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The Line Up: The Be-Bop Bandits Bungling Bang-Bang (EP1082) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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  is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it
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  novel. This one is called Back to Murder, and you can read my
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  whole review at Great Detectors dot net on Saturday. And today's episodes brought to
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  seven dollars or more. Now it's time to get into today's episode of the
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  lineup. This one is called the Lucar Logan Laddie Case from July the eighth,
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  nineteen fifty two. Ladies and gentlemen, we take you now behind the
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  scenes of a police headquarters in a great American city. We're under the cold,
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  glaring lights. Will pass before us, the innocent, the vagrant,
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  the thief, the murderer. This is the lineup. Oh man, going
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  oh slow today. I wouldn't thick about that, see right, yeah,
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  thanks, they're going to your vacation no place. I'm gonna paint the house.
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  Some vacation house needs painting. Feeling pretty bad? Hey, lad brushes,
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  thanks glan neighbors. Don't love him to have your attention. Please,
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  people out there, and I watched cargo work. Thank you Corgar, Sergeant
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  Bet Cougar. I'll explain the lineup to you. Each of the suspects you
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  will see will be numbered. I'll call off a number the name of charge.
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  Yeah, many questions or identifications. Please remember the number of sign of
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  the prisoner as I call the name the questions. I asked these suspects of
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  Melity to get a natural tonal voice. Will not pay too much attention to
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  their answers, as they often lie. All right, bring on the line
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  all the way to the end of the stage, boys, keep it moving
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  all the way you you in front there, me may may yes, you
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  over here this end of the stage. Now get over here, all right,
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  I'll turn and face the front you again, may yes, the front,
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  face the screen. Stop talking in the line. You number one,
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  shut up? Okay, okay, all right? Number one Tony la Selly
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  hey is Tom Leslie twelve arrest, three convictions, probation six months in the
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  first sentence, three years on the second. Got theft and robbery, step
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  out for step out? Where you've been in lineups? Enough to do with
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  flying fold and I step out the social Where do you live? My own?
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  Man? That's the address, Tony, I don't know some pleasant upron.
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  That's the address, Toning. I ain't been in six or seven years.
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  How do you think I'm gonna remember all that? What's your age?
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  Tony twenty three? I'm tired of getting pushed along by you guys. I'm
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  asking your opinion. I just want back. Well, that's a fact.
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  Where do you live here? Yeah? In this second time? Two hours?
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  Not to pick me up too fast, even in a park bench if
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  you want it. In Saint Louis, Denver, Phoenix, Los Angeles,
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  Yeah, I get her on the chargers. Run from suspicion of armed robbery,
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  to assault with the deadly weapon a night. I'm not saying I brought
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  you to this town. Guy had a job for me. What kind of
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  job? Oh, let's you throw it a bill? Collect? Explain it?
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  This guy wins three cheese in the game and don't collect, so he
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  wants I should collect one? Who had you got him already? He's down
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  the linement, number six, running down in God. I hope you have
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  a pleasant to stay with us, Tony. Ah, we'll see if we
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  do better when you number two, Thomas Bencent open charge, step in the
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  circle? Where do you lift? Thomason US six thousand Parkway Terrace at a
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  house? It's an apartment hotel. I'm an apartment seed. What do you
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  do for a living? That's on the third floor apartment Slanks? Now,
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  what do you do for a living? You live in a pretty expensive neighborhood.
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  Boy, they're telling me what do you do for a living? As
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  me, that was I didn't like your answer? Well, well, what
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  what do you do for a living? I told you nothing? What do
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  you do for a living? Thomas? I keep books? What you mean
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  is you make the book? Yeah? Yeah, I'm a book. Where
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  we arrested Thomas in a book. What bark where? I don't know that
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  we're one of them, right, memory, grill south memory? Yeah,
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  have you weapons? Sure had it today? So a couple of other guys
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  who bank tellers dead. Three guys took a National Trust bank submachine guns bore
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  up the place. All right, all right, everybody keep moving Jackson,
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  keep it Clare, move it along, Hi, Ben Hollow, that's pretty
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  nasty. And then I expect you're pretty well organized out here. Yeah,
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  I'll have some more men here in a minute. They're roping off the side
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  entrance. Now, okay, wrope it off here too. Malli's setting it.
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  The area covered, it's tight. Okay, let's go in, right,
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  Malli set that rope all the way. You folks say, keep moving
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  right along, please, I'll move along. What kind of a card of
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  the years? I don't know. You have a checking witnesses? Move along?
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  Everybody keep moving, it has nothing to see. They come out here
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  side entrance, all right, I'm over them all Hello. Then Hi,
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  Doc Asher says it's rough, well brutal. I haven't seen men chopped up
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  like that since the service. How many two men? Tellers? Almost the
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  plato thirty slugs the bank guard got hit pretty hard too. You tried to
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  stop them over there? Yeah, shoulder and arm torn up. Tellers are
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  down here. They really had it. Now cover them up. Lat men
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  aren't through with their pictures. All right. I've given sedatives to the girl
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  over there hysterical. I can understand that the manager of the bank here,
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  No, that's him over there. Then, name's Thomas Franklin. All right,
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  I get the employees into his office. Keep the others over there,
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  right and ash here. Have the officials take a con on what money's left.
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  They're working on it now, h Doc, can I talk to the
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  guy? We'll try. Doctor Walters is working on it, Norma, you're
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  better to make it fast the right. Can you hear me? Miss?
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  In clear shots? You get a good look at them yet? Police here?
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  Now the police are here. Are you sure you miss? Because he's
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  hard then yeah, be sure? Try and Ambulus is in front. Okay,
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  let's get this man on the way. Keep that plasma going. I
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  think you'll make it done. They'll lose that arm anyway. The teller's over
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  there, Yeah, what's sledst of them? But doctor, I want your
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  lab reports as soon as possible. Slugs and Cottridge cases. Will try for
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  making the guns all right, I'll get on the slugs then they're really unloaded.
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  Uh a hundred rounds at least. Oh, that's a tough way again,
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  you know a good way. Where's mister Franklin's office? Door over there?
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  Climb, let's go, h mister Franklin. Yeah, I'm Lieutenant Cathry.
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  This sigeant clime. Yeah, and I'd ask some questions if you don't
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  mind. Yeah, of course, sit down. Thank you? Terrible,
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  think terrible. Tell me where were you when this happened? Right here?
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  I was standing at the door here and do to your office. Yes,
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  I was talking to miss Haynes, he's my secretary. Did you see them
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  come in? I saw them? There were three men. Boy, can't
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  you describe her? Well? No? I I thought they were orchestra men.
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  Do you mean they were all dressed there like suits, hats, ties,
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  all match? What about the features? Well? I don't know.
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  They all looked alike too, You mean that, yes, they're all the
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  same. Thought it was dreamy. Were you close enough to notice if they
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  wore a mask? Making a horrible nightmare? I what the lieutenant asked?
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  If they wore masks and make up. Well, I I don't know everything
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  happened so fast, I and then Lee and Joe when you've seen it tear
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  apart. I've never seen anything like that. I guess I fainted that yet.
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  Well, that's a natural reactions to Franklin. I needn't feel ashamed.
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  Well I do, though I can't help it. Folks. Lee's wife is
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  expecting a baby. I have to call and tell him. Get that cross
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  incline. Now. Look, the police are taking care of telling the family.
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  Mister Franklin, who's gone killing like that? The police are taking care
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  of that. You do right? Please call Ree's wife. Let's get him
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  on the divan. Yeah right, I'll get my works. Mister Franklin,
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  all right, nasty shark for a man his age. Doctors take care of
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  him. And Hayes, the secretary of me I helped with ten Guthriine.
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  Miss Hayes. I'd like to ask some questions, if you don't mind.
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  Did you see the men? Oh? Yes? How close were they and
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  I were talking there at the building? I was twenty feet communis can you
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  describe them in the close features, voices anything like that? Yes, tell
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  the truth. I was so scared. I couldn't think, well, how
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  are they dressed? Oh well, black bround suits, downfield hats. They
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  all mett the same style and material and everything. I didn't pay much attention
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  at first, that is, Oh well, why not? It is not
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  unusual to see three men all dressed a line. No, not around here.
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  We have some theatrical agencies in the building, and all kinds of art
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  directors come and go up. Because I just thought they were a combo.
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  A combo, yes, you know, a small musical group. Oh yes,
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  well what about that features? Well, I remember I started to turn
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  back to my desk when I realized they all looked alike and their faces were
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  all the same, and I saw mister Franklin staring so funny, and then
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  I hurt the guns Their faces were all alike, Yes, like mass uh
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  huh. Just a second thing, what kind of mass, miss hands?
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  Well, I'm not really sure that's what they work? Well, well,
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  the faces like Halloween mass. Well, yes, only they weren't so good.
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  Test, Well they sell that kind to miss hands. Excuse me more,
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  please, Yes, what do you have? Fine? I should find
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  out that man on the Broadway cable phone gunman. Yeah, God thought he'd
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  missed. He didn't get him pretty hard finally stopping. H buddy's knocked them
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  off to my head. Let's have a look. I just big cellophone company
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  work canvas stretched around a cable insect as the side entrance. Uh huh.
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  And what are the phone men saying? No phone in there? A bunch
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  of equipment laying around down this way. Ben yeh. He started to bleed
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  here. Uh huh. Then the bank and his work camas on that man
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  hale, Sure no plus was a getaway car. More blood here, mally
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  call in, get the phone people down here on the double. Let's go.
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  I don't slip on that ladder right there. Hand me that h yeah,
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  mm hmm. This puts us on The Broadway runs north and south.
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  Turn your flash on down this way a bigger tunnel. When they thought,
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  yeah, it carries off communications. Watch these pipes. Yeah, I told
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  you to watch the plank. I know it, I know it. How
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  far it would come about fifty yards? He's up here. I the lifespanner.
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  Oh yeah, I caught him in the side the passion share. Mister
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  can't tell much money. Looked like we'll got to make off the prints,
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  and they had to figure pretty good cigarette. Thanks, eh, Yeah,
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  I could use an asker. Get him the ground observer's core scan our skies
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  in short volunteer periods and fill up the holes in our radar defenses. Intercontinental
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  war is possible a fully man ground Observer Corps. The best answer for now
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  to enroll phone or write your local Civil Defense center or right Ground Observer Core
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  Air Force Washington, d C. That's your local Civil Defense center or Ground
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  Observer Core Air Force Washington, d C. I want pictures on this guy.
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  Didn get him one of you right then, beginning to figure in one
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  of these over something else. Yeah, there exists time many see ja Yeah,
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  tunnel takes for right anger and look out for these beams. I saw
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  my pants. Hey, what are you guys doing down there? A pad?
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  Right sort? Oh? You mean the lineup those guys had me going,
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  and they sure did. Phone equipment here too. Where are we ali
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  parallel the main and off? Second second? That's two blocks in the bank.
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  Yeah, peach, see the telephone people have gotten the bank yet?
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  If they have got him down here right, say cowine, throw your pinch.
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  I know what. I got a headache too, you know here Davis
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  Man Yeah. This was the Davis division formula of phone companies telling Almster Davids,
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  I got your call at tennant, came right over and thank you.
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  Were you at the bank stop there first? Certain tragedy? Yeah, they
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  tell me. Is that equipment down there yours? Oh? Sure? Long
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  as a truck thirty seven? It's a sign of Jimmy Willard's crue. How
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  long has will It been with the company? Twelve years? Good man,
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  I hardly think he's mixed up in this well. Somebody with cable experiences in
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  on it has to be. Yes, you're right. I ordered all drivers
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  to report in good Excuse me, mister Davis. Lineman over there is holding
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  a call from your office. Oh thank you. Excuse me? Sure a
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  cargo when you follow through on that guy, tell him to rush the identification
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  show man. I put out an APB on this truck. Here's a con
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  right, Yeah, I guess that's all you could do here, man,
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  Yeah, ah, yes, mister Davis, it's the office. They found
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  the truck driver, Jimmy Willard. He's in the hospital and slut I get
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  out with that clin Now, what time is it, Colin? Five after
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  two? Oh wonder, I'm hungry right through lunch. We'll Pete bring some
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  sandwiches. Good. What'd you get at the hospital? Well, well,
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  it's still foggy. It took a pretty bad beat. Him thinks it's a
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  guy named Futzy. Marris Mars telephone man was get fired, bubble maker crockets
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  checking the file. Good, we found that phone company truck. But yeah,
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  it's at the bottom of Lost Lake. Lost like it in the state
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  park. Two kids phone in about twenty minutes ago. So the guide drove
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  it up to the cliff, got out and let it roll into the lake.
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  You know it's a break. But who's on ash here? He's got
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  a crook And kids were pretty exciting. Oh that It was kind of funny.
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  Kids figured I'm getting a tanning, were playing hook. Yeah, take
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  them two hours to get up the nerve to call in two hours. The
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  hoods must have piven straight out to the lake. And then the guy drove
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  away in a black Chevy coop license and they didn't get there. We are
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  the kids now, ashes bying them chocolate sodas and what did you find that?
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  Uh, here's the Mike mc gubman's got a record a mile long.
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  Name's Miller, Frank Miller, armed robbery got out four weeks ago. Hey,
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  got onions on him. It smells good. Yeah, he's yours ketchup
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  and milk Catherine. Then this is Asher, all right, they got the
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  truck on. Yeah, there's a dead man and two slugs in the head
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  and he leads. Yeah. Guy's bill fall as a rent received in it
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  made out to Paul Mars. Dated two weeks ago. Apartment two be on
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  West Palmer Drive. He addresses one three two seven, one seven West Palmer
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  Drive, Pomb. You sat a steak on they're on their way. Good,
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  we'll meet you then got a match. Yeah, thanks h I shouldn't
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  have eaten that onion. H I thought you like onions. I do.
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  They don't like me. Oh there's Asher now lost close tight man, got
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  steak out set here three on each side, six in the back. We're
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  covering the front. We've seen anyone in the apartment. The shoving in the
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  garage registered to Mars. Okay, we'll check the manager first. Uh,
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  there it is. Let's see. This is Charles cotton Y. H Yes,
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  missus Cotter, Yes, we're police officers. Missus Carta would like to
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  ask you some questions if you don't mind, police, Why, my goodness,
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  what's wrong? We're looking for someone, Miss Carta. Has anyone moved
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  into the building recently? Only those two men and two b They moved in
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  about two weeks ago. Can you describe them? Yes? One's tall and
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  dark, very handsome. Why what's he done? You have those mugs?
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  Chats been? Yeah? Yeah, is this the man? Yes, that's
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  mister Morrison. Is he a crook among the other things? Yes, Pico
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  get Ash and missus Cotter. You stay in your apartment. There may be
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  trouble and keep your dog locked. Yeah, all right, let's go second
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  floor. You think the place would have an elevator. Yeah, you've got
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  a bold to night we draw it by all right, this way, I
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  walk easy, easy, cover me, open up my eyes, police officers
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  rus the building surrounded. I'll give me a chance. Come out with your
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  hands up. Hit the lock asher, stand back. Okay, yeah,
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  you got place through all over me? Boy, you really had an armory.
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  Here. Here there's the money he must have been counting. Yeah.
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  Then, uh, have you been eating onions? Yeah? Once? Some
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  down? Thanks the lineup? Where before you passed the innocent? The big
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  room, the thief the murderer. Listen again next week when we again bring
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  you the lineup. Hey, I have your attention. Please you people out
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  there on the other side of the wire in the audience room, may I
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  have your attention? Please? Thank you. My name is Cocker, Sergeant
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  Pete Cocker. I'll explain the lineup to you. Each of the suspects you
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  will see will be number the name in John have any questions. The lineup,
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  starring Bill Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie with Jack Moyles as Sergeant Pete Carter,
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  was written by William J. Ratcliffe, with music by Eddie Dunsteedder.
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  Featured in tonight's cast were high Everbach, Peter Leeds, Tony Barrett, Howard
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  mcneer, Sidney Miller, John McIntyre, and Jeanette Nolan. The lineup was
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  most, is proud to carry on its leading role in bringing America news,
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  public service programs, and diversion day and night. Dan Coverly speaking, and
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  remember a Marria who listens most to the CBS Radio networks Welcome back. Well,
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  there were a couple of things that really stood out about this episode.
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  I loved the way they did the crime scene and kind of the panic.
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  In some cases on these shows people are all too calm. Here they show
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  there are a variety of actions, and in this particular case, you just
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  very alarmed to find themselves experiencing this, and I think quite believably. There
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  was also it seemed to be more chit chat than usual among the officers about
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  matters other than the case. Of course, Dragnet's most famous for this with
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  the Friday Frank Smith partnership. But as we've talked about on the show,
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  the back and forth between Ben Guthrie and Matt Grebb actually predated that duo,
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  and here it was at maximum level. It didn't get too much, I
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  think, and it was probably just on the edge of being too much,
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  but it was really just enough to establish that these people work together like each
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  other and our friends and have a lot going on other than just their work.
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  So it definitely adds some depth to characterization. All right, Well,
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  that'll actually finish it up for the week. Thanks again so much for listening.
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  We will be back on Monday with yours truly Johnny Doller, and then
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  join us back here on Saturday for another episode of the lineup. In the
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  meantime, your tweets are welcome to at Radio Detectives. Be sure and rate
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  Adam Grahamson and off