He's been technical director of several movies dealing with crime and has worked on some eight thousand cases, hundreds of them, murders.
10 seconds sound clip from the Bullets or Ballots (1939) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:38:04 in the radio play.
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- He matched the brawling and daring of gangsters with the relentless weapons of science.
- He's a policeman who fights not with machine guns, but with microscopes.
- He has a degree in law, is a master of sciences and a doctor of philosophy.
- As a 20th century Sherlock Holmes, tell us just how do you do it?
- Well, we have to deal in chemistry, ballistics, physics, toxicology, and handwriting.
- No one man can be outstanding in all fields.
- For the laboratory, combining experts in each field can come pretty close to solving any crime.
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