Suspense - Bertillon Method

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Old Time Radio Stories | Old Time Radio

Episode: Suspense – Bertillon Method

Host: Old Time Retro Radio
Date: August 8, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode of "Old Time Radio Stories | Old Time Radio" features the classic radio drama "The Bertillon Method," originally aired as part of the legendary series Suspense. The episode dramatizes the innovations and real-life investigations of Alphonse Bertillon—The French detective whose revolutionary methods of scientific measurement, cataloging, and deduction formed the roots of modern criminology. Set in Paris at the turn of the twentieth century, the narrative follows Bertillon as he unravels the mystery murder of an unidentified man, using both forensic genius and psychological insight to reveal the truth.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

The Scene of the Crime & Bertillon’s Methods

• Discovery: The drama opens (03:00) with the body of a man, found in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, tightly bound and wrapped in tar paper.
• Initial Investigation: Bertillon immediately uses scientific observation:
  • Examining the victim's clothing, hands, and position for clues about his profession and recent activity.
  • Noting details such as a cleaner right shirt sleeve—a telltale sign of a clerk or accountant (04:00).
• Forensic Analysis:
  • Bertillon discusses his system of anthropometry—measuring every bone in the human body to identify individuals (03:00–05:00).
  • Scientific sleuthing includes analysis of fabrics, sand, tar, and minute evidence (06:30), deducing the crime happened in a wine cellar, then a sand-filled room, and a dark room.
  • Discovery of a unique blind beetle and fermentation bacilli confirms the points above.

Establishing Identity & Motive

• Victim Identified: The victim is soon named as Charles Tellier, a recently freed convict and accountant (08:50).

• Interrogating the Widow: Bertillon visits Tellier’s wife, Lucille, whose stoic reaction provides scant leads but subtly hints at a difficult marriage and an emotionally distant spouse (10:18–11:29).

  • Quote:

    "My husband is an unlucky man. Whatever he chooses to do inevitably turns out badly."
    — Mrs. Tellier (10:25)

• Motive and Circumstance: Bertillon interviews Tellier's employer and investigates the dress shop of Mr. and Mrs. Cavassou, raising questions about Tellier’s connections to the wealthy couple and the reason for his frequent visits to their shop.

Theories and Pursuit

• Classic Detective Questions:
  • Bertillon operates on two principles (18:30):
    1. Who profits from this crime?
    2. Where is the woman? (“90% of all major crimes have a woman next to them.” – Bertillon, 18:36)
• Undercover Attempt: Bertillon breaks into Cavassou’s shop, suspecting the cellar—denied to exist by Mr. Cavassou—was the murder site (16:00).
• Comic Turn: He’s promptly caught by Madame Cavassou and arrested as a common thief, only to be later released upon revealing his true identity (19:43–21:07).

Resolving the Mystery

• Confrontation at Dinner: In a memorable dinner scene, Bertillon sketches the Cavassous to demonstrate his system and confronts Monsieur Cavassou with measurements matching a wanted criminal, Jean Plenier, who has assumed a new identity (22:19–25:24).

• Revelation:

  • Bertillon’s measured proof and psychological pressure reveal Cavassou as both a former associate of the victim and the murderer, having killed Tellier to keep his criminal past secret (26:06–26:40).
  • Quote:

    “You must have a memory for the time some years ago, when you were measured at a small police station... That you have changed the color of your hair, that you have now a mustache, that you have gained weight. Nothing... No disguise for the length of an ear or bone stretcher. Impossible.”
    — Bertillon (26:30)

• Motivation: The murder was committed to prevent Tellier, who attempted blackmail, from exposing Cavassou’s true identity and past crimes.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Bertillon’s legacy:

  “He spent his life putting science to work for the law.”
  — Narrator (03:00)

• Bertillon’s investigative insight:

  “Men who deal with writing, with pens, with ink, who wear on their right sleeve a special cuff to protect it from stain… Such a man whose hands are soft and marked with toil as this one’s hard.”
  — Bertillon (04:00)

• Philosophy of detection:

  “Ask yourself two questions about every premeditated murder. Who profits? Where is the woman?”
  — Bertillon (18:30)

• On the futility of denying one’s past:

  “One who tries to hide his past is a liar and a fool. For somehow it races to catch up with him, and in devious ways overtakes him, destroys him always.”
  — Narrator (28:46)

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Important Timestamps

• [03:00]: Opening investigation and Bertillon’s methods explained
• [06:30]: Laboratory results; deduction of scene details by scientific evidence
• [08:50]: Victim identified as Charles Tellier
• [10:18]–[11:29]: Interview with Mrs. Tellier
• [13:00]–[14:00]: Inquiry at Cavassou’s dress shop and suspicion raised about the cellar
• [16:00]: Bertillon attempts to break into the shop—denied a search warrant
• [18:30]: Bertillon's method/philosophy: "Who profits? Where is the woman?"
• [19:43]–[21:07]: Bertillon caught as a thief, arrested, and later released
• [22:19]–[25:24]: Dinner scene—Bertillon confronts Cavassou with forensic evidence and deduction
• [26:06–26:40]: Arrest and confession – Cavassou’s identity revealed and motive explained
• [28:46]: Closing remarks summarizing Bertillon’s impact on modern criminology

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Final Notes

The episode artfully combines classic radio drama with the history of forensic methodology, blending atmospheric narration, sharp dialogue, and an authentic period tone. Charles Boyer’s portrayal of Bertillon projects both intellect and empathy, reinforcing the detective’s legacy in luminous, suspenseful fashion.

Listeners are given a vivid window into the birth of scientific detective work, where deduction and physical evidence work hand in hand—showcasing both the methods and the enduring human motives behind crime and justice.

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Transcript

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That now, whenever violence and murder is done, every time Scotland Yard catches a Crippen or the Cirte a Landrie or the FBI, a Dillinger, silent tribute is paid to this man, to Alphonse Bertillon, for reasons such as this. Anything in his pockets, Girard? Only these coins. Nothing else. An event of spring, eh, Monsieur Bertillon? And no identity. And no identity. Now, the tar people, the rope we removed from him. I want them in my laboratory, Girard. Oh, of course, of course, Monsieur Bertillon. I'm yours. You, Girard. The tar paper and the rope in the laboratory. As you wish it, sir. I will gather them up. Wait, sir. Hold your lantern close. Here. His wounds about his head. You were struck from behind, perhaps, as he walked the path. There. No, no, not a lantern. Here, Girard. Over his hands. The hands of a man who has done no manual labor. And here, Girard, you see this? His sleeve, sir. His sleeve. His right shirt sleeve. A witness. Cleaner. New word on the left, perhaps. As he fell. His left arm, not as he fell. There are men of whom this thing of the shirt sleeves is characteristic, Girard. Oh, yes. Men who deal with writing, with pens, with ink, who wear on their right sleeve a special cuff to protect it from stainless, from smudges. Yes, I've seen such cuffs. An office clerk, maybe, or an accountant. Such a man whose hands are soft and marked with toil as this one's hard. And you are? Yes, sir. Where murder is, where death is, there is also something else. Always something else. Identity of the victim of his murderer. Cover him. You are. Cover him from the rain. Inspector Kamiskas. Yes, Bertheon? What do you wish? To give you the report, sir, of the tests I have made in the laboratory. The men of science, eh, Berthillon? The student, the searcher, the player with test tubes and microscopes. That is the man you are, eh, Bertheon? You wish to hear the report, sir? And the working detective whose only materials are of informers and drunkards and whisperings and small vengeances. You still sniff at these men, Bertien? That's that method. No, no, sir. Respect them very highly. Therefore, you must respect me, your chief, very highly. What of the report? There the. The results of the test tube in the microscope, sir. And the pattern of the murder of the man we found in the Bois. Excellent, excellent and eloquently spoken. Well, go on, go on. That you were struck and murdered in a wine cellar. That he was then dragged into a second room filled with sawdust, sand and coal. And then into a third room, a room always in blackness, without windows. I marveled at you. And I bow. And it is needless for me to ask if you know where all this took place. The address, perhaps? I believe it was in a house somewhere along the Seine. Which would explain the presence of sand stuck to the tar paper. And the room always in blackness and without windows. Surely clairvoyance, Petulant only shirt collar under the microscope. And two colorless blind parasites. A species of blind beetle that can live only in a pitch black room. And on the coat and vest, bacilli of alcoholic fermentation. Which. Which proves a wine cellar. Exactly, sir. Which prove a wine cellar. I marvel. Indeed I marvel at you, Betio. And at another thing also. What thing? How rich we are in knowledge and information and deduction. And how ignorant we are of a simple thing, a victim's identity. Not ignorant at all. For his identity is known. Ah, yes, sir. By the alchemy of this system of yours, of weights and measures and contours and proportions. No, sir, not this system. Then another system. Well, we found a wallet in it. His name, his address. A boy this morning, passing at some distance from the scene, stumbled across it and brought it to his father, who brought it to us. Excellent. L. The deceased is Charles Delier, 33 Rue St. Michel. And we know it is he, since the photograph which was in the wallet is a likeness of the victim, also here. He was an accountant and matched against our records, a thief who left our prisons two years ago. Also exquisite, this finding. A wife with a wife named Lucille. But the name of the murderer, Bertillon. Nowhere. Find him.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Yes?

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Mrs. Tellier?

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Yes.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

I am Alphonse Bertillon, Surete of Charles. I'm sorry.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Do not be. My husband is an unlucky man. Whatever he chooses to do inevitably turns out badly. But when he chooses to break the law, he is caught, follows.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

He is dead.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Very well. Thank you.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Wait.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Yes?

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

He was murdered.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

He is dead. He was murdered. And it will be his bad luck to lie in a potter's field.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

There is a necessity to find his murderer. Mrs. Delier.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Yes?

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Who murdered him, then? And why?

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

I don't know. And this?

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

What?

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

There is not very much I do know about him. Only that he Worked, appeared at a certain hour in the evening, not promptly was fed, disappeared or stayed, according to what mysterious thing moved him now dead? Now dead, sir. And it would please me if you left now.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Did he still work at bookkeeping at Dumier and Company?

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

The actuary is under Gilbert Street.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

As I said, Mrs. Telly, I am sorry.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Be sorry then. And as I said, it would please me if you let.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Yes, yes, of course. Ink, part

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

pens,

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

pad of scratch paper,

[Narrator / Announcer]

which are the three things I allow each of my employees to hold in his desk.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

So with Monsieur Tellier's desk, feel go

[Narrator / Announcer]

ahead and fill

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

nothing else in the desk drawer is there. Inflexible rule. No small objects to hint of motive for murder. No packets of potions or letters of love. Yet I must tell you this. Down the street now there is a shop. And in this shop of Mr. Kabasu there are fabulous dresses which must cost each three times the salary of Charles. Three times his salary, Mr. Cavashu. Then this Chatelier must be a rather poor, poor man, Monsieur Bertillon. Then why should he appear frequently in front of your dress shop? And this he did. So his employer told me. Why should he do a thing like this? It's to think about, isn't it? It is really to think about. Really. Married. What? I say, are you married? Oh, yes. Yes, indeed. Is this your wife? What I say, Is this my wife? Certainly. Who else would write such an inscription upon a picture? Because you are you and I am me. My love, myself. Well, sister. True, true. Indeed. However, this is my wife. I compliment you. I often do too. This dress business you have here, very successful, isn't it? I am fortunate. And your home in the back must be luxurious. May I compliment you again? Of course. Your clothes, exquisite. Thank you. Great taste. Less than elegance, I am afraid. For I travel in them to Brussels this evening. Else I would be wearing a touch of brocade and a velvet collar. Nice. Oh, yes. My wife should be here soon. It's a scent she prefers. Yes, Noun. Another thing. Of course. Is there a cellar here? A cellar? Cellar. Oh, no. Wine cellar. No. Monsieur Cavaceau. Yes. I don't have a warrant, but therefore you cannot search. I wouldn't think of it. Of course. Now. Yes. Why should you want a warrant for these particular premises for? Come in, my dear. M. Bertillon was just on his way out hurriedly, so there is not time for an introduction. Carriage. Carriage. Security. And therefore he's the murderer. What are you talking about? Debussy, certainly. He possibly his wife. The murderer or murderers. Because. Because he's an older man married to a younger woman. But without a fellow. Dear Betty Hook. Older man. Yes, and married to a younger woman. Yes, but without a fella. You said it yourself. There is a cellar. What? I'm going back there.

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[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Sir, I'm going to break into the shop and there will be a seller. The very one in which was murdered. Unless you will issue a warrant so I may search. Impossible. There are no grounds on which to issue a warrant. Merely that he is married to a younger woman and a murder victim loitered about at your own risk. Then no warrant. Yes sir. And if you are shot for breaking into a shop and a home, we will disavow any knowledge of it. Yes sir. Men have been shot and killed. Killed, you know, for exactly that. Seven last year. I looked it up. Good luck. Bet you. Yes, sir. Autolite is bringing you Mr. Charles Boyer in the Bertillon Method. Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of Thrills Suspense.

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[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

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[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

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[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

And now Autolight brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. Charles Boyer in Elliot Lewis's presentation of the Bertillon method, a true story well calculated to keep you in suspense. Bertillon's methods were not only wasted weights and dimensions by tape and scales, but depended too upon measures of the mind. He would say, ask yourself two questions about every premeditated murder. Who profits from this crime? Where is the woman? And prove that 90% of all major crimes have a woman next to them. And second, instead, I distressed a man who always smiles and wouldn't, if the occasion demanded it, disguise himself in the rough clothes of a French workman in order to break into a suspect's home. To break into a suspect home and get caught.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

You there, put up your hand. I have a pistol here, and I shall not hesitate to use it. So put up your hand.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Yes, ma'. Am.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Come closer.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Yes, ma'. Am.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Gently, for I'm skilled with this weapon.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Yes, ma'.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Am. What vileness. Did you come here to commit theft?

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

I am a thief.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Yet, ma', am, have I not seen you before?

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Doubt it sincerely, having spent so much

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

time in prison, how did you get in here?

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

The cellar.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

The cellar?

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Yes, the wine cellar.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Liar. Ma', am, the trap door to the cellar is still nailed down. Therefore.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Therefore I did not break in through the cellar.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Therefore you are a liar.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Yes, ma'. Am.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

A liar and a thief.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Yes, ma'. Am.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

With no shame.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

I should be in jail.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Or worse.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Worse.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Fortunate it is that my husband is left for Brussels.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Ah, he has a great temper, your husband. And he perhaps would kill me for this insult of breaking into your house. He has a temper to kill.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Who are you?

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Liar and thief who should be given

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

to the police as your shaft. As you shall.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

The gendarme came, complimented Madame Kabasu upon her vigilance, her costume and her bravery, and arrested her thief and prowler, then took him to a precinct station and led him to a cell. When and precisely here, the comedy ends. My colleagues, where? I am Alphonse Bertillon of the French surety, call my chief, Monsieur Kamaskas, which, after an hour of discussion and compassion for the fantasies of thieves. To prove a point, they did. And Monsieur Camas Cass, chief of the Cirte, came to the precinct station. Release him. It is he. Alphonse Betion. Two days later, Bertion received word that Monsieur Cavassu had returned from Brussels and was now once again in the bosom of his elegant shop and home. Bertion went there and. Monsieur Cavazu. Since you have chosen to interrupt my wife and myself at dinner, Monsieur Bertion, I am but pleased to offer you a place at our table. Will you? I'm honored to, Monsieur. Thank you.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

But Jean, this the criminal of whom I've told you the thief, was it

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

not an adventure we had? Madame, I in the role of a thief. And you, how well you played your part. Exquisitely.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

But Jean, I will not sup with the criminal.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

I assure you, my dear, he is no criminal. And this matter of his illegal entry into my home while I was in Brussels we shall discuss properly over sherry and pilgrimage. Partridge. Marcel.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Yes, dear.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Better place for Monsieur Bertillon. The s. Please sit down. Sit down, monsieur. Oh, thank you.

[Narrator / Announcer]

May I?

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

May you what? Make an observation upon the elegance of your dinner table. The crystal, the porcelain, the silver chafing dishes. Make it then. Stunning. It is how we conduct ourselves at all times. The precise accessories for the precise occasions when one must eat. One must eat with elegance. Monsieur. Yes. What are you doing?

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Your plate, Monsieur. And your silver. He's sketching, Jean.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Sketching? Yes. Sketching what? You. Why you haven't interesting face. Oh, exceptionally. Another pose, Monsieur? Just a thief now. An artist. Oh, not really an artist. I have an exceptional eye for proportion, that's all.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Come look at it, Jean.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Not very flattering. Well, it's not my intention to flatter. But your intention is to prove you are a criminal. Delier was a young man. As you are young, madam. And you, M. Ca of me what? You are a possessor of a cellar. Why are you ashamed of your cellar? M? What did you lie about it? What did you say? You did not have get off. Of course, At first, no cellar, and all at once, Inspector, a cellar.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

True.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Now, why should a man lie about a cellar? Well, give me one reason why a man, any man, should lie about his cellar. Would you lie about your cellar if someone should say to you, inspector Damascus, is there a cellar in your home? Would you say no? Not unless. Ah. Not unless you had committed a murder in your cellar. True? True. Therefore, I ask that you issue a writ of arrest. Listen to me. I am sure he's a murderer. Listen to me. Very well, Mr. Kabasu. Is an important man. And why not? He has committed an important murder. And if I issue a writ of arrest and he is taken into custody and you cannot prove your accusations? Do you realize I can prove them. Oh, in this envelope here, a sketch of M. Cau, ma'.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Am.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

The proportions I have indicated here, in centimeters, length of jaw to full, length of face, eye socket to side of forehead, etc. Etc. Yes, yes. Now I present you with this other data. Please compare them. Yeah, he should have it. Inspector. Yes? What is the meaning of this?

[Narrator / Announcer]

Police.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Where is M. Cavassou? He is asleep.

[Narrator / Announcer]

Where?

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Asleep?

[Narrator / Announcer]

Quickly, quickly.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

We're asleep. His suite is the closest to the head of the stairs.

[Narrator / Announcer]

Wait, wait. Up.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Get up. You're under arrest. What is the meaning of this? Up. Out of bed. Out of bed, quickly.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Why?

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

What? You are under arrest. Here is the risk. Murder. Here, put on your trousers. It is an outrage. You will see. Murder is always an outrage. This is infamous. I will make you pay. Because you are a man of importance, a man of influence. Yes. Because you are Jean Cabechon. Yes. Purveyor of elegance to the welfare. And no longer Jean Pleinier. I said, and no longer Jean Pleinier. Monsieur. What a bash. Thief. Cutthroat. How did you know? Friend to a murdered man. Impossible to choose. Not impossible. You must have a memory for the time some years ago, when you were measured at a small police station for the proportion of the length of jaw to the length of face, of eye socket to the side of forehead, etc, etc. That you have changed the color of your hair, that you have now a mustache, that you have gained weight. Nothing. No disguise. For to disguise the length of an ear or bone stretcher. Impossible. Listen very well. I. I am Champlany. But now I am respectable and honorable man. Exactly why you had to commit murder to maintain this attitude. Then you know about Charles Tellier? Of course. He was arrested with you. Also a thief. Now come back to haunt you with your old sins. Blackmail, Monsieur? Yes. An apology first. I thought this a crime of passion, jealousy. That your wife, lovely woman, she had nothing to do with it. Lovely woman. Monsieur Cavasu, I arrest you in the name of the Republic of France for the murder of Charles Tillier. Alphonse Bertillon. A man who said, one who tries to hide his past is a liar and a fool. For somehow it races to catch up with him, and in devious ways overtakes him, destroys him always. Who set a path for modern day science of criminology? Who left behind Countless weapons of detection. Who was one of the greatest forces for law the world has ever known. Suspense Presented by autolight light star, Mr. Charles Boyer.

[Narrator / Announcer]

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[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Hello there.

[Narrator / Announcer]

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[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

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[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

Now, should you be selected, what charity would you choose?

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Well, since I have a son studying medicine, I think I designate Bellevue Medical Center.

[Alphonse Bertillon / Detective]

I think that's wonderful. May I wish you the best of luck.

[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

Thank you.

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[Mrs. Liam Barr / Other Characters]

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