In this thrilling episode of "Casey, Crime Photographer," we dive into a complex murder mystery that unfolds on a rainy night. A woman in a red raincoat is shot dead, and the initial suspect is Ferris Gellhorn, who is believed to have mistaken the victim for his wife. As Casey and his team investigate, they uncover a tangled web of deceit involving love affairs and mistaken identities. The case takes a turn when Casey realizes that the real murderer might be closer than they thought, leading to a surprising revelation that challenges their initial assumptions.
As the investigation progresses, Casey's keen eye for detail and intuition lead him to question the obvious. With the help of a nosy neighbor, Mrs. Patch, and a clever reference to a famous murder case, Casey unravels the truth behind the murder. The episode highlights the importance of looking beyond the surface and questioning everything, as Casey pieces together the clues to reveal the true culprits behind the crime. Join us for a captivating story filled with suspense, unexpected twists, and the relentless pursuit of justice.
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Well, Casey, how are you coming along with that crossword puzzle? I'm stuck, Ethelbert,
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for a seven letter name beginning with h, and it's a place in Ohio.
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That's a tough one, Casey. Not for me, boys. Not for me. Hiya, Tony. My fellas, yes, sir. The word you're looking for is Hockings, H 0 C K I N G, The Hocking Valley. Hey. That's it. Hey. I get it. Anchor Hocking. Oh, you said it, Casey. Anchor Hocking, the world's largest makers of household glass. Prime Photographer, brought to you by Fire King Oven Glass. Anchor glass containers, Anchor caps and closures, all products of Anchor Hocking, a great name in glass. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is Tony Marvin. Every week at this time, the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation brings you another adventure of Casey, crime photographer, ace cameraman who covers the crime news of a great city.
Written by Alonzo Dean Cole, our adventure for tonight, The Red Raincoat.
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Night, about 09:30. Rain. Hard, pelting rain that has driven people indoors and left the streets deserted. At the corner, a bus stop. A woman alights from it. She wears a red hooded raincoat that covers her head and most of her face.
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She turns into a side street lined with cheap walk up apartment houses. Midway of the block, she's about to pass the entrance to an alley when from its darkness, there's a gunshot. Then another, another.
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The woman falls.
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On the street, brakes are hastily applied to a cruising taxi. As it comes to a skidding halt, the driver Police.
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Police. Police. Take cover.
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I heard her. Shots where? From the alley, I think. I didn't see no one. Oh, this stain got it in the back. Three bullet holes. Stay here, fellas. Don't let anybody touch her. I'm going to look in that alley.
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Get back, you people. Get back. This ain't a free show. There's been a murder here. Push them back, felletti. So I'll have room to shoot a picture. I'm doing the best I can, Casey. Move you full spoon. That's better. There's one for page one. Oh my god.
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Well, that'll be all, Casey. Well, look who's finally got here. My old pal, Logan. How often do I have to tell you that no press pictures are gonna be taken at the scene of a homicide till after the police photographers get through? I've got a rotten memory, haven't I, Charles? By rights, I ought to take that camera away from you. Oh, no. You wouldn't do that to me. Not with all these people looking up. What?
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No. Not.
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You cops, push this mob back. Clear the block so everyone will move around.
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Padre. Yes, captain. Tell me what happened here. I can tell you that, Logan. The cab driver, that little guy over there heard three shots fired from the alley here and saw this gal in the red raincoat fold up on the sidewalk. A uniform caught this guy right here. Heard the shots too. Searched the alley and found nothing. All the rest is up to you.
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What does Doc's report show, Sergeant? He said the woman was killed instantly, captain. One of those bullet holes is in line with the heart. Of course, he can't be sure it followed that line through her body until she's turned over. Oh, don't do that when my tech made you through. No, sir. Anyone find out who the woman is? Not yet, sir. When we can go through her pockets, we'll probably find something that Adam Williams is circulating through that crowd, Logan. Trying to locate someone who might know. Say, here she comes now with a fat face. Hello, captain. Hello, miss Williams. Casey, this lady thinks she recognizes the dead woman. Well, that's well, Annie.
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If you can identify her lady, your picture will be in the paper. Hey. I happen to be in charge here. Oh, excuse us, Logan.
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Who do you think the dead woman is, lady? Well, as I was just telling this young newspaper woman, officer, I can't be sure because the poor thing is lying on her face. But I'm almost positive that's the body of Nora Gellhorn because she had a red raincoat exactly like that. She's the only woman in this neighborhood who'd wear anything so flashy, and I've got a notion that a certain person wanted her out of the way. What do you mean by that? Well, her husband officer has been carrying on something disgraceful with another woman. Missus Gellhorn told me that herself. And she wasn't the sort who led a man to bother just because he happened to fall in love with somebody else. So I think That her husband shot her? Oh, I know it's an awful thing to say, mister, but from the goings on, I've heard about it. I think he's been planning to put her out of the way for a long time. As As I was saying to my eldest daughter, Eloise, only last night Where do these Gallivorn's live? Oh, over there in the corner building on this side of the street. That's Number 371, Apartment 4 C. I live in the apartment house next door. I'm missus Patch, missus Ida Patch. I said to my eldest daughter only live tonight, I'm gonna missus Patch. Who's the other woman in this case? The one you say Gellhorn's been carrying on with. Oh, her name's Randall, Emma Randall.
She and her husband live in the same building as the Gellhorn. Their apartment's directly across from mine. Hey. Wait a minute. This Emma Randall has a husband? Yeah. Poor man. Hey. You know, he's answering the way of Ferris Gellhorn's plans too. So if you policemen don't act fast and put that murderer behind bars, you'll fast, missus. If a checkup shows that your story isn't safe. Oh, you'll find it too, alright. I'm not the only person in this block who's been expecting a thing like this to happen. Captain Logan. Yes, sergeant? The photographers and tech men are finished. You can examine the body now. Hello, missus Patch. I want you to make your identification positive. Oh, I hate to look at the poor thing.
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Oh, well, captain, I know my duty. Will you turn the body over, doctor, so we can see the face? Thanks.
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She wasn't a bad looking gal, Annie. Nope. Kind of pretty.
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Oh.
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Oh. What's the matter, missus Patch? Wait.
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That isn't Nora Gellhorn. It isn't. No. That's Emma Landell. The woman you said Gellhorn was in love with? Yeah. But that's Nora Gellhorn's raincoat.
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I'm sure that now that I see it closed. Since missus Gellhorn isn't inside of it, you'll have to revise your theory. I guess you don't think Gellhorn would shoot the woman he's in love with. No. No. He went crazy about missus Randall.
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He wouldn't shoot her. Too bad, Logan. For a few minutes, it looked as though you had a sweet suspect in a case that was half sewed up. Well, it may still be that way.
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Missus Patch, what kind of a guy is Randall? This dead woman's husband? Well, he's a nice quiet kind of man. Quiet kind, Yeah. Do you know about his wife in Gellhorn? Oh, he must,
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everybody knew.
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He sounds like the answer, Casey.
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This guy Randall stood all he could then waited for his wife tonight and paid her off. James Randall wouldn't do that. He couldn't have done it. I'm afraid that's something you can't be sure of, ladies. But I am sure. Mister Randall hasn't been outside of his apartment since early this evening. He was inside it when I heard shooting down here on the street. How do you know he was inside? Well, his living room window was just across the court from mine. One of his shades was up a few inches, and I saw him over there lying on the couch. You saw him? Well, just by accident, of course. Now I never spy on my neighbors. Well, that's that, Logan.
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Yeah. But there's another possible angle. What? That red raincoat.
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Mistaken identity. Kellhorn may have thought he was shooting his wife. That's it, Annie. Yeah. Wait a minute. Missus Patch, you're sure this is missus Gellhorn's raincoat? Oh, I'm positive. I recognize it by those peculiar buttons and that little mend display on the right shoulder. Well, have you any idea why missus Randall should have been wearing it? Well, I suppose Nora O'Gell won't lend it to her. Weren't they enemies?
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Well, not outwardly. Like most jealous women, they may believe they were friends. What made things kinda difficult if they didn't seeing is they not only lived in the same house, but worked in the same restaurant. Worked in the same restaurant? Yeah. Holly's Grill. They're both witnesses there. Do you know if missus Galloherne or her husband are home now? No. I don't. Their windows aren't on my side of the house.
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That's too bad. Let's find out for ourselves, Logan. We will, Casey. Sergeant, take charge here. Yes. Have Martin take missus Patch down to headquarters and get a complete deposition from her. Oh, I'd much rather go with you, captain. You and the captain can get together later, missus Patch, but I'll shoot that picture of you now. For the paper, missus Casey? The best paper in town. Oh, goodness. I look just as bright as this old coat on the color of rain. I didn't get fine clothes on you would only gild the lily. Oh, miss Casey. Yeah. And I just stand just as you are. Hold that bewitching smile. That does it. You wanna take another? If he does, he's staying here without me. Come on, miss Williams. I'll take more shots of you later, missus Patch. Coming, Logan.
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Try to pull yourself together, mister Randall. I am sorry we've had to bring you such rotten nose. Am my wife.
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Dead. Tops, fella. Please let me go to where I gotta see her. Not now. Later, pal. Yeah. But she's lying down there in the street, you say, in the rain. They'll have taken her away by now, mister Reynolds.
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You can go to her when you get a little more used to the idea of what you'll have to see. Yeah. Maybe maybe that'll be better.
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Who killed her, captain? Who shot my wife? Oh, we hope you may be able to help us find that out.
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I don't know. I I can't help you.
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Before we came to you, we stopped at the Gellhorn department. Nobody was home. Why'd you stop there? We wanna meet mister Gellhorn especially. He a friend of yours?
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He's a neighbor.
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I see.
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You, you've been talking to people, captain. Someone's been telling you things. Oh, frankly. Yes.
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Randall, do you think No.
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Ferris Gellhorn would be the last man in the world who'd kill my wife.
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That wasn't the question I meant to ask you. Do You think he's the sort who'd kill his own life? I I don't know.
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When you let us in here, mister Randall, you said you've been asleep. Yeah. I I was tired and I came home from work and I lay down on the couch there. What time was that? It was around half past six, mister Casey. I slept until your knock at the door woke me up.
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There was plenty of daylight when you fell asleep around half past six, mister Randall. Why did you turn the electric lights on then? The lights? Yeah. We saw a crack of light under the door before we knocked and woke you up. Well, you see, when my wife
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was working late, mister Casey, I always turned the light on for her if I was going out or going to sleep. You see, she she headed to come home to
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a dark apartment. Would you keep your big mouth shut, Casey, and let me handle this? It was a question we wanted answered, wasn't it? I'd have asked the question, and I'll check on the answer. You attend to your job and let me attend to mine. Okay. I'll take some pictures. No? Morning Express readers who want to know what the dead woman's apartment looks like. That'll be a good shot of this living room. Now get one for the bedroom. Yeah? Mister Randall, you must try to put yourself together. You you you just must. Yeah. Alright. I'll I'll do my best, miss Williams. Alright.
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How, how long have you been married, Randall? Eight years. And when did you and your wife meet the Gellhorns? About two years ago, captain. What sort of a fellow is the Gellhorn?
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I hate the guys inside. He's a lousy wolf in the double cotter. But if you suspect him of her murder, I know you're wrong.
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He wanted her to live. He didn't want her dead. This man sounds like a square shooter, captain. Yeah. He does, miss Williams. Check me down on that too. Alright. So you're back at that kitchen? Mhmm. I didn't wanna miss anything.
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Who's there? Well, any captain. Come in. We found missus Gellhorn. Oh, is this I'm Nora Gellhorn, captain.
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This officer came to the restaurant for me. He told me why.
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Sit down, missus Gellhorn. I've gotta ask you some questions.
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Just a minute, please. Jim?
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Yeah, Nora.
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You know I didn't like your wife. I had plenty of reason not to, but now I'm very sorry for you.
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Thank you.
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Now, captain, what did you wanna know?
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First, missus Gellhorn, did you lend missus Randall the raincoat she wore tonight? Yes. I did.
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It was pouring when she got through work and she didn't even have an umbrella with her. I was working late tonight in another girl's place and
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I figured the rain had stopped by the time I finished, so I said take my coat. And you remained at the restaurant after missus Randall left there, missus Gellhorn? Yes. I did. I checked, and missus Gellhorn was in the restaurant when missus Randall was shot, captain. Okay, buddy. Missus Gellhorn. Yes? You said you worked late tonight in another girl's place? That's right. And do you usually come home at the same time as missus Randall? Usually. Did your husband expect you at the usual time tonight?
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I guess so. I didn't bother to tell him. He doesn't care when I come home or if I come home.
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That looks like the payoff, Casey. Yeah. You know where your husband is tonight, missus Gohorn? He told me he was going to the movies. What theater?
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I don't know. You might find him at any of the neighborhood seated
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except the Fourth Avenue. He went there last night to see Lord Holliday. We'll pick him up. Sergeant Flanagan's posted guys at all the theaters around here, captain, and that missus Patch gave us a first class description of Gellhorn.
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Oh, missus Patch is the one who's been telling you cops then. He told us nothing that you and mister Randall haven't verified, missus Gellhorn.
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Oh, alright then. My husband has been two timing, both me and Jim Randall here. But if you've got an idea that he killed Emma, you're wrong. I've told him that, no. Well, missus Gellhorn,
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do you think he'd have liked you out of the way and, Randall here so he and missus Randall would be free to get married?
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Well well, sure he'd have liked that, but I know that he would Come in.
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We've got Gellhorn, sir. I'm all ready for him, sergeant. He's downstairs. You wanna brought up here?
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Wait a minute. He hasn't been told anything. Oh, not a word, sir. Where'd you get it? Coming out of the Fourth Avenue Theatre. Fourth Avenue? He said he'd seen the show there, missus Gellhorn.
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Well, I thought he had last night. I can't understand. I can.
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Go into that bedroom, missus Gellhorn. Into the bedroom. And for just a few minutes. Close the door and don't come out till I call you. Then come out quick.
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Alright. I'll do it, but I I don't
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Okay, sergeant. Have Gellhorn brought up. Yes, sir. The captain will see him up here, Pete. Come on. The old surprise treatment for Gellhorn, Logan. Yeah. His reaction when he sees his wife alive is all I need now. Certainly looks as though Everything fits. Even the theater where they picked him up. He'd seen the pictures there so he could describe every part of it that was shown while he was waiting in that alley. You went there after the shooting to establish an alibi? Sure, mister is captain. Bring him in. You don't have to, Doug. I'm captain Logan, Gellhorn. So you're the boss of these monkeys who've been putting a muscle on me. What's the big idea? We're simply doing a little investigating, mister Gellhorn. Investigating what? And why here?
Randall, what's your part in this? Why have I been brought to his apartment? I'll explain, Gellhorn, if you need an explanation after. Lady, come out of that bedroom. You in that bedroom, come out. Nor. Think you're looking at a ghost, Gellhorn? What what's my wife doing here? She's the last person you expected to see, isn't she? You thought she was dead. Well, I also wiped that phony look of innocence off your face. The woman who wore your wife's red raincoat tonight was Emma Randall. She's dead.
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Emma's dead. Yes, Gellhorn. With three bullets in her back that you put there. I get it now, captain. He mistook her for me and my raincoat. She killed my wife. Let me end him out. Emma. Emma Randall. I'm taking it. Take him, boys. I'm done, captain. Not Not before I get a picture. What's this all about? You know, Gellhorn.
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I'm arresting you on a charge of murder. Me? Murder?
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I got a shot of that too. Alright, boys. Let's get him back to headquarters. Are you Can't do it, Linda. You don't want your choice. Well, come on, Casey. This case is all sewed up. Let's get our stuff to the paper. Okay, Annie.
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But I wonder
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What?
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If this case is sewed up right.
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After what you and miss Williams have told me, Casey,
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I can't see any doubt of that fella, Gellhorn's guiltiness. There isn't any doubt, Ethelbert, except in Casey's much too active imagination. Oh, Annie, you've closed your mind like Logan. Oh. You two had so completely sold yourselves on Gellhorn's guilt before you saw him that nothing could unsell you. It'd mean a thing to you, for instance, when Logan's big surprise act laid an egg. Hold back. Gellhorn didn't act as if he was looking at a ghost when his wife stepped out of that bedroom. Well, so what?
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Probably got a flash at Emma Randall's face after he shot her, realized the big mistake he made, and was all prepared. Well, that's possible. Yeah.
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You know, missus Gellhorn took longer than she should have to come out of that bedroom, and then she looked more nervous than her husband. I'd like to know why. Oh, Casey. You're trying to make something out of such little things. The parts of the case fit too smoothly, Annie, as though they've been boiled by somebody. Yeah. But I can't figure it out. Oh, nuts.
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You know, this Gellhorn business is a lot like another murder I read about. It happened over in England. And that's the Haslington murder. Yeah? Haslington was the name of the gal who got shot. You know about it. Yeah. I have a bar. Oh, that's a famous old time rattle bit. Happened before any one of us were born. It was all news to me when I read it a couple of months ago in a detective magazine. They called it the case of the sable cloak. Case of the sable uh-huh.
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Yeah. Detective magazine, Ward. Say, you know, I promised to show you those pictures I took last night that the paper didn't have space for. Yeah. I'd like to see them. Uh-huh. Here. Here's a print of the Randall living room. This is the bedroom, and here is missus Patch. And then will she be sore because the picture didn't make the paper?
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She's the woman who gave us the lead on Gelfand. Ain't she a funny looking old dame?
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Look at the
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Yes. She's a dangerous old dame. I'd say, wait a minute. Give me that picture I took of the bedroom. The what? I noticed it before, but it didn't register. Look at the pillows on the bed. Well, well, are they that, just pillows? Yeah. But they're on top of the bed spread uncovered. I don't think Randall's alibi, Andy. What? And now wait a minute. Look at this picture of the living room. The window shades are pulled to within a few inches at the bottom. Now that narrow space is all missus Patch had to look through when she saw Randall lying on the couch. God had pillows in the bedroom. Got to do That's what I'd like to Albert, you say you read about the Haslington murder in a recent magazine. Was the magazine True Murder Chronicles? Yeah. But it was That call is case of disabled quotes. What does it You've been a great help to me tonight, pal. And a Ferris Gellhorn. I? Come on, Annie. We're gonna pay another call on Emma Randall's husband. Well, okay, Casey. But I I don't like tonight. So would I.
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But what was the
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Oh, they always do that to me.
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Who's that?
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Casey, mister Randall, and miss Williams. May we come in? It's important. Just a minute. Casey, how are you going? You will still know, Annie. A door just closed inside there. Oh, what?
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I don't know why you haven't told me all you think. I've been too busy thinking to tell you any.
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Okay. Come in. Thanks, Randall. Sit down, miss Williams. Thank you. Casey. I'll rest on my feet. Thanks.
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What,
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what have you come to see me about?
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New evidence in your wife's murder.
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New evidence? Yeah. Gellhorn didn't kill her. What do you mean?
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Hey. It's it's awful stuffy in here. You mind if I lift this shade and raise the window a little? I'm sure already doing. Thanks. Randall, you ever read a story called the case of a sable cloak?
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I
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no. It's funny. It was published only a few months ago in True Murder Chronicles, and I noticed several issues of that magazine here last evening. Well, I,
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those magazines belong to my wife. I I never read them. I see.
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Well, this particular story told about a rich Englishman who fell hard for a gal named Haslington. He wanted to marry her, but he had a wife. His wife owned a sable coat, and one night he shot and killed a woman who was wearing that coat, but the woman had borrowed it from his wife, and the woman was miss Haslington.
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Oh, not that's, like Gellhorn
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and and Emma. Uh-huh. Yeah.
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The cops were pretty sure to remember the famous Haslington case if a similar murder occurred and to jump to a conclusion based upon it, see. If everything was previously arranged to point that way. Don't you think so? I do.
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I don't know. Oh, sure you do.
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I tell you how I do. The guy who really murdered your wife was fairly smart. He started to point suspicion toward where he wanted to fall soon after that magazine story gave him his big idea, and he figured a pretty fair alibi. He even had an excuse for a light to burn when it shouldn't have so he could be seen in a place where he wasn't Where are you driving at? After the murder, he continued to play smart. He denied his belief in Gellhorn's guilt while constantly pointing the finger at him, and he got rid of the clothes he'd worn out in the rain. I I looked for him while I was in your bedroom last night. You're accusing me? Because you slipped up on a little detail last night and because tonight, the two of you made a bigger machine.
Come out of that room, missus Gallon. Come out. Alright.
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Here I am.
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You shouldn't have let your murder partner come here to talk things over, Randall, and you shouldn't have hidden her so clumsily before you let us in. He knows, Nori. He knows everything. Shut up, Jim. You wouldn't have known anything if you hadn't said that. It doesn't matter now, does it? Yes. It does.
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Tell me to move. Who I mean, you too, miss Williams.
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Is that the gun your boyfriend used to kill his wife with?
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If it is, you'll never prove it. No. What are you going to do? The only thing to do, Jim, kill these people. They know you killed your wife and that I helped you. They can send us to the chair. You'll never get away with it. We'll tell the police you broke in here, and I shot you in self defense. Just a second, missus Gellhorn. I want to go on living.
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And I've arranged things, so I will.
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How do you mean?
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You've forgotten. I opened that window. Window?
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Missus Patch. She's been getting an eyeful and an earful. I'll have you known, mister Casey, that I only happen to be at this window by accident. I believe you, missus Patch.
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Give me the gun, missus Yellow. Thank you. Now you two smart killers sit down and wait for the cops. Go on, Randall.
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Phone headquarters, Annie. Okay, Casey. After I phoned city desk. Oh, but wait a minute. You still haven't told me why those pillows on the top of the bed made me We'll go over to the blue note, Annie, and I'll tell you all about it. Alright. Oh, missus Patch? Yeah?
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This, Randoll and missus Gellhorn planned the killing so they could be free to tie up with one another. Casey? That's right, as of birth. Yeah. You still haven't told me what you had on Randoll when you went to his place, Casey? I didn't have anything except the Haslington case you had mentioned. You mean the case of the sable cloak.
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Okay, pal. The case of the sable cloaker. I think that's a nice title. I only had that. A hunch about those bed pillars and a hope that Randall would crack up and make an admission. Yeah. What was your hunch about them bed pillars? Oh, I figured Randall might have rigged up a dummy to fool missus Patch. That all she really saw were his pants and shirt stuffed with pillars. And that was all she saw too, Ethelbert.
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When Randall came back after the shooting, he got out of his wet clothes, put on the dry ones that had covered the dummy, and tossed the pillows back under the bed, but a little too carelessly.
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What'd he do with the clothes he'd worn out in the rain? Put them in Gellhorn's apartment. Mhmm. They belong to Gellhorn.
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Randall had even worn his things.
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Say, he and that missus Gellhorn thought of almost everything. Yes,
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for a seven letter name beginning with h, and it's a place in Ohio.
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Written by Alonzo Dean Cole, our adventure for tonight, The Red Raincoat.
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Night, about 09:30. Rain. Hard, pelting rain that has driven people indoors and left the streets deserted. At the corner, a bus stop. A woman alights from it. She wears a red hooded raincoat that covers her head and most of her face.
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She turns into a side street lined with cheap walk up apartment houses. Midway of the block, she's about to pass the entrance to an alley when from its darkness, there's a gunshot. Then another, another.
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The woman falls.
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On the street, brakes are hastily applied to a cruising taxi. As it comes to a skidding halt, the driver Police.
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Police. Police. Take cover.
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I heard her. Shots where? From the alley, I think. I didn't see no one. Oh, this stain got it in the back. Three bullet holes. Stay here, fellas. Don't let anybody touch her. I'm going to look in that alley.
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Get back, you people. Get back. This ain't a free show. There's been a murder here. Push them back, felletti. So I'll have room to shoot a picture. I'm doing the best I can, Casey. Move you full spoon. That's better. There's one for page one. Oh my god.
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Well, that'll be all, Casey. Well, look who's finally got here. My old pal, Logan. How often do I have to tell you that no press pictures are gonna be taken at the scene of a homicide till after the police photographers get through? I've got a rotten memory, haven't I, Charles? By rights, I ought to take that camera away from you. Oh, no. You wouldn't do that to me. Not with all these people looking up. What?
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No. Not.
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You cops, push this mob back. Clear the block so everyone will move around.
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Padre. Yes, captain. Tell me what happened here. I can tell you that, Logan. The cab driver, that little guy over there heard three shots fired from the alley here and saw this gal in the red raincoat fold up on the sidewalk. A uniform caught this guy right here. Heard the shots too. Searched the alley and found nothing. All the rest is up to you.
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What does Doc's report show, Sergeant? He said the woman was killed instantly, captain. One of those bullet holes is in line with the heart. Of course, he can't be sure it followed that line through her body until she's turned over. Oh, don't do that when my tech made you through. No, sir. Anyone find out who the woman is? Not yet, sir. When we can go through her pockets, we'll probably find something that Adam Williams is circulating through that crowd, Logan. Trying to locate someone who might know. Say, here she comes now with a fat face. Hello, captain. Hello, miss Williams. Casey, this lady thinks she recognizes the dead woman. Well, that's well, Annie.
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If you can identify her lady, your picture will be in the paper. Hey. I happen to be in charge here. Oh, excuse us, Logan.
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Who do you think the dead woman is, lady? Well, as I was just telling this young newspaper woman, officer, I can't be sure because the poor thing is lying on her face. But I'm almost positive that's the body of Nora Gellhorn because she had a red raincoat exactly like that. She's the only woman in this neighborhood who'd wear anything so flashy, and I've got a notion that a certain person wanted her out of the way. What do you mean by that? Well, her husband officer has been carrying on something disgraceful with another woman. Missus Gellhorn told me that herself. And she wasn't the sort who led a man to bother just because he happened to fall in love with somebody else. So I think That her husband shot her? Oh, I know it's an awful thing to say, mister, but from the goings on, I've heard about it. I think he's been planning to put her out of the way for a long time. As As I was saying to my eldest daughter, Eloise, only last night Where do these Gallivorn's live? Oh, over there in the corner building on this side of the street. That's Number 371, Apartment 4 C. I live in the apartment house next door. I'm missus Patch, missus Ida Patch. I said to my eldest daughter only live tonight, I'm gonna missus Patch. Who's the other woman in this case? The one you say Gellhorn's been carrying on with. Oh, her name's Randall, Emma Randall.
She and her husband live in the same building as the Gellhorn. Their apartment's directly across from mine. Hey. Wait a minute. This Emma Randall has a husband? Yeah. Poor man. Hey. You know, he's answering the way of Ferris Gellhorn's plans too. So if you policemen don't act fast and put that murderer behind bars, you'll fast, missus. If a checkup shows that your story isn't safe. Oh, you'll find it too, alright. I'm not the only person in this block who's been expecting a thing like this to happen. Captain Logan. Yes, sergeant? The photographers and tech men are finished. You can examine the body now. Hello, missus Patch. I want you to make your identification positive. Oh, I hate to look at the poor thing.
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Oh, well, captain, I know my duty. Will you turn the body over, doctor, so we can see the face? Thanks.
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She wasn't a bad looking gal, Annie. Nope. Kind of pretty.
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Oh.
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Oh. What's the matter, missus Patch? Wait.
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That isn't Nora Gellhorn. It isn't. No. That's Emma Landell. The woman you said Gellhorn was in love with? Yeah. But that's Nora Gellhorn's raincoat.
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I'm sure that now that I see it closed. Since missus Gellhorn isn't inside of it, you'll have to revise your theory. I guess you don't think Gellhorn would shoot the woman he's in love with. No. No. He went crazy about missus Randall.
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He wouldn't shoot her. Too bad, Logan. For a few minutes, it looked as though you had a sweet suspect in a case that was half sewed up. Well, it may still be that way.
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Missus Patch, what kind of a guy is Randall? This dead woman's husband? Well, he's a nice quiet kind of man. Quiet kind, Yeah. Do you know about his wife in Gellhorn? Oh, he must,
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everybody knew.
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He sounds like the answer, Casey.
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This guy Randall stood all he could then waited for his wife tonight and paid her off. James Randall wouldn't do that. He couldn't have done it. I'm afraid that's something you can't be sure of, ladies. But I am sure. Mister Randall hasn't been outside of his apartment since early this evening. He was inside it when I heard shooting down here on the street. How do you know he was inside? Well, his living room window was just across the court from mine. One of his shades was up a few inches, and I saw him over there lying on the couch. You saw him? Well, just by accident, of course. Now I never spy on my neighbors. Well, that's that, Logan.
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Yeah. But there's another possible angle. What? That red raincoat.
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Mistaken identity. Kellhorn may have thought he was shooting his wife. That's it, Annie. Yeah. Wait a minute. Missus Patch, you're sure this is missus Gellhorn's raincoat? Oh, I'm positive. I recognize it by those peculiar buttons and that little mend display on the right shoulder. Well, have you any idea why missus Randall should have been wearing it? Well, I suppose Nora O'Gell won't lend it to her. Weren't they enemies?
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Well, not outwardly. Like most jealous women, they may believe they were friends. What made things kinda difficult if they didn't seeing is they not only lived in the same house, but worked in the same restaurant. Worked in the same restaurant? Yeah. Holly's Grill. They're both witnesses there. Do you know if missus Galloherne or her husband are home now? No. I don't. Their windows aren't on my side of the house.
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That's too bad. Let's find out for ourselves, Logan. We will, Casey. Sergeant, take charge here. Yes. Have Martin take missus Patch down to headquarters and get a complete deposition from her. Oh, I'd much rather go with you, captain. You and the captain can get together later, missus Patch, but I'll shoot that picture of you now. For the paper, missus Casey? The best paper in town. Oh, goodness. I look just as bright as this old coat on the color of rain. I didn't get fine clothes on you would only gild the lily. Oh, miss Casey. Yeah. And I just stand just as you are. Hold that bewitching smile. That does it. You wanna take another? If he does, he's staying here without me. Come on, miss Williams. I'll take more shots of you later, missus Patch. Coming, Logan.
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Try to pull yourself together, mister Randall. I am sorry we've had to bring you such rotten nose. Am my wife.
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Dead. Tops, fella. Please let me go to where I gotta see her. Not now. Later, pal. Yeah. But she's lying down there in the street, you say, in the rain. They'll have taken her away by now, mister Reynolds.
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You can go to her when you get a little more used to the idea of what you'll have to see. Yeah. Maybe maybe that'll be better.
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Who killed her, captain? Who shot my wife? Oh, we hope you may be able to help us find that out.
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I don't know. I I can't help you.
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Before we came to you, we stopped at the Gellhorn department. Nobody was home. Why'd you stop there? We wanna meet mister Gellhorn especially. He a friend of yours?
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He's a neighbor.
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I see.
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You, you've been talking to people, captain. Someone's been telling you things. Oh, frankly. Yes.
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Randall, do you think No.
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Ferris Gellhorn would be the last man in the world who'd kill my wife.
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That wasn't the question I meant to ask you. Do You think he's the sort who'd kill his own life? I I don't know.
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When you let us in here, mister Randall, you said you've been asleep. Yeah. I I was tired and I came home from work and I lay down on the couch there. What time was that? It was around half past six, mister Casey. I slept until your knock at the door woke me up.
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There was plenty of daylight when you fell asleep around half past six, mister Randall. Why did you turn the electric lights on then? The lights? Yeah. We saw a crack of light under the door before we knocked and woke you up. Well, you see, when my wife
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was working late, mister Casey, I always turned the light on for her if I was going out or going to sleep. You see, she she headed to come home to
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a dark apartment. Would you keep your big mouth shut, Casey, and let me handle this? It was a question we wanted answered, wasn't it? I'd have asked the question, and I'll check on the answer. You attend to your job and let me attend to mine. Okay. I'll take some pictures. No? Morning Express readers who want to know what the dead woman's apartment looks like. That'll be a good shot of this living room. Now get one for the bedroom. Yeah? Mister Randall, you must try to put yourself together. You you you just must. Yeah. Alright. I'll I'll do my best, miss Williams. Alright.
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How, how long have you been married, Randall? Eight years. And when did you and your wife meet the Gellhorns? About two years ago, captain. What sort of a fellow is the Gellhorn?
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I hate the guys inside. He's a lousy wolf in the double cotter. But if you suspect him of her murder, I know you're wrong.
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He wanted her to live. He didn't want her dead. This man sounds like a square shooter, captain. Yeah. He does, miss Williams. Check me down on that too. Alright. So you're back at that kitchen? Mhmm. I didn't wanna miss anything.
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Who's there? Well, any captain. Come in. We found missus Gellhorn. Oh, is this I'm Nora Gellhorn, captain.
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This officer came to the restaurant for me. He told me why.
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Sit down, missus Gellhorn. I've gotta ask you some questions.
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Just a minute, please. Jim?
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Yeah, Nora.
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You know I didn't like your wife. I had plenty of reason not to, but now I'm very sorry for you.
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Thank you.
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Now, captain, what did you wanna know?
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First, missus Gellhorn, did you lend missus Randall the raincoat she wore tonight? Yes. I did.
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It was pouring when she got through work and she didn't even have an umbrella with her. I was working late tonight in another girl's place and
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I figured the rain had stopped by the time I finished, so I said take my coat. And you remained at the restaurant after missus Randall left there, missus Gellhorn? Yes. I did. I checked, and missus Gellhorn was in the restaurant when missus Randall was shot, captain. Okay, buddy. Missus Gellhorn. Yes? You said you worked late tonight in another girl's place? That's right. And do you usually come home at the same time as missus Randall? Usually. Did your husband expect you at the usual time tonight?
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I guess so. I didn't bother to tell him. He doesn't care when I come home or if I come home.
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That looks like the payoff, Casey. Yeah. You know where your husband is tonight, missus Gohorn? He told me he was going to the movies. What theater?
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I don't know. You might find him at any of the neighborhood seated
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except the Fourth Avenue. He went there last night to see Lord Holliday. We'll pick him up. Sergeant Flanagan's posted guys at all the theaters around here, captain, and that missus Patch gave us a first class description of Gellhorn.
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Oh, missus Patch is the one who's been telling you cops then. He told us nothing that you and mister Randall haven't verified, missus Gellhorn.
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Oh, alright then. My husband has been two timing, both me and Jim Randall here. But if you've got an idea that he killed Emma, you're wrong. I've told him that, no. Well, missus Gellhorn,
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do you think he'd have liked you out of the way and, Randall here so he and missus Randall would be free to get married?
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Well well, sure he'd have liked that, but I know that he would Come in.
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We've got Gellhorn, sir. I'm all ready for him, sergeant. He's downstairs. You wanna brought up here?
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Wait a minute. He hasn't been told anything. Oh, not a word, sir. Where'd you get it? Coming out of the Fourth Avenue Theatre. Fourth Avenue? He said he'd seen the show there, missus Gellhorn.
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Well, I thought he had last night. I can't understand. I can.
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Go into that bedroom, missus Gellhorn. Into the bedroom. And for just a few minutes. Close the door and don't come out till I call you. Then come out quick.
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Alright. I'll do it, but I I don't
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Okay, sergeant. Have Gellhorn brought up. Yes, sir. The captain will see him up here, Pete. Come on. The old surprise treatment for Gellhorn, Logan. Yeah. His reaction when he sees his wife alive is all I need now. Certainly looks as though Everything fits. Even the theater where they picked him up. He'd seen the pictures there so he could describe every part of it that was shown while he was waiting in that alley. You went there after the shooting to establish an alibi? Sure, mister is captain. Bring him in. You don't have to, Doug. I'm captain Logan, Gellhorn. So you're the boss of these monkeys who've been putting a muscle on me. What's the big idea? We're simply doing a little investigating, mister Gellhorn. Investigating what? And why here?
Randall, what's your part in this? Why have I been brought to his apartment? I'll explain, Gellhorn, if you need an explanation after. Lady, come out of that bedroom. You in that bedroom, come out. Nor. Think you're looking at a ghost, Gellhorn? What what's my wife doing here? She's the last person you expected to see, isn't she? You thought she was dead. Well, I also wiped that phony look of innocence off your face. The woman who wore your wife's red raincoat tonight was Emma Randall. She's dead.
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Emma's dead. Yes, Gellhorn. With three bullets in her back that you put there. I get it now, captain. He mistook her for me and my raincoat. She killed my wife. Let me end him out. Emma. Emma Randall. I'm taking it. Take him, boys. I'm done, captain. Not Not before I get a picture. What's this all about? You know, Gellhorn.
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I'm arresting you on a charge of murder. Me? Murder?
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I got a shot of that too. Alright, boys. Let's get him back to headquarters. Are you Can't do it, Linda. You don't want your choice. Well, come on, Casey. This case is all sewed up. Let's get our stuff to the paper. Okay, Annie.
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But I wonder
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What?
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If this case is sewed up right.
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After what you and miss Williams have told me, Casey,
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I can't see any doubt of that fella, Gellhorn's guiltiness. There isn't any doubt, Ethelbert, except in Casey's much too active imagination. Oh, Annie, you've closed your mind like Logan. Oh. You two had so completely sold yourselves on Gellhorn's guilt before you saw him that nothing could unsell you. It'd mean a thing to you, for instance, when Logan's big surprise act laid an egg. Hold back. Gellhorn didn't act as if he was looking at a ghost when his wife stepped out of that bedroom. Well, so what?
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Probably got a flash at Emma Randall's face after he shot her, realized the big mistake he made, and was all prepared. Well, that's possible. Yeah.
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You know, missus Gellhorn took longer than she should have to come out of that bedroom, and then she looked more nervous than her husband. I'd like to know why. Oh, Casey. You're trying to make something out of such little things. The parts of the case fit too smoothly, Annie, as though they've been boiled by somebody. Yeah. But I can't figure it out. Oh, nuts.
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You know, this Gellhorn business is a lot like another murder I read about. It happened over in England. And that's the Haslington murder. Yeah? Haslington was the name of the gal who got shot. You know about it. Yeah. I have a bar. Oh, that's a famous old time rattle bit. Happened before any one of us were born. It was all news to me when I read it a couple of months ago in a detective magazine. They called it the case of the sable cloak. Case of the sable uh-huh.
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Yeah. Detective magazine, Ward. Say, you know, I promised to show you those pictures I took last night that the paper didn't have space for. Yeah. I'd like to see them. Uh-huh. Here. Here's a print of the Randall living room. This is the bedroom, and here is missus Patch. And then will she be sore because the picture didn't make the paper?
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She's the woman who gave us the lead on Gelfand. Ain't she a funny looking old dame?
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Look at the
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Yes. She's a dangerous old dame. I'd say, wait a minute. Give me that picture I took of the bedroom. The what? I noticed it before, but it didn't register. Look at the pillows on the bed. Well, well, are they that, just pillows? Yeah. But they're on top of the bed spread uncovered. I don't think Randall's alibi, Andy. What? And now wait a minute. Look at this picture of the living room. The window shades are pulled to within a few inches at the bottom. Now that narrow space is all missus Patch had to look through when she saw Randall lying on the couch. God had pillows in the bedroom. Got to do That's what I'd like to Albert, you say you read about the Haslington murder in a recent magazine. Was the magazine True Murder Chronicles? Yeah. But it was That call is case of disabled quotes. What does it You've been a great help to me tonight, pal. And a Ferris Gellhorn. I? Come on, Annie. We're gonna pay another call on Emma Randall's husband. Well, okay, Casey. But I I don't like tonight. So would I.
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But what was the
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Oh, they always do that to me.
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Who's that?
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Casey, mister Randall, and miss Williams. May we come in? It's important. Just a minute. Casey, how are you going? You will still know, Annie. A door just closed inside there. Oh, what?
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I don't know why you haven't told me all you think. I've been too busy thinking to tell you any.
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Okay. Come in. Thanks, Randall. Sit down, miss Williams. Thank you. Casey. I'll rest on my feet. Thanks.
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What,
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what have you come to see me about?
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New evidence in your wife's murder.
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New evidence? Yeah. Gellhorn didn't kill her. What do you mean?
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Hey. It's it's awful stuffy in here. You mind if I lift this shade and raise the window a little? I'm sure already doing. Thanks. Randall, you ever read a story called the case of a sable cloak?
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I
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no. It's funny. It was published only a few months ago in True Murder Chronicles, and I noticed several issues of that magazine here last evening. Well, I,
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those magazines belong to my wife. I I never read them. I see.
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Well, this particular story told about a rich Englishman who fell hard for a gal named Haslington. He wanted to marry her, but he had a wife. His wife owned a sable coat, and one night he shot and killed a woman who was wearing that coat, but the woman had borrowed it from his wife, and the woman was miss Haslington.
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Oh, not that's, like Gellhorn
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and and Emma. Uh-huh. Yeah.
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The cops were pretty sure to remember the famous Haslington case if a similar murder occurred and to jump to a conclusion based upon it, see. If everything was previously arranged to point that way. Don't you think so? I do.
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I don't know. Oh, sure you do.
[00:23:28] Unknown:
I tell you how I do. The guy who really murdered your wife was fairly smart. He started to point suspicion toward where he wanted to fall soon after that magazine story gave him his big idea, and he figured a pretty fair alibi. He even had an excuse for a light to burn when it shouldn't have so he could be seen in a place where he wasn't Where are you driving at? After the murder, he continued to play smart. He denied his belief in Gellhorn's guilt while constantly pointing the finger at him, and he got rid of the clothes he'd worn out in the rain. I I looked for him while I was in your bedroom last night. You're accusing me? Because you slipped up on a little detail last night and because tonight, the two of you made a bigger machine.
Come out of that room, missus Gallon. Come out. Alright.
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Here I am.
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You shouldn't have let your murder partner come here to talk things over, Randall, and you shouldn't have hidden her so clumsily before you let us in. He knows, Nori. He knows everything. Shut up, Jim. You wouldn't have known anything if you hadn't said that. It doesn't matter now, does it? Yes. It does.
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Tell me to move. Who I mean, you too, miss Williams.
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Is that the gun your boyfriend used to kill his wife with?
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If it is, you'll never prove it. No. What are you going to do? The only thing to do, Jim, kill these people. They know you killed your wife and that I helped you. They can send us to the chair. You'll never get away with it. We'll tell the police you broke in here, and I shot you in self defense. Just a second, missus Gellhorn. I want to go on living.
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And I've arranged things, so I will.
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How do you mean?
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You've forgotten. I opened that window. Window?
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Missus Patch. She's been getting an eyeful and an earful. I'll have you known, mister Casey, that I only happen to be at this window by accident. I believe you, missus Patch.
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Give me the gun, missus Yellow. Thank you. Now you two smart killers sit down and wait for the cops. Go on, Randall.
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Phone headquarters, Annie. Okay, Casey. After I phoned city desk. Oh, but wait a minute. You still haven't told me why those pillows on the top of the bed made me We'll go over to the blue note, Annie, and I'll tell you all about it. Alright. Oh, missus Patch? Yeah?
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I guarantee that your picture will be in the express tomorrow. Oh, missus Casey.
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This, Randoll and missus Gellhorn planned the killing so they could be free to tie up with one another. Casey? That's right, as of birth. Yeah. You still haven't told me what you had on Randoll when you went to his place, Casey? I didn't have anything except the Haslington case you had mentioned. You mean the case of the sable cloak.
[00:27:15] Unknown:
Okay, pal. The case of the sable cloaker. I think that's a nice title. I only had that. A hunch about those bed pillars and a hope that Randall would crack up and make an admission. Yeah. What was your hunch about them bed pillars? Oh, I figured Randall might have rigged up a dummy to fool missus Patch. That all she really saw were his pants and shirt stuffed with pillars. And that was all she saw too, Ethelbert.
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When Randall came back after the shooting, he got out of his wet clothes, put on the dry ones that had covered the dummy, and tossed the pillows back under the bed, but a little too carelessly.
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What'd he do with the clothes he'd worn out in the rain? Put them in Gellhorn's apartment. Mhmm. They belong to Gellhorn.
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Randall had even worn his things.
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Say, he and that missus Gellhorn thought of almost everything. Yes,
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Almost everything.
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You know, Casey, it's like my sister Edna says, quote, anything that's not worth doing is not worth doing well, unquote.
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