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of the lineup where they redid a previous program. It's
time for the Senile Slugging Case from September twelfth, nineteen
fifty one.
Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, We take you now behind the scenes
of a police headquarters in a great American city, or
under the cold glaring lights will pass before us. The innocent,
the vagrant, the thief, the murderer. This is the lineup.
Speaker 5: That. Yeah, here's mister Wiggins. How do you feel, mister Wiggins?
Speaker 6: Oh better, I feel a little better. Well, we can
sit right here.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 6: It's it's all right. I'll see you later than Yeah,
thank you, sug nice fellow. How many people do we
have to look at? Oh?
Speaker 5: I think that twenty eight or twenty nine. You've had
two other cases like yours in the past week, picked
up a couple of guys that might be possibilities, but
we haven't been able to get positive.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: You people out here on the other side of the
wire in the audience room, may I have your attention? Please?
Thank you. My name is Greb, Sergeant Matt Greb. I'll
explain the line up to you.
Speaker 8: Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered.
I'll call off a number the name in charge. If
you have any questions or identifications, Please remember the number
assigned to the prisoner as I caller his name at
the end of each line. When I ask for questions
or identifications, call out the number if you're sure, are
not too sure of a suspect had him held The
officers who took your name.
Speaker 7: When assist you there.
Speaker 8: Seated among you, please be pop with your questions or identifications.
When the prisoners leave here, they are sent to the
washroom and dress back into their jail clothes. It makes
it quite difficult to bring them back after they leave here.
The questions I asked these suspects are many to get
a natural tone of voice, so do not pay too
much attention to their answers as they often lie.
Speaker 7: Bring on the line.
Speaker 9: Okay, move it over over to this sat the stage,
Spread out and stand facing the audience.
Speaker 7: Adds to your signe and keep looking straight ahead when
you answer the questions. Talk up so the people out
there can hear you.
Speaker 1: It's a long way to the back of the room,
so keep your voices up.
Speaker 7: Okay. Number one, William Bush for robbery. Take your hands
out of your pockets. Where do you live with him?
Speaker 1: One hundred and eighth in Lincoln Where you're from Los Angeles?
Speaker 7: How long you've been in the city?
Speaker 1: About seven months? I think January is about seven months.
Speaker 7: Were you arrested with anybody with him?
Speaker 1: Yeah, A couple of guys. What are the names Joe?
Speaker 10: Joe?
Speaker 7: I don't know his last.
Speaker 9: Name, Yoe Lucas Number eighteen, All right, who was the
other boy?
Speaker 1: Call him twitch Herman Twitchell Number nineteen.
Speaker 7: Any weapons with him? No? You have a car?
Speaker 1: No, he was walking.
Speaker 7: They had a car. Who wouldn't be here? Okay?
Speaker 9: Number two Max Sloan robbery. But he look Max, and
he's say you have an address Avenger.
Speaker 6: Or eleven orci South?
Speaker 7: Were you alone when you were arrested? I was with
the guy I was sticking up. Was anybody arrested with you? No?
I was full of the job. We weren't sticking up
each other. Any weapons? Max? Do you think he was
giving me his wallet?
Speaker 1: Because I was pointing with thumb at him.
Speaker 11: You want to be funny, We've got all night, Max.
You can just stand there and be funny all night.
Were there any weapons? Yeah?
Speaker 7: They could play the blue steel? What blue steel? Not
counting the rust? You have a car? Okay?
Speaker 8: Number three Stantley, minds.
Speaker 7: You'll have to speak up standing. I said, I don't
live here. I'm from out of town where out of town? Wilmington, Wilmington, Kentucky.
Can you people here back there?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 7: Now? Look, I told you boys, you're gonna have to
talk up I don't want to have to repeat the question, So.
Speaker 8: Come on, talk up all the way to the back
of the room.
Speaker 7: Ah, where are your front standing? Wilmington, Kentucky? Where have
you been staying here? Only one place? One place at
flap house, flop house, just a flophouse. I don't remember
who remembers the flop house?
Speaker 5: Hi?
Speaker 7: Hi, mister Wiggins.
Speaker 10: Didn't spot anybody?
Speaker 6: Huh? No, two guys jumped and did it so quick.
Speaker 7: Oh, this is the third sluggon in a week.
Speaker 12: Somebody better come up with a halfway decent description.
Speaker 6: These guys aren't stupid. Follow a pretty routine m O.
Dark spots.
Speaker 5: Pick an old guy like Wiggins, jumping before he knows
what's happening, beat him unconscious, and then rolling much chances
he got for a decent.
Speaker 12: Description, they're liable to kill somebody.
Speaker 6: They seemed to be getting rougher.
Speaker 5: Yeah, here's a list of wiggins valuables.
Speaker 6: See that all the pawn shops are coming.
Speaker 5: Okay, other two victims didn't have much of These guys
might want to hunt. Wiggins had a gold watch and
all stick in watch had his name and an inscription.
Speaker 6: I might try to get rid of it.
Speaker 12: We're in car thirteen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, these boys move around, but they seem to stay
pretty much to the east side. Well had the usual
cars in five auxiliaries. Walter was putting about a dozen
plain clothesmen.
Speaker 6: On the streets.
Speaker 12: Only if one of our boys got rolled.
Speaker 5: And they're not old enough.
Speaker 6: These guys pick the mole so they won't give much trouble.
Nice guys.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so well, eighty seven fourth fifteen and one o
five North Lincoln, you get eighty nine five.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I have at Homer of the helm Ms.
Speaker 8: Rogers can get a hamburger.
Speaker 13: Okay, sixty three and nine oh five and seventeen sixty nine.
Speaker 6: He's right there.
Speaker 10: You've seen the man border me.
Speaker 14: A hamburger in coffee would have been sure seventy three
already rights, I'm going.
Speaker 5: Well licensed five too young seven, you know I ninety
five two hamburger.
Speaker 4: Two hamburgers and two coffees.
Speaker 10: Everything on the burgers. Yep, thank you, attach all you in.
Speaker 6: It's an area h two four or five slugging at
eighty seven.
Speaker 5: West Book more hold those hamburgers. Eighty seven West Book What.
Speaker 6: Time slug on us?
Speaker 5: We got a block.
Speaker 6: Away ninety nine.
Speaker 10: You know some one holds me.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 12: Cuine's already here.
Speaker 15: Over here.
Speaker 6: It's a woman pretty bad. Hmm, good gosh, I've done
everything I can. Here comes the ambulance. This is the
fellow that boonder, mister Hall. Yeah, this little tenant gout
three tell him about it?
Speaker 10: Oh, yes, sir.
Speaker 16: Well, I was walking by over on the sidewalking, tossed
a cigarette over here and saw us about Then I
spotted this officer in this car, and I yelled.
Speaker 10: Doc, not just slugging, yep.
Speaker 6: And she's not dead, but she's close. He get that
blanket over her voice in the right, Doc, looks like
a bad fracture. Really about him?
Speaker 5: Lost a lot of blood. Yeah, I thinks you're making.
Speaker 6: I don't know, keep that end up there, right, pretty
old lost a lot of blood. You're coming down with him?
Speaker 5: Hey, yeah, we'll be done.
Speaker 6: She didn't have anything on it, no implications to get everything.
Speaker 16: Hey, you just found a lying here homeful, Yes, sir,
that's right. I threw my cigarette over here. Wouldn't have
even seen her if I hadn't thrown my cigarette, they probably.
Speaker 11: Waited behind this hedge grabbed her when she passed, slugged
her and dragged.
Speaker 5: You into the lot.
Speaker 6: It's a good spot for it, good and dark.
Speaker 10: It was a terrible thing. Still can't quite believe it.
What are you going to do about it?
Speaker 5: What do you think?
Speaker 7: Fellow lieutenant?
Speaker 5: And that two forty five slugging that came in about
a half hour ago. Who's got her?
Speaker 10: The old lady?
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's in surgery now a doctor Gordon supportful this week.
Speaker 6: Isn't it?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 12: You mind if I look at your newspaper.
Speaker 6: Murph, No, no, no, go ahead, and coffee shops closing?
Speaker 10: Yeah, do you want some call? I could use some
long doing down in the kitchen.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, forget it, no, no thanks man, we'll.
Speaker 5: Get some across the street later.
Speaker 17: All right, hey Ben, the tennis finals the next weekend.
Speaker 6: I want to go on duty.
Speaker 10: Well they'll be praying the rest of this week.
Speaker 12: Yeah, i'd like to see that marine Connley.
Speaker 10: That's pretty girl. The pictures in the last section is sad.
Yeah yeah in the sports section. Yeah right there, pretty girl.
Speaker 6: Huh Yeah, I'm Ben, Yeah, I want to go.
Speaker 12: Yeah, here comes doctor going with doctor.
Speaker 6: I've got three doctor sixteen precinct. I was a sergeant
Graham alone.
Speaker 5: Well, how's the only she died.
Speaker 6: There wasn't much we could do.
Speaker 5: She was pretty well gone when she came in.
Speaker 6: Come on, we walk down with me when I get
out of this gun.
Speaker 5: For sure, I'll see you later. Marph, Yeah, take the Marpha.
Speaker 10: So long.
Speaker 6: Have you got an identification yet?
Speaker 5: No? Not yet.
Speaker 6: The finger principal help did just about everything. Bad fracture,
really bad one. When they're that bad, they don't stand
much of a chance. She regained consciousness of any time,
by the looks of the wound.
Speaker 5: Whoever hit her hit her with something pretty heavy, flat jack, Oh.
Speaker 6: Something like a pipe.
Speaker 5: Maybe we let her have it. That's the way these
boys have been working. We had three others, not this band. Cigarette, nothing, surgery,
No thanks. I had to believe anybody would beat up
an old woman. To hit her that hard just doesn't
make sense, and I guess it does. These other victims
have much money on them. Add it all together, about
twenty four dollars. Alright, Ben Morney Man, any no, no,
just routine, chef. Well, I grabbed some coffee, man, Okay, Oh,
I was.
Speaker 17: Just looking for you.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 6: Mark Senter is out with fingerprints on that old lady.
Speaker 5: You got an identification?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we ran a check through and this is what
we came up with. A woman's name of Stokes. Missus
Rebecca Stokes lives at five eighteen, Northolk with her daughter.
As she went over to get the daughter, we'll need
a positive identifications. I was taking it right down on
the morning. I thought maybe you'd like to talk to
her first.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I would. Let's go.
Speaker 6: Her daughter's name is Liliam Dunton. She was married, her
husband killed in the war.
Speaker 5: All right, sure, wanting Lieutenant this is misdone.
Speaker 6: This is Lieutenant Guthrie and Sergeant Greth.
Speaker 5: How do you do miss done? We certainly wish we
could eliminate all this misdone, but it's necessary.
Speaker 18: I don't think I can go through with I don't
think I can do it.
Speaker 6: Well, it's really necessary.
Speaker 5: She has to be identified by a relatives.
Speaker 18: I just don't think I can.
Speaker 5: Well, it's your mother. We're sure that sooner or later
you'll have to well, sooner or later you'll want to
see her, but.
Speaker 10: Not in here, please not.
Speaker 5: We have to keep her here until we get a
positive identification. Do you have any other.
Speaker 6: Family in Nevada?
Speaker 10: An aunt?
Speaker 12: Well, if they could get down here, they haven't seen.
Speaker 10: Mom and you.
Speaker 5: Your mother's a fourth victim in a week. We've got
to stop these men. We'll need some information. Where was
your mother going last night?
Speaker 10: I guess she was coming home. She went to a
movie early one.
Speaker 6: I guess she was coming home.
Speaker 5: Did she have a purse with her any valuable.
Speaker 10: Yes, she had a purse.
Speaker 12: Can you remember some of the things she carried in
her purse?
Speaker 10: Yes, I guess I can. There wasn't much, not much money, anything.
Speaker 6: To identify her, some cards and things.
Speaker 12: Does she have any jewelry, any rings or a watch?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 10: She had a wedding ring and an engagement rate the
worth much.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I don't be I think miss done better
go on home, Ash, you'll get a description the two
rings and take home.
Speaker 6: She'll no, I'll do it. It's best to get it
over with. I'll have to do it sooner later.
Speaker 5: Well, look, maybe we can get some closer.
Speaker 18: No, I want to it's all right, okay.
Speaker 5: Now look miss Donne, if you don't.
Speaker 18: Want to go ahead, go ahead, all right, Charlie.
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Speaker 10: You should deal him king, uh.
Speaker 5: Lovely?
Speaker 6: Who's running?
Speaker 5: Who do you think?
Speaker 16: No?
Speaker 5: I can't use it? No, uh huh.
Speaker 6: No, uh uh uh m hm huh.
Speaker 10: Chin not quine jumy fed. But when you dropped dead, well.
Speaker 6: You couldn't discard the three picked one out.
Speaker 5: You owe me thirty Yet all those got.
Speaker 6: Eight dexiliaries tonight, Ben, you're a matter in thirteen jagging.
Speaker 5: How about the police women?
Speaker 6: When I get five with them, there'll be in the
area from cencil to one car within the block of
them at all times.
Speaker 5: Okay, well you got half an arm? Want some dinner?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm getting hungry. Okay, uh wait a minute, have
what this guy's right?
Speaker 2: Check? Yeah?
Speaker 12: Yeah, put him on any one of the nine other.
Speaker 6: Yes, how long mister Wiggins?
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, I number you didn't wear eight ninety seven
South Wilton. Okay, yeah, yeah, we'll meet you down about
ten minutes, right, That was mister Wiggins. He spotted his
watch in a pawn shop and watched the hold up
men took after they slugged him.
Speaker 12: There's mister Wiggins.
Speaker 5: Hello, where's the watch?
Speaker 19: Right over here in the window? There the gold one.
It's open, see the inscription. Okay, let's go in. Yes, police, Yes,
they want to see a watch. You've got your window?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 10: Sure? Sure? Which one?
Speaker 5: Uh? Is that with me? The gold woman?
Speaker 10: Sure? This one?
Speaker 5: Got it?
Speaker 19: Mister Wiggins, Is that's it? See the inscription to Dave
love Alice my wife. She gave it to me hot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, remember when you got it?
Speaker 10: I got a ticket?
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, John Jones six to seven one nine, John Jones.
That's a good name. Do you remember what the man
looked like, the man who want to watch?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 10: Do you remember when he acted?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: Why didn't you date the ticket? How long have you
had it?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: Week?
Speaker 7: Maybe?
Speaker 10: What's so important about the watch?
Speaker 6: It belongs to this gentleman, not to the man who
hacked It's.
Speaker 10: Okay, take it ain't worth much. I had saw the gold,
solid gold. I got dozens.
Speaker 6: I wants your name.
Speaker 10: Wagner, George Wagner. Look, I don't know nothing about it.
This guy came in, he hot did that's all?
Speaker 6: Look, mister Wagner did.
Speaker 5: It's very important that we get a description of this man.
Speaker 12: He's stolen huh yeah, and he's got a friend who
won them both for murder.
Speaker 6: Learn it.
Speaker 5: That's right. Do you think you might know him? He
he came in again. I don't know.
Speaker 10: I don't know. Maybe I don't remember.
Speaker 5: You get one of these lists lists, Yeah, one of
these mister Stone outicles like that one.
Speaker 10: Oh wait, sure, sure sure I got one.
Speaker 6: None of these other things in your store? No, no, no,
you sure sure?
Speaker 10: I'm sure you didn't know about the watch.
Speaker 7: You better check.
Speaker 10: Look, I know I ain't got none of him.
Speaker 6: You didn't report the watch?
Speaker 5: You better check?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 16: If if I find something, i'll call you. We'll wait, Well,
I checked the whole invotoor.
Speaker 10: Yes, the tickets on the last week.
Speaker 7: And a half.
Speaker 5: Okay, we won't take a look at him too.
Speaker 16: Yeah, sure, okay, look, officer, Yeah, I know the man
that hot that watch, but honest, I didn't know he
killed anybody.
Speaker 10: I didn't know.
Speaker 16: What's his name, young Carl Young? He's hot things before.
He's been in a couple of times. I know him
from the neighborhood.
Speaker 6: I didn't. His name's Carl, Yeah, kr y'all.
Speaker 12: The name of this watch is Dave.
Speaker 10: Well, he said it belonged to his brother.
Speaker 5: You know his brother?
Speaker 10: No, but I know him.
Speaker 16: He seemed like an honest guy in the neighborhood. I
bowl he's in the bowling alley a lot. I bowled
with him last Friday.
Speaker 12: Look, honestly, does he hang around with another guy?
Speaker 10: I seen him with another guy sometimes, the guy.
Speaker 5: You better come on down to the stations to hang
him the station.
Speaker 6: Why I praid you in a little trouble.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I know him, Carl. Oh, yes, he hangs out
in here a lot. You know where he lives. No,
what's he doin?
Speaker 5: Does he around with anybody?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 20: Yeah, he's with one guy quite a bit. He's a
fellow named let me see what the heck was that name?
Kind of quiet guy, a big guy, kind of John
and Joe. I'm sorry, I can't remember that Joe, Joe. Okay,
let's stick around you let us know Carl younger. Joe
comes in.
Speaker 17: Sure fine, says he's got a dozen men checking the neighborhood.
Then there are four cars in the block. Nobody does
anything unless you.
Speaker 12: Give the word.
Speaker 5: Okay, well they both come in, we'll take them. One
of them will tail them.
Speaker 6: Okay, that's three thirty.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 15: See that guy down there second alley. Yeah, what about
he's both six strikes? Ah okay, oh fair one fifty
so far you.
Speaker 7: Need a few strike's friends.
Speaker 5: Yeah all right.
Speaker 7: Oh, try to pick up that sprit.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I will, Lieutenant, Yeah, what is it that? Son?
I just came in there?
Speaker 5: Which one?
Speaker 10: That big one there? I said to him? I said,
hello Joe? He said, Hella. His name must be Joe.
Speaker 5: Where is he?
Speaker 10: He's upstairs the pool.
Speaker 5: Come on, pony mon, Yeah, up here, it's right up
this sea.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, hello j Yeah, how
are you?
Speaker 5: That's him?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Come on, man, he's out in the street.
Speaker 5: Hold it. He's getting into a car. Alright, come on.
Speaker 6: Here he goes.
Speaker 5: I stayed with him. Thirteen J. Quote two suspect proceeding
east on Fountain license number eight oh Roger one one
three five.
Speaker 6: Patchin oiolits code two suspect priming east on Foup license
number eight old Roger one one three five He's swinging left.
Speaker 5: Thirteen J Suspect turning north on Lincoln.
Speaker 6: Allolet scenario B code two. Suspect proceeding north on.
Speaker 5: Lincoln, and don't get too close.
Speaker 12: He's stopping.
Speaker 5: Now pull up thirteen j suspect that three thousand block Lincoln.
Speaker 12: He's getting up in.
Speaker 5: All right, let's go going into that building. Hold it, uh,
we'll wait a little. Rest of the boys get here.
Speaker 12: There's Quine.
Speaker 5: Now he's in the building. Kine, you better take it
around back in the alley.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 12: Then there's Asher.
Speaker 5: Coin's taking the back. Asher. We'll go in. You wait
here for the rest.
Speaker 6: Spread them out, right, Lieutenant, all right, let's go man.
Speaker 5: Okay, how do we do it? And we find out
what apartment he went in? Tear out the building and
take him. Wait a minute, pail boxes. Uh yeah, let's
ski busher writings see young two O eight. But if
they're in the room, we can just clear out the
rooms on both sides. We get the rest of the building.
I'll take two or six.
Speaker 14: I'll take ten, two four, two of six, okay, yeah, sure, sure.
Speaker 10: So what I'll tell you, Carl, I'll tell you I
know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: It's Damian, the dullness in the world. You'll be a.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that was Carl Young with the big boy.
Speaker 5: Come on better that way.
Speaker 6: Take him on the street.
Speaker 12: They're climbing into a car.
Speaker 10: Hold it young, sure, all that way, get come between us.
Speaker 5: Give it up, young, budget, you'll breaking for the alley.
Speaker 10: Jun stop take this one as sure.
Speaker 4: That Clines tackle him all right, crying. Yeah, yeah, big
boy wasn't as tough as he looked.
Speaker 10: He's been fighting old ladies too long.
Speaker 4: The lineup or before you passed the innocent, the vagrant,
the thief, the murderer. Listen next Wednesday when we again
bring you the lineup.
Speaker 7: May I have your.
Speaker 8: You people out here on the other side of the
wire in the audience room, May I have your attention leaders.
Speaker 10: Thank you.
Speaker 7: My name is Greb, Sergeant Matt Greb. I'll explain the
line up to you. Each of the suspects you will
see will be numbered. I'll call up a number the
name in charge.
Speaker 8: If you have any questions or identifications, please remember the
enougher assigned to.
Speaker 7: The prisoner of.
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Speaker 3: Well, one of the more intense and emotional episodes with
that entire scene, with the identification of the body and
overall a pretty good and well deserved capture to wrap
up the show. All right, Well, that will do it
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