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The Line Up: The Supermarket Murders (EP0854) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Welcome to the Great Detectors of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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  our listeners. Thanks so much for your support. And here now is today's
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  episode of the lineup from September twenty three, nine fifty. So actually we
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  have consecutive shows right in a row, which is kind of rare for this
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  section of the program. Is we don't actually have another episode available until November
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  sixteen, a couple of months later. So anyway, here's today's episode,
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  The Supermarket Murders by transcription. We take you now behind the scenes of a
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  police headquarters in a great American city or under the cold glaring lights. Will
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  pass before us. The innocent, the vagrant, the thief, the murderer.
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  This is the line up. Just take any one of the seats,
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  all right, right here is fine? Alright? Hello coin only six all
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  the robberies. Yeah, I don't think we'll get much though. I'm pretty
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  sure the boys we want don't have a package. May I have your attention?
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  Please? On the other sure, i'll see in the office later.
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  Right, thank you. I'll explain the lineup to you. Each of the
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  suspects you will see will be number. I'll call up a number, their
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  name and charge. Have you had any questions or identifications? Please remember the
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  number of signs of the prisoner as I call his name at the end of
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  each line. When I asked for questions or identifications, called out the number.
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  If you'll show, oh, I'm not too sure. If a suspects
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  had him held. The officers have took your name, will assist you.
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  They're seated among them. Please be put with your questions and identifications. When
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  the prisoners leave here, they are into the bathroom and dressed back into their
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  jail clothes. It makes it quite difficult to bring them back after they leave
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  here. The questions I asked these suspects are merely to get a natural upon
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  the voice, so do not pay too much attention to their answers, as
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  they often ride. Thing on the line. All right, keep it moving
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  right over you begin to the stage. Right over here, boy, that's
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  right, okay, I'll face front, tends to your side. God,
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  you'll come out. Give a little room up there. I'm a boys.
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  This is the thak room. You'll have to speak up so everybody can hear
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  you. A lot of people out there, and they all want to hear
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  what you've got to say, So keep your voice, okay. Number one
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  Joel Webster robbery. What do you let Joel? There was still seen in
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  the half with the hundred and they got a hotel a house or what hotel
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  as it's got a name? Yeah? Edged And who were you arrested with?
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  Oh, buddy, I was rested alone. I wasn't with nobody any
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  weapons. Didn't you have a knife? Yeah? If I wouldn't call it
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  a weapon? Or what would you call it? Nice? Just a nice?
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  I think a night wasn't about like this? One of solder about eight
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  inches one of solber. It was open when you would picked up, wasn't
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  it? Yeah? It's got open okay. Number two Lenny Palms robbery,
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  all right, and it's don't look at me, look out at the people.
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  Why that's all right? Where do you live a minute? Just got
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  the time? Okay? Where have you been staying you're thanking. Just got
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  the town two days ago. Open here maybe an hour and before a job
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  I get picked up. Being here for two days, that's where i've been.
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  Say where are you from? California? Stan Urdu? You need San
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  Bernadino, Yes, Dan Burkino. Were you arrested with anybody? Yeah?
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  I was arrested with another guy, George Lumpkin right here, number seven.
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  We're buddy. I'll be known him. Get you together. Lived in Burdu
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  then Bernadino over on D Streets right behind where I used to live. Known
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  him twenty years, George, Yeah, about twenty Any weapons, No,
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  we never fooled nothing like this before. We got rolled on the train.
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  Oh you came in by train? Yeah, a box car routs in the
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  box car, A couple of guys file on and rollers. We needed do
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  so we read the first But we've never done nothing like that before, not
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  George. They okay, number three car young robbery, Oh brother, any
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  of these men? Where you live with Carl eight eighty nine South four had
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  him talk up my play, But you'll you'll have to be a lot of
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  car eight eighty nine South Poor. I lived there. You always wear glasses?
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  Yeah, I don't have to all the time, but I do take
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  them off, keep fishing the frost. What you gotta associate with people out
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  there? Not to me? Yes? Or you're working Carl North or Norman
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  six or seven months? What do you do when you work? Drigner?
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  Sometimes anything right, jobs and things? Any weapons, yes, or a
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  gun, but kind of a gun? Thirty two Smith and Wesson. Bruce
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  Steve Nickel played the well. Nickel played it. I had it for about
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  ten years. You're a car No were you arrested with anyone? No where?
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  You're from? A call from here? I've been here all my life.
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  I was bringing up on the south Side. I wish I wasn't from
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  here. So how about it? Recognize any of these men? All right
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  before? James Newton Lopery, What do you live James? Nine Greenland?
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  I'll remember what I said about talking about three on nine Greenland. That's where's
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  that James shout side open there coffee Hill? Who were you arrested with three
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  fellers in the other room? Guess the next line? Thrive they breaker?
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  I bet you look a little card, a little no identifications. I didn't
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  think they wouldn't. These boys don't have records. Well, they're sure going
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  to have eight robberies in a month. You know, I've got good descriptions.
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  Yeah, they follow a pretty uniform m O gas stations, all night
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  markets. The best we can do is stink out every all night market and
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  try watching as many gas stations as possible. That's a big order, I'm
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  sure is Are you go with me tonight? Okay, we've got the West
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  Side market over on Fountain. You betta go over and check out of Thompson
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  just in case we're lucky lucky. I don't want sure and getting time of
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  sitting here. What you go, I gotta go qualify if I want to
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  keep you writing. You're right expert over Yeah, someone, well it was
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  my day off. Two. I think I'll go along pick up okay,
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  picking point of Yeah, he's a good shot. Done good. I gotta
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  get up there. Last qualifications in February. On Febuary, Yeah, boy,
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  what did you start yawning for? You know, I hate guys who
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  pick on all night spots to stick up. We've already been here four hours.
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  One thing these guys aren't consistent about is the time they think probably be
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  anywhere from eleven o'clock to six in the morning as well. Thank you.
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  Huh, and I watched his fast. Here's it's an area that's que at
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  two eleven called four wheel Market. Six h eight sounds chap. Oh,
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  yeah, that's an area that's cue expect. We've been looking for our points.
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  That started using the gun. Oh, okay, take it away.
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  That's clients inside talking to the manager. Okay, all right, all right,
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  let us throw reason, let us get bye. Please come on,
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  come on? Whould they haul off on the ambulance manager's son, Hello,
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  Brad, what happened? This is mister Bishop. He runs a store.
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  This is Lieutenant Guthrie and sergeant grabbed mister Bishop. I gotta get down at
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  the hospital. That was his son in the ambulance. Asher told me,
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  please, I should be the jacked was a foreman we want all right?
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  He came in and held up the cash register girl. Then yeah, the
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  one crime. They asked her the money and mister Bishop's son went for a
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  gun out of the counter. He wanted to protect the store. He wasn't
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  afraid of them. Please, I gotta get down and see how he is
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  as ye have been. See that mister Bishop gets down at the hospital.
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  Get him there fast. Sure, thank you got cars out this way.
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  He got a statement. When he feels like, let's go talk to the
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  girl. The names Wilson Jean Wilson engaged the son, Miss Wilson. This
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  is Lieutenant Guthrie. He'd like to talk to you, Hi, Miss Wilson.
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  Did you get a good look at the hold up man? Yes,
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  Oh, it's just doubble. I've never been in a hold up or anything.
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  A week. It was just awful. It wasn't there one then shift
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  shot jacket. It was just terrible. You could defy the man who shot
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  jack door. Here's I could identify him. I think I could identify all
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  of them all, but the one who stood side the door. There were
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  four of them. Four, yes, I've got a good look at three
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  of them. Two of them came out off to the cash register. The
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  one stood right over there by the vegetable section, but I'd recognize him,
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  and the four off he stood by the door he has right over there and
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  on the right side. I didn't see him until the two men who walked
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  up to me took out guns and told me to give them all the money
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  on the cash door. And then I noticed the one steading by the door
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  just stood of out of the corner of my eyes. He had a gun
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  too. Excu the Jack, please stuty here. Jack was standing right behind
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  her when all the boys showed the gun. Jack reached where a gun and
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  father kept under the counter. Still there. You never made it, boy.
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  I'm really tired. Me too long night? Oh dirty cool? I
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  wonder how mister Bishop's boys doing. We want to hear soon anyway a minute,
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  I gonna wash up. Yeah, me too, man. Huh want
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  to left home? Yeah? Yeah, m but you're still going out to
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  the range of ten. Yeah, I got to. I have to qualify
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  tomorrow. Don't qualify at home. Yeah, I sure wish we'd get these
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  guys. We will. Might take a while, but we will, so
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  there are later I'll make a mistake, get spotted and will get him.
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  Yeah. One of the descriptions we've got from all the witnesses. Somebody's got
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  to spot him. All right, Hi, all right, Ash, how's
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  the bishop ken? He's dead? Huh died ten minutes ago. I took
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  mister Bishop home. Didn't feel much like making a statement, and the fire
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  well, I take him up. I felt like I was waving at a
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  bus. I got a right apron waving at a bus. That's what I
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  killed. I wish I could wave like that, not a hey, how
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  about quining? We got a bet. I'm down up, I might as
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  well play up now boy, I feel it the day the Aniokley of the
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  sixteenth three singing, wow you see come on, come on, play up.
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  He probably made a deal with the range Master. Come on, I
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  hate well she's let's have it. Okay, okay, here's your dying Wait
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  a minute, you want to double it on the time fire? Twenty cents?
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  Twenty? How are you gonna eat next week? When the cents you
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  wanted? An you're wanting on this one? Best I'll get in on it,
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  okay. First half a rapid file rolling lock found third bell? Wow,
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  Oh here comes at you? Oh I sure time? Hey boys?
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  All the pretty mean second half of rapid file or lock filen third bell?
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  They looked pretty good. Ben he waves and every time he does, he
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  shoots. At ninety eight they got two of the hold up men. What
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  they did? Go on? They're waiting the win minute you say they got
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  to hold them in. They had two of them. Phillips had a rookie
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  out in the car spotted two guys in a parking lot stealing some stuff out
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  of the back of the car. A couple of young guys, Phillips and
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  this rookie named the Pocket, picked them up raw. They got two of
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  the hold up man. Phillips and a rookie picked him up. They didn't
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  even figure that they might have been part of the hold up gang. Caught
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  him stealing something out of the car right well. They took them in,
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  shook him down, but not very well. They were bringing him up the
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  back way when one of them pulled a hide out gun. There was a
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  fight on the steps. Rookie got both of them, one dead and the
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  other's dying. I just left Phillips family. What happened to Philip? One
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  Force. Second four guess god all right you do? Sergeant? Then?
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  Yeah, I know the doctor? How are you thinking? Okay? Man
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  bullets ever the cervics f shap partners in the morning. Jacobs, Jacob,
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  he was talking ten minutes ago, Jacobs as a lieutenant Godfrey Jacobs wants to
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  talk to you. Oh Jacobs. We don't know where we can find your
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  other two parts. Who is it you killed a policeman? Jacobs. I
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  don't know if you killed a policeman. And we know you're one of four
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  men have been pulling off those robberies. We got Eddie and we got you.
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  We want to know who the other two men are. We should who
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  those cars and on small time the other two men? Jacobs, No good,
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  let's kill one of you killed that boy in the grocery store and not
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  tell us who the other two men are. You don't know anything. You
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  don't get anything else. We've got to find those up at two. Sorry
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  in a coma. Okay, I'll put a man on him in case he
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  comes to him. Wants the tall and leave an oxygen intended. He's going
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  to pull through. I don't even think it makes it hand out it slug
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  went in crazy right in his hands, up his arm through his body.
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  Let's he hit his arm out straight. That's right, pointing it done.
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  I'm gonna see about the camp he robb ripley. H. I talked with
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  Crock up the bookie. He's just sick about it, callow Coin Guthrie.
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  I want a man up here to stay with Jacob. No, no,
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  he's he's in a coma, but he may come around. I want a
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  man here, Yeah, yeah, what's the address? Just a minute,
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  give me a pencil map in a pan. Yeah right, all right,
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  go ahead, four four five northol Okay his uncle catch him? H huh
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  okay, yeah yeah, well Matt and I was thinking, yeah, mine,
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  what's up? They got an address on Jacob's four four five North Elm.
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  It was with his uncle. I'm to ketch him. Things are getting
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  hot. What's well down? Yes, mister ketchum. Yeah, police,
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  what you want, but I could talk to you, Okay, come on,
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  place is a mess, gives it and we can sitting here. Ain't
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  so dirty in here. How about a drink? No thanks, you don't
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  mind. I'm gonna have one, just gonna have a check. We want
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  to talk to you about your nephew. Yeah, I figured so you won't
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  have a short No thanks? Was he car had it for a month,
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  no more than a month, and allowed anything since December. Cheers The nephews
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  in the hospital. He years he was shot. He killed a policeman,
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  killed a car. You like that. Well, he ain't no nephew mine.
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  I'm not really your uncle. My wife's nephew. She's dead. I
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  brought him up. He was with a friend. I de climb. Yeah,
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  it's like Jake, no good new Jacob get phone in a jailson later.
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  I never thought he'd kill a car. We're looking for two more of
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  his friends. Two more your nephew. Ain't no nephew. Jacobs in Cline,
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  along with two other men, started holding up stores and gas stations a
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  week ago, holding up stores and dashed Yeah, we want to know where
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  we can find the other two men and stick on our places, killed a
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  car and a young boy who worked in one of the stores. Got to
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  get me another twink and thank you. Never was any good. I brung
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  him up. His family died when he was three, I think, white
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  sister. And to live with a white guy ten years ago. Never could
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  to link him with him, even get him. Those make an all times
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  of record. I called him, hey, cut that out, put it
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  out little. They could beat that pitch pan Ald day. Look, mister
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  Ketchell, can you will help us on the other two men? Well,
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  one of'em probably be Willie Harris? They run around together. Where's Willie
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  Harrison? Lived a room and house over on Maple next Black. I don't
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  know the address, but it's in the middle of the black all right,
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  thanks mister Ketchell. Sure there was a cop sticks some story. Get much
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  money out of these stories, quite a bit. The shows none of it
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  around him four five nine, and Lincoln had washing. This looks like the
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  place. Yeah, that's us eighty eight, six eighty eight, Roger,
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  let's go mad. I used the phone of the rooming house. What's up?
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  Willie Harris lives here? I want to call it anyway, And if
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  he's one of the boys. Yes, please, Oh now, there's Willy
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  Harris lives here? Way, Yes, have you done something? He no,
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  hadn't been in since yesterday. I'd like to use your phone. Well,
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  all right, it's really done something. You're going to arrest him.
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  I'm not sure we want to talk about it. Where As you said that
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  phone was oh right and there and there. Thanks, wouldn't be a bit
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  surprised. Well, they've done whatever you think is done. I've never liked
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  that's very Have you had any money in the rest for weeks? Way,
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  yes, said some of the background. I don't know where got it.
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  He isn't working. Hello, there's gutthree. No thanks, quine man,
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  Willy Harris came into some money this week? Oh much money? Paid his
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  back? When? Yes, you guys, yeah, oh yeah, we'll
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  look. We're over the rooming house. We've got to lead on. A
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  guy named Willy Harris might be one of them. Yeah, well yeah,
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  but we wait, yeah, they might just show you know, okay,
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  yeah, the hold up, same emo, only two men this time.
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  I think where it was one of them might be If you don't mind,
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  I'm gonna wait here in case he shows up. Everybody's out, and then
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  they staked around the block. I just talked to Cline and spotted across the
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  street in the alley. Did you find a name? Yea slugs from a
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  thirty eight? No, a gun. It was a thirty eight to kill
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  that bishop boy. I'd like to find some of that money. Somebody,
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  it's coming up here. Get over at the door. I got it here,
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  he said, Okay, okay, get up. Hey, what is
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  this? Where's your partner? What do you mean that he's dead? Jacobs
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  is dying? Where's your partner? I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Hey, look still, wait a minute. When you it's a nice bundle
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  it though, I want it. I want a gas station on Lincoln Boulevard.
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  No, I didn't. A kid in the grocery store died. Wait
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  a minute, when you wait out a dozen witnesses who can make an identification
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  on you, I didn't shoot that guy in a grocery store. I didn't
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  shoot them. Oh, Fank, Frank shot ankle flank water You want Frank
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  held up at gas station? Yeah? Where's bank? Now? He went
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  home six eighteen, thought Wilton. He was tired. He was going to
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  take a nap. Get up. You should get up. Oh my god,
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  we are in school. Did you get under the fuller and the bundle
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  of door? Gear it up? You're not right? Get your pants on?
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  All right? I told you where it was. Willie, Yeah,
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  Willie. Look you can't prove it the mind. Let's go. What am
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  I sure gave up a jama top on. I'll give you a whole new
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  outfit downtown. Oh, chill, I trouble. You're gonna have him gin?
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  Oh here this is yours? What four sixty cents? Matt mag got
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  ninety six? My last round of rapid fire, you had a ninety eight.
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  The line up where before you passed the innocent, the vagrant, the
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  thief, the murderer. Listen again next week when we again bring you the
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  lineup. May I have your assented please? You'll be put down on the
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  other side of the wire of the audience room. May I have your assented?
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  Please? Thank you. My name is Greg Sargean. That threap.
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  I'll explain the line up to you. Each of the suspects you will see
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  will be number, the number, the name of charge. If you have
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  any questions or identifications, please remember the number of signs of the Pistons.
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  The line Up starring Bill Johnstone as Jon and Ben Guthrie. I'm Wally Mayo
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  Sergeant Matt Gribb is written by Blake Edwards with music by Eddie Dunsteader featured in
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  tonight's cast where Hiever Back, Gil Stratton, Vic Perren, Siam Edwards,
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  Jack Morrile, Jean Bates, Her Butterfield, Tony Barrowed and Virginia Gregg.
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  The lineup is transcribed in Hollywood by him Delvaya. Welcome back. I can't
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  help but wonder if trying to go out and qualify right after pulling one of
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  those all nighters might make it harder for a good marksman to pass. But
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  apparently no trouble for being Guthrie. All right, Well, that'll actually do
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  it for today. We will be back next week with another episode of the
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  Lineup. In the meantime, I'm Sandra Commins for Box thirteen at Great Detectives
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