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The Line Up: The Silver Swan Case (EP0920) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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weeks. All right, Well, now it's time for today's episode of the
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Lineup. The Silver Swan Case. Ladies and gentlemen, we take you now
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behind the scenes of a police headquarters in a great American city. We're under
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the cold, glaring lights will pass before us. The innocent, the vagrant,
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the thief, the murderer, this is the lineup. You think you
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catch him, Lieutenant, Maybe you'll got him now. Maybe, but we'll
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need your help, mister reducing. You got him, my help, all
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my help. I've been a night watchman in twenty years now I can help
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with the police, making me proud. Sure, sure adjusted here, thank
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you. You know I thought it was a bundle. He was carrying a
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big bundle. That's a joke and all, lieutenant, Yeah, a joke,
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man, it's not funny. This is a bundle. The man I
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carried down the fire escape, she was a deadly girl. Maybe I should
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run after him. You call the police. That was the right thing down
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the fire escape. But then he put around the pavement and walk away,
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just like that. The girl she was a strangler. That's right, strangle.
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If I run after them, maybe I catch you, you murder master.
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You have your attention. Please A man who almost have called the audience
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rule, may I have your attention? Please? Thank you. My name
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is Greb, Sergeant Matt Greb. I'll explained the lineup for you. Each
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of the suspects you will see will be numbered. I'll call off a number,
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the name and charge. If you have any questions or identifications. Please
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remember the number of signs of the prisoner as I call his name at the
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end of each line. When I asked for questions or identifications, All up
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the number. If you're sure or not too sure of the suspect had him
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held. The officers who took your name on assist you. They're seated among
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you. Please be prop with your questions or identifications. This man killer?
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When did they bring them out in a minute. Mister d'st back into the
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jail clothes. It makes it quite difficult to bring them back after they leave.
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Here the questions I asked these suspects how many to get a natural tone
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of voice, so do not pay too much attention to their answers, as
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they often lie. Bring on the line. All right, boys, all
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right this way, pick it up, Pick it up. The first man
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walked to the end of the stage. Take your place. The others follow.
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That's far enough. Not turning face front the other second man. Don't
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look up at the ceiling. Look out at the people so they can see
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you. That's right, all right. Number one, Finny was cello assault.
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Where do you live, Finny? Same place? There a little fish
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market. You hit him? Man? This morning? Knocked him up,
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that's right. Why did you hit him? Finnie? He said a bad
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thing about me? Is that all? He tried to sell me a rotten
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fish? Why did you hit him? With? Whoever? They watch everything?
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Rubber boo balcon? I think Number two Harold Dodge theF away from Howard?
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The East? Where in the east? The only place in the East,
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Boston. Don't tell me, Harold, tell the people out there Boston.
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Ever been arrested before? A few times? How often? Five?
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Ten, a hundred seven? Speak louder? How many times were you arrested?
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Seven? Where were you arrested? This time in a phone booth?
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I was calling my girl. The arresting officer said, you were breaking open
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the coin box. I was trying to get my nickelback. Call was hardly
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worth it. Number three Warren full of vagrancy? Where do you live?
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Warren? Flat bus? Which flat boss? They don't play no favorites,
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Sun goes down, there's always a flat boss. What kind of work do
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you do? Warren? Work? All right? What do you do all
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day? All that sitting in the park? Take a walk up Broadway?
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Everything about getting a job backtored about it? Have you tried sure? Right.
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When did you try one? Nineteen thirty three didn't work out? Number
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four, Charlie bond open charge. What do you live? Charlie, I'm
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not answer any questions. What's that? What's that? I didn't hear you,
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I said, I'm not answering any questions. Okay, make it tough
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for yourself. Don't feel good. I'm sick. You'll feel worse if you
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don't answer the questions. Where do you live? Rainbow apartments at the apartment
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house across the street from the realty building the way I know either way.
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Don't you ever been arrested before, Charlie for a living? Come on,
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speak up. I just can't see you're not sure you see the questions identifications?
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Sergeant Graham, Yes, Lieutenant number four. Having walked back and forth
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across the stage at you, Charlie, walk over to the end of the
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stage and back, I don't feel like walk Okay, I was reducing Yeah,
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yeah, yeah, that's the man I think so maybe Sergeant yes,
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all number four for interrogation. I don't feel good. Lutten. You'll get
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a doctor after we talked, Charlie, after you tell me about last night.
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You don't want to get a police doctor. Let me phone, I'll
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get my own. Last night, where were you all night? You want
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to know about all night? Huh, Well, that was in my apartment
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all night the day before I was sick. The night watchman in the really
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building said he saw you carry the body of a girl down the fire escape.
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You left the body on the pavement and walked away. My kidneys must
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must be my kidneys the way it hurts, the watchman said, while he's
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a liar, wasn't me, It wasn't I. I know you get paid
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to find out such things. Those right is on your face, Charlie.
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How did you get them? I don't I don't know. Maybe I cut
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myself shaping their long scratches the kind of girl's fingernails would make. Ben.
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Yeah, am I come on in a more called. They got a girl
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down there who thinks she can identify the body and take Charlie back to a
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cell. I'll meet you down at the Morgue over here, Ben, this
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is Laura Phillips. She works in the dance hall over in your fifteenth Street.
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Lieutenant. I hope you won't think I mean this is the first time
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we understand this. Phillips. You think it might be someone you know,
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my roommate. I know it's silly, but well, and to dance hall
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in such a hurry last night, and she didn't come home. Sure,
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sure, I understand this, Phillips. All right, man, Edna Edna?
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You must think I'm awful, miss Together getting upset like that. But
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when I saw Edna, that's all right, Miss Phillips. I feel well
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enough to answer a few questions. Could I have a glass of water?
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Please? Matt get her a glass of one? Yeah? Sure, sure.
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Your roommate what was her full name? Metna? One and the Holly.
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We've been roaming together about two years. Oh, thanks, you're welcome.
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And we both worked at the Silver Swan dance Hall. I see.
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Do you know anybody who would want to kill him? Oh? No?
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Edna was well, she was a little wild, but she was all right.
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Everybody liked her. What about last night at the dance hall? Do
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she have an argument? Edna never had arguments, mister Guthrie. She she
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was sweet, sweetest person I've ever known, Miss Phillips. Does the name
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Charlie Bond mean anything to you, Charlie Bond? No, man, hand
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me those mug shots at Charlie left hand drawn. Yeah, I been ever
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see this man before, Miss Phillips. Maybe he looks familiar. Try the
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profile here, He looks so familiar. I take your time, Yes,
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sir, I've seen him, mister Guthrie. I'm sure I've seen him at
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the dance halls. No, it must have been about a month ago,
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maybe two. He came in every night for about a week. Have you
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seen him since then? Not once? Did this man kill Eddin? That's
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something we have to find out. Poor and she was so sweet. Did
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she have any relatives here in town or somewhere else? No, I don't
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think so. Her mother and father did. She had a brother, but
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he was killed in the war. Oh, I just remembered Holly was in
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his married name. She only talked about her husband once, a long time
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ago. That's why I almost forgot it. She never saw him, well,
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he lives in town, but they were separated. Any idea of his
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first name, Albert or Alfred or something like that. I believe she said
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he was some kind of an artist painter. I think I'm not sure,
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all right, Miss Phillips. Thanks for your help, that's all. You
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don't want to ask? No, not now, I'll let somebody drive you
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home. Man. Yeah, then set up a tracer on Edda Holly's husband.
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I mean it's open. You're Alfred Holly. Who are you? Police?
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Lieutenant Guthrine, sit down, just dumped those canvases on the floor.
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I want to ask you some questions about what you were married to Edna Holly?
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I still am. When'd you last see your wife three four years ago?
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I forget? I forget because I don't remember. You hear about support
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money? No, oh, that's good because I don't have support money for
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her or me, edd And in trouble. She's dead? Would you hand
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me that brush? The big one? Thanks? I said, your wife
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is dead murder. She probably deserved it. Doesn't bother you. Makes me
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happy. She hated me and I hated her. We let it go at
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that. Did you hate her enough to kill her? More than enough?
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Where were you last night? Tell me, lieutenant? How was Edna kill?
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Strangle? The Rainbow apartments? But he was carried down the fire escape,
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left on the sidewalk. You didn't answer my question about where you were
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last night? No? No, I didn't well much? So funny do
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you think I killed Na carried her body? Down a fires game. Can
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you convince me you didn't come on? Lieutenant? Want me to show you
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to the door. We're not true talking, Yes we are. It'd better
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come along to headquarters certainly anytime. Well, come on, sure, would
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you mind handing me those crutches, Lieutenant? I can't walk a step without
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I've been waiting for you, Ben. How'd you make out within the
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Holly's husband He's a cripple. Couldn't possibly have carried it down the fire A
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scheme, don't you get Charlie Bond? He said he wasn't out of his
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apartment or last night. Well, he's lying. Ben, the man who
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runs a newspaper stand three blocks from the apopment house, said Charlie bought a
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paper from him last night around eleven. Is he sure? He's sure?
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Charlie's a regular customer. I'll go get Charlie. Could you, lieutenant,
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do me a favor. Would you stop making that chair squeak gets on my
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nerves. You'll get used to it, Charlie. I feel sick, sick,
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and I did this morning makes my nerves jumping. Charley, we found
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out who the dead girl was. He did at Norhalley. She worked in
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a dance hall called the Silver Swan. Congratulations, Lieutenant, I ever been
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in the Silver Swan, Charlie. The lieutenant asked you a question, Charlie,
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were you ever at the Silver Swan? Maybe? I'm a sick man.
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I can't sleep nights, ago lots. Why does you kill him?
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Kill who? At nor Holly? You strangle a Why? I don't know
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what you're talking. Last night you brought it into your apartment and you kill
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a Why? Charlie, you're crazy. I wasn't not in my apartment.
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We know you were out last night. I no, you don't know you
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bought a newspaper eleven o'clock. Did you forget, Charlie? Yeah, I
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forgot all right, So I went out for a paper while you're looking at
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me like that, nothing, Charlie, nothing at torn out for a paper.
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It was only a couple of minutes. You can't prove anything from that.
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When't you meet Edna after you bought the paper? I didn't meet this
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in I don't even know when you When are you gonna let me go?
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There's no hurry. You have to let me go soon, Lietendant, because
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you haven't got a thing on me. Give him to asher Man. Well
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you're taking me back to yourself, to Charlie. Never let me go soon?
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Really see my doctor upstairs again? Bill? You think the same way
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I do, don't you? Ben? How's that Charlie's a man? He
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killed it in a holly? I think so, But I can't prove it.
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We might make him crack. I doubt it, though we'll try.
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It won't be easy. We need a witness, Ben, somebody who saw
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Charlie Bond and ed in a holly together last night. All right, we'll
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make our own witness, huh, policewoman. We'll find a policewoman who looks
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like a dance hall hostess. Here we are, Norah. Is Charlie Bond
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already in the visitors room? No, he'll be brought in. Do you
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understand what you're supposed to do now? Yes? Just remember what I told
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him. We'll be listening in the next room. Good luck, Norah.
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Thanks, Lieutenant. All set up, man, all set up and working.
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Grab a chairman, all right and turn it up a little while.
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Right. Do you think Charlie will go for her story? It's a chance.
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I don't know Ben Norah being new and man, yeah, I must
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be him now, old me. I had a visiting Hello, Charlie,
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Oh you, I've got something to tell you. I don't know you.
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I work at the Silver Swan Dance Hall. What's that got to do with
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me? I know you, Charlie. I've got something to tell you.
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Something about Edna. Holly. I don't know anything about it. I'm going
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back to myself. Okay if you don't want to hear no, what about
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it? Holly, I'll make it short. I saw you meet her last
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night. You're crazy. Okay, I'm crazy, but I saw you.
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You're so smart. Why don't you tell the cops what do you want?
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Money? I don't know what you're talking about. Money to keep quiet?
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Five hundred dollars. You can't blackmail me. I never saw this at the
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Holly. All right, we'll leave it like can't prove I matter because I
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didn't. I said we'd leave it like that. The cops will let you
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go before long, and then I have to let me go. You know
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where I worked, Charlie, see you soon. You won't see me.
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I'll wait a week, wait a month, I don't wait, that's how
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long I'll wait. One week? Ms up? So long, Charlie,
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Like I said, see you soon. Turn it off. Man, you
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did a good job. Yeah, I think you'll bite hard. Maybe let
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him think it over a while. When do we relasten tonight? First thing
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in the morning tonight. We've got work to do quick. We have to
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rent a room for Norah near the Silver Swan. You know how hard it
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is to rent rooms these days. Morning, Ben, Morning, man.
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Did you release Charlie? Yeah, just signed him out. Very unfriendly person.
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Chad who's telling him? Pierson and Dougherty? Well, what about tonight?
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I call the manager of the Silver Swan. He's briefing Norah. Now,
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how many men did you get us? Nine counting Pierson and Doughty.
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Tell me how you want him staked out? Six in the dance hall,
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one on the dictor phone in the room next to Nora's check. Now,
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what about us? We'll be outside the silver Swan outside, h what about
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it? Well, it's freezing outside, Ben, don't we ever get an
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inside job? What time has it been? One? One fifty five?
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I wish they'd close these dance halls earlier. That wind's going right through me
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right too. It doesn't look like Charlie's gonna show man crossing the street?
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Where where end of the block? Yeah, I see him keep back in
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the shadow. I never mind, it's going the other way. Kind of
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looked like him, but I don't see Doherty. I guess we were wrong.
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I wonder when he'll show. He's got a week to make up his
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mind. Well, I hope the weather gets warmer. It feels like snow.
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Oh snow? What's wrong with snow? Putty? And the music?
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Still? Nora should be out in a minute. How could use some coffee?
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Coffee sounds good and I haven't been this cool since I was pound of
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beat and got used to it. We'll be here tomorrow night too. Looks
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like you're right. Oh, there's Norah Ben coming out the side door,
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and we'll give her a few seconds start before we fall. That's not far
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to my place. Ben. We'll tail Norah home and then go have coffee.
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Huh, here we are, Ben, I'll dry her ignor. Boy,
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do you two look cold? Maybe it's because we are anything to report.
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I can hear Norah now. She just came in. Yeah, we
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followed her switch on the two way. Will you dry everything all right,
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Norah? Yes, sir, But no, Charlie barn We'll try again to
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morrow night. All right, Lieutenant, stay in your room during the day,
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be in the dance hall at the usual time. Shows up soon.
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My feet are starting your hurt night two o'clock. I'm Ben. It's like
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another dry run. I wonder why he doesn't show. Doherty says he sticks
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pretty close to his apartment. Oh, it's so cool today. I think
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it's gonna smoke. I said, that's the first night. I still think
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so. Then maybe we ought to try something else, like one picked Charlie
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up again. He'd locked up until he cracks. You know that wouldn't work
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man, Hey, yeah, I guess not give it time we got for
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my nights. Yeah, come over for coffee afterwards. We ought to go
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to my place tonight. Mind's close. There's no huh wait, man,
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that's what's what's matter? Where the street lights burned out? I don't see
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anything he took behind the building. Charlie, I don't know there. Yeah,
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it's jolly. What do you know? He's letting Norah walk right by.
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I thought he wouldn't in her room. Huh. If we're lucky,
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but weirdly starts to fallow. Ben. All right, man, let's go.
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Charlie's not following your ring bend, just standing on the other side of
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the street watching. He's waiting, waiting for what I find out? Which
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rooms Norah's He should know now she just turned on the light. We go
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out now, Ben, Yeah, the back way. Come on, we've
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been up here a long time. Ben. Maybe he won't come up.
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He'll come. Well, Norah must be then, Yeah, who is he,
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Charlie, Ball just a minute, turn it up to her. He
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took your time getting here. I had to think about it. I thought
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maybe you wouldn't come. You said I had a week. I'm here.
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Now, did you bring the money, Charlie? Money? But what for
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me? So I'll keep quiet. I haven't got any money. Don't stall,
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Charlie. I want five hundred dollars. Suppose so I don't pay,
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I'll go to the cops. Tell him I saw you with Edna Holly.
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I've got a better idea, better than money. Yeah this, Charlie,
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let's go. Well, I'll be belly. Look at Charlie. She saw
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like a fish. He was going to I threw him the way they taught
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it. Nor what's some money? He was he was gonna kill me.
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No man, how about that? She slugs a killer then passes out.
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What is it with women? Ben? The lineup? Where before you passed
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the innocent, the vagrant, 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? Five people out there on the other side of the wine in the
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audience room, may I have your attention? Please? Thank you. My
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name is Graham, Sergeant Matt Grebb. I'll explain the lineup to you.
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Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered. I'll call off a
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number their name, of charge. If you have any questions or identifications,
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please remember the number of signed in the prisoner as I call his name at
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the end of each line when I asked what questions are identification. The lineup,
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starring Bill Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie and Wally Mayer as Sergeant Matt Grabb,
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was written by Charles E. Israel with music by Eddie Dunstead. Featured
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in tonight's cast were Jane Ovello, Junius Matthews, Sidney Miller, Pat McGee
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and John McIntyre, Mary Jane Croft, and Sammy Hill. The lineup is
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produced and directed by himI Delfaye. Beginning next Tuesday, the lineup will be
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heard at the same time on most of these stations on Tuesday evenings. The
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lineup joins Mystery Theater, Mister and Missus North, Luigi and Ralph Edwards as
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a Tuesday feature on CBS. Be listening for the lineup at the same time
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on Tuesday's beginning next Tuesday, February twenty seven. Now, stay tuned for
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a special program and observance of Brotherhood Week, which follows on many of these
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same CBS stations. Dan Coverly speaking, this is CBS we're Edward I Merle
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and hear it now come to your Friday evenings the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome
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back. Well, not as positive portrayal of women in law enforcement as policewoman,
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but still not too bad. And this definitely showed some stick tutiveness on
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the part of the officers, and literally they staked a lot on what they
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were told from the witness in the lineup. Really, you know, going
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to extreme measures and taking some pretty big chances in terms of their own credibility
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and just the number of man hours that was being put into this project.
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Well, now we do turn to listener comments and feedback, and this one
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comes regarding episode from a couple of weeks ago, episode nine oh eight,
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the Senile Slugging Case and David comments. So regarding the title of this episode,
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it's worth noting that the words senile originally meant elderly, without any constant
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connotation of mentally infirm. I'm not sure when it picked up its modern meeting,
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but it's possible it may not have sounded as weird to the years of
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nineteen fifty as it does today. Well, thanks so much for that perspective,
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David. It's truely I appreciate it. Well, that will. That
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will do it for today. We will be back on Monday with yours truly
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Johnny Doler, and then join us back here next Saturday for the lineup.
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In the meantime, I send your comments to a box thirteen at Great Detectors
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