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- 1:19for two weeks. But now it's time for a day's episode of the Lineup.
- 1:25This one is called the Charles Rock Clobbering Case. Let's take a lesson
- 1:32the lineup, ladies and gentlemen, just a moment. We will take you
- 1:42by transcription behind the scenes of a police headquarters in a great American city,
- 1:48we're under the cold, glaring lights. Well fast before the innocent, the
- 1:53bagrant, the thief, the murderer. This is the lineup, all right,
- 2:13man, hell, I'll cuin. Hey, look tiant. I am
- 2:16tired. It was about twenty four that works in the world forty eight.
- 2:20I don't think I've had six hours sleep since Wednesday? Do Builotti stank?
- 2:23H? Yeah? And this weather sure? Hot? Yeah? Yes,
- 2:29witnesses no, just looking around gull upstairs. I'm glad we can use a
- 2:32low Yeah, I have your attention. Please see lam Yeah. You people
- 2:36out there on the other side of the wire in the audience room, may
- 2:38I have your attention? Please? Thank you. My name is Conger,
- 2:43Sergeant Pete Coger. I'll explain the lineup to you. Each other suspects you
- 2:46will see will be numbered. I'll call up a number their name in charge.
- 2:50Do you have any questions or identifications? Please remember the number assigned to
- 2:53the prisoners. I call his name. If you're sure, you're not too
- 2:55sure of the suspect, have him held the questions I asked these suspect remember
- 3:00to get a natural tonal voice, but do not take too much attention to
- 3:02their answers as they often lie. Okay, bring on the line, all
- 3:08right, keep it moving, I don't hear. At the end of the
- 3:10stage, I'll turn and face front hands with your side. I want to
- 3:15call out your number. Step out and face the screen. Keep your head
- 3:19up so everyone can get a good look at you, and talk up so
- 3:21everyone can hear you. Okay, Number one Leonard Strickland Robbery. Where do
- 3:25you live? Leonard? What's your business? What do I do? Yeah?
- 3:32What do you do? What kind of work? Well, I'm not
- 3:36employed. I used to be a carpenter. When was the last time you
- 3:39worked as a carpenter? The last time? Well, I guess that was
- 3:45about five or six years ago. Oh yes, What kind of jobs have
- 3:49you had since then? Oh? Well, I've done lots of odd things.
- 3:53I was window washing for a while. I worked at a gas stations
- 3:57and labor gangs for the city. I have done a lot of things.
- 4:00Who you're with when you were picked up? Oh? Guy, Stanley Hallerin
- 4:04And he was picked up too in the line? Sure him? Who's one?
- 4:12Number two? Stanley Hallerin? Why I should step out? Oh?
- 4:16Call my numbers? Say there? When? When? What do I step
- 4:20out? I'll tell him. He was just pointing you out to the people.
- 4:24Have printed Stanley, you're next, Okay, I'll take care of it.
- 4:30Leonard, he ain't. Okay, knock it off. I'm sorry.
- 4:34You just don't understand things. Now shut up, just answer my questions.
- 4:40That's enough. Sorry, talk shut up now? When you arrested, Leonard,
- 4:46if you have any weapons on you weapons? Guns? Nine? You
- 4:50have the biggest shotgun you ever saw. Listen, I told you not to
- 4:55talk unless you were asked stupid stupid? Oh yeah, yeah, Leonard?
- 5:01Yeah? Did I ask you how stupid? He was? No? And
- 5:05tell me about the shotgun? It was a shotgun, an old one double
- 5:11barrel pump. What the pump? How about it? What was a caliber
- 5:14sixteen? Gays? Okay, Leonard, step back number two, Stanley Haller
- 5:19and robbery. Don't come on, come on, no, yeah, step
- 5:24out, get him off the stage, take him out of the tank.
- 5:32Okay. How where do you live? Stand? Hello? I said,
- 5:36where where do you live? I lived down by Jefferson, Live down by
- 5:42Jefferson, Jefferson, Big Long Street. What's the address? Twenty three sixty
- 5:47five Ast Wolton. It's up from Lincoln. I guess it's really not done
- 5:50so much kind of in between. This just turning out to be my lucky
- 5:54nine. That's nice. Did you have any weapons on your stand? No,
- 5:59I would even carried a shotgun. You're driving a car and I wasn't
- 6:02driving. I didn't even want to do the job much. I didn't feel
- 6:05good. Was Leonard driving the car? Yeah, that's when he wanted me
- 6:10to hold his shotgun, but I told him not on your life. I
- 6:12mean, you had to put in the back seat. What kind of a
- 6:14car was not a driving stamp? Don't know? Was it a sedan?
- 6:17The coop had a bass seat? I suppose it was a sea Dand what
- 6:21color was it the back seat the car? I don't know. All right,
- 6:27step back right, talk well enough? Yeah you did just fine?
- 6:30I step back No, no, no, the other end of the line,
- 6:34I got my safe play the other rent stamp. Okay, Number three
- 6:41Arthur Willoughby Robbery. Where do you live on here? Ninety nine one hundred
- 6:47nights? What do you do? I'm a painter? What kind of a
- 6:51painter? Where do you work? I'm not working now? For the weapons?
- 7:01You have? A car? Beat really had himself a couple of them.
- 7:08Yeah, just got a call from small old on Adams. What is
- 7:12on the side, officer on the beef on a dead man in an alley.
- 7:15Okay, let's go. That's small. Yeah, I assume all right.
- 7:38It's done. Here. Come on, let us breath, let us
- 7:42thank you, thank you. The officer on the beat, Miller is a
- 7:47new boy. Find him? Oh hello, Ben Crockett and I have been
- 7:51over there. They couldn't find me. How long has it been? Ten?
- 7:55Well? How do you die? Beat death? Padya moreson as they
- 8:01get him downtown? All right, boys, clean it up. I got
- 8:07a cigarette. Yeah, sure, hope he cools off and sleep five minutes
- 8:11last night. Thanks, all right, when you want my report bench ten
- 8:18o'clock. Okay, see you all right, Doc. Thanks the cigarette and
- 8:22he identification small. There was a wallet here, it is, That's all
- 8:26I had on him. The names Farmer, Stanley, Farmer, seventy nine
- 8:33East Western. It's not too far. I'm gonna look around. I'd see
- 8:37the fight took place in this part of the alley. You see the big
- 8:41can uh I caved in. It looks like one of them fell over.
- 8:48There's blood on the pavement near they shine a light on the wall over the
- 8:54right. What are these buildings? I need a size warehouse in the department
- 8:58stand like this. Someone must have heard something. Warehouse of the department still
- 9:03would have a night watching. Have you heard anything? You'd have taken a
- 9:05look, But I check anyway. I just walked down the alley. A
- 9:09couple of wall on the side in this part of the alley working lights.
- 9:13How about the other under the alley? What does it lean to get in?
- 9:18Wonder what the other guy looked like? The dead one was really worked
- 9:20over. There might have been more than one guy working them over him.
- 9:22Yeah, hold on him, we're even fighting here. More blood scuff marks,
- 9:31rubber heeled shoes, they're fresh marks. The biggest part of the struggle.
- 9:35Looks like it took place back there. We'll shot it down here.
- 9:43What's there? Shine your light down there? Down there? Small? No
- 9:48over buy those cats there? Oh fathers. Yeah, it looks like part
- 9:56of a woman's hat or something funny looking hat hans. I jump over here.
- 10:03This might be something a lot of joke in this alley. Then we'll
- 10:05go through every bit of it. Any other time it would be just junk.
- 10:09We'll check it on. Keep the alley blocked off. I'll call in
- 10:11them and have him send some boys down to keep it clear util morning.
- 10:13Okay, let's go, Dave. If you find anything, we'll be over
- 10:18at Farmer's house and then back to the station. I'll call from Farmers and
- 10:20give a phone number. All right, Oh, it's pretty late. Maybe
- 10:39he doesn't live with anybody. Boy, it's hot. Bring it again.
- 10:43I'll wait a minute. There's a line. What's going on. We're police
- 10:54officers, all right, if we come in, do you want the Stanley
- 10:58Farmer? Yeah, he ain't home. We know he isn't. Oh,
- 11:01are you Frank farm I'm his brother. Come on, what is it?
- 11:05What's wrong? Standing into trouble or something. I'm sorry. I can't tell
- 11:07you this any other way. Your brother's dead. Huh. I'm sorry.
- 11:13We'd like to talk to you about it. Maybe you can help us.
- 11:16You don't feel like it now? No, no, no, it's okay.
- 11:20Maybe I should wake up with something, but I don't feel anything.
- 11:24I should feel awful, or maybe if you had a drink. I don't
- 11:28drink. I'm dead. He was found in an alley, but I'm one
- 11:35of the other rooms, said all I can't think to street, got asleep,
- 11:43fash fellows, this is, you know, miserable. I just make
- 11:50yourself comfortable. Gosh, I think to wake up to you sleep in your
- 11:58head off her and doorbelly. It's funny, I I was dreaming was a
- 12:03bad one. The doll bell just jobbed me a rang a couple of times.
- 12:07We didn't you know. I swear that this is the darndest thing I
- 12:11got along with my brother great eye. Yes, I loved them as much
- 12:18as anybody loving a family. Just can't feel much. We want to find
- 12:24out who killed him? Yeah, do you have any enemies? No?
- 12:28No, If he did, I didn't know about any. He's a nice
- 12:31cham early, so I have to get in the sack Early, Yes,
- 12:37stand at me would work together. He got a service. I'm sorry for
- 12:43LIVI well we can talk about it. No, No, let's get it
- 12:48over with. Got a job and I'd like to help. There was a
- 12:52good kid. I'm older that I always talked about him. He really isn't.
- 12:58It's anything, as you know. I'm getting around to her. I
- 13:09haven't cried in a long time. I like I should like go ahead,
- 13:18I'm okay, what time does Standali? Before I went to bed earlier around
- 13:26seven minutes. Yeah, you've seen a girl. The name is June,
- 13:33June. You know where she lives? No, I you told me June
- 13:41called something like call June Coleman. Yeah, June Coleman. Yeah, Yeah,
- 13:48he's we can see in it for a bottom week. I've never met
- 13:52her, and you don't know where she lives. Where we might be able
- 13:56to find her. He met her in a bar. It's Stillman, that's
- 14:00it's it's only about three blocks from the over on Madison. I don't know
- 14:03the addresses I will find it. Maybe she had something to do with your
- 14:09brother say much about her. He liked her, her name, he told
- 14:13me at once, maybe maybe twice, and any and he liked her that
- 14:16so he told him. And you can't take of anyone who might have it
- 14:18in for your brother. No, look, i'd tell you if I knew.
- 14:22I guess there was people who didn't like him, or who likes everybody,
- 14:26But I don't. I don't know anybody who'd want to kill him.
- 14:31Well, we may want to talk some more. We'll check them. The
- 14:35girl look good. I think I ought to see it more. He's been
- 14:46pretty badly beating up. Yeah, yeah, you'll have to identify him sooner
- 14:52or later, but if you don't mind a suggestion, wait till tomorrow evening
- 14:56or or tomorrow afternoon late, look an I mister Farman, thanks sure Monday,
- 15:05m H. I think a letter cool off? I don't know,
- 15:22m H. What do you have? We'd like to talk to you with
- 15:46police officers. Okay, watch the vermi shid be right back. We've been
- 15:54talk in the kitchen. That'll be fine, okay. You know Stanley Farmer,
- 16:06Stanley Farmer? Yeah, I know a regular customer, pretty regular coming
- 16:11in for about a year. I guess Noah's brother. Yeah, a girl
- 16:14named Jim Coleman. Jim Coleman, Yeah, Blan, we don't know understand,
- 16:21good looking Bland. She's a friend of Stands. He had a date
- 16:23with her to night. Yeah, I know, a real good looking down
- 16:26Bland. Like I said, she came in and stand the knight. You
- 16:30know where we can find her? Oh? Might if I asked what this
- 16:33is all about? Stan's been killed? Dang, you say he was in
- 16:37here tonight with the girl? Yeah? What was she wearing? Huh?
- 16:41Do you remember what she had on? What kind of address at? I
- 16:45don't pay much attention to those things. Yeah, did? He was a
- 16:49pretty nice kid. That's today. How did it happen? That's what we're
- 16:52trying to find out. How did the girl have on anything with feathers on
- 16:56it? Yeah? Might be hey, hey, yeah she did twenty or
- 17:02second? Have I ever seen somethings like that on top? What time does
- 17:04Stan come in with the girl? Him in? About nine or so?
- 17:10But how I guess he was here for a half hour or so, about
- 17:12nine thirty or left? I guess you don't know where she lives? No,
- 17:17how long has she been coming in here? Oh? About five six
- 17:19weeks? She come in alone? No, first time she came in she
- 17:23came in with Charlie. Charlie Charlie Hill's been a customer for a long time.
- 17:30Was Charlie with her the night stand letter? No, she's been coming
- 17:33in for two or three days without Charlie. I figured they had a fight
- 17:36or something. And where does Charlie Lynn? I don't know for sure,
- 17:38but he's a fisherman, commercial fisherman. He's out sometimes on the boats.
- 17:44Two's three weeks at a time. I saw the blonde come in alone.
- 17:47I figured Charlie was out with the boat. You have his own boat,
- 17:49No, I know for a factory, though. He always talked about getting
- 17:53his own boat when he's in here lust of the eyeballs all. He is
- 17:56going to get his own boat someday and make a lot of money. I
- 18:00always tell him, as long as to make booze, ain't gonna save enough
- 18:03to buy nothing. He just laughing, Just more and more thin catches fat.
- 18:08He drinks like him. Who does he work for? Another named Cassidy,
- 18:11nice guy, rogue and everything. I don't know what the name of
- 18:15his outfit is. Probably Cassidy something or other. He's proud of his name,
- 18:19and he probably usually every time he gets a chance. If his business
- 18:25has named anything, get better, it's Cassidy something around it. Well that
- 18:27if Cassidy or Phillips saw the blonde come in. I want you to call
- 18:30a sixteenth percent. Sixteenth Yeah, I asked for Guthrie, and if I'm
- 18:34not gonna ask for Quinet for your coin, that's right, sixteen for your
- 18:38coin. I got it. Thanks for your help. Sure got them again.
- 18:42We'll probably do that. But it gets cool in the morning, wait
- 18:53till the sun comes out. If I could stop it, I would what
- 18:56time has it been. It's cool to fire Cassidy got a pretty big place
- 19:04in a pretty big sign. I intended knew what he was talking about him.
- 19:08Hey, yeah, no, well we can find Cassidy. You found
- 19:14him. What can I do for you? Now? We're police officers,
- 19:18mister Cassidy and Lieutenant Guthrie. This is Sergeant Asher oh hio, and we'd
- 19:22like to talk to you. Well, don't have too much time just going
- 19:25out. That's we're taking the Cassidy fleeto. You have a man working for
- 19:29you named Phillips. I have Charlie Phillips. That's right, Yeah, better
- 19:32if he don't show up in the next five minutes. He hain't going to
- 19:36mean a hort. We just want to talk to him. Well, he
- 19:38ain't shown up yet. He should have been here about two hours ago.
- 19:42You know where he lives, sour in the office and get it for you.
- 19:47But then I got to get on the bottom the way, you know,
- 19:51and I unlocked no hold hold it here, come yeah, well come
- 19:56on, come on, knock at him. But in a fight hard?
- 20:00Where are you been? The proad live? Okay, okay, I'm later,
- 20:04you'll bet you will. These guys what talk to you. Yeah,
- 20:08this police, probably about the fight you got to last night. Who says
- 20:14I got in a fight? Oh? I suppose you about the shiners.
- 20:17I didn't get to move. I we like to talk to you, Charlie.
- 20:19I gotta get on the boat. Have to wait. Well, I
- 20:22cat, you're not down in ten minutes, we'll say it without you,
- 20:26all right, come on, come on then, let's get it over.
- 20:29Yeah, I'll see you later, thanks, mister. Okay, what is
- 20:34it? You know a man named Farmer? No? Stan Farmer? No?
- 20:37I said, no, I never How about June Coleman? Yeah?
- 20:42So what I know her? How long have you know? Look, you
- 20:47guys, if I don't get on that boat, I lose my job.
- 20:48I'm sorry, but we need some answers. You'll get on the boat as
- 20:52fast as you give them to us. Okay, I've known June for a
- 20:55couple of months. I guess where does she live? What's this all about?
- 20:57Where does she live? O? Run River? Two forty five South
- 21:02River? Where were your last night? Look? I'm gonna miss you see
- 21:04June last night? Yeah? Oh look, yo, guys, I'm getting
- 21:07little tired of this. If I lose my job, you guys are gonna
- 21:11be sorry. Where were you last night? I was out hot with June?
- 21:15June Coleman. Yeah, I was out with her until re elate,
- 21:18then I went home, asked her. I will what time did you get
- 21:21home? About three this morning? What time did you take around? About
- 21:23seven? And you were with her all evening? Yeah? Hey, they're
- 21:26going the boats. Come on, get out of my way. I'm gonna
- 21:30lose my job. Come on moving, don't get rough, charming, listen,
- 21:33you stupid, you just like okay, you don't have to pull a
- 21:40gun. I won't give you no trouble. Let's go, Charlie. Okay,
- 21:42where are we going? I think we'll go over and talk to you
- 21:45girl, my girl, Yes, June, when you were out with last
- 21:48night, what do you want to talk to her for? Where did you
- 21:52get the black eye? I got the beef last night, no night before.
- 21:56Tell us about it. Well, that ain't much to tell. Some
- 22:00guy got nasty and one thing led to another. You know how those things
- 22:03are, Johnny, tell us how they are? We got the beef,
- 22:07that's all. You come out on top, John, I don't know.
- 22:10I hit him a couple of times. I guess who wins a fight.
- 22:14That's why you guys want me. They're getting in the fight. That's right.
- 22:18Well, it wasn't anything. The other guy was all right. Who
- 22:19was the other guy? I don't know, just some guy, you know
- 22:22how those things start. We would drink and having a couple. Where were
- 22:26you drinking? Where in a bar? What bar? Johnny? Well,
- 22:30I don't know. I was in a lot of bars. I don't remember
- 22:33which one. I got in a fight. Well, maybe June will remember.
- 22:36I wasn't out with June. You said you were. I said I
- 22:37was out with her last night. I got in a fight the night before.
- 22:41Oh yeah, you go to a bar last night? Yeah? Yeah,
- 22:45we went to a bar. Which one? Oh we went to a
- 22:48couple? Name him? Oh Stillman's Obi Madison. Yeah, getting chunty.
- 22:56You're going over to see June. That's right. You ain't gonna like being
- 22:59waked up for sir. We'll apologize. It's down further three h nine.
- 23:15Oh, she's gonna raise the rule. Oh that this is it look not
- 23:19gonna tain guys. It should making a lot out of a lousy little fight.
- 23:25The fact we're interested in it wasn't a lousy little fight, but okay,
- 23:29you're told might relax. I'm telling PE's sake, Charlie, he's a
- 23:38cop. We're gonna handle a Charlie cops. Can we come in please?
- 23:41I just got out of bed. I told him I was talk Charlie.
- 23:47Can we come in? Do you want to come down to the station with
- 23:48us? I just got up? What's going on? I told you to
- 23:57it off, Charlie. It wasn't a minute. Wait a minute. I
- 24:02want to know what's going on? To get dragged girl out of bit only
- 24:03tells us you were with him until about four this morning. Yeah, that's
- 24:07right. I was. He picked up about seven. Yeah you know Stan
- 24:11Farmer. Stan Farmer, Yeah, I know, not with him. Yeah,
- 24:18he was killed last night. What Oh, it's terrible. I didn't
- 24:23know him too good. And you were in Stillman's bar with him last night?
- 24:29He was with me? Yeah, I was. You were in the
- 24:30bar from about nine o'clock to nine thirty with Stan Farmer, and you were
- 24:34wearing a hat with feathers on it. These feathers. I told you.
- 24:37We found those feathers in the alley where we found Stan Farmer's dead body.
- 24:41I don't know anything about it. Get the black eye got it. Shut
- 24:44up, Pete, take up. No, don't tell him I want to
- 24:48get no trouble. Keep your mouth shut. Kill him. He got together.
- 24:56Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, I explained big boy all right
- 25:03calling tell us about it. Well, he caught us out. I've been
- 25:07seeing stand he killed. Yeah, he caught us in drag stand in the
- 25:12alley. Standard didn't see it coming. I ran, and then he came
- 25:17here later and told me to kill him if I ever went up with another
- 25:19guy, do the same to him. He got me s get on of
- 25:22my whips. But know what he was like. I never ecided to go
- 25:26with him. I didn't have nothing to do with it. Ask him,
- 25:30he'll tell you. I ran and I didn't have nothing to do with it.
- 25:33Come on, Charlie, wake up and to him. I didn't have
- 25:36nothing to do with it. Charlie, you better get into some clothes and
- 25:37come on down to the station. Did we just want to statement? Charlie
- 25:41will be out for a while. Big Ape Dan was a nice boy,
- 25:47seated me. Nice. You better get something on. Okay, let me
- 25:52ruin the best head I got Big Gape welcome back. Well that was quite
- 26:07a comedy deal. They had in the line up today. I've never seen
- 26:14such a funny pair. Not too over the top though, if they if
- 26:19the other guy wasn't just really stupid, I think they would have a future
- 26:25on stage in the prison. And sorry about the missing bits on these on
- 26:29this episode. Just this one already edited for the most part, so only
- 26:37have twenty four minutes of show. All right, Well, now we turn
- 26:40to listener comments and feedback and Clarissa emails in Hi, I'm not sure,
- 26:47but based on my limited Wikipedia searching, it looks like they might. This
- 26:52is in regards to an episode a couple of weeks ago when they mentioned h
- 26:55top blood. It says it looks like that made me talking about the hh
- 27:00enagen otherwise known as the Bombay blood type, as that is where it was
- 27:04occurred and is the most common. According to this is super rare four out
- 27:10of a million people having the People with it can donate to all times,
- 27:14but cannot receive blood from anyone except people with this rare hh enagen. It
- 27:19was also discovered in nineteen fifty two, so this episode of the lineup was
- 27:25probably topical. Thanks for all the great mysteries. Well, thanks so much.
- 27:29Clarisa, and that does make sense. Also, we did receive comments
- 27:34I wanted just to thank kind of repeat the same point, but I want
- 27:38to thank William and also Celeste. Thanks so much for sending along the answers.
- 27:48Now we turn to letting you know what we have coming up tomorrow.
- 27:51Today was our eleven hundredth episode. Tomorrow we're going to celebrate with our eleven
- 27:56hundredth episode special, and I think you'll like it if you enjoy a police
- 28:00procedurals. It's an episode of a series we haven't played here and normally wouldn't,
- 28:07but this is very relevant with a fine little mystery. It's an episode
- 28:11of Cavalcade of America, and our main star and leading man is none other
- 28:18than Gregory Peck. And I'll tell you more about tomorrow's show tomorrow, so
- 28:23be sure to be listening. Well, that will actually do it for today.
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