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Well here now is another episode of the Lineup where they redate a previous
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program. It's Tom for the Senile Slugging case from September twelfth, nineteen fifty
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one. Ladies and gentlemen, we take you now behind the scenes of a
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police headquarters in a great American city, or into the cold glaring lights would
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pass before us. The innocent, the vagrant, the thief, the murderer.
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This is the lineup. Then. Yeah, here's mister Wiggans. Now,
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how do if you are mister Wiggans better, I feel a little better.
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Well, we can sit right here. Thank you. It's it's all
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right. I'll see you lad him. Yeah, thank you, Sergeant nice
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telling. How many people do we have to look at I think that twenty
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eight or twenty nine. You've had two other cases like yours in the past
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week, picked up a couple of guys that might be possibilities, but we
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haven't been able to get positive out. Yea, I have your attention.
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Please you people out there on the other side of the wire in the audience
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room, may I have your attention? Please? Thank you. My name
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is Grab, Sergeant Matt Grab. I'll explain the lineup for you. Each
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of the suspects you will see will be number. I'll call up 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 assigned to the prisoner as I call his name at the end
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of each line. When I ask for questions or identifications, call out the
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number. If you're sure enough through short of the suspect him. How the
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officers have took your name? When the sister they're seated among you, please
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be pumped with your questions or identifications. When the prisoners leave here, they
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are sent to the washroom and dress back into their jail clothes. It makes
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it quite difficult to bring them back after they leave here. The questions I
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asked these suspects so many to get a natural tone of voice, so do
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not pay too much attention to their answers as they often lie. Bring on
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the line, okay, over and over, right, on over to the
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Sander stage, Spread out the stand facing the audience, and steal size and
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keep looking straight ahead when you answer the questions. Park ups. Are the
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people out there can hear you? It's a long way to the back of
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the room, so keep your voices up. Okay. Number one William Bushman
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robbery, Take your hands out of your pockets. Where do you live with
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him? One hundred and eighth and Lincoln. Where you're from? Los Angeles?
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How long you've been in the city? About seven months? I think
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January. There's about seven months. Were you arrested with anybody with him?
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Yeah? A couple of guys. What are the names? Joe? Joe?
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I don't know his last name? Yo, Lucas number eighteen? All
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right? Who was the other boy? Call him? Twitch? Come and
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Twitchell number nineteen? Any weapons with him? No? You have a car?
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No, he was walking. They had a car. Who wouldn't be
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here? Okay? Number two Max Sloan robbery, putting Max and east side.
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You have an address Avenger or eleven orchid sound? Were you were alone
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when you were arrested? I was with the guy I was sticking up.
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Was anybody arrested with you? No, I was pulling a job. We
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weren't sticking up each other. Any weapons, Max? Do you think he
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was giving me his walnut? Because I was pointing mc thumb had him.
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You want to be funny, We've got all night, Max. You can
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just stand there and be funny all night. Were there any weapons? Yeah?
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Two? They cool playing the blue steel, blue steel, not counting
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the rust. You have a car, okay, number three? Stanley,
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None of those men don't blaze any of mine. You'll have to speak up
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standing. I said, I don't live here. I'm from out of town.
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Where out of town? Wilmington? Wilmington, Kentucky. Can you people
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hear him back there at all? Right? Now, look, I told
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you boys, you're gonna have to talk up. I don't want to have
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to repeat the question, So come on and talk up all the way to
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the back of the room. Now, where are your front standing? Wilmington,
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Kentucky? Where have you been staying here? Only one place? One
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place in a flop house, w flop powers just a flop house. I
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don't remember who remembers a flophouse. Hi, Hi, mister Wiggins didn't spot
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anybody. Huh No, these two guys that jumped and did it so quick.
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Oh, this is a third slugging in a week. Somebody better come
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up with a halfway decent description. Those guys aren't stupid. Follow a pretty
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routine m O. Dark spots like an old guy like Wiggins jumping before he
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knows what's happening, beat him unconscious, and then rolling how much chances he
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got for a decent description. They're liable to kill somebody. They seemed to
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be getting rougher. Yeah, here's a list of wiggins valuables. See that
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all the pawn shops are coming. Okay, the other two victims didn't have
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much. These guys might want to hunt. Wiggins had a gold watch and
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old Stickton watch had his name and an inscription. I might try to get
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rid of him. We're in car thirteen Jade and I. Yeah, these
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boys move around, but they seemed to stay pretty much to the east side.
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We'll have the usual cause in five semalies. Walters putting about a dozen
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plain clothesman on the streets, I think if one of our boys got rolled
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and they're not old enough, these guys pick them old so they won't give
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him much trouble. Nice guys. Yeah, swell thy seven four fifteen and
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one o five North Lincoln, you get nine nine on five. Yeah,
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I have an old horner on the elm. Let's come a the Rogers and
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get a hamburger. Okay, sixty three and nine o five and seventeen sixty
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nine. He's right, man, he's seen a man bought me a hamburger
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and coffee. Would have been sure. Seventy three of already rights going well,
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license five two young seven. You know I don't two hamburger, took
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two hamburgers and two coffees. Everything on the burgers. Yep, thank you,
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m attention all you in this an area h A two four or five
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slugging an eighty seven west bullocks those handburgers eighty seven west, bully? What
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time it was slugging us? We about a block away? Ninety nine?
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You know, hold me here. It is client's already here over here.
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It's a woman pretty bad. Mm hmmm, good gosh. I've done everything
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I can. No here comes the ambulance. This is the fuller, the
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bounder. I miss it all. Yeah, this little tennant gutthree? Tell
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him about it? Oh? Yes, Well, I was walking by over
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on the side walking, tossed a cigarette over here and sauce about. Then
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I spotted this officer in this car and I yelled another slugging her. Yep,
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and she's not dead, but she's close. Get that blanket over her
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voice and all right, doctor, looks like a bad fracture. Really about
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him, lost a lot of blood. Thinks she'll making I don't know,
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keep that end up there, pretty old, lost a lot of blood.
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You're coming down with him? Hey, h we'll be done. I didn't
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have anything on her, no identifications, They got everything. Hey, you
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just found a lying here home, Yes, sir, that's right. I
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threw my cigarette over here. Wouldn't have even seen her. If I hadn't
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thrown my cigarette, it probably waited behind this hedge, grabbed her when she
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passed, slugged her and dragged him into the lapt It's a good spot for
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it, good and dark. It was a terrible thing. I still can't
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quite believe it. What are you gonna do about it? What do you
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think? Hello, lieutenant? That two forty five slugging that came in about
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a half hour ago. Who's gonna the old lady? Yeah, she's in
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surgery now the doctor Gordon support one this week, isn't it ten? Yeah?
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Your mind? If I look at your newspaper, Murph, No,
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no, no, go a here. Coffee shops closing, Yeah, well
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do you want some coffee? Could use some Wong doing down the kitchen.
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No, no, no, forget him, there's no truck. No,
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no thanks man, We'll get some across the street later. All right,
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hey, Ben, the tennis finals the next weekend. I want to go
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on duty. Well, they'll be praying the rest of this week. Yeah,
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i'd like to see that marine, Conny. That's pretty girl. The
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pictures in the last section is something yeah yeah in the sports section. Yeah
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right there, pretty girl. Huh yeah, I've been yeah, I want
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to go. Yeah, here comes doctor board with a doctor. I'm gut
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three doctor sixteen precinct. It was a sergeant Graham alone. How's the only
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lady? She died? Wasn't much we could do. She was pretty well
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gone when she came in. Come on, walk down with me. When
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I get out of this gun. I'm sure I'll see you later, Mark.
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Yeah, have you got an identification yet? No? Not yet?
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A finger princetal help did just about everything bad fracture, really bad one.
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When they're that bad, they don't stand much of a chance. She regained
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consciousness of any time by the looks of the wound. Whoever hit her hit
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her with something pretty heavy black jack, Oh, something like a pipe.
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Maybe really let her have it. I don't have some way these boys have
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been working. We've had three others. Not this band, cigarette, nothing,
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sangent, no, no things. I had to believe anybody would beat
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up an old woman to hit her that hid. It just doesn't make sense,
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and I guess it does. These other victims have much money on them.
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Add it all together, about twenty four dollars. I've been morning man,
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honey, No, no, just routine chef. Well, let's grab
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some coffee. Okay. Oh, I was just looking for it. Man,
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huh works on usself with fingerprints and an old lady, you gotta not
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enough. Yeah, we ran a check through and this is what we came
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up with. Woman's name is Stokes, missus Rebecca Stokes, that was of
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five eighteen Northope with the daughter Ash went over to get the daughter only the
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positive but downification. Asher was taking her right down on the morten. I
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thought maybe you'd like to talk to her first. Yeah, yeah, I
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wouldn't. Let's go. Her daughter's name is William Dunn. She was married,
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her husband killed in the war. Oh, Ashure wanting, lieutenant this
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is miss done, and this is Lieutenant Utherine insideant gret, how did it
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I mis done? Hello? We certainly wish we could eliminate all this was
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done, but it's necessary. I don't think I can go through with you.
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I don't think I can do it. Well, it's really necessary.
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She has to be identified by a relative. I just don't think I can.
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Well, it's your mother. We're sure that sooner or later you'll have
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to Well, sooner or later you'll want to see her, but not in
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here, please, not a care. We have to keep her here until
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we get a positive identification. Do you have any other family in Nevada and
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a cousin, Well, if they could get down here, they haven't seen
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marm and you. Your mother's a fourth victim in a week. We've got
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to stop these men. Well, need some information. Where was your mother
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going last night? I guess she was coming home. She went to a
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movie early one. I guess she was coming home. Did she have a
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press with her any valuable Yes, she had a purse. Can you remember
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some of the things she carried in her purse? Yes, I guess I
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can. It wasn't much, not much money, anything to identify her,
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some carts and feet. Does she have any jewelry, any rings or a
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watch? Yes? Yes, you had a wedding ring and an engagement ring.
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They worth worth a watch. I'm sorry, don't be I think miss
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Dune better go on home, Ash, you'll get a description the two rings
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and take home. She'll no, I'll do it. It's best to get
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it over with. I'll have to do it sooner or later. Well,
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look, maybe we can get some closer. No, I want to It's
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all right, okay, now look miss Dunne. If you don't want to
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news. Keep in touch with CBS Radio News. Yeah you sure dealon king
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m hm Lovely's winning. Who do you think? No, can't use it?
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No? Uh huh no, uh uh m hm uh huh jin gop
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qrying do me a favor when you dropped dead or you couldn't discard the three
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picked one? Un't No, you owe me thirty cents. Wallos got a
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exiliaries tonight, ben you a matter in thirteen jag How about the police women
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guys gets five of them, there'll be in the area from tencil to one
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card in the block of them at all times. Okay, we got a
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half an hour once some dinner. Yeah, I'm getting hungry. Okay,
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wait a minute, have what this guy's right? It had to pick a
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check? Yeah yeah, put him on any one of the nine other cards.
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Yeah, how long mister Wiggins? Yeah, yeah, I remember wat
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you didn't wear eight ninety seven South Wilson. Okay, yeah, yeah,
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we'll meet you down about ten minutes. Right, That was mister Wiggins.
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He spotted his watch in a pawn shop and watched the hold up men took
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after they slugged him. There's mister Wiggins. Hello, lieutenant, Hello,
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where's the watch? Right over here in the window? There the gold one?
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It's open. See the inscription. Okay, let's go in. Yes
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please, Yes, I want to see a watch you've got in your window?
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They sure? Sure? Which one? Uh? Is that? When
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me? The gold one? Sure? This one? Is that it?
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Mister Wiggins? Yes, yes, that's it. See the inscription to Dave
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love Alice my wife. She gave it to me hot. Yeah, remember
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when you've got him? I got a ticket? Yeah? Yeah, John
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Jones six seven one time, John Jones. That's a good name. Do
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you remember what the man looked like, the man who want to watch?
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No? Do you remember when he acted? No? Why didn't you date
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the ticket? How long have you had it? No? A week?
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Maybe? What's so important about the watch? It belongs to this gentleman,
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not to the man who hated It's okay, take it ain't worth much.
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I saw the gold, solid gold? I a dozen? What's your name?
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Wagner? George Wagner. Look, I don't know nothing about it.
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This guy came in. He hard that that song. Look, mister Wagner,
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it's very important that we got a description of this man he's stolen.
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Huh yeah, and he's got a friend. We want him both for murder.
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Murder, that's right. Do you think you might know him he became
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in again. I don't know. I don't know him. Maybe I don't
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remember. You get one of these lists lists, Yeah, one of these
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mister stolen articles like that one. Oh boy, sure, sure sure I
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got one. None of these other things in your store? No, no,
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no, you sure sure. I'm sure you didn't know about watch.
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You better check. Look, I know I ain't got none of him.
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You didn't report the watch. You better check? All right? If if
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I find something, i'll call you. We'll wait while I check the whole
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in the door. Just the tickets on the last week and a half.
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Okay, we won't take him. Look at him too, Yeah, sure,
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okay, Look, officer, Yeah, I know the man that hot
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that watch, But honest, I didn't know he killed anybody. I didn't
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know. What's his name, young, Carl Young? He's hot things before.
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He's been in a couple of times. I know him from the neighborhood.
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I didn't His name's Carl, Yeah, Car, y'all the name of
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this watch is Dave. Well, he said it belonged to his brother.
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You know his brother? No, but I know him. He seemed like
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an honest guy in the neighborhood. I bowl he's in the bowling alley a
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lot. I bowled with him last Friday. Look, honestly, does he
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hang around with another guy? I seen him with another guy sometimes? The
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guy you better come on down to the stations danger the station? Why I
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praid you're in a little trouble. Yeah, I know him, Car young
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Oh, yes, he hangs out and here lie you know where he lives.
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No, what's hegain? Does he pal around with anybody? Oh?
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Yeah, he's with one girl quite a bit. He's a fellon in.
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Let me see know what the heck was that kind of a quiet guy,
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big guy, kind of John and Joe dot Gun. I'm sorry, I
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can't remove Anything's Joe Joe. Okay, let's stick around you let us know,
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Carl Younger. Joe comes in when sure Yan says he's got a dozen
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men checking the neighborhood. Men. There are four cars in the block.
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Nobody does anything unless you give the word. Okay, Well they both come
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in. We'll take him one of him. We'll tell him. Okay,
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that's three thirty. Now see that guy down there second alley? Yeah,
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what about he's both six strikes? M okay, oh fair one fifty so
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far you need a few strikes friends, Yeah, all right, try to
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pick up that sprint. Yeah, I will, Tenny, Yeah, what
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is it? That's so? I just came in there. Which one?
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That big one? There? I said to him, I said, there,
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Hello, Joe, he's sitting Hello, his name must be Joe.
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Where is he? He's upstairs THEO Come on, pony, mom, yeah
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up here, it's right up. Wait a minute, wait minute, hello
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jah? Yeah, how are you? That's him? Yeah, come on,
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man, he's out the street. Hold it. He's getting into a
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car, all right, come on. Here he goes and I stay with
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him. Thirteen J Code two suspect proceeding east on Fountain, license number eight
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oh Roger one one three five profession All units code to suspect pramling east on
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license number eight Old Roger one one three five. He's swinging limp thurteen J
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suspect turning north on Lincoln. All units an area B code two suspect proceeding
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north on Lincoln and don't get too close. He's stopping and pull up thirteen
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j suspect that three thousand block Lincoln. He's getting up in. All right,
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let's go going into that building. Hold it, We'll wait a little
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rest. The boys get here and there's Quine. Now he's in the building.
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Quine, you got to take it around back in the alley and there's
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ashe. Quine's taking the back Asher. We'll go in. You wait here
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for the rest. Spread him out, right, Lieutenant, all right,
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let's go man. Okay, how do we do it when we find out
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what apart when he went in, clear out the building and take him.
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Wait a minute, tail boxes. Uh yeah, let's ski busher writing see
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young two or eight. But if they're in the room, we can just
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clear out the rooms on both sides. We got the rest of the building.
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I'll take two or six. I'll take two ten, two four,
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two six, Okay, yes, sure, sure. So what I tell
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you, Carl, I tell you I know what I'm talking about. It's
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Damian, the dumbest no world. You'll be Ben. Yeah, that's Carl.
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You'll with the big boy here. Come on, it's better that way.
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I'll take him on the street. They're climbing into a car, holder,
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young Carlt's carl, watch it, Ben me sure? Oh a light
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way get down between us. Give it up, young budget. Ye'll bring
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it for the alley, Ben stop take this one. Are the Wine's tackled
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him all right? Quiney, Yeah, big boy wasn't as tough as he
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looked. Ah, he's been fighting no lace too long? The line up?
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Where before you passed the innocent, the vagran, the thief, the
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murderer. Listen next Wednesday when we again bring you the line up. May
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I have your people out there on the other side of the wire in the
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audience room. I have your attention to me. Thank you. My name
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is GREB Sergeant Matt Grabb. I'll explain the lineup from you. Each of
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the suspects you will see will be numbered. I'll call up a number,
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the name and charge. If you have any questions or identifications, please remember
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the number a sign of the prisoner and my coll The line up, starring
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Bill Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie and Wally Mayer as Sergeant Matt Grabb, is
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written by Blake Edwards but music by Eddie Dunsteader featured in Tonight's cast were high
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upper Back, Ray Hartman, Bob Sweeney, Howard mcneir, Peter Leeds,
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Virginia Gregg, Sidney Miller, and Bill Bouchet. The lineup is produced and
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directed by Himid Delvay. The top flights of the Nation come to you on
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CDs The Stars Addressed the Stars Ast CPS Welcome back. Well one of the
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more intense and emotional episodes with that entire scene with the identification of the body
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and overall pretty uh good and well deserved captured to wrap up the show.
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All right, Well, that will do it for today. We'll be off
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tomorrow, actually first time in about three weeks. We'll be back on Monday
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