father ran out on
me many years ago, and I got a job in
personnel and I made something of myself. But I guess
I neglected.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
George missus Mason, please believe me. I can't do anything
for you.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Tell me how he could always buy the wrong kind
of friends. But you know, no matter what kind of
trouble he got into one thing, he never did. He
never lied to me. And he said to me, mother,
I didn't kill that cop.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I didn't look Missus Mason. Let me tell you something.
I've had experience in these things. He has to hold
on to you, you're always got and so he has
to deny it. But I believe him. And by denying
it to you, he denies it to himself because he
doesn't want to believe he committed murder. I believe him.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Yeah, why don't you believe him?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Why should I believe him?
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Because you're the best detective on the force.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Okay, look, missus Mason, I can understand how you feel.
What you're asking me to do. Is I am? I
asking you to do the thing you do best. I need.
The papers don't believe what you reave.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
Oh it isn't true what they say that Harry Rinfield
is an intuitive to take that he has a feel
for how a case should do.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
That was just newspaper talk, Missus Mason. On the basis
of information and evidence assembled by the police department. The
district attorney has asked for an indictment. It's over. Have
you been fair to me? Lieutenant? I don't know what
you're talking about. I think you do. Have you been
fair to my son?
Speaker 7 (14:22):
Of course, he's only a young punk in your eyes,
but he is entitled to justice.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You'll get it in court, but he isn't getting it
from you.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Now, do one thing, Lieutenant. Please assume that it wasn't
your son who died. Suppose it was just another homicide
victim and you were the investigating officer.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Now would you be satisfied? Missus Mason? I have to
ask you to leave.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
All right, all right, I'll go, But I'd asked the
question and you have to answer it.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I don't have to answer to you, that's true, you don't,
but you do have to answer to yourself. He had
the gun in his hand, doesn't deny it. He had
my son's wort. He doesn't deny that either. What's everybody
supposed to think? Then?
Speaker 7 (15:12):
I don't know what everybody's supposed to supposed to think.
I want to know what Lieutenant Harry Reinfield thinks. What
ideas are in his head. What does he see? I
know my son is innocent. Won't you prove it? Lieutenant.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
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guilt was requested, and it was said that if a
murder has been committed and you see a man near
the corpse with a smoking pistol in his hand, it
would be reasonable to assume he's the killer.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
The smoking pistol that does it? Or does it? I'll
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Speaker 3 (19:08):
The victim a young undercover cop named Jerry Reinfield. The
suspect with a smoking pistol in his hand, Young George Mason,
the detective. The victim's father, Lieutenant Harry Reinfield. The case
is open and shut, that is it should be. But
the suspect's mother, Bessie Mason, believes her son is innocent. Well,
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faith can move mountains, or so we've been told.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Missus Mason, I I must ask you to leave, all right.
I'll go.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Because I know the kind of man you are, Lieutenant.
You swore you wouldn't rest until you found your son's murderer.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
He's been found. Are you sure? Are you sure? What
are your plans, Leona?
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Planned?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
I haven't made any How are you going to? I
suppose so one day. Thanks for taking me to dinner, Dad, Thanks.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
For calling me Dad. I guess today it would have
been official. Yeah, I'm sorry, Leona. A quiet little wedding,
that's what we wanted. You'd have made a good wife
for a cup.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
How do you know you've known you such a short time?
Wool Wind courtship.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
That was Jerry love at first sight. It's the only
kind there is. Jerry.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
He met me at a party on a Friday night.
He proposed to me on Saturday morning. I said yes,
Saturday afternoon, Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
He tried to talk me out of it.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Why he suddenly realized, he said, how dangerous a CoP's
life can be. He didn't want me to be a
CoP's wife, especially his wife doing undercover work.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
He'd made a lot of enemies.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Yeah, I know, after some pretty good arrests, there were
threats made.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
On his life. Oh we all get those. He tried
to talk me out of.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
It, but by then it was too late.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I I was in love with him too. I know
how you feel, Leonner, but you're only twenty two. Life
has to go on. I suppose it does, although I
wonder why you think so now. But I will pass.
He'll find another guy, I know. That's why it's so awful.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
That night, he he was supposed to come over for dinner,
and he said, I I'm I'm gonna be late. I
I have to meet a fellow all the way across town,
corner of Collins and Maple. I said to him, Cherry,
this is confidential.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
How can you tell me? And he gave me.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
That smile of his and said, you mean I can't
trust you, honey.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I used to tell his mother everything too. You're not
supposed to, you know. I was so scared. It's such
a dreadful neighborhood. And he laughed and said, if you're
out to make a drug bust, you don't usually go
to the high rent district. One consolation, at least they
got the killer Yeah, we got the killer. The latest
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man power allotments a L lot? Is that one L
or two two elves? Huh? What are you doing here?
My son goes on trial tomorrow. Look, missus Mason, I
tried to get you at home, but you're never there.
Missus Mason, I've already told you there's nothing I can.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
Know what you told me. I've come here to ask
you a few questions.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I'm busy, and besides, there's notions.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
You should have asked yourself. Now, who was your son
supposed to meet?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
We know that a drug pusher, right.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Not any one of great importance, just a.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Pusher your son.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Let's say it was my son. Why would my son
kill him?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Because A your son spotted him as a cop or
B After my son identified himself, your son decided to
shoot it out.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
You're forgetting c your son's gun was still in his
host your son felt safe?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Why?
Speaker 7 (23:55):
Because he knew he was going to pick up a
small potato.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
That describes your son, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
But small potatoes don't kill cops.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Why?
Speaker 7 (24:05):
You know perfectly well if my son was pushing drugs,
he'd be part of an organization. You know they protect
their own. You know that he would get a suspended sentence,
maybe a few months in jail. That's how it usually
works out. Why kill reasonable logical? But your son just
lost his head. My son didn't do it, and your
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son wasn't there merely to catch a small time pusher.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
He was being set up by Who am I a
law officer?
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Do I have the resources of the police department behind me?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Why would my son be set up?
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Well, maybe he was too good a cop, maybe somebody
didn't like him.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
If your son didn't do it, why was he there
with a gun in his hand? Why don't you ask him?
The other officers in the case have asked him, then,
why didn't they listen to his answer? Really? Listen, missus Mason,
you know I'm right. What do you want from me?
Why are you angry?
Speaker 7 (25:04):
I'm just a mother and not a very good one.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Now.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
All I know is my son tells me he's innocent,
and I want to believe it.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I want to believe it.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Look, it's all right, I'm sorry, I bothered you.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Please excuse me, Okay, Pete, I'll bang on the door
when I want to see it. Oh God, don't leave
me to sell me. He'll kill me, I shut up,
see you later, Pete, don't go, He'll kill me. I
should shut up. Well, what do you want the truth? Punk?
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I got a name, It's George, George Mason. To me,
you're still a punk. You can't kill me. I'm not
gonna kill you. What do you want from me? What
are you doing here? Your mother wanted me to talk
to you. My mother, you mean, my old lady asked
you to come here, and I'm doing this for her sake. Yeah. Yeah,
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Bessie's still a good looking dame, isn't she. I'm going
to let that pass, but don't press your luck. And
she's cut up about me. Yeah, it's the only time.
What do you mean, it's the only time. She never
knows I'm alive except when I'm in jail. Is that so? Yeah?
She's a very busy ding.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
You know, works at a big important job, runs with
big important guys.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Look, I'm not here to talk about her. I want
to talk about you. She always gets guys that do
things for I don't care what it is, you know,
even something like this, Well, look you're here. What happened
that night? You wouldn't believe it? Would well? Tell it
to me? Then I already told it a lot of times.
Make it one hundred and one. Let's start with what
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we've got. You were on Collins and Maple. Huh, Yeah,
you know Collins and Maples. It's a place for all
kinds of you know, weird characters. And you were looking
for some loose change. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I'm coming down Maple, and just as I get the Collins,
I hear.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Voices, voices saying what I don't know, just voices. I
can't make out the words anyhow.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
I hear a shot, and I hear steps running off,
but I hear somebody moaning. So I go around the
corner and it's dark. I see someone laying on the ground.
I bend down. He's dead.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Huh, how did you know he was dead?
Speaker 5 (27:33):
You can tell when somebody's dead. So I figured, why
does he need his wallet? Where he's going? He don't
need nothing, So I reach inside his jacket and that
is now. I hear footsteps coming around Maple see, and
I get scared. There's this pistol laying on the ground,
so like.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
A chump, I pick it up. Maybe I need it,
you know.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
And the next thing I know, these two guys pointing
guns I mean, and they yell free police officers.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And that's the story. Yeah, some story. I told you
you wouldn't believe it. Go back to the voices. Now,
I'm not even sure they were voices. But what were they? Then?
Speaker 5 (28:16):
Well, you're walking down the street, mind your own business.
You hear like a hum of you.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Know, maybe people talking. Who pays attention? And then banged
the shot. You say you heard footsteps running off? Did
you see anybody by the time I turned the corner?
Whoever it was got away? What did the footsteps sound like?
For crying aloud, what do footsteps sound like? Were they
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heavy footsteps? Did it sound like it was a big guy,
heavy step? Oh? I see what you mean. No, no,
they wasn't heavy. They they were light light. Yeah yeah,
you could.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Almost pitch your guy to you know, but the sound
of a what Yeah, yeah, I see what you mean.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, okay, get over it. How do you picture this guy?
Speaker 7 (29:07):
Well, no, no, wait a second, wait a second, I
don't pitch him as a guy at all.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
It was a dame. A dame.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Yeah yeah, Well listen, when a dame is running down
a sidewalk, a dame with heels, you know, it makes
a sound like a wrap top click click click, you
know a dame.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Huh, yeah, Why didn't you say this before? Nobody ever
asked me before? Who believe me? You do? You believe me?
Or you just try to score some points with the
old lady. I think it's time I got out of here.
Speaker 9 (29:48):
Harry.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
We were all through this. We went over it with
his partners, Carter and Fordyce. He said to them, I'm
making a contact at Collins and Maple nine o'clock. They
were They had to back him up, They had to
keep out of sight. They saw him go around the corner,
then they heard the shot. When they got to him,
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he was on the ground and the punk, this George Mason,
was standing there with the gun in his hand.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And they didn't see anybody else. Didn't hear anybody else?
You want to ask him again, he'll get the same answer.
The punk says he heard someone running away.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Oh sure, what's the matter with you, Harry?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Way of reacting to your son's deaths Suddenly this.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Concern for the killer, who says he's the killer?
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Harry, you're talking to me. He was standing there with
the smoking pistol. Now we're satisfied he did it. So
is the DA In a matter of weeks, so will
nine judges and a jury.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Well maybe I'm not satisfied.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
It can be a problem if your attitude becomes known, Harry.
Once he's quitted, that's the ballgame.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I'm not sure of anything anymore.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Ever since Ruth died, your son has been your whole life.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
And now suddenly he's gone and you've got.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Nothing and nobody. Well, that has nothing to do with it.
This missus Mason is a very good looking woman, and
that has nothing to do with it. You're sure about that.
You're lonely, Harry. She means nothing at all to me. Nothing.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
I got a hunch about this case, Harry. The two
of them, the punk and his mother, they could be
working this together. Played you for a sucker?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah? Maybe? Will you admit it's possible, anything's possible, everything's possible,
all right, all right? What are you going to do?
I'm going to nail it down how I don't know yet.
I've got a hunch, and as far as it goes,
it's crazy, But I'm going to run it down all
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the way down. As it stands.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Right now, the district Attorney has a good enough case
to get a verdict of murder in the first degree
against George Mason for the murder of Officer Jerry Reinfield.
He had the smoking pistol in his hand. Why shouldn't
Lieutenant Harry Reinfield be satisfied with that and let the
law take its course. Why, I'm sure we'll find out
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in Act three.
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Speaker 3 (35:38):
The world, according to Lieutenant Harry Reinefield, is a place
of feelings and hunches. Yes, people do pay lip service
to something known as facts, but there's nothing factual about
the truly important things in our lives. Do we consider
facts when we love? Do we look for facts. When
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we hate, do we require facts to support what we believe?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
And what is a fact?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Anyhow do any two people look at the same so
called fact in exactly the same way?
Speaker 2 (36:14):
You busy, Harry? Yeah? Doing what I'm looking through his file?
Which file is that? The threat file? What for? These
are all the letters we get threatening to kill cops? Harry?
This is stuff written by nuts? Who else commits murder? Harry?
Speaker 5 (36:35):
This thing is so obvious. George Mason has to be
the killer. What are you doing to yourself? This is
how I work?
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Is this the theory we're going on? Now?
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Some nut sends a letter threatening to killer cop, then
he sets Jerry up.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
We're just following a certain line of inquiry and seeing
where it leads us. Oh yeah, well let me know
when you get there. Look at this, a plain piece
of white paper, neat cleaner type, very good typing, uh
fresh black ribbon. So your average nutletter is type badly
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on an old machine, with hardly any black at all
in the ribbon. You still haven't told me what this proved.
The strike in each letter is even and this was
done by a typist, okay, not to know how to type,
so what But listen to this. I intend to get
even with you for what you did to someone I
love more than anyone else in the world. What was
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done to him will be done to you. And that's it.
That's all of it. And somebody wrote that kind of
note to Jerry. No, it's addressed to me to you, see,
Lieutenant Harry Reinfield.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Okay, for the sake of argument, somebody's out to get you.
So they called to set up a trap, but the
call goes to the wrong Rhinefield, to your son Jerry instead.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
So it's mistaken identity. If I could only find the
machine on which this was typed, oh sure, there are
only a million typewriters in the city.
Speaker 7 (38:21):
Look, Lieutenant, I told you I couldn't make out what
their voices were saying.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Now just relax. You're not giving me any help. The
voices now, they were low. I can hardly hear them.
Well what did you hear? Just be quiet, don't say
a word. You're walking down the street at night, it's dark, deserted,
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you approached the corner. You're aware of voices. I told you,
Because why do you say you heard voices? Because come on,
tell me, Because why do you say voices. Why not
noise from a trump or while the dog bargain.
Speaker 7 (39:06):
Because because they were human voices, I mean people, They
were saying words.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
What words? I don't remember. There's there's no way I
can remember. Don't quit on me. Now, I wasn't paying attention.
Maybe I don't remember the words. Can you remember how
they were said? How they were said? Yeah? Didn't sound
angry like an argument? An argument? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I think so. Why it sounded like a fight? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Yeah? One word I can remember, one word, crazy?
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Crazy?
Speaker 7 (39:44):
Yeah, that was the word. The doords you're crazy? And
then the shot and the dame ran away. I mean
I heard what had to be it dame's footsteps running away.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
You heard him say you're crazy? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (39:58):
Yeah, yeah, not a Can I concentrate? That's what I heard,
But don't ask me to remember anything else.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
That was all I heard. It's enough. The question is
what did I ever do to anybody that would make
some dame want to kill me? Harry? Where are you
getting all this from the note? The note was written
by a woman. How do you know? We agree it
was done by a professional typists. There have plenty of
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men who are professional typists. Yeah, yeah, but George Mason
says he heard a woman's footsteps.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
If I were in the spot George Mason's in, I'd
say anything or.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Work with me on this, would you? What did I
ever do to anyone that would make some dame want
to kill me? Now? This note was received on April
the eighteenth, which means that whatever it was, it happened
before that date. Now, what did I do it be
to me? You were the one who said it could
have been mistaken identity. Someone's out to get me. They
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called me to set me up, except they get Jerry
by mistake. So this dame meets Jerry and says, Lieutenant Reinfield,
I'm gonna kid you or something like that, and she
has the gun and Jerry says, you're crazy. That's what
George Mason heard. The question is whose husband or whose
boyfriend did I kill? You didn't kill anybody, Harry. I
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know that in all the years on the force, I
never had to fire a single shop Whose husband or
boyfriend did I send up for life or who died
on account of me?
Speaker 5 (41:30):
You better forget that letter and the file and let
justice take its course.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
Lieutenant oh oh, he loves is Mason.
Speaker 7 (41:48):
I've just come from the courtroom. The jerry will find
him guilty.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Missus Mason, I've I've done what I could have You
what more do you want.
Speaker 7 (41:59):
I don't want my son to pay for a crime
he didn't commit.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
I'm going to tell you something, Missus Mason. You can
take this anyway you like. I didn't have to do
anything at all. It wasn't my case. You understand. You
talked me into trying to open up something that was
already closed as far as the department is concerned.
Speaker 7 (42:16):
I thought you were proceeding out of a sense of duty.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Oh that's just conversation. Look, I went as far as
I could, and it wasn't easy. What I'm doing could
be prejudicing the state's case against your son.
Speaker 7 (42:29):
Well, our lawyer doesn't seem to be getting much mileage
out of that.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
I don't know why I'm doing this. I am I
doing this because you're an attractive woman.
Speaker 7 (42:39):
We're very much alike in certain ways. We go by intuition.
I followed mine all the way, and usually you go
all the way with yours, except this.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Time, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 7 (42:52):
Now, don't fence with me. Are you protecting somebody who?
Speaker 2 (42:57):
You tell me?
Speaker 7 (43:00):
There's one last question? What would you do as a
matter of routine in an ordinary case that you haven't done?
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Here? Nothing? I done absolutely everything. I'm yes. What it's
not important here? What's not important? Well, going on the
theory that your son is innocent, who knew my son
would be on that street corner? Well? Nobody? Nobody? Well,
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there's two partners, I eliminate, then nobody else. There was
nobody else, Yes, there was somebody else. Who. Oh, that's impossible.
It's impossible. Is it impossible? Or do you want it
to be impossible? Missus Mason? I need your help here
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here read this note.
Speaker 7 (43:52):
I intend to get even with you for what you
did to someone I love more than anyone.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Else in this world. What was done to him will
be done to you now. I know. I believe that
Jerry was killed by mistake. Maybe that was how the
killer wanted to get back at me. Who's the killer?
The one who typed this note? Now, the person who
knew where Jerry was going to be? That and I
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also had the machine on wish this was typed. I've
broken the case. Are you still willing to help? Yes?
Speaker 7 (44:34):
I'm sorry to ring your bell this lad. I just
moved into the building. Do you have a typewriter?
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (44:42):
Why well miss oh, I see your name is Lewis,
Leona Lewis, Miss Lewis, my name is Smith, missus Smith.
I have to fill in this lease form and drop
it off to the landlord's office first thing in the morning.
And my typewriter broke down.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
I know it's an imposition. Oh, it's all right, come in.
Speaker 7 (45:04):
Uh see, I have an electric and when something.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Goes wrong there it is on the table. Uh. You
don't have to take it out of the cave. Oh,
thank you. Oh, I see you're packed. Are you moving?
Speaker 7 (45:17):
Yes, going back home home the Midwest. There's nothing here
for me anymore.
Speaker 12 (45:27):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (45:27):
This is a very good machine. I keep it that way,
learned it from my father. He was a first class machinist.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Was Yes, he died. Oh, oh, I'm sorry to hear
that was he ill. He had a sickness. There's no
cure for have have we met before? I don't think so.
You look familiar. What was uh? Uh? What was the sickness?
Speaker 7 (45:57):
A broken heart? You see, my brother had been sent
to prison. Oh that's awful.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
And my brother died there in an accident.
Speaker 7 (46:08):
Oh, I wish I knew why you look so familiar.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
I know I've.
Speaker 7 (46:13):
Seen you somewhere. Whoa fish da? Thank you very much,
miss Lewison. When my brother died, it killed my father.
The grief was too much to bear. Well, I understand,
but those things can't be helped.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Who don't say that I was able to help it? Really? Yes,
very much.
Speaker 7 (46:36):
Wait, now I know where I've seen you before. Your
name isn't Smith, it's Mason. Your picture isn't to Night's paper.
Your son is on trial for the murder of that cop.
Don't say that cop. He was your fiancee. So that's
where you wanted to sample for my typewriter. Yes, and
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I've got it. Well, you won't keep it. I don't
see how you can can can take it from me?
I can just don't make me use this now.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Shooting shooting won't won't help you.
Speaker 7 (47:11):
It'll help me. No, No, no, you can't. You can't
kill me. I won't have to you.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
See, first, you will place that paper you typed on
the table.
Speaker 7 (47:20):
That's it, And now you will walk into the closet.
It's not gonna help. We know that you killed Jerry Reinfield.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
Who knows you? What can you prove?
Speaker 7 (47:31):
I'll destroy the paper, I'll lose the typewriter where no
one can ever find it. And it all comes down
to your word against mine.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
Why why did you kill him?
Speaker 7 (47:42):
The idea was to kill him so his father would
know how it was with my father. But he must
have been a nice boy. Yes, that's why I had
to kill him quickly. I was I was starting to
fall in love with him. Okay, now get into that closet,
open the door, and so now to get out of here,
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get rid of the gun and the typewriter.
Speaker 9 (48:14):
Hello Leona, Hello Leona, says Lieutenant Harry Reinefield.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
Of course, goodbye Leona might be more appropriate. I can
inform you that Leona Lewis was found mentally disturbed and
is serving an indeterminate sentence. I shall return shortly.
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In Italy we celebrate many traditional holidays and feasts. There
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Speaker 3 (51:22):
Well, now you talk about facts, and yet wasn't it
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes himself who said the
decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle
than any articulate major premise. Yes, it was, And so
what you should do is follow your own subtle intuition
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Speaker 11 (52:36):
News for New York City bus and subway service cutbacks,
Telephone company next on rate increase, Carton names too.
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It's thirty degrees.
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That's minus one celsius in clear mid Manhattan. Why the
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Wingate with the eight o'clock report from w R News.
This includes the nightly column the financial review, The New
York Trented Authority has announced it plans a series of
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bus and subway service cutbacks beginning January one. The TA
will try to trim thirty million dollars in expenses over
the next eighteen months. The savings are required by the
Emergency Financial Control Board to balance the budget. The TA
will lay off one hundred eighty one former City and
Housing Authority policemen who have been working as change both clerks.
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Subway service reductions will include elimination of the IRT Bowling
Green South Ferry Shuttle in Manhattan, the b MT Franklin
Avenue Shuttle in Brooklyn, and independent Double A service in Manhattan.
Services will be trimmed during late night hours on the Double, G, N,
and B trains instead of operating ten car trains during
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non rush hours. Train lengths will be reduced during off
periods to four, six or eight cars to save money
on power and maintenance. There will also be increased headways
between buses, ranging from an extra five to twenty minutes
during non rush hours on most routes in the Five Borrows.
The State Public Service Commission has thrown out New York
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Telephone Company's request for a three hundred and ninety three
million dollars rate hike, telling the phone company to back
up its figures better.
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The Commission rule that.
Speaker 11 (54:22):
Documents filed by the phone company last month did not
contain enough information to judge the case properly. Phone company
had filed a pile of documents one foot thick. The
PSC ordered the phone company either to cancel its request
for a rate in Greece or to agree to postpone
further action until it supplies additional information. Yet another investigation
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underway involving the flu vaccination program.
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W or's Ed Nash has that story.
Speaker 12 (54:48):
Several states, including New Jersey, have started an investigation to
determine if swine flu shots can cause Giambahret syndrome. This
syndroma afect the nervous system. It can cause partial but
temporary paralysis. Six cases were found in New Jersey last month,
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and four of these involved patients who had received flu immunization.
About twenty five cases in various states are under investigation
by health departments and the Federal Disease Control Center. The
New Jery Zy Health Department has notified all doctors in
the state that the investigation is underway. The Department are
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seeking information on all cases that were diagnosed during the
past two months or any that may occur during the
next three months, whether or not the patient had been immunized.
This is ed Nash Wor News.
Speaker 11 (55:48):
Convicted killer Gary Gilmore ordered his attorneys today not to
fight his execution. They in turn asked Utah's Fourth District
Court to dismiss a petition which sought to have Gilmour's
death sentence tossed out on the grounds it was not
imposed quickly enough. At the same time, Gilmore's mother asked
the U. S. Supreme Court to reconsider its decision yesterday
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which lifts the say of execution for Gilmore.
Speaker 2 (56:13):
W Orr seven ten News time.
Speaker 11 (56:15):
Is coming up on four minutes past eight o'clock.
Speaker 2 (56:18):
Have you heard?
Speaker 11 (56:18):
I wonder but the wonderful New Life at the Cupola
a very attractive senior citizens facility in Paramus, New Jersey.
At the Cupola, all living suites are private, each kitchenette
equipped and available, either furnished or unfurnished to.
Speaker 2 (56:32):
Suit your particular taste.
Speaker 11 (56:34):
There are gift barber and beauty shops, card and game rooms, libraries,
the theater maide service seven days a week. Many planned activities,
three superb daily meals from a diversified venue, a fully
staffed infirmary, and convenient shopping in the Paramus Riguar area.
The Maloney family owners and managers invite you to visit
the cupola, talk to the people who are living there,
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and I think you will agree this is the ultimate
in senior citizen life. The cupola is at West one
hundred Ridgewood Avenue in Paramus, fifteen minutes from the George
Washington Bridge. Call two O one four four four eight
two hundred or write to me for a full color brochure.
The cupola make the next year's the very best years
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of your life. President elect Carter has added two more
names to his cabinet list, announcing the apartment of businessman
economist Michael Blumenthal as treasure Secretary and Congressman Brock Adams
of Washington State as Transportation Boss. Carter said both men
had intense and complete knowledge of their areas. Carter told
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an Atlanta news conference that the economy is in worse
shape than he anticipated three or six months ago. He
said he would confer with his economic advisors on plans
to stimulate the economy, but added that he leans to
job opportunities. At his afternoon news conference, Carter revealed that
former IVM Vice President Jane Pfeiffer is asked not to
be considered for a cabinet post. There had been white
(58:00):
widespread speculation that missus Piper would be named Commerce Secretary.
President Ford told leaders of Congress today he might approve
a pay raise for high ranking federal officials and members
of Congress. The raise, perhaps his highest forty percent, would
go to the top twenty five hundred people in government.
Mister Ford said he would not like the rays coupled
with a new code of ethics on the disclosure of
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outside income. Pentagon sources reported a select commission headed by
Foremaster not Frank Borman, deserves the speedy readmission of cadets
who left West.
Speaker 2 (58:32):
Point in the recent cheating scandal.
Speaker 11 (58:37):
Stock market story to come w or our seven ten
news time six minutes past eight o'clock. She's promised to
reimburse the emergency fund as soon as the lottery begins.
Speaker 2 (58:48):
Bing.
Speaker 11 (58:48):
Crosbie will sing Quite Christmas on the steps of City
Hall tomorrow as Mayor beam lights.
Speaker 2 (58:55):
The city's official Christmas tree.
Speaker 11 (58:57):
Crosby's wife, Catherine will also take part in the public
ceremony tomorrow afternoon. At four thirty an inmate sentence to
a clean up detail at a Brooklyn criminal court mopped
his way to freedom this morning. The man, twenty eight
year old Oliver Wendell Stevens, mopped his way down the
hall to an open court room, mingled with the crowd,
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and then made his escape. Stevens had only a month
and a half to go on his six month sentence
for petty larceny and bail jumping. One prison spokesman said
he may just have wanted to go home for the holidays.
The State Supreme Court jury in Albany has begun deliberations
in the corruption and larsny trial of Assemblyman Allen Hockburg,
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chairman of the Assembly Ethics Committee. Earlier today, the jury
received a two hour charge from Judge William Krangle. Hockburg
is accused of trying to buy off a primary challenge
in his Bronx Assembly district by offering a job and
political support to his potential opponent. The Metropolitan Taxicab Board
of Trade announced today that it will seek a thirteen
(01:00:00):
percent fare increase for New York City taxi ride spokesman
for the organization of fifty four taxi fleets said it
will ask that the initial charge for a cab bride
be raised from the present sixty five to seventy five cents,
and the subsequent charge be ten cents for each one
seventh of a mile instead of the percent ten cents
for one six of a mile. Spokesman said the hikes
(01:00:21):
would raise the cost of the average two point four
mile cab ride from the present two dollars and thirty
cents to two dollars and sixty cents. The fare increased
requests follow a tentative agreement between the cab owners and
the taxi drivers. We'll have moderating weather to come, and
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of course the knight's headlines w or seven ten us
time twelve minutes past eight p m.
Speaker 15 (01:00:52):
My name is Reidi Chaubux and here in France my
vinteg Chabu Champagne.
Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
Is so highly regarded it costs a.
Speaker 15 (01:01:00):
Not as much as piper moet or man. Ah that
prices change when Champagne leaves France. For the piper moett
or man to get to America, they go through large
importers who mark up the price substantially then to distributors
who add at least another twenty percent, and finally to
your store. But Charbo is shipped directly from my vineyards
(01:01:22):
to my exported director, Monsieur Portier.
Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
In New York.
Speaker 15 (01:01:26):
He then distributes them to fine wine shops where Charbo
vintage champagne is sold for only eight ninety nine, about
five dollars less a bottle than Piper Moet or Man.
Try Charbo and pay only for fine champagne, not for
its journey across the Atlantic.
Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
Charbo the importer champagne without the importer's profit, imported by
Patrici Portier in New York, New York.
Speaker 11 (01:01:52):
Now the weather Watch update for New York City in
Vicinity clear and breezy, but not so cold.
Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
As last night.
Speaker 11 (01:02:00):
In the upper twenties, Partly sunny with moderating temperature Tomorrow
highs from forty five to fifty, becoming cloudy Tomorrow night,
with the chance of rain late dead night or Thursday.
Low Tomorrow night thirty five to forty and the high
Thursday forty to forty five. The chance of rain is
ten percent to night in tomorrow, increasing to forty percent
(01:02:21):
by late tomorrow night. Winds southwest to ten to twenty
miles an hour, with some higher gust. Tonight in mid Manhattan,
it's clear, thirty degrees fahrenheit minus one celsius, humidity forty
seven percent. Whend is southwest at twelve gusting to thirty
(01:02:42):
miles an hour. We've still got those winds. Barometer thirty
point twenty five and it is falling.
Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
The Top stories of the hour.
Speaker 11 (01:02:53):
New York City Tranted Authority announces it plans series of
bus and subway service cutbacks starting January first. Authority says
it must trim fat from budget. President elect Carter names
businessman economist Michael Blumenthal as Treasury boss, and Congressman Brock
Adams from Washington State to head Transportation. That's the eight
(01:03:14):
o'clock news. John Wingate reporting next news on this station.
Always the moment it happens, we get there, next scheduled news.
Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
I'll be back at nine o'clock to night
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