September 4, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Autolite, and it's ninety eight thousand dealers, bring you, mister
John Hodiac In Tonight's presentation of suspence, Tonight, Autolized presents
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young man and an old man. Naturally enough, they were liars.
(00:30):
They also happened to be bank robbers. The story is
based on facts and called the Big Heist Our Star.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Mister John Hodiac.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
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Speaker 1 (01:37):
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big Heist starring mister John Hodiac, hoping once again to
keep you in suspense.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Sure, I worked with John Barry on the Colfax National trick.
He's the best in these bank bits, you know. Of course,
everybody knows that he had it cased right up to
where he continued what the guy in small loans had
for breakfast that morning. If it was a John Barry job,
you can figure it was first class good, right, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
H Yeah, I believe I will thanks much bliged.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You see, I'd been hanging around that pool room for
a week or so, knocking off this one and that one, picking.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Up enough to get by on it was let me.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
See.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Four days ago.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Thursday, this ball had a jenet been sitting there a
half hour better Washington practice. I'd seen him around before.
I knew he'd get up and talked to me pretty soon. Ay,
(02:57):
what's the matter, it's pretty good. Just luck, don't kidding me.
I'm not you like eight ball man. I'm willing to
try anything.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Wow, play for a buck.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
I don't know what's the matter.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
If you got a buck.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I'm looking at the way you think that that queue.
You must be pretty good.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
I'm no good at all.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Let's hold off playing for a buck right now. Just
a friendly game. I'll suit yourself, but you'll be sorry
when you see how I play.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I'm really no good.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
You'll like You'll see he was a lollipop.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
If he's thrown away the queue and use the baseball bat,
he'd done better every shot. I thought he was gonna
tear the felt right off the table. But I let
him win the first four games, and I could tell
he felt pretty good about it. I miscued and passed
up shots that a ten year old kid could have figured.
I only had five bucks to my name, but I
knew I was gonna have at least twenty five of
his before I finished.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Right, okay, this who want to take them in? That's
that wall. That's what's what I'm Come on boys, what's not? Hey?
What's up?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Looking for bags?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I guess huh?
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Getting the road gang together.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
They like to pick up anybody who needs a shave.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Come on, you two, get over here.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
That's the wall boys, that's it.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Let's knock off the ch other.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Just keep it quiet.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I want identification on all of you, diver's license, social
security card, something that will tell us what your name is,
where you're living, where you work.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Take them out.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Come on, boys, Hey, I'm in trouble.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Uh no address here?
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Well you are in trouble telling how.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Many times we're gonna do your right? Dress? Bonnie to
twelve sixteen? Yes, what kind of work here? Though?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
I'm a prick?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Lan?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Where do you work? Masters and Construction Company? Why aren't
you working today? I'm sick. Okay, let's see it. No,
not the wallet, just the card Weisenbuch Yeah, work car No,
just sort of pa from through town. You can see
I live in Philly. I can see how do you live? Kyle?
(05:05):
I saved my money this one. Okay, come on, Hey,
you know what it's all about. Let's have it, buddy,
James Scott.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
That's right, sergeant.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Watch this Salt Lake City.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, that's where I live.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
He's with me now.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
We live together at five sixteen Marrion Dale, number fourteen.
What's your name, Martin Collins? What kind of work do
you do? I'm an electrician?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah, what do you do? I help him?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I'm learning the trade here in this place. Oh, guy's
gotta relax, sergeant. We just finished a big wiring job
for an outdoor billboard outfit. All right, seventeen days hanging
by our toes on those things. You try it sometimes,
and this is our first day off since the beginning
of the last month.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
All right, you bet you. That's the truth, sergeant.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Okay, here you where do you work?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Man?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I own this place. That's why I work. Thanks Donald.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
That's about the way it started.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Collins turned out to be a little quicker than I
first sized him up. I could have talked my way
out of it, I guess, but then he just might
have saved me ten days for no visible means. After
the cops talked to everybody and hauled a few down,
we went back to the table Wow, that's that.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Hey, aren't you gonna let me get even?
Speaker 5 (06:35):
You'd never get eaten with me? Boy?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
What had me picked it and just got just like
that bus driver you had right here.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
On the same table three days ago.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Oh, you were gonna let me win the first four
then you were going to turn into a regular wooly
hoppy and really let me have it. It had gone
up form a buck to five then ten. Isn't that
the way he's gonna work at now?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, I'd just like to try for my three bucks again?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Come on, boy, who you kidding?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Own up?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Okay, I had your pick. I can still give you
a game, though, I tell.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You I invented the game. You've been wasting your time.
You have been wasting your time.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Have I five ten fifteen bucks a day around here?
Not bad?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I'd say, how could you go for ten thousand bucks
in one day?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Sounds good?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
But you'll have to lend me some overalls because I
know I'm gonna have to work real hard for that
kind of money.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
We need a tag guy for what you want to
meet somebody? Sure?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Why not hang up your cue?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Boy, John Barry, Hello, this is Jim Scott.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
John.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Hi, come on and Jim, tell me where you come from.
Salt Lake City, A nice place, Salt Lake. How long
you've been in town?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
A week or better?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
What are you doing in this part of the country.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
If I I isn't going to ask you, just answer questions.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I go on, tell him sit down, son, Thanks. I
just like to know a little about the people I
work with. That's now, Jen, What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Looking for work? I guess I drove a truck on
my last job.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Do you know anybody in town?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
A couple of people? Who ooh, girl named Melvis. We
sort of got acquainted.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
A week in town. You already got yourself a girl.
That's good, isn't it, Martin? A pretty good job. Well,
you are a personable young fellow. You have a nice
way about you. I don't see why not. Can you
use a little money?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Well, he said them about ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It's not a little money.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
It might be a lot more than that, at least ten.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, sure I could use it. What do I have
to do all up a bank?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
No, I'll do that part of it. You just help me. Huh, Yes,
it's a bank job. You ever hear me, son, John Barry. No,
but I'm the best in the business, and I always
pick good men to work with me. Now you look
like the kind of boy who knows how to use
his head. I'd like to have you in on it.
You'll probably go far in this world.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Can have a bank. I won't. I'll go to jail.
That's what will happen.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I thought you looked him over, Maren.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I did.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
John.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It's a surprise to me. Would you rather hang a
out of those poor rooms the rest of your life? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I've never done anything like a bank.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
What have you done? Son?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Thirty days? That ninety days once? And I didn't like it.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Oh, I see you, and I don't blame you. But
no policeman's going to bother you on this. You aren't
going to wind up in any jail. Nobody's going to jail.
You do your part of it exactly the way I
show you, and you come out clean, safe, nice and rich.
Now how did that sound?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Oh it sounds pretty good.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
How about that girl Melva?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
She pretty sure well. She likes you all. Then how
about it? Now? If you and I both know that
one thing ladies understand is money. The more you have,
the more they understand. It's the way they're built. Is
not that? The way it is? Mother? Chure is John,
and you know that too. So now the money you
get from this will help you a lot. Or maybe
(10:00):
you wouldn't want to spend it on her, But then,
at your age, a good fling is something to remember
all your life, A new car, nice place to live.
Things like that make this old world not such a
bad place to live in. Maybe you'd even like to
go into business.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, I thought about that till.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Sure you have. When the whole thing's over, you'll never
see Martin here again, You'll never see me again, but
you'll have a big package of money to remember us.
Buy to do with what you like. And I can
tell by looking at you right now that you have
some pretty good ideas and how to handle money. Now,
isn't that right?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, what would I have to do?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I just pay attention to what you call Scott Martin's right.
Years from now, somebody might ask you, or you just
might want to tell them. You can say you're with
John Barry on the bank job. You can say you
started when it was low needle and you wrote it
all away of course you don't want to work with me.
You can walk right out that door and forget where
you ever talked about this. When you read in the
(10:55):
papers about how it went off and how much was taken,
you'll feel pretty silly passing it up. Now, if you
can use the money and follow instructions, Mutt and I
would like to have you in the show.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
What well? When? What are you going to do it?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Tomorrow afternoon?
Speaker 5 (11:10):
You want to help us tip over this bank, don't you?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
What do you say?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Ten thousand?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Probably a lot more? Are you in? Son?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I'm in?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
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report well calculated to keep you in suspense. This bird
(13:09):
who built the Colfax National had a pretty nifty idea.
He set it back off the street so you can
just shove your car right up in front of the
place like it was a drive in. No parking problem.
There's plenty of room all the time to get in
or out. And I guess that's the main reason. John
Barry fixed.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
It just a minute, got it relaxed.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Well, I thought we were going in and looked at
place over it's didn't look though I've been at it
for the last eight months. Okay, See that guy in front,
and the one's looking at us. He's looking over us,
and he's watching that big clock across the street. He
always done huh for some reason, two minutes mean a
lot in that man's life. The clock across the street
once two minutes fast. There were clocks on all four
walls of the bank that are right on the nose.
(14:00):
I'm it gets near quitting time. He goes by that
clock in front of the jewelry store. Now, in about
thirty seconds, he'll rope off the front doors of the
bank and no more customers will be allowed in today.
You'll have to keep him busy out there tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You're worried about one guy out front, Oh what about
all those tellers and clerk's inside.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Must be twenty five of us thirty three people inside
that bank.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Well, who's going to keep them busy? While I'm keeping
him busy. Suppose one of them wants to turn in there.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
You're asking too many questions, got why don't you just listen?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
That's all right, man, I don't want to worry about anything, son.
There are only four tellers inside that bank will know
what's being robbed. We'll be ten blocks away before the
rest of them find out here.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
But I can see five cages in there. That's right.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You only have to worry about the first four. The
fifth one won't be working tomorrow. He's a war veteran
with a hero complex, the only one in the whole
bunch who try for the alarm. But we'll lucky. The
poor man has a spinal injury. Every Friday afternoon he
leaves at two o'clock to go over to the Veterans
Hospital and Brainbridge Boulevard for outpatient treatment. They just close
(14:58):
his cage.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
He hurt.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Anything in the spine's bad, eh Will I tell you?
The guy's roping off the door two minutes to three
by the bank clocks three o'clock. By that one over there,
you and I have park the car here. Tomorrow at
five minutes to three.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
I'll already be inside the bank waiting for Jim.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Martin goes into two forty five. I meet him inside
at two minutes to three. Martin covers me while I
work the cage. Is that three by that clock across
the street. You'll go up to that guard and keep
them busy. I don't want him to turn around or
worry about anything that's going on inside. You understand something, Yeah, yeah, sure,
You'll have to keep him busy for at least three minutes.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
So how you talk?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Pretty good, Scott. That's why we picture Martin's rights on.
You just go up to them and say anything you like. So,
just so you keep him busy this time tomorrow, you'll
be pretty well set, young fella. Doesn't that make you
feel good? Sound?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I don't know where I got the notion that a
bank robber always he wore a dark suit and pulled.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
A hat over his eyes.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
It was pretty hard to convince myself that an old guy,
a fat guy, and me were gonna heist the Colfax National.
But when we got back to the hotel room and
John Barry began telling me all he knew.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
About the inside and outside of that bank.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And the people who ran it, and the people who
built it, and the people who owned it. I began
to get a lump in my throat for the bonding company.
He had diagrams, he had blueprints, he knew the alarm
system better than the ginzo who put it in. And
there's a certain safe company back in Ohio that had
make him a vice president tomorrow for what he could
tell him about their own time pass. And until eight
(16:39):
that night, he kept me busier than a flea and
a fat man, telling me about everything. I felt pretty
good about the whole thing, and I was just getting
ready to go up to the room.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
He rean it for me when it happened.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Here, yo, son, go ahead, tom taking the shore.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
You didn't say anything about a gun. I thought all
I had to do was talk to that guard.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
That's right. So, but I'm giving you this right now.
Once and a half, well forty five, I find piece
at is it loaded? I go better go upstairs and
get yourself some sleep, some big day tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, I guess you're right now.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I'll tell you this right now. That gun was something
I hadn't counted on. John told me I wouldn't have
to use it. She had to saying it worried me.
You know, I just wasn't used to it. I went
up to my room and tried to call Melvia, but
she was out. I lay down a while and I
couldn't sleep somehow, and I just went for a walk,
thinking about everything. And I had the gun with him
(17:45):
right in my pocket. It was almost midnight when I
got back. I didn't go to my room.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I went right to his. He was lying on top
of his.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Bed in the dock, but his eyes were wide open,
and he had all his clothes on.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
An old guy.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
How can I say, listening to the radio in his window,
that's your song?
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Pretty music, Uh, very nice stuff. That man wrong?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, look, John, I'm out.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Out of the job son.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, here's a gunback. I don't want it.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I thought of just scramming out, but I wanted to
tell you because you've been good to me today.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I say, mind if I ask you what made you
change your mind about tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Oh, I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I I just decided not to that's all.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Got the coffee, Ah, got your bet Scott.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Mary Scott says he isn't going with us tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Why that's right, And there's no sense in you getting
steamed up about it.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I'm just not gonna do. But what's the whole thing
in a shell?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Hold, hollock, Scott, we got to have you on this job.
It's doing to get anybody else. John spent eight months
laying it out. It's fixed for tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
No, man, just a minute. Scott's a pretty good boy.
We both know. Then if he has a reason to
back out and quit, it must be a pretty good reason,
isn't that right?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Son?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You see, Mortney started over, but John ever doesn't come
off the way we plant it.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Wait a minute, Martin, Son, what I'd like to ask
you again? Why? Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Well, I just don't want it?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Is it the gun? Son? Is that it?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I don't want to shoot nobody.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Oh Martin, have we ever shot anybody?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
You see, Son, no sense of worrying about that now.
Martin carried a gun for what eleven years?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Martin?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
At least that never fired. Martin, show him your gun? Sure,
say practically rusted, isn't it now? I've carried one for
twenty two years, never had occasional use of the door.
When I gave you that gun tonight, Son, I just
thought I was going to make you feel good.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Honestly, well, you didn't make me feel good.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I see that now, But believe me, I just gave
it to you as a sort of insurance. You don't
even have to carry it if you're going all but
look here, you take it back, go ahead, keep it tonight.
If you don't want to take it tomorrow, it's all right.
Not pause that. Well, you go upstairs and get a
good night's wrestler. You don't have anything to worry about.
Tomorrow we'll all have a big breakfast and forget this
(20:22):
ever happened.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
We left the hotel at two twenty and we dropped
Martin Collins six blocks in the Colfax Nash Up.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Heave us to take a street car off there.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
After that, John Dowley and I drove around at Gill
twelve minutes. At two forty five, we headed for the
bank ourselves, and we pulled up in a lot of
exactly seven minutes to three. It as thought i'd been
through a dozen of the way I felt, And then
just like that it started you all right, maybe maybe
I can't keep him busy for three minutes? What there?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
You know, I'll take it easy, caut you can shoot
them busy, talk to you know, how to do that?
What if I can now look that God's names Edward
Jamison make sixty eight dollars a week standing there looking
at that clock across the street and telling people why
they can't come in. Once he's put the rope up,
that's the big moment in his life. It's the only
thing he's got to look for. Play on that.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, yeah, but suppose yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Forgot this hey, oh no, no, no, I left that
back in my room.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeah, I know, so I brought it in case you
might need to slip it inside your coat. Well that,
oh boy, right on time. Go after him as soon
as he puts up the ropes. I don't want these things, son.
That man's gotta be busy. If you can't keep him
busy talking, you shove that thing right under his nose.
It'll look terrible to him, even bigger than it is. Remember,
(21:41):
he doesn't want to get all shot up.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Sizah half ours You mean it's three already?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Gright it is. There's the clock.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I must be fast. I got two minutes out. Yes,
your slow, sir, well, you couldn't sneak me in, I
suppose straightly against the house rules, No, sir.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Well, look, one customer more or lesson's gonna make any differences.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Once the ropes out, I can let them out, but
I can't let them in.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Well, this sure puts me in a spot.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Is it a deposit?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
No? I have a piece of property going through escrow now.
I just found out the man I sold it to
his declaring bankruptcy. That scrows up at tens a night.
And I don't want him to have my property, would
you say not? Well, look, if if you could just
let me hear there to talk to the escrow people,
I can get myself out of a lot of trouble.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
What do you say, Well, I think guys can help you.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Good, I'll appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Look, mister Ever's head of the escrow division. It's here
until five now.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And the operator I was looking over his shoulder pasted him.
Inside the bank, I could see John Barry in front
of one of the teller's cages, helping himself to a
bag full of money. Collins was standing right in the
middle of the lobby, his right hand stuck down inside
his coat pocket. Every one of the tellers were looking
at him with a sort of wide eye like I
couldn't believe it. Old John was nudging somebody in front
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of him, looked like a vice president, and they just
kept going from cage to cage where he'd pick.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Up the cash.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Nobody made a move.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I don't think any of the customers that were in there,
or anybody else outside the tellers knew the place was
being robbed. I ended, I'm just going to call mister
ever huh, Well, what are you lock?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Run a coat? Look you.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
I have a sky I guess shoot into him?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Just went off. It just went off.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Get out of here, boys.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I didn't mean the shoot in. I didn't want to
shoot him.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
You guys know that, dom right, cut up Scottie.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I didn't want to. I didn't want to. I didn't
want to do any of this. You guys made me
do it. You taught me to do it. That's what
you did. And I'm gonna tell him too.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I'm gonna tell them everything you made me doing and
they won't do anything.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Toll me no line not looking over there.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
You got a gun on us? Wow, Hey, to coment.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
That's right, and you can tell them anything you want.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Out of that car.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
One at a time. Put your hands up. Suppose I
should never have given him the gun mane.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I suppose, so John will open why.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Command, So let's see what these police officers want to
talk about.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
It's John Barry.
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And remember he's the best looked like any old geezer
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But let me tell you, he had it.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Every time he opened his mouth made sense.
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He was pretty good at that old chaddow too.
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Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Sure, I worked with John Barry on the Colfax National trick.
He's the best in these bank bits, you know. Of course,
everybody knows that he had it cased right up to
where he continued what the guy in small loans had
for breakfast that morning. If it was a John Barry job,
you can figure it was first class good, right, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
H Yeah, I believe I will thanks much bliged.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You see, I'd been hanging around that pool room for
a week or so, knocking off this one and that one, picking.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Up enough to get by on it was let me.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
See.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Four days ago.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Thursday, this ball had a jenet been sitting there a
half hour better Washington practice. I'd seen him around before.
I knew he'd get up and talked to me pretty soon. Ay,
(02:57):
what's the matter, it's pretty good. Just luck, don't kidding me.
I'm not you like eight ball man. I'm willing to
try anything.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Wow, play for a buck.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
I don't know what's the matter.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
If you got a buck.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I'm looking at the way you think that that queue.
You must be pretty good.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
I'm no good at all.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Let's hold off playing for a buck right now. Just
a friendly game. I'll suit yourself, but you'll be sorry
when you see how I play.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I'm really no good.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
You'll like You'll see he was a lollipop.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
If he's thrown away the queue and use the baseball bat,
he'd done better every shot. I thought he was gonna
tear the felt right off the table. But I let
him win the first four games, and I could tell
he felt pretty good about it. I miscued and passed
up shots that a ten year old kid could have figured.
I only had five bucks to my name, but I
knew I was gonna have at least twenty five of
his before I finished.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Right, okay, this who want to take them in? That's
that wall. That's what's what I'm Come on boys, what's not? Hey?
What's up?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Looking for bags?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I guess huh?
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Getting the road gang together.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
They like to pick up anybody who needs a shave.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Come on, you two, get over here.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
That's the wall boys, that's it.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Let's knock off the ch other.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Just keep it quiet.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I want identification on all of you, diver's license, social
security card, something that will tell us what your name is,
where you're living, where you work.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Take them out.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Come on, boys, Hey, I'm in trouble.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Uh no address here?
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Well you are in trouble telling how.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Many times we're gonna do your right? Dress? Bonnie to
twelve sixteen? Yes, what kind of work here? Though?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
I'm a prick?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Lan?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Where do you work? Masters and Construction Company? Why aren't
you working today? I'm sick. Okay, let's see it. No,
not the wallet, just the card Weisenbuch Yeah, work car No,
just sort of pa from through town. You can see
I live in Philly. I can see how do you live? Kyle?
(05:05):
I saved my money this one. Okay, come on, Hey,
you know what it's all about. Let's have it, buddy,
James Scott.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
That's right, sergeant.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Watch this Salt Lake City.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, that's where I live.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
He's with me now.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
We live together at five sixteen Marrion Dale, number fourteen.
What's your name, Martin Collins? What kind of work do
you do? I'm an electrician?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah, what do you do? I help him?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I'm learning the trade here in this place. Oh, guy's
gotta relax, sergeant. We just finished a big wiring job
for an outdoor billboard outfit. All right, seventeen days hanging
by our toes on those things. You try it sometimes,
and this is our first day off since the beginning
of the last month.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
All right, you bet you. That's the truth, sergeant.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Okay, here you where do you work?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Man?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I own this place. That's why I work. Thanks Donald.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
That's about the way it started.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Collins turned out to be a little quicker than I
first sized him up. I could have talked my way
out of it, I guess, but then he just might
have saved me ten days for no visible means. After
the cops talked to everybody and hauled a few down,
we went back to the table Wow, that's that.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Hey, aren't you gonna let me get even?
Speaker 5 (06:35):
You'd never get eaten with me? Boy?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
What had me picked it and just got just like
that bus driver you had right here.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
On the same table three days ago.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Oh, you were gonna let me win the first four
then you were going to turn into a regular wooly
hoppy and really let me have it. It had gone
up form a buck to five then ten. Isn't that
the way he's gonna work at now?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, I'd just like to try for my three bucks again?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Come on, boy, who you kidding?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Own up?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Okay, I had your pick. I can still give you
a game, though, I tell.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You I invented the game. You've been wasting your time.
You have been wasting your time.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Have I five ten fifteen bucks a day around here?
Not bad?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I'd say, how could you go for ten thousand bucks
in one day?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Sounds good?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
But you'll have to lend me some overalls because I
know I'm gonna have to work real hard for that
kind of money.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
We need a tag guy for what you want to
meet somebody? Sure?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Why not hang up your cue?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Boy, John Barry, Hello, this is Jim Scott.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
John.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Hi, come on and Jim, tell me where you come from.
Salt Lake City, A nice place, Salt Lake. How long
you've been in town?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
A week or better?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
What are you doing in this part of the country.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
If I I isn't going to ask you, just answer questions.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I go on, tell him sit down, son, Thanks. I
just like to know a little about the people I
work with. That's now, Jen, What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Looking for work? I guess I drove a truck on
my last job.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Do you know anybody in town?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
A couple of people? Who ooh, girl named Melvis. We
sort of got acquainted.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
A week in town. You already got yourself a girl.
That's good, isn't it, Martin? A pretty good job. Well,
you are a personable young fellow. You have a nice
way about you. I don't see why not. Can you
use a little money?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Well, he said them about ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It's not a little money.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
It might be a lot more than that, at least ten.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, sure I could use it. What do I have
to do all up a bank?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
No, I'll do that part of it. You just help me. Huh, Yes,
it's a bank job. You ever hear me, son, John Barry. No,
but I'm the best in the business, and I always
pick good men to work with me. Now you look
like the kind of boy who knows how to use
his head. I'd like to have you in on it.
You'll probably go far in this world.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Can have a bank. I won't. I'll go to jail.
That's what will happen.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I thought you looked him over, Maren.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I did.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
John.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It's a surprise to me. Would you rather hang a
out of those poor rooms the rest of your life? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I've never done anything like a bank.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
What have you done? Son?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Thirty days? That ninety days once? And I didn't like it.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Oh, I see you, and I don't blame you. But
no policeman's going to bother you on this. You aren't
going to wind up in any jail. Nobody's going to jail.
You do your part of it exactly the way I
show you, and you come out clean, safe, nice and rich.
Now how did that sound?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Oh it sounds pretty good.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
How about that girl Melva?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
She pretty sure well. She likes you all. Then how
about it? Now? If you and I both know that
one thing ladies understand is money. The more you have,
the more they understand. It's the way they're built. Is
not that? The way it is? Mother? Chure is John,
and you know that too. So now the money you
get from this will help you a lot. Or maybe
(10:00):
you wouldn't want to spend it on her, But then,
at your age, a good fling is something to remember
all your life, A new car, nice place to live.
Things like that make this old world not such a
bad place to live in. Maybe you'd even like to
go into business.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, I thought about that till.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Sure you have. When the whole thing's over, you'll never
see Martin here again, You'll never see me again, but
you'll have a big package of money to remember us.
Buy to do with what you like. And I can
tell by looking at you right now that you have
some pretty good ideas and how to handle money. Now,
isn't that right?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, what would I have to do?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I just pay attention to what you call Scott Martin's right.
Years from now, somebody might ask you, or you just
might want to tell them. You can say you're with
John Barry on the bank job. You can say you
started when it was low needle and you wrote it
all away of course you don't want to work with me.
You can walk right out that door and forget where
you ever talked about this. When you read in the
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papers about how it went off and how much was taken,
you'll feel pretty silly passing it up. Now, if you
can use the money and follow instructions, Mutt and I
would like to have you in the show.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
What well? When? What are you going to do it?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Tomorrow afternoon?
Speaker 5 (11:10):
You want to help us tip over this bank, don't you?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
What do you say?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Ten thousand?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Probably a lot more? Are you in? Son?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I'm in?
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who built the Colfax National had a pretty nifty idea.
He set it back off the street so you can
just shove your car right up in front of the
place like it was a drive in. No parking problem.
There's plenty of room all the time to get in
or out. And I guess that's the main reason. John
Barry fixed.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
It just a minute, got it relaxed.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Well, I thought we were going in and looked at
place over it's didn't look though I've been at it
for the last eight months. Okay, See that guy in front,
and the one's looking at us. He's looking over us,
and he's watching that big clock across the street. He
always done huh for some reason, two minutes mean a
lot in that man's life. The clock across the street
once two minutes fast. There were clocks on all four
walls of the bank that are right on the nose.
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I'm it gets near quitting time. He goes by that
clock in front of the jewelry store. Now, in about
thirty seconds, he'll rope off the front doors of the
bank and no more customers will be allowed in today.
You'll have to keep him busy out there tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You're worried about one guy out front, Oh what about
all those tellers and clerk's inside.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Must be twenty five of us thirty three people inside
that bank.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Well, who's going to keep them busy? While I'm keeping
him busy. Suppose one of them wants to turn in there.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
You're asking too many questions, got why don't you just listen?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
That's all right, man, I don't want to worry about anything, son.
There are only four tellers inside that bank will know
what's being robbed. We'll be ten blocks away before the
rest of them find out here.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
But I can see five cages in there. That's right.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You only have to worry about the first four. The
fifth one won't be working tomorrow. He's a war veteran
with a hero complex, the only one in the whole
bunch who try for the alarm. But we'll lucky. The
poor man has a spinal injury. Every Friday afternoon he
leaves at two o'clock to go over to the Veterans
Hospital and Brainbridge Boulevard for outpatient treatment. They just close
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his cage.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
He hurt.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Anything in the spine's bad, eh Will I tell you?
The guy's roping off the door two minutes to three
by the bank clocks three o'clock. By that one over there,
you and I have park the car here. Tomorrow at
five minutes to three.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
I'll already be inside the bank waiting for Jim.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Martin goes into two forty five. I meet him inside
at two minutes to three. Martin covers me while I
work the cage. Is that three by that clock across
the street. You'll go up to that guard and keep
them busy. I don't want him to turn around or
worry about anything that's going on inside. You understand something, Yeah, yeah, sure,
You'll have to keep him busy for at least three minutes.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
So how you talk?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Pretty good, Scott. That's why we picture Martin's rights on.
You just go up to them and say anything you like. So,
just so you keep him busy this time tomorrow, you'll
be pretty well set, young fella. Doesn't that make you
feel good? Sound?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I don't know where I got the notion that a
bank robber always he wore a dark suit and pulled.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
A hat over his eyes.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
It was pretty hard to convince myself that an old guy,
a fat guy, and me were gonna heist the Colfax National.
But when we got back to the hotel room and
John Barry began telling me all he knew.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
About the inside and outside of that bank.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And the people who ran it, and the people who
built it, and the people who owned it. I began
to get a lump in my throat for the bonding company.
He had diagrams, he had blueprints, he knew the alarm
system better than the ginzo who put it in. And
there's a certain safe company back in Ohio that had
make him a vice president tomorrow for what he could
tell him about their own time pass. And until eight
(16:39):
that night, he kept me busier than a flea and
a fat man, telling me about everything. I felt pretty
good about the whole thing, and I was just getting
ready to go up to the room.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
He rean it for me when it happened.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Here, yo, son, go ahead, tom taking the shore.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
You didn't say anything about a gun. I thought all
I had to do was talk to that guard.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
That's right. So, but I'm giving you this right now.
Once and a half, well forty five, I find piece
at is it loaded? I go better go upstairs and
get yourself some sleep, some big day tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, I guess you're right now.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I'll tell you this right now. That gun was something
I hadn't counted on. John told me I wouldn't have
to use it. She had to saying it worried me.
You know, I just wasn't used to it. I went
up to my room and tried to call Melvia, but
she was out. I lay down a while and I
couldn't sleep somehow, and I just went for a walk,
thinking about everything. And I had the gun with him
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right in my pocket. It was almost midnight when I
got back. I didn't go to my room.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I went right to his. He was lying on top
of his.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Bed in the dock, but his eyes were wide open,
and he had all his clothes on.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
An old guy.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
How can I say, listening to the radio in his window,
that's your song?
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Pretty music, Uh, very nice stuff. That man wrong?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, look, John, I'm out.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Out of the job son.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, here's a gunback. I don't want it.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I thought of just scramming out, but I wanted to
tell you because you've been good to me today.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I say, mind if I ask you what made you
change your mind about tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Oh, I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I I just decided not to that's all.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Got the coffee, Ah, got your bet Scott.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Mary Scott says he isn't going with us tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Why that's right, And there's no sense in you getting
steamed up about it.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I'm just not gonna do. But what's the whole thing
in a shell?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Hold, hollock, Scott, we got to have you on this job.
It's doing to get anybody else. John spent eight months
laying it out. It's fixed for tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
No, man, just a minute. Scott's a pretty good boy.
We both know. Then if he has a reason to
back out and quit, it must be a pretty good reason,
isn't that right?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Son?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You see, Mortney started over, but John ever doesn't come
off the way we plant it.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Wait a minute, Martin, Son, what I'd like to ask
you again? Why? Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Well, I just don't want it?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Is it the gun? Son? Is that it?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I don't want to shoot nobody.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Oh Martin, have we ever shot anybody?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
You see, Son, no sense of worrying about that now.
Martin carried a gun for what eleven years?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Martin?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
At least that never fired. Martin, show him your gun? Sure,
say practically rusted, isn't it now? I've carried one for
twenty two years, never had occasional use of the door.
When I gave you that gun tonight, Son, I just
thought I was going to make you feel good.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Honestly, well, you didn't make me feel good.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I see that now, But believe me, I just gave
it to you as a sort of insurance. You don't
even have to carry it if you're going all but
look here, you take it back, go ahead, keep it tonight.
If you don't want to take it tomorrow, it's all right.
Not pause that. Well, you go upstairs and get a
good night's wrestler. You don't have anything to worry about.
Tomorrow we'll all have a big breakfast and forget this
(20:22):
ever happened.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
We left the hotel at two twenty and we dropped
Martin Collins six blocks in the Colfax Nash Up.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Heave us to take a street car off there.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
After that, John Dowley and I drove around at Gill
twelve minutes. At two forty five, we headed for the
bank ourselves, and we pulled up in a lot of
exactly seven minutes to three. It as thought i'd been
through a dozen of the way I felt, And then
just like that it started you all right, maybe maybe
I can't keep him busy for three minutes? What there?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
You know, I'll take it easy, caut you can shoot
them busy, talk to you know, how to do that?
What if I can now look that God's names Edward
Jamison make sixty eight dollars a week standing there looking
at that clock across the street and telling people why
they can't come in. Once he's put the rope up,
that's the big moment in his life. It's the only
thing he's got to look for. Play on that.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, yeah, but suppose yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Forgot this hey, oh no, no, no, I left that
back in my room.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeah, I know, so I brought it in case you
might need to slip it inside your coat. Well that,
oh boy, right on time. Go after him as soon
as he puts up the ropes. I don't want these things, son.
That man's gotta be busy. If you can't keep him
busy talking, you shove that thing right under his nose.
It'll look terrible to him, even bigger than it is. Remember,
(21:41):
he doesn't want to get all shot up.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Sizah half ours You mean it's three already?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Gright it is. There's the clock.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I must be fast. I got two minutes out. Yes,
your slow, sir, well, you couldn't sneak me in, I
suppose straightly against the house rules, No, sir.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Well, look, one customer more or lesson's gonna make any differences.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Once the ropes out, I can let them out, but
I can't let them in.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Well, this sure puts me in a spot.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Is it a deposit?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
No? I have a piece of property going through escrow now.
I just found out the man I sold it to
his declaring bankruptcy. That scrows up at tens a night.
And I don't want him to have my property, would
you say not? Well, look, if if you could just
let me hear there to talk to the escrow people,
I can get myself out of a lot of trouble.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
What do you say, Well, I think guys can help you.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Good, I'll appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Look, mister Ever's head of the escrow division. It's here
until five now.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And the operator I was looking over his shoulder pasted him.
Inside the bank, I could see John Barry in front
of one of the teller's cages, helping himself to a
bag full of money. Collins was standing right in the
middle of the lobby, his right hand stuck down inside
his coat pocket. Every one of the tellers were looking
at him with a sort of wide eye like I
couldn't believe it. Old John was nudging somebody in front
(23:16):
of him, looked like a vice president, and they just
kept going from cage to cage where he'd pick.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Up the cash.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Nobody made a move.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I don't think any of the customers that were in there,
or anybody else outside the tellers knew the place was
being robbed. I ended, I'm just going to call mister
ever huh, Well, what are you lock?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Run a coat? Look you.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
I have a sky I guess shoot into him?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Just went off. It just went off.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Get out of here, boys.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I didn't mean the shoot in. I didn't want to
shoot him.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
You guys know that, dom right, cut up Scottie.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I didn't want to. I didn't want to. I didn't
want to do any of this. You guys made me
do it. You taught me to do it. That's what
you did. And I'm gonna tell him too.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I'm gonna tell them everything you made me doing and
they won't do anything.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Toll me no line not looking over there.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
You got a gun on us? Wow, Hey, to coment.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
That's right, and you can tell them anything you want.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Out of that car.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
One at a time. Put your hands up. Suppose I
should never have given him the gun mane.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I suppose, so John will open why.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Command, So let's see what these police officers want to
talk about.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
It's John Barry.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
And remember he's the best looked like any old geezer
you'd find filling prescriptions behind a drugstore counter or reading
books in the public library on Sunday afternoons.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
But let me tell you, he had it.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Every time he opened his mouth made sense.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
He was pretty good at that old chaddow too.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
In fact, I'd say he was just about that much
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