The bracelet was removed during a temporary loss of will and consciousness, now known as schizophrenia, but formerly known as hypnotism!
11 seconds sound clip from the Remember the Night (1940) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:09:13 in the radio play.
Quote context
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- All juries get softhearted at Christmas, Tommy.
- A young woman walking out of a store with something not her own is necessarily an evil doer.
- Holy mackerel, that's a sweet one! Hypnotism.
- You mean you're not gonna object?
- Shut up. He's just postponed the case till after Christmas.
- Yeah? How do you figure that?
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