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The Line Up: The Check Killer Case (EP1058) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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should preface this. This is what you might term a lost episode, though
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I would be hesitant to do so because the episode I don't think was really
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lost. I think I missed it. The lineup as a program has been
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a bit messy. I've basically had to kind of collate the series from three
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different websites, really trying to get as many episodes as possible and trying to
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be as complete as possible. Well, I found one website where today's episode
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was listed, but it was actually a duplicate and not really a unique program,
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so I had to so I discarded it. But there was another website
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that I collated it from where this episode really was located at. Oh I
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haven't lost yet, but I found the real episode and this is actually this
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is a I guess overlooked episode on my part. And the toddle of the
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program is the check killer case, and it is actually a Matt Greb case.
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So we get to hear from Walling Merrigan. The program aired March sixth
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of nineteen fifty one, so we will take a break from our current run
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through the series and then resume that next week so that we can enjoy the
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check killer case. We take you now to the lineup. Hi then sought
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you're up duty speak CEB, but we're checking on the two eleven. We'll
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get down the mall on identifications. Chare be another hour or so. Then
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I step in and see what you're going. I think big about thirty five
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boys. Well, you got nothing to do until we get an identification this
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man. Yeah, yeah, I see you later. You people out there
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on the other side of the wire in the audience room, may I have
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your thank you? My name is Greb, Sorry did mat Greb. I'll
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explain the man up for you. Each of the suspects you will see will
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be numbered. I'll call off and number their name and chard. If you
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have any questions or identification, please remember the number assigned to the prisoner as
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I call his name at the end of each line. When I ask for
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questions or identification, all out the number. If you're sure you're not too
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sure of the suspect, have him held. The officers who took your name
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will assist you there seated among you. Please be parp with your questions or
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identifications. When the prisoners leave here, they are sent to the washroom and
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dressed back into the jail clothes. It makes it quite difficult to bring them
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back after they meet here. The questions I asked these suspects, I'm really
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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. Bring on the line, okay,
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keep it moving. Right over to the end of the stage. Hands to
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your side. I'll turn and face front. Okay, boys, now when
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you answer my questions, talk up. A lot of people out there,
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and I want you to talk up so they can all hear you. All
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right, Number one Thomas Lane breaking an Enteram, Where do you live?
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Tommy? Thirty one twelve Kennedy up there? Don't look at me, Tommy,
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straight ahead right out at the people there. Yes, you live at
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thirty one twelve Kennedy North South or what thirty one twelve selth Kennedy. You
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live alone? Know through with my foot right with my folk. I know
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the people out in front camp here, you know. Come on, talker,
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I said, I live on my foot. Dad's better. Tommy,
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You're arrested. Anybody any weapon? Oh no, sir, I didn't have
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any weapon. But time clients behind one identification back? Where was it?
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A record? Number one? What's them? Hell? At the end of
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the line? Okay, number two, Frank Lazo was sup Where you let
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Frank? What do you do on the top of it? What were you
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doing when you were arrested? I was fighting. I was in a buck
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fighting. Did you started? No? Some guy hit the sailor. Slug?
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Who did you hit the guy that hit the sailor? I got so
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when he hit him to a gup, but did drop him with a pigot
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machine. Didn't have no business in that sailor. Taylor wasn't doing nothing but
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having a good time. The man who slugg said the sailor started off.
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I was standing right there side of Taylor. Wasn't doing nothing, staying in
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there, having a beer mining. Don't business guy I slug started the whole
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thing? Would want you know the same? Sure? My brother? Okay
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number three Dennis Riley drunk and disordered me. But in Dennison two fourteen or
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black apartments, see sage, what do you do? I'm kind of a
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lot of work. I have been doing nothing for a while. You're married.
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Do you think I'm here for? Because you and three other guys caused
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some trouble. Oh, I had a small party. My wife's out.
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I can't another when the bos I have a party. Well you got pretty
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drunk, Oh, not too much. How long were you drinking? Three
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years? Number four George Watson robbery. Where do you mean? John forty
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feder streak? You're rested with anybody? No? Any Well? What is
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it? They can played blue steel or what? What's up? We got
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something on that two eleven identification? Not yet, but I've done no cramp
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downstairs, says he saw the man kill. Oh this is Sam Rogers.
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Then oh Sam, they called me Sam Damn. Says he was in a
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carvert near the shore road, just keeping out of the rain. Saw a
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car pull off the side and heard a shot. Tell me about it,
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Sam, Well that's the tall man. Get out of the car. This
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was after the shot had CAUs He get out and grabbed the man's legs and
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dragged him out of the car. Bump bump. He swung him off the
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road so hard he rolled on down that heather just over and on. I
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just stayed on there, walked the road just over and over. You've seen
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a man who pulled this guy out of the car rolling down the hill.
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Yes, I saw him. He had to drag this dead fellow right in
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front of the headlights to get him over to the hill. There. I
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saw him kind of clear to him the headlights. How'd you know the fellow
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was then you got him down the moor? You know he was dead when
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this man rolled him down the hill. Well I didn't stick around and find
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out all this time. You get enough nerve to come in here, you
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know, I just kind of walk around thinking about it and think it.
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I better tell you, man, I we'm glad you did. Couldn't fix
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me up with the me, could you? Gothrein? Yeah? Wait a
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minute, okay, give it to me. Russell Godfree. They won one
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Kirby Roll. Okay, right, that's the identification, Russell Godfrey, three
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eleven Kirby Road. The dead up, that's right, Sam, I should
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fix him up with the mail and give him a bed. I am tired,
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I'm hungry, but I ain't tired. You've got any money, what
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kind of movies? You can have the run of the place. You won't
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mind it, okay, but I won't like it. I don't have nightmare.
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Sure, I can sure do without this rain. We need it.
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Yeah, well, come on, let's get it over with. Yeah.
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Shoot boy, somebody ought to trying to figure out a waterproof cigarette mess.
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Oh well, I'm sorry, I was expecting my husband. I'm Lieutenant Gothline,
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Missus Godfrey, Lieutenant, and this is Sergeant Gredon. Who is that
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something? May we come in? Yeah, of course, this is Godfrey.
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We'd like to ask you a few questions. Question. Yes, your
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husband was shot. Oh no, there's no other way of telling you this.
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I've got to tell you the truth. You mean someone killed Yes,
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ma'am, someone shot him. Oh, Missus Godfrey, Miss Godford, do
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you have many friends who remember the family? I'd like us to call my
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mother, Oh, my mother? What's the number, Missus Godford? Missus
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Crime Madison three three, Missus Crime Madison three three four courses from the hall
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that door. I'm sorry, I'm terribly sorry, but it's such a terrible
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shot. You think you could answer just a couple of questions and we won't
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bother you for a while. We found your husband out on the shore road.
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He comes home from work that way. Somebody drive him. You have
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his own car, He has his own car. Where does he work.
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What's mister Martin? The Martin Lyons Printing Corporation is a salesman, Martin Lyons
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Printing Corporation. Yeah, that's on the east side, about forty five minutes't
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here. What time does he usually get home? That's six your bouts.
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I've been worried because I didn't hear from him. I even call the office,
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but they said he left. Why would anybody want? The mother's on
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the way. Then he was in his own Carmer, Oh, the check
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and maybe maybe why don't you stretch out on the couch, missus Godfrey,
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your mother will be right over and throw that cover over. Man, sure,
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sure, yeah, now your game missus doctor? Yes, thanks man,
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Yeah, as soon as the mother gets here, we'll check on what
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kind of car he is driving. But out of ap B kid. Then
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tomorrow morning I want to go down to the Martin Lions Printing Company where he
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worked. Okay, yeah, miserable range. Yeah we needed it though,
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Yes, mister Martin, Mister sergeant Gremm, how are you saying? What
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can I see? Thank you? Now? Then what can I do for
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you? You have a man working clean and god yeah I think wrong.
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He was killed last night what Someone shot him, took his car, quickly,
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shot him deliberately, very deliberately. I walked downstairs with him, said
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good night. What about his wife? He took it pretty well. He
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didn't drive away with anybody. Oh no, he was alone. He was
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when he Have you any idea why anybody would want to kill him? No,
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I certainly don't. Did he have much money on him? I couldn't
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say any valuable, anything of value from your company? He had a briefcase.
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Briefcase, yes, through it in con seat with him, talk for
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a minute and started had any idea what was in the beach case that the
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kid all our salesforce rouse the sample phone called check? And what kind of
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chance they wouldn't do anybody any good? They'd need to pay his name here,
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I'll tell you what I don't know. And besides the signature, they
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need to be signed by the officers to various companies. These signatures acceptable because
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paying banks, you mean puts these up for a lot of funds, hundreds
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of each other own color mark. Well, who could cash these checks?
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Besides the thanks? I mean, don't they have regular check cashing? Oh?
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Yes, a number of them in the sie Lieutenant you don't think God
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there was killed for these checks. Yes I do. There are a lot
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of people who work pretty hard trying to make crime pay off. Oh enough
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up there here, Molly, there won't be any chilther. I'll help me.
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You have a cigarette now, look now, look Molly, we'll do
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the dishes tonight. You go sit right there and relax. Well do you
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like to eat over here? But how many times blacks? Ben? You're
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out the class? Okay, there is no trouble at all. Wonderful dinner
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money again. We ought to help one night. Oh I helped Monny a
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knife. You think I asked you before I heard that? Oh you did
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that? The cream on the table. No, no, the sugar is
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though. I mean, do you want to help comp in the other room.
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Yeah, we'll have it in the other room, honey. Okay,
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go on my start today. Shot over there? Ben? Oh we got
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in your chair man? Oh no, Ben's okay, Okay. I don't
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know the game like about of evening pictures. They are right pictures. Whopa
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Jones and John Lontagu light wave a little more Lot three one six by knockout,
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okay, well doing one fire by knockout? Well, the fight John,
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and there go on with a long left I want to get taken on
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his elbow and comments with his own left high, and they had a gone
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both always been dropped. This man this is got break a lot of reflect
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for each other. And there all right, clown, we will be right
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down. Better hold of coffee, honey, I just throught it back in
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the pot the corner. Hello, Ben, sorry to drag o. That's
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okay, Quen. This is mister webb got three sergeant grabs. The web
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is president of the firm whose name was cut into the checks. Just one
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check cash, that's right, it is there, and which one of you
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men cashed the change? The questioned to tell her he doesn't remember the man
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too well. Thinks he might have done a fine if he saw him again.
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He may not to aunt for fishing. No one on your payroll by
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that name of the window. Now fifty deduction. You did a good jem.
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Yeah, it's too good. Somebody is certainly familiar with mister Webber's business.
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We're running a check and all the employees. Have you seen mister Martin
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and Princeton. Yeah, we're doing the same with all the employees in his
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shop. How have you spot this as a phony. Well, Baxter's a
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check cashing service. Call me. Baxter's read about that man being killed in
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the check. Still he knew our payday and remembered it wasn't today, And
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so mister Baxter call whoever cash their things? Certainly got careless. It looked
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like it was plants. So well, after all, it makes sense.
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It's like a perfect one to him. Had to make a mistake of cashing
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it on the wrong day. You might have gotten away with it, and
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it's going in with a lot of other chains. Just something. Excuse me?
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Why guys right? Gotmen? Yeah? Yeah? Where? Okay?
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Right? God God for the stolen car. Spot him walking out on West
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cool friends says that ship all right right over here? Man, you want
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to talk to you attendant? Yeah, Gregg, yes, sir. How
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long ago did the man talk? That car about twenty minutes offs around the
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beach? Spot at it just one man? Yes, it's just one man.
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He told me to watch it because the some suitcases in it, three
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of them. The map my glove compartment and you're taking a trip. Might
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explain why that check was cashed on the wrong game. Let's go take him
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one, mister, Yeah, that's him. Here he comes. I don't
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point. He strouted his beIN. He's running ashes, run that way.
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He's behind those cars. For god, he's got a gun. Circle light
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way, man, right, give it up. You're throught it. You
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can't make it. Throw your gun out, Okay, blow him up?
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Yeah no, the ten is bad. Nevestein in the tank. But calm
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him down here. Yeah, well we need an identification stand. We want
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to know if this is the man you saw pull the other one out of
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the car and rolling down the hill. M hm okay, roll it out,
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Charlie. Well, well, what do you mean? Uh no,
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he's a guy. Wow? What do we do? What do you mean?
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What do we do? I don't know what we do? What do
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you got? Asher? Here's a guy's personal effects driver's license in the wallet.
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Name is Bishop, Frank Bishop. Check the files. No package on
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him? And what about the FBI. We're waiting for a kickback now,
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yeah? Nothing? What you here? Well, how do you think you
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figures? No guy's going to pull a gun like that unless he's mixed up
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in something that might get him a lot of years. Do you want to
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check that address with a license? Seven? Seven eight and a half Mont
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Spring. Yeah, wait a Minute's matter that address? What about it?
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Funny that address? It's familiar? Where the devil have I seen? S?
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Seven eight and a half doesn't do anything for me? Where are those
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lists of the employees working for the check cashing front? You put him in
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the pile. Do you want to Yeah, you have a couple of sheets
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dash here. Do you take a couple and we'll check him. Oh oh
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yeah, there's the FBI kickback and the guy in the mark got a record
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names Frank Bishop arrested nineteen thirty three on a four dry revenue. Okay,
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bringing in with you anohing on this one? Hey Ben, huh? Here
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it is the Martin Lion's Printing company. Jules Harrison seven seven eight and a
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half North Spring. I know I ain't seen him. Could be Bishop's roommates.
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Kick back? Then, Oh thanks, I take a couple of minute
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and go over and check on seven seven eight and a half North Spring.
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Man named Jules Harrison works for Martin Lyon's Printing. I want to talk to
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him. All right, how's we're going. We're going over to the printing
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company. I'm gonna hunch he's still working for them. As ye go down
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and get old Sam with one an identification. Oh it's Gothric idea and mister
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Martin's expected, thank you. That's Sam. Yeah, okay, oh,
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mister Martin Martin, this is Sam Rogers. Hey, Sam saw the man
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who killed Godfrey. You think maybe the man we want is working for you,
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Jules Harrison. Sure of course there the company for an early ten years.
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Well, we'd like for you to send point please all right, William,
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would you have to Harrison to come in? Yes, sir, What
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makes you think it was Harrison? Well, we spotted god for his stolen
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car in a parking lot. The man who was driving it went up a
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fight and was killed, and we checked his address. We found it matched
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Harrison's. Maybe this other man who is the one who killed god No?
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Oh, Sam here says he was. That's that's stiff. And the Morgue
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was the one who killed that phone and rolled him down the hill. That's
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for sure. Yeah, mister Harrison. Is he ten a minute, Sam,
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take a good look at him. Don't care. That's a fellow tenant.
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That's him. That's under arrest, Harrison. I'm holding you on suspicion
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of murder. That's the fella he pulled the guy out of the carney room
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down the hill. Wait a minute, right, the gentleman, So what,
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I haven't done anything. You know a man named Frank Bishop, I
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live with him. But you know a man named Russell Godfrey. Sure he
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used to work here. He got Wait a minute, you don't think Frank
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Bishop had Godfrey's car Bishop is dead. What's that going to do with me?
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Just live with me. One of you made a mistake and cashed one
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of those checks on the wrong day. I think it was Bishop. I
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think he got scared and tried to skip down. I don't care what you
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think. I didn't have anything to do with this man. Saw your old
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God for his body out of his cash that shat. Sorry you pushed him,
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just pushed him. We think you planned this whole thing with Bishop.
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You get the checks, Bishop forges them. You've been working here ten years,
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haven't you. Yeah, you'd know just what to do with those checks.
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Have you had a good forger to help you. How long have you
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known Bishop? He's been living with me for the last year. I took
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him in the help of the rent. You should never cash that check,
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Ryan Decasher, I didn't mean to kill Godfrey. I waited on the road
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and he picked me up. I didn't mean to kill him. Bishop got
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scared and needed some money planning, and he ruined it just by cashing that
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louty check. Okay, let's go down to the station. Yeah, just
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as much my fault. I didn't mean to kill Godfrey. Things like that
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happened, I guess, but I didn't mean. Okay, let's go jail.
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Oh, I see you. Come on, come on, it's nearly
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four o'clock. He served dinner. Now the lineup, or before you pass
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the innocent, the bagerant, the thief, the murderer. Listen again next
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week when we again bring you the lineup. May I have your attention,
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please, you people out there on the other side of the wire in the
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audience room, may I have to rete please? Thank you. I am
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a gred Sergeant MAB I'll explain the lineup to Each of the suspects you will
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see will be numbered. I'll call off a number, then name and chard.
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If you have any questions or identifications, please remember the number assigned to
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the prisoner. As I call the day at the end of each line,
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when I ask what questions or identifications. All up. This is the United
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States Armed Horses Radio Service. Welcome back. Well, I was very glad
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we found this particular story. The big reason is in this episode we meet
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we meet Matt's wife, Molly, which wasn't a moment I wanted you to
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miss out on one thing that I found somewhat questionable in here is they went
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into you know, the detective show small talk thing, uh, right around
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the woman who's husband had just been murdered. Hey, just be me.
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But I wouldn't say that would be a great thing to do while you're right
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in front of a new widow. Cray, but me that hasn't may.
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This was a good case and I was glad to bring it to you.
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And we return to our normal continuity next week. But in the meantime,
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