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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for that
heartfelt and technically augmented

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cheer.

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Will the delegates please clear the
aisles. Return to your seats, please.

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I have an announcement.

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Will the delegate from Yugoslavia please
report here at once?

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The credentials committee suspects you
may have made a mistake.

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And now, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to
place in nomination a friend of,

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a steadfast champion for, and a man who
I'm certain you have

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already guessed his identity.

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If not, I shall give you a hint.

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He is the producer of the following
television play.

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Hey, can you tell me where I can find a
taxi?

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I think there's one uptown.

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Nobody comes to Kirkland as a rule.

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Unless they got folks here to fetch
them.

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Say, have there been any other strange
men come in on the train the past two

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days? No, sir.

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And safe to say, I see everybody gets
off at this station.

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It's yours who you can remember to do
one thing.

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If a strange man does come in on the
train, you're to call the Grand Hotel

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ask for Henry Taylor.

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That's me.

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If I'm out, you leave word to the clerk.
You understand?

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Yeah, Henry Taylor.

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Well, don't worry, Mr. Taylor.

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I never forget a name or a face.

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And you needn't mention it to anyone.

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Not to anyone.

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Not a soul, Mr. Taylor.

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Is there something I can do for you?

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I'd like to arrange to open an account.

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Mr. Kern handles new accounts, but he's
in conference just now.

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Won't you wait?

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Mr. Spangler will do nicely.

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Mr. Kern is in conference with Mr.
Spangler.

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If I didn't come in now and then to keep
a check on you, William, you'd have my

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bank in receivership.

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You can take me out today, Sam.

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Oh, what, sir?

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I should have left you in charge here
instead of my idiot son -in -law.

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Don't jostle me now.

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I can't stand being jostled.

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All right, young lady, open that gate.

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You're not an employee.

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That's right, I'm not.

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You couldn't be an employee too wide
awake.

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You must be a customer.

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I hope to be.

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New account?

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Come here and take care of this
gentleman.

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Fifty -five years I was president of
this bank, and in all that time I never

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failed to shake hands with every new
accountant.

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That's one thing folks could always say
about Josiah Wingate.

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All right, Sam, roll me out of the car.

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Miss Foster, that gentleman wants to see
me. Don't keep him waiting.

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Josiah Wingate, my father -in -law. He
founded this bank.

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They get difficult as they grow older.

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Yes, yes, they do.

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He can't seem to adjust to retirement.

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Won't you sit down, Mr... Taylor.

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Henry Taylor.

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I have a letter of credit from my bank
in Chicago.

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I'd like to deposit some funds in your
bank while I'm here doing some research.

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Oh? Research in what field, Mr. Taylor?
Perhaps I can be of assistance.

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I'm sure you can.

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It's for a book I'm doing on the subject
of unsolved crime.

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And you came here to Kirkland to do
research?

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That's right. If you've seen a newspaper
in the past two days, you must know

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that Arnold Mathias is dead.

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He was shot down while attempting to
break out of state prison.

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His cellmate, Thomas Henry, escaped, but
Mathias was killed.

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I, uh...

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I did hear a newscast.

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And this is the bank where Matthias was
employed in December of 1957.

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You didn't have to come to Kirkland to
learn that.

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No, I didn't, but there are a few things
I did have to come to Kirkland to find

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out.

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Let's go over a few points, Mr.
Spangler.

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Arnold Matthias was an employee here.

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Hired by my father -in -law prior to his
retirement and against my advice.

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Because Matthias had a criminal record?

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A juvenile record.

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Let's not make matters worse than they
are, Mr. Taylor.

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See, my father -in -law has a
philanthropic streak where young people

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concerned.

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Matthias came from a broken home.

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The usual story.

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Mr. Wingate wanted to give him a chance.

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And I wanted to protect our depositors.

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But you kept him on after you succeeded
Mr. Wingate.

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There was no reason not to keep him on.

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He was a willing worker, apparently
honest.

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Then in the summer of 57, the Dyer
Construction Company transferred $500

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cash from their St. Louis bank to meet
the local payroll on the flood control

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dam at the basin. We had it placed in
the vault.

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Mr. Spangler, may I see you a moment,
sir?

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What are you doing here? You know you're
not allowed in the vault. Besides, I

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thought everyone had gone home.

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Well, they did, sir. I had to stay and
check these reports. You know the rule

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that no one is permitted in the vault
area but Mr. Kern and myself.

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I just wanted to see about my cash
reports. I can't make them balance.

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Well, then go back to your cage and
recheck the figures until you do.

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Try it again, son. Try it again.

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First time Matthias has worked late
since you've hired him.

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Just a coincidence.

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I hope so.

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It was only a few weeks later that my
father -in -law suffered the stroke

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necessitated his retirement.

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I was left with full responsibility.

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We were all busy.

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Matthias worked late more frequently.

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Particularly on Friday when the dire
payroll had to be checked out against

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remaining funds.

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There were two keys to the box.

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Kern kept one.

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I kept the other.

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Sam Kern's son was playing his first
basketball game for State U that night.

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Sam's wife had telephoned three times to
remind him that they needed an early

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start if they were going to make it over
icy roads.

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Naturally, he thought it was his wife
calling again.

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Sam returned with tragic news.

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It had been my telephone ringing, not
his.

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It was our housekeeper saying that my
wife had suffered a severe heart attack.

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I left at once.

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There are four checks here that aren't
covered, Mr. Kern. In the same account?

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Yes, sir.

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Let me see them.

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Arnold, I can't get my car started. Can
you give me a push? Certainly, Mr.

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Spangler. But it'll take me a few
minutes to get my car and bring it

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front.

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You told me not to leave that old heap
of mine on the lot where the customers

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could see it.

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Can I do anything, Will?

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Yes. Will you call Dr. Clinton and have
him get over to the house right away?

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Certainly.

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Flyers did bring his car around and gave
me the necessary push.

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Afterwards, he went back inside.

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Naturally, I didn't return.

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You've studied this case, Mr. Taylor.
You know that that night my wife died.

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And nobody locked the strongbox?

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Nobody.

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Not even Sam realized he'd left his key
in it until he opened the bank in my

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absence the following Monday.

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Then he saw the box was empty.

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Matthias was arrested.

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He never admitted to taking the money.

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But he was convicted, Mr. Taylor.

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This may be a small community, but we
don't observe the lynch law.

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Arnold Mathias was defended by Ira
Casey, one of the finest defense

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the state.

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And I hired him.

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Mathias was convicted nonetheless.

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The jury was only out 45 minutes.

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Do you know what Mathias did while he
was in prison?

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He obtained a set of court records of
his trial, and he went over every word

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the testimony until he found what he was
looking for.

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He marked it off, and then he drew a
map.

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How do you know this?

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A writer can't reveal his sources of
information. They might dry up.

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And why should I believe you?

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Because I'm in possession of those
records and the map.

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I thought you might like to go over them
with me, if you really are interested

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in my book.

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there's a market for such a book?

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Yes, I do.

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You see, there's one very interesting
point about this case.

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If Matthias did take the $200 ,000 from
your vault, what did he do with it?

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Not one dollar of it has ever been
found.

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Is something wrong with my letter of
credit, Mr. Spengler?

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Will you excuse me a moment, Mr. Taylor?
I want to see if Mr. Kern's back.

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General Mathias, 24, convicted of
stealing $200 ,000 from the Kirkland

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Mercantile Bank three years ago, was
shot and killed this morning by a guard

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while attempting to escape from state
prison.

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His cellmate, Thomas Henry, 40, made
good his escape in a laundry truck.

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Sailing man, Mr. Spengler?

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Never been to sea, Mr. Taylor.

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It's, uh, too bad Matthias tried to
escape. He might have been paroled.

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Well, parole boards are notoriously slow
in this state, and Matthias had no

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friends to work for him on the outside.

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Now, that's not true.

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I hired Ira Casey.

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Who was a colleague's classmate of yours
and a friend of almost 30 years.

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What's wrong with that?

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Nothing. I would have considered myself
lucky to have such a friend if $200 ,000

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had disappeared from my bank.

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I hired Casey to defend Matthias.

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And the Kirkland Mercantile Bank.

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You know, that's a very beautiful model
you have there, Mr. Spangler. I don't

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suppose you bought it here in Kirkland.

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I'm not chained to Kirkland.

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I get out occasionally.

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Out. You know, that's a very apt word,
out.

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That's what Matthias wanted.

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Out and a chance to clear his name.

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Or to recover the $200 ,000 from
wherever he'd hidden it.

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Yes, but where could he have hidden it?

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Now, suppose Matthias did take the money
from the vault, but wasn't convicted.

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What could he do with it?

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He couldn't spend it without creating
suspicion because, after all, he's a

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teller on a fixed income, just as you're
Mr. Kern is a bank officer on a fixed

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income. And just as I am a bank
president on a fixed income.

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That's my point.

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Now, the man that took that money out of
the vault would have had to do one of

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three things.

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First, he could leave Kirkland, which
Matthias didn't.

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It's here in the record.

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Matthias made no attempt to leave
Kirkland.

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Instead, he went to a movie on Friday
night, alone.

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He caught cold. And according to his
landlady's testimony, he stayed in his

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all day Saturday and Sunday. I know
what's in the record. I was at the

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Here's one of the sections that Matthias
bracketed.

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The district attorney questioned your
housekeeper, Mrs. Holmes, and she

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explained exactly what she had done
following your wife's attack.

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She gave her the medicine prescribed by
Dr. Clinton.

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Question. Was Mrs. Spengler subject to
such attacks?

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Answer. Yes, sir.

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We knew it was only a matter of time.

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I gave her the medicine, got her to bed,
then called Dr. Clinton.

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He asked me to call Mr.

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Spengler right away.

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And that's what I did.

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Yeah. And what are you trying to prove?

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I'm not trying to prove anything.

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I'm just trying to discover what
Matthias had hoped to prove.

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Now, here.

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A few pages farther on, another
bracketed section appears.

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This time, it's Sam Kern's testimony,
where he tells of your difficulty in

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getting your car started.

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This part is underlined.

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Mr. Spengler came back into the bank.

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He asked me to call Dr. Clinton.

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I wonder why Matthias would underline
that.

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You said whoever took the money could
have done one of three things with it.

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What's the second one?

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The second thing that could have been
done with the money was, as you

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to hide it.

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But where could Matthias have hidden it?

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His room was searched at the time of his
arrest.

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His car was completely torn apart.

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Where did he hide it, Mr. Spangler?

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Yes? Mr. Spangler, you said you wanted
this report the minute it came in.

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Oh.

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Has Mr. Kern returned yet? Mr. Kern went
to lunch.

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At this hour?

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It's after 11, Mr. Spangler. Mr. Kern
always goes to lunch at this hour in

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to be back for the noon rush.

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I was just going myself if you don't
need me.

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No, no, no, that's quite all right. Go
ahead.

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it, Mr. Spankler.

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Mr. Taylor, you've quoted Ira Casey's
summation to the jury almost verbatim.

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The only thing you've omitted was the
sentimental reference to Matthias'

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childhood.

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Sentimental? Does that denote
disapproval? I hired Casey.

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Unfortunately for Matthias, Ira Casey
was a friend with a friend's loyalty and

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friend's blindness.

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Didn't you know that Mrs. Holmes had
called Dr. Clinton before she called

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After all, your wife was his patient and
had been for some time.

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Yet, you asked Mr. Kern to go to the
telephone at the opposite end of the

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and make a call which had certainly been
made already.

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As a result, you were alone in the vault
for several minutes.

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What was your third possibility?

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You told me a very interesting story a
few minutes ago, Mr. Spangler, and an

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accurate one except for some important
details.

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I'd like to point them out to you.

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The diary deposit must have been a
temptation to you from the beginning.

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Your marriage had been an unhappy one,
and your father -in -law was a

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domineering tyrant.

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And you had a ready -made suspect
working right in the bank.

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A record's a tough thing to live down,
even a juvenile record.

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The public is seldom forgiving when
someone is made off with a bank deposit.

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It strikes too close to the paycheck.

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That's what you were really thinking
that day when a half a million dollars

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moved into the vault of the farmers and
merchants of Kirkland?

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And then, on the day of the theft, the
day when Sam Kern was anxious to get

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early and Matthias was working late,
your wife suffered another heart attack.

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which gave you the chance you'd been
waiting for all these months.

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You must have recognized it instantly.

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All you needed to do was clear the vault
area for a few minutes.

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And then, when the job was done, be able
to go home to your stricken wife while

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Matthias was still at work in the last
teller's cage.

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And while the vault, with the unlocked
strongbox inside, was still standing

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open.

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The first step was to get Matthias out
of the bank.

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That was a little tricky.

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It's a small matter to flood an engine,
and on a cold and miserable December

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day, no one would be likely to question
your story that the car just wouldn't

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start.

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You knew Matthias would be gone for
several minutes.

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His car was a good 200 yards away,
according to the map in this case.

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That left only Kern to get out of the
way.

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Leaving you alone, only a few steps
away...

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From $200 ,000.

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And no one in all this time has thought
to look for the dire funds in that third

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and only possible place.

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That $200 ,000 was never found,
Spangler, because they never left this

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It's here now, in the vault, in your own
deposit box.

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Is that what Matthias told you?

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When you were cellmates, Mr. Henry? The
name is Taylor. Henry Taylor.

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You didn't think a small -town banker
would be clever enough to check on that

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letter of credit, did you? Well, I did.

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When I went outside, I had Miss Foster
call that bank in Chicago.

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And that bank in Chicago has no record
of a letter of credit having been issued

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to any Henry Taylor.

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Do you think you can come in here off
the street and blackmail me with marked

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records and a ridiculous map?

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I don't care what a dead convict
suspected.

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We're not discussing what a dead convict
suspected.

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There's one thing you don't know about
the convict who didn't die.

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He wasn't serving time for anything as
petty as grand theft.

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Thomas Henry's the killer.

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Thomas Henry is the convicted murderer
with nothing to lose.

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All I have to do is to dial that phone.

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And Henry's rough.

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He can make the sphinx talk, but leave
him to $200 ,000?

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Now go ahead and dial it.

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The number for the police station is
116.

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No. Now, now, now, don't be a fool.

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Have you ever been worked over by a
really desperate man, Spengler?

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You be concerned with Matthias.

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Everybody thinks he took the money.

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Besides, he's dead.

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But he didn't take it, did he?

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It's in the vault, isn't it?

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Yes.

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Most of it.

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Now, be reasonable.

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We can make a deal.

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Thank you, Mr. Spengler.

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We already have.

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You made a mistake in thinking I was
that escaped convict.

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I'm not Thomas Henry.

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But I was certain that I could wring a
confession out of you if I got here

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before Henry.

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Lucky for you, I did.

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My name is Loudon.

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It's Henry Taylor Loudon.

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I was the guard at state prison that
shot Matthias when he tried to escape.

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I didn't know he was innocent.

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That's why I'm here.

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I shall never again accept a political
nomination without knowing the identity

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of the office involved.

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I like being a collector, but I rather
hoped it would be taxes, not rubbish.

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Perhaps I can resign next time when we
reassemble at this same hall.

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Until then, good night.

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