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I'm E. G. Marshall, and once again I invite you
to join me as we journey through a strange and
mysterious landscape filled with the terror of the unknown. Come
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All you need is your imagination. You've heard it said
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there is no such thing as a perfect crime, but
don't you believe it. History is filled with perfect crimes.
After all, isn't every unsolved murder of perfect crime. We
have a perfect crime for you to consider, and the
ironic part of it is the fact that the murderer
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had no intention of killing his victim. Indeed, he was
completely unaware of his existence. I saw this guy, Katie. Yeah,
he had the pistol in his hand. It was still smoking.
I know he did it. I had him dead to rights. Well, Dash,
why didn't you make the arrest? Because I couldn't you
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see a guy killed somebody? You're a cop and you
don't move in to make the arrest. I was scared, scared, okay,
but you could have called for help. No, no, that
they'd never believed me. Why because this guy's name is
Aaron Burr. Oh I don't care if his name is
King Tut, well, he's as dead as King Tut. Aaron
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Burr died in eighteen hundred and thirty six, And how
could he have killed somebody this morning? He did? Katie,
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in the Garden state of New Jersey, in the town
of Weehawken, famous at one time for its ferry to Manhattan.
But before that, long long before that, Weehawken was notorious
for a different activity, a dark, dangerous, deadly, indeed illegal activity,
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an activity we're about to witness. It is a misty morning.
We're on a rocky ledge of the noble palisade that
overlooks the majestic Hudson River. Two men, each dressed in
dark and somber gray, face one another at a distance
of twenty paces. Each man holds a slim but lethal
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looking pistol, and each pistol barrel is exactly eleven inches long,
as prescribed by the code of Honor. Nearby a small
knot of quiet, darkly dressed spectators. And now one of
the spectators steps forward. He's an imposing white haired military officer. Gentlemen,
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it is my duty to remind you, indeed to employ you,
even at this final moment, to attempt to settle your
differences peaceably. Then are you both agreed that an I
can only be satisfied by an exchange of fire? So
be it. You will hold your pistols at your sides
muscles pointing to the ground. When I say present, you
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will raise your weapon to aim. When I say fire,
Each of you has five seconds in which to make
a shot. Are you ready, Colonel Burr? Are you ready?
Major Hamilton? Very well? Present? Fire?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
God print it marvelous, marvelous, and now let us do
it again, honestly, George, must you drop plot like a
wet lamp glutenous sigh?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Are we going to play the damn scene again? Mister parody?
I believe so, mister Daily. Do you know why please?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Because you didn't play it the first time. The word play, gentlemen,
must suggest lightness, imaginations, spirit, a quality.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I should have listened to my agypt or I'd get up, George.
It's method I have to Cleopold. I want the same. George.
Not quit climbing around course.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
With snow white roses at the very spot where he falls, and.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
We can show his wound bleeding on George. Don't go
to sleep on us. There's no rest for the virtuous
kid we have. George.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
The next time you are shot, you must not sprawl
to the ground like some pregnant hippopotamus. You are Alexander
Hamilton's George financial, wizards, soldiers, statesman or to something, the
philosopher aristocrat. You must die as you have lived.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Delic match. Wait, Max, something's wrong with George elegantly Grace.
Maddy's sick. Sick. Oh no, no, he can't be sick.
He'll destroy my whole schedule. He's wrong, Max, something's George.
He's got a funny look on his face. George, you
say you're all right, Say you're all right. I'm conscious.
Look blood blood, that's blood oozing out of his chest.
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Max is dead. He can't be dead. We haven't shot
the love scenes yet. We need the police. Get one
of those cops standing by the fence. Officerer, George, You're
not dead, You're not dead. You can do this to me. Jorge, Okay, Okay,
I'm going They just stand back. Everyone's overser, he's this man?
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Is is there? All right? What's it forble? Everybody has
to stand back? A he chucked Carley ambulance. Can nobody
leave here? And don't anybody touch nothing? And Lieutenant he
was lying on the ground. I didn't think anything of
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it until I looked very closely, and he was dead.
Thank you, mister Daily. Is that all for? Now am
I free to leave? Lieutenant? You're free to go, but
you're not free to leave the location. I believe you.
Movie people call it. Thank you? Yes so voter. Yeah, Lieutenant,
who's this actor who played the other part? Uh bruh.
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You seemed to be an expert on this picture. Officers
for Voda. Well, I tell you, Lieutenant, I've been watching
so much I think I know everybody's lines. Maybe this
is your big chance to get into the movies. No, no,
not may Lieutenant. You know when the Priescinct gave me
the special duty, I thought it'd be a piece of cake.
But these guys work too hard. They shape up before
it even gets light. Well, Hollywood's lost we Hawkins game. Now,
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who did play Aaron Burr? Well, everybody heard of him,
Tony bellows, we'll see it the first sending. That one
who's doing the Saint Vitas dance outside? Oh, mister Maximilian
parody and he's the big wheel. Yeah, well let's start
him spinning and see what we get. Okay, Lieutenant, Uh,
mister parad Agel, Yes, my name is Lieutenant Bauman. The
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sit down, please, thank you, thank you, thank you, indeed,
thank you for extending me hospitality in my own office. Well,
I'm sorry we took over your trailer, sir, but we
needed a headquarters with this investigation. Your name is Maximilian Paradine.
Everyone knows that now, Sir. At approximately seven am this morning,
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you staged the duel between two actors, a mister George
Rivers and a mister Tony Bellows. Is that correct? That
is not correct.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I staged a duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
in that time and in that place.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
For me, they were real people. Or can we say
that you staged the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron
Burr as they were portrayed by George Rivers and Tony Bellows. Yes,
we can say that, and somehow, in a manner yet
to be determined, mister George Rivers was killed.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Arrest me, lieutenant, arrest you why I am guilty of what?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Murder? Murder? Yes, I killed George Rivers, Miss Paradine. At
this point I must advise you of your rights on
a the Lieutenant, I committed the deed. I shall pay
the price. How did you murder George River? In drama
as in life?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
It is the inevitable, and so my artistry, my creativity,
could produce only the inevitable result, the death of Hamilton.
My concern is the death of George Rivers. I know,
I know, But at that time and in that place,
they were one and the same.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
How did you murder George Rivers? I told you? What
did you tell me?
Speaker 4 (12:22):
He died as a testimony to the truths of my genius.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Look, I'm only asking how this happened.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Very well, the average producer, writer, director, how would he
make this picture? He would get the best box office
names his budget could afford, he would shoot on some
bat lot in Hollywood, and as a result, Sir, and
as a result, his alleged picture would have nothing of
the mood, the spirit, that the sense of being of
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Hamilton and Burr?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
What did I do? Or you really have to tell me?
I know what I have to tell you.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Hamilton and Burr bitter rival, bitter rivals for power.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
In the infant republic? Who do I cast?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
George Rivers and Tony Bellows? Rivals for pre eminence as
the leading men in the American theater were then, just
as Hamilton and Burr vied for the affections of Miss
Eliza Croy. I cast for that role Julius Starrett, who
has just divorced Tony Bellows in order to live with
George Rivers.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Do you follow this?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Yes, sir, But what I must ask you you understand
how my actors now are under the same human tensions
that tormented the people whom they portray.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Sir, I only have a very hear me ashes.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Now, then where do I stage the final fatal act
of the tragedy? I go to the exact spot Hamilton
and Bird chose for the denouement to their drama, the
favorite dueling ground of the day, a field at the
edge of the palisades.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
In wee auckin New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Party, Why not only place each of them in the
precise positions they occupied on that fatal morning. I actually
chose the morning itself, Wednesday. You lie eleven seven am.
So you see everything.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Everything is exactly as it was right.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
For retention, the time, the place, and therefore the absolutely
inevitable result.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Well, well, what what is the procedure? I have just
confessed to murder. What I'm waiting for you to tell
me is how you killed him? How I killed him?
He died because a pistol ball pierced his heart. Someone
inserted that ball into the pistol that was fired by
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mister Tony Bellows. That someone is the murderer, now, sir,
is that someone you know? Then you are not the killer.
No one could have placed a ball into that pistol.
Why do you say that? Because there is no place
to put a ball and no way to fire it.
How can you say? Ah? How can I say that? Simple?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I provided these pistols myself. For all that they look authentic,
they are only cap pistols.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
This is the pistol that fired the shot. Are you
telling me it's not real? That's exactly what I'm telling you.
I'm sorry, mister Paradine. This is an authentic pistol and
it has been fired. That's impossible. Lieutenant.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Here, look let me show you why. Yes, Lieutenant, this
this isn't the pistol that I gave it. It isn't
the same pistol. It isn't the pistol I had.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
The prop department make or yes, lieutenant, where'd you get
this pistol while I was lying on the ground, Lieutenant?
Where well here?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Where aren verb?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I mean? Tony Bellows dropped that was laying there or
along with his cloak, this cloak on the table. Yes, sir,
I I tell you it was not the pistol that
was used in the scene. No, I don't know, Lieutenant.
That's the one I found near where Tony Bellows were standing.
And uh uh, this one here is the one George
Rivers had. Now now you can see that's the make
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believe pistol. There were two of them. If there are
two of them, where's the other one? I don't know
about it. Well, this fake one and this real one,
those were the only two. Get this Tony Bellows in here,
I mister Bellows, the Bellows he's not out there, Lieutenant,
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that's a real pistol. Uh. Look, maybe he's in a trailer, Lieutenant,
to find him and bring him in here. Uh, yes, sir, lieutenant.
What is it, mister Parry? I I I I don't
know what to make of it.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I I I don't know what to say about what
this this pistol, the name the name here here?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Look read what's engraved were just under the lock? Read
it it says Sarn Burr. That's what it says, Aaron Burr. Well,
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you might say, if this is the exact spot. Aaron
Burr might have dropped it there or lost it there
many years ago. And uh that's w But no, this
is no rusted, rotted relic, indeed not. It is a
well oiled, well kept, well used weapon and it has
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just been fired. But who fired it? Well, we still
have two acts to go. Maybe we'll find out when
I return with act too in just a few moments.
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Speaker 1 (18:56):
For some people, falling asleep at night is just as
hard as waking up in the morning. If a noisy
bedroom clock is keeping you awake, here's good news. True
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little easier. Frank Leever here to tell you that they
have a general electric chronicle digital alarm clock. It's large,
digital numbers rotate smoothly and quietly. I don't flip, so
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there's no noise to keep you awake. Comes in a
compact case just seven inches wide, so it'll fit most anywhere.
It's just nine to eighty eight. And True value hardware
stores have something to make waking up in the morning
a little more pleasant. The GE lighted Snooze alarm clock
wakes you, lets you snooze a few minutes, then wakes
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(19:42):
just five eighty eight. Get a ge alarm clock for
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a few of the values you'll find at the participating
True Value hardware store nearest your home. Mister Maximilian Paradigne,
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an authentic genius of the films is shooting a motion
picture on the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr,
and shooting seems to be the literal word for it.
Since George Rivers, who plays Alexander Hamilton, fell to the
ground dead. He is dead because Tony Bellows, who plays
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Aaron Burr, evidently did not fire the prop pistol, which
is a harmless replica but a real lethal Weaponer to
complicate the situation, there is a name inscribed on this
real pistol. And what is the name? Yes, you're staying
with us, It's Aaron Burr. You say you've never seen
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this pistol? Be formist party? How, lieutenant? How I'd like
an answer yes or no? Yes or no is an
answer for small lines to the best of your knowledge,
mister Paradine, have you ever seen this pistol? No? No,
never this This is Aaron Burr's pistol. How do we know?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
It says?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
So his name is on him. How did it get here?
You would have to ask Aaron Burr what is this for? Voter?
Tony Bellows, the guy who plays Burr, He's gone. What
do you mean he's gone? Well, he's nowhere around. Impossible,
he has a contract. This is a shooting. I just
told it, mister Paradine. When was the last time you
saw mister Bellows? When? Yes, when? When? When we we
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were doing the scene.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
The camera establishes mister Burr's bellows, you must not destroy
my concentration now. Now the camera pans to mister Hamilton.
George rivers back to mister Burr on Daily's command present.
He raises the pistol, camera to mister Hamilton, on him
the word fire, discharging the pistol.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
And where did mister Bellows go? Where? Yes? Where? I
don't know, you don't know. I wasn't concerned with him.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I was watching mister Hamilton. George played the scene badly.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Oh that's a terrible thing to say about an actor.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
And if you quote me, I shall deny it.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
But the last scene he ever played he played badly
is Bamba give me the chief terrible way for an
actor to die? Yeah, Obama at the movie thing. Yeah,
we wanted Tony Bellow's material witness at least this fear.
Uh huh. As the New York Cops, if they can
pick him up for us. He's got an awful lot
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of questions to answer. Mister Daly, you were the closest
person to both parties during the dueling scene. Yes, what
happened after the exchange of shots? Well, George Rivers fell
to the ground, we know that. What about Aaron Burr Well,
I mean Tony Bellows. I don't know. I wasn't looking
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at him. How does it happen that nobody was looking
at it? Where do you see? The scene belongs to Hamilton,
I mean George Rivers, So nobody can tell me what
happened to Tony Bellows? Did he say or do anything
at all this morning that might have seemed unusual in
any way? But I don't know. I don't, oh, now
that you mention it. I didn't see him until he
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was in place for the scene. Mister parody, do your
people have to report in or check in or shape
up in any way?
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Well, there's a makeup call, but what as a camera
wasn't going to be on his face today? So all
that Tony had to do was be in costume and
in place at seven am.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
And this cloak was his costume. Yes, I have.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Course designed it myself. It is nothing that I attend
to every single detail. I permit others to take certain credits.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
But but but this is not the cloak. What do
you mean? It's not the cloak. This is not the
cloak that was made for Aaron Burr to wear in
the scene. Where is youanic? This is the cloak that
was laying on the ground near where Burr. Yeah, I
mean Tony Bellows was a cloak and the pistol. I
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mean where else would a confidentleman. Please pay attention.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
This cloak is made from a heavy wool material. I
have never seen the material likeness.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Mine was a cottle because I wanted mister paradine and
let me.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Oh no, here it is.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Inscride below the collar. Look read Aaron Burr.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Aaron Burr, Lieutenant, I am frightened this parodine?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Are you positive this is not the lieutenant? May I
show you something? Look? Look these stitches. What about the stitches?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Looked at the stitches along every scene? Well, not a
single one that these stitches was sewn by machine. This
is not the cloak that was worn by Aaron Burr
this morning.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
It's yeah, but it's the one I found, And I
mean if it wasn't lying there. Where would I get it,
Lieutenant Barman. Yeh, yeh where? Yeah, right now, it's about
you got a squad car out there. Yeah. Look, and
if we're going across the river, the New York cops
are holding Aaron Burr, I mean, Tony Bellows. I was
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here all the time, Lieutenant, here here in my apartment.
Mister minute, mister Bellows. You telling me you were not
on the set earlier this morning. That is exactly what
I'm telling you. You better tell it from the viginning.
All right, all right, I uh, I got to bed
late last night. We've been well, okay, I had a
few And the truth is I did something for the
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first time in my whole career. I just overslept, I
missed my assignment, and well, I was awakened by a
persistent ringing of the doorbell. I kind of staggered out
of bed. I mean, I was hungover, you know. And
I opened it and there was a cop and he said,
I'm wanted for questioning by New Jersey police in connection
with the killing of George Rivers. I didn't even know
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he was dead. How would I know? You deny that
you were on the set this morning. Yeah, you deny
you fired the shot? How could I fire the shot
if I wasn't there? That you were seen there? Mister Bellow?
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Was I who saw me?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
A cast, a director, a crew, and this officer here?
Patrolman's vot. I'll wait a minute, officer. Did you see
me on the set this morning? Yes, mister Bellow, as
I did? Are you sure, officer? Yes, sir, Now look
at it this way, officer, you saw somebody in costume?
You knew I was playing the part. Now, officer, realizing
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that my life could depend on your answer, just think
did you actually see me? Or did you naturally and
automatically assume it was me? Well? S about it? Well, lieutenant,
now that it's you know, it's put that way, I
don't know what, don't you know? Well, I don't know
if it really was him. I mean sure I thought
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it was him, but I couldn't put my hand on
the Bible and swear if it wasn't him. Who was it?
I don't know, mister Bellows. Have you any objection to
coming back with us? No, Lieutenant, none at all. Will
you excuse me while I changed clothes. I'll just be
a minute. Well, Lieutenant, all I know is somebody killed
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Alexander Hamilton. I'll listen to me. I'm talking like a
flaky director. I mean, somebody killed George Rivers. Yeah, but
who it's about? You were there, You're a cup a
trained observer. Tell me what did you see? Okay, I'm
standing just inside the fence by the gates. I'm with
Chuck and Smitty. They're not watching, and I am. Okay,
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it's just about seven am. So there's Hamilton, yeah, I
mean Rivers, and there's Tony Bellows, and they're ready to shoot.
When was the first time you saw Tony Bellows? Hey, well,
that's just it now, I can't be sure it was
Tony Bellows. Okay, when it was the first time you
saw someone that looked like him? When? Well, just then,
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I mean you didn't see him on the set before,
you didn't see him come out of the dressing room trailer,
and now all the time, Okay, they play the thing,
they shoot, now what? Well, I'm watching Hamilton, yeah, I
mean Rivers. I say to Smitty, I bet she makes
him play it again. But Bellows, Tony Bellows, what about him?
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I don't know. I'm not looking at him.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Then there's all the noise and the commotion and I
run over there. George Rivers is dead, and all through
this you don't see Bellows, No, sir.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
We put in the car for the ambulance and there's
no sign of Bellows. Well, I don't see him, but
I'm not looking for him. So you bring in the
pistol and the cloak. The cloak. Now that you say it,
something's bothered me. Yeah, before the shots, he's wearing the cloak.
But after the shots, right after, I think he's not
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wearing it.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Now, why would he.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Take it off? Subota? How would you know? You said
you weren't looking at him, you were looking at Hamilton. Yeah, yeah, lieutenant,
But you don't have to look at somebody to be
aware of him, you know what I mean? And I'm
aware of the fact that he's not wearing a cloak,
and I see him toss away the pistol and I
think there's another guy. What other guy who I don't know,
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another actor I don't know. It don't look like any
of the other actors who did it. Look like it
was something red. What are you talking about red? Why
should I be thinking of the color red? Smgoter, This
other guy who if there really was another guyvoter? Don't
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you go, kookie? I mean now, I'm trying to thank lieutenant.
I'm trying to remember. So you kept your promise, Tony?
What promised? Julia? When I decided to leave you? You
swore you'd kill George? About it? Mister Bellows? Did you?
I didn't swear, I'm merely threatened. Obviously he's kept his word.
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All Lieutenant, did you ever say things in anger that
could come back to haunt you? Did you threaten to
kill him? Yes? I suppose I did. He killed George
because it was the only way, what only way, the
only way to get rid of Why would I want
to get rid of George Rivers? Because it had become
obvious to anyone with even the slightest knowledge of theater
that George was the more accomplished, the more versatile, the
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better actor. That is not true. To call the silly
mannered posturings of George Rivers acting is the height of stupidity.
And then, of course there's me. I walked out on
you and chose him. Do you think I commit murder
for a long day? Here? You folks have your fight
some other time. And Miss Tarrett did you or did
you not see Tony Bellows on the set this morning? No,
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and I have no further questions, says, but I have
something to tell you, Lieutenant, Tony Bellows killed George River?
Now could I kill him if I wasn't here? You
were here even if I didn't see you? Who? Says? So,
I really don't know why we're having this kind of argument.
It's a very simple way to find out. Holy right
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there now. Now it's no good, mister Parady. You can't
see his face.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Ah, but you can see the cloak and the pistols
so clear.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
But I want his face. Keep the projector going. He's
any more filmed.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Yet, Lieutenant, plenty of film, but but nothing that will
show you the face.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
How could you shoot a duel and not show the face?
Are you telling me how the stage a dramas well?
The Lord seemed to me that simple common sense. Everybody
is a director. Look, there are two people in the door.
Why show only one face?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Because you do not dilute the drama. If you were
to show both the concentration of the audience.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
If you had shot both faces, I'd have been able
to prove that Tony Bellows was or wasn't here.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
I cannot be expected to destroy a dramatic scene for
the benefit of the Weehawk and New Jersey Police depart
a Louck.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Somebody played that scene with George Rivers this morning. Now,
if it wasn't Tony Bellows, who was it who played
the part of Aaron Burr? All right, let us be
completely objective. Let us, as they say, review our options. First,
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despite what he says, it was Tony Bellows. Second, it
was Aaron Burr. Yes, Aaron Burr dead and gone these
many years. But Aaron Burr all the same. Third, Oh well,
see if you can figure it, and I'll be back
in a few moments with the third act to check
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Gaston at LA Vista member FDICEE. George Rivers and Tony Bellows,
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two actors who hate each other in real life, are
playing the parts of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, two
people who also hated each other in real life. Comes
the duel scene and George, who plays Hamilton, is shot dead.
Tony insists he wasn't there, but somebody played the part
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of Aaron Burr and played it for keeps a question
who I wasn't here? And that's why no one can
say they saw me? All right, no one saw. No
one remembers getting a good look at Aaron Burr this morning.
If it wasn't new, mister Bellows, then somebody wore that
cloak and used that PISTOLU Tenant, I can suggest a
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way out of the difficulty the pistol whose fingerprints are
on it. Things don't work out as conveniently for the
police as they do for the movies. Mister paradem there
are no fingerprints on it, A Lieutenant, y as we
both red hair, why do I remember a guy with
red hair? Bright red hair, mister paradege anybody with red
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hair in the company red hair? No.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
My philosophy is to use a redhead only as a lead.
You see, if anyone else had red hair, it would die.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Yeah, I know it would detract. What about this guy
with red hairs? Will vote it? I don't know. I'm
I'm just trying to put it together in my own mind. Oh,
thank you for the lift back to Manhattan. Lieutenant. We
brought you over. We bring you back. Will I be
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wanted again for just keep yourself available? See anything else
you have to ask me? No? Well, thanks again for
the lift. Yeah. Yeah. How have you been getting back
and forth from here to Jersey? Oh, there's nothing to
it by car. Get onto the West Side Highway into
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the Lincoln Tunnel and there I am and wee hawking.
And how long does it take you early in the morning,
no traffic? Twenty minutes? Oh oh, I think I see
what you're driving at. I'm not driving in anything. Where
do you keep a car? They have a garage in
the basement of the apartment house. Well, see you around
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this bellows. Yeah, once again, thanks for the lift. Well,
while we're here, we'll ask you in charge of this garage.
I in charge of nothing. I just work here police. Yeah,
I know I can always tell a cop what time
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would you come on in the morning. Hey, your clock?
Who's on before you get here? Nobody? The nightman quits
after he washes the car. What time is that? Well,
I gets it all done by a half past three,
four o'clock. So if someone picks up his car between
four and eight in the morning, there's no one here.
That's the way it goes. What you got here at
eight o'clock? Was Tony Bellow's car in the garage? Yes?
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There was?
Speaker 4 (39:49):
And talking about Tony Bellow's car, I'm Washington, Now I
see anything else.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
I noticed on the blackboard there you got some names,
mister Bellows one of them. What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Those are the full service customers, you see. Each one
was supposed to have their car washed every night in
the week. Okay, thanks, you know, and I always say
support the local cops. Oh it, you're washing mister Bellow's
car now, why you can see why it's filthy for
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that jersey mouttin dirt?
Speaker 5 (40:25):
Was it that way when you came in at eight
this morning?
Speaker 1 (40:29):
There's been that way all day. It's the first hand
I had to get out if the nightman washed it
last night, and it hasn't been used since. And how
did to get some money? Could have you forgotten to
wash it? Oh? Jerry who we call him Jerry the Elephant,
He never forgets. And so in the confusion after the
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shooting you you sneaked off the set. I did not
go into your car. Now you drove back across the
tunnel and into your garage, and you're upstairs before the
day man up. It isn't true, but you forgot one thing.
A car is washed every night. You got it dirty
when you took it out. I didn't take it out.
And how did it get full of mud? I don't know,
Yes I do. The nightman didn't wash it. He swears
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he did. Oh, he's lying. Plenty of times he forgets
or he's too lazy. And I pay good money for
that service. You're not getting your money's worth. Why didn't
you complain? I? Well, I did to him too, to
his boss. Naturally. If we asked his boss, will you
remember your complaining? If the nightman makes a habit of
forgetting to wash your car, wouldn't the day man noticed?
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Should we ask him? What would he say? Let me alone?
Just let me alone. I didn't kill him. I did
not do it. Yes, we'd better let you alone for
a while, have something to drink, relax, think about it,
Misterie the voter. Huh oh, what is it? Missus?
Speaker 5 (41:57):
How does it happen?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
You're not in bed? I wake up and there I
them all by myself. Katie. I'm scared. Oh what's the matter.
I can't explain it. We'll try. Should I make coffee? No? No, no, love,
you just sit here. I'm really scared, honey. You scared, stash.
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You don't even know what that word means. I've been
reading something in these books. Let me see those Life
and Death of Alexander Hamilton. Hey, I thought you got
out some books so you could finally study for the
sergeant's exam. What's this all about? How did I know, Katie?
How did I know? How did you know? What? Exactly?
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How it happened? How what happened? How Burr killed Hamilton?
I've been reading these books all about that duel that
reports the eyewitness accounts, and they all agree on what
I saw. Well, what do you think you saw? I
saw Burr, Aaron Burr, just before the duel, while he
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was waiting slip off his cloak, and then I remember
the look on his face after he fired his pistol.
He was scared. I guess he really didn't mean to
kill Hamilton, and he just threw away the pistol and
he was about to rush over to where Hamilton fell,
and this redhaired man stopped him, stopped him, just held him,
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and he then started walking Burr away. And that's all
I saw. Nobody else saw a red haired guy, but
I did. And you know who he was? All right,
Burr has a second, you know, a guy to back
him up from uh huh. And this guy's name was
van Ness and he had red hair. So well, what
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does that? Do you realize what I saw? I saw
it exactly as it happened, as it took place on
Wednesday morning, at seven o'clock on July eleventh, eighteen hundred
and four. I saw the real duel, and somehow the
real Aaron Burr fired and the bullet hit George Rivers,
the actor. Oh, Katie, I saw it. Well, I'm not
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saying it's the only the only way to explain it,
the only way it could have happened if the duel
took place in eighteen hundred and four. How look, Katie,
it's like if you can duplicate all the exact conditions
you can maybe, Okay, Sash, look that they're going to
hang it on this Tony Burrow Darling. He did it. No, Katie,
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Aaron Burr did it. That's what happened. That's that's the
crazy thing that happened. But what can you do about it?
I gotta tell Balman no, no, no, Stash, don't. But
Tony Bellows is in this You tell that kind of
story to baman, you know what they'll do. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (44:55):
If you know the truth.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
You gotta tell us. But you don't know it's the truth,
all right. Look hiped here in this book, and I
see what the guy writes. And when Burr saw that
he had killed the precious enemy, he threw his pistol
away as if it were a thing unclean, and started
to rush toward his fallen friend and foe. And only
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the redhead Vaness, who fearing for Burr's safety, managed to
spirit him away. So that's what I saw. That's what
I saw, how he threw away the pistol, how he
wanted to run to Hamilton. That's what the man's writing about.
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And you say you actually saw Aaron Burr. It's the
only thing that makes sense, lieutenant, And somehow they were
back in eighteen hundred and four, Yes, lieutenant, And as
the bullet flew from the real Aaron Burr's pistol, it
is somehow killed George Rivers. Yes, lieutenant, Well what do
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you suggest we do? We have to do something to
help Tony Bellows? No? I mean, what do we do
about use for voter? Maybe I can forget it? Forget it.
You're a good cop, little lieutenant. Do you think maybe
the book cops they're human like everybody else. We're not superman,
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but I'm not nuts. I saw it, I saw Aaron Burrow.
Are things at Holmes for both. It's tough to be
a CoP's wife, so sometimes a guy feels a lot
of pressure. Lieutenant. Everything is just great at home, and
you take a lot of flat people make remarks. A
cop is everybody's favorite target. You know. They used to
call us flat feet and bulls. Today we're pigs and fuzz.
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It can get to a guy, Lieutenant. All that rolls
off my back. I know what I saw. I want
to go on sickly? Oh is that how it is?
How else can it be? Okay? Say that Bellows did
kill him. How can he expect to get away with it?
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I'll let you know when I'm ready to leave. God, Well,
what do you want? Who are you? Mister Bellows? My
name is Wiboda. You look familiar. Oh you have a
cop who was on the set. Why are you here?
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I heard the verdict. I'm sorry twenty years twenty and
I'm innocent. Believe me, I'm innocent. Why didn't anyone believe me?
I believe you? You do? Oh that's great. I want
to help him. How maybe I can catch the real killer?
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Do you know who it is? Yeah? Who? Nobody wants
to believe it? Listen? Who is it? It's Aaron Burr?
Aaron Burr. Yes. Oh well, thanks a lot for dropping by, officer.
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I really appreciate it. It's true. Sure, sure, I can't
tell my superiors about it because they never buy it. Well, no, no,
of course not. But I'm gonna work on it independently. Yeah, yeah,
you do that. I just came by here to tell
you that you still have a chance. Not much of
a chance, but it's all there is. Oh that's that's great.
Speaker 5 (48:39):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (48:42):
Well? The next time that July eleventh falls on a Wednesday,
I'll be there at that field at seven in the morning,
and when Burr shows up for the jewel, I'll try
to arrest him for the murder of George Rivers. That
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will be seven years from now. At that time, hopefully
we will bring you the story. After all, what is time,
as the philosopher says, 'tis but a wheel that turns
round and round, and it always moves backward in order
to go forward. What we have seen we shall see again.
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Tony Bellow's really homeless sleep during a duel it officers
Forboda really see Erin Burr and his second mister van Ness.
We never take sides around here. We serve the feast
and let each help himself to those dishes that please
invest Certainly there is nourish enough to sustain both points
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of view. Our cast included Jack Grimes, George Petrie, Joan Shay,
William Redfield, and Leon Janney. The entire production was under
the direction of Hyman Brown and now a preview of
our next tale. I knew there was something mysterious going
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on in this house. Something was wrong. Maybe it wasn't
as deadly as may have had claimed, but I felt
certain it wasn't as innocent as her father had asserted.
I also knew that I wasn't going to rest until
I found out. I got out of bed and dressed myself,
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and I walked quietly to the door. I turned the handle.
That's when I discovered that it was locked. Locked from
the outside. I woke to the window and I discovered
that I couldn't open it. Now I knew, with crystal clarity,
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