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We can also learn a dozen things from a a cigarette. Anybody who smokes a cigarette reveals secrets through the saliva that remain on the end. Even though many months have elapsed since it was smoked.

15 seconds sound clip from the Bullets or Ballots (1939) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:39:23 in the radio play.

Quote context

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- Hundreds of times evidence that might have otherwise convicted a perfectly innocent man, when examined in our laboratory, has freed him of every suspicion.

- I know that you are perhaps the nation's greatest expert in solving crime with the evidence of human hair. While you you might have some difficulties with me...

- What can you learn from those whose tresses are a bit more abundant?

- You'll do fine as long as you have a single hair left on your head.

- From that single hair we can usually learn a man's approximate age, his environment, the places he visited recently, his type of employment, his personal habits and frequently, his race.

- We can also learn a dozen things from a a cigarette. Anybody who smokes a cigarette reveals secrets through the saliva that remain on the end. Even though many months have elapsed since it was smoked.

- Saliva tells us to what blood group the man who smoked the cigarette belongs.

- There are 20 blood groups with which we deal and often we can eliminate 19 out of 20 suspects by a blood grouping test.

- I can see it's getting harder and harder to commit murder.

- Not to commit it, but to get away with it.

- But while we solve crimes, the public can do far more than we can do in preventing them.

- Don't be intimidated by the threats and boasts of racketeers.

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Bullets or Ballots (1939) Sound Clip

Bullets or Ballots (1939)Quotes with sound clips from Bullets or Ballots - Lux Radio Theatre play originally aired on April 17, 1939.

Actors: Edward G. Robinson (Detective Johnny Blake), Mary Astor (Lee Morgan), Humphrey Bogart (Bugs Brenner), Otto Kruger (Al Kruger)

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