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119- Shark Bait

Escape · July 14, 1950 · 29 min · 4,669 words

The transcript of “119- Shark Bait”, an episode of Escape first broadcast July 14, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Escape plays Escape free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Tonight, we escape to a charter fishing boat in the waters of the little Central American country of Nicaragua, and the story of the violence and terror that suddenly developed there. As Anthony Ellis tells it in his exciting tale, Sharkbates. I just come out of the hole they call El Splendido. Passes for a hotel in

Puerto Morazan. They call it El Splendido I guess because of the bigger and better cockroaches. Funny thing is there are always a few Americans there. They come down to Nicaragua for the fishing. Two of them are man named Williams and his daughter had chartered my boat for the next morning. I was getting dark when I walked under where the boat was tied up and as I came to

the shack that pounded itself off as a cocktail bar. I knew it was time for a drink. Joyt was called Joe's. Nobody knew why since it belonged to a fat, happy Portuguese named Miguel Pereira. When his spare time dabbled in everything from cut-rate murder to dope, he was a good man not to trust. Went to a table and he stopped plucking his guitar long enough

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