In this thrilling episode, we delve into the intriguing world of crime-solving with a focus on the mysterious case of a schoolteacher's murder in Stockton, California. The episode begins with a light-hearted introduction to Chumba Casino, but quickly transitions into a gripping narrative of a real-life investigation. Deputy Sheriff Blue Dog C. Weber recounts the relentless pursuit of a murderer who vanished after committing a heinous crime, leaving behind a trail of clues that seemed to lead nowhere. Despite the odds, the investigators, with the help of renowned detective Ellis Parker, piece together the puzzle by tracing the suspect's past and uncovering vital information from marriage and naturalization records. This episode highlights the meticulous and innovative methods employed by law enforcement to bring a fugitive to justice, even when the trail appears cold.
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Calling all cars. A presentation of the real gun, the oil company. That's in place for has black hair, black eyes, wearing a dark suit, no hat. That's all. Right. For the third consecutive year, the city of Los Angeles again awards its gasoline contract to Rio Grande. Oops again that Rio Grande cracked gasoline with greater speed, greater power than uncracked gasoline. Unless there is really something superior about this gasoline, why should it be selected wherever it is sold to power more police cars, fire engines, and other emergency equipment than any other ground? The police department of Los Angeles takes pride in the record breaking speed of its radio police car.
The Japanese song to emergency calls within a few seconds. As the speed of these police cars depends upon the Japanese, naturally, the city carefully test the of police car performance. And now it is our pleasure to bring you deputy sheriff Blue Dog c Weber of San Joaquin County who will speak to you from San Francisco. It was with great good evening. It was with great pleasure that I accepted the request of my chief, sheriff Harvey O'Dell of San Joaquin County to appear as his representative on tonight's broadcast of calling all cars. The case staff Odell has selected from San Mateo County files is the most interesting one.
At first glance, it would appear to be a clueless crime. Although the murderer was identified by several witnesses, he vanished immediately after he fired the fatal shot. For two years, we searched for him. It was a heartbreaking task. Finally, by checking the court records at Cortland, Oregon, we were able to ascertain the true identity of the murderer and obtain a key to his past records. In the end we got that key and we got our man. What he did and how we taught him you're about to hear. On with the soul. On with the soul. And how what he did, we were able to ascertain the true identity of a murderer and obtain a jury and obtain a key to his past record.
In the end, we got that key and we got our man. What he did and how we caught him, you're about to hear. On with the soul. It is a warm April afternoon in 1932. The yard in front of a little school on the outskirts of Stockton, California is filled with laughing, playing children. School has just been let out. And this urban such as a land afternoon to explore the reawakening world. At the door of the school house, miss Martha Parsons is the food she was putting on her hat when the grandmother approached her. Yes, It certainly is a nice day. No doubt about that. And I'm sure that you are the closing up and going home to wrecking your garden, don't you, Robert? Yes. I reckon I can get a lot of work done this afternoon.
Of course, you weren't figuring I'm enjoying the afternoon to bit yourself. Weren't you, miss Parson? No, Robert.
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How could you assist you, mister Stewart? Yes, sir. Thank you.
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Mighty nice afternoon for a drive. That is if that young fella in the forge were to drop by. Why? Nothing wrong if you want closing up, I guess. Good afternoon, miss Barton. Good afternoon, Robert. Yeah. You're talking to me. With a vicious kick at the inert party, the school teacher, the murderer throws down his son and runs out of the yard past the huddled group of fighting children. Within twenty minutes, Sheriff Harvey and Modell of San Joaquin County arrives on the scene. Busting civilians and the slightly wounded janitor. Have I sent for a doctor, Robert? Has it hurt very much? It saved me quite a little, but it's only in the shoulder. Now did you got a good look at the man who murdered miss Parsons? I did, Prince Poppins did it, sheriff. He's the first man did it. He's the first man? He's the Leopoldus, you know him. Yes.
And who is this Marie? He's his this little girl. She goes to school here. Where is she now? Over there by the drinking fountain crying. She's frightened out of her wisp, poor child. You know, don't have a talk with her. No. No. Don't choose primary. I wanna talk to you. Now please stop crying. Yes, sir. Was it your daddy who has got miss Parsons? Yes, sir. Why does he do it? I don't know. Was he mad at miss Parsons? I I guess he was. Goodbye. Look. Why?
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That's miss miss Park. He set me up to school with he yesterday, he he cut my hair over me. Why did you do that? Because I'm a bad girl, I guess. The papa owns it. I'm a
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I see. I see. I see. Well, Marie, you better well, Marie, you better stop. Well, Okay. Here. That's it. Do you want to do some detective work? Sure thing. Alright. You follow Marie home and play around her house and watch for her father. And if he comes home, you hurry down to the courthouse and let me know. Yes, sir. And don't tell anybody what you're doing. This is a secret business. Don't worry, don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't do it just like they do. I'll do it just like they do when they text me books. While police radios and the state teletype broadcast the description of the wanted people, Theopolis. Gerald O'Dell leads a party of faceless sworn in deputies through the hills around Stockton.
Late that night, he returns to his office where Wilbur C Worcester, his chief criminal deputy, is waiting for him. Well, Wilbur, just for a double check, I've compared the fingerprints and the gun found at the scene of the murder with fingerprints on the Leopoldus' home. In that, there's no question of a doubt that the murderer of this Leopoldus. And I didn't think there would be to find out where he got sailing hardware company day before yesterday. Alright. Have 5,000 specialists under describing him and giving his fingerprint certification. That's better than picture. Did you find a picture of him? I did. Took him several years ago when he looked for the clothes he's wearing. Here it is. That'll be alright. Listen, not liking. We'll have these searches sent to every police department of The United States and Canada. Yes, sir. And then we'll have to get the wires right out asking San Francisco and Los Angeles to check scenes of departure. And you might as well include Boston, New York, and New Orleans. You know, if he got away from the coast by clearing, he could sail us from New York or Boston to air for tomorrow. Yeah. That's right. You've got the men straight out of the house? Yes. There are two men watching the house and another watching the mail. Good. Well, they can't get far away. But in any case, you start to communicate with those four fugitives if he doesn't actually come back home for them. It won't be long now before they put that bird in the death house.
But despite every method known, the modern peace officers, including a nationwide police cordon, beat the Minneapolis vanishes. After three ruthless months of the last, district attorney guard Fidelo called Sheriff Odell into resolve. Harvey? Odell into resolve. Harvey, I wanna know what you've done on that Lilliopolis. I wanna know what you've done on that Lilliopolis, sir. Everything I can do, all all over the country, and we've watched the house, and we've watched the house, and we've watched the house, and we've had the ports both here and in the East covered. But we've even had a couple of them because boy detective is pumping those off of his children. But we haven't gotten any further than we were on a day, Miss Parsons would murder. Have the kids heard from their old man? Not a word. And there's been no attempt to communicate with them. He's abandoned them all right. That's what they say. A symbol always returns to the scene of his crime. Well, not this one apparently. Of course, he didn't do anything according to rule books. He didn't even have any regular motive of a murder. He just got mad and went gun drunk. Oh, how about the speculars? Any reply from them? There were 50 letters and wires from all over The United States and Canada. Eight suspects have been jailed and every one of them that turned out to be the wrong man. Oh, how the devil did he get out of town in the first place? We know that all right. He drove out of town right after the murder and state for several days with some friends at Mantega.
And then our men found his abandoned town and north of Mesa Veda and located the ranch where he changed his clothes. He burned them and got some new ones from Greek friends. And then while our posse was looking for him, he returned to the home of another friend that bid his children goodbye. We missed him by five minutes, and he hasn't been heard of since. You know, it's a mighty tough nut to crack but there's nothing that's going on. He's questioned all his friends and I've even gone to San Francisco and talked at the Greek consulate. And no one knows where Leopoldus is gone. There just aren't any clues.
I wonder what Ellis Parker would do with a case without clues. Ellis Parker? I'm sure you remember him. He's that eastern detective who was out here a few years ago in that circus murder case. He's got a big reputation. Oh, sure. I remember. Now I was a deputy at the time. Well, if you want to call him an outside man, you might as well. I can set that down like him. I know you have Harvey. Now don't construe this as a criticism of you, but I'd like to see what this modern Sherlock Holmes would do with no clues at all. You know, I don't feel like you're in there. I believe I will just for the fun of it. And this can't hurt him. He might help us get a right angle on the case. So district attorney Dara writes to his friend, Ellis Parker, chief of detectives of Bergen County, New Jersey, sending him the files on the case and not seeing his opinion.
After pouring over the material, Parker dictates a reply to Della. They say the murderer is a murderer that can be the crime. That isn't quite true. My observation after handling thousands of cases has been that a murderer, and this is a common gangster. Right? Almost always tries to hide out near his original home. He has a subconscious feeling that he knows all that is there. The mercies live out to suit in a familiar locality. Therefore, I would say that the best way of cursing this man is to follow his backtrack. Find out where he came from and take up the case there.
There's no such thing as a case without crude. And this trick of the Nadella and first chief of detective Parker, not such a bad idea excepting if we thought of it already and there isn't any backtrack. Lillipolis' wife died and giving birth to her last baby, and none of the children remember where they live before they came here. Not even his fellow Greeks know anything about Lillipolis' birth. And I'm just wondering what you do if you had to solve it. In his office in New Jersey, Heath Parker mulls over the talent from his friend in Stockton. Heath threw the record of the murder, things out loud.
No clue. What is it, Let me see. Let me see. The children are a clue. And that's the next one here behind him. There's four children, a clue. Mary, born in Stockton, age nine. Steve, age 11. Stella, age 13. Mike is 15. Two years apart. At another year, the age of Mike, and you get 15. Enter the age of Mike, and you get 15. 16 years ago, it's reasonable to assume. Titian Leopold got married. So I can find that they have got married. There'll be a record that will constitute a clue. Miss Lippincott, take a letter, please. Take a letter. It will be good enough to examine the marriage records on the file in your bureau.
Inform us whether you have any record of the marriage of one Peter Neopolitan. For weeks, the answer is just instantaneous. Verily repeating that no records of the married defeat of the Minneapolis existed. And then one day, Parker Wires Della, had established Minneapolis Married Vancouver Washington Nineteen Fifteen. Letter following claim. Shall I continue? And Delta Ponte replies, you win. Continue by all means. To the desk of the remote control flute quickly comes the full stack copy of the marriage record. At first sight, the record does not receive anything of much value.
The parcel, however, set it closely as this Lippincott stands by. Well, at least there's a couple of things here that are new. Supplecture. Yep. Liz is his defensive cook. Liz is his defensive cook. His record shows that he's a naturalized citizen. He's gotta make things difficult. Why? He's gotta make things difficult. Why? What? Better make things difficult. Why? Well, if a man is studying his cooking, he won't have much difficulty getting a job anywhere in the world. Good food. Good good language. Oh, really help us. Take this letter, please.
The VW McCulloch, Bureau of Naturalization, Washington DC authorization, Washington DC. Kindly send me all information in your files on one p. Pediapolis. We received Pediapolis. We received citizenship papers sometime before 1915. No. No. Take another letter to Don. Take another letter to Don. No. No. Take another letter to Don. Take another letter to Don. No. Take another letter to Don. Take another letter to Don. No. No. Take another letter to Don. Take another letter to Don. No. No. Take another letter to Don. Take another letter to Don. No. No. Take another letter to Don. Letter's record shows Minneapolis occupation is cooked.
I suggest that you check the cities and towns around New Stockton to find that their health departments have examined any applicant for Cook's job, who answers any office department, who examined any applicant for Cook's job, who answers any officer's questions. These towns did not rule health examination for rest and employees for rest and employees. Have you remembered of your rest and owners? Do I have you remembered of your rest and owners? Do I have you remembered of your rest and owners? Do I have the team that any officers have ever been employed by them? The book was naturalized in Portland in 1914.
And, of wild Parker, the Liapolus picture identified by Merced restaurant as Cook employed there a few days in April. The prior to forget to use the clear it wasn't really upholic. What's the next step? And Parker replies, Minneapolis, July Fourteenth Nineteen Fourteen. In the case, lived there for some time. Try Portland. They have other record there. This secretary Darrow sends a man before them to search to the court records of that city for several years until 1914. While the officer is settling down with a tremendous task of felting perhaps non existent information regarding one citizen of a city of three Worcester. Philip O'Dell, I've got another identification from David Steele. I would start. Found a lesson for you to ask for the job.
Now listen, you know the answer to that one. We missed him by five minutes. Now let's see. He worked in Merced and then he asked for a job in Baker's field. That means he's just heaven for a long time. Well maybe. But let me ask you this now. Bosco, California. A simmering, hearty, desertine in mid summer at a roadside restaurant. Sure. I know that hombre. He worked here for me last year. You did? When? Well, he was here for well, I don't know. And so Keith Parker leaves his death for the only time during his amazing remote control investigation of the stops and murder. He travels just 20 miles to Princeton, New Jersey to explain his problem to his friend, professor Edward Katz, He is not in the line.
He never signed up with any ghosts, beating Veracruz, or Matamoros, or San Pico. As far as party's correspondents are concerned, he never existed at all. Party's investigation comes to an ignominious hall. But the next day, a letter from Stockton arrives as Parker said, mister Peter Penadero writes, one of my mayors uncovered something to you and those This is the key. This is the dynamite to blast through the thick wall which has stopped the investigation. Talk us into the bathroom. What's Captain, Patrico, Mexico. A really record of one Bennett General Granite, finally in the Pacific Hill Harbor, possibly in the capacity of Cook in the summer of nineteen thirty two.
Ellis Parker, people detected, Wellington County, New Jersey, and '93 to America. Of strands of the tantalum of cable, the filament of his relentless man hunting brain. Lilliopolis, had landed in Barcelona and immediately reembarked for Athens. Had taken a train from Athens to Two years have elapsed. It is now a sunny May morning in the sweet little hamlet of Rhiney Nome in legend filled Arcadia. A fellow of species sits before his little shop lazily flipping, buzzing flies from his wares when a stranger Though with a keen brain, the mails and the telegraph, did Ellis Parker, the remote control sleuth, find Stockton's murder.
The valuable of O'Sheep Parker's worth was, she himself closed the case with the highest praise for the meticulous investigation conducted by Sheriff O'Dell and District Attorney Della of San Joaquin County. Without the aid of this valuable and complete groundwork, whose father admitted he could have done nothing. The United States government at the request of district attorney general, would newly began extradition proceedings of the group government. But due to the fact that the Greek government. But due to the fact that Smyrna Grahna, the alias of theophilus, had failed to inform the Greek government at the time of his naturalization important, Greece held that he was still a Greek citizen.
However, the Greek foreign office ruled that had violated the laws of Greece by committing murder in California and therefore must stand trial in Athens. Depositions have been taken and are now on route to Greece where a filer ground guilt was held to be a foregone conclusion. And the facts of the case are being awaiting for the high court in Athens merely to determine the degree of punishment to be needed out to the murderer of the Stockton school to the defense. A noise of pride awaits every motor who drives into a real gun in the gasoline station. What's this I hear about you're selling an oversized quart of oil for a quarter? That's right. You get two extra ounces in every four can of Sinclair opening motor oil but only 25.
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Calling all cars. A presentation of the real gun, the oil company. That's in place for has black hair, black eyes, wearing a dark suit, no hat. That's all. Right. For the third consecutive year, the city of Los Angeles again awards its gasoline contract to Rio Grande. Oops again that Rio Grande cracked gasoline with greater speed, greater power than uncracked gasoline. Unless there is really something superior about this gasoline, why should it be selected wherever it is sold to power more police cars, fire engines, and other emergency equipment than any other ground? The police department of Los Angeles takes pride in the record breaking speed of its radio police car.
The Japanese song to emergency calls within a few seconds. As the speed of these police cars depends upon the Japanese, naturally, the city carefully test the of police car performance. And now it is our pleasure to bring you deputy sheriff Blue Dog c Weber of San Joaquin County who will speak to you from San Francisco. It was with great good evening. It was with great pleasure that I accepted the request of my chief, sheriff Harvey O'Dell of San Joaquin County to appear as his representative on tonight's broadcast of calling all cars. The case staff Odell has selected from San Mateo County files is the most interesting one.
At first glance, it would appear to be a clueless crime. Although the murderer was identified by several witnesses, he vanished immediately after he fired the fatal shot. For two years, we searched for him. It was a heartbreaking task. Finally, by checking the court records at Cortland, Oregon, we were able to ascertain the true identity of the murderer and obtain a key to his past records. In the end we got that key and we got our man. What he did and how we taught him you're about to hear. On with the soul. On with the soul. And how what he did, we were able to ascertain the true identity of a murderer and obtain a jury and obtain a key to his past record.
In the end, we got that key and we got our man. What he did and how we caught him, you're about to hear. On with the soul. It is a warm April afternoon in 1932. The yard in front of a little school on the outskirts of Stockton, California is filled with laughing, playing children. School has just been let out. And this urban such as a land afternoon to explore the reawakening world. At the door of the school house, miss Martha Parsons is the food she was putting on her hat when the grandmother approached her. Yes, It certainly is a nice day. No doubt about that. And I'm sure that you are the closing up and going home to wrecking your garden, don't you, Robert? Yes. I reckon I can get a lot of work done this afternoon.
Of course, you weren't figuring I'm enjoying the afternoon to bit yourself. Weren't you, miss Parson? No, Robert.
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Mighty nice afternoon for a drive. That is if that young fella in the forge were to drop by. Why? Nothing wrong if you want closing up, I guess. Good afternoon, miss Barton. Good afternoon, Robert. Yeah. You're talking to me. With a vicious kick at the inert party, the school teacher, the murderer throws down his son and runs out of the yard past the huddled group of fighting children. Within twenty minutes, Sheriff Harvey and Modell of San Joaquin County arrives on the scene. Busting civilians and the slightly wounded janitor. Have I sent for a doctor, Robert? Has it hurt very much? It saved me quite a little, but it's only in the shoulder. Now did you got a good look at the man who murdered miss Parsons? I did, Prince Poppins did it, sheriff. He's the first man did it. He's the first man? He's the Leopoldus, you know him. Yes.
And who is this Marie? He's his this little girl. She goes to school here. Where is she now? Over there by the drinking fountain crying. She's frightened out of her wisp, poor child. You know, don't have a talk with her. No. No. Don't choose primary. I wanna talk to you. Now please stop crying. Yes, sir. Was it your daddy who has got miss Parsons? Yes, sir. Why does he do it? I don't know. Was he mad at miss Parsons? I I guess he was. Goodbye. Look. Why?
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I see. I see. I see. Well, Marie, you better well, Marie, you better stop. Well, Okay. Here. That's it. Do you want to do some detective work? Sure thing. Alright. You follow Marie home and play around her house and watch for her father. And if he comes home, you hurry down to the courthouse and let me know. Yes, sir. And don't tell anybody what you're doing. This is a secret business. Don't worry, don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't do it just like they do. I'll do it just like they do when they text me books. While police radios and the state teletype broadcast the description of the wanted people, Theopolis. Gerald O'Dell leads a party of faceless sworn in deputies through the hills around Stockton.
Late that night, he returns to his office where Wilbur C Worcester, his chief criminal deputy, is waiting for him. Well, Wilbur, just for a double check, I've compared the fingerprints and the gun found at the scene of the murder with fingerprints on the Leopoldus' home. In that, there's no question of a doubt that the murderer of this Leopoldus. And I didn't think there would be to find out where he got sailing hardware company day before yesterday. Alright. Have 5,000 specialists under describing him and giving his fingerprint certification. That's better than picture. Did you find a picture of him? I did. Took him several years ago when he looked for the clothes he's wearing. Here it is. That'll be alright. Listen, not liking. We'll have these searches sent to every police department of The United States and Canada. Yes, sir. And then we'll have to get the wires right out asking San Francisco and Los Angeles to check scenes of departure. And you might as well include Boston, New York, and New Orleans. You know, if he got away from the coast by clearing, he could sail us from New York or Boston to air for tomorrow. Yeah. That's right. You've got the men straight out of the house? Yes. There are two men watching the house and another watching the mail. Good. Well, they can't get far away. But in any case, you start to communicate with those four fugitives if he doesn't actually come back home for them. It won't be long now before they put that bird in the death house.
But despite every method known, the modern peace officers, including a nationwide police cordon, beat the Minneapolis vanishes. After three ruthless months of the last, district attorney guard Fidelo called Sheriff Odell into resolve. Harvey? Odell into resolve. Harvey, I wanna know what you've done on that Lilliopolis. I wanna know what you've done on that Lilliopolis, sir. Everything I can do, all all over the country, and we've watched the house, and we've watched the house, and we've watched the house, and we've had the ports both here and in the East covered. But we've even had a couple of them because boy detective is pumping those off of his children. But we haven't gotten any further than we were on a day, Miss Parsons would murder. Have the kids heard from their old man? Not a word. And there's been no attempt to communicate with them. He's abandoned them all right. That's what they say. A symbol always returns to the scene of his crime. Well, not this one apparently. Of course, he didn't do anything according to rule books. He didn't even have any regular motive of a murder. He just got mad and went gun drunk. Oh, how about the speculars? Any reply from them? There were 50 letters and wires from all over The United States and Canada. Eight suspects have been jailed and every one of them that turned out to be the wrong man. Oh, how the devil did he get out of town in the first place? We know that all right. He drove out of town right after the murder and state for several days with some friends at Mantega.
And then our men found his abandoned town and north of Mesa Veda and located the ranch where he changed his clothes. He burned them and got some new ones from Greek friends. And then while our posse was looking for him, he returned to the home of another friend that bid his children goodbye. We missed him by five minutes, and he hasn't been heard of since. You know, it's a mighty tough nut to crack but there's nothing that's going on. He's questioned all his friends and I've even gone to San Francisco and talked at the Greek consulate. And no one knows where Leopoldus is gone. There just aren't any clues.
I wonder what Ellis Parker would do with a case without clues. Ellis Parker? I'm sure you remember him. He's that eastern detective who was out here a few years ago in that circus murder case. He's got a big reputation. Oh, sure. I remember. Now I was a deputy at the time. Well, if you want to call him an outside man, you might as well. I can set that down like him. I know you have Harvey. Now don't construe this as a criticism of you, but I'd like to see what this modern Sherlock Holmes would do with no clues at all. You know, I don't feel like you're in there. I believe I will just for the fun of it. And this can't hurt him. He might help us get a right angle on the case. So district attorney Dara writes to his friend, Ellis Parker, chief of detectives of Bergen County, New Jersey, sending him the files on the case and not seeing his opinion.
After pouring over the material, Parker dictates a reply to Della. They say the murderer is a murderer that can be the crime. That isn't quite true. My observation after handling thousands of cases has been that a murderer, and this is a common gangster. Right? Almost always tries to hide out near his original home. He has a subconscious feeling that he knows all that is there. The mercies live out to suit in a familiar locality. Therefore, I would say that the best way of cursing this man is to follow his backtrack. Find out where he came from and take up the case there.
There's no such thing as a case without crude. And this trick of the Nadella and first chief of detective Parker, not such a bad idea excepting if we thought of it already and there isn't any backtrack. Lillipolis' wife died and giving birth to her last baby, and none of the children remember where they live before they came here. Not even his fellow Greeks know anything about Lillipolis' birth. And I'm just wondering what you do if you had to solve it. In his office in New Jersey, Heath Parker mulls over the talent from his friend in Stockton. Heath threw the record of the murder, things out loud.
No clue. What is it, Let me see. Let me see. The children are a clue. And that's the next one here behind him. There's four children, a clue. Mary, born in Stockton, age nine. Steve, age 11. Stella, age 13. Mike is 15. Two years apart. At another year, the age of Mike, and you get 15. Enter the age of Mike, and you get 15. 16 years ago, it's reasonable to assume. Titian Leopold got married. So I can find that they have got married. There'll be a record that will constitute a clue. Miss Lippincott, take a letter, please. Take a letter. It will be good enough to examine the marriage records on the file in your bureau.
Inform us whether you have any record of the marriage of one Peter Neopolitan. For weeks, the answer is just instantaneous. Verily repeating that no records of the married defeat of the Minneapolis existed. And then one day, Parker Wires Della, had established Minneapolis Married Vancouver Washington Nineteen Fifteen. Letter following claim. Shall I continue? And Delta Ponte replies, you win. Continue by all means. To the desk of the remote control flute quickly comes the full stack copy of the marriage record. At first sight, the record does not receive anything of much value.
The parcel, however, set it closely as this Lippincott stands by. Well, at least there's a couple of things here that are new. Supplecture. Yep. Liz is his defensive cook. Liz is his defensive cook. His record shows that he's a naturalized citizen. He's gotta make things difficult. Why? He's gotta make things difficult. Why? What? Better make things difficult. Why? Well, if a man is studying his cooking, he won't have much difficulty getting a job anywhere in the world. Good food. Good good language. Oh, really help us. Take this letter, please.
The VW McCulloch, Bureau of Naturalization, Washington DC authorization, Washington DC. Kindly send me all information in your files on one p. Pediapolis. We received Pediapolis. We received citizenship papers sometime before 1915. No. No. Take another letter to Don. Take another letter to Don. No. No. Take another letter to Don. Take another letter to Don. No. Take another letter to Don. Take another letter to Don. No. No. Take another letter to Don. Take another letter to Don. No. No. Take another letter to Don. Take another letter to Don. No. No. Take another letter to Don. Letter's record shows Minneapolis occupation is cooked.
I suggest that you check the cities and towns around New Stockton to find that their health departments have examined any applicant for Cook's job, who answers any office department, who examined any applicant for Cook's job, who answers any officer's questions. These towns did not rule health examination for rest and employees for rest and employees. Have you remembered of your rest and owners? Do I have you remembered of your rest and owners? Do I have you remembered of your rest and owners? Do I have the team that any officers have ever been employed by them? The book was naturalized in Portland in 1914.
And, of wild Parker, the Liapolus picture identified by Merced restaurant as Cook employed there a few days in April. The prior to forget to use the clear it wasn't really upholic. What's the next step? And Parker replies, Minneapolis, July Fourteenth Nineteen Fourteen. In the case, lived there for some time. Try Portland. They have other record there. This secretary Darrow sends a man before them to search to the court records of that city for several years until 1914. While the officer is settling down with a tremendous task of felting perhaps non existent information regarding one citizen of a city of three Worcester. Philip O'Dell, I've got another identification from David Steele. I would start. Found a lesson for you to ask for the job.
Now listen, you know the answer to that one. We missed him by five minutes. Now let's see. He worked in Merced and then he asked for a job in Baker's field. That means he's just heaven for a long time. Well maybe. But let me ask you this now. Bosco, California. A simmering, hearty, desertine in mid summer at a roadside restaurant. Sure. I know that hombre. He worked here for me last year. You did? When? Well, he was here for well, I don't know. And so Keith Parker leaves his death for the only time during his amazing remote control investigation of the stops and murder. He travels just 20 miles to Princeton, New Jersey to explain his problem to his friend, professor Edward Katz, He is not in the line.
He never signed up with any ghosts, beating Veracruz, or Matamoros, or San Pico. As far as party's correspondents are concerned, he never existed at all. Party's investigation comes to an ignominious hall. But the next day, a letter from Stockton arrives as Parker said, mister Peter Penadero writes, one of my mayors uncovered something to you and those This is the key. This is the dynamite to blast through the thick wall which has stopped the investigation. Talk us into the bathroom. What's Captain, Patrico, Mexico. A really record of one Bennett General Granite, finally in the Pacific Hill Harbor, possibly in the capacity of Cook in the summer of nineteen thirty two.
Ellis Parker, people detected, Wellington County, New Jersey, and '93 to America. Of strands of the tantalum of cable, the filament of his relentless man hunting brain. Lilliopolis, had landed in Barcelona and immediately reembarked for Athens. Had taken a train from Athens to Two years have elapsed. It is now a sunny May morning in the sweet little hamlet of Rhiney Nome in legend filled Arcadia. A fellow of species sits before his little shop lazily flipping, buzzing flies from his wares when a stranger Though with a keen brain, the mails and the telegraph, did Ellis Parker, the remote control sleuth, find Stockton's murder.
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However, the Greek foreign office ruled that had violated the laws of Greece by committing murder in California and therefore must stand trial in Athens. Depositions have been taken and are now on route to Greece where a filer ground guilt was held to be a foregone conclusion. And the facts of the case are being awaiting for the high court in Athens merely to determine the degree of punishment to be needed out to the murderer of the Stockton school to the defense. A noise of pride awaits every motor who drives into a real gun in the gasoline station. What's this I hear about you're selling an oversized quart of oil for a quarter? That's right. You get two extra ounces in every four can of Sinclair opening motor oil but only 25.
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