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The Line Up: The Harrowing Haggada Handball Case (EP0926) · 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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  a big gap in the lineup in terms of episodes. The last episode we
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  played you was from February twenty second of nineteen fifty one. This next episode
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  is fifteen weeks later, on June twelfth of nineteen fifty one. So here
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  is the hero is the Harroween Hagatta hardball handball case. That's the Harroween Hagatta
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  handball case. Enjoy, ladies and gentlemen. We take you now behind the
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  scenes of a police headquarters in a great American city, or under the cold
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  glaring light. Will pass before us the innocent, the big ran, the
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  thief, the murderer. This is the lineup. Alright, Ben, all
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  right? I put Low down in the first row. He's right over there.
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  Thanks, Glenn, Hi, Manna, Hello Kenneth. How do you
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  feel pretty good? I guess a little uncomfortable to keep my arm up like
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  this? How long when you have to keep the cast on? About four
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  months of doctor said, pull the chat of the bomb. I had to
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  put a new piece in that stuff. Fun. You think you got the
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  guyvious the same when you're picked up a month? Your attention to you people
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  out there on the other side of the bon audience room. May I as
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  you? Thank you. My name is Grebb Sergeant Matt Grabb. But I'll
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  explain the lineup to you. Each of the suspects you will see will be
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  numbered. I'll call up a number, then name and charge. If you
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  have any questions or identifications, please remember the number of signs of the prisoners
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  that call his name at the end of each line. When I asked for
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  questions or identifications, call up the number. If you're short enough, too
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  short of the suspect catam hell, the officers have took your name, will
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  assist you there seated among you. The questions I asked these suspects similar to
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  get an actual tone of void. They do not pay too much attention to
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  their answers, as they often lie right on the line. All right,
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  boys, for moving right over here to the end of the stage. That's
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  just not telling pot hands the aside. I want to call you a number.
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  Step out and talk up to the people in the back of the room.
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  Can hear you a number? One? Elliot? Push your up streets?
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  That number three? Yeah, apart the small sho that's the guy.
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  I'm a commercials. He's the one who was driving the way he comes up.
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  I want you to be positive. Okay, what started the bike?
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  The guy? Matter? Remark? What did you hit him with a gas?
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  That's a shop hooking? Yeah, he was a the hall in fish
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  you gap him? What was the man you used on? The guy works
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  the other member of another day? No, I don't even know who they
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  are yet third guy up there with no one? He is a cup for
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  long time too. You know I got a memory? He didn't that time.
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  What I thirty three and a half North Lincoln. Where do you work?
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  I ain't been where as you were. Friday used to be a fire
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  lightweight, a little heavy now Any weapons? Huh? Any weapons on you
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  when you were arrested? Nah? I just climbed into the place. I
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  didn't want to HiPE nobody. Where are you from? P Detroit? I've
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  been here a couple of months. I guess I couldn't find nothing to do.
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  Can't fight no more? Go blind in his side? Did you have
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  a car? No? Am I going to get a cut? Okay?
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  P step back? Okay? Number three Collie Price arm Droppery ready to live?
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  Couling seven seventy four North Electing the hotel. What's your business? Colling?
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  Nope, come out, talk of color. I'm not with you.
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  You have any weapons on yeah? That he E eight revolver automatic automatic?
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  Can you people out there here? Oh? Nah? You heard what I
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  said? Coling? Ye, all right, talk about It's a long way
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  to the back of the room. Shure. Okay, you want a car?
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  Colling? No, you were driving one at the time of the robbery.
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  Wasn't a no robbery that hire you? Probably I was closer than this
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  when you drove away side and grab yes all number three for interrogation. I
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  want to quay squash tonight. I'm sure just you and me, well Quine
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  and Nasher are on duty. Maybe we can pick up a couple of others
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  at the club. You're gonna lose like the last time, or I was
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  tired. Hello, Conny, how are you when I had to make this
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  short? Okay, it's up to you. I didn't do nothing, are
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  you just listen? Okay? The Spartan payroll was struck up, so what
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  jest? Listen for him in wearing masks walked in and walked down with one
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  hundred thousand dollars. A god was shot, but he got a good look
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  at the driver to get away card. Can I smoked? Nope? Okay,
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  the god says you were driving the car. Yeah, he's blind.
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  You don't want to make it short. I want to make a plenty short.
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  Just take my word and let me go. That's sort. He picked
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  you on on a month farm before we hauled you off that bus. Hey,
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  so we made a mistake, okay, Kelley. Oh look I'm telling
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  you the truth. I wasn't in all right time loser? Yeah, one
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  more app you get live? Oh you're going away? Huh you've been here
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  before, you know the Yeah, I don't scare me. Where'd you get
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  the five thousand dollars you had on him? I want it? Where horse?
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  One? Horse? Sound off? What race? What track? Fifth?
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  What track? I don't not bet them all? Look it up?
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  What were you doing the day before yesterday? Stayed home? I was in
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  on the robbery with you. I wasn't in no robbery. Are were you
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  driving the car for? I wasn't driving no carm Did you bet on that
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  horse? How much did you bet on that part? Enough to win me
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  five thousand? What were the uns? I don't remember? I bet every
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  day? What day? Did you bet this horse? Yesterday? We picked
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  you up getting on the bus at eleven o'clock in the morning. No,
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  no, no, I wasn't yesterday before? Hey, yeah, yeah,
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  I think so? Where did you better out of books? I thought you
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  said you stayed home. I went out. I can't stay in all the
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  time? Or were the other phone men in on the stick up? I
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  don't know what you thought. You read the papers, don't you. I
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  didn't read a robbery. You must have been a lot of money to win
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  five thousand? Yeah? Where'd you get it? I had it? Want
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  it? I look pretty good on the race. What was the name of
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  the book? Look? I don't want to getting no trouble. You were
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  identified as a man driving to get away cars. I tell you I didn't
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  drive no cars. Where were you going on the bus. I wasn't driving
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  no car. I would I wasn't an earlier. You were no over the
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  other four men? Hi, don't over look? Can I have a drink
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  of water? No? You were in your apartment that day? Yeah,
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  and you went out to the book. Yeah yeah, What else did you
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  do? I stayed all day? Yeah? Yeah I was. I was
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  tired. I listened to them. I didn't you go out for food?
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  No? Were they calling? Who were the other man? There wasn't any
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  other man. I don't know what you're fuck. You'll get life collay a
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  wife. But what I didn't do. We've got enough to conviction right now?
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  All right, then do it? Do it? Go ahead? You
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  want the other four name? Give us the name? Nuts, Tell me
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  some more about that horse. You wanted five thousand? No, no,
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  no, no, got a cigarette? Man? Yeah? Yeah, come
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  on? What do you play off? Will you? But come on,
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  you'll be You've been working on me for four hours now, my gosh,
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  your husband? Hey yeah, play off of peaks. I'm a little christy.
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  You you bet the races all the time. I'm colly yeah, yeah,
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  all the time. He went back. Yeah, look can I can
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  I please have a drink? Yeah? Thanks? Man? How come you
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  only got five thousand out of one hundred thousand dollars job? I didn't get
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  a try from a job. I got it back on monkey Okay. We
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  were the other four man thet Hole Steader, Jack Fascy Yell, David jameson
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  flat Fleischman Fleishman. Yeah yeah, he just got out two months ago.
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  Yeah, he figured the job, he would. I got a flat five
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  grand and they split the take. All I did was dry. I don't
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  know. Give me a drink of water. I'm losing my voice, hey,
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  Ben? And number three, Oh, I told quin would be up
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  here. You get out on ap B Yeah yeah, descriptions on all of
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  them. I hope we get Flashman first, he said. Smarty never argued
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  you can just tell us who the rest were ready to get b I'm ready
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  to find out if you can. Okay, shaving up right? Oh that
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  was a lucky I mean I was all right yeah, and here quin,
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  I'm just getting stock. You're lucky boy him, I felt it tonight.
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  You can't even get out of your own word. Oh wait, what's up?
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  Trauman thinks as a good fast shoald spotted, I got the building stake
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  out. You don't want to come along? Should I say? We'll come?
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  We've got time for a fast shour. You can take it after you
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  get fast shold. But it's m he's in a steam bad I might even
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  stick around for a rubdown. Which one last food on the end? Okay,
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  you're going back to the front. Hey, there's customers near the board.
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  Ain't going to be no shooting. He's getting a rubdown, isn't he?
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  Where's his clothes? The other rule? I don't think he's got a
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  gun winning crying to check his clothes? Okay, show me? Yeah,
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  sure, Hey, what's going on? Gets? Look your guy like you
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  ain't getting no fiction. Let's go fast here these guys guy on the capaccio
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  raace, Oh come on fast, yeah, yeah, he was going to
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  pay for this. Man. I had known I was going to get this
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  kind of a workout, I wouldn't have suggested squash teams with the praise household
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  American music, You and your entire family are invited to join paying every Wednesday
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  evening over most of these same CBS stations. That's Wednesday Night, Bing's Night
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  on the air, the Bing Crosby Show, an American listening tradition. Oh
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  Shore, I know it hurts question. You look much better card to breeze.
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  We have been puttering in your garden, Fossio. You sure have a
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  green thumb. Huh. Eighteen thousand dollars we got passion in an old empty
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  grade book. Can imagine our surprise. I don't trust banks your circle of
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  friends. I don't blame you. You've never been such a smooth operator,
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  Fashio. How come your end with so much more than cling? Whose CULI?
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  Oh look, let's not play hide and seek anymore. I already got
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  a blister digging in your devil grass. We've got a sign confession from culling.
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  It's only a matter of time until we get your playmates. Martin Fleischmann,
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  Lou holds that are in David James, right, fossio. Now you
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  still want to waste time? And I recommended Culli for the job. Five
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  GRANDI got ain't made that in two years? Why when I run into him,
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  he was tending bar in some sloppy saloon. I took him to see
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  Marty, got him a suit of clothes, one of them one hundred,
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  and let him sleep in my couch. I had to get a clean too.
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  Crummy bum got haroil all over the upholstery. Oh, you don't have
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  to stop talking through your nose for a while. Fast show, but don't
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  stop talking. Where do we find the rest of the boys. I don't
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  know. I don't get hasty. I just don't know. Hopes that it
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  was leaving the state James, I never knew before he was Marty's idea.
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  What about Marty? Marty's smart. You'll have trouble finding Marty. Where'd you
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  see him last? Look, cole tennant. I'm not trying to be difficult.
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  No one to play at Cozy. It's just my nose hurts. I
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  don't have the duck. Look at it again fast, hyow after you tell
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  us all you know, don't start from Illinois, Man, I picked up
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  all stellar good. See I told you he left the state. Take a
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  couple of men, send him up on extradition for rights. Raight down too
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  to go? Where? S Flishman fashion. I mean it's fellas if I
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  was you, I wouldn't know where to start looking for Marty. He's covered
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  up good. If I know Marty only he doesn't know we're looking for me.
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  What are his habits? What does he do with his bad time?
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  He reads a lot ancient history he likes. I used to meet him at
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  the library once in a while and drive him home. He never learned to
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  drive. Which library? Big one and Central? He wouldn't go there now
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  Marty is too smart to go anywhere for a while. Man, put a
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  stake out on every librarian town right. Ah, you're wasting your time.
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  Mighty too smart. I don't feel like a smoke Lieutenant. Wonder if it
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  had hurt my nose? Yeah, try it and find out. Say you're
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  using a different brand of coffee, Well it was that instant stuff I thought
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  i'd try, and says emptying the grounds you're like it. It's not bad.
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  Did I tell you Molly is going away for a week? Oh visit
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  her mother. It'll do her good to get away for a while. What
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  are you gonna do? Well? I thought we might here man, I'll
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  bring him in. Last time she went away, you were like a lost
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  puppy. Yeah, sit him, sit down, Thanks Rand to have you
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  back. You should let us know when you leave town. Look, I'm
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  not in the mood. Get to it all right, Hosteta. We want
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  a full confession on the spot, and hold up. Do we get it
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  now or later? We've got coming and fashion a sign and seal. Your
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  name is very prominent in the statements, so so don't be a fool,
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  Hostetta. We don't need your confession. Just do yourself a favor. Yeah,
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  you're a lucky boy that God's still alive. Fella, not the way
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  you planned it. I didn't shoot up. Yeah, go ahead, host
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  tell you were saying God? Yeah? Are you sure? And don't take
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  him? And unless he comes out before I get there, come on,
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  Matt, he may have splishman and excusees. Once your horse set him.
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  This is fleishman. You boys will have a fourth foot bridge slashing pointal and
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  the tange wan you're going huh oh man, Hi Ashen, I'm pretty sure
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  it's splishman all right, drawlman on the beat spotted and I went up and
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  took a look. He's in the ancient history section. Once it set him,
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  it's not very crowded in there. I was afraid to send too many
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  boys up. Get suspicious. I've got two men in there with him now,
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  one man in the hall, two men up there at the entrance.
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  Anybody with him didn't spot any listening? Are reading? That's taken throw him
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  at the end. You have the place clish sound James, Yeah, that's
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  fleshman. Is there's something I can do for you? Please? Let stay
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  here rushman Freshman, Oh, let's keep it quiet. Freshman. Hi,
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  certainly I was just reading The Horizon Fall the Roman Empire. You want to
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  attend it? Rud in school should read it again. Very interesting. Let's
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  go. I'm surprised to see you boys, very frankly didn't expect you.
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  Let's go. Isn't arrest that spot in payroll. We've got everybody but David
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  James. Oh sorry, rest all right, boys, Oh I have to
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  return this book. Okay, thank you, miss By. Yes, i'd
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  like to check it out, but I'm afraid I couldn't afford the overtime.
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  Good day, good day. Th i'ld like to find David James, would
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  it help me mine? I am quite sure you can find him on his
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  boat. His boat. He lives on it. David is a sort of
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  a sea going hermit, doesn't care much for people. Where's the boat in
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  the river street south Landing? It's registered under Smith? All right, let's
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  have your right risk? Certainly it Rose and fell Rome Bleishman. Yeah you
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  want to boat? Yeah? Which one belongs to Smith? Ain't for rent?
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  You don't rent it? Which one is a catch one? Right down
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  there, end of the slip on the left. Yeah, okay, you
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  better get off. The doctor might be some trouble. Trouble. Please take
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  him with your ashing. Let's go, Pop, you want Smith. I
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  don't tell you all about it, Pop, let's go. I'm okay pretty
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  open. I want just call him on. If he doesn't like the idea,
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  give it to him. Maybe if we got him another boat across the
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  Yeah, that's a good idea. Oh I got you cooie sollow. But
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  my god, keep your head done. David James James y'all boxed in.
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  Come on, hell with your hands up. He doesn't want to cooperate.
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  James, Oh, are you surrounded? Yeah, I haven't got everybody.
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  Okay, yeah, I got a face full of wood. Give me that
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  times your go slugs all over the bay. James, I'll give you one
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  more chance. Come out with your hands up. Okay, all right,
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  all right, all right, put that thing away. Are your gunn off?
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  There? He comes, both hands up. James, I can't hit
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  the other one. We'll over this way. Okay, Okay, you guys,
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  your ain't got no consideration. My boonus full of holes. All right,
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  give me arrest after six thousand dollars, catch you ruined. It be
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  at the bottom of a couple of hours. Look, friend, we did
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  you a favorite. After you do your twenty years, you just get seasick.
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  Anyway, we'll line up or before you passed, the innocent, the
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  vegran, the thief, the murderer. Listen again next week when we again
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  bring you the lineup. May I have your attention, queen, you people
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  out there on the other side of the wire in the audience room, may
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  I have your attention. Thank you. My name is Gret Dodger Matt Greb.
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  I'll explain the line up for you. Each of a suspect, you
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  will say, we'll be numbered. I'll call out for number, the name
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  and charge. If you have any questions or identification, please remember the number
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  as sign to the president as I call in the name at the end of
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  each line when I asked for questions, are ident if you're sure enough to
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  sure to suspect edit help. The opposite of the line up, starring Bill
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  Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie and Wally Mayor as Sergeant Matt Grebb, is written
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  by Blake Edwards and Dick Quine, with music by Eddie Dunsteader. Featured in
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  heard This Thursday, I most of these same CBS SA Dan coverly speaking,
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  this is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System welcome back. While Himball didn't seem to
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  play a big role in this story, but most of these the titles really
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  not announced, just kind of for internal use, and the person who wrote
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  them had some fun with them. It was Hamball that was the outstanding features.
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  We've kind of seen this track them down sort of story before on the
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  lineup. By the way, let you know what some of the missing episodes
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  were. We had. There was the Molly about seven case, the check
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  killer case, the Weeping Willie case, the Farmer's Flimsy Fence case, the
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  Lamp the Lappanish Lighter Upper case, the Callocar stealing case, the River Road
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  Royster's case, the Brammel and Bellows Bloody Bullet case, the Fouled Up Freakingese
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  follow up case, the cadish Kenine cut up case, the Repellent Raiser Rippers
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  Ronevous case, the Meek Maraudi mechanic, the Hiccappine Hamster Haimostat case, and
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  the red Shirt case. Some of those are mouthful, I don't know if
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  they would have been as interesting as the title. But I just want to
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  let you know the ones that are missing. We have a while actually tell
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  our next lost episode, though we have yeah, least at least a few
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  weeks yet, so join us back here next week for the next episode lineup,
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  and then on Monday we begin a new Johnny Dollar adventure and the meanwhile,
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