The Last Mile

Mr. District Attorney! Radio friends, this is Harrington. I'm speaking to you from the District Attorney's Office. Two months have gone by since we captured Duke Orlando at the Municipal Airport. Two months in which the District Attorney and our entire staff have been working day and night piecing together the evidence we have collected against Duke Orlando and his restaurant right now.

The Ohio kid, the Duke's torpedo, has applied us with much of the connecting links that we needed. He has turned state's evidence, which means he'll be a witness for the District Attorney. The District Attorney has been in court for the past five days, and this morning he was going to call the Ohio Kid to the stand.

Kid, I want to remind you that you have sworn to tell the truth while in the witness chair. Are all the statements you have made so far the truth, the things you described actually took place as you said?

Yes, they did. You heard Mr. Tony, the restaurant owner, on the witness stand, say that he was threatened by Lucky Lynch and yourself. Lucky said if he didn't join your employer's protective society, something real bad was going to happen to him or to his family.

Yeah, Lucky said that. Did Juckelando give him orders to say that? Yeah, the duke said if any restaurant owner don't want to join, just show them how badly they need protection. And how did you show Mr. Tony?

Oh, you know, you heard Mr. Tony tell how we bombed his house. Who's we? Lucky lynching me. Who told you to bomb Mr. Tony's house? The Duke. Was that the only time the Duke ordered you to do something like that for him?