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The Line Up: Two Tough Thugs (EP1184) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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now it's time for today's episode of the lineup. Two tough thugs,
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ladies and gentlemen. We take you now by a transcription behind the scenes of
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a police headquarters in a great American city. We're under the cold, glaring
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lights will pass before us. The innocent, the big room, the thief,
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the murderer. This is the lineup, mister Conway. Yes, yes,
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I'm Conway. I'm Lieutenant Guthrie. I talked to you on the phone
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this afternoon. Oh yes, Lieutenant. Well do you you think you have
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him? Well, we don't know, mister Conway. Like to have you
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tell us. Do my best, but it was a year ago. Yes,
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I know, any particular place you'd like to say, this will be
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fine. Okay, where you people really stay on it, don't you.
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I mean, it happened a long time ago. I thought you'd forgotten about
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it. Down here. We don't like to forget anything like that, mister
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Conway. Okay. Oh didn't I meet him once, Sergeant Coger, Yeah,
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he was on the case. Oh yeah, I remember. May I
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have your attention please? You people out there on the other side of the
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wire in the audience room, may I have your attention please? Thank you.
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My name is Corger, Sergeant Pete Cogger. I'll explain the lineup to
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you. Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered. I'll call
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off a number, their name and charge. If you have any questions or
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identifications. Please remember the number of side of the prisoners. I call his
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name the under each line will ask the questions or identifications. Call out the
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number if you're sure. You're not too sure the suspect have him held.
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The officers who took your nable to assist you there seated among you. Please
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be prompt with your questions or identifications. When the prisoners leave here, they're
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sent to the washroom and dress back into the jail clothes. Makes it quite
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difficult to bring them back after they leave here. The questions I asked these
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suspects ability to get a natural tonal voice. Would not pay too much attention
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to their answers, as they often lie. Okay, bring on the line,
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all right, move it, ride along, boy, all the way
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to the end of the stay. Where is the man? Which one tall
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win in the dark suit? Let's win? Well, let's wait till this
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questions, And I wondered if i'd know him by sawing him again? That
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is Hebrew. Your eyes straight ahead. When I call your number, step
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off of the circle. Your address is the last place you're slept in town
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number one Fattius Newcombe, Burglary. Where do you live forty one West Golfax.
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What do you do? Blubber work for yourself? Do you no consolidated
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plumbing outfit? Fitzb Avenue? You own a car? Fatteus? Yeah,
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I got a Chevin? What year? What color? Forty nine? Son
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of a a great Green? Anyone with you when you were arrested? George
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Trehil George true Hill? Number sixteen? How long have you known George true
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Hill? All my life? This your home since I was fourteen? The
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allest time on a gun? No, you're married? No? Okay?
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Number two Henry Park robbery Henry, Yes, where you live? West Side?
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You address? Henry two thirty three Center Hotel Park? What then the
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hotel? How long you lived there? Three years? Off and on?
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Any weapons when you were arrested? Yeah? I had a gun? What
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kind of a gun? Henry? Forty four? Schmid in the Western chrome?
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Blue steel? What steel? Horn? Handles? Nickel plated? You
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have a car? No? What's your profession? Henry? Fucker? Don't
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look at me, look out there through the screen. Take your hands out
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of your pockets. Always wear a mustache? Yeah? Anybody with you when
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you're arrested? No? What about Carl Ingles I don't know anybody named Carling.
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That's him standing right back there, Henry. Take a look. Well,
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which one end of the line. He told me his name was Jack
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Cannon. He was with you, wasn't he? Yeah? Why'd you say
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no one was with you at first? It's your lineup, cup. I
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like to see your work back against the wall, Henry, how was that
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nothing? Number three Chester Abrams, open shot. I know that's him just
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a minute all the way hotel on Third Street, all five six Third Street.
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I think Son had been there a couple of days. Where'd you come
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from? Want to Big Canada? You're a Canadian citizen. No, that's
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been living in Canada last couple of years. All that a little louder.
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I don't think they can hear you where you're from again. Saint Louis Mansura
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you on a car? I know certainly him ever since he worked on the
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stage. He's one of the men who killed. Okay, Sargeant Carger Number
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three all for interrogation. Hard you gotta make on Abrams, Yeah, Conway
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spotting them right away music con okay. I then the officer responsible for the
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arrestus here, huh yeah, his name Pritchard been on the force three years.
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He's in your office, okay, yeah, Pritchard, Yes, sir,
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I'm a tenant. Got ran glad to meet you. Same here,
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sir, and that was good police work picking up Abrams. What's your union
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four or five captain Medicine, Yes, sir, long memory like yours.
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Help slone Maybe because it was one of my first lieutenant had to beat near
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the Strand Theater. I was about half a block away when I heard the
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shots came up down Conway's slug cold missus Conway dying. So she was the
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one who gave me the description, the one filed in the crime report.
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Yeah, I remember telling me what the man looked like. She was a
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pretty brave woman and I hated to see her die like that. It's gotten
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personal with me. I've been looking for Abrams ever since. I guess well,
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we've got him now printing thanks to you. You'll be hearing from me,
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Yes, sir, nice to meet you, same Yeah, see you
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sage. Yeah, Saint Louis has to stop fingerprint classification check FPC nineteenth primary
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thirty two over thirty two in or overader final fifteen over seventeen. He's our
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boy, Yeah, but his name is Abram's real name. Chester Cully alias
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Jack Rourke alias George Freemont alias Victor Adams. Thirteen arrests, two convictions,
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both armed robbery, last one July nineteenth, nineteen forty seven. Got out
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eighteen months ago. For now he did, well, hold on back all
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right? Thirteenth? Yeah, yeah right, fine, Conway, thing happened
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thirteen months ago? Kelly? Could him been in town for it? All
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you have to do is prove he was here and find out who he was
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working with? Who were closer than you think? Hm? That was Asher.
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He went through Cully's hotel room, turned up an army forty five him
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in the mattress, and missus Conway was killed with a forty five slug,
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wasn't she? Yeah? Yeah, okay, we'll see what happens now.
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Then I should send out a tag on this. Yeah, he's checking with
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the army. Now give me a hand here, Oh yeah, hold on
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sure? Oh find no not all mad? Yeah here we go? Oh
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I lost? Can you get that peak? Please? Everything is at once?
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All right? I got it? All right? No? Easy?
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Yeah? Good? Both of them? Two test slugs? Yeah, okay,
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I'll tell you. How's your wife wants you to call as soon as
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you can. Oh is she ready? Oh? Not quite? But the
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kids you got as measled? Oh you got those evident slugs? Then?
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Yeah, there you go. Oh right now, I'll see what we got.
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Both of these were taken from Missus Conway's body. No, no,
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just the one, the other stuck in the car. See. Yeah,
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hey, now if I can get this wax stuff there, Now, one
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of those test slugs I just fired on the ballistics box. There you go,
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thanks, Okay, stick it right here under the lens. Oh m
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hmmmm. Well take a look then, well I used the screws. Well,
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revolved the slug holders slowly. Yeah, and hold it when you think
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the striations match? Yeah, what do you think? Man? Just a
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second thing, and the test slug matches were the one that killed Missus Conway,
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right like a pair of twins. You guys got yourself a case.
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Who's the guy man named chick Cully? What do you have to say?
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Kind of later? I haven't talked to him yet. Well, you at
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least got something to talk about. A man, Hi, stuffy in here?
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Okay, Kelly, let's have it. Have what what are you jokers
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trying? To pull. We're trying to pull anything. Kelly. I'm asking
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you for a statement. Stay. I'll give you one nuts, Kelly.
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We want to know who you were working with, dumb cuffs and you can
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make it easier, you can make it tough any way you want it.
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We're giving you a chance. You don't need to get me a chance.
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You got nothing normally looked on it. We found your gun. Bullets from
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your gun killed missus Rita Conway in a parking lot hold up here a year
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ago. Two men were in on that job. The woman's husband has definitely
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identified you was one of them. It was your gun that killed it.
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We got you, Kelly. We want the other guy. I don't even
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want a gun. Who's the other guy, Kelly, dumb Cops? Who's
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the other guy? Cully? Dumb Cops? Who is he? Cully?
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Dumb Jert Cops? Hand me that quoder? Yeah, okay, where's your
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brother these days? Cully? He's still in Saint Louis. He was out
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here with you last year, wasn't he. You know? We'll get him,
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Cully. You know that, don't you? You get nothing here too?
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Stupid got him out of here. Asher. He'll talk later on on
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your feet. Chet, Yeah, sure, you're wrong, Guthrie. I
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won't talk later on, I got nothing to say. Come on, get
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him out. You guys will have a hard time tying this up. You
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go with him, Pete, okay, it so, I've got I'll help
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you asleep money you come on, Ben, Kelly, Kelly, stop,
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he's trying to get down to the garage. Crazy for what does he think
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he can do? Cully Hey, before he hits the car out of heat
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over his head? Are you still going? Yeah? Taking the emergency exits.
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Can't let him on the straight Cully stop? Okay, PE's true?
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Yeah, yeah, see try for his legs, man, I don't know.
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Please help him, Pete, call an ambulance. When America's schools are
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in trouble, All America is in trouble because a strong, enlightened democracy has
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its roots in good, free education. America's schools are in trouble now.
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They are overcrowded, understaffed, often in wretched condition. You can help to
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improve this situation by joining with civic groups or school boards in your own community
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and working with them to improve conditions. Here's a head Ashy then well for
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Wallapy gave you with those cuffs us some coffee bear and no thanks. Yep,
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yeah, okay, I'm black. Let me see. He's gonna say
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Lewis. She's on her way out here. Yeah, I talked to a
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long distance. We've got to be sure about all this. Test. Slugs
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from the gun we found in Cully's room match up with the start to kill
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missus. Conway Any himself made a part of identification on Kelly. Missus Cully's
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gonna have to know all these things, and she's gonna have to know him
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right. She's only been married to him six months since she's talked about false
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arrests and suits. Anything in the hotel room. Yeah, been staked out
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ever since we picked him up. No lizard, no phone call. How
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about his mam machine here you are. Saint Louis had a good file on
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him. He sent him the description of the man to pull the job with
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him. At least they looked up everyone in Cully's sheet. Not impossible.
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In the whole bunch. They're still looking at him. He could have been
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somebody tied up without hand. Yeah, it looks that way. Scatt's office
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is running through again. All we got is medium sized man, dark young
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and tough. I wish he'd been Cully's brother. Make got problems simpler.
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Huh. He was killed in him accident to lead us six months ago.
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Came in while you were out of the hospital. How about the army.
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There was nothing from them yet on the gun. We know that gun was
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the one used on missus Conley, but we don't know which one of them
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did. Conway was out of the picture when the shooting took place. It's
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a pretty good bet it's Cully's gun, since it was in his room.
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There was only one way to be sure. How's that find the man who
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was with him? Hi have been ild. He came to about an hours.
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I was doing nicely after we got the slug out of him. My
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nurse was in there getting him intravenous. He said. He opened his eyes
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and saw right off, knocked the equipment down, and he tried to climb
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out of bed. Yeah, and the hemorrhage started right away. No way
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to stop it. You're doing pretty well until then. Think you'll make it.
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No, yes, for a priest. I got Paula Hanson over here.
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You know what Kelly did. He broke a glass and tried to shove
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it in his face. Oh he was a real one. Yeah, you
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said anything. He had a lot to say. I'm kind of filthy here
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only once in a lifetime. Yeah, it's down here, better lose.
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That's a great Oh all right man, John Yeah, m hm Kelly Kelly,
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can you hear me? Yeah? Sure, guns it? That's your
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name, Chester Desmond Kelly. Yeah, where do you live? H?
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Well? This you understand you're seriously hurt coming you you love this, Kelly.
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You're on your way out, you know. Then we showed a second
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book to deal with me. Are you willing to make a statement now?
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Hey, we want the name of the man who was with you when you
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kill missus Conway Kelly, jac Kelly, he got. I don't know what
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you believe it or what you feel about this, but you know we'll get
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that man sooner or later. Kelly, you can do something in your own
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favor right now. Tell us who he is, where we can find him.
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Oh? Look, every man wants a chance to h M. Well
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please, most of all like what he was with me? Sy sure?
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Good? Okay, you s got an order? Yeah that's all? Then?
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Yeah, I don't think you figure I got I get then you can't
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man, I climb beat around, not not sure anything new. Yeah,
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I got a kickback on Kelly. Yeah, Detroit police won a match test
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slugs with us. Kelly sounds like the same aunt of Robin killed a filling
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station man there six months ago, used the forty five working alone. Oh,
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description of his accomplice came with a request matches with Conway's description of the
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man with Kelly. Yeah, the forty five is US Army property, all
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right? Stolen? They're listed? Is missing? How about the cereal?
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There's a figure gun disappeared in the flat somewhere. Kelly was never in the
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army. You may never get that part straightened down unless his friend tells us.
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Yeah, you can follow up on Detroit's request. Centem on we have
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right then then, Oh, I think we may have me uh Crocket Merge
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staked out at the hotel. Just picked up the man who came in and
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asked me to see Kelly. Suber came. Ben tried for his gun when
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they said they were police officers. Okay, rogers inside suck mhm, sit
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down, rogers, you and change running. That's right, Sit down.
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What's the idea of picking me up? What's you have a permit for the
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gun? The kidding? Now you know where you're here? Look you haven't
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done and go hold you know I haven't done anything. What are you worried
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about it? Listen? Why don't they smart talk from nobody? Cop on
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that? Why try to pull the gun when the officer stepped in? I
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didn't like that? Look, so how do I know to what cops in?
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They told you they showed you the badgers? Why the gun? I
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use it? Bases? What business travelers? Silk, Julie, how do
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you travel? What do you mean hot? Our plane, train, line,
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train? It's your home? No trains? The city? What's your
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address there? Forty five or sixteen? First seven? How long have you
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been in town? What trains are coming on? What time to get in?
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I don't remember? You don't remember? Oh I don't remember. Where
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are you're staying? Rogers? Oh look I don't have to go through this
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kind of stuff. Now book me if you want to book me for whatever,
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you want to book me for the out of hand twenty four hours,
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Just book me. It wouldn't work, Rogers. We're talking about a murder.
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What a murder? Yeah? Anway, Conwayne, have you ever seen
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this man before, n I'd like this. Yeah, not come on,
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stupid, Did you ever seen me before? I have seen him before.
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Where mister Conway in a hocking lap of a Strand theater year ago? You're
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set. I would never forget his stag doing that. Other man killed my
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glass in Coolbrook, he killed what's with this? Thank you for coming down
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with Tony, Thank you good guy? All right now, what's all that's
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supposed to mean? Mean? Jurrett Rogers tied up with Kelly. That's enough
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for us. Tied up with whole chet Cully, the man you went to
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see at the hotel when the office had picked you up. Come off at
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Rogers. We got your cold. We weren't stick up with him. He
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killed the filling station man in Detroit. He killed that Conway woman out here
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a year ago. You've just been identified. Be smart. I don't know
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if you guys had suffering about I must sales. Not a stick up.
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That won't get you anywhere. Prolly was just a name on a card and
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me I told him to see who gave you the name? Kelly told us
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everything. Holly hasn't told you anything. No, No, I don't even
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think you've got him and we've got him right when you've got to show me
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copy Okay, we'll show you on top. I felt you were taken in
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the seat. Color. We are ult you like it the way you're keeping
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him in a dungeon exactly, see corners of it. Yeah, we use
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the back door sometimes. Come on, what about college? Oh he's here
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you see Yeah? Feel all right, lanky, I feel okay, looks
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kind of peak it to me, think, yeah, I'll come on.
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What is this? Section two? Then to eighteen after it? What happened?
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We got shots angu escape. You know, we had him cold.
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I don't believe he was jerk Cups. That was that dumb jerk cup?
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Yeah, hang him the south Rogers, I'm what you would understand. Yeah,
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and telling him about spilling. Yeah, he doesn't believe it. Show
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him, okay, take it. Thank open your eyes, Rogers, thank
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you good. Look, No, take us dude, look I'm looking.
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Let's get up and get friend. Rogers. Shut him up. Okay,
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no, no, I want you to see him real good Rogers. This
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is what happens. No, dog, look all they shouldn't. It's crazy
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to youse. I've done. I didn't even carried with him. I I
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just different with him on the job. It just went with him. I
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didn't do anything shooting up. Come I get out of here, getting me
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out. I didn't do that. You can't hang that on me, Okay,
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I won't try the one because you were you know. No, it's
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responsiblestenho Ones the lineup or before you passed, the innocent, the Blagaran,
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the fleet, the murderer. Listen again next week when we again bring you
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the lineup. Hey, I have your attention. Please your people out there
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on the other side of the wire on the audience through, may I have
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your attention. Please thank you. My name is Carger, Sargeant Pete Goner.
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I'll explain the line up to you. Each of the suspects you will
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see will be numbers. I'll rull up the number of the name of jaw.
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Do you have any questions or identifications? Please remember the number of signs
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of prisoners. I call these names the end of the line when I asked
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the questions or identifications. Don't ask the number if you're law and a trucier.
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Loveday The Line Up starring Bill Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guffrie with Jack Moyle,
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The Sergeant Pete Carter was written by E Jack Newman with music by Eddie
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Dunsteaders featured in tonight's cast were Howard mcneer, Bob Sweeney, Clayton post Bill,
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Conrad hi Averback, Dave Young, and Stacy Harris. The lineup was
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