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The Line Up: The Big Boy’s Brutish Back-Bending Case (EP1564) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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  is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it
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  Well, it was funny yesterday I was talking about Jack Moyles and we're actually
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  entering his era on the lineup in our examination of recently discovered episode for in
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  the Era, where after Bully Mayer died in late nineteen fifty one, he
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  came to the line up playing the role of Sergeant Carter. The original air
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  date for this program was April twenty ninth of nineteen fifty two, and the
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  title is The Big Boys British Backbending Case ladies and gentlemen. We take you
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  now by transcription, behind the scenes of a police headquarters in a great American
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  city, or under the cold blaring lights will pass before us, the innocent,
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  the vagrant, the thief, the murderer. This is the lineup,
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  Ah, mister ketchum. Yeah, I'm mister Lieutenant Catherine, glad to meet
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  you. Any trouble finding a place? Oh no? The book TA wants
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  to being drunk a year ago last Christmas. It was I know the place
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  all right. He changed it all to much disinfected, smell it everywhere.
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  I think you got him, huh, I don't know for sure. Is
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  the license number I gave you? I was right, wasn't I'll scene,
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  I'm smart? Have you you let people out there the side of the wire
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  in the audience room? May I have your attention? Please? Thank you.
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  My name is Carger, Sergeant Pete Carger. 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 in charge. You have any questions or identifications,
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  please remember the number of signed with the prisoners. I call his name the
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  end of each line when I ask for questions or identifications. Call out the
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  number if you're sure, are not too sure? The suspect had him mail
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  questions, I asked. These suspects are reality to get a natural tone of
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  voice, but not pay too much attention to their answers, as they often
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  lie. All right, bring on the line all the way to the end
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  of the stage. Boy, that's it. I'll turn and face the front,
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  eye straight ahead. Talk up in a good loud voice so the people
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  in the back of this room can hear you. Number one, Gerald vanneck
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  assaw up to the Senate? Where do you live? Gerald thirty seven fifty
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  six Mira poses Street wa'ts your profession? I drive a truck. I'm a
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  truck. I don't look at me. You look out there? Any weapons
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  on you when you were picked up? No? You own a car?
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  Yeah? What make coupe? Saedan? What the forty seven? Pick a
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  black sedan? Matter with your ear? He got cut? How in a
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  fight? Somebody clouded me with an ash tree taking good carrier? Gerald?
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  Oh, shoe shoe? I slid on down. Number two Robert pray Burglary,
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  Robert pray Oh. I'm saying, come on, I saw it up
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  where do you live Robert Ashton Avenue? It's name fifteen? I think haven't
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  you lived there very long? No? I just slept there the one night.
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  It's a hotel sort of. Where'd you come from? Topeka, Kansas?
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  What kind of work do you do? Painted? And to do a
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  carving? Any weapons? Boy that's gone? Live out? What's the caliber?
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  And make come on Robert? Well, you make me kind of nervous.
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  I'm just trying to thirty eight. Yeah, Smith and Wesson. I
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  was a chrome or blue steel? Can you remember that? Blue steel?
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  Thank you? New Wilkins are gone. Move number three, Edward Franklin open
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  charge. Give us your address Edward thirteen West eighteenth Avenue. Your business construction
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  work? I do steel work mostly. How long you've been in town?
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  That's the week? Ten days. Maybe you own a car? Yeah,
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  forty six buick Cedar that it's the rule, but it's back in Pittsburgh.
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  I haven't got it here. Any weapons on you when you were picked up?
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  What's your weight? To thirty eight? Get back against the wall.
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  I'm six three and a half. Just against the wall. Stage Yeah,
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  sure, taking them Sergeant Cargar, Yes, sir number three. All for
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  interrogation. Yeah, and tell us what you were doing in at the quarry
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  last night? What was I doing? You know what I was doing out
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  there? Tell us again. I rented a car to take a look at
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  this town. I thought I might like to work around here, So I
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  just drove around yesterday, that's all. I happened to turn the car around
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  when I got out by the quarry. That was about eight o'clock, wasn't
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  Oh it was almost ten you know that. Where'd you drive it? Oh?
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  Just around all over? And do you remember any of the other streets
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  you were on? No, not my name one of them. A lot
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  of driving theaters along the way. You were rented the car at eighty four
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  yesterday, is that right? Yeah, about three in the afternoon. Yeah.
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  Why did you rent a cadillancan? Huh? You could have rented a
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  Ford for ten dollars a day. Cadi like cost fifteen. Why do you
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  mean why fifteen dollars a day to look around a new city when you could
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  do it for ten. Seems funny that So I just wanted the Caddie,
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  that's all. Nothing funny about that. You had the Cadillac last night and
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  the night before where'd you go the night before? Nowhere? I stayed that
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  cad was sitting out there, costing you fifteen bucks. Yeah, I can
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  afford it. You didn't go anywhere that night. No, but you went
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  out last night out looking around? Yeah? What time did you leave your
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  apartment? Late in the afternoon? Four or five? Why didn't you look
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  around in the daytime? Because I wanted to look around at night? After
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  you finished driving around? Did you go right home? Yeah, you didn't
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  stop in anywhere. No, how about a drink? Do you have a
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  drink somewhere along the line? No? I just said no. You're driving
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  around town for five hours. Did you meet anybody? Talk to anybody in
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  that time? No? Now, let me see. You've told us that
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  you came in town from Pittsburgh ten days ago. You took a fairly expensive
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  apartment, and later on you rented a pretty nice car. Right. What
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  are you doing here in looking? Just looking? I might want to live
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  here. You don't know anyone here? No, nearly everybody has some kind
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  of reason for pulling up stakes and starting in another plane. Well I didn't.
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  I just grabbed a plane in Pittsburgh and came here. Left my car
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  and all my things there. If I decided to stay, I'll send for
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  them. Why'd you leave Pittsburgh? I got fed up? You got fired,
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  didn't you? Huh? You work for the General Mayor Construction company there,
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  didn't you? Yeah? For five years and they fired you two weeks
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  ago. Isn't that the story? That's not the story at all. I
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  quit. Look in the witness saw you drive up to the quarry edge last
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  night and take a body out of your car. He says you threw it
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  on the quarry and then drove away. You're identified as the driver of the
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  car. Now we want to get all the thanks. We can clear this
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  up one way or another. It's going to help you and it's going to
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  help us. What happened in Pittsburgh? Wow, this guy was working for
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  me. I was foreman, you know. Yeah, had a lot of
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  lip, big man, not as big as me, but be full of
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  talk, real good with the ladies. He got on my nerves one day
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  and I let him have it. You mean you hit him? Yeah,
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  five teeth right across the front. Cost me six hundred dollars for dental work.
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  The man didn't press charges. He knew better your life living in Pittsburgh
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  now in I haven't got all my ex Yeah, I guess so. I
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  didn't see her much after we broke up. She charged you with AsSalt once,
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  Is that right? I didn't hit her, just slapped her. We
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  never got along. Ed you give me the idea why our witness would tell
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  us what he did. White say, he saw your dumble man's body in
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  the quarry. Whyite take your license number and tell the police. No,
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  he must be crazy seeing things. But you were alone in the car all
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  that time. You were driving around all alone, all alone for six hours
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  or better? That's right? Okayn? All through by the time being all
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  right? Coome ony, yeah h yeah. Wine phoned in from the quarry
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  anything, yeah, yeah. They found the body of a man, a
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  man, all right? What do you say down? Use the cream belonged
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  to the same company from the grambling hooks. After they found the body,
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  the track slipped off, not stuck. Trying to figure it out. Looks
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  like a mask. They don't get it out. He's over here on these
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  things on him. Driver's license says his name is Alpha pe Hanson one one
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  three two Race Street from the ring and the watch dollar fifty percent figures hang
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  on him three. Yeah, alright, don take it back. Ah,
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  pretty young. My sense was issued three years ago, and he says he
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  was twenty at the time. How long do you think he's been on the
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  water. I can't tell you right now, roughly thirty forty hours. The
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  rock was tied on just like that. Pretty good job of wearing. Yeah,
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  look up here. I figured he came over the side, no brunes
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  on his body and cut some lacerations. You can see for yourself. Tell
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  him I went to get him downtown. Any idea why he's drowning? All
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  right? He was still alive when he went in. Oh, yeah,
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  somebody broke us back before that. Hello. Hello, does Alfred Paul Hanson
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  live here? Yes, yes he does. I'm a sister, missus Kelly.
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  Police officers, missus Kelly. We'd like to tell please, Oh lord,
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  is Alan trouble. My name is Guthrie. This is Sergeant Cargo.
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  May we come in please? How do you do? Well? Yes,
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  but I don't is your husband? And missus Kelly? No, he's in
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  Buffalo. He travels. I don't expect him back until Wednesday. I see.
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  We'd like to check on a couple of things with you. Missus Kelly.
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  When'd you see your brother last last night at dinner? And did he
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  leave the house after dinner? Yes? Please? What was he wearing a
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  sweet suit? I think has al done something? Did you report him missing?
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  No? No, but he's liable not to come home for two or
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  three nights in a row. He stays with friends. That isn't it isn't.
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  It may not be him, but we'd like to have you come downtown
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  with us and look at a body with Oh no, all right, officer's
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  acle. I know how hard it was for you to come down here and
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  do this, Miss Kelly. I understand it had to be done. I
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  know what you had your job to do. Thank you, miss Kelly.
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  Now you least saw your brother at dinner time? Yesterday? Yes? Now?
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  What time? Was there? About? Six? I kiss he went
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  out right after dinner? Did he walk or take the car? He walked?
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  Can you remember if he had a phone call and made a day to
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  meet someer? No? I did where he went? Did he said he
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  was going to a movie or to a friend's house? Oh? He just
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  sick. Bye. Whatever you can tell us is going to help us.
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  Missus Kelly. I suppose you know some of his friends. M kah.
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  He brought girls over to the house now and then boys are going to school
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  with her service. Yes, we'd like as many names as you can give
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  us. Well, I had so many friends. Let's see. I guess
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  one of his best friends is the boy named but Chisholm. You know,
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  he lives with his family and Edward side. They have a bigger home there.
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  And there's another boy born in Copeland. He lives on the other side
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  too. With Yes, I don't know any of the addresses. Suppose they're
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  in the phone book. Now? Who else? Oh? Jack? Did
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  us he lives quite near us on Malfayette Street. D I D d I,
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  yes, yes, it's all I can remember. If your contact you
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  you mentioned a girl, oh when he had him on Lucia Lucy O'milcolm,
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  sweet kid? Any other girls? And Nancy for that? But Jessuslissa,
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  did your brother ever work or live in Pittsburghsburgh, Pennsylvania? No? Did
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  you ever mentioned a man named ed Franklin? No? I don't think so.
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  He might have it last night at dinner. Did I don't have a
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  drink? Maybe the medical examiner tells us he had a drink or too somewhere
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  last night. We thought maybe he had it at home. No, well,
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  do you know some cocktail lounge where he'd go to have a couple of
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  quiet drinks? You'll have to ask somebody else. I couldn't see sure,
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  Okay, I should right inside it, missus Kelly. Have you ever seen
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  this man before him? No? I don't think I have. He drives
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  a Cadillac convert of him. Do you ever come by the house? No,
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  I'm quite sure. Okay, all right, my mind mind, Well,
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  thank you, miss Kelly. Sergeant cog I'll take you home. Hi.
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  Pete around down the hall talking to some people who rounded up this morning.
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  Have some kids friends? Yeah, with checking them through R and I
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  right now, Cline and Crockett covering the bid joints and taverns in the neighborhood.
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  Marg sent over the picture. Nothing so Franklin's still sticking with him hotter
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  than it. He doesn't know the kid and never saw him. Well,
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  if we don't get something today and we'll go to work on him again,
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  he isn't going to be a See what is okay? Jack wanting pain?
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  Then this is Jack? Did us Guthrie? Jack? Hello, Sergeant Asher
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  Jack talked to Alan the phone the night he was killed. Oh, won't
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  tell us about it. Son. He called and asked me to meet him
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  at a place we used to go to him now and then, the Midget
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  Cafe. I was right in the middle of dinner. At what time was
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  this, you know? Oh? About eight o'clock in and around there he
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  was talking from a phone booth. He'd been drinking a little bit. You
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  mean he was drunk. No, no, I'm just drinking. You know,
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  A friend's a drink and I can tell it. Why did he want
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  you to meet him? Oh? Well, he said he'd met a girl
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  there and didn't say who, and only had a few dollars with him,
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  and he didn't have any wheels, didn't have a car. He wanted me
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  to come by and bring him some money and show them around. I couldn't
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  go, and I told him so. He called again a little while later,
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  and this time he said I had to come over, and I asked
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  him why. He said he thought he could get me in a good fight.
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  I'd see how I am, and the guys are always doing that to
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  me in a fight with who I don't know. You said it was a
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  guide me there did you go over, Yes, I did. I got
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  there about ten thirty, but he wasn't there anymore, so I came on
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  home. You say, the name of this place is the Midget. Yeah,
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  it's easy to find. Let's go out forty third Street, half a
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  mile past the stone Quarry. It's nice to be friendly when you find yourself
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  in a strange country. But do you know where in the world you wouldn't
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  walk up to someone on the street, say, got a light bud and
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  offer the man a cigarette. One place you most definitely wouldn't do that is
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  in Saudi Arabia. In general, Saudi's observed the customs of their religion,
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  which forbid smoking. They are also forbidden to dance or to drink alcoholic beverages.
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  If you were stationed in Saudi Arabia or are visiting there, you do
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  well to remember something else if you happen to be a smoker. Tobacco is
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  not used in government offices nor in the presence of members of the royal family.
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  By observing the customs of other countries, you make a friend for yours.
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  Really, what's up, fellows routine? I can talk to some of
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  the people who were working here night before last year. Well, I was
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  on from six to closing. What's your name? Dave Chrystler, but they
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  call me Fritsen. Do you know a man named al Hanson? No?
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  I can't see you do Edward Franklin? No? Yeah, yeah, this
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  is handsome. Take a look. No, we heard he was in here
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  night before last. What it might have been? I don't know who.
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  Wait a minute, I take him back. I served this guy himself.
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  What's wrong with him in the picture there? What time did he come in?
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  I don't know what he is? He sat right over there. I
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  remember that. Tell us what you can with you? There's nothing too Telly
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  come in. He had a few drinks and he laughed. Oh tell them
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  I sat with him pro while. Yeah. Yeah, you want to talk
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  to her? Sure? Where can we find them? Well, she's the
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  bug. Night before last she was off, so she come in. She
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  had a drink. You want her? Yeah? Yeah, wait, go
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  tell me, tell me, hey, tell me. These two gentlemen of
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  the police officers say they want to talk to me. Oh, sure,
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  you can go ahead with what you're doing. What's your full name? Please
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  tell them? Lazy? Where do you live? In thirty five sixteen?
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  It's a matter of mind trouble, and we're investigating a homicide. I understand
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  you had a few drinks with Al hans the night before last night, right
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  Al Hansome? Oh eh, that is last name Hanson. Yeah, this
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  is Al Hansons lazy. Oh sure he was killed night before last. Body
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  was dumped in the stone quarry down the road. That nice kid, that
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  nice kid, would you like to go outside in the car and took Yeah,
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  it'd be better, come on. Okay, Oh how long have you
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  known him? I just met him the other night when he was in here.
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  Mind telling us how you meant him? Oh, he was just sitting
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  there drinking by Himselfie kept looking at me. I was talking to Fritzy and
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  well I went over and said I and we began talking. Made a couple
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  of phone calls trying to get a friend of his to come over with his
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  car. Did his friend show up? I don't know. I don't think
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  so. Somebody on who spoiled it? My lacy? Well, I know
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  this man Sarta. I met him just the other night before ed Franklin's his
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  name. He wanted to take me out and I wouldn't go out with him.
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  He said, he'd keep trying. Ed Franklin was in here that night,
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  Yeah, looking for me. I guess is this him? Why?
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  Yeah? How long did you say you've known him? Just one night?
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  When he was in here before? What happened? I mean when he came
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  in and he was sitting with Al Hansen. Oh, he saw Al was
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  just a nice kid, and Ed began throwing money around, told us he
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  was a big stock and bond man. Before he told me he was a
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  lawyer. Either was believed what he said. We could tell he didn't believe
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  him either. Al finally called him a phony, and Ed said he had
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  a big Cadillac out in front. It wasn't phony at all. Well.
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  I took Al to one side and told him I'd like to have another drink
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  with him, but he'd have to get rid of Ed somehow, or he'd
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  ruin our whole evening. Al told me to pretend I had to go and
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  he'd meet me here later. The idea was it Ed was only buying drinks
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  and hanging around to try and get me to go out with him. You
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  wanted to be with Al? Sure, he wasn't any phony, He was
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  real nice. Well, so I waited about five minutes. Then I said
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  I had to get home. Ed wanted to take me, but I said
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  I had in my own car. Instead of leaving, I just went around
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  to the side and waited. Pretty soon I saw Ed come out. Was
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  he alone? No? Al was with him. He was showing Al the
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  Cadillac. No, he had it all right, but he still looked like
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  a phony to me. He both got in the car. You saw them
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  clearly. Yes. I I was in that little room right off the kitchen
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  there. See where was the car park? Oh, right about here.
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  They sat there and talked for a minute, and I saw I all start
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  to get out, but Ed grabbed him. He's pretty big. They talked
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  a little while after that, and then what happened, Oh that's it.
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  What they drove off together. Al never came back. The lineup starring Bill
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  Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie and Jack Moyles. The Sergeant Pete Kuger was written
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  by E. Jack Newman, with music by Eddie Dunsteader. Featured in tonight's
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  cast were Harry Lang, Peter Leeds, Howard mcneer, Hal March, Jeannette
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  Nolan, Jack Carroll and Paula Winslow. The Lineup was transcribed in Hollywood by
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  Hi made del Viaier welcome back. Well somewhat abrupt ending, but then again,
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  I don't think there was any doubt left to what happened or anything much
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  for them to investigate overall and all story kind of a basic the guy looks
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  guilty and yeah he's guilty story without a whole lot of twists and turns,
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  so very straightforward, all right. Well, for some listener comments and feedback
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  regarding the return of the Lineup, Laurie said, I liked this episode a
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  lot. I recognized the case from another show, but that didn't determine my
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  enjoyment. I've always had a soft spot for the Lineup and super glad to
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  see it back on. Well, thanks so much. I'm glad you enjoyed
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  it, Laurie, And of course we do have the Lineup for one more
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  week, and after that, I believe we do have the return of another
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  show that we did previously for a week. We will be returning with Police
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  Headquarters. There were two episodes of that fifteen minute show that were lost at
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  the time we podcast through, but they have both been found and we will
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  bring them to you in two weeks. But next week listen for the lineup
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  and Wednesday the Adventures of Philip Marlow. In the meantime, sends your comments
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