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This one's called the Pixie Picker Pickle Case. Ladies and gentlemen, we
take you now behind the scenes of a police headquarters in a great American city.
We're under the cold, glaring lights with us before us, the innocent,
the vagrant, the thief, the murderery. This is the lineup.
Hi, Matt's got himself a job. Boys pulled in fifty two suspects today,
and thirteen more came in from the other divisions. Good as these girls
up front, Talbert girls on the left. There, Ash was bringing in
the surf Phoenie girl and Barbara Pattins over on the side. Oh yeah,
I see you. Well, I'll tell him I have to sit with the
Talbot girl. You take Steason, I'll take care of Pattons. Okay,
let's see a litter bit. Oh Barbara, Hello, luten heasy caught him?
Oh, we don't know. I hoping. Feeling all right now?
Oh? I feel fine, real fine? Eat hurt me much? Really,
that's good? Tell me. Yeah. You know those other girls Broom
just from their pictures in the paper. When you first came in, I
thought you were going to sit with one of them instead of me. Those
men with them are only sergeants, aren't They only sergeants not a full lieutenant.
While the audience room, may I have your attention to thank you.
My name is Greb, Sergeant Matt Grebb. I'll explain the line up to
you. Each of the suspects you will see will be number. I'll call
off a number, their name and charge. If you have any questions or
identifications, please remember the number as signed of the prisoner. As I call
his name at the end of each line. When I asked for questions or
identifications, call out the number if you're sure or not too sure on the
suspect. Having held the opposers have took your name, will assist you.
They're seated among you. Please big top with your questions or identifications. When
the presiders lead here, they are sent to the watch room and dressed back
into their jail clothes. It makes it quite difficult to bring them back after
they leave here. The questions I asked these suspects familiar to get an actual
tone of voice, so do not pay too much attention to the answers.
And as they often line, bring on the line, all right, boys,
keep it moving right overhead of the end of the stage. Come on
all the way overboard. That's right. If that would be looking figure or
somethink. When I call your names, step out to the circle. When
I ask the questions, talk up so the people in the back of the
room can hear you. All right. Number one, William Green vacuancy other
people when you live, William, Come on, talk up William, talk
up us along with the back of the room. No play. Why to
sleep last night in a park? Conferral boulevard? What do you do?
What you work? I get along? Do you ever think of getting a
steady job? William? Where the world coming to an n nay day?
Now? I should spend my free time working on I'm stupid job. Lots
of people in the same world with you. They all were Gummidge, all
of Gummidge. I'm playing it smart. You were in the county jail ten
months this past year, eight months the year before. Yeah, you're playing
it smart, all right, okay, step back Number two Theodore Swan two
ninety feelings to registered. I just got in town. I'm not going to
register. B just got in town. You were in town long enough to
get south step? What do you want a guy to do? Come right
down here fast, think it till everybody just got out of a click.
That's what the loss says you have to do. Why didn't you do it?
Oh? It's busy? Where do you live? Eight ninety third hook
streak any weapons? No? Well, What about the knife? What knight
the want in the property room? Oh that they use it from my fingernails?
A knife with an eight inch spring blade. Oh yeah, I got
a long fingernails that nice, just about three inches too long to be legal.
I suppose my finger there too long too. We'll look into it.
Number three, Gilbert Farrell fifth where Gilbert forty five fifty session. I have
a frontless street. I watch that. I'll tell a poper house room.
What sort of a bit motel and cord? How I'm the six months maybe
seven? What do you do for a living? I'm looking for a job.
What kind of a job. Well, yeah, there's something in our
gym or maybe trying boxes or something. Is that your profession? Yeah,
I know I know something about it. That's why you hang around the twelfth
Street gym. Yeah. Yeah, that's why any harmon hair there is if
you happen to walk off with four sets of boxing gloves. Oh, I
a doid thing like I don't have to doi. Oh you have a sauce.
It didn't come even though you aren't waging? Was sure I get calm
compensession? You mean unemployment compensation? Yeah, you're the greatest thing. I
ever dinast cut rigg. It's amount of time to run act take a bowl
looking into job, all right, slide down the end of the money number
four. Man, Oh how about Benny? You know Barbara Patton? Man?
Oh sure, hello, Susan. Well, I'm sorry you couldn't identify
one of those men. I might take Barbara down and show the mug file.
Maybe she can spot him there. Okay, I shouldn't quine out the
other girls there too. You still feel all right, Barbara? And not
time? Oh fine, Lieutenant honesty. Okay, man, I'll be with
Captain Marlow. You want me right, let's go, Barbo hope, I'll
see you later, Lieutenant you will nine? Oh? Man? All right?
Bill ran through sixty five to night. Nothing really experience. Yeah.
I think any of these four girls would recognize him if they did see him.
It's hard to say. He's quickness, always late at night. None
of them saw his face, just as back and only for a second descriptions,
don't jim. He was tall, he was meeting, he was heavy,
he was slender. Well, I'll have the boys keep holling them,
and we can't pass up any possibility. Majestic kid, the manager called me
again a little while ago, and I've still got three men in and around
the theater every ninth his help looks okay. None of them get off before
twelve thirty. And these jobs have all happened between ten thirty and twelve.
Each of these girls went to a late movie at the Majestic Theater or all.
After the show, they came out, waited for a bus or street
car, and someone passed them on the street and jabbed them with an ice
pick. Well, lucky, none of them have been seriously injured. You
know, Luck can't hold out. He's gonna hurt someone bad. One of
these bands. We've got to get him being complaints are poling up by the
hour. I want you to drop everything else. You're a work now.
Same goes from Matt Asher and Quinet Murphy. Anybody else should be okay.
I want plainclothesman covering that entire area. And there's many auxiliary cards as we
can spare. Maybe if we put the heat on, he'll hang up his
ice pick for the season. You know, Bill, I don't think this
bird cares one way or another what we do. Yeah, I'm afraid you're
right, all right, Ben, would you Matt come on in. I
think you both met doctor Rock one time or another. Doctor Sudden Graham,
Can I see you again? Doctor same mayor sugeant, Sergeant quin Oh,
I remember you on that book salesman thing. Sergeant. That's right, Captain
Waldo can't get down for this, So grab some chairs, boys, make
yourselves comfortable. Well, we've picked up over three hundred suspects in these ice
picks stabbings, no identifications. We haven't had any luck in the mug files
much more. I don't think we're gonna have anyone. So doctor Rock's here
to give us some of his ideas. I hope I can do you some
good, Lieutenant, Okay, sure, go ahead. Two questions here,
gentlemen. What kind of man would have cost a young girl on a crowded
street jabber with an ice pick, then flee and the other why would he
do it? Well, we know it isn't for money. The girls haven't
been robbed, and they aren't attack cases. No, no, And there's
only one other conclusion about him. He's pathological and overt sattists. I've gone
over the complaint reports, and I've interviewed all the girls. Well, these
kids have been mighty lucky. None of them have been struck in a vital
place, the fleshy part of the arm or leg a thigh in one case.
The Catholic legtims have been at the same age between nineteen and twenty three.
If you think this has a bearing on it, no, yes,
yes, very much so. I doubt if he'd attack an older woman.
There are indications that he might select his victims beforehand in some manner or another,
and actually talk with him and know something about them, you mean,
long enough so they'd appeal to him in this way. Well, that's about
it. Another point, he always operates under the cover of darkness on a
crowded street. Lieutenant Guthrie has suggested we look for a man who's working hours
fit into the schedule. I agree with him. Maybe he works someplace where
he meets his girls. Well, it couldn't be in their neighborhoods. They
live in different parts of the city, so it must be where he works
or hangs out. Who could be Now, I have here some other points
that you can think over. I believe your suspect will be agile, possibly
indicating he's young. He may be a frustrated artist or sculptor, or a
medical student. His taste will probably be esthetic. He'll be the first to
tell you he doesn't belong where he is, that he's meant for something much
better. Any questions, But do you think he'd admit these things doctor,
if we get him, Well, that depends entirely on his particular personality makeup.
He might. On the other hand, he might claim an hysterical fugue
and remember nothing about his actions at the time of commission. Any more questions.
Okay, doctor, that's about it. Well, when you get him,
we've got a place all reserved for him at the County Hospital eighty seven
a four fifteen at nine to nine eighty nine of five eighteen at the corner
Madison and coldback and has some sign only get the smoke to come out and
rings at two eleven and an all night mark at fourteenth Sheridan Molly still with
a cold five said one there now half the night last night couldn't breathe.
I think I'm coming down to it's always away the two eleven eight. I
was gonna ask for work about pridan life, its sounds, smelling, carve,
its thirty f everything else is by eight five Franks probably right, dark
blue or black late model Chepherds. Take it around here. Three E five
Francs Park looks pretty in the daytime. There's a guy a lot of running
space at night. Occupants unknown. All units, Area AH ad W sixteenth
and Curtis Ambulance is on the well. That's one street of Yeah, that's
area ahe ad W sixteenth Curtis. Let them ahead, Yeah, by the
bus stop. Asher's on. Yeah, Hello, got another one. His
name is Virginia Blanket. You call in the whole area's coming, all right,
let's take a look. All right, call on all your people.
I wasn't doing any we know, we know it's gonna be all right.
Why would he do that to me? Any of you people would see anything?
Because it hurt pretty bad. Virginia, I'm not so bad. I
mean I didn't even know what happened for a minute or two, and then
I heard that. Did you see him? Did you get a good look
at him? I didn't see anybody? Why did he do what? You?
Alright, doc man, let's have a look. What's the matter is
that? I still please? And hear me? Then what are you going
to do? We don't anything serious to hip too? Yeah? Oh,
No, wasn't it so bad? Wasn't no? Alright, where are you
taking me? What about my mother? Are you gonna tell my mother?
I wasn't supposed to go to the shouldn d No, No, it'll be
all right, little ladies. All right, we'll take care of you and
keep that in down. Or when can we come and talk to a time?
Maybe tomorrow afternoon the next day, that's the sist. Yeah, she's
the first one who's holding up. Oh great, a touch to a spinal
cord bend this kid man never walk again. Got any plans this Saturday night,
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same CBS radio stations. What gersons say that still in surgery? A matter
came over told us Virginia want to Charleston contest last Yeah, do they have
any money? Just what Virginia makes working in the dime store. There's an
army doctor work with Gerson. Maybe the two of them can straight and uh
pick up anybody? Hi, witness sodloney. You two want to get some
coffee before you meet him? How about you? Man? No? No,
now he's in your office. Ben the Crockett swim him the names Edmund
Patrick sells papers at sixteenth from California, Hims Patcheck. My name is Guthrie.
This is Sergeant Graham. Glad to know you. Mister Patcheck. Would
you mind telling Lieutenant Guthrie and Sergeant Grab what you told me? Sure?
Why? I understand you saw the whole thing pays what this man's been going
around doing against the will of God. Sudden he is against the law.
What did you see, mister Patcheck? I was selling my papers and praying
tonight when it happened. Girl was very pretty. When I saw her come
over towards you, I stop. I prayed for that girl's body in first
hole, and I prayed now that mister Patrick. Could you tell us exactly
what you saw? Did he crossed from in back of me? If a
girl came towards me. He went toward her, tall, big husky fellow
was the image of a god with the devil all around him. He passed
her quickie works close. He passed through, and there's always hand go out
and there was a pick in it. It come down quick, oh quickie.
Worse. The girl I was praying for kept walking for made me another
ten feet. Then she screamed and fell, and I prayed for her.
I prayed for her. Can you describe the man's face, mister Patcheck?
I saw it. He didn't run away when it happened, He turned away
to hurt of all? When there's always face? What kind of a face
is it? Dark light? A stash flap podgivil's face? You mean he
walks steers with you? Do any better, quay? After you came around
about then this man, well, at least he's sure. He saw that's
something seriously and keeping I prayed for him. He's face fine, he wanted,
yes, where is it, mister Patcheck? Him across from the theater
in a white jacket, white white, the color of evil? Why where
I go from a soup? A bus boy in a white jacket? Which
one? Yeah, gaylords cafeteria be closed? This time of night. Huh,
Any new fellows got a smoke for me? I'm Jim Gaylard looking for
me. Yes, I'm Lieutenant Guthrie. This Sergeant Graham. How do you
do? And we can talk better than my office to tennant? Okay,
a Matt better stay down here, keep an eye on patching right this way,
Lieutenant. When you call me this morning, I could hardly believe it,
Lieutenant. We aren't certain of anything yet, mister Gaylord, but as
the best lady we've had so far in these cases, I'll stay terribles.
What kind of a man would do it? Kind of a mint? And
let's assume he's a pretty sick man, mister game On, and his actions
are prompted by stimulus that you and I have never known. Hard to look
at it that way, but you're a police officer. I suppose you'll have
to I suppose I have to help have to go. Thanks. I have
all the information you asked, all right here here we are all and all.
We have thirty bus boys, some work full time and some only four
hour ships. Could you break that down? Well, we open at six
in the morning, crew of twelve come on at that time and they all
stay until three in the afternoon here alright, the next crew comes on at
eleven and they go off too. How many on that shirt? Twelve?
That means doing the heavy lunch? Are we have twenty four men on the
floor clearing up? And when does the next shift come on? Four o'clock?
Six men working from pot to ten. That's when we close. Our
evening business is small. People prefer the cocktail lounge. Can I see that?
Liszt to play? Of course? Do you know any of these men,
mister Galen? I know who they are and I recognize their faces.
Well, do you know anything about them? I can't cop to their lieutenant,
I really don't. Some of our kids in school, some of them
hold other part time jobs A buss boys a bus boy around here, and
we have a pretty fast turnover. Will anyone quit in the last week or
two? No, I haven't lost the boy for two months now, keeping
my fingers crossed. Well, if you don't mind, I'd like to have
these names and addresses for a couple of hours. You can keep it attendant.
I have to thanks anything else I can do not right now? Thanks
her? Well, maybe there is Our witness is sitting downstairs having a bowl
of soup right now. He'll probably be here most of the day. He
may try to eat everything inside. I've noticed that old man before. I'm
glad to see him getting a good week for a chase. Well, give
me the building. I'll pick up the tab Lieutenant. I'm as anxious for
you to get your man as anybody. Okay, my men will be in
the waiting room, downstairs and at all doors. You run across anything you
think might help. I'd appreciate it. If you go directly to Van I
will, of course. I'd have a daughter myself, just nineteen, and
I've read about that book child Less Night, terrible thing about it, something
like that happened to Mary Jane. I I don't know what i'd do now,
and you have a pretty good good idea. How bad we want to
get this man? Or one thing more? Do you use ice picks here
all the time for chipping ice? Or where do you keep them? Mister
Gaylor? Why every boss boy carries his own man? Hi the second ship?
Come on here? Yeah, pant checks are not doing so well.
Nothing of it. Nothing. All those lists you got from Gaylor, no
records on any of them. I should talk to all the girls again.
They all had something to eat here before they went to the movie. That
helps. I was beginning to worry about PATCHA. You think maybe he told
us a story to get something to eat or a warm place to pray.
What about bringing the girls down here to look things over? No, that's
wait, none of them really so much about his back. Pat check saw
his face and no, he's still on a bet spen. Hi, Hi,
man, let me a relief. Oh, I'm glad. How do
people stand it in a cafeteria for eight hours every day to be the novis
someone? Let's get out of here, Ben, you find a quiet place
and have some lunch. Okay, hey, wait a minute, I checked
spot of somebody. What. Oh, no, sure he has hooking him.
He's standing up. I've been watching him for three hours, Ben,
he does that every time they put something new on the menu. You're sure,
mister Gaylor, And I'm positive this is the last crew and every one
of them's here today. Man, they're all out on the floor bed.
What do you think. Well, he's had time to look at all of
them. I've been hoping that he was wrong about it. Being one of
my employees. He's always stuck me as a very confused old man. Hi
man, Hi, anything from downtown roundns and some of the men working in
a shift. Ryan's from McAlister, Oklahoma. Then here a couple of months
told his landlady plans on going to university next semester. Medical school, didn't
say. Steele's twenty four, married, a couple of kids. Lives in
Arvada as a filling station job. When he isn't here, he's trying to
buy a house, serving nothing, lives in the boarding house, works with
whites. Charger's over to the gym talking to people, you know what about
the others, And I'm ready for a phone call. Okay, look,
tell him to keep on that anatomy angle. I think it's the best,
right, come on, man, anything more, Lieutenant, No, we'll
call you if anything comes up, mister game on, all right? If
you have my number? Hi Yah? Who care? Mayn't we sit down?
No? Well it's three thirty, mister Patcheck. You've been here all
day along. True, I got to get to my praperson. My frain
to way behind with all this commotion to date, and we're all way behind,
mister Patcheck. Yeah, we didn't ask you to come here just to
way. Wait a minute, Hi, I remember why I'm here. Well,
mister Patcheck, you've seen all of the men who work here, Yes,
strong men, most of them some week and doomed. You look them
over carefully. We've been hoping you'd recognize one of them. You'll remember what
you told us last night about the man you know in the white jacket.
Well, mister Patcheck, I'll pray for him. Well, have you seen
the man we're looking for today? It must have if he worked here.
You don't remember him? Now? Is that him? It's a hard thing
you ask of me. You find one fish and all these fishes, Are
you sure that's him? Would you know the things I know? The face?
Lieutenant? Well, ever since the face appeared, I've been wondering how
to say this thing to you, Lieutenant go three. You mean, the
man's here now in this place? What will happen to him? Will he
be punished? You'll be examined. I can't say what will happen after that?
Tell us who he is, mister Patcheck? Should I? You told
us yourself he's acted against God's will and the law of nature. I think
you shouldn't. Should I? If you believe what you say about the violation
of these laws, mister patcheck one man on the balcony, that's just appreciate.
I saw with the pointed steel which one is he by the water glasses?
That's Ryan Ray. Ryan worked here a couple of months. I did
right, I did right. I didn't kill myself doing this. That should
come through. Yeah, take care of him. A man's up there.
There's something witness. Yeah, Ryan, Huh, I'd like to talk to
your son. Huh. What about we're police officers. Police officers. Yeah,
you have a coat. I want you to come downtown with us.
Well, why should I haven't done anything. You've been identified as the man
who's been using an ice pick on several women in town. Oh I read
about that. Well, why why would I do a thing like that?
Don't you know? No, No, I don't. I don't know.
Well, we're talking over downtown. Wait a minit. I don't have to
go down. Give me the pick, Gray, don't come near me,
Ben sure. A revolver is a much better weapon than a nice pick.
Ray, I'll use it if I have to. Right here, Well,
it is a better weapon the right wrist. Okay, come on, don't
you have to have some proof to take me into custody. We just said
we had a witness one of those girls saw my face. No, just
someone who prays for you. The lineup or before you passed the innocent,
the vagran, the thief, the murderer. Listen again next week when we
again bring you the lineup. May I have your attention? Please, you
people out there on the other side of the wire in the audience room,
may I have your attention, please, thank you. My name is grab
Sergeant Matt Grebb. I'm explained the lineup tre each in the Suspect you will.
The lineup, starring Bill Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie and Wally Mayer as
Sergeant Matt Grebb, was written by E Jack Newman, with music composed and
conducted by Eddie Dunstead. Featured in tonight's cast were High Upper Back, Barbara
Whiting, Junius Matthews, Virginia Gregg, Harry Lang, Hert Butterfield, and
Sydney Miller. The lineup is produced and directed by him Doltaye All the best
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definitely a very chilling episode. The scene with the girl who had been stamped
was very dramatic and I thought, very powerfully done. All right, well,
I we turned to some listener comments and feedback and we had a question
over on Facebook and was regarding Ed Begley. Thelma says, I noticed that
in the show the line of one of the people in the show is Ed
Begley is his son Ed Begley Junior. The actor in indeed his son is
Ed Begley Junior. Ed Begley Senior was probably the role of most associated with
was the role of the bigoted juror number ten in Twelve Angry Men. But
he had a very rich career as a longtime character actor. And then we
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I love the app. I wish it had a little better variety in
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weeks, maybe a little bit of a forty four but uh yeah, yes,
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him in due time. All right, Well, that will actually do it
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