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That's r-o-n-a Roma wines those better tasting California wines enjoyed by more Americans than any other wine For friendly entertaining for delightful dining Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant as roma wines bring you walley mayor in a remarkable tale of suspense Accident reports submitted to police inspector Blandon from lieutenant Steve Healy Place 15th Street and 4th Avenue time to 45 p.m. March 11 remarks Ernest Bowers age 34 was crossing the intersection as signal light changed from green to red a Car driven by Theodore Toby made legal right turn from 15th Street in to 4th Avenue All right stand back is he hurt bad officer? I didn't see him honest. I didn't I had the right of way What are you people called for an ambulance? Yeah you Okay, move back move back He's bleeding here. I'll prop up his head. Yeah use his jacket here. I'll hold him Golly, it's limp feels just like he's dead Yes, Ernest Bowers felt like he was dead Ernest Bowers suffered from catalepsy a strange disease He carried at all times a note in his inside coat pocket stating that he was a cataleptic and that in the event of seeming death His wife should be immediately notified or his doctor in the event. His wife is unavailable The letter also requested that no autopsy or embalming should be performed on his body for 72 hours Although in his particular case the duration of the attacks were usually four hours or less Ernest Bowers also wore a sterling silver bracelet with an inscription reading Do not him bomb me. I am not dead Catalepsy is a disease of the nerves in mind the physical condition of the cataleptic when he is under a spell closely resembled death in all aspects including the primary stages of rigor mortis Officer Abbott was at the scene of the accident. He administered first aid to the injured man before making out his report That ought to stop the bleeding looks like just a cut on his forehead when he hit the ground nothing much He can't be hurt bad officer. I didn't hit him hard All right now clear back clear back. Let's have a little air here What's your name? Theodore Toby here. Here's my license. Hey, hey you kids What are those kids do? Oh here it comes. I hope he's all right it doesn't look like he's breathing. I Told you to get back now. Come on. He's back Glad you got here he's out cold say is not have a look. Well, let's get him away He's dead. Well, anyway, it didn't happen in the coach. Okay. Don't take him away. Keep them back officer Okay, keep back It's a second one today. Yeah, well, let's go Whose jacket was that where he was laying on I don't know you pick it up. Nope. Hey officer Where's the jacket? But the jacket the guy's jacket. Oh my gosh, it's gone. Okay. Oh those kids never mind. Let's go pain And his powers had lost the identification of his condition the letter was in the inside pocket of his jacket The silver chain he wore on his left wrist had snapped and fall into the pavement Two youngsters picked up the chain Robert Manelli aged nine and a half and Tommy stoner eight We all got us. Did you hear him? Yeah, maybe we should give it back now. What for so he can keep it Let's go around the back to your father's shop, huh? Sure is a nice chain Hey, there's writing on it. Maybe it's the guy's name. Was he hurt bad? Hey, what's it saying? Oh, just a second. We'll be out of the alley. Yeah, pop's gone home to eat. Can you read it now? Wait a second, will you? It says do not involve Do not something me. I am not dead Ah screwy. What do we do with it? Sell it dopey. I well that's stealing Bob. It ain't stealing We found it didn't we when when we try to sell it. I'll ask us where we got it What do we tell them? Nothing. I'll use your head. You know what we'll do? What? We'll use pop's weld and torch We'll melt it down, but but he told us not to use it popping here. Is he no. Well, come on Well, there it is. Yeah, now here you put it on that brick Okay, yeah Why do you think you're doing? Oh, oh, hello pop nothing mr. Manelli. We ain't doing nothing nothing. I thought I told you kids enough to go need the torch Well, we want to melt this down. Come on. Come on. Give me that Now what's it all about? Well, we found this chain poppin. We want to melt it down and sell it Change the milk. Who's easy? We don't know. Do we Tommy? No, no, no, we don't. Yeah. Well, where you get it? We found it. Oh, come on. Come on. Let me have well, there's nothing wrong pop We just found it see it's all Do not And Balama means I am not dead Okay What's that? It's screwy. Well, where you find it in the street honest pop has Tommy All right. I go on and get out of here. Well, how about melting it down pop? We can sell it and buy some baseball All right. I'll keep back Look at Tommy. You see it? Yeah Got in the melt. You see how he does it. Get the way I told you It's all melted They sold the melted chain for a dollar thirty to a dealer One dollar and thirty cents What the coat The coat was the principal thing in the coat in the inside pocket was the letter the information about Ernest Bowers condition was in the Lever the instructions that could save his life The coat was picked up from the street by Ernest Jerry Murdock Now there's a big sign near the corner of 15th street. It says Ernest Jerry Murdock swap shop He brought the coat into his store rummaged around on his shelves until he found some cleaner Then started to clean the blood stains Uh, I'm looking for a sport jacket. Uh, just a moment. What kind conservative? Oh come over here, please Mm-hmm Yeah, something on that order. Hey, yeah, just pick out what you want. Uh, how much you want to spend about five bucks Oh these cost more. How much from eight to twelve Now over here. We got some cheaper. These don't look so hot for eight bucks from eight to twelve Over here. Well, I'll take a look No, these don't appeal to me at what size do we're 40? Oh, yeah try this one on nice and conservative there Yeah, that's kind of tight around the shoulders. Yeah, that looks cheesy Well, I guess you ain't got what I want. Wait, wait, wait a minute. Wait. What's your hurry? I'm just putting a new one in stock over here by the county. Uh, that looks all right. What size is it? I don't know. Here. Let's let's try it on you. All right How's that? Yeah, that's bills. All right. Well, it's kind of stiff in front here It's almost a new way that you'll break it in feels like cardboard or something. Look, you want it five dollars Okay, there might be still a couple stains on it. I had enough time to take them out You use some cleaner honor to bring it to the tailors. He'll spot it. It'll be better than new. Yeah, here is the five Ernest Bowers was brought to the receiving room of the vet a general hospital the time for 10 If Bowers was going to awaken it would probably be before 645 Intern on duty. Dr. Weldon made out his report. He wrote it down while he was standing near the telephone switchboard This is the vet a general hospital is anybody by the name of Bowers at home. That's Bowers B. O. W. E. R. A. No, nobody home Is mr. Bowers married his wife thinks so now where can I reach her? There's been an accident I don't know. She's out. Will you tell her to call the vet a general hospital? Yeah What happened mr. Bowers is dead Yes, funny just a superficial cut on forehead Well, that's cardiac. I'm gonna go they get me the order room, honey. Okay, use that phone there. Right This is dr. Weldon. There's a delivery for you to go to the morgue morgue now. Yeah, I ain't had anything to eat since Yeah, I know since lunch go on now. It's down the receiving room. The papers are down there too Can I get a sandwich first? No go on get going Oh, why can't I wait a few minutes? It's got to go now. They'll want to start the embalming so they can go home It was then 422 in the afternoon Dr. Theodore J. Weldon left Honey at the switchboard and walked upstairs to the intern quarters and settled down to reading the sports page of the afternoon paper At that moment if anyone had been in receiving room B of the vet a general hospital where the body of earnest powers lay on the patient carriage They would have seen a fly crawl slowly across the face of the dead man And they would have seen his nose twitch For suspense roma wines are bringing you an all-star cast of hollywood radio players headed by walley mayor in dead earnest A radio play by celic lester and mervyn gerard roma wines presentation tonight in radios outstanding theater of thrills suspense Between the acts of suspense. 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Oh looks all right. You lose some of that weight. Look better. Wait a minute. Wait a minute What's that a spot where take it off a minute? Here, yeah, I wonder what that is. Oh, he said there were a couple of spots clean. I'll take them out. Yeah, looks like it might be What's this in the pocket? Hmm? I don't know heaven's sake To whom it may concern, please open and read. Well, that's what must have felt stiff This note is carried on my person wherever I go. It is to advise responsible parties that I am a a cataleptic That if it appears as though I am dead, I am not And that my body is not to be molested for a period of 72 hours neither by autopsy nor by embalming Although the maximum periods of my attacks usually do not exceed four hours Please telephone my wife. Mrs. Margaret Bowers at Fulton one one two three one This is a boarding house address eight four one one half west 25th street If she is not there, please try to ask mr. Four three four two two This is the number of dr. Benton. It is of vital importance. It may mean my life Thank you Ernest Bowers Yeah, that's a funny one. Where'd you get that jacket, harry? That honest gerry murder. Gee. I wonder what we can do Well, nothing is probably forgotten already somebody sold the jacket to him forgot to take the letter on sound like something a guide forget Well, it might be important Say look at that harry those spots look like blood No, too dark. That's the color that blood turns. I'm gonna telephone that number. Well, go ahead But I think you're wasting your time hush. Will you a minute? I'd I'd like to talk to mrs. Uh Bowers She ain't in. Well, how do you know you didn't even go to find out and you weren't the first after her Who else wanted to get in touch with her? Oh somebody. I don't know. Oh, well, thank you There you see you're wasting your time. I'll try that doctor opera having sex Trying to do a regular busy body. Think of somebody else. Well, I'm getting hungry. Oh hush, will you? How about some dinner it's cooking it's cooking Honestly, I can't get it out of my head That guy whoever he is just lying there and people thinking him dead when he ain't maybe doing things to him Gee What's him bombing? Oh, they do that at the morgue it's preparing his body for burial I think they take all the blood out of his veins. They haven't sakes that'd kill him if he wasn't already dead Yeah, couldn't kill him any better harry. I'm gonna find out about that coat now. Where's this place you bought now? Wait a minute francis. I put in a good day's work. I'm tired. I don't want to run around the city looking for something I don't even know about I'll go myself. How about me at home here while you go out? I want to eat I'm hungry dinner won't be ready for another 15 minutes. Anyway, where's the place? Oh All right, I'll go with We we want to find out about the man next door. Do you know when we'll come back? Oh, I was jerry. Yeah No, he isn't harry listen go take another look. I'll try that number again. Oh crap. I haven't I'm using this. Oh, well he ain't back yet. Well. What does this sign say 10 minutes? Yeah, but those guys put up signs like that if they're going away for an hour Well, we'll just wait a couple of more minutes. Oh, come on francis Is mrs. Bowers in no, uh, mr. Bowers He is that's what they tell me. Look, uh, listen, will you You're bothering me lady. I got a meal to answer in a million questions All I want to know is when mr. Bowers died. How do I know? Ask mrs. Bowers. She'll be home. So yeah, well, thanks Well, mr. Bowers is dead. I found that out. All right, you see I told him Well, what about the letter then what if he ain't dead? What if they only think he's dead? What do you want to do wait here all night if I have to well without me then well just do as you please I'll be home. I'm hungry. It's after six if you think more of a crazy letter than you do a feat in your own husband Then that's all what do you mean? That's all just what I said. That's all carry the trouble with you as you haven't got any imagination No, I haven't got any imagination. I'm just a home loving guy. That's all I don't go stick in my nose where don't belong Oh, well for heaven's sakes go home then I'll find out about it Because something beside your stomach once in a while officer officer Yes, ma'am Do you know where the fellow who owns that swap shop lives honest jerry murdoch? No, ma'am. I don't oh dear Gee, I want to get in touch with them and there's a sign on his door. Why don't you ask him ma'am? There he is now just going in over there. Oh gee. Thank you Oh gee, I'm sure glad you came back Come in. Come in. Just out having a bitey. Yeah, listen, uh, you sold my husband a jacket a sports jacket this afternoon Did I what kind well a light blue one with little red boxes in it? It had a few stains on it Oh, sorry. I can't take anything back once it's sold. No. No. No, I don't want to give it back Listen, where did you get it? Mr. Murdock? How can I remember where I got it long ago? Was it very long ago? I don't see what's any of your business where I got it. Well, it may be important I've been trying to reach the numbers the doctor's numbers always busy and his his uh, his wife isn't home yet I don't know what you're talking about. Look, tell me one thing just one thing Did you have the jacket in here a long time? Well, oh, please listen. It's very important Well, no, no, I just got it in this afternoon. Oh, where did you get it? Look, you said one question. He asked it. I answered it. That's all There was blood on it. Well that I can't help Listen, if that man's alive and they do anything to him, I'll just never get over it I'll never be able to live with myself. What are you talking about? Listen to me There was a letter in the inside pocket of that jacket. You see it said that earnest bowers was a cataleptic What's that? He goes into no no a cataleptic is somebody who looks like he's dead at times and and he isn't He goes into a spell and it looks as though he's dead You see sometimes they take dead bodies to the morgue them And and bomb them that means they take all the blood out of their veins now Now this fellow bowers is a cataleptic I don't know whether he's dead or alive or even if he's worrying about this letter, but I got to find out There was what what an accident before where who was in it? I don't know believe me lady I didn't know anything about all this You think that this guy was taking away an ambulance was a cataleptic that coat was it his? Yeah, lady, but it was left there in the street. They drove away and left who the ambulance I don't know it was on the corner the cop was there He told somebody to call an ambulance it came and took away the man. Is that the cop out there right now? Yeah, yeah, but look look you're gonna protect me. I ain't done anything wrong. I didn't know anything like this had happened I've never taken a coat Ernest bowers lay on a slab at the morgue If you were alive probabilities were that he would regain consciousness before 645 The two and bombers on duty at the time had decided to get a fight When the phone rang Yeah, but we're going out to eat Yeah, I know another one just came in we got it here. Well, what's the rush? No, no, we just want to grab a cup of coffee. We'll get right on it Well, is it our fault if it comes in just when we want to have it? Oh Well, we can go home after that that puts a different complexion. Okay Yeah Hey, what time is it anthony 6 30 good doc says if we embalm this one now we can go home Let's start in then. I'm hungry. Okay. I'll start the motor Young guy, ain't he? Yeah I was saying to the wife about that yesterday. Oh get the injector out. Will you Tony? She was saying more and more people die older and older here Yeah, it looks like we can open through the neck. Yeah, let me piece of that god I said to velma. She should be around this place a while. We get them all ages You want me to do it? No, no you get the injector ready Look at him. Hmm. You'd never think that such a little thing like his heart stops beating could make him dead and not alive Yeah, okay Oh, hold us steady. Will you? Yeah Ready just a second. Yep. What's the matter? My glasses are clouding up Take them off. Ah, that's all right. I'll just clean them What did the wife say to that what all about all ages? Yeah Oh, she didn't have anything to say only that most of the guys we deal with probably come to a violent end Yeah, there's something in that. Yeah Okay, I got my glasses clean. Oh, let's see here. What's the matter? They're steamed up again. That's funny Every time I bend over and it I wonder what? Ah, it must be my imagination. What? Well, I could have sworn this guy was breathing on my glasses Is he? No, how could he? Oh, come on then. Let's go. It's a quarter to seven already. Yeah Oh, hold it. I'll get the phone. No, no, let's get this started for it. Okay. I will just stop. Huh? What's the matter with you? I thought I saw this guy's hand twitch. Oh, don't be silly. Give me a scare Uh, let's wait a second. I'll get the phone. It'll probably be another job and we'll never get out of here And I'll let it ring but the doc said we could go home after oh Well, come on. Let's get this thing over with now Okay, now give me the knife again Neat little incision right Hey, tony Yeah, look I'm bent over like this. See I I ain't gonna move My glasses are full of steam again Oh lord is Is he alive? Well, look at me. I'm shaking all over Look at him. How look at his lips. Huh? Listen Shut that thing off Currently the life of earnest bowers was worth one dollar and 30 cents for a silver bracelet to the boys who ran away with it And five dollars for a bloodstained jacket to honest jerry murdoch Their petty thefts brought a man to the brink of death As for the busy telephone in the doctor's office. It wasn't busy at all The good doctor had unwittingly replaced the receiver on the phone stand incorrect There is um There's just one more episode which perhaps does not belong in an accident report But which I would like to include After regaining full consciousness earnest bowers put in a telephone call From the morgue Hello, mrs. Brawley is mrs. Bowers in this is mr. Bowers I know mrs. Brawley, but they made a mistake. Well, darling. It's quite a long story Well, never mind you get right home. You hear your dinner's getting ice cold Presented by roma wines r.o.m.a roma america's favorite wines In just one moment. 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