Big Story · April 4, 1951 · 24 min · 3,822 words
The transcript of “Poker Game Ends In Death William E Doherty”, an episode of Big Story first broadcast April 4, 1951. 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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The big story. Get the let-off. Did you see him? Did you see Doug's story with Lion Man? Come on, close that door. How did you like that guy to deal, huh? He thought he was going to take it a big box.
Anyway, he says to the other guy, I got a pair. One more to go with it, I got three of a kind. And then, boom. Why did Doug have to get it? Why Doug? Alright, alright, quit the cry, so Doug's dead, so what?
That were three of a kind as dead too. How do you like that? I caught my jacket on a nail. I paid 75 dollars for that shot. What the... Why, Doug? Chicago, Illinois. From the front pages of the Chicago Sun-Times, comes the story of a poker game that ended in depth.
Chicago, Illinois. The story is it actually happened. William Dority's story as he lived it. This film is built. Last name, Dority. One of the proudest names in Chicago newspapers. For the past 30 years there hasn't been a single paper in Chicago that didn't have a doity on the police run.
You and your four brothers in a sense had cornered the crime market in the Windy City. But even the Doherty's sleep. And that is what you are doing this mild May morning at 1 a.m.
When the pain of all Doherty lies, the City Editor, that's the work, the mechanism, that is the pain of all Doherty nights. Hello. Where you asleep? Oh, who is this? Andrews, no, I was just sitting here waiting for you to call.
Well, Sonny, you better rub the sleep out of your eyes. On account of while you were snoring, Three hoods had the lovelies up of Evanston all wrapped up. Could have carried it away for all you know.
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