In this thrilling episode of "Crime Photographer," we delve into the case of Carlos Domingo, a man wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Mercedes Domingo. Ten years after his conviction, Mercedes reappears, alive and wealthy, having acquired a fortune in Texas. The revelation sets off a chain of events leading to her actual murder, with a cast of characters including her second husband, a Texas racketeer, and a mysterious waiter named Gonzales. As Casey and his team unravel the mystery, they uncover a tangled web of deceit, betrayal, and revenge, culminating in a dramatic confrontation with unexpected twists.
Join us as we explore the complexities of justice and the human condition in a story where no one is quite who they seem. From the bustling streets of the city to the confines of a prison, "Miscarriage of Justice" challenges our perceptions of guilt and innocence. With sharp dialogue and a gripping narrative, this episode keeps listeners on the edge of their seats, questioning the true nature of justice and the lengths to which people will go to protect their secrets.
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Peter Piper Peck the Pick. Peter Piper Peck the Pick the Pick. What Aren't you mumbling about, Ethelbert? Well, I gotta bet with Casey, mister Marvin. He didn't think I could say three times running. Peanut pipe of pickle the pack pie to pea
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You know, it doesn't look to me as though you could even say it once, Ethelbert. That's why I gotta practice pea pipa fire. Look. Let me try an easier sentence, Ethelbert. You know, more useful too. Like what, mister Marvin? Like, Anchor Hawking is the most famous name in class. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is Tony Marvin. Every week at this time, the Anchor Glass Corporation of Lancaster, Ohio and its more than 10,000 employees bring you another adventure of Casey crime photographer, ace cameraman who covers the crime news of the great city. Written by Alonzo Dean Cole, our adventure for tonight, miscarriage
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of justice.
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Afternoon, a busy downtown street. A darkly handsome, freshly dressed woman, the lights from the taxi cab.
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Who's it? Who's it? Who's the idea of grabbing my arm? I don't know you. You know me very well. I never saw you before in my mind. You say that to me? Your husband's father? You don't let me go. I'll call a cop. No. I called her cop. Please. Please. Stop playing.
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Let's go sometimes. You talk. No. You bad woman. Every day I pray. I hear you sometimes. You know? My prayers is on. Hey. Hey. What's going on here? This crazy old man, officer. Arrest him. Yeah. It's a jail, mister policeman. But to tell the truth, he's Mercedes Domingo. Oh, no. That's a law. No. No. Hold on a little bit. Just who is Mercedes Domingo and why? Ten years ago, mister policeman, my son Carlos was sent to prison for the mother of his wife. Only he and I know he's not guilty. Now the world will know because this woman is the wife. It is not Jill.
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Alright. You you talk. Alright. I'm ready to issue a statement. We want an interviewer. Yeah. We want pictures of her and the old man who recognized her. That's right. Okay, Shirley. Miss Williams, all of you newspaper boys and girls, later. But right now, I'm giving you a break with an advanced statement. Alright. Ladies and gentlemen, some of you may be unfamiliar with the Domingo case, so I'll begin with a brief resume. Nearly ten years ago, a young laborer named Carlos Domingo was convicted of killing his wife, Mercedes. On circumstantial evidence, mister prosecubic. Well, I, Casey, was not district attorney at that time. According to the testimony, Domingo had threatened her at various times.
She disappeared, and he told inquiring neighbors that he believed she'd run off with another man, a waiter named Gonzales. Now this waiter was unknown in the neighborhood, and Domingo's stories about him were extremely conflicting. It. Then body of a murdered woman was recovered from the river, identified as the missing Mercedes. I saw that body in. It's been in the water a long time. Carlos Domingo was brought to trial, convicted, and sentenced to death. Fortunately, his sentence was later commuted to life in prison. After he spent nearly a year in the death house. Well, now this man's wife has reappeared alive.
She's been positively identified as Mercedes Domingo. What did she say say about letting her husband, be sent up for her murder? Well, she claims she didn't know anything about it, miss Williams. She denies knowing any waiter named Gonzales who says she was working in a small town in Texas at the time Domingo was arrested and brought to trial. She says the papers down there didn't carry the story, and she may be telling the truth. She's in the chips now. What she's been doing for herself while hubby's been sweating it out in the basement? She's done very well, Casey. Several years ago, she acquired a piece of land in Texas, but later proved to have oil underneath.
Oil. He's now worth a couple of million. And that's the whole gist of the story, except that missus Domingo has also gotten herself another husband without bothering to divorce her purse. Yeah. He's a Texas racketeer named Alfred Jenkins. Alfred Jenkins. Unfavorably known to the police as Al the Barber. Well, this yarn gets better and better. Yeah. But the biggest thing about it is, mister prosecutor, how soon can you spring Carlos Domingo out of the pen? Take this as a direct quote. Here it goes. Yeah. My office will take immediate steps to assess this poor man's
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release.
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Good night, missus Wheelbreaker. Hi. Here's your beer, Casey. Thanks, I suppose you and Casey are going up to Wallstock Prison tomorrow morning to see Carlos Domingo be let out, miss Williams. Mhmm. We are effleberry. Yep. Every paper in town is gonna give it front face coverage. Poor guy.
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Ten years in stir for a wife murder that didn't happen. And, our impression of Mercedes Domingo is that murder couldn't have happened to a more deserving gal. I guess she ain't much good. And all the DA really has on her is a bigamy charge that may not stand up. Why not? She marries herself, the barber guy while she had another husband. Well, here's the gimmick as I get it. According to a statute of limitation, if you don't hear from a wife or husband for so many years, he or she can be legally presumed dead, you see, which means you're free to marry again. He says her lawyer told her that. Missus Domingo's second husband is stricken by Aaron all this, I read. Well, why shouldn't he? Married a couple of million bucks, and he hopes to hang on to it. Mister Jenkins is another sweet scented character. How did he get his nickname of Althe Barber? There's a very complicated reason behind that, Alfred. Yeah?
His first name is Alfred, and he used to be a barber. I see. Oh. Yeah.
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Did he know she was married?
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She probably never told him what she'd done to her other husband. So all this has been quite a shock to the mug. Annie, it's getting late. We gotta make an early start at that prison in the morning. Mhmm. Quite a drive to Waldstock. Let's go home and get some sleep. Who's gonna pay that poor guy for all he's been through? Yeah. The state will end up by giving him a few thousand bucks, I guess. But even with that, he's been a fall guy for nothing. I guess he's thinking plenty about that and is pretty sure. I'd be. Well, in prison, guys learn to keep their thoughts and their feelings so. Yeah.
So let's go, Annie. There's we got we wanna know what No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No My only plan
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is to go home with my father here. Carlos,
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at my house, she will see no more haywire, no more barn door.
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Oh, my Fun fact. Hold on. Will
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you? I'll let father and son pick to be a hundred. Yeah.
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Mister Domingo,
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your wife's a rich woman now. Do you intend to bring a civil action against Oh, excuse me, miss Williams. That question should be addressed to me, not my client. Oh, okay. What's your answer, mister Harris? Well, civil action in this case must be an outgrowth of criminal action against Mercedes Domingo. The authorities are trying to establish a basis for criminal prosecution. But at the present time, I cannot reveal the extent of their findings. Fair enough, mister Harris. Only, you can answer this one, mister Domingo.
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How do you feel about your wife?
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Real? I feel nothing, really.
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Well, you're not. You'd be inhuman if you didn't.
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You know, as a very young man, I've been locked inside this prison. Once they came and shaved my leg and head to make me ready for the electric chair, all for a thing I did not do. Human? I forgot our human being. See?
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Ask me before his father how I feel about that, man.
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I tell you, for what we have done to Carlos, my son,
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I like to cut her heart out. I like to see her die.
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Hey. I've finished that up, Annie, will you? So we can get out of this lousy You know, I've got only two more paragraphs to type. Easy? This price is short of milk in the Domingo case. You're telling me All the facts have been in print dozens of times since the story broke. And then here's your phone, kid. Oh, yeah. Oh, I've answered will you? I'm checking over this last case. Yep.
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Williams, that's Casey speaking. Hello, Chris.
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No.
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What? When? When? When? We're starting right away. Come on. Hey. What is it, Casey? Well, there's something clearly new for your story, Annie. Mercedes Domingo has been murdered. Oh, no. Yes. Sometime last night, she was in her own bail. Her body has just been found in her hotel room. She was slashed to death with a razor.
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Whoever carved up Mercedes Domingo did a very thorough job, look. I don't say it was a thorough job, Keasy. Put put the sheet back over that body, captain. I told you not to look, miss Williams.
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Did I say she was killed last night? Yeah. About 11:00.
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What have you found out?
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Not much so far. Floor clerk on duty can't remember anybody visiting a Domingo woman last night, sir. She was known here as missus Jenkins.
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You found out where there was this? No. We didn't find it.
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Doc says only a straight razor could inflict such wounds. A barber's razor? Yeah. And we did find $10,000 in cash lying on his table where the killer couldn't have failed to see it. $10,000.
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Uh-huh. Anything else?
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Yeah. And they tore up a good sized piece of blood stained cardboard and burned it in that fireplace last night. And what kind of cardboard? Oh, heavy, good quality stuff with a linen like finish. Like, we used to make paper collars on it. Paper collars? Yeah. My old man wore them when I was a kid. You probably never saw one, that's where you've Uh-uh. And I sent the pieces down to the headquarters lab, and that's all I've got for you. Outside of a perfect suspect. Yeah. Sure looks like a revenge claim.
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That adds up to Carlos Domingo. Or, Carlos' father. Mhmm. Do you know what he said at the prison, Casey, that he'd like to cut this woman's heart out? Yeah. Yeah. I'm having both father and son picked up and brought down to headquarters. Logan, you know,
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this adds up so easy. I distrust the totals. Yeah. Frankly, Casey, I'm a little bit afraid of it. I'm having Jenkins, Alfa Barber picked up too. You mean because a barber's razor was used? No, miss Williams. Because with this woman dead, Jenkins has a swell chance of inheriting all her dough.
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And it's that darn razor that makes him an unlikely suspect. Yeah. That's far from the picture. Well, I don't see why. He used to be a barber. Okay. Annie, it isn't probable he'd use a murder weapon that ties up with his nickname and his former trade.
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We figured the cops would get ideas for that. That's a % correct, miss Rose. But, captain, you said that razor has given you in case of the idea that Jenkins is an unlikely suspect. Yeah. But,
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Mhmm. What are these women, love? Yeah.
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I'm signing for headquarters. Carlos, his old man, and L. Jenkins had better have perfect alibis or else Well, I don't think that or else can apply to Carlos. Okay? He's already served time for the murder of his wife and then unconditionally he pardoned, And a man can't be tried false for the same crime, can he? That's for the lawyers to argue out. I'm just a cop with a murder to solve. Let's go. At 11:00 last night, you were out walking, Carlos, walking alone, you said?
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Yes, captain.
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Walking alone. And you walked to Kansas City's hotel, didn't it? You got into a room and killed her. If you think so. You admit it. I admit nothing. I deny nothing. Give me a direct answer. Did you kill that woman? Once I said policeman, no. I did not kill, so I'm punished. Now I say I do kill. What happened? Do you set Charlotte on the fact and let him go home? I guess you know we haven't much chance in sending out for a client they've already paid for. Captain, a very bad woman has been killed. Is there a killer or another killer?
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He's
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dead. Now I say no more. Domingo, your son says he was out between 10:00 and midnight. You can't prove you didn't leave the house, go to that hotel, and kill Mercedes.
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No. That I cannot prove. You did prove her. You did kill her. But can you prove? It was either you or your son. You think so, Alright. I let you then. My son, you cannot make pay again for something he have paid for before, and I pay too when you people tell the Lord to take my only son away. Me? You cannot make pay again, for I am old and have little time to live. I laugh at you, Capita. I laugh and say no more.
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You were in the lounge at the Hotel Marbury at eleven last night, Jenkins? I never left the place from nine last night till almost two this morning. Were you alone in the Marbury lounge or was somebody with you? Two very well known Czechs.
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I mean, gentlemen were with me. My attorney Louis West and Lieutenant Brenner of your own headquarters police. Lieutenant Brenner? He was at my table constantly from 10:00 till after midnight.
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Okay, Jenkins. I'm afraid your alibi will be as good as you say.
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Is our car Annie? Can I get in? No. Okay.
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Stacy. Didn't Carlos or his father did the killing? No. They're simply 100%
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behind anybody who did. And Jenkins had a perfect alibi. Yeah. So Annie, wait. The floor clerk at that hotel didn't remember seeing anybody visit Mercedes' room. Of course, he wouldn't. Why not? Those scraps of burned cardboard Logan found, they reminded Logan of the material used for paper collars. Or what? Or something else is made of the same material. Paper dickies, Annie. Dickies? Yeah. Those false shirt fronts, the starch kind. When it when it gets dirty, you throw it away and stick a fresh one under the collar button. Waiters wear them, Annie. Well, I don't know what that is. Wear a manning. And who'd noticed a waiter in the halls of a big hotel? But Logan said none of the employees deemed possible suspect. Well, this waiter didn't have to work in a hotel. Oh, then any man can put on a test for you? No. No. Not any man. He had to actually be a waiter to get fired the way he did it or killed the way he did. He had to be What? That Gonzales.
Gonzales? The waiter Mercedes left Carlos for ten years ago. She walked out on Gonzales and double crossed him as she's double crossed every other guy she's known. Yeah. We're gonna try to find Gonzales. Who happened? We? Carla's chief defense lawyer, Harris. He's got a picture of Gonzales. Yes? Yeah. And Harris let me make a copy of it a few days ago. I thought to the desk, I'd wanna run it. Annie, we get that picture, and then we go to work.
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Why are all employment agencies upstairs and and walk up buildings? I don't know, Annie. I don't know. Well, so, like, the thirteenth
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agency we visited Well, well, I like it now.
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Yeah. Get worse.
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Are you still a waitress and a chef? No. Oh, no. Well, in that case, I don't want you today. Only thing open for a marriage couple is a waitress and a chef. What aye. Cashier and Connelly? Neither, pal. Well, you don't look like dishwashers. Oh, thanks. I guess you must be a bartender, but I can tell you you're not a waiter. You ain't got the manner. And here are registered to cost to fill out and give me 50¢. Let me say something. Go ahead. Who's stopping you? Well, we're we're not looking for y'all. Oh, you wanna hire people? Step into my office. Sit down. Make yourself a room. What do you want there? Help a restaurant? Don't tell my supervisor. Look. We're looking for a waiter. I've got thousands of them. But we only want one. A a special one. Take your look. You don't want this waiter? You know him? Of course I do. His name is Frank go Gomez. Frank Gomez. Hey. You'd be a fine waiter. It's understandable now that I lost two jobs. I got him. You you don't want him. He's just the guy we do want, mister. Okay. I warned you. Give me your address, and I'll send him to you. No. No. You lost his address. I don't do business that way. No. What's that $20 bill for?
Gomez address. Well, I'd like to do business. When I buy this car, now, say, that other fellow must have been looking for Gomez. Other fellow? Guy within a half hour ago. What does the guy look like? A big fellow. Well dressed. That's all I noticed. Here, his his dress. Thanks, Al. Come on, Al. Thanks for the double trouble. Bye.
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What do you think? Goodness.
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I love Logan's cup, Harry. That lug has figured those scraps of burned cardboard just the way I did. He put his guys out to find Gonzales. If we want an exclusive story, Annie, we've got to get to this address before Logan beats us to it.
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This is a terrible old tenement case. Yes. We've had it. I think we're on the wrong track. An old man who lives in a place like this would have passed up Mercedes ten thousand dollars. Let me find out. Here
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it goes. Look. Yes. It is. It is. Let's try the door.
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It's unlocked. Hey, man. This is on the top. Yeah. He's the guy I have a picture, Annie. He's the wrecker, that guy.
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Let me close the door.
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Wake up, Gonzales. Wake up, Gonzales. That used to be your name, didn't it, Gomez? You you are police. You've been expecting a policeman? A dream. A pleasant dream that everything was over. Tell me about Mercedes, though. She's You killed her. Yes. At last. Why? Because I was once a man, and she made me a dog. We took her away from Carlos to Lincoln. Yes. I'm crazy bad for her, and I'm full. She made me hate her husband because she say he back to her. So when we read in paper that Carlos is arrested for her murder, we think it's fine, Joe. Can I we say let him go to prison or die? Then we will marry. Your Mercedes were in the city. Yes.
I give her all my money and send her away. I stay here but change my name and go no more where people know me. She write me letters for a while, then the letters stop. So I I go to town where she was, but she's gone. I well, I know what she is then, and I know myself. Nice guy, won't you? If you didn't say a few words, you would have gotten Carlos out of prison. I was afraid of police, afraid and full of hate for the woman who had made me a coward and a fool. Then at last, I read in a paper of how Mercedes beg I let her buy the letters. I play with her like they cut me the moss.
I say get $10,000. I will come for it tomorrow, but I got to her last night. It's in your waiter uniform with a razor in your pocket. Yes. I tell her who I am. She's afraid. She quit offering me the money, then for a bad life, then my bad life should be ended too. Let's go, Gonzales. Stay where you are. What are you doing here, Jenkins? Why not, god? I'm here to protect my interest, mister Casey. We were both trying to locate Gonzales in the same way this afternoon. It wasn't a cop that man told us about animals. Who is this man who is pointing gun at us? Yes. You two should know each other.
Gonzales, meet Mercedes final boyfriend, mister Alf the barber Jenkins. Oh. Change that boyfriend to husband, wise guy. Make it husband and sole heir. Yeah. I'm beginning to get this straight. Gonzales, hand over those old letters of Mercedes. Hello? I guess she told you about that phone call from Gonzales' help. Right after she got it. Yes. If Gonzales talked or showed those letters, you would be out as Mercedes husband. The court would award Carlos everything he Yeah. Gonzales, don't think I hold it against you for bumping up Mercedes. That's okay, fella, but I want them letters. We're at it.
Yes. Wait, Gonzales. Don't tell him. Even if he gets those letters, he doesn't dare let you live or miss Williams and me. We've heard your story. He's come here prepared for a killing.
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I see.
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The letters are not here, mister Clark. If you kept your trap shut, Taji, you might have lived a
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He shot
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Gonzales right through the chin. Needed for a doctor. Quicken the cop. Quick, kid. I'm on my way. Gonzales, you walked right into that gun of Jenkins when he was gonna give me the worst. If you hadn't brought his attention away, he would've I let innocent man go to prison. I do not try to save him. I, El Buenadios, gave me a chance. You sure? You want this hat? Yeah. I understand.
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You found them letters after Gonzales died, King? The cops did, Everbert.
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Yeah. Those letters complete the case for Carlos Domingo.
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Mercedes' husband, only heir, you'll get her entire estate. Which is a pretty small payment for all he went through. Not so.
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Now I get that Alfa Barber will get more than a sample of what Carlos went through. Yeah. Much more. You'll get the worse. Them husbands of Mercedes don't have such a good time of it, do they? She was what you call, femi fatally. Well, that's a Greek word meaning, female troublemaker, like Cleopatra and Helena Troy and and missus O'Leary's cow. Missus O'Leary's cow? Don't you two know your history? That cow kicked over a lantern once and burned up most of Chicago.
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I'm sending you fatally, fatally. Annie,
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I'm sending fatally. Come on.
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Peter Piper Peck the Pick. Peter Piper Peck the Pick the Pick. What Aren't you mumbling about, Ethelbert? Well, I gotta bet with Casey, mister Marvin. He didn't think I could say three times running. Peanut pipe of pickle the pack pie to pea
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You know, it doesn't look to me as though you could even say it once, Ethelbert. That's why I gotta practice pea pipa fire. Look. Let me try an easier sentence, Ethelbert. You know, more useful too. Like what, mister Marvin? Like, Anchor Hawking is the most famous name in class. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is Tony Marvin. Every week at this time, the Anchor Glass Corporation of Lancaster, Ohio and its more than 10,000 employees bring you another adventure of Casey crime photographer, ace cameraman who covers the crime news of the great city. Written by Alonzo Dean Cole, our adventure for tonight, miscarriage
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of justice.
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Afternoon, a busy downtown street. A darkly handsome, freshly dressed woman, the lights from the taxi cab.
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Who's it? Who's it? Who's the idea of grabbing my arm? I don't know you. You know me very well. I never saw you before in my mind. You say that to me? Your husband's father? You don't let me go. I'll call a cop. No. I called her cop. Please. Please. Stop playing.
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Let's go sometimes. You talk. No. You bad woman. Every day I pray. I hear you sometimes. You know? My prayers is on. Hey. Hey. What's going on here? This crazy old man, officer. Arrest him. Yeah. It's a jail, mister policeman. But to tell the truth, he's Mercedes Domingo. Oh, no. That's a law. No. No. Hold on a little bit. Just who is Mercedes Domingo and why? Ten years ago, mister policeman, my son Carlos was sent to prison for the mother of his wife. Only he and I know he's not guilty. Now the world will know because this woman is the wife. It is not Jill.
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Alright. You you talk. Alright. I'm ready to issue a statement. We want an interviewer. Yeah. We want pictures of her and the old man who recognized her. That's right. Okay, Shirley. Miss Williams, all of you newspaper boys and girls, later. But right now, I'm giving you a break with an advanced statement. Alright. Ladies and gentlemen, some of you may be unfamiliar with the Domingo case, so I'll begin with a brief resume. Nearly ten years ago, a young laborer named Carlos Domingo was convicted of killing his wife, Mercedes. On circumstantial evidence, mister prosecubic. Well, I, Casey, was not district attorney at that time. According to the testimony, Domingo had threatened her at various times.
She disappeared, and he told inquiring neighbors that he believed she'd run off with another man, a waiter named Gonzales. Now this waiter was unknown in the neighborhood, and Domingo's stories about him were extremely conflicting. It. Then body of a murdered woman was recovered from the river, identified as the missing Mercedes. I saw that body in. It's been in the water a long time. Carlos Domingo was brought to trial, convicted, and sentenced to death. Fortunately, his sentence was later commuted to life in prison. After he spent nearly a year in the death house. Well, now this man's wife has reappeared alive.
She's been positively identified as Mercedes Domingo. What did she say say about letting her husband, be sent up for her murder? Well, she claims she didn't know anything about it, miss Williams. She denies knowing any waiter named Gonzales who says she was working in a small town in Texas at the time Domingo was arrested and brought to trial. She says the papers down there didn't carry the story, and she may be telling the truth. She's in the chips now. What she's been doing for herself while hubby's been sweating it out in the basement? She's done very well, Casey. Several years ago, she acquired a piece of land in Texas, but later proved to have oil underneath.
Oil. He's now worth a couple of million. And that's the whole gist of the story, except that missus Domingo has also gotten herself another husband without bothering to divorce her purse. Yeah. He's a Texas racketeer named Alfred Jenkins. Alfred Jenkins. Unfavorably known to the police as Al the Barber. Well, this yarn gets better and better. Yeah. But the biggest thing about it is, mister prosecutor, how soon can you spring Carlos Domingo out of the pen? Take this as a direct quote. Here it goes. Yeah. My office will take immediate steps to assess this poor man's
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release.
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Good night, missus Wheelbreaker. Hi. Here's your beer, Casey. Thanks, I suppose you and Casey are going up to Wallstock Prison tomorrow morning to see Carlos Domingo be let out, miss Williams. Mhmm. We are effleberry. Yep. Every paper in town is gonna give it front face coverage. Poor guy.
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Ten years in stir for a wife murder that didn't happen. And, our impression of Mercedes Domingo is that murder couldn't have happened to a more deserving gal. I guess she ain't much good. And all the DA really has on her is a bigamy charge that may not stand up. Why not? She marries herself, the barber guy while she had another husband. Well, here's the gimmick as I get it. According to a statute of limitation, if you don't hear from a wife or husband for so many years, he or she can be legally presumed dead, you see, which means you're free to marry again. He says her lawyer told her that. Missus Domingo's second husband is stricken by Aaron all this, I read. Well, why shouldn't he? Married a couple of million bucks, and he hopes to hang on to it. Mister Jenkins is another sweet scented character. How did he get his nickname of Althe Barber? There's a very complicated reason behind that, Alfred. Yeah?
His first name is Alfred, and he used to be a barber. I see. Oh. Yeah.
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Did he know she was married?
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She probably never told him what she'd done to her other husband. So all this has been quite a shock to the mug. Annie, it's getting late. We gotta make an early start at that prison in the morning. Mhmm. Quite a drive to Waldstock. Let's go home and get some sleep. Who's gonna pay that poor guy for all he's been through? Yeah. The state will end up by giving him a few thousand bucks, I guess. But even with that, he's been a fall guy for nothing. I guess he's thinking plenty about that and is pretty sure. I'd be. Well, in prison, guys learn to keep their thoughts and their feelings so. Yeah.
So let's go, Annie. There's we got we wanna know what No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No My only plan
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is to go home with my father here. Carlos,
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at my house, she will see no more haywire, no more barn door.
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Oh, my Fun fact. Hold on. Will
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you? I'll let father and son pick to be a hundred. Yeah.
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Mister Domingo,
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your wife's a rich woman now. Do you intend to bring a civil action against Oh, excuse me, miss Williams. That question should be addressed to me, not my client. Oh, okay. What's your answer, mister Harris? Well, civil action in this case must be an outgrowth of criminal action against Mercedes Domingo. The authorities are trying to establish a basis for criminal prosecution. But at the present time, I cannot reveal the extent of their findings. Fair enough, mister Harris. Only, you can answer this one, mister Domingo.
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How do you feel about your wife?
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Real? I feel nothing, really.
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Well, you're not. You'd be inhuman if you didn't.
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You know, as a very young man, I've been locked inside this prison. Once they came and shaved my leg and head to make me ready for the electric chair, all for a thing I did not do. Human? I forgot our human being. See?
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Ask me before his father how I feel about that, man.
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I tell you, for what we have done to Carlos, my son,
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I like to cut her heart out. I like to see her die.
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Hey. I've finished that up, Annie, will you? So we can get out of this lousy You know, I've got only two more paragraphs to type. Easy? This price is short of milk in the Domingo case. You're telling me All the facts have been in print dozens of times since the story broke. And then here's your phone, kid. Oh, yeah. Oh, I've answered will you? I'm checking over this last case. Yep.
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Williams, that's Casey speaking. Hello, Chris.
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No.
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What? When? When? When? We're starting right away. Come on. Hey. What is it, Casey? Well, there's something clearly new for your story, Annie. Mercedes Domingo has been murdered. Oh, no. Yes. Sometime last night, she was in her own bail. Her body has just been found in her hotel room. She was slashed to death with a razor.
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Whoever carved up Mercedes Domingo did a very thorough job, look. I don't say it was a thorough job, Keasy. Put put the sheet back over that body, captain. I told you not to look, miss Williams.
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Did I say she was killed last night? Yeah. About 11:00.
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What have you found out?
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Not much so far. Floor clerk on duty can't remember anybody visiting a Domingo woman last night, sir. She was known here as missus Jenkins.
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You found out where there was this? No. We didn't find it.
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Doc says only a straight razor could inflict such wounds. A barber's razor? Yeah. And we did find $10,000 in cash lying on his table where the killer couldn't have failed to see it. $10,000.
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Uh-huh. Anything else?
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Yeah. And they tore up a good sized piece of blood stained cardboard and burned it in that fireplace last night. And what kind of cardboard? Oh, heavy, good quality stuff with a linen like finish. Like, we used to make paper collars on it. Paper collars? Yeah. My old man wore them when I was a kid. You probably never saw one, that's where you've Uh-uh. And I sent the pieces down to the headquarters lab, and that's all I've got for you. Outside of a perfect suspect. Yeah. Sure looks like a revenge claim.
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That adds up to Carlos Domingo. Or, Carlos' father. Mhmm. Do you know what he said at the prison, Casey, that he'd like to cut this woman's heart out? Yeah. Yeah. I'm having both father and son picked up and brought down to headquarters. Logan, you know,
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this adds up so easy. I distrust the totals. Yeah. Frankly, Casey, I'm a little bit afraid of it. I'm having Jenkins, Alfa Barber picked up too. You mean because a barber's razor was used? No, miss Williams. Because with this woman dead, Jenkins has a swell chance of inheriting all her dough.
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And it's that darn razor that makes him an unlikely suspect. Yeah. That's far from the picture. Well, I don't see why. He used to be a barber. Okay. Annie, it isn't probable he'd use a murder weapon that ties up with his nickname and his former trade.
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We figured the cops would get ideas for that. That's a % correct, miss Rose. But, captain, you said that razor has given you in case of the idea that Jenkins is an unlikely suspect. Yeah. But,
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Mhmm. What are these women, love? Yeah.
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I'm signing for headquarters. Carlos, his old man, and L. Jenkins had better have perfect alibis or else Well, I don't think that or else can apply to Carlos. Okay? He's already served time for the murder of his wife and then unconditionally he pardoned, And a man can't be tried false for the same crime, can he? That's for the lawyers to argue out. I'm just a cop with a murder to solve. Let's go. At 11:00 last night, you were out walking, Carlos, walking alone, you said?
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Yes, captain.
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Walking alone. And you walked to Kansas City's hotel, didn't it? You got into a room and killed her. If you think so. You admit it. I admit nothing. I deny nothing. Give me a direct answer. Did you kill that woman? Once I said policeman, no. I did not kill, so I'm punished. Now I say I do kill. What happened? Do you set Charlotte on the fact and let him go home? I guess you know we haven't much chance in sending out for a client they've already paid for. Captain, a very bad woman has been killed. Is there a killer or another killer?
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He's
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dead. Now I say no more. Domingo, your son says he was out between 10:00 and midnight. You can't prove you didn't leave the house, go to that hotel, and kill Mercedes.
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No. That I cannot prove. You did prove her. You did kill her. But can you prove? It was either you or your son. You think so, Alright. I let you then. My son, you cannot make pay again for something he have paid for before, and I pay too when you people tell the Lord to take my only son away. Me? You cannot make pay again, for I am old and have little time to live. I laugh at you, Capita. I laugh and say no more.
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You were in the lounge at the Hotel Marbury at eleven last night, Jenkins? I never left the place from nine last night till almost two this morning. Were you alone in the Marbury lounge or was somebody with you? Two very well known Czechs.
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I mean, gentlemen were with me. My attorney Louis West and Lieutenant Brenner of your own headquarters police. Lieutenant Brenner? He was at my table constantly from 10:00 till after midnight.
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Okay, Jenkins. I'm afraid your alibi will be as good as you say.
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Is our car Annie? Can I get in? No. Okay.
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Stacy. Didn't Carlos or his father did the killing? No. They're simply 100%
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behind anybody who did. And Jenkins had a perfect alibi. Yeah. So Annie, wait. The floor clerk at that hotel didn't remember seeing anybody visit Mercedes' room. Of course, he wouldn't. Why not? Those scraps of burned cardboard Logan found, they reminded Logan of the material used for paper collars. Or what? Or something else is made of the same material. Paper dickies, Annie. Dickies? Yeah. Those false shirt fronts, the starch kind. When it when it gets dirty, you throw it away and stick a fresh one under the collar button. Waiters wear them, Annie. Well, I don't know what that is. Wear a manning. And who'd noticed a waiter in the halls of a big hotel? But Logan said none of the employees deemed possible suspect. Well, this waiter didn't have to work in a hotel. Oh, then any man can put on a test for you? No. No. Not any man. He had to actually be a waiter to get fired the way he did it or killed the way he did. He had to be What? That Gonzales.
Gonzales? The waiter Mercedes left Carlos for ten years ago. She walked out on Gonzales and double crossed him as she's double crossed every other guy she's known. Yeah. We're gonna try to find Gonzales. Who happened? We? Carla's chief defense lawyer, Harris. He's got a picture of Gonzales. Yes? Yeah. And Harris let me make a copy of it a few days ago. I thought to the desk, I'd wanna run it. Annie, we get that picture, and then we go to work.
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Why are all employment agencies upstairs and and walk up buildings? I don't know, Annie. I don't know. Well, so, like, the thirteenth
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agency we visited Well, well, I like it now.
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Yeah. Get worse.
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Are you still a waitress and a chef? No. Oh, no. Well, in that case, I don't want you today. Only thing open for a marriage couple is a waitress and a chef. What aye. Cashier and Connelly? Neither, pal. Well, you don't look like dishwashers. Oh, thanks. I guess you must be a bartender, but I can tell you you're not a waiter. You ain't got the manner. And here are registered to cost to fill out and give me 50¢. Let me say something. Go ahead. Who's stopping you? Well, we're we're not looking for y'all. Oh, you wanna hire people? Step into my office. Sit down. Make yourself a room. What do you want there? Help a restaurant? Don't tell my supervisor. Look. We're looking for a waiter. I've got thousands of them. But we only want one. A a special one. Take your look. You don't want this waiter? You know him? Of course I do. His name is Frank go Gomez. Frank Gomez. Hey. You'd be a fine waiter. It's understandable now that I lost two jobs. I got him. You you don't want him. He's just the guy we do want, mister. Okay. I warned you. Give me your address, and I'll send him to you. No. No. You lost his address. I don't do business that way. No. What's that $20 bill for?
Gomez address. Well, I'd like to do business. When I buy this car, now, say, that other fellow must have been looking for Gomez. Other fellow? Guy within a half hour ago. What does the guy look like? A big fellow. Well dressed. That's all I noticed. Here, his his dress. Thanks, Al. Come on, Al. Thanks for the double trouble. Bye.
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What do you think? Goodness.
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I love Logan's cup, Harry. That lug has figured those scraps of burned cardboard just the way I did. He put his guys out to find Gonzales. If we want an exclusive story, Annie, we've got to get to this address before Logan beats us to it.
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This is a terrible old tenement case. Yes. We've had it. I think we're on the wrong track. An old man who lives in a place like this would have passed up Mercedes ten thousand dollars. Let me find out. Here
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it goes. Look. Yes. It is. It is. Let's try the door.
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It's unlocked. Hey, man. This is on the top. Yeah. He's the guy I have a picture, Annie. He's the wrecker, that guy.
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Let me close the door.
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Wake up, Gonzales. Wake up, Gonzales. That used to be your name, didn't it, Gomez? You you are police. You've been expecting a policeman? A dream. A pleasant dream that everything was over. Tell me about Mercedes, though. She's You killed her. Yes. At last. Why? Because I was once a man, and she made me a dog. We took her away from Carlos to Lincoln. Yes. I'm crazy bad for her, and I'm full. She made me hate her husband because she say he back to her. So when we read in paper that Carlos is arrested for her murder, we think it's fine, Joe. Can I we say let him go to prison or die? Then we will marry. Your Mercedes were in the city. Yes.
I give her all my money and send her away. I stay here but change my name and go no more where people know me. She write me letters for a while, then the letters stop. So I I go to town where she was, but she's gone. I well, I know what she is then, and I know myself. Nice guy, won't you? If you didn't say a few words, you would have gotten Carlos out of prison. I was afraid of police, afraid and full of hate for the woman who had made me a coward and a fool. Then at last, I read in a paper of how Mercedes beg I let her buy the letters. I play with her like they cut me the moss.
I say get $10,000. I will come for it tomorrow, but I got to her last night. It's in your waiter uniform with a razor in your pocket. Yes. I tell her who I am. She's afraid. She quit offering me the money, then for a bad life, then my bad life should be ended too. Let's go, Gonzales. Stay where you are. What are you doing here, Jenkins? Why not, god? I'm here to protect my interest, mister Casey. We were both trying to locate Gonzales in the same way this afternoon. It wasn't a cop that man told us about animals. Who is this man who is pointing gun at us? Yes. You two should know each other.
Gonzales, meet Mercedes final boyfriend, mister Alf the barber Jenkins. Oh. Change that boyfriend to husband, wise guy. Make it husband and sole heir. Yeah. I'm beginning to get this straight. Gonzales, hand over those old letters of Mercedes. Hello? I guess she told you about that phone call from Gonzales' help. Right after she got it. Yes. If Gonzales talked or showed those letters, you would be out as Mercedes husband. The court would award Carlos everything he Yeah. Gonzales, don't think I hold it against you for bumping up Mercedes. That's okay, fella, but I want them letters. We're at it.
Yes. Wait, Gonzales. Don't tell him. Even if he gets those letters, he doesn't dare let you live or miss Williams and me. We've heard your story. He's come here prepared for a killing.
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I see.
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The letters are not here, mister Clark. If you kept your trap shut, Taji, you might have lived a
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He shot
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Gonzales right through the chin. Needed for a doctor. Quicken the cop. Quick, kid. I'm on my way. Gonzales, you walked right into that gun of Jenkins when he was gonna give me the worst. If you hadn't brought his attention away, he would've I let innocent man go to prison. I do not try to save him. I, El Buenadios, gave me a chance. You sure? You want this hat? Yeah. I understand.
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You found them letters after Gonzales died, King? The cops did, Everbert.
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Yeah. Those letters complete the case for Carlos Domingo.
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Mercedes' husband, only heir, you'll get her entire estate. Which is a pretty small payment for all he went through. Not so.
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Now I get that Alfa Barber will get more than a sample of what Carlos went through. Yeah. Much more. You'll get the worse. Them husbands of Mercedes don't have such a good time of it, do they? She was what you call, femi fatally. Well, that's a Greek word meaning, female troublemaker, like Cleopatra and Helena Troy and and missus O'Leary's cow. Missus O'Leary's cow? Don't you two know your history? That cow kicked over a lantern once and burned up most of Chicago.
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I'm sending you fatally, fatally. Annie,
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I'm sending fatally. Come on.
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