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Line Up: Gas Station of Robbery and Murder (EP0848) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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  is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it
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  com slash Radio Detectives. Well, before we do get started with today's show,
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  I want to encourage you to pick up your copy of All I Needed
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  to Know I Learned from Colombo and it we take a look at life lessons
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  from seven Great Detectives. We begin, of course, with a look at
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  their history and then take a look at the lessons that can be drawn from
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  it. The book features Colombo, Monk, Sherlock Holmes, Neural Wolf,
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  and many others. And it is available for the iPad, for the nook,
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  All right, Well, I received an email from Michael Galia and I have
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  searched everywhere for it, and he made the point that the lineup became a
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  television show. It was also known as San Francisco Beat. Now San Francisco
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  Beat was the syndication title kind of like Bad seven fourteen for Dragnet. It
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  was a pretty successful show. It was received an m A nomination in nineteen
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  fifty six and ran for sixty page from nineteen fifty four to sixty It started
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  on television the year after it went off of radio, and the star of
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  that effort Walter Anderson I played detective Lieutenant Ben Guthrie and Tom Toley or Warner
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  Anderson excuse me, and Tom Tolly played Inspector Matt Grabb. They located the
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  story in San Francisco, something this show doesn't do. It does not give
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  a specific city. It just says it's in a great American city. Now,
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  whether that was so they wouldn't have to conform to any specific cities procedure,
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  Why they did it that way in this episode, I don't know.
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  But there were certain programs in the Golden Age or radio where they happened in
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  cities, but they never named them. Let George do it of course was
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  another one, all right. Well. The first two episodes we listened to
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  were from the summer replacement series. The Lineup was picked up as a regular
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  series in September, and the first episode of that new regular series that was
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  broadcast on Saturday was Churchez la femme and then a woman murdered by convict.
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  This is the third episode of the new regular series and it's entitled gas Station
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  Robbery and Murder. From September sixteenth, nineteen fifty So sit back and enjoy
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  my transcription. We take you now behind the scenes of a police headquarters in
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  a great American city. We're under the cold, glaring lights. We fast
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  before us, the innocent, the vigorant, the thief, the murderer.
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  This is the lineup, all right, by questions mighty little You can't seem
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  to get enough sleep lately, Jack of the spelt like that aliant bed can't
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  get to sleep? Kick and fog and smoke a dozen cigarettes? How many
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  in the line? Twenty three? Your witnesses down the first of all?
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  A lot? Yeah? Oh thanks, seeling it yeah, spread anything?
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  Waiting long? All right? I just got here a few minutes ago.
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  I got the man, I mean, just need an identification. Hey,
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  that's what the emphasis said that officiers over there. Sergeant, Yeah, May
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  I have your attention please? You'll people on the other side of the wre
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  and the only answer the room, man, I have your attention, please,
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  thank you. My name is Carter, Sergeant Pete Carter. I'll explain
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  the line up to you. Each of the suspects you see will be numbered.
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  I called out the number of their name and charge. You got any
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  questions or identifications, Please remember the number sign of the prisoner as I call
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  it made. If you're sure, and I'm too sure of the suspect,
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  have him the health questions I asked these stutfects are remember to get an actal
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  tone of voice. Those do not take too much attention to their answers that
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  they often lie. Okay, but on the line. Okay, keep it
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  moving out of the here. At the end of the stage, turn and
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  face front, hands to the side. I want I call out the number.
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  Step out and talk up the big room out there, and I want
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  everybody to be able to hear you. Okay, number one, see you
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  walk up robbery fanastrate Steep. Okay, what do you left? Steve?
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  Four sixty fours up Lake Street? Got a house? I'll tell her what
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  house? Will you live with? My brother? What do you work,
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  Steve? I ain't been fall off how long? I don't know, over
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  a year, I guess it at least over a year, I ain't been.
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  How do you pay the rent? I don't your brother pay it?
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  He's working. Somebody's got a pet. You own a car? Now?
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  Were you in a car when you were picked up? Yeah? Whose car?
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  Who? Friends? Who's a friend? Who? Yeah, who's a
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  friend that owned the car? Or I guess I can't remember. If you
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  get your friends pretty easy, I guess. So any weapons? Yeah?
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  What thirty eight? Well? What kind automatic? At thirty eight revolvers?
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  Mister Weston? They want arrested with him? Nah? I was along,
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  step back, step back back in the line. Oh okay, because okay
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  number two sat Wait you left Jack going ninety nine west Adem? Yeah,
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  what are you with my wife at all? Yeah? Doesn't your mother in
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  law that were here not anymore? She's in the hot sto like a hit
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  her with a foot sto. She's hurt pretty bad. Really, just meant
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  to scare think she got the nagging again in that curtage thing she didn't even
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  touch. She has a freak back concussion. Yeah, I figure we're even.
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  How do you figure twenty years of nagging and giving me a nameless stomach
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  hostess and telling it nearly breaking up my home in certain time. Okay,
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  turn us some of my fifth prints against me, making me lose to Chucky.
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  She nearly driving me into institution. I figured where we step back?
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  Okay, I'm pray Harry Malevsky Lobery. That looks like the man wait hotel?
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  Where is that? Eric? I six? What do you work?
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  What do you work? I don't know. I haven't had a job in
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  a while. And he went. The man who tried to hold me up
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  shoting car, hold on my three for interrogation. You can save us all
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  a lot of time. Who was the guy driving the car? What guy?
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  Why don't you make it easy? I was alone. You walked into
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  the Brenner's grocery store and trying to stick it up. Okay, there was
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  a guy waiting in a black Mercury today. I walked and I wasn't no
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  black mercurys at down. The clerks identified you in the line had men.
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  I walked into the store and tried to stick up. The clerk says,
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  he saw you get out of the black mercury. He's crazy. When the
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  officers showed up you and for the car, and the guy driving pulled away
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  before you could get to it. I would just run it. I didn't
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  run for no car. Even the officer says, you did. Look,
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  maybe there was a car, maybe it was a black Mercury Sedan, But
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  I wasn't running for it. Why hold out the guy driving ran out on
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  you? Why try and protected? Look? I tell you I was alone
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  walk and I wasn't. Three other robberies this week have identified that black sedan.
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  I'm telling you I was driver. I don't know. They get a
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  lot of time to find out, all right, can find out. I
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  don't know you were in that car when it drove up. I was walking
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  like you walk from you walked from someplace to that store? Yeah? Where
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  I was on Lincoln? What we're doing on Lincoln? Walking? Just walking?
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  Yeah? Planning to stick up? Yeah? Where were you before you
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  started walking on Lincoln? What home you live in? One hundred and sixty
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  in Madison, Yeah, and we're on Lincoln. Were you're walking? Where?
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  What block? I don't know. I was just walking close to the
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  store, I guess. And that would make it about the eleven hundred Blunt.
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  Yeah, you're walked all away from one hundred and sixth and Madison to
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  the eleven hundred Blunt and Lincoln. Well, not all away. What did
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  you do? Take a street car? Yeah? I took a street cart?
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  What gun? What car? That's right? The Lincoln car one hundred
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  and sixty in Madison. No, I walked to Lincoln. Why did you
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  pick the Brenner's grocery store? Oh? I cased it. It's a good
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  setup. Come on, mon, I'm telling you you're took the Lincoln street
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  car. Yeah, you're walking one hundred and sixth and Madison. That right?
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  What time with that? But what time did you catch the Lincoln street
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  car? I don't know. Now, harbor holders take up. I don't
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  know. I don't remember exactly. How long would you say it took you
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  to get to eleven hundred Lincolns? Look what goofference? Does it make?
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  We just like no, We're gonna keep finding out things until you tell us
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  who was to lead black monkeyy sasan with you? What time you take it
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  off? Eleven hundred Lincoln? Lensky got right? Yeah? Where nine one
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  four East? Staring right? Don't take it? Well? What's the matter?
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  A guy driving that black Mercury sedan just telling up a gas station on
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  East Orange shot the attendant. So what do you want me to do about
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  it. Thomas was driving that car. I don't know. He attendant's pretty
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  bad. Well, I can't help it. I didn't blow him up.
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  I didn't stick up the station. You know who did? No? Okay,
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  Malinski, let's go fe Hi then strong. They just hauled him away.
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  Was in pretty bad shape, and they witnesses the other attendant. He
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  was across the streets having dinner. He's in the station. Did you get
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  the licensed numbers? No? A lot of people heard the shot, but
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  nobody got the license numbers. Bill. Yeah, this is Bill Phillips.
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  Been Bill's lieutenant, Juthrie and Jargeant Cargan. Hi, Hi, tell us
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  about it? Everything you told me, don't It really isn't much. I
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  was across the street in the diner right over there. The big Sea brought
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  barbecue. U huh. Well, I finished and started for the station.
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  I heard the shots and looked over and saw some guy jump into a buck,
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  looked it in and drive away. I didn't get it at first.
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  Where was your partner? Harbor was stumbling out the door. That's when I
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  got it through my thick skullet. Something that happened, But I ran across
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  in Harbor was unconscious. Yeah, this guy who jumped into the black mark?
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  What do you look like? I don't know. It happened so fast.
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  I wasn't sure anything was wrong at first. Now fast things can happen.
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  Yeah, he was tall, I guess. Oh, I don't know
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  what he used to trying to describe him when I can't, I'd like to
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  be able to, but really I can't. Nobody else saw it happened as
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  he's out trying to find somebody, but I don't think he's going to have
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  much luck. Wasn't anybody else in the station, and this isn't a particularly
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  crowded section. What direction did the mark go? Bill that way? West?
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  Okay, come on, Pete, let's go back and talk to Malenski.
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  Who was he? My man's kame? I don't know. I don't
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  know. How can I tell you when I done? Look, I told
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  you I wasn't even nobody. I was alone. I walked the Lincoln.
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  I caught a street car on a Lincoln from one hundred and sixth Street.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, IM ain't getting off with a lot of sentence.
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  If we knew, would grove you to that stone. Look, I
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  told you, I took the street car for Madison. Yeah, Madison runs
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  parallel with Lincoln. I mean from one hundred and six. We picked that
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  guy up and he says you were with him in that car. We'll name
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  you for withholding evidence here you kidding? How long did you walk on Lincoln?
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  How long? How long did you walk on Lincoln before you try to
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  stick up the grocery? I got him all? Maybe a half hour?
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  I don't know. I don't remember. You just walk Yeah, yeah,
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  I walked, I walked, I walked. I told you which way,
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  but I don't know. I was getting ready to pull the stick up.
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  How do I know which way? And you took the street yeah yeah yeah?
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  Drink yeah? Oh okay, well and ski? Yeah that guy you're
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  a friend in the black much ship culture. I don't know nobody in a
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  black mark the guy he shot in the gas station just dying letter? Tell
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  us? Okay, how is he? His name is Walker? That Walker?
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  Walker is a number ten manager in four. Must be on the next
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  fire. Yeah, go up and cover the home, all right? Yeah?
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  Are you the manager? Yeah? Please? Okay, what do you
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  want? I'm a tenant? Get three? Okay, what do you want?
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  Your name? If you don't mind. You have a tenant here,
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  which one ten? Walker? Number ten? What's he done? Would you
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  just like to talk to him number ten? But don't make a lot of
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  annoys, mister Simpson and nine works night. Well, i'd like to key,
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  please, I can't do that. I have a warrant. Why don't
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  you just go up and talk to him? If he ain't done nothing serious,
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  I'd just like you to cooperate. Look, mister, the last time
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  you've coped with you your hold some guy out and there was a lot of
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  trouble my tenant. We're trying not to make any trouble. Well, if
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  Walker ain't done nothing serious, this is hurt. He want us to break
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  down the door. You cannot, can't you? Missus? Harsh? Who
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  is it a sergeant? Quaint car? Garage man? Oh, you're looking
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  for him to walk as car? Yes, and we'd like to go upstairs
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  and see if Walker is in this room. Okay, and we'd like to
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  key. Okay. They try to keep it as quiet as possible. We
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  will try. She could get in trouble and doesn't like cops. Seems the
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  last time I'll always here a tenant's complain. I should stick up the garage.
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  Can it's in for number ten? Thanks, I'm I suggest to stay
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  in your room. You don't have to suggest nothing, Charny, you better
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  stay down here and cover the front door. Right. I went down,
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  listened to ten. Couldn't hear anything. Let's go in and take a look.
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  Some guys snowing up a storm at nine and mister Simpson farts night and
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  get over on the emphaside. Oh, I don't think he's doing it.
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  Let's find out. Yeah, and get that room. No, kitchen doesn't
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  even look like he spent the night. I don't want to see what we
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  can find. Let's see it's starting here. If we don't find anything,
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  let me go check with that blonde Molensky told us about Nancy Shelton. Yeah,
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  Walker was seeing her as much as Lensky said. She might know where
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  we can find him. Hey, right, he's noticed guy at number nine
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  quit snran, probably rolled over on the stomach. Why's small? He should
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  be various. I've been a girl in the room. There's a girl in
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  the room, all right, but it isn't Walker's girl to roommate. Nowhere's
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  none. See Shelton, This clerks that she went out about an hour before
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  I got here. Doesn't know when if car takes taxis? And what's the
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  roommates? Man? And Bernice Edgington. I saw her when she came down
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  to get a paper. Pretty girl, you haven't talked to him, I
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  said, good morning. He'd have to do that quite a master. I
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  hope at Walkers wasn't there. I got a call here of Walker's shows,
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  and I'll let you know. And what's the room? One or four second?
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  I wanted to hit of the hall? Now, okay, Bernice Edding?
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  Yes is Heavington? That's right now we're the police police. I'm tem
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  a Gothree. This is Sigeant Corgan. Please would like to talk to you?
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  Please? Why I was just getting ready to go off meeting Nancy Shelton.
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  Nancy, I know she went out early this morning. Do you might
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  a weak him in? All right? What's the matter? Nancy in trouble?
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  Where don't you go so early this morning? But I know I was
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  asleep. I woke up just as she was leaving. What's wrong? What
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  did you do you know? Stan Walker? Dan Walker? Yes? Do
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  you know him? I knew it well, Dan got himself in trouble.
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  I knew it how did you know him? It's no good. I never
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  did like him. I told Nancy she shouldn't ought to go running around with
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  him because he's no good. Good Nancy have gone out to meet him this
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  morning, I don't know. I guess she could. I look, NaN's
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  a nice kid. If Dan did something, she didn't have nothing to do
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  with it. How longer? I just about six or seven months. I
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  didn't like him when he girt came here. You know, Harry Molenski,
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  Harry mt if he understands, Yeah, short, dark, kind of mean
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  looking. That's right. I met him. He's been up there a couple
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  of times. Nan tried to fix me up with a date, but I
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  didn't want to. I didn't want to go out with no friends. To
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  stand, I just have a like stands from the beginning, and I didn't
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  want to go out with nobody with a friend of him. Nancy didn't say
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  where she was going. No, honest, what's Dan done? He's in
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  a lot of trouble. I know it. I know it looks fellas.
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  NaN's really a great girl. I've lived with her, but maybe get to
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  her now. Look, yeah, yes, blond girls that drove up to
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  Walker's apartment in the black Market. She went up to Walker's apartment and it
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  keen to got some of his clothes quiet natural killing her. Oh gosh.
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  I told her to stay awayte on him. I told her she should have
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  listened. But I'm up in the coffee shop. Was pretty crowded in there.
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  Lash's in the sheep back the suitcase. Met him here he's got on
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  doc right, No idea what train he's taking? Uh? I hate to
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  take him in the middle of all this corn. Oh, we can do
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  it fast, four of us. I don't think you're trying to use this
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  gun. You and I should stay behind us, and when we do it,
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  step in him and get the girl right. Oh? Hold, so
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  they are any of the trains there's actually might be just as well pick him
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  up from the train, away from all his con don't stick together on the
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  train. Yea, your tickets, please train? No, I what if
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  she's going with him? As he got a suitcase and like come on that
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  roill be rampais thank you? Nick? Excuse me? Let us wait a
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  minute you later stories. Oh, let's go heady out Hold it they getting
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  on it? Just got on that next car. We'll get on On YouTube
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  coming. Well, one of us is going to go on the other side
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  of the train. Okay, go ahead on, how do you want to
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  do it? And I was a coach, so I'm still gonna be too.
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  There are many people in there. You take the girl right there,
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  he is, make a good Let me go a hurt. He's running up
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  that way. He's out of the yard. You say, might hurt.
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  You're buying a line of cars. I kick that in d star walker.
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  Stop you stay here. Claimed I'll go over and put in a call.
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  Yeah, he's the girl, all right, bring him along. What happens?
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  I have a place, Sam said, Look, I just got it.
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  Clearly didn't know he was in trouble, didn't you. No, he
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  just told me to pick up his coat. Why didn't he pick him up?
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  I don't know. He said he was in a hurry and he couldn't.
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  How'd you get his car? He dis it to me, but he
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  couldn't get his own clothes. Okay, so anywhere it was in some kind
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  of trouble. I didn't know it was this serious. I didn't have nothing
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  to do with miss. One of the things that makes our job tough.
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  People like you, Please go to chill day that his threw please, oh
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  yes, is everything all right? Yeah? Hell miss did walk up by
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  his ticket under his right name, m hmm William h h and there's a
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  reservation that's not going to be yours coach four or three and the name Williams
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  welcome back. Well. One thing that was somewhat A couple of things were
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  somewhat conspicuous in this episode. The big one was the absence of Wally Mare,
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  which led me to initially question whether this actually occurred in nineteen fifty Wally
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  Mare would die later on while the series was going on in December of nineteen
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  fifty one, but he was actually ill for quite a while before that,
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  and so sometimes he would be off the show. So his absence definitely was
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  missed but covered well. And after Wally Mare dies, the character of Pete
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  Carger actually becomes the prime the prime character in terms of a sidekick to Ben
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  Guthrie. The other thing that's very different was that those first two episodes we
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  heard were written by free Can and Fine, and as far as I can
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  tell, they didn't work on the series after that summer. And this definitely
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  has a feel to it that's more dragnet. Their version. Kind of when
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  they were writing it, it kind of seemed like a mix between Dragnet and
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  Broadway is my beat, particularly that one line where last week's episode. I
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  thought about it after I'd recorded it, but there was that line in last
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  week's show where Grabs told Guthrie that the owners were upset because the car that
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  had been used in the murder had been scraped matched, and Guthrie declares,
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  I bleed for them. That was definitely the any cloverism here. We're definitely
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  in a different mode of more Dragnet like mode, with a lot more professionalism
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  in the way things are handled in a little bit less emotion. All right,
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  Well, that'll actually do it for today. Join us back here next
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  week. We'll have another episode of Lineup in the meantimes. Andrew comments to
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  Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives,
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  and I become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com,
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  Slash Radio Detectives. But from Boise, Idaho, this is your host,
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  Adam Graham signing off.