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Line Up: The Gasoline Bandit (EP1178) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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out for two weeks free through the Kindle Store. Well, now it's time
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for today's episode of the lineup. As they mentioned, there was an off
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week, so this episode's from December twelfth of nineteen fifty two, and the
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title is The Gasoline Bandit. Ladies and gentlemen, We take you now by
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a transcription, behind the scenes of a police headquarters in a great American city.
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We're under the cold, glaring lights will pass before us. The innocent
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the vigorant, the thief, the murderer. This is the lineup. Hi
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man, Hi, Charlie Rice getting here? Yeah, over there with Dave
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Jeffson. Couldn't make it. Mantom Skagway station called and said he'd be a
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valley division from the Yeah, ten minutes ago. Parked on a side street
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in grand By, stolen this morning from a man named Carlisle. Who's on
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a hot sheet. And what's that that's a neck tack. Oh, my
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brother's kid gave it to him for flat this day. Asked me to wear
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it once. Yeah, once will be enough. I see it. Hi,
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Hi Dan, hear that game today? Yeah, I'll never listen to
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another one, know what you mean? Hope we got to make on this
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bird who's been sticking up those filling stations three jobs and three nights? Me
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too, Ye. I have your attention, please you people out there on
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the other side of the wire in the audience row me, I have your
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attention, please, thank you. My name is Concker, Sergeant beat Cogger.
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I'll explain the lineup people. Each of the suspects you will see will
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be numbered. I'll call up and number their name in charge. If you
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have any questions or identifications. Please remember the number of sign of the prisoners.
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I call these names. The end of each line. Will ask for
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questions or identifications. Caught off the number if you're sure, I'm too sure
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of the suspect, han L. The officers who took your name and assist
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you their seated the monkey. Please be prompt with your questions or identifications.
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When the prisoners leave here, they're sent to the washroom and dress back into
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the jail clothes. It makes it quite difficult to bring them back after they
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leave here. The questions I asked these suspects and merely to get a natural
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tone of voice, So do not take too much attention to their answers,
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as they often lie. All right, bring on the line. No talking.
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No talking up there. I keep it moving over here at the end
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of the state. Then outstand facing the screen, take your hands out of
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your pockets. Look straight ahead of you. I want to call your name.
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Step out to the white line in the center of the state. Number
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one, Earl Pheeley Burginary, Come on, earl, step out. Don't
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look at me. Look out through the screen. I can't see nothing straight
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ahead. Where do you live? Bro thirty three fifteen and a half mission
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play speak right up thirty three fifteen and a half mission place, Yeah that's
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right, don't look at me face the screen. What do you do for
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a living, Earl? I own mechanic work in town? No'sis row?
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How long you live here? Almost? Deep? Man? Haven't you been
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working here? Couldn't find a job? How do you live, Earl?
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How do you get along? I'd eat for the past eight months if you
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didn't have a job. Oh card a little Monona bird? Hm? You
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own a car? Yeah? I got a car, well coop Sedan?
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What forty six? You see down at? What color? Black? Any
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weapons? Can't you hear me? Any weapons? Earl? A knife or
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gun? Oh? No? Number two? Irving Waxman, Teddy Pipp Now
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over to the left, there are yeah, Karen. What's your address?
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Eighteen ninety seven Grand Street A potman? Three? Oh wait, you have
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a job? Yeah? I drive a route for the Columbine Laundry. How
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long you've been doing that pot? Three weeks? What do you do before
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that? You mean work? I mean work? They still can open it?
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Where Halsta house? Yeah? No, you have a car? No?
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Any weapons? No? Anyone arrested with your irving. Yeah, my
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wife, Virginia Waxman. Yeah. Anyone else? Guy who lives with us,
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Paul Darrow. I seen him in the next room before I come out
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here. Anyone else, Frank? You see the poker? See the paca?
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Yeah, he's in the next room too. How we know it?
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I slide on down number three Stanley? Worms are assault after the white line?
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Stanley? Where do you live the corner of the Broadway in Florida?
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The number Stanley three to fifty one? What is that? Well, that's
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where I live? What is in apartment house? Hotel? What? Well?
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It's a restaurant? You live in a restaurant, Stanley? Well,
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I own it. I live upstairs that where you were picked up? No?
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What I was picked up downstairs? Any weapons? Oh no? What
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about the chair? Well? What about it? You were using it as
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a weapon, weren't you? No? Didn't you threaten a man named Ernest
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Grover with a chair? No? According to the officer's report, that's what
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happened. Well, they reported wrong. Usually don't make mistakes in these reports.
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Stanley, did you threaten Ernest Grover with a chair? No? No,
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no, no, I broke it over his head. Oh, pardon
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me. You know him? Who? Ernest Grover? Oh no, no,
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he was just some yo yo who drifted in my place and he was
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looking for trouble. Why didn't you call the police instead of getting in trouble
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yourself. I can handle trouble. We got a lot to handle. Al
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Stanley, Oh I'll be okay. Oh don't you worry about that. Oh
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we'll try not to. Next number, Oh, Abraham Mason, vacancy where
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you live? Then? Yeah? You get a minute? Sure, Well,
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I have finished with that car, came up with two good prints.
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Megan working on that. Now rise didn't do any good. Huh. I
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looked at thirty eight suspects. None of the others even got excited. Stats
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Ovis gave us a breakdown on the description. I've got him looking over the
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mugs. Now ashes with him. You want to go on down and give
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him a hand. Yeah, maybe we'll get some of my most prince I
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hope. So I'm been a cold one so far? Yeah, well see
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it all right. Seven eleven o'clock Way Markets to the manager j Q A
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R nine cacine when he up, how's the neck pain still stiff? Three
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days now? It spend this way. Did you see mc masters No,
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not yet. It isn't any better by tomorrow morning. Uncle see him.
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You should have seen him when at first start. And that's what the wife
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says. Oh, I looked this over. There's the crime reports on those
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filling station job. Yeah, the mo was identical in all three. Rice
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says the band had drove in and asked a tank full of gas. While
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Ryse was filling the tank, he got out, went inside the station to
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use the phone. Ry's got a good look at him, man, he
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got another good look at him under the light inside the station. Size,
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coloring bill, general description matches up in all of these reports. Man,
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this bird doesn't care if we know what he looks like. Sounds like a
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new boy to me, just starting out, yea. And from what all
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three victims who said about his attitude, uncertainty, nervousness, he hasn't that
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much experience. Yeah, John Guthrie, your boys getting ambitious. Man,
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what now? Just held up another gas station? Two five three, pearl
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two five three, Thanks Dave, Let's go pig. One hundred and forty
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two bucks. As near as I can figure, he didn't bother with a
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change. One hundred and forty and a. Let's check this back, and
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you say it was a green mash late model license number three seven J six
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seven seven eight. Yeah, that's it. I wrote it down when he
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drove away, and he's about six feet, dark brown hair, sports shirt,
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gray slacks, medium bill. Yeah. Do you remember anything outstanding about
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him, mister, No, he was a nice looking guy. Didn't look
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like no stick up artist. I thought it was a nice fellow. About
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twenty five would you say, Well, I'm not very good on ages,
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but around there I guess out. He got out of the car and said
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he wanted to use the phone. Right, Yeah, that's it, sergeant.
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I filled the tank. He walked inside the station here. He was
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still on the phone when I finished. I came inside and he hung up
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and turned around and he had a gun in his hand. Well, i've
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seen her right away. What kind of a gun? Little thing twenty five
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or thirty two, something like that. He didn't say anything at first,
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he just sort of stood there, shaking a little. Then I began to
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shake. Wow, I scared that thing was going to go off. Well,
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he walked over to me, said it right in here, man,
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He said, I want all the money you've got. He may have been
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nervous, but he meant it. I didn't argue with him either. Oh
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I got a customer, all right? Go right? Aha? Hey,
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yeah, hey, you got any change? Oh? Yeah, I think
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so? Yeah, yeah, nice. I'm gonna call him. Hey,
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one of these things for bugs stick him on the radiator on him and keeps
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bugs off the windshield. Nineteenth. Hey, Sergeant Quine, please investigation crying
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anything on that masht Quine? Yeah, I gotta make it a few minutes
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ago. Been a Jack Myers reported stolen at four o'clock this Afterno, okay,
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thanks? Oh anything else? No? Pretty quiet right now. I
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hope it stays that way. See you right there. Anything you gotta make
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on the car? Stole them? You think you'll ever get this guy?
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Lieutenant? We're going to try say. Look, do you happen to hear
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anything he was saying on the phone when you walked in? Ohee? I
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can't think of anything. Maybe he said goodbye to someone, you know,
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I really don't think he was talking to anybody on that phone. I think
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he just pretended he was using it so he could get me in here by
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the register. I got to get this guy's changed. Okay, I think
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I'll get me one of these things. It seems a good idea. Well,
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if you're driving on a long crypt as well. Hey, a thirty
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two is a woman's gun. Anybody's gun, Ben, Yeah, and all.
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I was held up once before in nineteen forty six. Police never caught
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the guy. I don't think they even cared. Wake camis to ton might
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ask you to come down and look at some suspects tomorrow. Tomorrow. Gee,
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that's my day off. Oh we like to get this guy. Sure,
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appreciate your help. Wow, okay, I'll talk to the wife.
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But I didn't see how you're gonna get him. He could be in China
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now there's Oh hey, that's a police car, isn't it. Yeah,
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Hi, Ben, Hi missus. Thelma Lacey works at the Pearl Street pharmacy
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over there. How are you doing with Thelma? Tell him what you told
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me. I saw that man drive in here tonight, the man who held
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him up. I'm going he was in the drug store before that, sat
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down at the fountain for maybe an hour. I didn't think anything about it
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until a little while ago when this officer came in. How do you know
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it was the same man. Telma, Well, he had this green car
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parked out in front, spiffy looking car. He just wheeled it around and
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came right in the station. I saw him from inside the store case.
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It's from the drug store man, sounds like it. Did you talk to
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this man? Telma? Oh, yeah, we talked. You've known him
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before? Oh? No, Tonight's the first time I ever saw him.
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He said his name was Roy. Do you tell you his last name?
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No, but I think I can find out for you. Oh how Oh?
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I told him I was married. But when he left, he kind
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desperation and madness titled Black and Gold. Which one is this number?
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Thirteen? Cherry Hills Station M sixty four downs yep I EH thirteen and forty
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eight dollars. Not bad for two weeks work. He's a one man epidemic.
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Ben He's making monkeys out of his feet. Thirteen jobs in two weeks,
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and we can't even get a line on him. We know exactly what
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he looks like and how he operates. We have his description on every bulletin
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and a half a dozen good prints from those cars he's stolen. Still we
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can't stop. Well, he hasn't pulled a job for two nights now.
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Maybe he's left home. I doubt it. He's been doing too well around
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here to quit now. Hey, idea wants to know if you know anything
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about these Uh huh, how about this one? Let me see. Yeah,
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Small and Crockett handled it. Okay, if they go over to work
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on well, yeah, you can put them on the night Watch. Okay,
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Hey, wait a minute, Cline, Huh. While you're at it,
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we might as well get the rest of this stuff for sign. All
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of these filling station jobs have been pulled in suburban residential areas Cherry Hills,
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Park Hill, Pershing Heights, Capitol Hill, Ravada, Lynndale, and monarch.
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Oh right in here. He doesn't move from this kind of area.
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And we'll bank on that, and we'll bank on the fact that you'll keep
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right on picking off these stations and starting the night. I want an extra
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car in every one of these districts. Two minute the car. Okay,
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we'll be up to the offices assigned to locate every filling station in the particular
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area, and they keep special watch on those stations, including the ones that
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have already been held up. You might come around twice. Oh what hours,
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man? Uh pete, what's the time incident? None of the whole
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ups have been pulled before dark, none later than midnight. Mus start them
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at seven. Keep mondeled one line. Every man should have a sheet from
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the stats office on this case. General description will be enough, at least
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most of them agree on. Then, all right, is that it?
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Yeah, and he's got thirteen stations in those areas, about eighty two more
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ago. Don't remind me. Just split everybody's shift. But we'll try it
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this way until something happens. Yeah, he's found to make a mistake soon.
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He's already made it right when he held up that first station thirty three
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fourth fifteen and four four or five five east cold. You're a nice night.
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Yeah, I want to turn down chessman. M hmm. I saw
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McMasters today. No, do you find out what's wrong? Funny thing?
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And then then I get in his office and lay down on the table and
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stop my next I thought I was crazy. Maybe you are. Oh I
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watch you. I saw him. If you see you, well I might
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be a five h two Yeah, OK, I'll call him. Yeah,
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wait a minute. Eleven slugging Federal Boulevard and thirty second coming station. That's
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down one more block. Let's moveee. You're a seventeen K. Seventeen K,
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you're eleven slugging droll Boulevard at thirty second going stations, ambulance on the
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way there. It is. Yeah, people gone home gone, let's make
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it up. Alright, Ben Pete, alright. Hi. Victim's name is
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Eddie Fremont in here, I say skull fraights R. I think he's got
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a real wall up there, cash register like this. Yeah, quite a
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nice. I'm working here alone about an hour ago, check back about ten
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twenty. Didn't see him around then we found them, any witnesses not so
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far. I put out a call. He's coming to Okay, Kim,
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easy easy, hurts need a hand? No, that's okay. Can you
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hear me? Son? Yeah, I'm a police officer. Ambulance will be
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here in a minute. Can you tell us what happened? He did?
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Take it easy enough, Robin? How did it happen? So he drove
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in, said he wanted some gas filled his tank? Well while he came
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in here to follow? What kind of car it? Chrysler convertible fifty?
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You got the license? No? It was a cream colored job right in.
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Did you got a good look at him? Oh? Sure? I
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was watching him all the time. I was filling the tank. When I
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finished, I walked in here. He turned around. He had a gun
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in his hand. I didn't think he meant it. I thought he was
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kidding me. I laughed at him. You've read about these filling station hold
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ups, haven't you? Yeah, but not him. Imagine him coming in
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to hold me. Maybe he didn't recognize me. Do you know him?
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Yeah? We graduated high school to get him in thirty eight. Name's Roy
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Dayton. Yes, what is it? How do you do? Well?
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We'd like to see Roy Dayton. Please, I'm Roy's mother. What is
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it you want? Is he home? Missus Dayton, I'm missus Courtney.
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Roy is not home. If you'll give me the message, I'll see that
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he gets it. This is Sergeant Cargo, Missus Courtney. I'm Lieutenant Guthrie
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with police officers. How do you do? How do you do? Did
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you say police are? Lieutenant? Yes, ma'am? Is it something important?
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We like to know where we can get in touch with him? Well,
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he's out of town. Man, I'm late for an appointment. Well
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this is important, Missus Courtney like to talk to you, dear. Will
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it take long? I don't wish to appear impolite, but I am late.
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Come inside, Please in here, sit down? Please? What is
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so urgent? Why do you want to see Roy? A routine investigation?
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Missus Courtney. You say he's out of town. Yes, he's in Chicago.
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Is Roy in trouble? Where's he staying in Chicago? I don't know.
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He'll probably be back in a few days. I'll have him get in
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touch with you when he gets home. What is it a traffic byo Lan?
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When did he go to Chicago? He left two weeks ago. Lieutenant.
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You have an annoying habit of disregarding my question, why do you want
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him? We have reason to believe your son is connected with a series of
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hold ups. We're investigating possibly absurd, Lieutenant, absolutely the most absurd thing
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I ever heard, And we're just trying to get all the facts. Missus
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Courtney. We have to follow every lead. It's our job. You understand
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that, of course, But doesn't this home and the obvious environment he's had
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influence you at all? And as I say, we have to follow every
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leave. Is Roy in Chicago on a visit or is it business? Just
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a visit? But you don't know where he's staying. No? Did he
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go by train or plane? I had no idea. He left one night
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while I was out. I came home all of his things were gone.
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Did he have a car? No? Roy always used my car. What
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kind of work does he do? You're making me terribly late. Sorry.
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Roy works for me, managing the estate in the ranch. Have you heard
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from him? Not a word? It seems strange he'd go away and not
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an impertinent thought. Missus Courtney understand. We have to find him, and
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we will find him. Our job is to get as much information about his
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habits and where he might be as we can you act as though he were
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a fugitive. What is this all about? We can tell better after we
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talk to him. Well, I'm certain I can't help you, then here
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is my can. If he gets in touch with you, would you mind
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giving me a ring? Please? Not at all? What connection do you
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think Roy has with these hold ups. We think he's a man who's been
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pulling them, holding people up with a gun. Yes, well, thank
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you for your time. Yeah, thank you, Good day, lieutenant.
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Yes, Roy is not in Chicago. He's here in the city where he's
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living. I don't know. I've seen him on the street twice. He
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didn't even speak to me his own mother. I don't know how he's living.
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He's always depended on the estate me for everything. That's why I've been
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worried this time. When we've argued before and he's left, he's always had
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money with him when it runs out, he comes back. This time,
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he took no money with him. He hasn't touched the account. Can you
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think of any friends he might be staying with. I called all of them,
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unless they're lying, He's not with any of Them's wife, you know
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about her. He found out he was married to a girl named Kareen Hellman
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in nineteen forty five the marriage was annulled. You know where we can locate
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her, Missus Courtney. I understand she lives in New York City. Now
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Roy never should have married her in the first place. Why do you say
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that his place is here? I can't delay any longer. It's past eleven.
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You'll have to excuse me certainly and thank you for your help. Not
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at all. I'm certain this is all a mistake. I can't think of
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any reason Roy would go out and hold up a person. I can think
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of one. He hasn't touched your account here it is. How do you
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come on? All the pictures twelve years old? Three of them were positive.
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Dayton's a guy wants some of this? What is iced tea? No?
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Thanks, no thanks, gwan. We don't have to print that picture
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of where you don't get a line on him pretty soon? Who's watching that
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hut? Small and Islands or crocodile going on a four with Murphy? Okay?
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Are you better keep one man free to watch Missus Courtney. Lieutenant Guthrie,
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I don't think you'll remember me, Lieutenant. This is still malasy at
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the Pearl Street pharmacy for sure. I remember you, miss Lacy. What
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can I do for him? That Roy follow that we were talking about,
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Lieutenant. He's in here now having double molded milky. Pull in a here
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pete away from the entrance, right. I'll be careful, Benn. He's
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a newcomer. Nobody's giving him any trouble yet. You can't tell what he
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might do if he has that gun on him. Mis stay close to the
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door, Oh miss miss, Oh, yes, sir, I'll be right
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there. You'll okay, I'm yes, sir. Let's see I'm right there.
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Package your chest appeals please, yes, sir? Have you been asking
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you to go out with him? Yes? Tell him to come back and
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pick you up after work tonight you go to erect him. I'm not in
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here. I don't worry. You'll probably leave when you're telling him that you'll
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go out with him. I see, here are your cigarettes night matches?
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Oh okay, thanks, and don't be scared. I'm a writer him,
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Ben, Yeah, a lot of kids in there. I don't want to
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take any chances. I'll walk on down to that dry cleaning store. He's
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a great plannel suit, dark straw hat, sunglasses might be out in the
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second. I got it, venus checkman. Be careful. Yeah, ay
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right, Uh, police officers want to talk to you, the police before.
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I haven't done anything. Heck, well, what is this? We'll
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talk about it downtown. Let's go. You're arresting me. What do you
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think the lineup? Or before you passed the innocent, the vagrant, the
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thief, the murderer. Listen again next week when we again bring you the
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lineup. May I have your attention, please, you people up here on
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the other side of the wire in the audience room, may I have your
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attention? Please? Thank you. My name is Cougar. Sergeant Pete Cougar
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all explain the latter. The lineup, starring Bill Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie
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with Jack Moyles a Sergeant Pete Carger, was written by E Jack Newman with
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music by Eddie Dunsteader. Featured in tonight's cast were High ever Back, Peter
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Leeds, Parley Bear, Gil Stratton, Junior, Howard McNair, Virginia greg
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and Leigh Patrick. The lineup was transcribed in Hollywood by Him d'vaier. Tomorrow
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Night, Von Monroe's guest songbird will be Francis Irvin von Francis, the Moon
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Maids and the moon Men will be heard vocalizing on such familiar themes as my
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favorite song, keep It a Secret, Boomerang, Close Your Dreamy Eyes,
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and other top favorites This week in America, Vaughan's College Salute will embrace vocally,
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of course, Georgia, Tech, and Mississippi. Don't miss CBS Radio's
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Von Monroe Show tomorrow night on most of these same stations, Dan cubberly speaking,
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and remember American now listens to one hundred and five million radio sets and
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listens most to the CBS Radio Network. Welcome back. At this point in
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the Lineup's history, it really does feel like a lot of these shows are
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very much just similar. They're not at this point. They're all very proficiently
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run all the way through, but there's not a whole lot new or all
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that different from week to week. Speaking of that, we did get a
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couple of comments on the lineup. George emails in and says, my question
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concerns the recent episode of the Lineup about the car hop murder. Was the
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com exchange about cigarettes and advertising a not so subtle dig at Dragnet and its
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Fatima sponsors. That's an interesting question, particularly in light of Chesterfield's being mentioned
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in today's episode. My honest answer is I certainly hope not, because that
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would actually be kind of pathetic because with the lineup, you have a program
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that has had trouble holding a consistent sponsor and at that time did not have
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a sponsor, So making fun of the sponsor of the top police procedural iffy,
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I doubt that that was what that was about. Really, cigarette advertising
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was all pretty much the same for the most part. We don't I rarely
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intentionally leave them in, but they're all similar. They tell you that the
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cigarettes taste great, they're they're made from the choicest tobaccos. They'll talk perhaps
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about a t zone, how they're lying on the throats, and that's basically
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the whole promise of cigarette advertisements. And one reason why I tend not to
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play them is they're kind of boring and repetitive, and that joke really a
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couple of weeks ago, they were just playing on the nature of cigarette advertisements
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on the radio. Probably the only exception to that, and the most honest
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add keeping in mind that this was at a point when we didn't have the
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facts. At least the public didn't have the facts about the cancer causing properties
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a cigarettes. Smoking was Kimmel. They not Kimmel, but Raleigh Cigarettes.
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They did a series of radio ads where they said, you know what,
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tobaccos, the way the cigarettes are made, they're pretty much all the same.
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Because what Raleigh was us promoting with its cigarettes in late forties early fifties
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was that it had a coupon on the back that you could redeem for merchandise.
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And so their point was they all taste the same. Ours, come
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with a coupon on the back, and you can redeem for some free stuff.
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Their catalog program actually sounded pretty good, but I'd digress. Thanks so
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much for the question, and we have a couple comments on Facebook from LKA
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Williams regarding the Modern Sounds Case. I listen to the lineup the Modern Sounds
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Case. I enjoyed it. In your comments after the show, I realized
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that people have been unfaithful from the time that people started making promises to each
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other. However, the idea of glorifying that behavior, finding shameless pleasure in
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that behavior, setting it as a standard for the way we live our lives
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not good I'm not a prude, at least not in my mind, nor
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do I preach morality to others. I do believe in promises, mutual respect
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and love is a reason for partnerships marriage. If you like, lost is
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not love. I don't care what songs, movies, TV or celebrities say.
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And she posted another message says, however, I like old time radio
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because it's less explicit. This allows me to imagine as much or as little
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as I wish. Much of the media pushes the explicit so much we acquisite
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acquiesced to it so much that we don't set our own standards. We just
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go along with whatever everyone else is doing. Well, Thanks so much for
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the comment, and I will agree that that is one of the great charms
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of old time radio is just that it really is up to your imagination and
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they don't quite push the envelope as much. And I know that's part of
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the reason why we do have more families. We have some families that listen
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in, and I know that the less explicit content is a reason why a
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lot of them do so. So I appreciate your comments. Thanks so much.
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We will be back with you on Monday for yours truly Johnny Dollar,
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and then join us back here on Saturday for another episode of the Lineup.
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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.