1.   Authorities were talking to him by telephone shortly before noon on Friday when they heard a gunshot and the line went dead.

2.   Instead the field lines would be going every which way.

3.   There was a click, then the line went dead.

4.   The lines had gone down in the storm, and we were cut off for days.

5.   The telephone lines went dead.

6.   On another occasion I answered the phone and the line went dead.

7.   Whitlock replaced the receiver.

8.   And the line went dead.

9.   The line went dead and a moment later he heard the characteristic click as the interception machinery disengaged.