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Mr.
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Mannix.
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I'm, uh, Vucola.
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Conrad Vucola. Sheriff here in Manzana
County.
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How do you do, Sheriff?
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Subpoena. to appear and testify in the
case of the people versus Harry Barlow.
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Moving a little fast for me, friend.
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I just came in from out of state to meet
a client, Mr.
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Dobby Dobson. He was supposed to meet me
here at the airport.
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He won't be here. Let's go.
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I received a special delivery letter
last night in Los Angeles.
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There was a $1 ,000 cash advance in it,
a round -trip ticket to Manzana, and a
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note from a man I never met, a desperate
man asking me for help.
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Well, the letter was from the district
attorney. The cash is your expert's fee
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for testifying.
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You can't subpoena out of state, you
know. The DA couldn't risk your
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I came here to meet Mr. Dobby Dobson. I
don't leave until I see him.
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Well, you may have a long wait.
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The man at whose trial you're supposed
to testify, Harry Barlow, is charged
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the murder of Dobby Dobson.
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Is this your DA's idea of some kind of a
joke?
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Well, you're here, aren't you?
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Mr. Mannix, so that the court will know
that you are an expert witness, would
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you please state... If the court please.
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Yes, Miss Richards.
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Your Honor, defense stipulates
acceptance of Mr. Mannix as an expert
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Thank you, Counsel.
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Let the record so indicate.
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You may proceed, Mr. Bartlett.
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Thank you, Your Honor.
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Mr. Mannix, it is an accepted scientific
fact in the field of criminology, is it
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not? Professional criminals tend to
limit their activities to special kinds
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crimes, special methods used in
committing these crimes.
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In short, they develop a pattern in
relation to the crime.
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Modus operandi, a method of operation.
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Isn't that correct?
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Yes, referred to as an M .O.
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Now, I have here three police
photographs.
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People's Exhibits 6 through 8.
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illustrating the pattern of a specific
burglary.
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Now, Mr. Mannix, where there is a
burglary, where the glass from a rear
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is cut and a rubber suction cup is used
to remove the glass,
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and where the burglar uses white gloves,
cheap white gloves, to
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cover his fingerprints, and then he
leaves the gloves at the scene of the
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and where distinctive drill patterns are
used, here.
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to insert TNT into the safe, and where
foam rubber is used to deaden the
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explosion.
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Would you say, Mr. Mannix, that from
this method of operation, you could
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identify the probable burglar as one
that you previously had apprehended and
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caused to be brought to justice for the
crime of burglary?
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Objection, Your Honor. The prosecution
may not introduce evidence of a prior
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criminal act for the express purpose of
discrediting the defendant's character.
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Your Honor.
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The question is not an issue of
character, but rather the method of
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a burglary. The defendant is on trial
for murder, not for burglary.
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Murder committed during a burglary. In
this case, two inseparable crimes.
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The district attorney means two answers
to one question.
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One question raises the probability that
if the defendant committed a prior
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burglary, then perhaps he committed this
one.
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And if he committed this burglary, then
chances are that he also committed the
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murder. When an expert witness
identifies a probable burglar from his
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operation, then simultaneously he
identifies the murderer.
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I assume both counsels are arguing this
legal point for the benefit of the
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bench. Your Honor, the evidence to be
adduced is totally inadmissible. Not
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the answer, but the question itself is
highly prejudicial.
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The defense moves these proceedings be
declared a mistrial.
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Your motive is good, Miss Richards, but
your law is wrong.
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Your Honor... Motion denied.
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Objection overruled. But, Your Honor...
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Now, Mr. Maddox,
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from this method of operation, this
modus operandi, this M .O., could you
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identify the probable burglar?
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Yes. And in all your years of
investigating, have you ever seen a
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operation like this before?
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Yes. In more than one person?
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No. Now, isn't this true, Mr. Mannix,
that seven years ago you represented an
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insurance company, and during that time
you investigated, pursued, and
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apprehended a burglar with this method
of operation?
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Yes, I did.
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And is that man in this courtroom?
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Yes. And would you point him out,
please?
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The gentleman sitting at the table.
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Let the record show that the expert
witness is identifying the defendant,
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Barlow.
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Further questions, Your Honor?
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The defense may cross -examine.
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I have no questions, Your Honor.
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May I please approach the bench?
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Yes, Miss Richards.
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Mr. Bartlett?
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Yes, Miss Richards?
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With the court's permission, I
respectfully request to retire from this
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As the court appointed me, it can
appoint substitute counsel for the
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defendant.
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Why, Miss Richards?
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This is my first appearance in court as
an attorney in a criminal case.
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If I keep... Making mistakes about the
law, I can only lose a case, but the
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defendant could lose his life.
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You've placed his life in my hands, and
it would seem that they are not
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competent hands.
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It takes a great deal of courage to make
an admission like that, Miss Richards.
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The same kind of courage that made your
late father, Jack Richards, one of the
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finest trial lawyers in this state.
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For his sake.
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For your own sake.
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I want you to think this over.
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The defense is granted a 24 -hour
continuance.
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Court adjourned.
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I'm very sorry.
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She doesn't want to talk to you, even
off the stand.
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I called and made a reservation for you
on the next plane back to L .A.
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You can just make it if I drive you to
the airport now.
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Thanks, Sheriff.
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It is a little chilly here in Manzana.
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That lady lawyer's old man, Big Jack
Richards, ever known him?
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I've seen him in court once or twice.
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Mr. Advocate.
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Fighter? Who?
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Me. He was the kind you took your hat
off to even while he was beating the tar
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right out of you, which was mostly all
of the time.
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In fact, he never once lost a criminal
case.
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That's more than he'll be able to say
for his daughter.
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Yeah, it's a shame. The girl lives only
for the memory of her father while
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they're loading the plane.
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Have a nice trip and no hard feelings.
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My usual expert witness fee is $300 for
the day.
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You can return the balance to the DA.
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I changed my mind. I'd like to cancel
off flight 31 after you took it.
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Thank you.
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Easy, Max.
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Just go back the way you came.
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You missed one plane to L .A.
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There'll be another in about an hour.
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Be on it.
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I signed resignation from the case.
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If you think that's news, Vera, you're
free to print it.
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As a newspaper woman, I'll print it.
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But as a friend, I've got to tell you, I
think you're making a mistake, Phyllis.
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This is an admission of incompetence.
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It's a confession.
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I failed.
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I failed my father.
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What about your client, Harry Barlow?
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Did you fail him?
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What could I do after your testimony?
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You know, if you'd been less concerned
with yourself and more concerned with
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your client, you might have cross
-examined me instead of passing.
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You would have asked questions the DA
didn't and wouldn't.
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You might have got the fact into the
record that Harry Barlow, as a burglar
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20 years, never once resorted to
violence, even when he was caught in the
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You know...
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I saw your father argue a case once, and
he was scared.
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He could tell the way he fought to keep
his hands from shaking.
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The way the sweat stained through the
back of his jacket on a cool day. But he
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had guts.
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Not because he had no fear, but because
he fought hard, despite the fear.
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But you, you're afraid.
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So you're on.
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Tomorrow morning early.
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I want to see your client, Harry Barlow.
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You all right?
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I'm Vera Hilsman. I write for the
morning news.
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Well, do me a favor. Keep this out of
the paper.
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It's bad for business.
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Put you away once, Harry. You keep that
Colorado face of yours shut now, and I'm
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going to put you away for good.
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Now, were you in on that Dobson heist?
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I... I think so.
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You think so?
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You don't know?
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Not for sure, no.
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Some guy, a drifter I ran into, said he
had an easy mark, so I agreed to meet
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him out of town and help pull off the
heist.
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I... I never met him.
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Handsome Harry passed up an easy mark.
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Yeah, I passed it up.
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Stopped in a bar before I left to have a
drink, and I... You met a pretty face.
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She didn't even belong in there.
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Pretty all right, but square.
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On the level, just all mixed up.
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Some kind of family problem.
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Okay, so you parked in the hill and
psychoanalyzed your unhappy housewife.
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You got back to your place late. What
then?
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The cops were waiting for me.
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Searched me, the car, found five grand
in bills hidden in my trunk.
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Which means you want me to believe that
somebody planted that stolen money in
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your car before you left, before the
robbery was committed?
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So help me, I never laid eyes on that
dough before.
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I wasn't even near this Dobson's place.
Didn't even know who Dobson was.
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Now, I swear that you got to believe me.
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This woman Barlow says he was with, what
about her?
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Well, he gave us her description and her
name, Bonnie.
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He turned the town upside down looking
for her.
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Mr. Mannix, if it wasn't Barlow, if
there was this woman named Bonnie, then
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cash in Barlow's car really was planted
and Barlow is being framed.
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Why would anyone want to frame Harry
Barlow?
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Because... Because there was another
motive for the murder.
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Exactly how do you know that?
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You don't know it, you just kind of
smell it.
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By setting up an ex -con with an easy
-to -copy M .O. as Patsy, kept anybody
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else from looking in another direction
for another motive and another murderer.
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That still doesn't tell us who or why.
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Yeah.
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Just who is Dobby Dobson and why would
anybody want to kill him?
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That's got to be it. There's nothing
else that even comes close to adding up.
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The Max Taylor Ranch?
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How do you add up a piece of cheap real
estate to a utility company and come up
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with a murder?
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One, old man Max Taylor died.
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No will, no heirs, and the state took
over his property, right?
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Dig. Two, the late Dobby Dobson was vice
president of the Tri -State Power
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Company. Now, the company needed a
location for a new multimillion -dollar
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nuclear power plant, right?
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Still digging.
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Three.
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Vice President Dobson finds the old
Taylor Ranch, recommends it to his
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his company buys it.
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Well, that's it.
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One plus two plus three equals murder?
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Sorry, I've just stopped digging.
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You forgot to add two and a half.
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Now, could Dobson have bought the Taylor
Ranch himself at auction, very cheap,
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and then sell it back to his company at,
say, 10, 20, maybe 100 times more than
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he paid for it?
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No, of course he couldn't. That's
illegal in this state. It's conflict of
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interest. Dobson would be crazy to try a
thing like that.
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Sure, under his own name.
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But what if he used a dummy middleman to
buy and sell it for him?
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Wow. Illicit profits.
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And fraud.
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Which could add up to murder.
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Yes, but you're still guessing about
this two and a half link in your chain,
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aren't you?
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Say, girl reporter, do you have any
influence on that paper you work for?
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Sometimes.
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Now, if Harry, uh... Barlow's attorney
couldn't find this so -called woman,
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Bonnie, and chances are the murderer
couldn't find her either.
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She's the one witness that can destroy
this frame -up.
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She knows that, and she must. She's
hiding to protect her life.
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I want you to run a personal ad in the
classified section, carefully worded,
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asking this Bonnie woman to contact me
here.
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Will do.
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Oh, and keep running that every day.
Right.
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Now, if you'll take me to the county
recorder's office, we'll see just how
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of a pipe dream that number two and a
half is.
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Here's what you're looking for.
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A Max Taylor ranch sold to the Amos
Smith Real Estate Company with a court
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passing title after a share of sale.
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Smith Real Estate to Tri -State Power, 1
,500 acres.
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Is there an address there for the Amos
Smith Real Estate Company?
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Sure thing.
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Wilshireville, small town north of here.
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Thanks.
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Shame you had to waste your time coming
here for the information. Probably got
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it all sitting in your files.
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In my files?
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Well, your father's, I guess.
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He was in here getting the same
information about a week or so, I guess,
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he was killed in that accident.
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As a lawyer, I maintain quite a few
confidence.
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The Amos Smith real estate company is
only one of them.
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It acted as a go -between for the
purchase and the subsequent resale of
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Taylor ranch.
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There's no secret about it. We bought 1
,500 acres at $10 an acre.
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The land's practically worthless.
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Not good for farming or cattle grazing.
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Actually good for nothing.
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Oh, not nothing, Mr. Smith. It
apparently was an ideal site for a
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plant.
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Not ideal, sir. It was the only site in
the whole state for that kind of plant.
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A power company near this, they
willingly paid the asking price without
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an eyelash.
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Not only the fattest commission I ever
earned, it was the easiest.
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What did the power plant pay for the 1
,500 acres?
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Now, that's a matter between the buyer,
the seller, and me.
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Mr. Smith, the Tri -State Power Company
is a public utility as well as being a
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private corporation.
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I don't have to tell you as an attorney
that with a company like that, the
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details of any financial transactions
are available on proper inquiry.
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$1 ,000 an acre.
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Not bad.
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Bought for $15 ,000, sold for a million
and a half.
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You say you acted as go -between, Mr.
Smith.
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Go -between for whom? I don't have to
answer that question, Miss Richards.
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As an attorney...
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There is, you know, the matter of a
lawyer -client privilege.
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A lawyer and a client conspiring to
break the law and hiding it under the
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technicality of a lawyer -client
relationship is not my idea of
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Just you try to abuse that privilege,
Mr. Smith.
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You let me subpoena you, and just you
try it.
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Like father, like daughter.
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Big Jack Richards.
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Pious, mealy -mouthed Jack Richards.
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He tried the same thing right here in
this office.
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A shakedown.
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Negative extortion.
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There's nothing illegal about it.
Nothing to hide.
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Big Jack Bridges didn't collect a cent
of blackmail money from me and neither
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will you.
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Tell you the same thing I told him.
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Get out.
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Both of you.
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The county recorder said something about
an accident.
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Exactly how did your father die?
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An auto accident. He went off the
highway and over an embankment.
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Where?
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On this highway.
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Two miles from here.
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He was on his way back from
Wilshireville.
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I'm seeing Amos Smith.
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Now, shall we go?
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You all right?
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I know what you think.
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My father tried to blackmail them, and
they killed him. And I think we tried to
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blackmail them, and they're going to
kill us.
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00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,540
Well, I'll tell you something. My father
never blackmailed anybody.
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My father never blackmailed anybody.
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Phyllis. No, he didn't. Phyllis!
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Any suggestions?
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Yeah.
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You find some poor innocent slob of an
ex -convict like Harry Barlow and frame
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the rap on him.
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00:24:34,870 --> 00:24:36,550
Now, wait a minute, Mannix.
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It's all right.
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Miss Richards.
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First, Mr. Mannix is assaulted.
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00:24:47,270 --> 00:24:49,050
Now, the both of you are.
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00:24:49,590 --> 00:24:53,630
But I can't tell anything from these
facts, which leads me to believe that
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assaults had anything, anything to do
with the murder of Dobby Dobson by your
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client. That's for the jury to decide
once they get the evidence.
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Yes, Mr. Mannix.
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All the evidence.
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Including this letter.
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Mr. Dobson, you promised to call back
and set up an appointment.
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You didn't.
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00:25:20,140 --> 00:25:22,740
I tried to get you on the phone three
times today.
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00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:26,320
By now I can recognize a stall when it's
tried on me.
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You're going to pay.
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and pay through the nose.
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And the longer you refuse to face that
fact, the more it's going to cost you.
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Dobson received that letter on the day
that the man who sent it died.
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He turned it over to me, charging
attempted blackmail.
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00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:52,780
I thought it best just to forget the
whole thing, but I'm sorry, I can't sit
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it any longer.
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00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:54,760
Mr. Richards.
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If you enter any evidence regarding the
Taylor Ranch, I shall be forced to enter
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this letter as evidence.
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00:26:04,580 --> 00:26:08,280
Two dead men will be liable for their
reputations smeared.
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Your father and Dobby Dobson.
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00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:17,320
You see, your father sent this letter to
Mr. Dobson.
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You still have your father's files?
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00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:01,560
Thanks.
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00:27:10,260 --> 00:27:11,260
Here's the...
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00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:16,340
A copy of all the proceedings involved
in the sale of the Max Taylor ranch.
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00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:21,280
There's a copy of the letter that
Bartlett read us from my father to Dobby
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00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,320
Dobson. A letter to my father and my
father's reply.
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00:27:25,980 --> 00:27:26,980
From whom?
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00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:30,120
Some woman in Chicago.
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00:27:30,700 --> 00:27:31,700
Cousin of Max Taylor.
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00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,640
I thought the state took over the
property because there was no will, no
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00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:37,980
Isn't a cousin an heir?
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00:27:39,220 --> 00:27:40,620
An heir, yes, but...
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00:27:41,020 --> 00:27:42,420
Too late under the law to inherit.
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00:27:42,740 --> 00:27:48,320
You mean by the time the cousin found
Max Taylor was dead and got in touch
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00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,420
your father, the state legally owned the
property and had a right to sell it?
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00:27:51,700 --> 00:27:53,940
In non -legal terms, that's what
happened.
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00:27:54,940 --> 00:27:56,440
That's what my father told her.
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00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,020
He could only get her the auction price,
$15 ,000.
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00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:06,200
Would that still be true if he knew and
could prove that the sale of the ranch
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00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:07,200
was a fraud?
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00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,100
Why don't you ask what you really want
to know?
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00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,980
Did my father know enough to have the
sale set aside? Did he know enough to
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00:28:16,980 --> 00:28:17,980
blackmail Dobson?
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00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,060
I didn't ask that. You did.
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00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:22,780
Well, what's the difference who asked
it?
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00:28:23,540 --> 00:28:24,760
The answer's the same.
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00:28:25,900 --> 00:28:28,240
Yes, he knew enough to blackmail Dobson.
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00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,000
If he were capable of being a
blackmailer.
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00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:56,600
Martini's always make you thoughtful.
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00:28:57,700 --> 00:28:59,520
Yeah, pretty mixed up thoughts this
time.
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00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,280
A little man who wasn't there who
couldn't know.
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00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:05,880
You're late.
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00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:10,960
Mannix, has anybody answered the ad I
ran this afternoon about Barlow's
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00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:11,960
girlfriend, Bonnie?
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00:29:12,380 --> 00:29:13,380
No, not a word.
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00:29:13,860 --> 00:29:16,960
Some housefrau who was out on the town
for the first time in her life.
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00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,220
Afraid her husband or family might find
out.
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00:29:19,460 --> 00:29:20,840
More scared of being heard, I guess.
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00:29:21,500 --> 00:29:23,700
Oh, I think we can just scratch that
lead for now.
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00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:25,120
I'm not so sure.
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00:29:25,340 --> 00:29:26,760
I just got a phone call.
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00:29:27,140 --> 00:29:29,840
Anonymous. I think I know where she's
hiding.
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00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:31,500
Wish me luck.
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00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,160
You, uh, tired of living?
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00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:39,840
But she's a story.
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00:29:40,260 --> 00:29:42,320
And she's a witness you've got to have.
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00:29:42,580 --> 00:29:45,620
And she's dynamite that'll blow up in
anybody's face that gets close to her.
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00:29:46,860 --> 00:29:48,780
Sugar and spice and everything nice.
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00:29:49,180 --> 00:29:52,380
That's not what girl reporters are made
of. Now, why find out the hard way?
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00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:55,680
So what do we do?
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00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:56,840
Call the sheriff?
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00:29:57,700 --> 00:30:01,040
All right, give me the keys to your car,
the address, and then you go back to
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00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,840
Phyllis Richards' office and keep her
company with the doors locked tight.
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00:30:04,220 --> 00:30:05,460
To everybody but me.
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00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:21,200
Thank you.
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00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,760
Don't you think you ought to have a
doctor look at this? Oh, it's just a
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00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,980
scratch. You know, Harry Barlow's
girlfriend wasn't there. Never had been
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00:34:12,219 --> 00:34:15,699
That so -called newspaper tip was just
bait for you and me and Phyllis, maybe
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00:34:15,699 --> 00:34:17,679
all three of us. But kill us?
410
00:34:18,060 --> 00:34:20,020
Why? Because we're digging too deep.
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00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:22,620
Did you get the name of that man out
there?
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00:34:23,540 --> 00:34:24,540
Driver's license.
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00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:27,100
Name was Edward Lewis.
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00:34:27,940 --> 00:34:28,940
Edward Lewis?
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00:34:29,739 --> 00:34:30,658
You know him?
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00:34:30,659 --> 00:34:32,560
He used to work for the DA's office.
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00:34:33,639 --> 00:34:36,820
He got a little rough with his hands and
they fired him about a year ago.
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00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,540
He, uh... He was involved in a couple of
Dad's cases.
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00:34:44,020 --> 00:34:45,520
Violence, murder for a price.
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00:34:45,739 --> 00:34:48,860
Well, that doesn't help us. Anybody with
little adult could have hired him.
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00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:56,300
I went through those files we brought up
from the cellar.
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00:34:57,060 --> 00:34:58,060
And?
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00:34:59,380 --> 00:35:02,740
I went through the transcript of the
trial with a fine -tooth comb.
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00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,340
I was looking for mistakes and
inconsistencies and writing them down.
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00:35:08,340 --> 00:35:12,740
Question, Counselor. When court
reconvenes tomorrow morning, are you
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00:35:12,740 --> 00:35:14,320
keep on representing Harry Barlow?
427
00:35:19,140 --> 00:35:22,580
I'm not going to just represent him.
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00:35:23,260 --> 00:35:24,560
I'm going to fight for him.
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00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,240
Even if it means destroying your
father's image?
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00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:33,340
My father was no blackmailer.
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00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:39,820
And if he was, I'm still my father's
daughter.
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00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,800
Big Jack or Dirty Jack.
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00:35:45,420 --> 00:35:46,680
I still love him.
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00:35:50,860 --> 00:35:52,820
But I'm a lawyer with a client to
defend.
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00:36:15,630 --> 00:36:19,750
Based on your investigation, Sheriff,
would you please describe to the court
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00:36:19,750 --> 00:36:24,330
chain of events leading up to and
including the murder of Dobby Dobson
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00:36:24,330 --> 00:36:27,150
as the authorities have been able to
reconstruct that chain through the
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00:36:27,150 --> 00:36:28,150
evidence?
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00:36:29,410 --> 00:36:35,690
Well, after the safe was blown, the
burglar reached inside and took out a
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00:36:35,690 --> 00:36:36,690
cash box.
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00:36:36,830 --> 00:36:41,830
Now, Dobson, who must have heard the
burglar earlier, approached the burglar
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00:36:41,830 --> 00:36:42,910
pointed a gun at him.
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00:36:43,190 --> 00:36:48,070
The burglar was surprised and turned to
face Dobson, still holding the metal
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00:36:48,070 --> 00:36:49,130
cash box in his hand.
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00:36:49,730 --> 00:36:51,390
Dobson stepped closer.
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00:36:51,670 --> 00:36:56,610
The burglar panicked, swung down with
the metal cash box he had in his hand,
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00:36:56,710 --> 00:37:00,050
striking Dobson on the head and killed
him.
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00:37:00,790 --> 00:37:01,790
Thank you, Sheriff.
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00:37:01,950 --> 00:37:02,950
No further questions.
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00:37:05,830 --> 00:37:11,230
Mr. Mannix, as an expert witness
qualified to this court, Do you find the
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00:37:11,230 --> 00:37:14,410
in the sheriff's testimony consistent
with the inference that Harry Barlow
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00:37:14,410 --> 00:37:16,350
struck and killed Dobby Dobson?
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00:37:17,070 --> 00:37:18,070
No, I don't.
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00:37:18,770 --> 00:37:19,930
Why not, Mr. Mannix?
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00:37:21,270 --> 00:37:24,010
If it's all right with your honor, I'd
like to demonstrate physically to the
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00:37:24,010 --> 00:37:25,010
court.
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00:37:26,110 --> 00:37:28,010
Proceed with your demonstration, Mr.
Mannix.
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00:37:28,250 --> 00:37:29,250
Thank you.
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00:37:33,070 --> 00:37:37,030
Miss Richards, if you'll take the part
of the burglar, I will play the part of
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00:37:37,030 --> 00:37:38,250
the late Mr. Dobson.
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00:37:38,650 --> 00:37:41,870
Now, if you'll turn your back and kneel
as if you were pulling a cash box out of
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00:37:41,870 --> 00:37:42,870
a safe.
463
00:37:45,770 --> 00:37:46,870
What are you doing at that safe?
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00:37:48,890 --> 00:37:49,950
I'll take the cash box.
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00:37:50,510 --> 00:37:51,510
Hold it.
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00:37:52,030 --> 00:37:55,330
Now, the coroner's report lists as the
cause of Dobson's death, the depressed
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00:37:55,330 --> 00:37:59,290
fracture of the lateral parietal region,
the right lateral parietal region.
468
00:38:00,150 --> 00:38:03,110
Now, would you hit me on this side of
the head where Dobson was struck?
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00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,860
I can't. As long as I'm holding the box
this way, I can only hit your head on
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00:38:10,860 --> 00:38:11,698
the left side.
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00:38:11,700 --> 00:38:13,560
And if you wanted to hit me on the right
side, what would you do?
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00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:19,040
Right.
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00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,840
Now, would the defendant show his left
hand to the court, please?
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00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:36,860
Partial paralysis of the left hand.
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00:38:37,460 --> 00:38:41,600
Harry Barlow can't pick up or even hold
a book of matches. If his life depended
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00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,420
on it, he couldn't pick up anything as
big and as heavy as that metal cash box.
477
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,360
Let the record show that the defendant
has a congenital deformity of the left
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00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:49,520
hand. You may sit down.
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00:38:52,900 --> 00:38:57,800
Mr. Mannix, is it possible that Dobson
had his back turned to the burglar when
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00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:58,800
the blow was struck?
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00:38:59,460 --> 00:39:03,260
A man with a gun interrupts a burglar,
kneeling before an open safe, and then
482
00:39:03,260 --> 00:39:04,400
turns his back on that burglar?
483
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:06,320
I don't think that's very likely.
484
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,280
Thank you, Mr. Mannix. You may return to
the stand.
485
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:23,020
Mr. Mannix, is there any other theory
which you could present at this time
486
00:39:23,020 --> 00:39:25,040
would be consistent with the facts in
this case?
487
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,160
Jackson, Your Honor, counsel is asking
the witness to speculate.
488
00:39:28,540 --> 00:39:31,700
The prosecution called this man to be an
expert witness.
489
00:39:32,270 --> 00:39:35,870
If he has been certified by this court
as an expert to create inference for the
490
00:39:35,870 --> 00:39:39,630
prosecution, he is equally qualified to
do the same for the defense.
491
00:39:41,570 --> 00:39:44,170
Objection overruled. The witness will
answer the question.
492
00:39:44,710 --> 00:39:50,030
Now, Mr. Mannix, is there any other
theory which is consistent with the
493
00:39:50,030 --> 00:39:50,908
this case?
494
00:39:50,910 --> 00:39:53,330
Yes. And what is that theory?
495
00:39:53,810 --> 00:39:58,390
That Harry Barlow was deliberately
framed for a murder that he did not
496
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:07,060
Is there anything in the record or any
knowledge which you personally have
497
00:40:07,060 --> 00:40:09,240
access to which would corroborate this
theory?
498
00:40:09,940 --> 00:40:13,780
Yes, the facts concerning the
acquisition of the Max Taylor Ranch by
499
00:40:13,780 --> 00:40:14,780
company.
500
00:40:32,069 --> 00:40:34,970
Mr. Mannix, you were with me last night
in the sheriff's office when the
501
00:40:34,970 --> 00:40:36,230
district attorney gave me a letter.
502
00:40:36,930 --> 00:40:38,030
Is this the letter?
503
00:40:44,270 --> 00:40:45,270
Yes.
504
00:40:46,290 --> 00:40:49,210
Your Honor, I'd like to have this letter
marked for purposes of identification
505
00:40:49,210 --> 00:40:50,210
only.
506
00:41:04,940 --> 00:41:06,320
Let the exhibit be so marked.
507
00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:21,560
All right, Mr. Mannix.
508
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,060
Will you please read this letter?
509
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:31,600
Mr. Dobson, you promised to call back
and set up an appointment. You didn't.
510
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,140
I tried to get you on the phone three
times today.
511
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,720
By now, I can recognize a stall when
it's tried on me.
512
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:39,780
You're going to pay and pay through the
nose.
513
00:41:40,300 --> 00:41:44,160
And the longer you refuse to face that
fact, the more it's going to cost you.
514
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:45,940
The letter is signed by Jack Richards.
515
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:50,840
Thank you.
516
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:58,520
The district attorney characterized this
letter as an attempt by my father to
517
00:41:58,520 --> 00:41:59,960
blackmail Dobby Dobson.
518
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:03,940
Is that consistent?
519
00:42:04,650 --> 00:42:05,650
With your theory?
520
00:42:06,530 --> 00:42:08,230
Consistent, but unlikely.
521
00:42:09,130 --> 00:42:10,910
Why unlikely, Mr. Mannix?
522
00:42:12,390 --> 00:42:16,630
Jack Richards was not a blackmailer. He
was a good lawyer fighting for a client,
523
00:42:16,770 --> 00:42:18,490
fighting to dig out the truth.
524
00:42:19,030 --> 00:42:22,470
I believe he was deliberately killed
because he was getting close to that
525
00:42:23,050 --> 00:42:24,049
What truth?
526
00:42:24,050 --> 00:42:28,530
The purchase of the Max Taylor Ranch was
a fraud engineered by Dobby Dobson for
527
00:42:28,530 --> 00:42:30,650
an illegal profit of well over a million
dollars.
528
00:42:31,230 --> 00:42:33,790
Again, as an expert witness.
529
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:36,740
What about the death of Dobby Dobson?
530
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,780
I believe Mr. Dobson had an accomplice
in the fraudulent sale of that ranch.
531
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,140
The accomplice killed Jack Richards.
532
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,460
But Dobson refused to go along with the
murder and threatened exposure.
533
00:42:47,020 --> 00:42:51,080
The accomplice killed Dobson and then
framed Harry Barlow for that murder.
534
00:42:52,220 --> 00:42:53,740
I have no further questions.
535
00:42:58,600 --> 00:42:59,600
Mr.
536
00:43:02,660 --> 00:43:04,280
Mannix, this, uh...
537
00:43:05,830 --> 00:43:08,710
Excursion of yours into the never -never
land of theory.
538
00:43:12,110 --> 00:43:16,490
Is it not possible that this theory of
yours is based on the fact that if the
539
00:43:16,490 --> 00:43:21,490
defendant is innocent, then somebody
else must be guilty?
540
00:43:22,170 --> 00:43:24,910
Put in those words. Yes, Mr. Mannix, put
in those words.
541
00:43:26,270 --> 00:43:27,630
I suppose so, yes.
542
00:43:27,930 --> 00:43:31,290
And this theatrical demonstration of
yours with the left hand and the right
543
00:43:31,290 --> 00:43:34,830
hand, can you state in fact and in law?
544
00:43:36,620 --> 00:43:43,120
That the defendant couldn't have struck
and killed the decedent by raising the
545
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,340
cash box with both hands?
546
00:43:48,060 --> 00:43:49,060
It's possible.
547
00:43:49,140 --> 00:43:53,020
And, Mr. Mannix, have you any proof, any
tangible shred of evidence that this
548
00:43:53,020 --> 00:43:55,860
theory of yours is anything more than a
figment of your imagination?
549
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:57,760
It's what I believed happened.
550
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:01,500
No further questions, Your Honor.
551
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:04,640
Mr. Mannix.
552
00:44:06,030 --> 00:44:11,550
To your knowledge, is there any such
proof, proof that Harry Barlow was
553
00:44:11,670 --> 00:44:15,490
proof that your theory is fact and not
fiction?
554
00:44:16,210 --> 00:44:18,570
Yes. What is that proof, please?
555
00:44:18,890 --> 00:44:23,250
The testimony of a witness, a woman who
was with Harry Barlow miles from the
556
00:44:23,250 --> 00:44:25,110
Dobson house at the time Dobson was
killed.
557
00:44:25,410 --> 00:44:28,330
Is that witness and her testimony
available to this court?
558
00:44:28,550 --> 00:44:30,990
I hope to have her here in the morning
when the court reconvenes.
559
00:44:36,620 --> 00:44:38,760
Board is adjourned until 10 o 'clock
tomorrow morning.
560
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:49,320
I'm proud of you, Counselor.
561
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:56,120
You know, whoever this Bonnie is,
wherever she is, he just made a target
562
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:59,280
The murderer will kill her if he can to
stop her from testifying.
563
00:44:59,580 --> 00:45:00,580
I know.
564
00:45:01,020 --> 00:45:03,120
I hope you've got a rabbit to pull out
of that hat.
565
00:45:03,860 --> 00:45:04,860
If you'll hold that.
566
00:45:21,550 --> 00:45:23,910
The woman says it's an emergency. Won't
talk to anybody but you.
567
00:45:24,250 --> 00:45:25,250
Put her through.
568
00:45:28,610 --> 00:45:29,610
Sheriff, you call her.
569
00:45:30,250 --> 00:45:32,030
Sheriff, this is Bonnie.
570
00:45:33,670 --> 00:45:36,350
Well, now, the world is just full of
Bonnies, ma 'am. Which one are you?
571
00:45:37,850 --> 00:45:41,330
Say, wait a minute. You're not the woman
who was with Harry Barlow, are you?
572
00:45:42,450 --> 00:45:44,470
Oh, Harry couldn't have killed that man.
573
00:45:44,790 --> 00:45:45,790
He couldn't.
574
00:45:46,250 --> 00:45:48,530
Well, why didn't you come forward and
testify, ma 'am?
575
00:45:49,110 --> 00:45:50,890
Because I'm scared, Sheriff.
576
00:45:51,390 --> 00:45:54,430
I'm scared that real killer's gonna come
after me. I'm scared.
577
00:45:55,230 --> 00:45:58,230
Well, scared or not scared, ma 'am,
you've got to testify.
578
00:45:58,590 --> 00:46:00,270
A man's life depends on it.
579
00:46:00,630 --> 00:46:02,190
Well, that's what Mr.
580
00:46:02,410 --> 00:46:04,430
Mannix told me when I talked to him on
the phone.
581
00:46:04,790 --> 00:46:08,550
I said I'd come in tonight, but I'm
frightened.
582
00:46:09,090 --> 00:46:11,630
Ma 'am, there's nothing to be afraid of.
You just relax.
583
00:46:12,670 --> 00:46:15,170
Supposing that I come and get you now,
you wouldn't be afraid then, would you?
584
00:46:16,170 --> 00:46:17,690
Well, I... Well, where are you?
585
00:46:18,010 --> 00:46:19,010
Well, I...
586
00:46:20,910 --> 00:46:21,910
North of town?
587
00:46:22,430 --> 00:46:23,830
Out by Grace Farms?
588
00:46:25,410 --> 00:46:30,750
Is there some place I could hide till
you got here and be safe?
589
00:46:31,270 --> 00:46:32,930
North of town? There's not much out
there.
590
00:46:34,010 --> 00:46:37,250
Wait a minute. Do you know where the old
Penner house, the one that's half
591
00:46:37,250 --> 00:46:38,250
burned out, is?
592
00:46:39,330 --> 00:46:41,290
Is it safe?
593
00:46:42,010 --> 00:46:46,830
Oh, it's safe, ma 'am. It's very safe.
You just go there and wait for me. And
594
00:46:46,830 --> 00:46:48,230
try to stay out of sight.
595
00:46:48,790 --> 00:46:49,790
All right?
596
00:47:43,710 --> 00:47:44,710
Bonnie? Bonnie?
597
00:47:54,490 --> 00:47:55,490
Bonnie?
598
00:47:56,450 --> 00:47:57,710
This is Sheriff Eucola.
599
00:48:01,850 --> 00:48:03,170
Is it safe, Sheriff?
600
00:48:03,970 --> 00:48:05,850
Well, not as safe as if you'd never
called me.
601
00:48:06,370 --> 00:48:09,310
I'm sorry, ma 'am. I'm really sorry. I
just don't have a choice.
602
00:48:22,540 --> 00:48:23,540
All over, Sheriff.
603
00:49:10,830 --> 00:49:14,870
Well, I figured only a law enforcement
officer would think of framing an ex
604
00:49:14,870 --> 00:49:16,710
with a phony M .O. and an expert
witness.
605
00:49:17,930 --> 00:49:19,110
That could have been me.
606
00:49:20,950 --> 00:49:24,470
But it was Vucola who mentioned the fact
that Phyllis and I had gone to see Amos
607
00:49:24,470 --> 00:49:26,130
Smith, and only Amos Smith knew that.
608
00:49:27,270 --> 00:49:29,030
And Smith telephoned Vucola.
609
00:49:29,430 --> 00:49:30,430
Right.
610
00:49:30,670 --> 00:49:33,590
Vucola and Dobson were partners in using
Amos Smith as a front.
611
00:49:34,070 --> 00:49:37,150
Which gives me a pretty good reason to
pay a call to Mr. Smith.
612
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:54,540
I'm just so glad it's all over.
613
00:49:59,500 --> 00:50:03,660
You know, I've got a feeling Big Jack
would have liked your style.
51383
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