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Jig Saw Joseph Wirges

Big Story · January 26, 1949 · 27 min · 4,162 words

The transcript of “Jig Saw Joseph Wirges”, an episode of Big Story first broadcast January 26, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Big Story plays Big Story free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Hellman, all famous cigarettes present the big story! Yeah! Two phone conversations took place about the same time. One between a man named Tom Cooey and his wife. Don't talk like that, Tom. Don't! I can't help it, do you?

If he goes on like this, I swear I'll kill him. Ed Rumbly is a crumb. Tom, calm with me, you won't do any things. Some partner lays the lies to me, never does any work, flames me.

I swear one more stunt like that one in Galveston, and I swear I'll kill him. The other was between the first man's partner, Adram Lee, and his brother. And Galveston, he pockets 50 bucks. I know it for a fact, Jack. 50 bucks.

Then he tells me he took in 25 and split that with me. Look, Ad, talk to him. He's your partner. Yeah, yeah, my partner. Some partner. Some swindler. But I tell you one thing, Jackie. One more deal like that, just one.

And Tom Cooley's gonna be a dead man. The big story. Here is America. It's found in its fury, its joy in its sorrows, as faithfully reported by the men and women of the great American newspapers, Little Rock Arkansas.

From the pages of the Arkansas Gazette, the story of a puzzle whose pieces would not match until a reporter put them together. Then they spelled murder. To Joseph Wurges of the Little Rock, Arkansas Gazette, for his brilliant work in his jigsaw crime, goes the Palmel Award for the Big Story.

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