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Well, now it's time for today'sepisode of the Lineup. The original
air date April eighth of nineteen fiftytwo, and this one is the Cornered
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Cop Killer case. Ladies and gentlemen, by transcription, we take you now
behind the scenes of a police headquartersin a great American city, or under
the cold, glaring lights. Whatpassed before us? The innocent, the
vagrant, the thief, the murderer. This is the Lineup, all right?
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Ben? Ye, Hey, yourwitness just came in and put him
over in the end. Yeah.Thanks, You didn't meet Burke end Oh
you were coming with us. Gladto see you same here. How did
you leave at the University Division.I said that arrested me from prisonating a
police officer if I ever step intoprestat Hey, Carney is still holding down
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the desk. Oh sure, youknow. We went through the academy to
Dick and yeah, so he saidwe better get out. Yeah, I'd
see upstairs. Hey in the congratulations. Thanks, it's a nice guy.
Yeah. Oh, hello Danny.Oh, mister Winston, Miss sergeant Burke.
He'll be working with us from nowon. I'm glad to meet you,
sergeant. How do you do?Bye? Thanks, Well, we
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picked up a couple of people thatmight be possibilities. Mister Winston. You
may safe at the general description ofthe man who Hell's yeah, I sure
hope. So how many do wehave to look at? Twenty five or
twenty six? Do you smoke?Mister Winston? Oh? Thanks, sergeant.
May I have your attention? Please? Five people out there on the
other side of the y, Imay have your attention, please, thank
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you. My name is Carger,Sergeant Pete Carger. I'll explain the lineup
to you. Each of the suspectsyou will see will be numbered. I'll
call up a number, their nameand the charge you have any questions or
identifications. Please remember the number theside of the prisoners. I call his
name if you're sure enough, toosure the suspect have him? Hell the
questions. I asked the suspects similarityto get a natural tone of voice,
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so they're not pay too much attentionto their answers as they often lie.
All right, bring on the line, Come on the boys, keep it
moving. Let's hurry it up.There. That's it. All the way
over to this side of stage.I'll spread out stand facing the audience.
Answer your sides. Keep looking straightahead. It's a long way to the
back of the room. So whenyou answer the questions, talk out to
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the people back there. Can hearyou? Number one? William Alexander Burglary
Up to the circle, William,Yes, hands out of your pockets.
Oh, forget any lit William four, eighteen Race Street. How long you've
been in the city? About sixmonths? Reckon, I'm here last September
or maybe maybe seven months. Whereyou're from Boumont, Texas. Were arrested
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with anybody with him knows you havea car, knows I was walking any
weapons? One well, pistol nightone Little thirty two revolver automatic revolver,
no count old fire pins all arrested. Down the weapon you're add in the
grocery store, you hear me,yes, Well, don't know nothing about
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no grocery stores. Hardy all right, slide on down the end. Number
two, George Vince grand step.Where do you live? I New York?
To say? Last address you sleptbefore you're arrested? Maneka motel?
Where's that? Well? Do not? What's on the sunny anyways? Standard
attention. Just like you're in thearmy, we share rooms. Five nothing
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the call of your pay attention.I don't want the clowning around up there.
The answers to the questions. Nothingelse. Got that. You own
a car? Yeah? What makecaddy? You mean in Cadillac? We'll
say it. I own a Candian, Yeah, fifty one convertible. Call
up Blue. What kind of workyou do? Come on, talk up
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George. Well, I'm ok.What kind of work did you do?
How'd you live? What the cardsover in Vegas for four or five years?
Dealing cards? Sir at your profession? Yeah? And he weapons on
you when you're arrested, no one. According to the report, you were
picked up, but they brought morecountry club. Not right, Yeah,
it was with you at the time. A girl Susan Right. She told
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us her name is Modred Kennedy.Well, she's allowed to tell anything.
I want to hear some of thethings she told me. Okay, okay.
Number three, Harold Sarrington, robberyover to the circle. Light hurts
my eyes? Then close them andtell us where you live. Sixty six
forty four East Hoovers Street. What'syour business? Diecast operator? Were arrested
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and I don't meet the streets?When night before last? Anybody arrested with
you? Yeah? Frank Jensen.I seen him in the other room when
I was changing my clothes. FrankJensen, number twelve. How long have
you known? Frank Jensen? Allin my life? What's funny? Why
the smile? Not? You havea permit to carry a gun? No?
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What about the cold automatic? Didn'tget that the thirty eight automatic?
Weren't you carrying it with the officersarrest you? Harold? No, you
know where it came from. ThenI found it somewhere, I guess.
Did you see him find it?Yeah? Well where they find it sort
of lying on the ground. Didyou throw it there? I told you
I wasn't carrying any gun. Howold are you? I asked, how
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old you are? Nineteen? Allright, hard number four. Roger Weinberg
breaking an entering idea, Roger.Sorry, I couldn't identify any of those
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men, so we shouldn't like toget this burg Mister Winston, he's held
up three yellow bars in the pastmonth. Get a match? Do you?
And I put some cards that lookgood? You got time to run
down to the mug files and solate? Right now, Lieutenant, my
wife's waiting. How about tomorrow?Could you go in tomorrow morning? Yeah?
I guess so, sure would appreciateit. Maybe you'll be able to
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spot him there. I know ifI saw him again, all right,
even on a picture. Yeah,I'll be in tomorrow. Fine, I
have a card for you to fillup. I won't take a minute.
Well, let's see you later.Burn I'll be in Captain Waldo's office.
Thanks, mister western Man seven fourfive nine. He's full a place to
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partner him, well, Relacks,Yeah, what do you think of the
game, Burke? Yeah? Fine, I'll keep with me a couple of
weeks and then let him pair upwith quiet Ashes. Do for vacation sounds
good cigarette. Oh thanks. Iput out the supplementary after I went over
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Winston's statement. This complaint might helpa little more than Shannon's and vigrants.
It's worth a try anyhow, sameguy held up all three places. No
question about the m O or thedescription. Winston has one of those record
players in this place where you puthim Nichol and call up the girl.
Winston remembered hearing the machine play PoorButterfly just before he was held up.
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The place was crowded and lots ofnoise going on around. Normally he wouldn't
pay any attention to what was beingplayed, but he claims he remembers that
song pretty well because it's an oldone. He's pretty sure it was played
more than once that night. Imentioned it to the other victims, and
all of them remembered hearing the samesong just before they were knocked over.
They have the same kind of musicsystems, and the people at the jukebox
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company gave me some help too.One of the girls who makes those calls
remembered somebody throwing in a quarter andasking for poor Butterfly. One that played
five times got a man covering downthere in case the request comes in again
they can spot where it comes from. Well the area, anyhow, one
hundred and fifty seven of those systemsand bars and cocktail launches around town all
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the beat. Patroman got the sheetthis morning. Might be nothing, but
again he's picked on a place usingthat kind of machine all three times.
Funny. Huh yeah, oh.Rocker sent this up on a gun.
According to the description, it soundslike he's using a seven sixty three Mars.
Hope it doesn't go up on somebody'sface and they sail gets me Ben.
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He picks himself a bar, hasa couple of drinks, and listens
to the record machine. The crowdthings out. He has a gun in
the bart under his face, handshim a paper sack and tells them to
fill it out. His baby's beenaround, Lauren plenty cool. He's had
good luck so far. We ourturn pretty soon. We'll keep on it.
Yeah, oh, Ben, youget down the jukebox, comping yourself.
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Yeah, why how about it?Those girls who ask you what nobody
want to hear? And he's prettyeasy sound Yeah, yeah, I guess
yeah, I always wondered about them. Hi, hey, Ben, Hi,
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I'm quite a grim Take a luckhere, I'll be done. What
do you think of it made himmyself? It's something badin Yeah, Burke
said he didn't feel like a policemanwhen they took him out of uniform.
Nobody can see his badge. Well, anybody can surely see this thing.
Yeah, that's what I figured.I'm gonna give it a Burke for a
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gag. You know, back atOCS we used to make bars out of
cardboarding. Guys would wear him aroundall day. Yeah, well, wait
a minute, hello, what isit Guthrie? Yeah, wait, yeah,
that's been fourteen ten, Right,I got a break page. Burke
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was with Winston in the files thismorning. He picked one named a Dallas
Kenyon King a mile long, releasedthree months ago. Registered. Yeah,
I got a place out on Humboldtstraight h gets some way to give Burke
his badge? Clouding up? Yeah, bird m hm, Hi, ben
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Coin's got the Ellie. Kenyon's apopping on the ground floor. One h
two. Walk by the window.Somebody's turning around in there. Can you
take it here? Pete? Nowgoing and getting right. I was just
thinking, no one, this isthe right guy. Burke might think he's
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got the soft end of things.Well, be amazing. This is first
case No. One oh two?Yeah, music lover it. So they
say, hello, Hello, we'relooking for Dallas Kenyon. This is apartment.
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Yeah, that's right, he liveshere is home? No are you
missus Kenyon? No, I'm justa friend of his. I live across
the hall. What are you expecthim bank? I don't know. We'd
like to wait for him. Police, Oh, come in, thanks,
thanks, it's the trouble officers,Dallas. Isn't any trouble, isn't You're
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just a routine Take a look.Ye, hey, what's your name?
Miss? For sure? It's outthere on the box with my apartments across
the hall, one up four.I don't think you have any right to
come in here and start looking around, even if you're a policeman. We'd
like to know what you're doing inhis apartment. I just come to use
a record machine, that's all,just to play his machine. What is
this? How long have you knownDallas Kenyon? Just a little while?
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Two months? Maybe? Can't youtell me what this is all about?
Has he done something we don't know? You're sure you don't know? When
him becoming bank brought the keys tomy car and said he'd be back later
on, told me I could usehis record machine if I wanted to.
He does that lots of times.Look, I'm not involved in anything with
him. He's too old for me. I hadn't known him at all.
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But he lets you use his apartment. I let him borrow my car,
just trends. I don't want toget involved in anything. You've got a
nice set there. You can seefor yourself. I bought some new records
here. You've ever been in trouble, Miss Fisher? No, you can
check that too. I've never beenin trouble of any kind. What do
you want? Ritzburger Drive and youcan call there. They'll tell you.
I'm okay, I'll be careful.Dallas that hate to see anything happened to
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that record? It's his favorite?Yeah, but it is? What is
a poor butterfly? We'd like tolook at your apartment, Miss Fisher.
Will you take us over there?Please? Yeah? I suppose so,
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But I still don't see why he'sinterested in me. Lord, I just
happened to be when you showed up. I hadn't been here, you'd never
even known I knew him. Wehave to check into everything. Won't take
long. What's he's done? Can'tyou tell me what he's done? When
you're, say, anxious to geta hold of him. Don't I have
a writing or something. We'll letyou know everything. Hey, let's go.
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Can you droll up and hold acomment? Wirk went over the car
head about fourteen You ahead, Yeah, just nicked Quirkney's help. Yeah,
don't do that. Do what youcan Pete, Yeah, you calling me?
Come on eleven eight. Request ambulancefourteen ten Humbolt Street Ambulance one four
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one oh Humbolt Street, eleven eight. Are we clear? Our cleare span
by all units frequency four eleven eightahead code three. Suspect proceeding west on
fourteenth from humboldt uh in a Cardianblack Ford forty nine. Damn black Ford
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Sedan forty nine license number. It'sa two j four five seven two two
James four or five seven two thisstate eleven aut right to stay here?
All right? All right? Letme throw you let me thok please Osburg
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doing P. That's a good man. Huh. He just died. How's
your army? I Q To beprepared for war is one of the most
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effectual means of preserving peace. Thesewords reflect our current military policy of power
four piece of an army always ready. But do you remember the great American
who made that remark? The occasionwas a speech to Congress outlining this man's
thoughts about the future of our countryand the date January eighth, seventeen ninety
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the man President George Washington. Today, the men and women of our modern
army are proof of the first Commanderin Chief's wisdom. Only strength can insure
peace. Yet to know your army, it's a proud heritage, Captain walters
her. Yeah, then, yeah, have a hatchet of my way home?
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How many cars were getting regulars andprovis always thirty seven or eighteen were
right in the line when carn acar every intersection along the park front alisol
Covern. We're using the command car. You'll have to cross the viaduct to
get on any highway in a minute, both ends, stopping everything, go
house to house. It after beennice strain and going to help him myself.
I hope we got him before Igets anymore. Then you know,
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just came over. Why ain't foundthe cap? All right? Some blood
of the seat burke must to hithim. Anybody see anything murprom Prescott are
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coming from tenth Avenue. Three othercars in from the biolet side. They
turn up somebody, pretty lonely place. Most they warehouses. They aren't going
to be easy. He's got themon the open street. How far do
the warehouses run? We got fourblocks straight across cars all along the level.
We can't move very fun unless hejumps in the drink. He might
do it too. I want toget Hobba Division to get some boats along
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here. Yeah, let's see tenmen to a street. Five men will
sign. We'll get torn in thewater. No shooting if you can help
it, Bride, All right,wait a minute, nothing hurt? No,
how do you feel? Mad?Okay? Get going? Yeah?
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All right? How is it look? Then? Hilarious? Surround it?
But it's not gonna be any cinch. I'll get some lights over here.
Almost five now, Yeah, you'regonna stick around. I'd like to,
but I have to get over tothe west side. Burke's mother. Somebody
has to tell her what happened.It'll take us a month if we have
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to go over every one of thosewarehouses, and we'll spend a month if
we have to. You're nuts,But my cigarettes are all wet. Oh
yeah, ranks and somebody's waving.Yeah, he's all dressed for the rain
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anyhow, and get the window.Hey, hey, you fellows are police
officers, aren't you? Hey?That's right. Well, my name is
Charlie Adam. I live up allwe have building there seeing all the commotion
on tenth Speet. What's it allabout? I'm just looking for somebody that
fell in the black car. Didyou see him? Sure? About fifteen
minutes ago and I thought there wassomething funny and buying. I'm going to
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report it. He pulled up andhad a car and jumped out and felt
like maybe he was drunk. Andhe got up and ran. Where do
you run to? Which way werethere out on that dock? Ain't supposed
to be using the fellow company property, you know? Okay, jump in.
I'm sure what's he done? Killsomebody? Yeah? Police officer?
No, Well, and you're gonnaget a far You have to come back
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along here or going down the ram. I know, you come back this
way? Where's the ram? Policecome to this here? Doc, there's
a little bay landing here for loadingwhen the tides out at high water.
We loaded the right from topside herewhere does it come out? Nowhere?
It runs back maybe all hundred yardsthe street, solid concrete landings on that
side, some pile rakeenings over there, just muck mud. What's the rats?
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All? Nice? So well?Thanks a lot. You better wait
here, mister Adams, You okay, slippery? Watch out ran well,
but mister Adams says it's truly theonly place he could run to. And
we're back under the pilings. Yeaheasy, Yeah, what a sweet smiling
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place. Get back. I'm okay, all right covered, I'll get the
others. Yeah, are you allright? You hear anybody? H gran
Grandness has ben He's under the dock. We're gonna have to get him out
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right, Canyon, you don't havea chance to get away. We know
you're hurt as a docked up hereawaiting to treat you. You're better come
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up before it gets any worse.This thing carrying the speakers hanging over a
seven. Put your hands above yourhead and walk straight toward the light.
You've got five seconds. I guesshe doesn't want to cooperate. Maybe he
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passed out. He wasn't passed downfive minutes ago when he threw those slugs
at us one more chance, Canyon, Are you coming out? I'm coming
off? Okay, right, Toddthe light with your hands up? Okay,
Lord the rope dude, you seeat the end, you better stand
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back. Gold Everybody, Okay,there's another life. Huhm okay, let's
get him out of there. YeBen, look mhm stop raining. The
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