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the Lineup the Whole Steader 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. Will pass before the innocent, the vagrant,
the thief, the murderer. This is the lineup. Just take the chance
in this world. Lead. That's right, that's all right. Just may
I have your attention? Breeze you're beating out there on the other side of
the wire in the audience room. May I have your attention to leave?
Hey you, my name is Grab Sage, Matt Grab. I'll explain the
lineup for you. Each of the suspects. You will savor the number.
I'll call off a number, the name and chas. If you have any
questions or identification, please remember the number of signs of the prisoner, and
I call it name at the end of each line. When I asked for
questions or identifications, all the number. If you're shore or not too short
of the suspect, have him held. The officers who took your name with
assiscue, they're seated among you. Please be pumped with your questions or identification
When the prisoners leave here, they are sent to the bathroom and dressed back
into their jail clones. It makes it quite difficult to bring them back after
they leave here. The questions I asked these suspects are merely to get a
natural tone of voice, So do not pay too much attention to their answers,
as they often lie. Bring on the line, all right, all
right, come on moving alarm, keep it moving right up to the end
of the stage. Our face front and see your side, look straight ahead.
Number one Binard Eagan alias Finard Bushman. I stopped five arrests to convictions
arm robbery. Where do you live, Bernie? I think that's no special
play section kind of tough friends. Why did you slug the man in that
bar? Very on cook language? There are two time loser Bernie. This
won't be easy on you. I should have control my disposition. I guess
things that much said you hit him with a bottle was empty? Number two
Rex Gaye AliOS Gayboard Green AliOS. Rex Henderson. Nine arrests, one conviction,
grand pep Atto. Where do you live? X six eighteen, North
Denham? You stole a car belonging to missus. R. H. Henderson.
I was walking by and I've seen this here car parked out in the
street. It was way out. Anybody could have run into it. I
just begot to do a good turn at part of right. You were trying
to park it right three miles away from where Missus Henderson left it. You
know that's a funny thing. I pulled out getting ready to back it in
right. See some royal ashneats in right behind me when I cushed him out.
Sure, but I couldn't just sit there in the middle of the street
everybody blowing horns backpack, Yes, someone would looking for another space three miles
away. Number three David Helen and Alius Richard Hellmanlius Herman Richards sixteen arrests,
took convictions. I'm Drobbery Lassany serves fifteen years of the Stakes prison. Where
do you live? David Lately the barrious surgeonty admission you're not working one vacation.
See any of the boys, late ling who haven't gone straight? You
know that the get tabs. I we've been watching you closer than you think.
Numberfore John Taylor alias Jack Johnson. How are you? It's jin you
talk? When I asked you I don't think your pardon, sir, vagrancy
or arrest one conviction forgery. Now where do you live? John? I
just got out. Where do you live? A down? They just registered?
When the door flew open, Jo, your finest, gently lifted me
up on the back of my neck, did a very sloppy jomp of biskin
monoduffel bag all me down here? Where were you registering? John? Eaton
Outtown two bits to night, three thirty four Weddy ninth Street. Any questions
are identifications from the audience. None of these men, any questions are identifications
from the audience. Pleaseham no identifications. Run on the next group. I've
got a whole bunch of them down looking at the mug files. I am
going to see bailin. I want to come along. He's sure, sure,
we haven't had a bank job like this in six years. How's the
gun? It's still unconscious. Doesn't look like you'll make it? Oh,
Chief, Oh, Chief. I just had the witnesses look at the lineup.
Didn't spin anybody. We haven't had a bank hold up in five years.
In six years, No, here's how it stacks up, Chief.
Five men went to the bank at eleven this morning as near as the bank
until they got away with close to one hundred thousand. Ran for the street
and this bank gun pulled a gun exchange shots with one of the hold up
men, Julie L. Bilatti. Yeah, that's right, Billati and the
gutter both in pretty much shape, unconscious and I like people live. Sergeant
quins over with Bilotti in case he regains consciousness. The other forem up Bulotti
on the sidewalk pilot or a Green Sadan. Witnesses say it was either a
Chrysler or PLUMBERT couldn't get the license number code with one. The witnesses have
identified two of the hold up men, Lam and Jack Holster there. We'd
like to have those boys. They've never operated a hare chief. Well we
know about him is what you've got from dinner. They've been on the circulation
for about seven months, never pulled a job this big before, but that
doesn't mean they couldn't. Originally from Oklahoma, a couple of brothers who started
out both of them time skipped out on their parole a year ago. Well,
this Bilatti is a local boy, we know him. I probably landed
here in case the job. Then rounded up some local talent, and that's
what we're hoping for him. They've got Billatti, but may die before we
can tell us anything. The other three boys are local talent. Maybe we
can trace that green Sitdan if it wasn't stolen. Even if it was,
be easier running up some of our own local hoods and a wood the house
set a bruns. We've set up the usual roadblocks, covered the airports,
the bus stations and trains. He witnesses in the bank got a good look
at all five of the men, and they say so. They identify the
house at a brothers. Let's hope they can take the other two. And
what about the sixth ma'am driving the car. Nobody got a good look at
him. Just look, he's probably the one who owns the car. Jeep
Bailey speaking, Yeah, okay, you better get down to the hospital.
Let was climb. Doctor say, lad is regaining consciousness. Here comes Quine.
Is he's still conscious? And no too late. Yeah he didn't even
get a statement, just opened his eyes, took a look at me and
died. It was a coffee man. Oh yeah, please, Well they
didn't come up with one identification. I sent him home for no, no
thanks. Let one identification. No, they were a little vague. They
all got a good look at the host that are brothers, but the others
were off near the door or by the side of the room. They identified
be a Bobby's picture all right, they all got a good look at him
while he was lying on the street. I'm keeping Belody's death out of the
papers. I want the host that of boys to think he can still talk.
Yeah, I got them in. You wanted them in the take contenant,
Okay, I'll see him in the interrogation room. Stoolies. Yeah,
I haven't been able to find out too much on Bulotti that maybe some of
the stoolies might give us a lean. I'm sorry, I won't be able
to finish your coffee. Man. I don't hope something comes out of this.
I hope so. Jenny Cooky, heh Burt, have I can climb?
How are you? He's just about the bank rubby this morning? Uh
huh. I can't help you, Lieutenant. You know Julio Builatti ally of
him. Don't know him. He was one of the men who stuck up
the bank. He did a hundred thousand now here. He sure had a
lot of noise putting a job like that. What do you know about Bulotti?
And what have you heard? Got a record? Just a hood,
that's all a hood? You know any of his friends? No, Lieutenant
Bush nat you thank the NDA some know? How about the Hostetter brothers?
What do you know about Leon and Jack Hosteller? Can't help me with this
one, Sigeant. We've done you some favors. By appreciate the favors I've
done you some. Lieutenant, you can't help us, No, lieutenant,
can't help you. I like to help you. Don't know nothing about the
bank job or Buli, no Shargeant or the host set of brothers. No,
Lieutenant, you're sure Bert who? I'm sure that's all burn? Thanks
lieutenant? Yeah, keeping those clean? Yes, good afternoon by lieutenant.
Yeah, bringing the next one. I hate working with those guys sometimes.
You got him, Sigarette. Oh yeah, he's Tony, a lieutenant.
All right, Come on in, Tony, Oh Tony, just sit down,
Tony. Sure, Oh, exergin, We want to ask you some
questions, Tony. How about the bank job this morning? Huh? Word
gets it wrong? It should do. I can't do you no good.
Did you know Julio Bulati Tony No, I ve no, no any of
his friends? No, how about Leon and Jack Holstein heard of him too,
John on, I think we only have one more amos. Here's the
last one, Lieutenant. Well, okay, come on, he namous?
Yeah, yeah, have a cheerymus Thanks. How you been set? Five?
Five? We want to ask you some questions for sure about the bank
hold up this morning? I know they all. Do you know Julio Bulati?
No? I know a kid named Frank Merrick. Oh you're doing yeah?
Good friend of bladies here he was with him? Or last night?
How about this morning? I couldn't say, Lieutenant, I heard this Frank
murrit As from Denver. I'll stead of boys are from Denver? Into Lieutenant,
Yeah, that's right. And where can we find this Frank merrit names?
I don't know, Aeutenant. That a hunch's making herself scarce. How
long has this Frank Merritt been in town? About two weeks? I think
drove in from Denver and a green chrystler, I say, Dan, I
already, ben morning, I just saw cheap, better and and nothing.
I'm getting sick of this. We get a lead and we sit around for
two days. I'm getting sick of it too. But we can't find Merit
or the host stead of brothers, or an identification on the other two hold
up men, or the green sedan. Yeah, FBI has got every available
man on it. We've got every precinct in the city working on it.
Sooner or later we're going to turn up with something. Yeah, alsis and
I look at we don't pick up one of the house stead of boys,
and we might find Merit and he lead us to the rest. We don't
find him. We may get a lead on the green sedan, and so
few green Christless sedans in this city. Maybe you'll have a better suggestion.
No, but I have an alternate. Make some coffee, and I'm sick
of coffee too. Well, man, you think of something, Hand me
the coffee. John John Guthine is QUI lieutenant. That bank guard just died.
He never regained consciousness. Okay, come on him. That's swell,
Matt bank God just died. No identification. Oh, where the devil are
these guys? Man? I always thought we had a pretty efficient force.
They're keeping out of sight. Good. Yeah, Well, they haven't gotten
to the roadblocks. I haven't left the city. Unless they have Fludini's goes
with him. We'll get him, Ben John, they're somewhere in the city.
We've got him trapped and we don't know it. You know something,
neither do they read good for it? Man, Now it's doing Man.
You are knocking off? Yeah you uh huh, give you a lift?
Alright, I love it, all right, Bill, all right, Kenneth,
good night, Bill. I'm a little tired. Yeah, I mean
I want to stop and get some dinner. Oh yeah, sure, it's
quine. Wait a minute, Benn, I'm glad I caught you. He
wants some money. We think we've got the Green Christ listed and spotted and
a garage o on Third Avenue. Guy fitting merits description, brought it in
yesterday morning for a paint job. What what were you saying about dinner?
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the world. That's right, Lieutenant, that's the fellow brung in a car.
Let's sit right over there in black sitting you painted in. Sure,
that's what the fellow wanted. And I know you guys were looking for him,
just come in. Wanted a fast paint job. I know, I
mean business, you've gotta make up. But it was green. Sure,
he wanted to yell at first, but I told him if a good job
might have to sand blast, stuff bleeds through. He settled the black and
a fast job. Green dove bleed through black. Yeah, when is he
supposed to pick it up? Some butt time? Between five thirty and six?
We close up at six. Well it's nearly six now. Yeah.
Maybe he spotted us coming in and we were pretty careful. We've done a
good job too. If you pick him up, poopeis euf coin We get
behind one of those cars, all right, marit's picking the car up.
He's probably expected back with the gang. We can't give him the car and
take a chance and losing him in traffic. Oh, how can we take
the time to haul him down the headquarters and sweat him. His friends will
wonder where he is. We can't take the time. Huh, well,
Denmark, and we'll swea him right here. Maybe we can drag it out
of him in a hurry. You got an office, sure, right back
there? Okay, I get behind one of the cars on that side.
Man, No shooting him, he can help him right shooting. I get
out of that cap and overalls and get out of him. Hurry up,
okay the coin. Yeah, I'll see if I can take him along.
Don't come out unless I give you the word. Okay, man, say
my girls overalls a little snug. I'll look, I'll take him first.
Here he is, Hey, yo, wait, just closing. I know
I got a car here. Oh okay, it's that blackman right over there.
You remember I brought you. Ain't the guy who was here yesterday?
No, no, he's back in the office. Oh well, look I'm
in a hurry. Say you must be mister Merrin. Yeah, what is
this, felice? I know? Wait, I'm at it. Don't move.
Put your hands behind your head. Hey, you're making a mistake.
Where can we find the whole steater boards? Here? Here's his gun?
Get him in the office. Look, wait a minute, I tell you
I'm making a mistake. That bank God died. Merret what bank? What
are you talking about? Okay, okay, but I don't know what you're
talking about. Just stay out of here, coin in case somebody else shows
garage. Man's hiding down the grease spit helped him close up. All right,
Sit down, Mary, Look, sit down. Why don't you guys
listen to me. You gotta permit to carry this gun? From it?
Yeah? Where is it? I left it at home and Denver? Not
know where I live. Where do you live? Look, you've got no
light to ask you. You were one of six men who stuck up the
first National bank three days ago. You're crazy, you and the hole set
of brothers. So I didn't stick up no bank. I don't know nobody
by that name. You know, Julio Bilanti Giladi, Julio Buladi. No,
he knows you. He couldn't. Oh well, why couldn't he because
I ain't never met him. I don't know home. He swears he knows
you. I can't help him. Maybe maybe he does, but I don't
know him. I never heard of him. He says that you were in
on that hold up. He's a dirty lighter. I tell you I don't
know him. He's in the hospital. We got a sworn statement, like
don harm, I don nom. He didn't like being left behind? What
are you talking about? Left behind? After he got shot outside the bank?
You left him lying there? I didn't leave him nowhere. How came
all six men in that hold up? Well? I wasn't one of him.
I swear you got the who got you in the whole set of brothers.
I don't already hole set of brothers. That's your stan out there,
isn't it. Yeah? So what this is a murder rapper? Merit?
That bank God died. Listen. You can't do this, dut My ratement
is enough to execute you. I don't know, No, July, why
were you're doing three days ago and eleven o'clock in the morning. Three days
ago the sixteen at eleven o'clock in the morning, I don't know. I
don't remember. How do you expect me to remember three days ago? I
better start remembering, Merit. I was having breakfast. I don't know.
It's tom very well. I don't remember. Some drug store. You're where
you live? Yeah? Where do you live? Roaming house on Baker Street.
What's your dress? Four twelve West. There's no drug store around them
there, Sure, there is one in the corner. That's the one you
had breakfast in. No, you went to another one, Yeah, you
walked. No, I went to a drug store further away. I don't
remember which one you drove. Yeah, yeah, I drove in that car
out there. Yeah. A dozen people identified that cars. They're one in
front of the bank. Well, they're all nuts. They got the license
number. They couldn't have because it was covered with mund No, it just
couldn't have. I wasn't near the bank. You know where the bank is
all? Then, how do you know whether or not you were near it.
You're a stranger in this town, aren't here? I told you?
Yeah, that car was identified as a hold up car. You're in trouble,
Merit. Why I didn't do anything? Give me a lawyer. We've
got sworn statements from a dozen witnesses in Julati. You won't stand a chance
against the jury. I didn't pull no hold up swarn's statements of Merrit.
I don't believe it, hor do you? I think we found you right,
not execute you for state's evidence. I don't know nothing about it.
Okay, I'm satisfied just to get this one man. Take him down and
book him on arm robbery and first degree murder. Oh wait a minute,
we'll get the whole set of brothers, whether you help us or not.
Yeah, got a cigarette? Yeah? Where can we find a hole stet
of brothers? Would you go easy on me? No deals, I'll do
what I can. You'll die if you don't help, Merit. Okay,
the hole stet of brothers had donald a shack and the freight yards. Who
were the two other men in on the hold on? I thought you said
Galotti squill on all of us. Well, I hope you won't hold us
against us, Merit, but Belati has been dead for three days. It's
Chief Bailey Ben. Yeah. Because if we don't have enough trou them right
now, we got the yard surrounded, Chief and down in that shack.
You seen them? No, Merit says, sit down there, Quine and
Ash, I have Merit in the car. How many of them? A
whole bunch? According to Merit, whole Steed brothers man named William White,
Detroit record guy named Jake Harrison, also a Detroit point Merritt was supposed to
pick him up in the car. Got lights? It's pretty dark? Yeah,
four big ones? All right? Now, what's the deal? Well,
I I like to get him out of that shack if I can.
Merritt was supposed to drive up on that ramp and aren't twice. Now we
got the sedan here, So what's the stop one of us from driving it
up on the ramp and honking twice? And when they get halfway to the
car, throw the lights on the coverin Okay, okay, Quine, Yeah,
give in. You still want to take that car down on the ramp.
Yeah, sure, go ahead. And when you get down there,
hunk twice hide Matt, alert them in right, Quin, We'll have to
drive the sedan down to the Lincoln Straight entrance to get out on the ramp.
Take them about five minutes. I hope those guys in the shank of
patient. I hope those guys are in the shack. There's Quine, did
that? Now? Alry, give me that microphone here, m here they
come. I count three? Where's the other one? They about half way
ben and then them get a little further away from the shine. Okay,
Mike, I don't know which way to go stand where you are. You're
surrounded. They're running. Oh but wire, that's three. But where's the
other one? The lights around the yard. Put one on the shock.
There there it goes. He climbed into that corvert. Ah, your hire,
Come on, many, that's the river overflow, Katherine man let me
sitting ducks. Fine, I'm going in. I'm coming to come on.
Stay out of the lene and keep against that water. Okay, okay,
come mind, now are you okay? Yeah? Yeah, there he goes.
Light up ahead at the end of the comments. Yeah, there he
is. He's hip, but he's still gone. Watch yourself. There,
there he is. He's lying by the edge of the water. Roll him
over. He's dead. It's the young host that all right? Yeah,
what's manner? What'd you doing in me? Oh? Skin? Did better
put something on it when we get to the car. A thing like that
can be dangerous. The lineup or before you passed the innocent, the vagrant,
the thief, the murderer. Listen again next week when we again bring
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I'll explain the lineup to you. Each of the suspects you will see what
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Broadcasting System. Welcome back, Well. This is an example of a kind
of typical pre Miranda case because because in addition to the Maranda warnings, when
they were questioning the suspect with the car, the moment that he said I
want a lawyer, that would have forced an end to the questioning the way
that the Miranda Law has developed, And there are a couple of episodes like
that I've heard. I remember one episode of Dragnet where Friday and Romero tried
repeatedly to get a suspect downtown for questioning without his lawyer fighting out. Of
course, the Marina warning situation makes that whole tactic kind of pointless. Speaking
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