The Case Of The Smoking Corpse
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
"The Case Of The Smoking Corpse" By Peter Levins. When a young man stumbles upon a pair of corpses in a park, police not only solve a murder, but break up a caper to rid all of the banks in Indianapolis of their cash. And it all starts with a clue from a horseshoe.
"A Clue At The Kitchen Window: A Strangulation in Apartment 16" By Quincy Carlton. A young man discovers a young girl he just picked up dead in her apartment. He has an alibi and there are many leads to follow, but the young man's story doesn't sit right with some of the detectives on the case.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.0 | The late Judge Bowen was always noted for his witty sarcasm, but perhaps the peak was |
| 0:15.8 | reached at the old Bailey one day in the 1890s. Before the dock stood a man whose appearance |
| 0:22.5 | tallied with the popular conception of what a low crook should look like. The |
| 0:27.1 | prisoner's heavy squat figure was shrouded with a dirty horizontally striped sweater |
| 0:32.2 | and dotted red kerchief took the place of collar and tie. His stubby chin protruded from an ugly face, |
| 0:40.4 | and his clippered hair lent emphasis to an unshapely head. The charge was one of burglary, |
| 0:47.5 | and the evidence seemed so conclusive that the judge was puzzled at the offering of any |
| 0:52.8 | defensive plea. It was proved that the prisoner's bootsled at the offering of any defensive plea. |
| 1:00.5 | It was proved that the prisoner's boots were found outside the jimmied back window of a West End mansion. |
| 1:05.4 | Wearing three pairs of socks, he had been surprised in the living room, |
| 1:12.6 | where three servants had caught and detained him as he was about to leave with a sack full of silverware over his shoulder. The silverware was identified as belonging to the house, and the accused man admitted that the sack was his property. |
| 1:20.6 | Judge Bowen was in his element as he summed up for the jury, and after recounting all the details as given, |
| 1:29.3 | he indulged himself to the full. |
| 1:31.3 | Of course, gentlemen, he said quite seriously, in deciding a criminal case it is not well to come |
| 1:38.3 | to a too hasty conclusion. Might it be just possible that the thoughtfulness and consideration for others may have been the motive guiding this poor innocent-looking man? |
| 1:49.0 | He shook his head sadly and glanced at the villainous features of the thug in the box. |
| 1:55.0 | Why, he continued, almost carried away by his imaginative momentum, |
| 2:00.0 | it may be that this son of a grieving mother suddenly became after he continued, almost carried away by his imaginative momentum, |
| 2:06.8 | it may be that this son of a grieving mother suddenly became apprehensive for the safety of the silverware in question, and that he decided to remove it to a place more secure. |
| 2:12.3 | If this were the case, what would be more natural than that his consideration should make |
| 2:17.4 | him decide not to disturb the |
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