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time for today's episode of the Lineup, The Elsner Case, Ladies and Gentlemen,

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by transcription, we take you now
behind the scenes of a police head

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quarters in a great American city.
We're 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 lineup. See,
Lieutenant, I didn't figure I was

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getting all this. I thought all
I had to do was to tell you

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what I saw in white Gate Park
last night. That is all you have

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to do, is mee yes,
sit down, let me take a few

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minutes. We want to see if
you can identify the man on the park

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who walked past the bench where you
and your girl were that song. We

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picked up someone who fits the description
you gave us. Oh yeah, sure,

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Well, like I said, Lieutenant, Gloria, my girl that is,

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was repairing her lipstick when this guy
saundered by. Boy. Imagine me

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putting a finger on a murder in
the see few people out there on the

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other side of the wire in the
audience room. May I have your attention?

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Please thank you. My name is
Greb, Sergeant Matt Greb. I'll

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explain the line after you. Each
of the suspects you will see will be

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numbered. I'll call up a number, their name and charge. If you

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have any questions or identifications, please
remember the number assigned to the prisoner as

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I call his name. If you're
sure enough too sure of the suspect,

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have him held the officers who took
your name will assist you. They're seated

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among you identification. When the prisoners
leave here, they are sent to the

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bathroom and dressed back into their jail
clothes. It makes it quite difficult to

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bring them back after they meet here. The questions I asked these suspects are

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merely to get a natural tone the
voice, so do not pay too much

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attention to their answers, as they
often lie ring on the line. All

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right, boys, all right,
let's move this way over to the end

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of the stage. That's it.
I've turned it face to the front and

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steer science look straight ahead. Number
one Charles helps her assault. Why are

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we finding Charles? The time that
he worked? That was then? Talk

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up, Charles, it was last
you wish I was dead. Witnesses say

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you started a child. Hey,
whiteness, says the dog guy and his

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money. Number two Maurice called her
and drunk it dissorderly on private property?

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Are you and Marie's on the water? Why didn't you start up? The

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sentence in the day of the lobby
was drunk? I guess anyhow, when

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I got inside and found out I
had already seen the picture, and they

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wouldn't give him a forty cents mat
number three, Jimmy better vagrancy. How

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long have you been in town?
Better? Sixty one years? I don't

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know if I was born here.
I didn't you like I told you?

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Called him with a nose it What
does the pincake? Sergeant Graham number three

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hold for interrogation? Okay, better
run in here. I'll be back in

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a few minutes. Ben Okay,
man come in Betterim sit down over there.

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Yes, we want a few facts, Vetim. Early this morning,

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an unidentified woman of about sixty was
found choked to death in the park.

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A nice looking unidentified woman of about
sixty Vetom, nice looking until she was

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strangled, So so the corner says
she was murdered some time between nine and

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eleven last night. I don't get
it to Kennan this morning, I'm picked

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up in an alley sleeping office note
for it. Now, this what's the

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connection. A kid who was making
in the park last night, not fifty

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feet away from the dead woman.
That's the connection, Vetterom. A kid

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who read about the killing in this
morning's paper and came in and gave us

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a description of the man who saw
in the park at a little after eleven.

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I still don't get a time when
I try this. The description the

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kid gave us was a bald man
with a nose light as a pancake who

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keeps sniffing all the time. That
better is the reason we picked you up.

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Not for sleeping in and out.
No, no, And just to

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make it all real tight, five
minutes ago the kid identified you in the

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liner. No, that ain't so
he couldn't have. It was dark out

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in the pocket. Okay, Lieutenant, I was in the park, all

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right. I might as well save
it's both a lot of time and tell

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you the rest. You kill the
venom stick up that got out of hand

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when she's down to the yell,
Lieutenant, she was dead when I got

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there. I'd I have a smoke, Lieutenant. Yeah. I was walking

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through the park, Lieutenant, looking
for a good spot to flap for the

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night, when I saw something shiny
off and the bushes away. This here

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house key. I bent down to
pick it up. I saw the body.

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She was dead like a door and
there was no one around. I'm

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sure, and then positive I looked
good. Any hives flat broke, So

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I went through a pocket. She
didn't have no pocketbook. It's the buck

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and a half and change in a
coat. That's all I took, and

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I beat it. I walked slow
past those kids on the and so they

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wouldn't be suspicious. That's a little
tenant to too, So I help me.

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The line ups finished? Ben,
Is there anything I can do?

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Yeah? Turned Vetta here over the
sergean quine with you'm AT's gonna hold him

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on suspicion of murder Loo kenn And
I already told you still be right back,

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Ben, All right, Hi Becker, Hi man, morning Antenna.

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Here's the first reporting that body in
Whitegate Park. Not much, no identification

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yet, Becking and it maybe a
while most of the stuff she was wearing

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was homemade and home washed or no
labels and no lawnd remark. Also there's

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no record of her. Prince here
or in Washington Coroner's office is checking out

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her dennerwork now, probably as soon
as we get something antennant right, Yeah,

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yeah, Well Ben, what a
Becker had? Does it look like

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Jimmy Better? Maybe? I don't
know. He says he was walking through

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the park spot of this key,
and then the buddy it's robbing it no

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more? M Well, where do
we go from here, Ben, well

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until we get something on the body
this key, I guess. Come on,

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let's check with Harrison on the robbery
detail. Get a listing of locksmith

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I tell it if you may be
lucky. If this key, how's that?

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Harrison? One thing? The number
punched on it, but the locksmith

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had turned it out. This G
one oh four here is a local serial

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number. Get the name of the
dress out of the fire in a minute.

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But better than that, the key
itself is for a Brussel dunlap lock.

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Pretty rare in this part of the
country, so the locksmith may remember

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who he made it for. Of
course, on the Yale or master padlock

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wouldn't stand a churn. Or don't
locksmiths have to keep a record on each

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key they turn out, Harrison,
No, no, certain only keep a

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record when they make a key for
a specific lock. Nothing when they make

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a keeper key. Let's see who
G one oh four is I one thing?

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What all four? Here we are
Wallerman Key shop three nine two?

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All the stock Plemont Avenue is right? Freddy, Jeff fine wet cross your

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fingers, Matt Hope, he's part
elephant. Yeah, yeah, okay,

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now Jens what can I do.
We're from the police department, mister Wallerman,

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I'm Lieutenant Guthrie the sergeant Graham.
We'd like to ask you about a

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key. Oh key I made?
Yeah, this key, mister Wallerman,

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you happen to know who you made
it for? Brastil done laugh huh.

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Don't often make one of these once
twice a year. Good luck, all

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right, but it's unusual. What
is it, mister Wallerman? You remember

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something? Yeah? Had temper?
Sure two months ago. I was a

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guy with nice clothes and a nice
way of talking until he got sore.

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Yeah, I remember now said I
took too long. I was a blundering

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idiot. That's it. You know
this man's name is a dress No,

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I don't, but he does live
in the neighborhood. How do you know,

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then, because I've seen him a
couple of three times a Tommy loves

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place. Tommy runs a Chinese hand
laundry over the next block. This must

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be a customer hit. What does
this man look like? Always kind of

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talk in face, sharp nose.
But don't worry Tommy Lowell nor just mentioned

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his temper. Who watched Lieutenant Norman
you speak over very well? Or his

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name mister Learnhood Elstone. He lived
one or five doing Boulevard. Yes,

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missus Elsman, and we're from the
police department. Missus Elsman, I'm Lieutenant

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Guthrie. This is Sergeant Graham.
How do you do missus? And Missus

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Elson? Is your husband at home? We'd like to talk to him.

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Yes, he's inside listening to the
radio. Just a moment now, car

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and excuse me. See if the
key fits? Will your many? Yeah?

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It works all right then, uh
huh. And here's Elsman now,

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Missus Elsmer, I'm Lieutenant Guthrie.
That's Sergeant Graham. We'd like a few

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words with you. Please get it
well, living room is this way?

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You gent alone? Thank you?
Oh, Missus Elson, if you don't

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mind, we'd like to talk to
your husband alone, of course, all

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right, arm down, gentlemen.
Frankly, I'm cured us to know what

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this is about. Do you mind
telling me what it's about? A woman?

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Mister Elsman, an elderly unidentified woman
who was found choked to death in

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the park last night. Woman choked
to death? I don't understand. Do

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you want to talk to me about
that? That's right, tell me,

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miss Elsa. Did you read about
this in the newspapers. No, I

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haven't seen the paper today. Do
you mind telling us what you did last

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night? I stayed at home all
evening, miss, all evening? Now

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what is it all about, miss
Delsona? Do you recognize this key?

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Right? My house key? One
does like it? Do you have your

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house key with you now, mister
Dlsma, I doom together with all my

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keys. Yeah. How many house
keys are there for everyone who lives here?

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I mean three, four or five? Maybe, I don't know.

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They're all around. There's a main
hal one she does. She let herself

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in with one a few minutes before
you were out. And joy, miss

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Dlsmon, she has the key,
of course, of course, now look

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here, enough of this. Why
all these stupid questions about house keys,

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What if anything do they have to
do with a woman who was strangled in

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white? They'd parklers? Well,
well, this key was found near the

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body, mister Elsener, and there
were signs of a struggle, which could

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mean that whoever killed a woman dropped
this key your key? But I have

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bi herkey. I just showed it
to you there, and I'm sure my

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wife does too. And what about
extra keys? Are they around? I

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couldn't say. House keys are famous
for getting lost to tennant. Did you

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ever lose one since you've been in
this house? Yes, yes, about

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two or three months ago. Where'd
you lose it? Here? At home

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in the street? I don't know. It wouldn't be lost if your camp

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please control thisself, please, I'm
sorry, it's good. I'd be glad

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to answer your questions. Cal leave
it. That won't be necessary, mister

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Olsener. Now by last night,
you say you were here, yes,

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Carol, here I went to bizarre
what was it? A gander? The

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Woman's arg January of the North Point
Country Cloud. I'm Cheerman. We're raising

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money developing your cloud house next spring, I see, mister d Elsoner.

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Did you have any callers last night? Any visitors of any kind? Yes?

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I did. Can you remember them
specifically? I think so. There

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was the newsboy he was making his
weekly collection about nine, I'd say for

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what paper, Miss Dlson, the
Evening Star, and anyone after that,

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mister Elsener. Two people along about
ten, a delivery boy from the liquor

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store at King He brought two bottles
of the scotch. At ten thirty a

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friend of my wife's dropped him looking
for Ruth Malad. He lived at the

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Park Neverland stay. About twenty minutes
we watched a television show together, a

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quick show called Number three, A
Brooklyn housewife, one attack park, some

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question about Tightnit. Then gentleman that
eleven I had a long distance person to

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person call from a mister Saul Meadow
toy jobber and the moin Iowa, I

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manufactured toy. Now is there anything
else? No, sir, not right

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now. Anyway, We'll be in
touch, Can I missus Elsa good night?

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Good night sergeant, and I mister
goodnight. In Omen Mister Elsma said

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he didn't read about the killing in
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know how he knew what happened in
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Murrow will be the moderator. Don't
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the Fifties, next Sunday afternoon on
most of these same CBS stations. How

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did you get that? Willis?
I'm warning against King's Liquor store. They're

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supposed to have sent two bottles to
Scotch to Elsma last night about ten twenty.

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Yeah, and get a hold of
the newsboy who collects for that route,

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will you. It's the Evening Star. Yeah, that's right, And

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I put a tracer on a person
to person called Elsma claims he got at

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eleven from us Sall Meadows in Des
Moines. Yeah. I want every bit

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of that alibi check right. You
know, Ben, personally, I think

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you're wasting your time checking Elson's alibi. Yeah, yeah, it sounds good

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to me. Too many people involved
to be a phony. We'll see there's

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something wrong there someplace. Matt Well, the keymaker, backs up Elsner in

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his story about losing the key for
my money, You're reaching quite a way

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is to tie a well to do
guy like Elsner into a threadbare old lady

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dead in a public park. Why
would he do it? Ben, That's

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what beats me. Why ain't got
me? Well, anyway, I'd go

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easy if I were you. Ellison
is a kind of bird that really blows

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his lid over a false arrest.
In fact, there was come in call

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a tenant, Matt I Becca,
Well, we got an identification on the

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old lady in Whitegate Park. We
trace the shoes they'd been half sold lately,

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and we finally located the shoemaker,
a guy away out in the Henning

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district. He just now identified the
body, Edna Cooney four four one two

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Durban speed. That's a walk up
and it checks up. Who'd you talk

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to? There be a landlady and
missus Peters, she says. Missus Cooney

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had had a room there for about
six months. Let's go, man,

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I just can't believe she was such
a sweet little old thing. My terrible

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that's what it is. Down this
way, gentlemen, thank you? When

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did you say it happened? And
last night missus Peters? Sometime between nine

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and eleven? Didn't you notice she
was gone? Today? Man? No,

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I didn't, Sergeant. Sometimes I
go a week or more without seeing

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all my tenants, especially the quiet
one and this is her, the one

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here right, duffy in here,
I better open. I wouldn't bother.

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We won't be here long. Yeah, we just want to look around.

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Maybe she kept a date book or
a diary something she did it be over

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there on that table with the drawer. She was a nice, sweet woman,

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sergeant, one of the best tenants
I ever had. It's terrible.

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I can't ma this picture of missus
Peters. Who is it? You know?

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Yes, that's her? Oh my
goodness. What's the matter? That's

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Jim her son. That boy doesn't
even know yet? It is mother?

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Is it here? In tom what? As far as I know, he

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lives over on the south side.
Some face works in the mill over there

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stamping. Now, I think would
another name than that? Would it be

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mcclennon, Lamb. She got a
metal ash tray here and I let her

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open her both stamped with the compliments
and mcclemlon land one oh two fourth South

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Market And let's try it, and
missus Peters leave everything just as it is

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and keep this room locked. William, we may be banged. This must

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be him in one of the saving
I'm Jim Clooney. Yeah, let's go

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inside there Jim out of the snoise
where we can talk. Go ahead,

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Jim, I'm Lieutenant Ben Guthrie its
stage and Graham and from the police department.

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Jim, Police, what do you
want with me? And wait,

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wait, wait, I'm afraid we've
got some bad news for you. It's

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your mother. We mom, what's
happened to her? She hurt. It's

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worse than that fellow. She's dead, Jim. Dead. Happened last Sunday

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nine. Her body was found in
White Big Park. But how she was

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murdered? Jim, Mom, murder? Who did it? We don't know,

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but maybe you can help us.
Just answer some questions. Sure,

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go ahead, I'm open to What
do you want to know? When don't

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you see your mother last? Jim? Yesterday afternoon about one o'clock. I

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guess buddy drove me out to her
place. Lieutenant, I don't get this.

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I'm never went out at night,
and maybe once or twice to a

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movie. But the park, she
never went in there. When when you

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were with it, she seemed upset
about anything. No, not a bit.

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What you sat around and talk like
always? Now, what did you

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talk about? Anything special? The
same old things? My job, draft

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my gas station, you've got a
gas station, Jim, It's not really

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mine. It's one i'd like to
have. It's not on grand guy's gonna

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sell out and attire used to talk
about me buying it and going into business

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for myself. I'll never have that
kind of money. Yesterday, Mom was

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kidding around that she was gonna borrow
the don payment for me. She ran

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into a wealthy old friend, she
said, some guy she knew twenty five

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years ago. I worked for the
same company up in Evanston for a while

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after my dad died. She hadn't
seen this guy since then, but unst

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she ran into him on the street
last week and recognized him. She got

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a big kick out of it.
Did she mention his name? Yeah?

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It was Melvin something Melvin Melvin barryot
was you know where we can get in

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touch with him? No, do
you want him? Maybe your mother wasn't

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kidding about borrowing the money. I
mean, what is that funny where the

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kids are concerned? You know?
But by the way, did you ever

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hear of a Leonard Elsner live was
up on Dwyne Boulevard. No, wait

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a minute, it's funny. What's
funny, Jim? But you mentioned that

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Dwayne Boulevard. All right, what
about it? Mom used to go up

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there quite a bit. She used
to take a bus to the library up

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there and watch him. I think
she said that that's where she was coming

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out of the library when she ran
into this. Melvine Berry sent back,

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Yeah, about thirty minutes ago,
Maddie was on his way down the file.

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Oh okay, thanks man back here
man any luck. Yeah, we

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had a dig back into the nest
for this one. Have a look.

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Melvin Barry escaped and stake country February
nineteen thirty. Evanson had him from embezzelment,

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tried and convicted up there into seven
nineteen twenty nine, got five years.

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The nice second guy, pretty dapper
without mustache. Man, you see

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what I see? Huh Now,
I guess not. We'll look skip the

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mustache, forget it. The eyes, not the eyes. Holy smoke.

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You weren't wasting your time checking on
that alibi after all, Ben don gusmine,

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I'm good. Put him on.
Yeah, yeah, go ahead,

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willis Well Jacks all of it you
okay, Okay, when was that song?

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Don't tell me? Yeah? Alsoner's
alibi is air time. That's almost

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impossible. Matters of fact. Let's
go, man, go away to the

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Olsena residence, one hundred and five
Dwayne Boulevard. But I know what I

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said, Let's go look three when
you fellas were here before I tried my

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festival. I know, I know. But we found out a few things

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since then. We want to find
out a few more like Well, for

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one thing, there are four parks
in this city. That's an interesting bit

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of information. So how did you
know the murder took place at White Gate?

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You said you hadn't read about it. Neither of us mentioned white Kate,

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probably natural assumption. That's the largest
parking pound. I I simply another

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thing. We had a long talk
with Jim Cluney today, and he's the

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dead woman's son. He told us
how his mother ran into an old friend

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right out here on Dwayne Bologo.
She hadn't seen the man in twenty five

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years. Go on, if you've
got a point, get to it or

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get out of here. I'll get
to it, mister Elsmer. The man's

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name was Melvin Berryer. The girl
go on and got him. We checked

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on him. He was convicted of
embezzlement up in Evanstone back in nineteen twenty

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nine escape from prison in nineteen thirty. He was never caught. Of course,

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we have his picture in Prince.
It won't be any trouble. I

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don't know what you're talking about.
If this is unpraised a way of accusing

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me a murder than the rest of
block on. Nobody's accusing you of murder.

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Elsner. We know you didn't do
it right, but of course now

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you were home here your alibi checked
all the way. Yes, right,

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But there are all the circumstances.
We can't ignore them in spite of a

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perfect alibi. You know, missus
Elson, a life like that Melvin Berry

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lives must be a well, must
be putting thesable, constantly afraid that the

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next time he turns around somebody will
recognizing, Always under a shadow of fear.

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No matter how successful he is,
there's always the dread that sometimes,

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someplace, someone will know him.
Don't you think so? Missus Elson must

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be even worse for a woman who
loves a guy like that, wouldn't you

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say, missus Elson? She could
never escape it, couldn't she The more

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she stood to lose like welcome social
position, and worse it'd gotten until finally,

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until finally, Finally, Ed mcclooney
was murdered. Edd clooney ran up

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against a person like that, just
because she recognized an old friend who had

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a secret. She didn't know about
the secret, but she did want about

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money. And that's all it took, wasn't The killer could only figure one

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way blackmail. Everything was ruined suddenly, all the fears and all the suspicions

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that had been piling up for years
broke loose. Didn't didn't they? Yeah,

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don't kids, Yes, let's turn. I can't take anymore. I

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had to do it. I had
to kill her. I knew it from

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the instant when he had told me
she'd recognized him. His mouth and barry.

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No other way up, no other
way. I left the bazaar,

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arranged to meet her in the park. When she said she wanted money,

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I grabbed her choked. Oh I
didn't know anything about it. So it

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okay, man, my k okay, give her some help out. So

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so she gets folded, whist and
we'll all go downtown and put it on

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paper, the line up or before
you passed, the innocent, the vagrant,

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the thief, the murderer. Listen
again next week when we again bring

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you the lineup. May I have
your attention? Three? You'll people laugh.

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Then on the other side of the
ar, may I have your attention?

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Please? Thank you. My name
is Greb, Sergeant Matt Grebb.

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I'll explain the line up through you. Each of the suspects you will see

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will be numbing. I'll call up
a number, then name and charge.

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If you have any questions or identification, please remember the number of signing to

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the prisoner as I call his name. You're sure, I'm sure of the

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sign up. The line up,
starring Bill Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie and

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Wally Mayor Sergeant Matt Grabb, is
written by Gene Leavitt and Bob Mitchell,

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the music by Eddie Dunnstetter. Featured
in tonight's cast were Gil Stratton, Ted

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Osburne, Parley bear Herd, Butterfield, Robert Griffin, and Virginia Gregg.

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The lineup was transcribed in Hollywood.
Hi himI del Faye. The big postseason

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football game of the year, the
Rose Bowl contest between Michigan and California,

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will be broadcast next Monday, New
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stations for action, color, excitement. Be sure you're on hand for this

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great sports event, the Rose Bowl
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speaking, this is CBS where you
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the Columbia Broadcasting System. Well,
come back, and we have yet another

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case of crook's assuming everyone else must
be crooked. And of course the poor

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lady who was killed had no idea
about the secret, but it was assumed

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that the only reason she would be
asking for a loan or for money to

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help out her son was not were
old time's sake, but because she knew

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about the secret, and leads to
a bit of a tragic end here.

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