Another Thin Man
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:37:10
Calling all cars. Attention all cars.
Wanted for murder:

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Phil Church, age 37, height 5'11''...
:37:16
weight 185 pounds, eyes brown...
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hair dark, gray at the temples.
Last seen wearing a light gray suit.

:37:25
Photograph every inch of that sill.
:37:27
- What have we got, Doc?
- Bruise on left temple, blunt instrument.

:37:30
Throat cut with fairly large heavy blade.
Death instantaneous.

:37:34
Right wrist broken.
Been dead about half an hour.

:37:37
- That check with the time they found him?
- Check.

:37:39
Ought to be enough to go on. I'll go
into things more thoroughly tomorrow.

:37:42
Thanks, Doc.
:37:43
He says that Cuban threw a big knife
at him. Might be the same one.

:37:47
It'll have the marks of his dog's teeth
on the handle.

:37:49
Get the some of boys busy in the bushes
to look for it.

:37:51
Yes, sir. Come on, Jim.
:37:53
He must've gone out the front door.
:37:55
- He? Who?
- Church, or the Cuban.

:37:58
- How do you know?
- I don't know.

:38:00
I just seen the front door open
when I went down the cellar.

:38:03
- What was you doing in the cellar?
- I went down to fix the fuse.

:38:06
- What fuse?
- The fuse that was blowed out.

:38:09
- How did you know it was blowed out?
- I don't know nothing.

:38:11
I was just doing what Mrs. Bellam told me.
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- And you were here reading?
- Yes.

:38:16
Ain't that late for a lady your age to be up?
:38:18
I don't think so.
:38:19
Got things on your mind that worry you?
Keep you awake?

:38:21
No, I just don't sleep much.
:38:23
- You've been working for him a long time?
- Sixteen years.

:38:26
And you knew this Phil Church
when he worked for the old man?

:38:29
Yes, indeed, I knew him.
:38:30
Now, you just sit right down here
and make yourself comfortable.

:38:33
We're gonna have a nice, long talk
about what you knew about him.

:38:37
You weren't in bed and you're all dressed.
:38:40
- Where were you?
- I was sitting here, writing.

:38:42
- Writing what?
- A play.

:38:45
Go on, what kind of a play?
:38:47
- A mystery play.
- So you write about murders?

:38:51
- Do you ever think much about murders?
- No.

:38:53
And you say
Miss MacFay and Mrs. Charles...

:38:55
were the only ones in your room
when it happened, right?

:38:58
No.
:38:59
- Then there was someone else?
- Yes.


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