Latest / Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas / The Line Up: The Senile Slugging Case (EP0908)
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- 1:51But let's go ahead and get into today's episode. This one is called the
- 1:56Senile Slugging Case. Ladies and gentlemen. We're taking all behind the scenes of
- 2:02a police head quarters in a great American city or under the cold glaring lights.
- 2:07Will pass before us. The innocent, the vagrant, the thief,
- 2:10the murderer. This is the lineup. Ben. Yeah, here's mister Wiggins.
- 2:42How do you feel, mister Wiggins? Better? I feel a little
- 2:45bit any good? Well, we can sit right here in each mouth.
- 2:47No, no, no, all right, I'll see you later than Ben.
- 2:52Yeah, thank you, Sag. Next guy, Glan. Yeah.
- 2:57How many people do we have to look at? Why? I think they're
- 3:00twenty eight or twenty nine. We've had two other cases like yours in the
- 3:05past week, mister Wiggins. We've picked up a couple of guys that might
- 3:07be possibilities, but we haven't been able to get positive identifications. Now,
- 3:12may I have your attention? Please? Your people are up there on me
- 3:15on the side of the hill. I have the audience room. May I
- 3:17have to relently. Thank you. My name is Greb Sargeant Matt Grebb.
- 3:23I'll explain the lineup to you. Each of the suspects you will see will
- 3:27be numbered. I'll pull off a number of them, name and charge.
- 3:30Do you have any questions or identifications? Please remember the number as signed of
- 3:35the prisoner as I call his name at the end of each line. When
- 3:38I ask for questions or identifications, all off the number. If you're sure
- 3:44or not too sure of a suspect, have him held. The officers have
- 3:47took your name will assist you. They're seated among you. Please be promp
- 3:52with your questions or identifications. When the prisoners leave here, they are sent
- 3:55to the bathroom and dress back into their jail clothes. It makes it quite
- 4:00difficult to bring them back after they leave here. The questions are asked these
- 4:04suspects a many. They get a natural tone of voice, so do not
- 4:08take too much attention to their answers, as they often lie. Bring on
- 4:11the line, okay, and moving up over to the side of the stage,
- 4:17spread it up and stand facing the audience. Hands to your sides and
- 4:20keep looking straight ahead. Our boys. When you answer the questions, talk
- 4:26up so the people out there can hear you. It's a long way to
- 4:29the back of the room, so keep your voices up alright. Number one
- 4:33William Bushman robbery, Take your hands out of your pockets. Where do you
- 4:38live, William under Nathan Lincoln? Where you're from? Well say it long?
- 4:43You've been in the city about seven months? I think? Why a
- 4:49lot? Seven months? Were you are listed with anybody? William? Yeah?
- 4:54A couple of guys I don't love with their name Joe Joe. I
- 5:00don't know his last name, Joe Lucas, number eight team there's what was
- 5:05the boy? Well him Twitch Herman Twitchell. Nah, he's number nineteen.
- 5:12Any weapons would him? No? You have a car? No, we
- 5:16was walking. If we had a car, wouldn't be here. Number two
- 5:20Max swam Roubray. Where do you live? Max? He signed have an
- 5:26address? Have a joke? And four of him an orchids? Sigh?
- 5:29Where you were alone when you were arrested? Wait? I was with the
- 5:31gun. I was sticking up Was anybody arrested with him? And you know
- 5:35I was pulling the job. We weren't sticking up each other any weapons?
- 5:41Max? You think he was giving me his water because I was a putting
- 5:45a punnet. You want to be funny, We got all night, Max.
- 5:48You can just stand there, be funny all night. I sick.
- 5:53Were there any weapons? Yeah? Thirty two Nicol played at Blue Steel?
- 5:57What blue Steel? Not trumping the US? You have a car? Nope?
- 6:02Okay number three stand me, my rubrade, those man I don't recognize
- 6:09any of those. You have to speak up, stand and I don't live
- 6:12here. I'm from out of them where, out of time Will and your
- 6:16people hearing back there at the matter. Now, look, I told you
- 6:20boys, you're gonna have to talk. I don't want to have to repeat
- 6:24the questions and talk up all the way to the back of the room.
- 6:29Aware you're from stand we haven't in death. Where have you been staying here
- 6:34on one place? One nighte of flop? What plophouse? Yes, I'll
- 6:39flop out. I don't remember all the members. I'll flop la Hi,
- 6:58Hi Wiggins didn't spot anybody. Huh No, there's two guys that jumped in
- 7:03and did it too quick. This is the third sluggin in a week.
- 7:08Somebody better come up with a halfway decent description. These guys aren't stupid.
- 7:13They follow a pretty routine, m old, dark spots, like an old
- 7:16guy like Wiggins jumping before he knows what's happening, beat him unconscious and rolling.
- 7:21How much chances he got for a decent description. They're liable to kill
- 7:26somebody, they seemed to beginning. Bluffer. Yeah, here's a list of
- 7:30wiggins valuables. See that all the pawn shops are coming, okay, Ben,
- 7:32the other two victims didn't have much of Those guys might want a hat,
- 7:35and Wiggins had a gold watch and an old stickpin watching his name and
- 7:40an inscription. They might try to get rid of it. We're in thirteen
- 7:44j tonight. Huh Yeah. These boys move around, but they seem to
- 7:48stay pretty much to the east. Sign we'll have the usual cars in five
- 7:54auxiliaries. Water was putting about a dozen plain clothesmen on the streets. Be
- 7:58funny if one of our boys got old, alright, too old. These
- 8:01guys pick them old so they won't give him much trouble. Nice guy,
- 8:05Yeah, swell Devin before fifteen and went over by fourth Lincoln. How about
- 8:26it? Getting hungry? Yeah, well, let's pull your rodgers and getting
- 8:31hamburger. Okay, ordered me a hamburger and coffee. Will you ben,
- 8:41I'll be right, okay, Unit J nine, No, I don't need
- 8:48a man to Hamburger isn't too coll Hamburger everything on the Burgna Attention all units
- 8:58in area eight at two eleven slugging at eight seven West Bullock, Oh unit
- 9:07this all those Hamburgers? Than what's up? Slugger about a line away goes
- 9:18someday I'm gonna finish. A quin's already here, high quin. What's up?
- 9:37So I'm not pretty bad? M oh good, Oh my gosh,
- 9:45I've done everything i can. There comes to the ambulance. This is the
- 9:48father and father and it all. Yeah, this was Don Guthrie. Tell
- 9:52him about it. Well, I was walking by over on the sidewalk post
- 9:56a cigarette over here, and I saw her. Well I've brought in I
- 10:00this officer in the car, and I yell if hi doc not a slugging
- 10:05it. Yeah, yeah, she's not dead, but she's close. Hey,
- 10:09get that blanket over. It's like a bad fracture, really bad,
- 10:13lost a lot of blood and thinks you're making I don't know, keep that
- 10:16endless. It's pretty old, lost a lot of blood and how are you
- 10:20coming down with him? Yeah, yeah, we'll be done. It just
- 10:22didn't have anything on a bend, no identifications. They get everything. Uh
- 10:26huh, you just found a lying him mister home They're right, do my
- 10:31cigarette over here. I wouldn't even have seen her if I had to throw
- 10:33him my cigarette. They probably waited behind this hedge grabbed her when she passed
- 10:37slugger and dragged her into the lat It's good spot for it, good and
- 10:41dark. Gee, it was a terrible scene. I still can't quite believe
- 10:43it. What are you going to do by? What do you think?
- 11:03Into a guest? Seen? Doctor great? Row up again at two eleven
- 11:07slugging that came in about a half hour ago. Who's got him? The
- 11:09old lady? Yeah, she's in surgery now, doctor Gordon. That's the
- 11:13from this week, didn't little time? Yeah? Mind? If I look
- 11:16at your newspaper, mirth, No go ahead? Coffee shops closing? Yeah,
- 11:22will Coe weant? I could use them? Want me to run down
- 11:24to the kitchen? No, no, no, if again, no,
- 11:26no thanks man, We'll get them across the street later. Hey Ben,
- 11:31the tennis matches will be here Wednesday. You want to go one? Do
- 11:35any Wednesday? Will be here for three nights. Let's go see him one
- 11:39night. Huh. I'd like to see that Nancy Chaffey. That's a pretty
- 11:41girl picture on that last sex on someplace. Yeah what section man right there?
- 11:50Pretty girl? Huh yeah, I'm ben. Yeah what do you say?
- 11:56I want to go? Yeah? It come doctor Gurdon will kind of
- 12:01doctor. I'm guthree doctor sixteenths precinct. Oh yeah, this sergeant Graham.
- 12:05Hello. How's the old lady? She died? Wasn't much we could do
- 12:09pretty well gone when she came in. Someone walk down with me while I
- 12:13get out of this gown. I'm sure see you later. Mark. Yeah,
- 12:16take it easy, Mark. Oh you've got an identification yet? No,
- 12:22yeah, bring your prinsonal help. Though we did just about everything.
- 12:24It's a bad fraction, really bad one. That bad. They don't spend
- 12:28months of a chance. She regained consciousness at any time. No, but
- 12:33the looks as a woman. Whoever hit he hit it with something pretty heavy.
- 12:37Blackjack, No, something like a pipe maybe redn't let I haven't unless
- 12:43way these boys have been working. I had three others, not this band.
- 12:48No thanks, sorry, no thanks. Yeah, It's hard to believe
- 12:52anybody would beat up an old woman hit it that hard. Just doesn't make
- 12:58sense. No, I don't guess it does. He's not a victim.
- 13:01Do you have much of money on them? Had it all together? About
- 13:03twenty four dollars money? Man? Anything new? No? I don't.
- 13:26I guess routines. Now, let's grab some coffee. Non now? Okay?
- 13:31Ninety nine four fifteen at Lincoln and Lucas JQA R eight three zero seven.
- 13:37Okay, code ticks. Oh, I was just looking for a band.
- 13:46Come on in, huh. Mark sent us out of the fingerprints on
- 13:48that old lady. You got an identification? Yeah? Will you run a
- 13:52check through m AS when we came up with our one's name is Stokes,
- 13:54missus Rebecca Stokes lives at five eighteen Northolk with her daughter. As she went
- 13:58up to get the daughter a lead a positive identification, Asher was taking right
- 14:01down on the morgue. I thought maybe you'd like to talk to her first.
- 14:05Yeah, yeah, I would, let's go. The daughter's name is
- 14:09Lillian Dunn. She was married, husband killed in the war. Well,
- 14:31Asher, I lieutenan, Oh, this was miss Dunn. This is Lieutenant
- 14:35Guthrine. Sergeant Grip. How do you do miss Dune? How do you
- 14:37do We certainly wish we could eliminate all this misdone, but it's necessary.
- 14:43I don't think I can go through with it. I don't think I can
- 14:46do it. Well, it's necessary. She has to be identified by a
- 14:50relative. I just don't think I can. Well it is your mother was
- 14:54sure that sooner or a lady, you'll have to well sooner or lady,
- 14:58you'll want to see her not in here, but he's not in here.
- 15:01We'll have to keep her here until we get a positive identification. Do you
- 15:05have any other family and cousin wol if they could get down here. You
- 15:13haven't seen mom in years. Young Mother's the fourth victim in a week.
- 15:18We've got to stop these men. We'll need some information. Where was your
- 15:24mother going last night? I guess she was coming home. She went to
- 15:30a movie early one night because she was coming home. And did she have
- 15:33a purse with her any valuables? Yes? A person. Can you remember
- 15:37some of the things she carried in a purse? He can it. No,
- 15:43there wasn't much about that much money or anything to identify her god things.
- 15:48Does she have any jewelry, any rings or a watch? Yes?
- 15:54But she had a wedding ring, an engagement ring that they were sick.
- 16:07I'm sorry, don't be I think miss done better go on home and I
- 16:10should get a description of the two rings and take a home. No,
- 16:14how do it? They have to get it over with it? Oh,
- 16:17I have to do it, Ben related Well, maybe we can get some
- 16:19close friends, you know. I want to do it to Dora. Okay,
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- 17:56sure, Neon King? Uh huh lovely? All right, he's winning.
- 18:11Who do you think can't use it now? Let's see yeah? Uh huh
- 18:29m hm uh huh, jin quine, do me a favor? Will you
- 18:37drop dead? Well, you couldn't discard the three, but only thirty cents
- 18:40if it says, oh, by the way, Wallas got it out the
- 18:42retired you and matter of thirteen j again, how about the policewoman. Think
- 18:45at five of them. They'll be in the area from ten till two,
- 18:48one car within the block of them at all time. Huh, well we
- 18:52got a half an hour. You want some dinner? Yeah, yeah,
- 18:53I'm getting hungry. Okay, descard the three? Wait a minute, you
- 19:00couldn't have what the scout of the three? Oh wait would be the jack
- 19:03h couldn't have been any of the nine other cards you? Yeah? Oh
- 19:08hello mister Wiggans, Yeah yeah, I remember get in where eight thirty seven
- 19:15South Wild Okay? Yeah, yeah, we meet you down about ten minutes.
- 19:21Right. That was mister Wiggins who spotted his watching the pawn shop.
- 19:25I watched the hold up men took after they slugged him. There's mister Wiggins.
- 19:49Where's the watch right over here in the window. Yeah, the Goldwin
- 19:57see the inscription? Yeah, okay, let's go in. Yes, and
- 20:07please, oh, we want to see a watch. You've got in your
- 20:11window? Sure? Sure which one? It's that one? The gold one,
- 20:18the gold? Sure? This one? That mister Wiggins. Yes,
- 20:23that's it. See the inscription to Dave Love Alice my wife, she gave
- 20:29it to me. Yeah. Remember where you're gonna? I got a ticket?
- 20:37H yeah? John Jones six seven one barring John Jones? Actually,
- 20:45good name. Do you remember what the man looking the man who had the
- 20:48watch? No? You remember when he hated? No? Didn't you date
- 20:52the ticket? How long have you? Henna? All week? Maybe?
- 20:55What's so important about the watch? It belongs to this gentleman, not to
- 20:57the men who harkeding. Oh, okay, take it? Ain't what much?
- 21:02It's solid gold? Gold? I god dozen't And what's your name?
- 21:06Mike Wagner? George Wagner? Look, I don't know nothing about it.
- 21:10This guy came in hot. That that's all. Look, mister Wagner's very
- 21:12important that we get a description of this man. He's stolen. H Yeah,
- 21:15he's got a friend. We want both of them from murder murder.
- 21:19That's right. You think you might know him if he came in again?
- 21:22Oh, I don't know what, I don't know. Maybe I don't remember
- 21:26you get one of these lists lists, one of these mister stolen articles like
- 21:30that watch. Oh yeah, yeah, I got one. None of these
- 21:33other things in your store. No, No, you're sure. Yeah,
- 21:37I'm sure you didn't know about the watch. You better check. Look,
- 21:41I know I ain't got none of him. You didn't report the watch.
- 21:44You better check. All right, I'll check you. If I find something,
- 21:47i'll call you. We'll wait while I check the whole inventors the tickets
- 21:52on the last week and I have Okay, we'll take a look at him
- 21:56too. Sure, okay, look offers him. I know the man that
- 22:03hocked that watch, but honest, I didn't know he killed nobody. I
- 22:07didn't know. Its name a young Carl Young. He's hot things before.
- 22:11He's been in a couple of times. I know him from the neighborhood.
- 22:14See, I didn't name him Carl, Yeah, Carl Young. The name
- 22:17of this watch is Dave. He said it belonged to his brother. You
- 22:21know his brother? No, but I know him. He seemed like an
- 22:22honest guy in the in the neighborhood. I bowled. He's in the bowling
- 22:29alley a lot. I bowled with him last Friday. Look honest, he
- 22:32seemed like I was dying around with another guy. I seen him with another
- 22:36guy sometimes a big guy. You better come down to the station, mister
- 22:41Wagner, the station. Why, I'm afraid you're in a little trouble.
- 22:57Yeah, I know him, Carl are young. He hangs out and hear
- 23:00a lot. You know where he lives. No, what's he done?
- 23:03Does he call around with anybody? Yeah, he's with one guy called a
- 23:07bin of Hallingen day and he swe the heck? Was he a quiet guy?
- 23:12Big? It was John and Joe? Oh gee, I'm sorry,
- 23:15I'm Joel Joe. I think it would and I I think we'll stick around
- 23:18you let us know if car young er Joe coming. Sure, the mine's
- 23:32got a dozen men checking the neighborhood. There are four cars in the bark.
- 23:36Nobody does anything unless you give the word. And if they both come
- 23:40in and take him, one of them will tail him. Okay, CH's
- 23:45three thirty. See that guy down there second alley, Yeah, we're about
- 23:49him. He's both six strikes well, okay, fair one fifty so far?
- 24:07Yeah you need a few strikes brands, yeah, hey, yeah,
- 24:18okay pick him up. Well, a lieutenant yeah. Heah, what's hello?
- 24:23I just came in which one one? I said, hello Joe?
- 24:29He said his name must be Joe. Get a load of this guy.
- 24:36Where is he upstairs a pool? I'll come on point it's here, coming
- 24:40in he held Joe. That's him. Yeah, come on. Then it's
- 24:56out in the street. Hold he's gotting into huh. Come one there,
- 25:06He's always gonna stay with him. Thirteen J Code three suspect proceeding east on
- 25:15Fountain, license number eight Old Roger one one three five A QUI attention on
- 25:22here in code three duth Bick traveling east on Fountain, night number eight Old
- 25:26Roger one one three five swinging left. Thirteen J suspect turning north on Lincoln
- 25:33quai all units in area B. Code three deathfect predating north on Lincoln.
- 25:38Don't get too close, my he's stopping. Thirteen J suspect at three thousand
- 25:51block Lincoln. He's getting out on a skull. He's going into the buildings.
- 25:57I hold it, wait till the rest of the boys getting here.
- 26:03Yeah, that's Quine now, yeah, he's in the building. Quine.
- 26:11You better take it around the back of the alley just in case, right,
- 26:15here's a sure quine's taking the alley in the back. We'll go in
- 26:22and you'll wait here with the rest. Spread them out. All right,
- 26:25let's go man, Okay, how do we do it? Find out what
- 26:29apart when he went in, they're out the building and take him. Yeah,
- 26:33wait a minute, nail boxes, Oh yeah, lipski pusher waiting.
- 26:37Let's see young truly? Uh huh. If they're in the room, we
- 26:41can just clear out the rooms on both sides. Forget the rest of the
- 26:45building. I'll take towards this. Okay, I'll take two ten. Yeah.
- 26:57Sure, So I tell you a car, isn't that Excuse me?
- 27:03Certainly? I tell you I know what I'm talking about. Big day then,
- 27:10yeah, that was car Young with the big boy. Come on,
- 27:11it's better. We'll take him on the street by climbing into the car.
- 27:18Called it young, ash here all my night. Wait, get them the
- 27:26quinnus. You're a gunyah, breaking for the yelling. Young's down. Take
- 27:37this one, ashur Hi, no shoe, no shoe. Queen's gone him
- 27:41nice the wall, put your hands on the wall. Okay, okay,
- 27:45shake him down. Man, Okay, big boy wasn't as tough as he
- 27:49looked. Ah, he's been fighting old ladies too long. The lineup or
- 28:11before you passed the innocent, the vagrant, the thief, the murderer.
- 28:17Listen again next week when we again bring you the lineup. Hey, I
- 28:21have your attention. Please, your people out there on the other side of
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- 28:29thank you, linameless, great Sarget mat Rep. I'll explain the lineup to
- 28:33you. Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered. I'll fill
- 28:38up the number the name John. If you have any questions, please the
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- 30:30every weekday evening. The Columbia Broadcasting System Welcome back. Well. I have
- 30:52to admit this is probably one of the most dubious titling decisions because no one
- 31:00in the case is indicated to be senile, either sluggers or victims. The
- 31:07only thing indicated is that the victims are old, which is obviously or elderly,
- 31:12which is obviously not the same thing as a senile. But the person
- 31:17who wrote the script titles, which, like most shows, the script titles
- 31:21were not used in the programs themselves. They kind of like a snappy titles,
- 31:25so senile slugging rolls off the tongue and so that's what we end up
- 31:30with, all right. Well, some listener comments and feedback. We begin
- 31:33with one from Richard. Dear mister Graham, thank you very much for your
- 31:38public service and making these marvelous recordings widely available. I'm an Australian listener,
- 31:45but thank you have a perfectly engaging voice for podcast. I'm look looking forward
- 31:49to the Philip Marlow series. How many years must I wait? Regards from
- 31:55Richard? Well, Richard, actually not too many by my calculations, just
- 32:00approximately fourteen months, give or take a week, right after the Bob Bailey
- 32:06or Shuley Johnny Doller run. Thanks for listening in Australia. And then we
- 32:10have a note from Joan who says, mister Ace is very interesting. Too
- 32:17bad there are only a couple of episodes. Keep up the good work in
- 32:21interesting comments, Adam, because without you we would never know as much as
- 32:24we do about the shows and the inside information you pass along to us.
- 32:29Well, thanks so much, Joan. That will actually do it for today.
- 32:34We will be back on Monday with let George do it. I had
- 32:38to pause to double checked because the next week's schedule is just a little bit
- 32:43different, and then join us back here on Saturday for another episode of the
- 32:46Lineup. In the meanwhile, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectors
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