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062- Platt Is Arrested

Jerry of the Circus · September 21, 1937 · 14 min · 2,218 words

The transcript of “062- Platt Is Arrested”, an episode of Jerry of the Circus first broadcast September 21, 1937. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Jerry of the Circus plays Jerry of the Circus free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Jerry of the circus. Before Jerry of the circus. No fellow, what's the hurry?

Bob, Bob. Jerry, what's all excited? Hey, look. I just got the morning paper, and it's all about plants. Ed lights all over the front face. You don't say. Yeah, they got him. It says right here in the paper that the police caught him last night.

No, you don't say. Let's have a look at that paper. Yeah, here. Quiet, right. Well, I did clear. Read it out loud, Bob. out loud bumps I didn't get a chance to finish up I was in such a hurry you let you see let's just sit down here on these steps okay come on right right down the

quiet now it says carrying several thousand dollars in negotiable securities alleged to have been stolen in a sensational mail robbery four years ago Stephen Platt for the past eight years baggage master of the Hensberg railway station of the L. M. and O lines was apprehended and arrested by deputy sheriff as he was about to board a Southbound freight train late last night at Garden Junction.

Gee, he might have gotten away. Say it's lucky the police got there in time. And the law has to work fast, during. Go on, what else does it say? Yes, it says. A plaid is being held at the Hansburg Police Station under $20,000 cash bail pending trial.

Serves them right. And then it goes on to tell about the robbery. Yeah, the one they're keeping spiking zeal for. Wait a minute, during that listen to this. Detective work done by two members of Randall's circus now playing Hansberg is largely responsible for the apprehension of Steven Platt this new evidence brought to light by these amateur slits.

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