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The Line Up: The Fresno Break Case (EP1118) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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All right, well, now it's time for today's episode of the lineup.
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This one is called the Fresno break case. Ladies and gentlemen, we
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take you an now by a transcription behind the scenes of a police headquarters in
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a great American city. We're under the cold, glaring lights. W pass
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before us the innocent, the vigorant, the thief, the murderer. This
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is the line up. Hi, Hi, Pam. See the wire on
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papas No still those in seven years in Oregon armed robbery holder arm from Chief
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of police in Salem, Denver wants some two same thing. I'll be done,
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ye, Hey, yeah, we'll bloys up count probably uh about the
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honest Johnson Romberg, Kevin Ramashenko, full of housing. Yeah, all of
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Papa's victims showed up here. But if I had the city guards. Hey,
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I had your attention. Please, few people out there on the other
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side of the wire in the audience room, man, I have your attention.
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Please, thank you. My name is Cargar, Sergeant Pete Carger.
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I'll explain the lineup to you. Each of the suspects you will see will
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be numbered. I'll call off the number their name in charge. Do 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 at the end of each line. When I ask for
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questions or identifications, call off the number. If you're sure. You're not
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too sure of the suspect, have him help. The officers who took your
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name will assist you. They're seated among you. Please be prompt with your
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questions or identifications. When the prisoners leave here, they center the washroom and
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dress back into the jail clothes. Makes it quite difficult to bring them back
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after they leave. Here are the questions I asked the Remember they get a
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natural tonal voice, but do not pay too much attention to their answers,
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as they often lie. All right, bring on the line. Okay,
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that long boy, all the way the face the front. You got a
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match, don your pockets, keep your eyes straight ahead. You number,
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step up to the white sul in the center of the stage. The big
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room out there is talk right up, and I ask you a questions.
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All right, Number one, andrew Samon grand theft merchandise and out of the
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circle. Andrew, tell us where you lived Jackson Heights state address? Andrews
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three twenty stop kildn any weapons on it when you were picked up? No
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weapons? What's your profession jails, look right out through the screen enders.
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That's it. How want yourself the food closing food in deep freeze? How
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long you have been selling food and deep freezes? About six months? Anyone
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with you when you were arrested. No, you're on a car. No,
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that was the clothes you were wearing when you were popping. Yeah,
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take off the coat or take off the coat? Okay, back on,
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step over the side, number two. But car sirdgrey. Yes. What's
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your address? Sixty five sixty pave Gallapagos, part with ten. What do
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you do for a living, Banan? Oh? Anything, shovel work sometimes?
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I did you know a man named Frank Kreeger? Yeah? I know
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Frank. I know him for a long time. Went around. See him
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in the line anywhere? Yeah, that's him. I got there at number
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seven. How about David Junta? You know him? Sure? Yeah?
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You see him in the line anywhere tonight? Yeah, he's got what The
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officer's reports states that Frank Kreeger and David with you at the time of arrest
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and explained that band you know where they were sure? Sure they were with
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a chicken. Where with a chicken? Banan? We're in the chicken coop.
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You see, I was up front of the car and they were in
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back loading up a few things when the power car drove up. But they
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weren't with you. They were in the chicken coop. No, you got
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it, Sidon, Thank you. Next number three, John Pappas, Armed
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robbery. Where do you live? John? Address three thirteen Furpast? And
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they think, what do you do? You mean work? Yeah? What
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kind of work do you do? How long you've been a carpenter? John?
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Sixty seven years? Where do you work? Go? Where would you
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last job? A car? Anybody with you when you were picked up?
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I was there long, there was nobody. Would me have any weapons?
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It's good? What kind of gun? Have a car? You know?
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What's funny? John? Nothing? Why the grin? I was thinking of
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them guys in the sikuku for a year? Okay, John, step back,
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todge and cargo. Yeah. Number three, Okay, Papas that line
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It doesn't And I've seen him on Fine, Papa give us your home and
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oh yeah, Bill got a minute? Sure gotta make on Pappas. Yeah,
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there's enough for the district's attorney. Now good, come on, we
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might have a break on George Fresno Presnel Broadway Division picked up Lawren Sawyer half
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an hour ago, parle violation. I think he'll help us to get Fresno.
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Where's that Story's got a wife and two kids now, he doesn't want
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to serve any more time. Hello, Larry, you know Lieutenant Guthriick.
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All right, hello, Lieutenant? Hand me that man? Oh yeah,
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yeah, thanks, hmmm assault? Huh yeah? Who's Hermann? Pollard?
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That just him? Jake Stonner running a bye was in. They had to
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hit him. Caty was needling me. You're on parole. Ray You know
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you weren't supposed to be in a bar, don't you wake? Almost ninth
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tonight. I stopped in there for being this Raymond whatever his name. He's
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started needling me. Well, I popped him in the plea and you broke
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parole. But enough three years? No, I kept my nose clean,
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asked my parole officer. It's the guy I'm working for. Very well.
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You said something about George Presnel, the captain hines a Broadway Division. All
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right, that's right. Well do I get a break? What about George
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Presne he's in time again. Yeah, we know that you want him,
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don't you. He's handing the stuff again. Yeah, he's working with Guntain,
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Talbot and Almer Brashing. Three of them are pushing for seventeen months.
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But we know of stuffs from Turkey and Greece, tests out anywhere from thirty
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to fifty percent. You've got half a killer it down the lab right now?
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Yeah, get in in some water. I help you soup shure.
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Try there. I don't want to sell up two more years for popping some
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guy in a bar. I've did eleven out of my two more years.
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Had break me up? Do I get a chance. We'll talk about that
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later on. I go on with this. Hey, I know George President
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pretty good. Have you been seeing him? Larry? I ran into him
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a couple of times last year, but there was nothing wrong. He just
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ran in him. You sure that said the whole thing. Last week I
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ran into him again and we got to talking. He asked me if I
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had any contact. He said he had a new ship and of pretty good
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stuff. And he asked me if I knew any buyers. You know where
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pushers looking for supply, working with old timers like guns, the tablet and
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brashy. He asked you you never worked in dope, Larry? What are
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you trying to give us? I know it sounds screwy. You don't expect
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us to believe it? To him? Well, it's true. Didn't set
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help me, and I think I got the picture on it now. Maybe
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I'm wrong, but presdo's handling this load by yourself without gunter and brashy.
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What makes you think that he told me to keep it on my hat.
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He gave me a phone number and said to talk only to him, and
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he wants you to help him get rid of it? Is that it?
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He offered me the chance to just look at to you? And what'd you
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tell him? I didn't want to take no chance, but I didn't want
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him to think I was turning up my nose, so I just told him
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i'd keep my eyes open. Doesn't seem right him asking you, Lory,
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not when he's got his own contacts. Now, how long have you known
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him? You're a good friend of his. I met him when I was
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doing my bit up there. We used to meet in the library. But
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I known him abou him since I was a kid and he was running boost
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then and we all know what he made and now he lived harry a lot
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of people now, George Fresnow. A lot of people met him in prison.
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I still don't buy him asking you to make contacts. You know what
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happened over there, didn't she? What do you mean? I guess he
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really wouldn't have had nothing to do with me unless I hadn't happened. You
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see worsin a diner all about three weeks before George got out, two guys
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jumped him. Yeah, we know. They'd began waking over him with butter
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knife. You know the treatment. George is maybe sixty years old. He
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couldn't handle them. I happened to be standing right by. Huh, I
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give my hand. I hope for the gods, and I don't know.
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The guy might have been killed. I guess he liked me for anybody else
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in on her there were a lot of guys around, but nobody else has
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helped him. You know he wasn't liked. Yeah, but you helped him,
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that's right. I helped him. That made you a pretty good friend
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of his. Huh, that's right? And how you want to help us
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get him? Yeah? How do you suppose Georgia feel if he knew you
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were down here talking? Was like this, Larry, who cares? How
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he feels don't care. Maybe some of his friends, Lara, those guys
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who aren't Heroin ain't got no friends. Gun to Talbot and Brashy. You
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could get them too. They don't worry me neither stuff. All it worries
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me is keeping my job toting them centuries a cemit every day. I don't
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want to go back to prison. I had enough stepped out of line to
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that when I smacked that guy. I'm willing to get back in line and
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stay there. Guy's got to smoke. Sure, Thank you now. George
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asked me for a contact to a lost some of the stuff. He wouldn't
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ask everybody. You know that a plant worker for you would help a lot.
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George is a smart opera it in. It might take a long time
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for you to get somebody in there. I could get in right away and
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set him up. He's going up once done income text and once done caring
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concealed weapons. He never had a big wrap, but I know you want
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him. Listen to me. George lives over on Palace Drive. He's got
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an apartment, of course, two thousand a month are in pretty nice place.
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Books, television, couple of servants. I live on Evert place forty
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five bucks a month, and I'm nothing to get it to get it,
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but I got a wife and two kids there when I get home. I
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like living like this. Captain, give me a chance to stay with him,
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please say, Captain, please, Harry is Waldough. I want to
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package on Larn Sawyer. Yeah everything, check the pro office. Try ride
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away? Yeah bye. If you're cleaning off, we'll give you a break.
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Okay, Ben, come on, wait, well what happens now?
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We're still under arrest for a soul Larry, we'll book you in for the
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night. Oh Ben, Hi, everybody's your office? Okay, get Sawyer
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up? All right? Hi from us Pete. Yeah, they got it
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all man, All right, boys, let's get this overwhere. Captain Walter's
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decided to use Lawrence Sawyer on this. Sawyer has convinced this that he has
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the confidence that George Price know and can be useful in making the arrest.
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Say is willing to do anything we ask him. Now, all of you
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men have been pulled off your car to sign to concentrate on this case.
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Looks like the first break we've had in trying to get Presno, you'll do
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nothing but work on this until it's completed. What all the teams be uh
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Hasher and Kwine, Crockett and Murphy, Islander and Castello, Vickers and Man
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okay too. He'll be with Sawyer twenty four hours a day. He's going
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to be in danger right away. We don't want him to get hurt,
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and we don't want any of you to get hurt. Oh, he's given
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us permission to tap his telephone line. Technical will have two men atters home
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all the time. We don't have to worry about that part of it.
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Two others will be at the cement works. The district attorney drew up these
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sheets, Pete. Yeah, four charges. We might be able to get
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Presno on importing, concealing, selling, or transporting. To make any of
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these charges stick, we have to arrest him with the goods on his person.
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I remember that, no arrests, no action on our part until George
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Presno's got something on his person that may happen tomorrow, may happen a year
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from tomorrow, but we're gonna stop him this time, okay, Ben,
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Yeah, all right, man, this is Laurence Sawyer. Something you know
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him, something you don't, but I feel Larry, okay, Okay,
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So the right there. Ok. Okay, Larry, we have an outsideline.
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Yeah, George, this is Larry Larry saw Ye. I've been thinking
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about that. You know what we talked about last week. How about having
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a drink George and talking about it? Okay, George, I'll be there.
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Come on, I'm going to meet him for a drink this afternoon.
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Ben Hot Out, Yeah, three weeks now, Ben, Yeah, it's
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going slow. What happened last night? Say? I met Presno again.
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I talked about price. What's the hold up? Ben? Presoner's Cagy.
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Sawyer's arguing on price. Wait it works. I wish we'd get something.
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Business offers on me about all the men I'm using one? I take it
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easy, Bill. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea, putting Sawyer in
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as a plant. He's talked with President three times now and he's set up
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nothing. Well, it takes time, brash and talb. But don't like
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Sawyer who's running that show the presnel, but he listens to them. Sawyer
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thinks he might get somewhere this week. When's he's seeing him again this morning?
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Ben, we'll give it to the rest of the week after that closed
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down. Just two minutes, can't help, but Ben are on me?
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Wild up? Okay, thanks, keep in touch. This might be it,
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Ben. President agreed to sell say or a full keylol heroin this morning,
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so your thinks we can set him up ready for another one? Boy?
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And no thanks, Oh, not to matter. It's something wrong with
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Oh it's okay, just taking up time. I'd like to there he is.
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Yeah, Oh seneri Gagan hy Larry, sit down? Well you have
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fear here, drink my mind? Thanks? Sure? Good? Well,
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how to go? Willing to sell some of it? To me give us
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a whole story. Well, do you know how i'd been asked? I
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didn't push too hard because I didn't want him to get suspicious. Thankfully,
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you know something's wrong, said he. I have brought it up. I
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told him I had a client in town who takes some of the stuff.
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Yeah, well, you know we've been knogging about price all that stuff.
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He said he'd had. You know that he'd have to go eight thousand straight.
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I try to make it look good and I'll get for seventy five hundreds.
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He finally made a deal seventy eight folk killer. Yeah, he beefed
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me up about how high grated was, sixty five percent, said, I
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told my client would like that. Hey, look, I'm going to eat
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some cash. What's the deal you'll want you? I want to see seven
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eight hundred bucks before he shows me anything. I know that. I try
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to argue him down, but he wanted all in cash and I got to
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have it. You don't have it. When's your delivery? I'm supposed to
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meet him at the corner of Albion and sixth at nine o'clock to night.
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He said he'd have the stuff win him. No he didn't and I didn't
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ask, and he's pretty cagy it. Maybe you're running around testing me.
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I don't know. Oh, it should be Glad, but it's all over.
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Who was with him when you talked Talbot from Brashy? I was wrong
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thinking this was something George was England just for himself. They're right on it
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too. Are they going to be there? I don't know. Did you
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tell them who your client was? I did it just the way we talked
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about it. I just said it was a friend of Minchael California. He
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asked me for a name, and I told him I rather not say.
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We let it go with that. He was more int arrested. Are not
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going to about money than anything else? Nine o'clock I'll being in six then
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what's it? Okay? Larry? Yeah, thanks for the beer? So
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I didn't care. Hey, you know something that kill me? If you
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knew what I was up to. You were known that all along. Yeah,
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but I just began to think about it in a minute ago. You
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look it over, Yep, doesn't look like too much of a problem.
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Then straight into section filling station on one corner of popping house across the street
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another on the opposite going Anna vacant lot. What about the apartment We checked
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around as much as we dared, so didn't find anything. Brash. He
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lives over in Pershing Heights. Heelbert's got a hotel room in the day and
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some of the others could be living around there. Yeah, but we don't
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know anything about them if they do. How about the filling station. It's
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independent guy who runs It's been in business seventeen years. I checked his help.
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All clean. Okay, I want one car parked on the street in
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front of the vacant lot, another one in the filling station. You can
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set Crockett and Murph up inside one of the apartment buildings and Ollnger and Costello
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on the other. Okay, now this may be just the starting point.
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I'll have a radio control set up right in the area. So I asked
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to get in the car with Presno, we'll follow. Who's going to handle
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that part, Oh, Pete Naby in the command carm. If he moves
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out, we'll move after him. But we don't want somebody ahead to pick
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him up. I can't risk telling him very long. Yeah, we can
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all start at six, and I'll let you give us plenty of time.
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Again, changed man, I want That was Olander. President just called Sawyer
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about tonight the delivery off. President's worried. He wants to be Sawyer's client.
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I don't know about this with dinner. It's the only thing we can
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do. But I don't know. Maybe he'll recognize you. No, he's
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never seen me. What about Brushi and Talbot? Now they've never seen me?
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Eat? Then have you ever been to this place before? Ruis just
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the addressing guinea? They try to hold him up. Yeah, be sure
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suspicious? Okay? Yeah, lieutenant, Yes, that's sergeant cog and queen
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and that across the street. What do you think are you? Yeah,
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George, this is my friend Paul yelling, come on in thanks in here,
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in here, yeah, I get you. Boys of drink? Yeah
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sure bourbon be all right? Fine? How about you? Okay George?
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Thanks? Thanks? Yeah, it's comfortable. How long you've been in town?
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Younger? Three weeks? Los Angeles, Santa Cruz? Where are you
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staying? Friends? Anybody? I know? I didn't ask him. Look,
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so he said this was all set up. What's a shakedown? He
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just want to lead your pool, that's all. I gotta be careful,
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So do I do? I get delivery tonight. No, okay, does
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it? I got to catch your plate. Wait a minute, wait for
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him. I can buy elsewhere. I don't have to go through this kind
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of thing. I don't know you from Adam. That's the way I like
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it. President, how long you've been in Preson, you got too nosy
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for me, and so I came up with a proposition that he could put
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me next to some sixty five percent stuff. I like the idea. I
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can use it. I wanting to pay the dell and not this kind of
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thing. If you want to do business, we do it right now.
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No more questions than we're stalling. What do you say for you got the
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money showing yeah, to do that, George. I'll take half right now,
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give me the rest. When the stuff's delivered, will let's be less
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than an hour? What do you say, poor? Give him two thousand?
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Okay, okay? When can he pick it up for me? He
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doesn't have to. You can do it yourself. Younger. It's got your
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hat to follow me, so you can go home, mister Younger and me
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will handle it now. Larry's a nice boy, mister Younger, always been
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good to me. He says, you're all right. I think you're all
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right. That's the way I feel about him. No hard feelings about me
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asking to meet you. Oh yeah, Larry's a nice boy. I gotta
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be careful though, for everybody. Guys. You know, where are we
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going? Oh? Not far? Just a few more blocks. You know.
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It must be nice around Santa Cruz this time of year. Yeah,
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ever, do any fishing? Some been out in Mexico, mostly Yellow Team
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Yellow tea. Yeah, nice fish. We're here, just being careful.
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Come on, can't never tell who's who's out looking around here? Well what
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now, I don't get excided. This won't take long. Here we go.
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Hi, Hi, Madge, Hey Madge, this is mister Younger from
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California. Oh, oh, go ahead, go ahead, get in.
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Madge helps me out on these things, mister younger. Yeah, I'm me
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too, joint. Oh just drive around, Madge. Are we going to
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make a pick up or aren't we? What is this? We will make
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a pickup? Got the rest of that money, yeah, and I'm keeping
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it until I see some action. I want half before I deliver. Well,
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you got two, that's it, Fresno. Hey, who'd you buy
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from before? I had some people? Chinese stuff? Okay, younger,
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what Madge? Yeah, hey, what is this? I relax? You
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wait here. I'll be back in a minute. A funny guy is he?
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Where's he going? My apartment? What for? What's he talking about?
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A delivery? Yeah? Is that the way it works? Just wait
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for George. Okay, well one o O thanks? How are you doing?
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I think I'll stretch for a minute and get cramped up. Here he
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comes, he won't be cramped long. Yeah. What's it? You're going
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something? I'm just stretching. You better get back in the car. Yeah,
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sixty, I guarantee it. Well, I'll take it right here.
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I'll wait a minute. What about my dog? No door on this one,
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George, huh, I'm a police officer. Head. Don't move your
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hands, Madge. Keep your hands on the wheeling man. No, no,
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sit down on the ground, George. Now look look, look I
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got a lot of money twenty don't hand me over my last trip. I
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only got a few more years. Yeah, Sergeant quine John, I'll take
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care of him too. Don't hand me over. Please me about her?
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Yeah, okay, okay, okay, it was all a setup, wasn't
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it. Come on, George, missus, sergeant CagA Branhy in town,
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but followed off from the other place. Ben. We picked him up two
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blocks back. Didn't tell what was up from there here, seventy eight hundred
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dollars away. What good does it do to get me. I'm an old
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man, I'm washed up. Anyhow, it'll stop this. I'll die there,
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Yeah, we probably will, Joine. Let's go the lineup where before
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you passed the innocent, the figurant, the thief, the murderer. Listen
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again next week when we again bring you the lineup. Hey, I have
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your retention. Please You people out there on the other side of the wire
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in the audience room, may I have your attention? Please? Thank you.
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My name is Corger, Sergeant Pete Carger. I'll explain the lineup to
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you. Each other suspects you will see will be numbered. I'll call off
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the number. Their name is Jarn. Do you have any questions or identifications?
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Please remember the number of signs of the prisoners. I call these names
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the end of each line when I ask you question. The lineup starring Bill
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Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie with Jack Moyle to Sergeant Pete Carter, Written by
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E Jack Nu with music by Eddie dunstudied Hatred, and tonight's cast were High
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Averback, Peter Leeds, Howard mcneer, Benny Robin, Joseph Kern, and
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Virginia Gray. The lineup was transcribed in Hollywood by I made do Vayer Sunday
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Nights. Here Lionel Barrymore post narrator and frequent star with distinguished dramatic series.
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You'll find the plays or of the same hip caliber as you've heard in years
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gone by on the program CBS Radio called Your Thursday Night Playhouse. This year
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with Lionel Barrymore's post narrator, it's your Sunday Night Lighthouse on most of these
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same CBS Radio stations every week. Dan cover of speaking, this is the
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CBS Radio Network welcome back. Sometimes I don't think I'm quite fair to the
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lineup because I'm so often tempted to compare it to Dragnet. On the other
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hand, the lineup was really written in response to Dragnet, so I think
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it's a fair comparison. We're less than a year away from getting Dragnet here
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on the Great Detectors of Old Time Radio, and there is a difference,
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And I think this case really does illustrate it. We've got a good story
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and some solid twist. But Dragonet has done basically the similar, similar story
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multiple times. Usually it ended up doing it better. And I think the
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big difference here was the lineup told realistic stories while Dragnet told more or less
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real stories. The difference is the story that we heard on the lineup was
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completely plausible. It was down to earth. It was it wasn't anyone playing
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Super Cobb or anything that wasn't all far fetched. However, dragging That used
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true stories as the basis from which they adapted their cases, so you got
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all of the things that can happen in real life that are often more fantastic
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than fiction. So you had one episode with a drug buy where because of
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the short notice, Fida had to go into the drug buy I believe,
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unarmed, and instead of the full amount that he was paying, he had
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to have several have a hundred dollars bill on top ones beneath that, I
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think, even some newspaper in the middle. And by the way, he
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didn't have a gun. Here. Everything seemed to go a little bit too
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smooth, which doesn't allow the tension to build properly. I also have to
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say, I'm wondering where the Lineup is set. A Lineup TV show was
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actually syndicated as San Francisco Beat and was set in San Francisco. Radio show
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has always said it was in some great American city, but never quite said
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where, but they referenced basically a friend from California, suggesting California is out
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of state. And with all the clues that the Lineup was set somewhere on
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the in the West, you wonder where exactly that's supposed to be set At
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this point. That's all for this week. We will see you back here
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on Monday, Yours truly Johnny Dollar begins and Saturday we'll be back with another
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