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Police Line-up: The Anita Cameron Case (EP1552) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Well for me, Originally, The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio was a
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actually my original podcast. But we finished our run through Dragnet in February twenty
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thirteen and I decided I wanted to continue doing procedurals, so first weekend January
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twenty thirteen, weeks banded to six days with the lineup in our Saturday slot,
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and I played every episode I could get my hands on. However,
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some new episodes have come to lot, so we're going to be revisiting the
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lineup over the next few weeks with some newly discovered episodes, and we're going
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to begin at the beginning with the audition for the lineup. In the beginning,
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the lineup was actually called Police Lineup. In addition, the role of
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Sergeant Matt Grebs in the main series would go to Wally Mayer, but in
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this audition it's played by Joseph Kerns, one of radio's most versatile actors,
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known as radio's man in Black, along with a wide variety of other roles.
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For a generation raised on television, he'd be known as the first Mister
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Wilson on Dennis the Menace. However, the bigger difference is one of tone,
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as we're about to hear, So for those of you who listen to
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the lineup from January twenty thirteen to March twenty fourteen, this is going to
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be a little bit different, so here within an audition date of May the
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twenty seventh of nineteen fifty is the Anita Cameron case. In police lineup,
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Ladies and gentlemen, we take you now behind the scenes of a police headquarters
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in a great American city, or under the cold glaring lights. Will pass
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before us the innocent, the vagrant, the thief, the murderer. We
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take you now to police lineup. Can I sit here? Sure? Sure
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any chair in the room is to home. You'll sit beside me, Lieutenant
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cut three. Sure, I hope I didn't do wrong about that boy,
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Lieutenant, but I'm pretty sure there was a bullet hole in that coat.
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You do just right. Thank the other people here. You've all come to
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try to identify someone in the lineup for one reason or another. May I
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have your attention? Please? Let's sergeant Greb in charge of the lineup.
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He'll explain it to you. You people out there on the other side of
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the wire and the audience room me. I have your attention, please,
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thank you. My name is Greb's Sergeant Matt Grebb. I will explain the
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lineup to you. Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered.
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I call off a number, their name and charge. If you have any
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questions or identifications, please remember the number assigned to the prisoner as I call
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his name at the end of each line. When I ask for questions or
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identifications, call out the number. If you are sure are not too short
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of the sus inspect, have him held. The officers who took your name
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will assist you. They are seated among you. Please be prompt with their
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questions or identifications. When the prisoners leave here, they are sent to the
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bathroom and dressed back into their jail clothes. Makes it quite difficult to bring
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them back after they leave here. The questions I ask these suspects are merely
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to get a natural tone of voice, so do not pay too much attention
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to their answers, as they often lie to bring on the line. All
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right, boys, this way you the front one, walk the end of
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the stage and take your place. The rest followed. Turn around and face
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front. Answer your side, Look straight ahead. Hey, you hold your
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head up. Look straight ahead so the people out there can see you.
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That's right. Number one, George Marvin concealed weapon. Where do you live?
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George, I'm sorry I can't hear you. Where do you live it,
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I said, I lived downtown? Where downtown? What street? A
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Moon hotel on Front Street? How long have you been in town? George
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Gray Day? Did the officer find a gun on you? Yeah? What
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kind? Thirty two? Forty five? Number two James Hodge theft? How
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long have you been in town? Jimmy on My Life? Twenty three years?
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Where do you live? Twelve fifteen? Pennsylvania Avenue? Where you armed?
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When the officer arrested Joe Nose? They never won a gun in my
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life? Number three Mickey Bianco Robbery? Where do you live? Mickey?
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I don't know, sir. Where'd you sleep last night? Mission House on
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Ruxtonhaven? Was anyone arrested with you? Yes? Got next to him?
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Number four Harry Greco Robbery. Was anyone arrested with you? Harry? Yeah?
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The kid could just talk to known him long? Yes, that's How
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long did you have the gun? The officers found? Or did make me?
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It was mine? Are there any questions or identifications from the audience?
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Any questions or identifications from you people out there? Hold Number two? Sergeant?
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All right, lieutenant, the rest of your boys go through this door.
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You Jimmy Hodge stays all right? Jimmy, turn sideways, face the
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wall, turned sideways to the front along since you shaved, Jimmy one day,
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shaved yesterday. This man has a slight half moon scar on his right
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cheek, obscured by his beard. Hype five eight. Does anyone make identification?
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I'm sure that's him. Lieutenant all right, Sergeant Greg Yes, Lieutenant,
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hold for interrogation. You here, Jimmy, Now you can sit down.
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Thank you? Oh Ben, I picked up the release forms on a
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couple of the boys in the lineup, letting him go no id them.
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I run him down a communication. Sure, go ahead and grab yourself some
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coffee. I'll do that. Thanks. It's a hot night, huh,
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there's a hot night. You can turn on that fan if you want to.
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Jimmy, Yes, switches right behind you on the wall. Okay,
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cigarette, Jimmy, I still have some of my own, sir, Ye
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light up. My name is Ben Guthrie. Jimmy. I want you to
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understand the laws as much on your side as I know. All about that,
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mister Guthrie, Yeah, I guess you do. Where'd you get that
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coach you tried to sell? Jimmy, I'm totally arresting officer, tell me
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too, got it from a man I work for sometimes I sweep up and
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clean the window. What's his name, Jimmy, mister Roy Cameron. He's
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got a little jewelry shop twelfth Street. He calls on me and now and
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then and mister Cameron gave you the coach, Yes, so he did.
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Why would I lie about a thing like that? You can ask him,
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we will, Jimmy, he gave you a coat. Why do you suppose
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he gave you a woman's coat. You wouldn't have any use for a woman's
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coat. I don't know why he gave it to me. I guess he
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just wanted to be kind. He knows I got assisted. Oh, but
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you didn't give it to your sister? Tried to sell it? Why?
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Why? Because I don't make much money, mister Guthrie. I thought I
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could pick up a couple of bucks easy. And why didn't you try to
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sell it the usual way to a friend or an old clothes shop or something
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like that? I did. They thought I had stole it, just like
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that man did he yeah, for the police. And all I did was
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come out of that alley and sell him an old coat. Where's the coat
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now? Jimmy, I have. I ran away and gave it to my
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sister, Ruth, Ruth Hodge. Yeah, and we'll check this. Mister
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Holt, that's the man who had you arrested and identified you tonight in the
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lineup. You know what made mister Holt really suspicious of you, A lot
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of things, I guess because it came out of the because in the back
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of the coat he saw a bullet hole. Mister Hole says to him.
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It looked like a bullet hole, a bullet hole. I didn't know anything
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about that. Mister Cameron gave me the coat all wrapped up. I didn't
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even see until that man asked me to unwrap it and show it to him.
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I don't know nothing about a bullet hole, nothing about it, that's
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all. Jimmy Roy Cameron on twelve string, Yes, sir, that's the
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man. Just ask him, just asking, mister Guthrie. Anyone here,
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mister Cameron, I mean sorry, mister ivis just in the back room brewing
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myself some coffee. Good morning, I help you watch an engagement ring.
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Yes, I'm Ben Guthrie, police, mister Cameron. Oh, let us
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shake hands. Mister Guthrie, thank you. I respect you men very highly.
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All you police. We're holding a boy on suspicion, mister Cameron and
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Jimmy Hodge. You know him, Jimmy, of course I know. Is
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he in trouble? No, before you tell me, please come into the
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back room and have a cup of coffee with me, please, mister Gussie.
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Thanks well through those curtains. Listen to it. It's perking. Take
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a cup off that hopefully. Mister Jimmy said you gave him a woman's call.
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Say when? Oh, and thanks? The boy said you gave I
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gave him a call. Hey, anybody here excuse me, mister Guthrie.
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Customers make yourself at home coming morning? May I help you? Oh?
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Might if we look around? Pots? My wife and me are looking for
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a winning or something pretty Okay, we'll look around. Please browse all you
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like. When you've decided, just call me. I'll be in the back
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room. I'm having coffee with the prayer. Yeah, sure, go right
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ahead, Pots. My wife met it all the time in the world.
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Oh you finished your cup, mister Gutsie, Now there I know. Thanks
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bout Jimmy Hodge. Mister Cameron, Oh yes, yes, so many interruptions.
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The coat yes, I gave it to Jimmy. He works hard.
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I thought of it. What's Jimmy done, mister Gutsry. When did you
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give it to him? Yesterday afternoon and he finished work about five o'clark.
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What's Jimmy done, mister Gutsiy something bad? It was a girl's coat.
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It had a bullet hole in it. I know what you said something,
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mister Cameron. You said you knew it had a bullet hold on it.
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I know it was Anita's coat, my daughters, the coach he was murdered
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in My child, Anita, the father of a murdered girl two months ago.
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Mister Guthrie, you must remember, Yeah, yeah, I do.
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This is a happy day for me, mister Guthrie. Tomorrow Saturday will be
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happier. Tomorrow night at ten o'clock will be much much happier. Tomorrow at
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ten, the man who killed my child, Anita will be executed for murder
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tomorrow. That's why I respect you police, mister Guthrie. You will kill
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him tomorrow Saturday. Matt, I was looking for you, oh Ben,
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I was just getting ready to go, Sergeant grab ready to run him through
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the lineup. I'll be run hold of a minute. Oh yeah, I'll
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be with you about ten minutes. Officer, what's on your mind? Ben?
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You once ran a boy through the lineup named Charles Dixon. Get out
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his files, Prince Gally, No, Charles Dixon murder convicted a couple of
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months ago in a hold up shooting papers courted the Anita Cameron case. Oh
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yeah, I remember Dixon slated for execution. Sat in there. Well that's
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tomorrow night. Yep, that's the one. Well, what is it?
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A last minute plea? The DA want the file? Oh me? Sure?
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Well, by the way, did you get the four to fifteen report
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I put on your desk? No, have an upstation. Well maybe I
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can save you some time. ALI attack on a woman off Pennsylvania Avenue.
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What about it? Woman's name is Ruth had Rouge. Hut that kid we
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had in the lineup last night, Jimmy Hodge. His sister's name was Ruth.
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Oh well, anyway, she's at St. Anthony's Hospital. I just
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thought i'd let you know, Ruth. Jimmy gives her a coat with a
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bullet holding it and she gets beaten up. Do a thing for me,
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Matt files hunt Charles Dixon, get them while there's much time that kids slated
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to die Saturday night and that's tomorrow night. Get the files, Matt,
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and while I'm going to read them, read them carefully. Matt's miss Ruth
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Hunt. Yes, doctor, I'm a policeman, mass. My name's Ben
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Guthrie. I've already been questioned. You police did that already. I know.
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I'm afraid i'll have you. Want to know what happened? Who beat
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you up? I told him, I told them all about Well, tell
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me who beat you. I don't know. I don't have any new answers,
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mister Guthrie. A man wanted your money? Is that it? The
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police keep telling me that's it, But it's not that at all. All
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right? What is my coat? The man one of the coat I was
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wearing? Oh, I told him that the coat your brother gave you.
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Yes, Jimmy gave me that coat, all right, Jimmy gave it to
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you. Then what I don't know. Well, it's important that you should
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know, miss Hodge. Jimmy gave you the coat. You put it on
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and wore it. Yes, What didn't you care that it had a hole
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in the back of it? What the hole on the back of the coat.
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What didn't show U? A all right? What happened? I walked
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into the side street, the one that looks like an alley of Pennsylvania.
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Amya ten more places called where I live? Gone? A man was there
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standing in a doorway, I guess, walked up in the back of me
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and whispered in my ear. He said, don't turn around, but that
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he'd give me ten dollars. He said it was for the coat I was
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wearing. Then what I screamed? He started to hit me, try to
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tear the coat off me. He said, stop screaming, but I didn't,
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guess he got scared. He ran, Would you recognize the man?
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No? He was in back of me. I told you, eh,
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yes she didn't. Where's the coat now hanging over there? Mister Guthrie's in
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the closet this one? Yes, take it, mister Guthrie, take it.
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I don't want it anymore. Close the wind way. Ben, all
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right, you can stop squibbling too. What time has it been you asked
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me that five minutes ago? What are you trying to build? Ben?
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A boy named Charles Dixon is going to be executed at ten tomorrow night,
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Saturday. Ro murder maybe he didn't do. You're gonna approve it with that
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dressmaker's dummy. You had me drag up here this cold It's got du mean
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something. Put it on the dummy again. You mean what's left of the
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code, don't you? Okay, there it is, turn it around.
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We've been doing this since eight o'clock. I asked you, what are you
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trying to build? I told you a boy's life. Look, man,
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eight o'clock. I brought this dummy into your office. Then I dress it
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with a dead girl's clothes, Anita Cameron's blouse, Anita Cameron's coat. The
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bullet hole in the blouse matches the bullet hole in the coat right on the
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same line. Ten o'clock, it's still matches. Ten thirty coffee. Yeah,
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eleven o'clock, we've torn the coat apart. Nothing. Eleven thirty.
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We got a torn up coat. There's got to be something there, Matt.
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That coat's got to mean something. First of all, it wasn't mentioned
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in the transcript of the trial. I called Cameron about that. You know
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that the man just forgot to mention it. That it's all that's human.
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When he found his daughter, he took the coat, offer to try to
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help her with her womb. Then why was Ruth Hodge eating up for the
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coat? Maybe the guy liked women's coat. I'll go over it again for
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you. Then two months ago, one Charles Dixon held up the jewelry store
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of one Roy Cameron. In the process of the hold up, he shot
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Anita in the back, her father being upstairs at the time. Tell me
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about this. Witnesses again met two witnesses, Verne Meredith and Grace Duncan.
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They were walking home from a dance. They saw Dixon with a gun in
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the girl's back. The girl had her hands up in the air. They
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heard a shot. They called the police. How do they know it was
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Dixon? They didn't. They noted the license number of a car parked with
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its motor running. Later, this car was found parked in front of Charles
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Dixon's house. In it was found the gun, the loot and Charles Dixon
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dead drunk. Can I go home? Yeah? Now Dixon's in a death
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soo waiting for tomorrow night, waiting for Saturday? Can I go home?
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Now? What time has it meant? It's Saturday. You are a witness
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behind the scenes at police headquarters as we bring you police lineup. Yes,
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I'm looking for mister Meredith at Vern Meredith, he lives in. Yes,
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may I see him? Busy just now. I'm missus Meredith. Can I
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help you. I'm from the police. Missus Meredith. I want to talk
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to your husband. I told you I'm sure I could tell you whatever you
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want to know. Tell him it's about the Anita Cameron case, Missus Meredith.
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Oh, tell him, Miss Meredith. I think you want to talk
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to me. Oh, of course, of course he will. Please come
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in. We're in the kitchen. Vern's having his breakfast. Please excuse our
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things. Look, we get up sort of laid Vern. Well, what
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do you want? It's a man from the police. He wants to Verne
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put down the newspaper. It's a man from the Yeah, yeah, I
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heard you. O. I'm just reading aside him to Grace when you were
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knocked on the door, mister mister Guthrie Ben Guthrie or mister ben Guthrie.
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I was reading here. She likes you when I do that, don't you
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guys? Sure? Sure? I like it? Beside him. Coincidence says
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the case of Anita Cameron is being scratched able by a man named. Let
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me see Guthrie, Ben Guthrie, you're the same, Yes, all says
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here he's trying to save the killer's life. There's a twist for a copy
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of mister Guthrie, tell me exactly what you son, what you did the
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night of the hold on soun a record, very clear, very public,
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nobody can read it. I didn't get around to him, So tell me.
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We were to dance, We were walking home. You were with him,
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missus Meredith. Then then you are Grace Duncan, the other witness.
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Yeah, yeah, Grace Duncan. Now missus Varn Meredith hung Grace, but
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I'll do the talking Grace. Yeah, mister gut Thrie, we were to
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dance. Grace and me what dance? Same like I testified the Eagle Social
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Club on Ben Varn was walking me home. I'll tell him, Grace,
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I walked home because that's romantic to walk all home. We stopped to look
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at a jewelry store Winda and see this child's Dixon holding up a girl.
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How could you tell her was a holder? Question? She had her hands
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up in the air. Girl does that for other reasons? How did you
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know it was Dixon? On the record after the shot. We took down
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the license number. You cops found out it was Dixon, not us.
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Missus Meredith. Was the girl wearing a coat when she was shot? That
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may? I the girl was wearing a coat? Anything else? No,
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vine, nothing else not now, thank you, missus Meredith Charles, Charles
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Dixon. My name is Ben Guthrie Charles. I'm a policeman. I want
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to know. I want to know what I'm going to be electrocuted? What
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do you want me to say? Anita Cameron? I killed her? I
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shot her in the back? Did you? I told me I did I
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believe I? Did I keep telling me? I? Did I believe it?
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You went into the jewelry shop to robin Anita Cameron came downstairs when she
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heard a noise. You made her turn around and shot her in the back.
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Is that what you did? Listen to me, Yeah, you're sure
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of it. Then you murdered Anita Cameron. I was drunk. I was
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at a dance and I got drunk. Why did you get drunk? I
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did it before I liked it. You don't understand, do you? I'm
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trying to help you. Did I tell you I want to be electrocuted?
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That they say, I won't hurt. Did you know when they kill a
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man electrocuted him, it's painless. Thank Charles, think has something to tell
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me? Something I can go on someplace. It'll take me someone I can
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talk to. What happened that night when you were drunk? Why did you
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leave the dance? Did you have the gun when you left the dance?
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Why did you tell her to turn around before you shot her? I feel
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right now drunk, then you don't really remember. You don't remember a thing.
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I killed her. They keep asking me to say so. They say
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a man always confesses before he's electrocuted, makes a man feel better. So
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I'm saying it I killed her, and I don't feel anything at all.
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Hey, Ben, I'm talking to you. Ben, Why don't you go
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home? Why? But worries you? Man? Sitting there like that for
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hours and nothing? Ben? Just why don't you go home? What time
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is it? Three more hours? I didn't ask you that. I said,
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what time is it? Seven o'clock? Look I'm doing over at the
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line. Nobody's stubbing a coffee? Ben? I brought you up. Didn't
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you do that a little while ago? Oh? Yeah, that got cold?
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This is nice and hot. You think Charlie Dixon killed that girl?
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You want an honest answer. An answer will make you feel just an answer,
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Okay, I think he killed that girl. No matter what's eating you,
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Charles Dixon will die in two hours because he killed him. You who
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talking? Yeah, I'm true. Then what are you hanging around fort not?
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Come in here? Yeah? Now what do you want? Why did
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someone beat up a girl to get my coat back? You asked me that
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fifteen minutes ago. I still don't know. How do they know about the
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coat at the same time I did. I don't know how how I slashed
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it? How do they know about the coat at the same time I did.
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I've been telling you, Ben, I don't know. Call up Cameron's
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jewelry shop. Get me Cameron. It's nine o'clock. Ben. Let the
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poor guy alone call him, okay, Ben, okay, let me look
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up the number air see Yeah, m hm hm h give me that phone.
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Don't bite my head off for a lousy phone here. Come on,
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come on hello, mister Cameron, missus Guthrie, mister Cameron Police Department.
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One question. What do you want? Mister Guthrie? Who was in your
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shop when I was talking to you who was in your shop. Don't tell
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at me, mister Guthrie. I was trying to think it was I remember
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now it was Vernon, Grace, Meredith. But they left the store.
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They didn't buy anything. Don't take your hat off, Matt. We're going
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out. We'll be ready in justice. I thought it was a cab going
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someplace, missus, Meredith. Sergeant greg just asked you if you're going someplace
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that the cab, Grace. No, it's not, No, it's not
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a cab. Burn, Oh, it's you. What do you want here?
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Real as, mister Meredith, And we're just talking to your wife.
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You're going someplace, Grace, while all the banks back he's talking to missus
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Meredith. We're going on a little trip. That's why did you get married,
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Grace March March the third. I got it right here inside my ring
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here, I'll show you. Yeah, the day after Anita Cameron was murdered,
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wasn't it in the impulse Grace and the impetuous? Or a wife can't
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testify against her husband, Grace, how did your husband kill Anita Cameron?
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Shut up, Verne, He asked your wife? Was it like disgrace?
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You waited outside until Verne was robbing that storm. Then Anita came in a
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surprise. He held a gun on her, made her turn around and shut
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her in cold blood. Charles Dixon did that? Remember, that's why he's
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going to burn? And you both got scared. Grace. You saw Charlie
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Dixon passed out in his car. You panted the gun and whatever you stolen
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the glove compartment. It was like that, wasn't it? No no over?
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Where'd you get the gun? Burn? I never had it, but
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you know how to shoot one? I never had it. You have a
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regular robbery. In forty three it said you had a gun. I was
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never kid. Why did you kill Anita? And forty three you had a
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gun? You said you never had a gun, all right, so I
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had it? Is that the gun you used to kill Anita? When I
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was arrested in forty three? The police kept that guy, and you used
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another gun to kill Anita? Dixon killed Anita? What about the coat?
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What cold? What are you talking about? What coat are you talking cold?
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Anita was wearing when you shut her. Look, we gotta catch you,
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kid. The coat burn? You beat up a girl to get it
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back on Pennsylvania Avenue you' hitting an alley and beat up a girl to get
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the coat back. Why I told you, Okay, over there, over
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there and face the wall. Pasped your hands over your head? What is
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this? You hurt him against that wall? All right? By this?
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You did fine? Burn? Sit down, Grace, man Ah, get
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her a glass of water. Okay, where's the kitchen? Right with that?
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Though? Here you are, missus Meridam. Your husband's a murderer,
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Grace. You Cody tried to tear off a girl's back proofs. Don't talk
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to him. Grace's fish and you don't know anything, Grace. When you
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and Verne were in the jewelry store, you heard me talking to mister Cameron
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about the coat, so where knew it was important? Now I know why
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he didn't do what he did. Look at your husband standing over there,
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Grace, I don't know what He's got his hands clasped over his head,
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and a coat rises when a person does that. If I shut your husband
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in the back, the bullet hole in his coat would be a couple of
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inches lower than the one in his shirt. Make them stop the bullet hole.
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The bullet hole in Anita's coat was in line with the one in her
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blouse that means her hands word in the air, like you told us you
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lied at the trial. Grace, you lied because you're burn here killed Anita.
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Oh less to Grace. I'll trick you. Oh take your time,
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missus Merida think about it. Got a cigarette man? M h yeah?
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Thanks? You want one? Missus Maraden? Oh am sure? Having a
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hot spell? Mind? If I open window there? That's better, isn't
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it. Don't you want to be healthy for your trial? So so don't
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move cover that. I've got a phone call to make. Uh huh operator,
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this is the police department. Give me the warden the state penitentiary.
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What time has it been? Ill? Get yourself excited, Ben, You've
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still got ten minutes. Police Lineup was produced and directed by Elliott Lewis,
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written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin, and stars William Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben
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Guthrie and Joseph Kerns as Sergeant Matt Grebb. Music was composed and conducted by
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Eddie Dunstetter. Featured in Tonight's cast were David Ellis, Jack Edwards, Jester
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Hairston, Byron Kin, Vivian Baber, Lillian Biaf Herb Butterfield and Anthony Barrett.
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You've been listening to Police lineup or before you have passed the innocent,
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the vagrant, the thief, the murderer. Listening again next week when police
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Lineup brings you. This will help me get my little girl back. We
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want you to identify the man you saw talking to him. Your attention,
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please, two people out there on the other side of the wire in the
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audience room, may I have your attention? Please? Thank you. My
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name is Grebs Argent, Matt Grebb. I'll explain the lineup to you.
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Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered. I call off the
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number their name in charge. If you have any questions or identifications, please
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remember the number assigned to the prisoner as I call his name at the end
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of each line. When I ask for a question to identifications, call out
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the number number. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back.
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As I mentioned a big tonal difference, it definitely does not sound what
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the same show, and there is a reason for that. The main reason
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is that they are adapting a Broadway is my Beat's script. This was actually
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the basis for the third script of the Los Angeles run of Broadway's My Beat
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with ry Thori I should say the fourth The Mary Gilbert Murder Case, broadcast
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on November twenty six, nineteen forty nine. That program was also produced by
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Elliot Lewis and written by Friedman and Fine and I guess they made the decisions
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just to try and do Broadway as My Beat with a lineup scene tacked on
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at the beginning. In some ways, given what CBS was going for in
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terms of direction as a come petitor or a challenger to drag that it's surprising
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that the lineup made it past the audition because I already had Broadways My Beat.
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I'm thankful it did. I have to admit that in the original story,
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the lieutenant's actions made a lot more sense, as Lieutenant Danny Clover's involvement
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began with the plea of the mother of the boy about to be executed.
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It is kind of a leaf in logic to go from I'm looking to find
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out by this person sold a coat with a bullet hole in it and verify
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the veracity of their story to I verified the veracity of their story. Let
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me go ahead and reopen a close murder investigation. Though Obviously the logic changes
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a little bit when the sister is attacked over the coat. I should also
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mention that this was the same script from Broadways. My beat was actually the
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basis for the episode of Bold Venture we played back in I think it was
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February or March for the listener support campaign, So even before it became a
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national cause, mort Fine and David Freakin believed in recycling. I definitely like
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the direction the show went in better, and so that's why I'll be glad
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to bring you an episode of the lineup from its main run. A comment
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now from Jacqueline regarding the previous show we had here, Man from Homicide maybe
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a bit too hard boiled for me. Well, certainly I've received some feedback
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to that effect on that particular program. Thanks so much for sharing, Jacqueline.
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And then we have an email from Chaer who says your show keeps me
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company while I work as acurity guard. I used to edit a couple of
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podcasts, so I have an idea how much time and effort you invest in
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the show. I really appreciate your work. Well, thanks so much.
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Share. I should say that most of the editing is done by Andrew Rhines,
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without whose help I would invest even more into this podcast, and do
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encourage you to check out Andrew's podcast at Otrwesterns dot com. He does a
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series of Western programs that he's podcasting, So if you prefer another genre and
39:36
be sure and check out Andrew's show. All right, well, we will
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be back tomorrow with the Adventures of Philip Marlow and join us for a slightly
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less like Broadway is my Beat episode of the lineup next Tuesday. In the
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meantime, sender comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow up
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