September 23, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Auto Light and it's ninety eight thousand dealers bring you
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having all the money he would ever need, and one
day found a way to make his dream come true.
(00:29):
The Great train Robbery our star mister Fred McMurray.
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Speaker 4 (02:09):
My name is Walter Beaumont. I'm forty two years old.
I have no prominent marks or features that would distinguish
me from any other plain, ordinary citizen. I lived with
my wife Bess, in Oakland. If you saw me walking
down the street, you wouldn't give me a second glance.
The details of my appearance are very important, you see.
They're what convinced me that I could execute a great
(02:30):
train robbery. Mess and I have been married for sixteen
long and uneventful years. The year before we were married,
I went to work for a toy manufacturing firm. I've
been down there ever since, and I'm now making sixty
two dollars a week. Sixteen years ago. I had a
(02:51):
lot of dreams and some ambition, But the necessities and
responsibilities of our everyday living have cost me most of
those dreams. And what little ambition in our hand?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Welder? Did you remember to pay the rent?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
There's best installment on the Washington Uh huh?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
What about the fament on the car and the box bringing.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Mess those two?
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Bess wish we had a little money left over, least
enough to buy a new white shirt. I've already turned
the collars on the only three year owns. Well, I
maybe we can get you one next month if we're lucky,
if we're lucky.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
For sixteen years, it's been the same thing, over and
over again, a new white shirt if we're lucky, a
new pair of hose if we're lucky, the same thing.
It never changes. Each night, at five point thirty, I
drive up and park in front of a tarnished white
stuck a house where we've lived for the last eight years,
and I know that nothing has changed. But tonight, when
I got home, there was a change, a happy change,
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some relief, a new face, the face of a visiting
long lost relative. Cousin Eugene.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
A Yes Surrey cousin, Bess. Let's just about the best
meal life had a long long time.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, I'm glad you like it, Eugene.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
One of these days we'll have you over for a
real feast.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Eugene, as soon as Walder's ship comes in.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I'm a plain man. The simple things in life are
good enough for me.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Not for Walter. He's got ideas high and mighty.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
No, not anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
He's got a dream world all his own world.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Cousin best, we all do a little dreaming now and
then cigar, cousin Walter, Oh.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yes, thanks, thanks, Eugene.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Here's a he's a light.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
That tastes good.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yeah, there's nothing like a cigar. After then, I say,
I it's the finishing touch.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Do you have any definite plans for the future, Eugene, Well, Walter.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I think I'm just about ready to settle down.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
That's good to hear.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
I'd like to buy me a farm somewheres and maybe
raise some chickens.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Always it like chickens, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I think I would have done something like that one day.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, go ahead, Walter say it. If you'd ever had
the money.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Well, that's my problem, folks. Money. You gotta have money.
To buy a farm right now, I don't.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Have any that's a shame.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Say, speaking of money, you ever been up to Reno, Nevada, Walter.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
No, No, I've never been there.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
We don't get to go to too many places, Eugene,
seems like we always have something else more important to
do with Walder's vacation.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Money.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Well, you've never seen so much money in all your
life as there is in Reno.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
How bed it's an exciting time a right, Oh.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
It is just about one of the most exciting towns
I've ever been in. Yes, lots of excitement, lots of money.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I guess our type of people would never get up
to a city like Reno.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Oh, I wouldn't say that, cousin, Walter. They get all
types of people up in a city like Reno, all types.
You see, people figure there's money to be had there,
and money attracts all kinds of people.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I often wondered what Walder do if he had a
lot of money.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
He'd be an interesting man to watch him and Holly's dreams.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, I have.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
All types up there. Rich man, poor man, beggar, man, thief.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
What did you say, Eugene, I said.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Rich man, poor man, beggar man thief.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Eh, yes, that's what I thought, she said, And then
cousin Eugene gave me one of those long, lingering, meaningful looks.
Then he leaned back in his chair, smiled inhaled deeply
on a cigar, blew the smoke out in a thin stream,
and washed it as it planned up toward the ceiling.
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Eugene had made some kind of a decision and it
concerned me. It concerned me very much. The following morning,
about eleven thirty, Eugene called me at the office. He
told me he wanted to see me on my lunch hour.
He said he had something very important that he wanted
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to talk over with me, and could I meet him.
I met him at five minutes after twelve in front
of the ferry tournament. It's not too long a ferry
boat right over to Richmond, and I figured I could
be back to work on time. I'll just eat my
lunch while you go ahead and talk. E Jeane, Is
that all rife? Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Oh sure, don't go right ahead, gun Walter, Eh best
fixture lunch every day?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Oh yeah, every day my back as I can remember.
You'd be surprised how much money it saves.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Walter, What would you do if I gave you one
half of, say, twenty five thousand dollars?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Excuse me, I for a minute I thought you said
twenty five thousand dollars, I did. What are you talking about, Eugene.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Well, you're a dreamer, so am I. There's only one
way to make our dreams come true. We have to
buy them, Cousin Walter, with money. That's why I've picked
you picked me. Last night at the dinner table, I
said there was a lot of money in Reno, Nevada.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
That's right, you did.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Now, some of this money stays in Reno and some
of it goes elsewhere.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Do you follow me?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
No, not quite Well, some of it goes to banks,
like banks here in Oakland and San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Ah, I see what you mean.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Now, how does it get to these banks? Well, some
of it they drive, some of it they fly, and
some of it they load on the mail car of
a train.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Do you follow me? Go ahead? Usually, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
The train they loaded on leaves the city of Reno
every Thursday morning at eleven o'clock. It arrives in San
Francisco at four point thirty.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
In the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Do you follow me now, Yes.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
After the train leaves Reno, it passes through a place
called Soda Springs at ten minutes to one. Then there
follows a stretch of about twenty minutes before it passes
a place called Dutch Flat, a stretch of.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Nothing but lonely drives it go on.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
And if one gentleman was to get on the train
in Reno and another gentleman was to drive a car
to a deserted junction in between Soda Springs and Dutch Flat.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
The train could be stopped, the money taken off, and
and the gentlemen well on their way before the authorities
could be warned.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Why, cousin Walner, do you realize what you've suggested?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Yes, yes, Eugene, I've just suggested that we'd rob a train.
The ferryboat pulled into the Richmond Landing and Eugene got off.
As he stepped down the gangplank, he turned around and
smiled and waved at me and disappeared into the crowd.
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Following day at work, I had a hard time trying
to concentrate on a new shipment of toy atomic tanks
we'd gotten in right after lunch. The phone on my
desk began to ring. I let it ring a couple
of times. I was almost afraid to pick it up,
afraid that it might not be Eugene. Hello, Hello, Cousin Walder.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Yes, done much thinking about that matter were discussed.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yes, yes I have. But Eugene, I was thinking, how
can just the two of.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Us, Well, it's very simple. I've worked for weeks on
this plan, and you must have complete faith in me.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Oh I do, Eugene, I do. But what about Bess?
How will I explain it to her? Now?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You just leave that to me?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Yes, but eventually I've got truly you can tell her.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
And Cousin Walter, yes, What's more, I know she'll understand.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
And so it begins. It's the kind of a thrill
that comes once in a lifetime. When I was just
a small boy, I had play acted it out many times.
But now it was a reality. I was going to
rob a train of an estimated twenty five thousand dollars.
We decided on a date the robbery would take place
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two weeks from the following Thursday. That would give us
ample time to prepare everything, and every day on my
lunch hour, we would go over our plans step by step.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Now the baggage car is in between the regular car
and the mail car. There are two guards in the
mail car, one man in the baggage car. Now, once
we get past the man in the backage car, our
problem is solved.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
But timing is the most important thing.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Cousin Water, Absolutely, I realize that, Eugene. It must be
time to the split second.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
As you see, it takes ten minutes to get to
the junction where the man in the.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Automobile should be waiting.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Ten minutes.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Right, the emergency cord should be pulled about thirty seconds
before the junction has reached.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
No sense to upset the passengers. Huh. Now what about
your job, cousin Water. Will they let you take a
week off?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Oh, I'm sure they will. Sure they let them let me.
But I'm still worried about Bessie.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Oh, now, don't you worry about her. I'll talk to
bess You just leave it to me.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I'll talk to her. And he did. He wove best
around his finger as if he'd been putty. By the
time he was through whither she was begging me to
take a week off and go somewhere. We'll find the
money to pay for the trip somewhere, she said. But
when Eugene suggested he'd finance the trip, that was the clincher.
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He told Bessie was going to take me up to
the Hillary Lodge at Lake Tahoe for some fishing. Only
he didn't finance the trip. I did with the one
hundred and seventy eight dollars I drew out of our
savings account of the bank. We need money for our
hotel room and reno, the train ticket we had to buy,
and for the gun we need. The rest of the
week went fast, and then it was Friday night and
we were ready to leave. Eugene was waiting out in
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my car while I was finishing packing. Oh, Walder, now
look best, it's only for a week.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I know, I know. Wait here, Walder, here are your
other two shirts? You want to look nice and neat.
He'll put him in a suitcase.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Fin there. Well, I guess I'm all set. You better hurry, Walter.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You will take care of yourself, of course I will, best.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I don't you worry. I'll be all right.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Hell, all set, Eugene, Oh God, Eugene, yes, Cusinber, you
take care.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Of my Walder. Where'd you say?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
You were saying the Hillary Lodge. It's near the lake.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Oh oh no, look mess If I don't right, please
don't get worried.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Promise me, yes, yes, I promise.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Well, goodbye there, goodbye.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Walter Jeane, take care and have a good time.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Bye. Well, we're on our way, Eugene. Half. Now, the
next time I drive down this street, I'll be a
rich man. Half people like Messer wrong, Eugene wrong. Yeah,
who says dreams don't come out?
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Speaker 4 (15:46):
Cousin Eugene and I arrived in Leno, Nevada, late Friday ninth.
When we got to Rena, we registered in one of
the nicer hotels and stayed there for most of the
following three days, just going off for our meals. On Monday,
we left Reno for a short while and drove to
the junk about thirteen miles from Soda Springs. Eugene pointed
out all the landmarks. This was where the train was
to be stopped by pulling the emergency cord. Then on
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Tuesday we went down to the train station and bought
a ticket for the train leaving Thursday morning. On the
way back to our hotel, we stopped in at one
of the gambling casinos on the main street and Eugene
started putting nickels in the slot machine. Eugene, I surely
hope you don't throw away your share of the money
on things like this.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I don't need to worry about that, Cousin Water, I'm
put chickens. Well, day after tomorrow is the day day
after tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
How do you feel, Cousin Water.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Well excited. I don't know how to thank you, Eugene.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Oh, now, there's no need for that.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
And you're to be commended to Your plan is full
for of course, I've never handled a gun before, But
don't worry about that.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Did you say gun, cousin Walter, Yes, oh right, you
won't be handling the gun.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I will. You'll be driving the car. You won't have
need for a gun, Eugene.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
But the positions are just reversed. I'll be on the
train and you'll.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Be in the car, me in the car. I'm sorry, cousin,
Wait a minute, you've missed the most important part of
our plan. Huh, this could very well cause it to fail.
Or what are you talking about? Identification our descriptions, Eugene,
look at me, well, look at me? Well, I now
describe me. Well, go ahead, describe me. Look at me
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and describe me. Well, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Well you've got sandy hair.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
That's right, and so I have two million other men.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Go ahead, and and well you'll you're just sort of plane.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Looking, exactly, Eugene, exactly plane looking. Now, don't you see
when the guards on the train tie to describe me
to the authorities, they'll they'll have a very difficult time.
I certainly have no prominent marks or features to single
me out from or from any other plain sandy haired
man of for two years? Have I?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Hell, cousin Walter, I believe you brought up a very
important point.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Thank you, Eugene. So i'll handle the gun and you'll
drive the car.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
You you you don't think for one minute.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
That's you're to collin. No, No, of course not. Wait
a minute, Eugene, let me pull the lever this time,
all right?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
What do you know about that?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
You see, Cousin Eugene. We hit the jackpot.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Our luck's already begun.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
We had dinner before we went back to the hotel.
When we got back, Cousin Eugene grew out a diagram
and we went over the plans again. All I was
to take from the mail car was one money pan.
Eugene figured that each bag ought to contain about twenty
five thousand dollars, and with one half of that, he
figured he could start a pretty good sized chicken farm.
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It was close to nine o'clock when Eugene shook me away.
This was the day. My heart was already starting to
beat faster. I took a shower and shaved and got dressed.
I put on my last clean white shirt. At breakfast,
we went over our plan for the final time. Then
we checked out of our hotel, put the bags in
the car, and drove down to the station.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Don't forget to put the money in your suitcase, castle Water.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Yes are you are you nurse? Yeah? A little?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Don't hire the gun whatever you do. We don't want
anyone to get hurt.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Yes, yes, I understand. Good.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Now, remember you've only got ten minutes to get back
to the mail car and get the money.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Ten minutes. That isn't very long. Be sure and keep
your eye on your watch.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I will keep my eye on my watch. Well it's
it's time. Yes, it's time. I got to get on
a good luck cousin water.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Thank you, Ejene, thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
This was it. I found my seat and sat down.
I was lucky the seat was in the first car
after the baggage car. I wouldn't have far to gold.
I could feel the perspiration running down my back. I
was ruining my last clean white shirt. The fifty minutes
before we got the Soda Springs seemed like fifty hours.
Then we reached Soda Springs and the train slowed down.
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There were no passengers at the station, so the train
didn't stop. It just slowed down, and then we were
on our way again. My ten minutes had begun. I
made my way up to the baggage car carried the suitcase.
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The baggage man was reading a newspaper.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yes, sir, what can I do for you?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
I'd like to check this suitcase. Ah forgot that at
the station. I hand it over here. I'll give you
a baggage check. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Uh hm, it feels empty. Be sure you wanted it.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I appreciate it if you'd put your hands up. What
is this, in simple language, a train robbery? Now, let's
just start walking that way.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
That's the mail car.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
That'ster I know. Hey. Now look now, just do as
I tell you and no one will get hurt. Walk
in front of him. Now, knock and yell for the
guards to open the door to the mail car.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
They won't open it for me.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Oh yes, I think they will. Now knock. Okay, Lester, it's.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Your funeral, Ay right, open up.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
It's Harold.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Oh do you want Harold? Let's not fock me. But
would you put up your hands? What are you talking about?
You'll force me to shoot this man. I wouldn't want
to do that. What is this a train robbery? Now?
I'd appreciate it very much. If you, gentlemen, would back
up against that wall, that's it, thank you. I'll just
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remove these guns from your hosts. I just like bloodshed,
and I'm afraid you gentlemen might be tempted. Here we are, ah,
let's see, Oh yeah, here they are. You're not gonna
make a mistake, mister. You sound just like my wife.
Tell us see. Cousin said take just one bag, and
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there's so many. I think I'll take two one apiece.
You might as well one two. I expect to get
off the train. Mister. The emergency cord will take care
of Then. I have one more favor to ask of you, sir,
kindly open the side door of the car.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
He's gonna jump, he's crazy.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
No, no, no, not just yet. We have about thirty seconds
to go. Now the door, please open it. Fifteen seconds,
ten seconds, five four three two one now all right now,
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wemain standing in that quarner, both them. I passive fast.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I've got it on the floor.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Now, gout it all up and that's good enough. Couldn't
possibly read our license numbers from this distance.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
As a matter, I've got them covered up.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Where i'd it go, perfect.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Eugene, perfect, and will admit I have a few bad moments.
I guess otherwise it was perfect, but look under these
dirty shirts.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Fop.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Well, you took two bangs, but I told you only
to take one.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Behind now, but I figured it'd be easier dividing it
with two banks. We didn't even bother to stop for
any sort of refreshments. We drove straight through the Sacramento.
When we got there, Eugene thought we are to separate,
and we did. I hated to see Eugene go. We've
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grown very fond of him in a short time we'd
been in business together. But it was a separation that
you might call a necessity. When I got back to Oakland,
it was almost four thirty, A good time. I thought
to myself, I'll have the whole weekend to rest up
before I have to go back to work. The house
looked the same as I drove up. Maybe now i'll
have it paint it, I thought to myself. There was
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a car park in front of the house. Was probably
another salesman. I took the suitcase with my share of
the money in it from the back seat and walked
up to the front door. I had a wonderful feeling inside.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Why Walder, Walder, deer, Oh, Walter Walder, where have you been?
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Where have I been? Ill? Bess?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
You know very well, I mess Walder, but I'm so
glad to see you, dear.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
That's what's wrong.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Oh here, dear, come on into the living room and
sit down best.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I don't understand why you're acting so hysterical.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I I don't hear Walter, put down your suit cap?
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Well best, who are these oldies?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Gentlemen are from the police station?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Walder the police station? Look best. I I think I'll
go upstairs and get cleaned up a bit.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
There's plenty of time for that later.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Well best, I you just tell me.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Where you've been.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Yes, your wife has been worried about you.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Oh well, look best. I couldn't.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Yesterday I read in the paper where two men had
been drowned at Lake Tahoe. They didn't know who they were.
When I tried calling the Hillary Lodge, they told me
you and Eugene weren't even registered there.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Oh I see.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
I just got worried, sick, just worried sick, So I
called the police station. Oh water, put down that suitcase
and tell us what happened.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Well later, best later.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Look at your water, your clothes, old, wrinkled, dirty shirt.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Oh you look a mess.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
As I'm sorry you're worried about like you.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I'm glad you're home. You won't be getting out of
my side again for a long time.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I tell you that, Missus Beaumont.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
We're very happy that your husband arrived home safely.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Oh yes, I am two officers. But look at the
condition he's arrived in. I'll bet he doesn't even have
a clean shirt for work Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Here, Walter, give me that suit.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
I'll just get your dirty shirts out of this suitcase
and get him in the wash shirt.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Well, I guess you won't be needing us anymore.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Beaumont, Best, please, please, Best, don't open the suitcase. Best please.
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Speaker 4 (02:09):
My name is Walter Beaumont. I'm forty two years old.
I have no prominent marks or features that would distinguish
me from any other plain, ordinary citizen. I lived with
my wife Bess, in Oakland. If you saw me walking
down the street, you wouldn't give me a second glance.
The details of my appearance are very important, you see.
They're what convinced me that I could execute a great
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train robbery. Mess and I have been married for sixteen
long and uneventful years. The year before we were married,
I went to work for a toy manufacturing firm. I've
been down there ever since, and I'm now making sixty
two dollars a week. Sixteen years ago. I had a
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lot of dreams and some ambition, But the necessities and
responsibilities of our everyday living have cost me most of
those dreams. And what little ambition in our hand?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Welder? Did you remember to pay the rent?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
There's best installment on the Washington Uh huh?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
What about the fament on the car and the box bringing.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Mess those two?
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Bess wish we had a little money left over, least
enough to buy a new white shirt. I've already turned
the collars on the only three year owns. Well, I
maybe we can get you one next month if we're lucky,
if we're lucky.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
For sixteen years, it's been the same thing, over and
over again, a new white shirt if we're lucky, a
new pair of hose if we're lucky, the same thing.
It never changes. Each night, at five point thirty, I
drive up and park in front of a tarnished white
stuck a house where we've lived for the last eight years,
and I know that nothing has changed. But tonight, when
I got home, there was a change, a happy change,
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some relief, a new face, the face of a visiting
long lost relative. Cousin Eugene.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
A Yes Surrey cousin, Bess. Let's just about the best
meal life had a long long time.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, I'm glad you like it, Eugene.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
One of these days we'll have you over for a
real feast.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Eugene, as soon as Walder's ship comes in.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I'm a plain man. The simple things in life are
good enough for me.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Not for Walter. He's got ideas high and mighty.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
No, not anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
He's got a dream world all his own world.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Cousin best, we all do a little dreaming now and
then cigar, cousin Walter, Oh.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yes, thanks, thanks, Eugene.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Here's a he's a light.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
That tastes good.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yeah, there's nothing like a cigar. After then, I say,
I it's the finishing touch.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Do you have any definite plans for the future, Eugene, Well, Walter.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I think I'm just about ready to settle down.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
That's good to hear.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
I'd like to buy me a farm somewheres and maybe
raise some chickens.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Always it like chickens, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I think I would have done something like that one day.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, go ahead, Walter say it. If you'd ever had
the money.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Well, that's my problem, folks. Money. You gotta have money.
To buy a farm right now, I don't.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Have any that's a shame.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Say, speaking of money, you ever been up to Reno, Nevada, Walter.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
No, No, I've never been there.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
We don't get to go to too many places, Eugene,
seems like we always have something else more important to
do with Walder's vacation.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Money.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Well, you've never seen so much money in all your
life as there is in Reno.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
How bed it's an exciting time a right, Oh.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
It is just about one of the most exciting towns
I've ever been in. Yes, lots of excitement, lots of money.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I guess our type of people would never get up
to a city like Reno.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Oh, I wouldn't say that, cousin, Walter. They get all
types of people up in a city like Reno, all types.
You see, people figure there's money to be had there,
and money attracts all kinds of people.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I often wondered what Walder do if he had a
lot of money.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
He'd be an interesting man to watch him and Holly's dreams.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, I have.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
All types up there. Rich man, poor man, beggar, man, thief.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
What did you say, Eugene, I said.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Rich man, poor man, beggar man thief.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Eh, yes, that's what I thought, she said, And then
cousin Eugene gave me one of those long, lingering, meaningful looks.
Then he leaned back in his chair, smiled inhaled deeply
on a cigar, blew the smoke out in a thin stream,
and washed it as it planned up toward the ceiling.
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Eugene had made some kind of a decision and it
concerned me. It concerned me very much. The following morning,
about eleven thirty, Eugene called me at the office. He
told me he wanted to see me on my lunch hour.
He said he had something very important that he wanted
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to talk over with me, and could I meet him.
I met him at five minutes after twelve in front
of the ferry tournament. It's not too long a ferry
boat right over to Richmond, and I figured I could
be back to work on time. I'll just eat my
lunch while you go ahead and talk. E Jeane, Is
that all rife? Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Oh sure, don't go right ahead, gun Walter, Eh best
fixture lunch every day?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Oh yeah, every day my back as I can remember.
You'd be surprised how much money it saves.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Walter, What would you do if I gave you one
half of, say, twenty five thousand dollars?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Excuse me, I for a minute I thought you said
twenty five thousand dollars, I did. What are you talking about, Eugene.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Well, you're a dreamer, so am I. There's only one
way to make our dreams come true. We have to
buy them, Cousin Walter, with money. That's why I've picked
you picked me. Last night at the dinner table, I
said there was a lot of money in Reno, Nevada.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
That's right, you did.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Now, some of this money stays in Reno and some
of it goes elsewhere.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Do you follow me?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
No, not quite Well, some of it goes to banks,
like banks here in Oakland and San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Ah, I see what you mean.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Now, how does it get to these banks? Well, some
of it they drive, some of it they fly, and
some of it they load on the mail car of
a train.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Do you follow me? Go ahead? Usually, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
The train they loaded on leaves the city of Reno
every Thursday morning at eleven o'clock. It arrives in San
Francisco at four point thirty.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
In the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Do you follow me now, Yes.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
After the train leaves Reno, it passes through a place
called Soda Springs at ten minutes to one. Then there
follows a stretch of about twenty minutes before it passes
a place called Dutch Flat, a stretch of.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Nothing but lonely drives it go on.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
And if one gentleman was to get on the train
in Reno and another gentleman was to drive a car
to a deserted junction in between Soda Springs and Dutch Flat.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
The train could be stopped, the money taken off, and
and the gentlemen well on their way before the authorities
could be warned.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Why, cousin Walner, do you realize what you've suggested?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Yes, yes, Eugene, I've just suggested that we'd rob a train.
The ferryboat pulled into the Richmond Landing and Eugene got off.
As he stepped down the gangplank, he turned around and
smiled and waved at me and disappeared into the crowd.
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Following day at work, I had a hard time trying
to concentrate on a new shipment of toy atomic tanks
we'd gotten in right after lunch. The phone on my
desk began to ring. I let it ring a couple
of times. I was almost afraid to pick it up,
afraid that it might not be Eugene. Hello, Hello, Cousin Walder.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Yes, done much thinking about that matter were discussed.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yes, yes I have. But Eugene, I was thinking, how
can just the two of.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Us, Well, it's very simple. I've worked for weeks on
this plan, and you must have complete faith in me.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Oh I do, Eugene, I do. But what about Bess?
How will I explain it to her? Now?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You just leave that to me?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Yes, but eventually I've got truly you can tell her.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
And Cousin Walter, yes, What's more, I know she'll understand.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
And so it begins. It's the kind of a thrill
that comes once in a lifetime. When I was just
a small boy, I had play acted it out many times.
But now it was a reality. I was going to
rob a train of an estimated twenty five thousand dollars.
We decided on a date the robbery would take place
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two weeks from the following Thursday. That would give us
ample time to prepare everything, and every day on my
lunch hour, we would go over our plans step by step.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Now the baggage car is in between the regular car
and the mail car. There are two guards in the
mail car, one man in the baggage car. Now, once
we get past the man in the backage car, our
problem is solved.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
But timing is the most important thing.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Cousin Water, Absolutely, I realize that, Eugene. It must be
time to the split second.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
As you see, it takes ten minutes to get to
the junction where the man in the.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Automobile should be waiting.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Ten minutes.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Right, the emergency cord should be pulled about thirty seconds
before the junction has reached.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
No sense to upset the passengers. Huh. Now what about
your job, cousin Water. Will they let you take a
week off?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Oh, I'm sure they will. Sure they let them let me.
But I'm still worried about Bessie.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Oh, now, don't you worry about her. I'll talk to
bess You just leave it to me.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I'll talk to her. And he did. He wove best
around his finger as if he'd been putty. By the
time he was through whither she was begging me to
take a week off and go somewhere. We'll find the
money to pay for the trip somewhere, she said. But
when Eugene suggested he'd finance the trip, that was the clincher.
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He told Bessie was going to take me up to
the Hillary Lodge at Lake Tahoe for some fishing. Only
he didn't finance the trip. I did with the one
hundred and seventy eight dollars I drew out of our
savings account of the bank. We need money for our
hotel room and reno, the train ticket we had to buy,
and for the gun we need. The rest of the
week went fast, and then it was Friday night and
we were ready to leave. Eugene was waiting out in
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my car while I was finishing packing. Oh, Walder, now
look best, it's only for a week.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I know, I know. Wait here, Walder, here are your
other two shirts? You want to look nice and neat.
He'll put him in a suitcase.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Fin there. Well, I guess I'm all set. You better hurry, Walter.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You will take care of yourself, of course I will, best.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I don't you worry. I'll be all right.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Hell, all set, Eugene, Oh God, Eugene, yes, Cusinber, you
take care.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Of my Walder. Where'd you say?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
You were saying the Hillary Lodge. It's near the lake.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Oh oh no, look mess If I don't right, please
don't get worried.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Promise me, yes, yes, I promise.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Well, goodbye there, goodbye.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Walter Jeane, take care and have a good time.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Bye. Well, we're on our way, Eugene. Half. Now, the
next time I drive down this street, I'll be a
rich man. Half people like Messer wrong, Eugene wrong. Yeah,
who says dreams don't come out?
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Speaker 4 (15:46):
Cousin Eugene and I arrived in Leno, Nevada, late Friday ninth.
When we got to Rena, we registered in one of
the nicer hotels and stayed there for most of the
following three days, just going off for our meals. On Monday,
we left Reno for a short while and drove to
the junk about thirteen miles from Soda Springs. Eugene pointed
out all the landmarks. This was where the train was
to be stopped by pulling the emergency cord. Then on
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Tuesday we went down to the train station and bought
a ticket for the train leaving Thursday morning. On the
way back to our hotel, we stopped in at one
of the gambling casinos on the main street and Eugene
started putting nickels in the slot machine. Eugene, I surely
hope you don't throw away your share of the money
on things like this.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I don't need to worry about that, Cousin Water, I'm
put chickens. Well, day after tomorrow is the day day
after tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
How do you feel, Cousin Water.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Well excited. I don't know how to thank you, Eugene.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Oh, now, there's no need for that.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
And you're to be commended to Your plan is full
for of course, I've never handled a gun before, But
don't worry about that.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Did you say gun, cousin Walter, Yes, oh right, you
won't be handling the gun.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I will. You'll be driving the car. You won't have
need for a gun, Eugene.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
But the positions are just reversed. I'll be on the
train and you'll.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Be in the car, me in the car. I'm sorry, cousin,
Wait a minute, you've missed the most important part of
our plan. Huh, this could very well cause it to fail.
Or what are you talking about? Identification our descriptions, Eugene,
look at me, well, look at me? Well, I now
describe me. Well, go ahead, describe me. Look at me
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and describe me. Well, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Well you've got sandy hair.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
That's right, and so I have two million other men.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Go ahead, and and well you'll you're just sort of plane.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Looking, exactly, Eugene, exactly plane looking. Now, don't you see
when the guards on the train tie to describe me
to the authorities, they'll they'll have a very difficult time.
I certainly have no prominent marks or features to single
me out from or from any other plain sandy haired
man of for two years? Have I?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Hell, cousin Walter, I believe you brought up a very
important point.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Thank you, Eugene. So i'll handle the gun and you'll
drive the car.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
You you you don't think for one minute.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
That's you're to collin. No, No, of course not. Wait
a minute, Eugene, let me pull the lever this time,
all right?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
What do you know about that?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
You see, Cousin Eugene. We hit the jackpot.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Our luck's already begun.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
We had dinner before we went back to the hotel.
When we got back, Cousin Eugene grew out a diagram
and we went over the plans again. All I was
to take from the mail car was one money pan.
Eugene figured that each bag ought to contain about twenty
five thousand dollars, and with one half of that, he
figured he could start a pretty good sized chicken farm.
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It was close to nine o'clock when Eugene shook me away.
This was the day. My heart was already starting to
beat faster. I took a shower and shaved and got dressed.
I put on my last clean white shirt. At breakfast,
we went over our plan for the final time. Then
we checked out of our hotel, put the bags in
the car, and drove down to the station.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Don't forget to put the money in your suitcase, castle Water.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Yes are you are you nurse? Yeah? A little?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Don't hire the gun whatever you do. We don't want
anyone to get hurt.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Yes, yes, I understand. Good.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Now, remember you've only got ten minutes to get back
to the mail car and get the money.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Ten minutes. That isn't very long. Be sure and keep
your eye on your watch.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I will keep my eye on my watch. Well it's
it's time. Yes, it's time. I got to get on
a good luck cousin water.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Thank you, Ejene, thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
This was it. I found my seat and sat down.
I was lucky the seat was in the first car
after the baggage car. I wouldn't have far to gold.
I could feel the perspiration running down my back. I
was ruining my last clean white shirt. The fifty minutes
before we got the Soda Springs seemed like fifty hours.
Then we reached Soda Springs and the train slowed down.
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There were no passengers at the station, so the train
didn't stop. It just slowed down, and then we were
on our way again. My ten minutes had begun. I
made my way up to the baggage car carried the suitcase.
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The baggage man was reading a newspaper.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yes, sir, what can I do for you?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
I'd like to check this suitcase. Ah forgot that at
the station. I hand it over here. I'll give you
a baggage check. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Uh hm, it feels empty. Be sure you wanted it.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I appreciate it if you'd put your hands up. What
is this, in simple language, a train robbery? Now, let's
just start walking that way.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
That's the mail car.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
That'ster I know. Hey. Now look now, just do as
I tell you and no one will get hurt. Walk
in front of him. Now, knock and yell for the
guards to open the door to the mail car.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
They won't open it for me.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Oh yes, I think they will. Now knock. Okay, Lester, it's.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Your funeral, Ay right, open up.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
It's Harold.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Oh do you want Harold? Let's not fock me. But
would you put up your hands? What are you talking about?
You'll force me to shoot this man. I wouldn't want
to do that. What is this a train robbery? Now?
I'd appreciate it very much. If you, gentlemen, would back
up against that wall, that's it, thank you. I'll just
(22:05):
remove these guns from your hosts. I just like bloodshed,
and I'm afraid you gentlemen might be tempted. Here we are, ah,
let's see, Oh yeah, here they are. You're not gonna
make a mistake, mister. You sound just like my wife.
Tell us see. Cousin said take just one bag, and
(22:25):
there's so many. I think I'll take two one apiece.
You might as well one two. I expect to get
off the train. Mister. The emergency cord will take care
of Then. I have one more favor to ask of you, sir,
kindly open the side door of the car.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
He's gonna jump, he's crazy.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
No, no, no, not just yet. We have about thirty seconds
to go. Now the door, please open it. Fifteen seconds,
ten seconds, five four three two one now all right now,
(23:22):
wemain standing in that quarner, both them. I passive fast.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I've got it on the floor.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Now, gout it all up and that's good enough. Couldn't
possibly read our license numbers from this distance.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
As a matter, I've got them covered up.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Where i'd it go, perfect.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Eugene, perfect, and will admit I have a few bad moments.
I guess otherwise it was perfect, but look under these
dirty shirts.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Fop.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Well, you took two bangs, but I told you only
to take one.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Behind now, but I figured it'd be easier dividing it
with two banks. We didn't even bother to stop for
any sort of refreshments. We drove straight through the Sacramento.
When we got there, Eugene thought we are to separate,
and we did. I hated to see Eugene go. We've
(24:32):
grown very fond of him in a short time we'd
been in business together. But it was a separation that
you might call a necessity. When I got back to Oakland,
it was almost four thirty, A good time. I thought
to myself, I'll have the whole weekend to rest up
before I have to go back to work. The house
looked the same as I drove up. Maybe now i'll
have it paint it, I thought to myself. There was
(24:54):
a car park in front of the house. Was probably
another salesman. I took the suitcase with my share of
the money in it from the back seat and walked
up to the front door. I had a wonderful feeling inside.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Why Walder, Walder, deer, Oh, Walter Walder, where have you been?
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Where have I been? Ill? Bess?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
You know very well, I mess Walder, but I'm so
glad to see you, dear.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
That's what's wrong.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Oh here, dear, come on into the living room and
sit down best.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I don't understand why you're acting so hysterical.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I I don't hear Walter, put down your suit cap?
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Well best, who are these oldies?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Gentlemen are from the police station?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Walder the police station? Look best. I I think I'll
go upstairs and get cleaned up a bit.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
There's plenty of time for that later.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Well best, I you just tell me.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Where you've been.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Yes, your wife has been worried about you.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Oh well, look best. I couldn't.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Yesterday I read in the paper where two men had
been drowned at Lake Tahoe. They didn't know who they were.
When I tried calling the Hillary Lodge, they told me
you and Eugene weren't even registered there.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Oh I see.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
I just got worried, sick, just worried sick, So I
called the police station. Oh water, put down that suitcase
and tell us what happened.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Well later, best later.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Look at your water, your clothes, old, wrinkled, dirty shirt.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Oh you look a mess.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
As I'm sorry you're worried about like you.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I'm glad you're home. You won't be getting out of
my side again for a long time.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I tell you that, Missus Beaumont.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
We're very happy that your husband arrived home safely.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Oh yes, I am two officers. But look at the
condition he's arrived in. I'll bet he doesn't even have
a clean shirt for work Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Here, Walter, give me that suit.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
I'll just get your dirty shirts out of this suitcase
and get him in the wash shirt.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Well, I guess you won't be needing us anymore.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Beaumont, Best, please, please, Best, don't open the suitcase. Best please.
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Speaker 4 (28:11):
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Called Public Defender, Our star mister Robert Ryan. That's next
week on Suspense. Suspense is produced by Elliott Lewis and
was directed tonight by Norman MacDonald. Music was composed by
Lucian Morrowick and conducted by lud Gluskin. Portions of the
(28:32):
program were transcribed. The Great Train Robbery was written for
Suspense by Richard George Pettaccini. Into Night's story, Joseph Kerns
was heard as Eugene, featured in the cast for Paula Winslow,
Jerry Hausner, and Hi Averbank. Fred McMurray may soon be
seen in the Republic picture Fair Wind to Java and
remember next week mister Robert Ryan in Public Defender.
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