Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

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connected in any way with the deceased?

There is no new will.

Yes, Mr. Mason.

Yes, Mr. Burger.

Well, the insurance had been cancelled

Would never cut you off, if he was in his right mind.

and come to some mutually satisfactory arrangement.

two days before the fire.

Uh, where can he reach you?

He said my grandfather had two tickets

BURGER: Did your grandfather do things like this very often?

he was under heavy sedation at the time.

How do you know there is such an envelope?

If my cross-examination is also deferred,

KEENE: Well, not before I, uh, left

The reason you dug up that money last night.

Well, what's that?

during that examination.

over Mr. Baxter.

that's the night of the fire

Peter Baxter died in the fire.

and call Edith Devoe to the stand...

what his heirs would do

Paul, I'm going down to police headquarters.

We'll have to find out, Paul.

It was unwise for me to believe

would stick out like a sore thumb

You'll have to excuse me.

Who canceled it?

I certainly did not.

Now, he and that nurse, Edith Devoe,

At the end, he was like a sick eagle.

I would like to pay you a little something on account.

Oh, yes. I have nothing there really worth stealing.

to take Miss Oakley to lunch.

And what he wanted was volatile spirits?

The witness may step down.

I wonder what Peter Baxter was like.

Uh, Mr. Hilliard, you are the executor

He can be called out of a theater

To find out if I was right.

what happened prior to that particular conversation?

I was supposed to meet Mr. Peter Baxter

About ten minutes.

But I must see him before 11:00.

No. I was rather surprised.

And what's his name?

i'm not a gambling man SSL certs with 11 days to go

Sure. If it's newsworthy...

( telephone rings ) All right.

And he instructed you to honor the check?

that the testimony you're about to give

and make it appear that...

the rumor comes from an unimpeachable source.

and I don't expect him back till midnight.

Get the principals to thinking something's in the wind.

Well, we'll talk about it later,

trying to plant suspicion anywhere and everywhere.

at getting the tickets from your grandfather?

and deposit a bottle of volatile spirits

The afternoon I spoke with you,

I was in the hospital.

Yes, Mr. Roland said he'd call back.

What time of day was this, uh,

Mr. Hilliard, a man is on trial for his life.

But if Mr. Kenneth overheard everything

Are you acquainted with the defendant, James Hing?

Would you, um...