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The Line Up: Lieutenant Guthrie Kidnapped (EP0932) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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All right, well, let's go ahead and get into today's episode of
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the Lineup. This one's from June nineteenth, nineteen fifty one, and the
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title is Lieutenant Guthrie Kidnapped ladies and gentlemen were taken now behind the scenes of
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a police headquarters in a great American city. Well under the cold, glaring
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lights, will plass before us the innocent, the vagrant, the thief,
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the murderer. This is the line up hill helicuoim. The man's in the
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front row in the middle of their thanks a big line. They about twenty
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two and we're seeing yeah Ermas Martin. Oh hello attendant. Oh you guess
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fine being here on that not long? Or do you think you've got any
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the man? No way, be insure until you point them out. We
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picked up three or four on suspicion past records and close to your description,
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may I add your attention breathe you'll people out there on the understand of the
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one and the audience, and may I hand your attention free? Right you
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my name is Reb Scharge and Matt Grab I'll explain my manner to you.
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Each of the suspects you will say will be number. I'll call up a
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number the name and charge at the end of each line. When I ask
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for questions or identifications, call up the number. Please bring top with your
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questions or identifications. When the prisoners leave here, they are sense of the
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washroom and dressed back into their jail clothes. It makes it quite difficult to
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bring them back after they leave it. The questions I asked the suspects and
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anything in a natural don't a voice, so do not pay too much attention
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to their answers, as they often lie. Bring off the all right,
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boy, hub a movie right over the head of the end of the stage.
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I'll turn his face front and see your side. When I caught after
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your name a number, step back face the room took up so everybody can
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hear you. All right, Number one. Louis Foster robbery Wendy Little Louis
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hid nights and a half, not with a brother. Watch your business at
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Kenny. You drive a cab Hi yusta. How long ago did you Yusa?
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Hi used the year ago? I got ten I can't check a test
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a mom. Now? Was he coming black? Barmy? Join a car?
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Nair? Any weapons on you when you were arrested? N sair?
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Anybody with you? Yeah? Guy name of Bernie or something? Bernie what
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funny? Uh? I'm even sure that don't know his last name. He's
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standing right back there, Bernie King number four? How long it on him?
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I met him a three four days nap far He got drinking and definitely
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cut up the job. Okay, step back number two in small So where
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do you lived there? Three thirty three? Sound one hundred and tenth straight?
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What's your business? By sender? But anyway, the domino over it?
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On Jefferson forty six one, he beat up a customer pretty bad,
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yeah, and got out of line. I asked him to shut up and
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on shut up. I check it for about an hour and then I don't
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think him no more. Ask him to leave you like always guys gets hanged
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up first, I ask him to leave. I'm pretty big. Usually they
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don't give me a lift. This guy, he's pretty big too. He
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didn't want to leave. Nah. He gets very in summers, starts calling
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me names. He ain't got him around to and tell him. I tried
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to hustle him gentle, but I mean it's see, you know, on
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hustle. Instead, he clappes me one with his animal right, Andy Kissery
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clamps me. So what else? I go to work? I ruf him.
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I'm good, I'm mad, Nancy, I rarely ruff him. You
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hit him at the table poll he had a win stool. I had to
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hit him with something and he brings me for keeps. Okay, bare a
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skid. They don't get enough. Get the concussion number three? Old them
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at the robbery any of them up there? I watch your business working likely.
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I used to be a stable jack years that come into the twit No
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man that coffee hot? Yeah, Martin didn't make an identification Huh he's downloading
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on the mug file again. Yeah? Thanks. Well you sure think with
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four men define you ought to be able to spot one of them. I
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don't know. Maybe they haven't got any records. They were pretty professional about
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it. We didn't even get a prince. You know, I'm gonna look
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at the m four guys going to a theaters. They can have one lookout.
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The other three guys go up to the manager's office. We've had theater.
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Hold up, sure, but not four guys working like this, young
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guys. Martin says. The three yo came into his office couldn't have been
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over twenty two or three. And nobody in our files even comes close to
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the descriptions. Out of time. Maybe maybe the first John I could like
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cowboys and Indians. Martin says he thought they were kidning until he saw the
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guns. Well, what have you done? Steak out the theater? Is
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it guessing? Yeah? Yeah, the Lincoln. Okay, let's go,
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and those four guys just tell up the Lincoln theater. Fitch was on steakhouts,
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tried to stop and try done one, but got shut up doing it.
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Was on the way to the hospital. How bad, pretty bad?
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Oh, man, man, I asked you, how's Sitch a poort?
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Yet he's in the operating room. There was a doctor of Courson Fitch card
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one in the chest, one in the right leg. Family been there there
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in this room? What about the other one? No? Right? Not
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a vacation on him. Before he passed out, he said his name was
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Martin. Ally it really blew him up. Slug went in the right hand,
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up the arm, right through his body. Funny up the arm like
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gone right through. Oh, here's doctor Lendig and he operated on Martinelly.
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Gentlemen, I suppose you're the police, and that's why I doct down Lieutenant
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Guthrie this issue and Gray, how's Martinelly? I can't say. Joe Chett,
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he hasn't regained consciousness since we removed the bullet. We were hoping to
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question him. So you can wait in the room if you like. Three
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or four right, the well, let's go in. I just came from
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the theory the catch. Come on in the room and tell me are we
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a police nurse? Doctor Lundagan said we could wait in the air well.
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All right. If you said so, I'll get another chair. Nice,
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please try to talk hard. Okay, he's working pretty hard at it.
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You know what are you gonna claim? Now? The cashier at Theaters of
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the Kind, well, she knew it wasn't blucid down, not much.
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But I put out an ap B and descriptions tell it all the way around.
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Has to be simple. That's such. He's still out too. You
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want me to stick around? Yeah, yeah, for a while. Why
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I gotta day, No, No, I got nothing to do here.
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You are what's gonna call a doctor, doctor Lundagan to come the real four
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that's that? Uh yeah, clan staying good fingerprints on him if anything coming
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up, you can getting me at home. Let's go. Man, Hey,
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you got the lawn looking good? Oh not bad, but your suddenly
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lawin. Well, good night, I'll see you in the morning. Want
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me to think you No, I only the cardomy service. You say hello
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to Molly? Right, nice night, get us food. Look, yeah,
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Johnny does his life. Get the guy starday. Come on, let's
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get the money. Heilly, there's a new dollar day on CBS. Mystery
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fans know that can mean only one thing. Edmond O'Brien as yours truly Johnny
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Dollar, the insurance leuth will a dynamite loaded expensive cord. Formerly heard Saturdays
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now will be heard Wednesday nights on most of these same CBS stations. Johnny
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Doller celebrates his move to Modday night by solving them welcome wish matter, I'll
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startling, disappearance case, don't see nobody, okay, drag him out,
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nobody him a kidnapped coup before all right, all right, come down?
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Why want to just comp him a right, she's coming around, give him
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time. Set them pretty good god the check. Yeah, I don't feel
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so good. You want to get some water or something? And dumping on
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him? One, you should just go sit down and shut your face.
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I'll take care of the cop. Okay, okay, big deal. How
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about it, COPF you like sitting up? I'm sure you can sit up,
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so don't sit on he all looks so good. You'll mess him up.
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You made him mess him? Come my cop chinking? He's why why
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you got Okay, I'll sit there. What's going on? You got bean?
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No? You got being good? Shut up? Okay? Yeah,
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cop? Have a drink water? No thanks? Now you should have now
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you got yourself all away? You? Who do you think you're talking to?
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You? You on talk anyway? I want to he just don't get
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a big stupid cop. Just don't get it liked and all about a big
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stupid cop. One on a Why I got your skull splinter? Who are
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you? Martin Nelly Tony Martinelli? Only just thinking? Cop shot my brother?
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You get it now? Yeah? Anybody ever kidnapped the cop before?
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High? Anybody ever kidnapped a little tenant? A big dumb little tenant High?
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You gotta runn ass And when I ask you something that the hat a
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jug first, stick up, Tony, What makes you think so? Because
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you're pulling another one three days only? So what how mateur smarthood would figure
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which steak out the theaters? I'm not smarting, not a bit smart enough
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to get three thousand. I told you to kick a place. Shot right,
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guy, Stitch, he's with its. Huh. The boys are making
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a big mistake. Tell us how we're making a big mistake. Huh.
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None of us got records in this town. Who's gonna find us? They
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don't find job. No, the penalty for kidnapping in the state. They
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ain't gonna find this cop. My brother ain't gonna say nothing. And if
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we got you along, even if they do find us, ain't gonna do
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nothing. I'm getting hungry. I'll go out and get them saying weich is
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okay, what do you want? Just get some step on it. Say
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okay, I'm at the copper. Oh, he ain't hungry, Get me
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some amburgers. Okay. You know what we're gonna do in a lieutenant,
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what We're gonna wait right here to see if my brother is gonna be all
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right, then we'll live in a state. You're gonna be sitting right in
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the front seat all the way. What of your brother doesn't get all right,
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You're still sit in the front seat until we get clear? All right?
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Always Ben, he's not any of I was just swiping some coffee.
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Swipe me seven. What'd you find out on Martinelli here? Oh? Thanks?
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It ran down the finger, Prince kind him through the army. Full
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name Julio Martinelli, twenty six years old, born in this country. Destroy.
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I don't know how long he's lived here in a record at all?
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What did I say? I'm waiting on it now, just heard from the
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army an hour ago. He's got a brother, Tony Martinelli, family at
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deceased. What kind of an army records he had? Lasi. Both he
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and his brother were always in trouble and all overseas duty stationed in California.
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I wonder where Ben is. Oh he's supposed to pick him up? No,
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no, oh, he's probably still having his car serves. I hear
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the reportment that trude. Both the Martinellis have records minor offenses, but a
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viitual. Both serve small time raps a dozen times. Any report on the
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blue sedan. No, there's something else that trite sent back these coming the
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descriptions of the other two guys with the Martinelli's. Martinelli's brother Tony's seems to
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be the guy who ran the stick ups, and these two guys have been
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picked up with him a couple of times. The loup counts and Charlie Rine
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according to their records, and never pulled off anything, Miss Big. There's
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petty stuff in the past. Well you better have these circulated train And where's
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Ben? I don't know, he's sure he is late? What is this?
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Charlie? Get the pictures? Yeah? Yeah, look all our pictures
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on the fun page. We gotta get out of here. What's ther matter?
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Right? You get here? Cop? Yeah? So at least dead.
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Yeah, died last night, nine o'clock before we got chill. You
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know it? Huh? You know what happens steel copper, You know out
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your copper. You know what I'm gonna do? He mean, look,
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we're in it, don't they here? Now? Get care? Yeah?
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But they know who? So what I know this big dump cop is gonna
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get us off. I'm gonna throw his brains on me. You gonna do
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what I tell you? Don't? We start our here to night you want
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to get out of there to kill on the cop. You know what I
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was playing? Oh, y'all are how can we get clear our cover?
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You don't have to doing nothing to do it. I'll kill him off by
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myself a lot. Who could I love? Every man? Is all of
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those pictures? I'm john No, dude, it was Hoss. I sent
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Carter over here. It's three thirty in no word yet Fens never stayed away
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without at least checking in. He didn't even go into the garage, check
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the hospital. Oh, we would have gotten some word by now I covered
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the more or nothing like that. Well, how do you know at least
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Graham? What's the addressed? Okay? Asher thinks maybe he's got an identification
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on one of the men cafe down on River Streets one oh five east.
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You want me to come along, No, no, you you'd better stay
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here into a cart or checks in about Ben. Let me know as soon
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as you hear anything. Huh oh man? All right, doesn't mister Foelane
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man? How you? Yeah? How right? Mister Foreland he identified this
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from Luke Johnston positive, He's pretty sure. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm
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pretty sure this guy in the picture come in this morning and got some sandwiches
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to take out. To take out, Yeah, liberwarrees and six hambers.
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I remember, because I ain't had many customers then you honest whether he was
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in a car and oh no, well, I mean I old this guy.
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He seen him walk away. He crossed the street that way. You
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see, we stay open all night and he was my first customer, walked
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that way right down and say what's he? Don't he say killing me?
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Deliver is down that way. Tru Will probably lived down there by. And
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he kind of looked funny. I'd look funny when the first came in,
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like he was against him. Looks just like a kid in this picture.
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Oh sure, yea. He shongs about my boys age made. But oh
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it looked tough and shifty. O. You know what the take he got
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caught his hand. We gotta wears your phone. It's right there. It's
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a nickel. I'm sorry he got nickels back. How'd you like to ask
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him? A professional? Sacred This is Greb. Let me talk to Wallough.
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Hello, captain, we got an identification on Luke Johnson. I'll need
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every available man to cover this area at least fifteen guess my guest Johnson has
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hauled up somewhere within walking distance of the river. Yes, or I'll keep
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in touch. Yeah I know, okay, Oh the address is one I'll
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find least river, right, that's sure, you work with me. Here's
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something big guy, those guys who stuck up with hitters. Yeah right about
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that? Well, thank you for your help, mister Froe. Line four
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line like on a golf course. Fall and it's dark enough yet Tony,
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Tommy dark Tony all right? Which way? Was a car in the alley
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behind the Channa house? Look, Tonni, do we have to take this
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guy along, catch and knock him off here? Knuckleheady's insurance? Come on
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a little tenn you please move? Hold on hit no more? Would not
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to carry him again? Want the back way? So help me? Cop
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one? Fancy moving a play apart? Hey, lieu tennant you look awful?
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Shut up. Let me got about a half a tank of gas donning,
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I'll get it to the stake line and more. We should have brought
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some food if we ain't gonna stop Tony as a car on it. But
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I saw something more? Oh where's he gone? There? He's lying back
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there next to Charlie. Tough boy, I'll come here. I know you're
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haven't Tony? You know Ben? Go back to the car. He's corn
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Sure is all right, Tony, Come on out. I don't have a
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gun, Tony, come in? You do win man? Get up,
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Tony, please get up, Come on, get up. I don't think
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he's going to Ben. I wouldn't you know it. I'd like a big
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easy boy. That's what happens when you lose your temper. I should have
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saved the Sunday punch for last. The line up, where before you've passed
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the innocent, the vagrant, the thief, the murderer. Listen again next
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week when we again bring you the line up. May I have your attention
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Green, you'll be there on the other side of the wine in the audience
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room. May I have your attention brief Thank you. My name is Griff,
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Sergeant Matt Grabb. I'll explained the line up. Each of the suspect
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you will see what'll be numbered. I'll call off the number. Then they
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went John at the end of each line. When I asked the questions our
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identifications, the number please be plump your questioning. The line up starring Bill
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Night's Bing Crosby Show over most of these same CBS stations, and no wonder
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Dan Coverly speaking, this is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System, Welcome back.
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While an interesting situation with our protagonist detective getting kidnapped doesn't happen all the
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time on procedural shows, in terms of getting actually kidnapped, now, I've
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never called happening on dragnet. It didn't happen a few times on Adam twelve.
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Of course, the reaction by Guthrie would probably not be considered, according
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to Oil Today, in terms of violation of the rule and maybe not professional,
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but was dramatic and that's got to count for something. All right,
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Well, listener comments and feedback and will dubeast eight or yeah eight east?
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time radio, given ham and enjoyable that is. That's a high compliment.
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Indeed, all right, Well that'll do it for this week. Join us
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