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Lieutenant Guthrie investigates the stabbing of an elderly man.
Original Air Date: November 1, 1951
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Lieutenant Guthrie investigates the stabbing of an elderly man.
Original Air Date: November 1, 1951
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of the lineup, and this willactually be the very last Matt Grab episode
we'll be bringing you so from Novemberthe first of nineteen fifty one. Here
is the Jolted justice job case.Ladies and gentlemen. We take you now
behind the scenes of a police headquartersin a great American city, or under
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the cold, glaring lights. Whatpassed before us? The innocent, the
vagrant, the thief, the murderer. This is the lineup. Oh,
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mister Bourton, who oh hello,mister Guthrie. Oh, I mean Lieutenant
Guthrie. I'm sorry, it's okay, don't apology, smoke, I get
my pipe. Thanks. We thinkwe might have the man you saw going
into mister Frankly's house this afternoon.We'll see. That's quick work. Your
fathers really go after everything, don'tyou. We tried. Yeah, I
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only saw him for a minute,but I think I can remember him by
the pants and the jacket he waswearing, and I hope you can remember
his face. Have your attention foryou, you people out there on the
other side of the while in theaudience room, May I have your attention?
Please? Thank you. My nameis Grab, Sergeant Matt Grab.
I'll explain the line up to you. Each of us us affect you will
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see will be the number. I'llcall off a number the nim and charge
at the end of each line.When I ask for questions or identifications,
call out the number. If you'reshore enough, too short of the suspect
had him held. The officers whotook your name will assist you. They're
seated among you. When the prisonersleave here, they are sent to the
wash room and dressed back into theirjail clothes. It makes it quite difficult
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to bring them back after they leavehere. The questions I asked these suspects
are merely to get a natural toneof voice, so do not pay too
much attention to their answers, asthey often lie. Bring on the line,
all right, boys, moving rightalong all the way over to the
end of the set. Which onefeller. Let's wait till he's question number
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ten. Face the front the front, all right, keep your eyes straight
ahead. When I call your numbers, step out to the circle. Answer
the questions so the people out therecan hear you. Okay, Number one,
Jack Hanley Burglary, where do youlive? Believe you are? Come
on, you'll have to speak up. Jack, I live in Bay few,
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Horrigan. I look, I've toldyou what every opposer you've met around
here has told you. When weask you where you live. We want
the address you slept up the nightbefore you were arrested. Is that clear
arrest if you understand it? Okay, Jack, I don't remember some fleabag
on the eastern Rapos Street. Whoremembers that kind of an address? Were
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you alone when you were arrested?I was drinking beer with a friend.
What was his name? His name'sLorraine Price. Have a gun on your
Jack? When when you were arrested? Oh yeah, all right? What
kind? Oh well, believe FosburyAutomatic HYS thirty eight. Hey, I'll
be a few days. Drop ussay hello, we can talk about guns.
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Thanks, I'll do it, okay. Number two Frederick camera, So
come on, come on hustle thatpredec pretty live century powder so the people
can hear you. Freddie, ain'tgot nothing to say. Well, you
had quite a bit to say atdinner time tonight. Every cook in the
jail kitchen heard you. I don'tlike a job. You'll get used to
it. The address again, fiftyone sixty cent, Stand up straight,
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Take your hands out of your pockets. It's looking for my lighter. It's
in the property room. What doyou do for a living? Fru river?
How much do you weigh? Toeighteen? You know a man named
frank Yaccino? Yeah, I knowhim. You know how much frank weighs?
How much? One thirty two?He may not way much, but
he's got an awful big mouth.And I'm gonna tell you that we heard
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all about it, Freddy, andI hope if he falls down cut his
lip concussion and cushion percussion, whocares? Okay, step back, you
know I'll be Here's snap. That'sa number three, Rex Gilman open chart,
pretty live, Rex thirty six seseventeen. Take your time since forty
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seven, bunch of business mechanic ona car. I have a forty.
I've been certain ever since he walkeddown on that Ow came Sergeant Graham.
Yes, number three, all forinterrogation. Hi, Hi, how's mister
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Frankly about the same night? Phone'spretty bad? A lot of internal bleeding,
three transfusion so far? Any luckwith Frankly's wife and divorced ninety forty
eight, and after twenty three yearsof marriage, she's remarried living in San
Francisco. Now a wire cargoes atthe hospital sweating it up. Now I
relieve in at midnight Nash will followabout four. Frankly has anything to say,
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We'll get it done again. Nowprints on the kitchen knife that make
any sense? I was still hopingon something they picked up on a glass.
What about Gilman? Now Bourdon identifyinghim. Claude Abrams is in your
office. He's Frankly's attorney. WisedFrankly and how to handle the thing with
Gilman met him at the hospital.Mister Abrams, this is Lieutenant Guthrie Glad.
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How do you do? I keepyour seat, mister Abrams. I
understand you advised mister Frankly about thismatter with Gilman, Miss Abrams. Yes,
I explained that he could take itto court, but I tried to
talk him out of taking action becauseof the expense involved. However, he
insisted. I even called on Gilmanat his garage and explained what mister Frankly
was going to do. I thinkGilman might rectify his mistake or refund the
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money. What was Gilman's attitude?Persecuted called mister Frankly several names, and
mister Frankly have plenty of money,almost a quarter of a million dollars.
Stone got it all except what Lillian, his wife took from him. Seems
funny he'd creates so much ruckus overa small I don't like this with a
garage maney has all that money.Well, I won't keep you any longer.
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Staybrams. Oh, mister Frankly evermentioned someone named Faye that I recall
we didn't mix socially. I mentionedthe name several times in coma. Hello,
Tennant. Do you think that garageman did this to mister Franklin.
That's why we're trying to find out, mister Abrams Rox Gilminal Town, Okay,
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yes, sit in that chair,Gilman, Okay, no, no,
no, no happen Hi. Okay, my name's Ben Guthrie. You
know, sergeant Graham. You knowwhy are you here? Something about Frankly.
He's in pretty serious condition, gentleman, he's beating up and Stamb.
We picked you up because we learnedthat you had words with Frankly about some
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work HEID did for him. Whatabout it? Oh? I did what
he asked me to do. Iput white side walls on his tires,
and I told him I couldn't guaranteethe job. When it didn't work out
and they turned yellow, we gotnasty about it. I told him to
stay away from my garage. Didyou threaten mister Frankly? No, I
didn't threaten him. I just toldhim I better not try to take me
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to court over it. A littlething like that. What did you mean
when you told him, man?Well, I meant that he'd better not
do it. That's all. Well, what I want to know is what
alternative action did you have in mind? No? No, I just didn't
want him to do it. It'skind of hot in here. Can I
know you were talking about the tirebusiness. You must have had something in
mind. I suppose I did.I don't know, but I don't know.
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And what's the matter with your hand? I was reaching for the light
switch in the dark, and theback of my head touched the wall.
It's rough plaster, it seems tome. You put the palm of your
hand against the wall a field witha switch. There's an extra wall by
my switch. It's just a littleoffice they built in. When I least
they joint. You have to goin sort of like like this, and
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that's the wall. I brush withthe back of your hand. Yeah,
I don't quite get the picture there. What is it a little partition or
what that comes out by the switch. It's just part of the wall in
a little area and you hit itwith the back of your hand reaching for
the night switch. Look, ifyou don't believe me, mister, go
down and look for yourself, orsend one of your sergeant's down there.
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Maybe one of them's got brains enoughto figure out how it could have happened.
Maybe, you know, you guysmake me sick with your questions.
If the answer you get doesn't ringthe bell, you've got to be real
tough about it, real tough.Don't sit there, sit here, don't
take off your coat, don't raisethe window, don't smoke nuts. You
guys make me sick, Sergeant lieutenantlaugh. Just like those wonder boys I
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ran into in the army, Theydid not do anything but keep their pants
pressed and their shaving gear two inchesfrom their toothbrushes and field inspection. I've
seen enough you cups Today'll ask meall my life you really make me sick?
Anything else? Gilman? Yeah,and you're out pounding around waiting for
that thirty years then, so youcan get your rock and share money.
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I'll be able to buy and sellboth of you and all the rest of
these guys around here. When Sergeantash you're and Sergeant Quine questioned you earlier,
did they ask you if you'd seenmister Frankly today? Yeah? Why
did you tell him? I toldhim no. Did they ask you if
you had gone over to his housetoday? Sure? Well I told him
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no. It doesn't quite check,Gilman. Mister Borden lives right across the
street from mister Frankly's house. Hepicked you out of the lineup tonight and
identified you as the man who wentup to walk to mister Frankly's house about
one thirty to day. Okay,yeah, I was there where at Frankly's
house one thirty? Yeah, buthe wasn't there. I didn't see him.
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I'll look, you, guys,I went over there to see him
about the attachment and the summons hesued me for that lousy little bill.
He wasn't home. I tied upmy bank account this morning with some kind
of a written night. Oh hewasn't there. Look did you think I
beat him up and stick a knifein him for that? When you went
to his house? Did you ringthe bell? No? Did you not?
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No? Look, I was prettyhot about the attachment in the summons.
When I got to the house,I thought maybe he'd see me coming
up the walk from his window orsomething and wouldn't answer the door. So
I just opened it and walked in. I wanted to see him. I
could say things to him in hishouse that I couldn't say to him in
a clock room, things about thewhite side walls. Yeah, what'd you
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see in his house? But Isee nothing. He wasn't around. I
held his name a couple of timesand then left. Did you go through
the house, No, not evento the kitchen. No. After you
left this house, when you goback to my garage, the boy to
your garage tool, Sergeant Asher,you didn't get back into lafter three o'clock.
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Well, I stopped and had lunch. I forgot. Did you half
a lunch? Well? I stoppedat some beanery on Tremont Street. I
found a parking place, and thenI had a sandwich and a couple of
beers. Well, he asked youearlier if you'd been to Frankly's house this
afternoon. He said, you hadn't. Why did you deny that you had
been there? What do you mean? Well, what are we supposed to
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think, Rex, We're trying tofind out what happened to mister Frankly.
You tried to hide that part ofit from us. We'll have to hold
you check into your story more thoroughly. Well, how are you going to
check what I've told you? Ididn't have anyone around to prove he wasn't
there in the house when I wentin. Are you wrong? There's one
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Radio. Did they scrub these placeswith edith? I don't think they even
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use it anymore. That always smellsthe same, Hi man, alright,
just in time on here, makeyou make it. I'll keep trying.
I'll take too long. He's awfullyweak. I want to put him under
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set as soon as you're finished.Hell, look, can we get in
the room, Gilman and just keepyour mash out to do what you're told?
Better? Put your cigarette in thatyou remember what I said? Yeah?
Yeah? Ashes in with him?Now up close to the bed,
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Gilman. Hi you Frankly? Wheredo you live? Thirty two? Thirty
two? Humble? How old areyou? Mister Frankly? I understand that
you are seriously hurt? Is thattrue? Doctors too? Are you willing
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to make a true and full statementof how and in what manner you came
to the injury from what you're suffering? Can you hear me, mister Frankly?
Yes? Who caused the injury fromwhich you're suffering? Was it this
man? Do you recognize him?Yes, Gilman, man of the Garde?
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Did he cause you these injuries?Mister Frankly? Is Rex Gilman the
man who beat you up and attackedyou with a knife in your home today?
Mister Frankly, we have good reasonto believe this man attacked you.
Will you please tell us if he'sthe one? Mister Frankly. No,
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Rex Gilman did not attack you.No, I told you to shut out.
Well, who did attack you?Mister Frankly? Who did this to
you? It was a woman?What was her name? Mister Frankly?
Where can we find him? You'vebeen repeating the name Faye in your delirium.
Was it Faye Faye? Who?Go? I don't want to mister
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Frankly. Doc, that's all beenguys. I told you get him out
of here. Man, You guysare gonna look pretty silly. Let's get
the floor to lean notify the markone. Oh thanks, thanks? Yeah,
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you're sure he knew what he wassaying. You heard him answer everything
else. Yeah, here's everything wecould take up. Man, Okay.
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Frankly has been having a time forhimself ever since his divorced three years ago,
advertising the papers and joined a lonelyhearts club. Met several women.
A man like Frankly using that meansto meet a woman sounds funny to you,
Ben, Yeah, well maybe youhad something deafer and the mind about
the kind of woman he wanted tomeet at He saw three of them pretty
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regularly, all fairly young for him. Helen Bennett h twenty nine the city
stenographer Madge Givens, aged twenty nine, the city waitress Laura Vickers, age
thirty one in the city. Alsowaitress no One named Faith, second names
Helen May, Madge, Diana,Laura, Christine. Well, we have
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enough suspects yet and more coming.He was having all sorts of fun Cargo
and Murphy trying to locate the Givens. Woman Laura Vickers, married eight months
ago, lives out on the coast. Helen Bennett's in the interrogation and with
papishing Carter. She says Frankly askedher to marry him last months. He
turned him down. They're still talkingto him, all right, all right,
Elli and Grant came up with something. Oh, I've been requestioning people
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in the neighborhood. A woman cameto see Frankly twice last week, so
I'm often drove a new kid convertibleblue. Well, that doesn't sound like
a waitress or stenographer. No,what about things? Nothing like am This
one's in early forties, blonde,nice looking, well groomed. Three different
people who remember seeing her said shewas one of those kind you could give
ten or twelve more years and stillnot tell the difference anything on the car.
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No license number. Man named Mastersonwas pretty sure he's noticed a Cherry
Hills plate frame on it. NoCAD dealers and Cherry Hills. We're checking
dealers all over town. I putsome in on auto supply stores too.
If she bought the plate frames,one of them might have put them on
for better car. Park Hill Divisionnice nearest to Cherry Hills. Given the
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stuff you have, blue Cad convertiblesaren't too plentiful even then. Okay,
Oh, I talked to your witnessboarding again. He remember, yeah,
said she always wore nice sport clotheswhen the weather was nice. Saw her
come by one day with some golfclubs stacked in the back of her car.
Gothrie Cargo just called him. Trackdown Frankly's Landlady names face Seelick Good.
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What's the address? Two four sevennine Vista, Cherry Hills, right,
mister ceiling, Yes, Lieutenant GuthriePolice, missus, Sergeant Grabb.
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May we come in please? Yes? Now, I have your coats.
That won't be necessary. I onlygoing to stay a minute. We'd like
to get a little information from youpossible about Lawrence Frankly. Oh, yes,
we understand you were his landlady.I owned the house on Humboldt Street.
Larry rendered it from me, butI disliked the title landlady. Oh
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sorry, I suppose you read abouthis death in the papers. Yes,
of course I was very upset overthat. I've known Larry for a long
time. Well, maybe you cantell us something that will give us a
hint us to what actually happened athis home last Tuesday afternoon. Well,
I'm sure I don't know. Inhis coma, mister Franklin mentioned name face
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several times. That's your name,isn't it. Yes? Do you have
any idea why he'd mentioned your name? No, no idea. We according
to people our men have talked toin the neighborhood, you dropped by to
see mister Frankly quite often. Whatpeople or just people in the neighborhood.
Was he a good friend of yours? He was an old friend of dogs
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my late husband. Why would thesepeople talk to you about me? Well,
they didn't talk about you, Mississila. They I just remembered you and
the car you drove that you saw, mister Frankly quite off. That's why
you're here, that's right. Whenwas the last time you visited mister Frankly,
Oh, last month? I thinkdo you know Helen Bennett? Should
I? Mister Frankly was intending tomarry at one time, not so long
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ago. Thought he might have mentionedit to you. No, Larry kind
of plating a second marriage. I'msurprised. Well, he was in good
health, had money, no responsibilities, seemed good marriage. Jo Oh,
you misunderstand me. I've always thoughtof Larry as a wonderful catch. But
he often mentioned to me that he'dnever trust another woman, that he'd ever
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marry again. And when did Itell you that? Many times? Last
week? In fact, a momentago, you said you hadn't seen him
for over a month. Did youforget Yes? I suppose I did.
We had dinner together last week.Are you trying to confuse me? Now?
This is a personal question, missusCeli, but we'd appreciate an honest
answer to it. Did you everthink of marrying mister Frankly yourself? I
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suppose so ever talk about it?I suppose we did, Yes, But
I've explained how he felt, andI've been quite aware of this, Phelix
for some time. What you sayabout mister Frankly's attitude toward woman puzzles me,
Missus Ceiling. We've learned that hehad correspondence with sabro Saw two or
three regularly, besides the woman namedHelen Bennett. You're talking about that silly,
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lonely hurts thing, aren't you,Yes, Larry, he had enough
two cents of humor riding all thosewomen and meeting them. Man with his
education and social background and connections.Honestly, I know all about it.
It's been going on ever since lilyAnd left him. Well, we'd like
to hear what you have to sayabout it, if you don't mind,
missus Cilly dear, I'm late now. I have an appointment for lunch on
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town. I certainly could not,Missus Ceiling. We're investigating a homicide.
We've got to check in everything.You may be able to help us a
great deal. Well, I'll tryand telephone my friend. Excuse me,
certainly? No, what do youthink then? Nice woman? Very tracting.
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Yeah, boy, look at this, bett, Lily said, caused
too. Granted at what was that? Well that isn't the telephone the bathroom?
Yeah, there's luck. Okay,Matt, she's taken something. What
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did you take miss cilke? Kitchenmust be in the back somewhere, eggs
on milks you're doing? I wantI quiet, miss click, don't talk?
What are you doing? Quiet outhere? Drinking? Drink it?
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Here we have been I'm get herhead. Come on, try this,
wait, anything I can do justa minute. No, no, it
got done. I never became angrylike that before in my life. I
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hit him with my hand bag.He started his ear to bleeding, and
I hit him again. He stumbledand started and taught me. I became
very frightened. This all happened inthe kitchen. Yes, all right,
gone. He didn't try to hitme back, but he did try to
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hold my arms. So the knifelaying there on the board knife used it.
I thought he was dead when Ileft. You have no idea of
what it's like knowing he was.Are you talking about Helen Donnitt? No?
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The others too. I would havemade Larry a good wife. We
were perfectly matched. I told himI'd have been a life he could take
to his club and introduced the people. I wouldn't it have been proud to
do things with traveling things. Yes, we'd have made a nice couple.
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But mister Frankly didn't want it thatway said it. He wanted something else.
Them waitresses, stenographers. Do Ilook forty six years old, Lieutenant
No, I wouldn't say so.My friends tell me I could pass for
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thirty five. Larry was nearly fifty. Maybe past it. I could have
made him happy, certainly, givenhim more than Lily I never gave him.
She let herself put on wait hedidn't watch her clothes. A woman
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should keep herself up, don't youthink, yes, yes, we'd have
made a nice couple. We couldhave had a wonderful life together. The
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lineup or before you passed the innocent, the vagrant, the thief, the
murderer. Listen again next week whenwe again bring you the lineup. May
I have your attention? Please,you people out there on the other side
of the wine in the audience rooms, may I have your retention? Please?
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Thank you. My name is grebSergeant Matt Grab I'll explain the lineup
to you. Each of the suspectsyou will see will be numbered. I'll
call off a number the him andcharge. If you have any questions or
identifications, Please remember the number ofa sign to the prisoner as I Call
His Name. The lineup, starringBill Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie and Wally
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Mayer as Sergeant Matt Grebb, waswritten by E Jack Newman, with music
composed and conducted by Eddie Dunsteader.Featured in tonight's cast were High Averback,
Howard mcneer, Lou Krugman, DaveYoung, Bob Sweeney, Sidney Miller,
and Virginia Gregg. The lineup isproduced and directed by him Delavayer von Monroe
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this Saturday evening when songbird Betty Coxdrops into thing. They'll all be heard
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Time Radio. Welcome back. Well, these were some great scenes over radio.
These are the type of things youwould associate with Dragnet. But I
don't recall Dragnet doing quite this way, in particular, getting a woman who
had committed suicide or tried to commitsuicide and immediately providing the poison relief the
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dying confession. I think they mighthave done it some point, though,
to be fair, I think Guthriewas kind of leading the witness in a
way. It's like, did heis this the guy who did it?
Now? We really think he wasthe guy who did it? I don't
know. I think if anyone testifiedto that, they might have a little
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problem in court. And we begin. Well now our listener comments section with
a comment from Jeffrey, who saysthe episode could not have been broadcast in
March nineteen fifty one. The endcommercial was for the Rose Bowl, which
was played on January first, nineteenfifty one, Michigan. I'd be California
fourteen to six, and Jeffrey wentback and checked in says this was the
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thanks for the year heads up.Like I said, it did sound
familiar. I should have caught theRose Bowl bet at the end, but
I can miss football of related clothes. Thankfully, I'm not a detective who
has to rely on such little points. Will say that there was another episode
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one twice. Like I had saidat the time, I thought i'd heard
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I did see a short film hedid for the Army back in the forties.
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of the lineup, and this willactually be the very last Matt Grab episode
we'll be bringing you so from Novemberthe first of nineteen fifty one. Here
is the Jolted justice job case.Ladies and gentlemen. We take you now
behind the scenes of a police headquartersin a great American city, or under
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the cold, glaring lights. Whatpassed before us? The innocent, the
vagrant, the thief, the murderer. This is the lineup. Oh,
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mister Bourton, who oh hello,mister Guthrie. Oh, I mean Lieutenant
Guthrie. I'm sorry, it's okay, don't apology, smoke, I get
my pipe. Thanks. We thinkwe might have the man you saw going
into mister Frankly's house this afternoon.We'll see. That's quick work. Your
fathers really go after everything, don'tyou. We tried. Yeah, I
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only saw him for a minute,but I think I can remember him by
the pants and the jacket he waswearing, and I hope you can remember
his face. Have your attention foryou, you people out there on the
other side of the while in theaudience room, May I have your attention?
Please? Thank you. My nameis Grab, Sergeant Matt Grab.
I'll explain the line up to you. Each of us us affect you will
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see will be the number. I'llcall off a number the nim and charge
at the end of each line.When I ask for questions or identifications,
call out the number. If you'reshore enough, too short of the suspect
had him held. The officers whotook your name will assist you. They're
seated among you. When the prisonersleave here, they are sent to the
wash room and dressed back into theirjail clothes. It makes it quite difficult
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to bring them back after they leavehere. The questions I asked these suspects
are merely to get a natural toneof voice, so do not pay too
much attention to their answers, asthey often lie. Bring on the line,
all right, boys, moving rightalong all the way over to the
end of the set. Which onefeller. Let's wait till he's question number
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ten. Face the front the front, all right, keep your eyes straight
ahead. When I call your numbers, step out to the circle. Answer
the questions so the people out therecan hear you. Okay, Number one,
Jack Hanley Burglary, where do youlive? Believe you are? Come
on, you'll have to speak up. Jack, I live in Bay few,
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Horrigan. I look, I've toldyou what every opposer you've met around
here has told you. When weask you where you live. We want
the address you slept up the nightbefore you were arrested. Is that clear
arrest if you understand it? Okay, Jack, I don't remember some fleabag
on the eastern Rapos Street. Whoremembers that kind of an address? Were
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you alone when you were arrested?I was drinking beer with a friend.
What was his name? His name'sLorraine Price. Have a gun on your
Jack? When when you were arrested? Oh yeah, all right? What
kind? Oh well, believe FosburyAutomatic HYS thirty eight. Hey, I'll
be a few days. Drop ussay hello, we can talk about guns.
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Thanks, I'll do it, okay. Number two Frederick camera, So
come on, come on hustle thatpredec pretty live century powder so the people
can hear you. Freddie, ain'tgot nothing to say. Well, you
had quite a bit to say atdinner time tonight. Every cook in the
jail kitchen heard you. I don'tlike a job. You'll get used to
it. The address again, fiftyone sixty cent, Stand up straight,
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Take your hands out of your pockets. It's looking for my lighter. It's
in the property room. What doyou do for a living? Fru river?
How much do you weigh? Toeighteen? You know a man named
frank Yaccino? Yeah, I knowhim. You know how much frank weighs?
How much? One thirty two?He may not way much, but
he's got an awful big mouth.And I'm gonna tell you that we heard
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all about it, Freddy, andI hope if he falls down cut his
lip concussion and cushion percussion, whocares? Okay, step back, you
know I'll be Here's snap. That'sa number three, Rex Gilman open chart,
pretty live, Rex thirty six seseventeen. Take your time since forty
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seven, bunch of business mechanic ona car. I have a forty.
I've been certain ever since he walkeddown on that Ow came Sergeant Graham.
Yes, number three, all forinterrogation. Hi, Hi, how's mister
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Frankly about the same night? Phone'spretty bad? A lot of internal bleeding,
three transfusion so far? Any luckwith Frankly's wife and divorced ninety forty
eight, and after twenty three yearsof marriage, she's remarried living in San
Francisco. Now a wire cargoes atthe hospital sweating it up. Now I
relieve in at midnight Nash will followabout four. Frankly has anything to say,
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We'll get it done again. Nowprints on the kitchen knife that make
any sense? I was still hopingon something they picked up on a glass.
What about Gilman? Now Bourdon identifyinghim. Claude Abrams is in your
office. He's Frankly's attorney. WisedFrankly and how to handle the thing with
Gilman met him at the hospital.Mister Abrams, this is Lieutenant Guthrie Glad.
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How do you do? I keepyour seat, mister Abrams. I
understand you advised mister Frankly about thismatter with Gilman, Miss Abrams. Yes,
I explained that he could take itto court, but I tried to
talk him out of taking action becauseof the expense involved. However, he
insisted. I even called on Gilmanat his garage and explained what mister Frankly
was going to do. I thinkGilman might rectify his mistake or refund the
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money. What was Gilman's attitude?Persecuted called mister Frankly several names, and
mister Frankly have plenty of money,almost a quarter of a million dollars.
Stone got it all except what Lillian, his wife took from him. Seems
funny he'd creates so much ruckus overa small I don't like this with a
garage maney has all that money.Well, I won't keep you any longer.
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Staybrams. Oh, mister Frankly evermentioned someone named Faye that I recall
we didn't mix socially. I mentionedthe name several times in coma. Hello,
Tennant. Do you think that garageman did this to mister Franklin.
That's why we're trying to find out, mister Abrams Rox Gilminal Town, Okay,
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yes, sit in that chair,Gilman, Okay, no, no,
no, no happen Hi. Okay, my name's Ben Guthrie. You
know, sergeant Graham. You knowwhy are you here? Something about Frankly.
He's in pretty serious condition, gentleman, he's beating up and Stamb.
We picked you up because we learnedthat you had words with Frankly about some
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work HEID did for him. Whatabout it? Oh? I did what
he asked me to do. Iput white side walls on his tires,
and I told him I couldn't guaranteethe job. When it didn't work out
and they turned yellow, we gotnasty about it. I told him to
stay away from my garage. Didyou threaten mister Frankly? No, I
didn't threaten him. I just toldhim I better not try to take me
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to court over it. A littlething like that. What did you mean
when you told him, man?Well, I meant that he'd better not
do it. That's all. Well, what I want to know is what
alternative action did you have in mind? No? No, I just didn't
want him to do it. It'skind of hot in here. Can I
know you were talking about the tirebusiness. You must have had something in
mind. I suppose I did.I don't know, but I don't know.
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And what's the matter with your hand? I was reaching for the light
switch in the dark, and theback of my head touched the wall.
It's rough plaster, it seems tome. You put the palm of your
hand against the wall a field witha switch. There's an extra wall by
my switch. It's just a littleoffice they built in. When I least
they joint. You have to goin sort of like like this, and
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that's the wall. I brush withthe back of your hand. Yeah,
I don't quite get the picture there. What is it a little partition or
what that comes out by the switch. It's just part of the wall in
a little area and you hit itwith the back of your hand reaching for
the night switch. Look, ifyou don't believe me, mister, go
down and look for yourself, orsend one of your sergeant's down there.
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Maybe one of them's got brains enoughto figure out how it could have happened.
Maybe, you know, you guysmake me sick with your questions.
If the answer you get doesn't ringthe bell, you've got to be real
tough about it, real tough.Don't sit there, sit here, don't
take off your coat, don't raisethe window, don't smoke nuts. You
guys make me sick, Sergeant lieutenantlaugh. Just like those wonder boys I
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ran into in the army, Theydid not do anything but keep their pants
pressed and their shaving gear two inchesfrom their toothbrushes and field inspection. I've
seen enough you cups Today'll ask meall my life you really make me sick?
Anything else? Gilman? Yeah,and you're out pounding around waiting for
that thirty years then, so youcan get your rock and share money.
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I'll be able to buy and sellboth of you and all the rest of
these guys around here. When Sergeantash you're and Sergeant Quine questioned you earlier,
did they ask you if you'd seenmister Frankly today? Yeah? Why
did you tell him? I toldhim no. Did they ask you if
you had gone over to his housetoday? Sure? Well I told him
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no. It doesn't quite check,Gilman. Mister Borden lives right across the
street from mister Frankly's house. Hepicked you out of the lineup tonight and
identified you as the man who wentup to walk to mister Frankly's house about
one thirty to day. Okay,yeah, I was there where at Frankly's
house one thirty? Yeah, buthe wasn't there. I didn't see him.
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I'll look, you, guys,I went over there to see him
about the attachment and the summons hesued me for that lousy little bill.
He wasn't home. I tied upmy bank account this morning with some kind
of a written night. Oh hewasn't there. Look did you think I
beat him up and stick a knifein him for that? When you went
to his house? Did you ringthe bell? No? Did you not?
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No? Look, I was prettyhot about the attachment in the summons.
When I got to the house,I thought maybe he'd see me coming
up the walk from his window orsomething and wouldn't answer the door. So
I just opened it and walked in. I wanted to see him. I
could say things to him in hishouse that I couldn't say to him in
a clock room, things about thewhite side walls. Yeah, what'd you
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see in his house? But Isee nothing. He wasn't around. I
held his name a couple of timesand then left. Did you go through
the house, No, not evento the kitchen. No. After you
left this house, when you goback to my garage, the boy to
your garage tool, Sergeant Asher,you didn't get back into lafter three o'clock.
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Well, I stopped and had lunch. I forgot. Did you half
a lunch? Well? I stoppedat some beanery on Tremont Street. I
found a parking place, and thenI had a sandwich and a couple of
beers. Well, he asked youearlier if you'd been to Frankly's house this
afternoon. He said, you hadn't. Why did you deny that you had
been there? What do you mean? Well, what are we supposed to
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think, Rex, We're trying tofind out what happened to mister Frankly.
You tried to hide that part ofit from us. We'll have to hold
you check into your story more thoroughly. Well, how are you going to
check what I've told you? Ididn't have anyone around to prove he wasn't
there in the house when I wentin. Are you wrong? There's one
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Radio. Did they scrub these placeswith edith? I don't think they even
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use it anymore. That always smellsthe same, Hi man, alright,
just in time on here, makeyou make it. I'll keep trying.
I'll take too long. He's awfullyweak. I want to put him under
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set as soon as you're finished.Hell, look, can we get in
the room, Gilman and just keepyour mash out to do what you're told?
Better? Put your cigarette in thatyou remember what I said? Yeah?
Yeah? Ashes in with him?Now up close to the bed,
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Gilman. Hi you Frankly? Wheredo you live? Thirty two? Thirty
two? Humble? How old areyou? Mister Frankly? I understand that
you are seriously hurt? Is thattrue? Doctors too? Are you willing
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to make a true and full statementof how and in what manner you came
to the injury from what you're suffering? Can you hear me, mister Frankly?
Yes? Who caused the injury fromwhich you're suffering? Was it this
man? Do you recognize him?Yes, Gilman, man of the Garde?
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Did he cause you these injuries?Mister Frankly? Is Rex Gilman the
man who beat you up and attackedyou with a knife in your home today?
Mister Frankly, we have good reasonto believe this man attacked you.
Will you please tell us if he'sthe one? Mister Frankly. No,
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Rex Gilman did not attack you.No, I told you to shut out.
Well, who did attack you?Mister Frankly? Who did this to
you? It was a woman?What was her name? Mister Frankly?
Where can we find him? You'vebeen repeating the name Faye in your delirium.
Was it Faye Faye? Who?Go? I don't want to mister
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Frankly. Doc, that's all beenguys. I told you get him out
of here. Man, You guysare gonna look pretty silly. Let's get
the floor to lean notify the markone. Oh thanks, thanks? Yeah,
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you're sure he knew what he wassaying. You heard him answer everything
else. Yeah, here's everything wecould take up. Man, Okay.
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Frankly has been having a time forhimself ever since his divorced three years ago,
advertising the papers and joined a lonelyhearts club. Met several women.
A man like Frankly using that meansto meet a woman sounds funny to you,
Ben, Yeah, well maybe youhad something deafer and the mind about
the kind of woman he wanted tomeet at He saw three of them pretty
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regularly, all fairly young for him. Helen Bennett h twenty nine the city
stenographer Madge Givens, aged twenty nine, the city waitress Laura Vickers, age
thirty one in the city. Alsowaitress no One named Faith, second names
Helen May, Madge, Diana,Laura, Christine. Well, we have
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enough suspects yet and more coming.He was having all sorts of fun Cargo
and Murphy trying to locate the Givens. Woman Laura Vickers, married eight months
ago, lives out on the coast. Helen Bennett's in the interrogation and with
papishing Carter. She says Frankly askedher to marry him last months. He
turned him down. They're still talkingto him, all right, all right,
Elli and Grant came up with something. Oh, I've been requestioning people
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in the neighborhood. A woman cameto see Frankly twice last week, so
I'm often drove a new kid convertibleblue. Well, that doesn't sound like
a waitress or stenographer. No,what about things? Nothing like am This
one's in early forties, blonde,nice looking, well groomed. Three different
people who remember seeing her said shewas one of those kind you could give
ten or twelve more years and stillnot tell the difference anything on the car.
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No license number. Man named Mastersonwas pretty sure he's noticed a Cherry
Hills plate frame on it. NoCAD dealers and Cherry Hills. We're checking
dealers all over town. I putsome in on auto supply stores too.
If she bought the plate frames,one of them might have put them on
for better car. Park Hill Divisionnice nearest to Cherry Hills. Given the
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stuff you have, blue Cad convertiblesaren't too plentiful even then. Okay,
Oh, I talked to your witnessboarding again. He remember, yeah,
said she always wore nice sport clotheswhen the weather was nice. Saw her
come by one day with some golfclubs stacked in the back of her car.
Gothrie Cargo just called him. Trackdown Frankly's Landlady names face Seelick Good.
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What's the address? Two four sevennine Vista, Cherry Hills, right,
mister ceiling, Yes, Lieutenant GuthriePolice, missus, Sergeant Grabb.
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May we come in please? Yes? Now, I have your coats.
That won't be necessary. I onlygoing to stay a minute. We'd like
to get a little information from youpossible about Lawrence Frankly. Oh, yes,
we understand you were his landlady.I owned the house on Humboldt Street.
Larry rendered it from me, butI disliked the title landlady. Oh
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sorry, I suppose you read abouthis death in the papers. Yes,
of course I was very upset overthat. I've known Larry for a long
time. Well, maybe you cantell us something that will give us a
hint us to what actually happened athis home last Tuesday afternoon. Well,
I'm sure I don't know. Inhis coma, mister Franklin mentioned name face
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several times. That's your name,isn't it. Yes? Do you have
any idea why he'd mentioned your name? No, no idea. We according
to people our men have talked toin the neighborhood, you dropped by to
see mister Frankly quite often. Whatpeople or just people in the neighborhood.
Was he a good friend of yours? He was an old friend of dogs
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my late husband. Why would thesepeople talk to you about me? Well,
they didn't talk about you, Mississila. They I just remembered you and
the car you drove that you saw, mister Frankly quite off. That's why
you're here, that's right. Whenwas the last time you visited mister Frankly,
Oh, last month? I thinkdo you know Helen Bennett? Should
I? Mister Frankly was intending tomarry at one time, not so long
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ago. Thought he might have mentionedit to you. No, Larry kind
of plating a second marriage. I'msurprised. Well, he was in good
health, had money, no responsibilities, seemed good marriage. Jo Oh,
you misunderstand me. I've always thoughtof Larry as a wonderful catch. But
he often mentioned to me that he'dnever trust another woman, that he'd ever
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marry again. And when did Itell you that? Many times? Last
week? In fact, a momentago, you said you hadn't seen him
for over a month. Did youforget Yes? I suppose I did.
We had dinner together last week.Are you trying to confuse me? Now?
This is a personal question, missusCeli, but we'd appreciate an honest
answer to it. Did you everthink of marrying mister Frankly yourself? I
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suppose so ever talk about it?I suppose we did, Yes, But
I've explained how he felt, andI've been quite aware of this, Phelix
for some time. What you sayabout mister Frankly's attitude toward woman puzzles me,
Missus Ceiling. We've learned that hehad correspondence with sabro Saw two or
three regularly, besides the woman namedHelen Bennett. You're talking about that silly,
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lonely hurts thing, aren't you,Yes, Larry, he had enough
two cents of humor riding all thosewomen and meeting them. Man with his
education and social background and connections.Honestly, I know all about it.
It's been going on ever since lilyAnd left him. Well, we'd like
to hear what you have to sayabout it, if you don't mind,
missus Cilly dear, I'm late now. I have an appointment for lunch on
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town. I certainly could not,Missus Ceiling. We're investigating a homicide.
We've got to check in everything.You may be able to help us a
great deal. Well, I'll tryand telephone my friend. Excuse me,
certainly? No, what do youthink then? Nice woman? Very tracting.
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Yeah, boy, look at this, bett, Lily said, caused
too. Granted at what was that? Well that isn't the telephone the bathroom?
Yeah, there's luck. Okay,Matt, she's taken something. What
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did you take miss cilke? Kitchenmust be in the back somewhere, eggs
on milks you're doing? I wantI quiet, miss click, don't talk?
What are you doing? Quiet outhere? Drinking? Drink it?
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Here we have been I'm get herhead. Come on, try this,
wait, anything I can do justa minute. No, no, it
got done. I never became angrylike that before in my life. I
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hit him with my hand bag.He started his ear to bleeding, and
I hit him again. He stumbledand started and taught me. I became
very frightened. This all happened inthe kitchen. Yes, all right,
gone. He didn't try to hitme back, but he did try to
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hold my arms. So the knifelaying there on the board knife used it.
I thought he was dead when Ileft. You have no idea of
what it's like knowing he was.Are you talking about Helen Donnitt? No?
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The others too. I would havemade Larry a good wife. We
were perfectly matched. I told himI'd have been a life he could take
to his club and introduced the people. I wouldn't it have been proud to
do things with traveling things. Yes, we'd have made a nice couple.
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But mister Frankly didn't want it thatway said it. He wanted something else.
Them waitresses, stenographers. Do Ilook forty six years old, Lieutenant
No, I wouldn't say so.My friends tell me I could pass for
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thirty five. Larry was nearly fifty. Maybe past it. I could have
made him happy, certainly, givenhim more than Lily I never gave him.
She let herself put on wait hedidn't watch her clothes. A woman
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should keep herself up, don't youthink, yes, yes, we'd have
made a nice couple. We couldhave had a wonderful life together. The
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lineup or before you passed the innocent, the vagrant, the thief, the
murderer. Listen again next week whenwe again bring you the lineup. May
I have your attention? Please,you people out there on the other side
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Thank you. My name is grebSergeant Matt Grab I'll explain the lineup
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His Name. The lineup, starringBill Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie and Wally
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Time Radio. Welcome back. Well, these were some great scenes over radio.
These are the type of things youwould associate with Dragnet. But I
don't recall Dragnet doing quite this way, in particular, getting a woman who
had committed suicide or tried to commitsuicide and immediately providing the poison relief the
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dying confession. I think they mighthave done it some point, though,
to be fair, I think Guthriewas kind of leading the witness in a
way. It's like, did heis this the guy who did it?
Now? We really think he wasthe guy who did it? I don't
know. I think if anyone testifiedto that, they might have a little
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problem in court. And we begin. Well now our listener comments section with
a comment from Jeffrey, who saysthe episode could not have been broadcast in
March nineteen fifty one. The endcommercial was for the Rose Bowl, which
was played on January first, nineteenfifty one, Michigan. I'd be California
fourteen to six, and Jeffrey wentback and checked in says this was the
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only snore case that aired on Decembertwenty eighth, nineteen fifty Well, Jeffrey,
thanks for the year heads up.Like I said, it did sound
familiar. I should have caught theRose Bowl bet at the end, but
I can miss football of related clothes. Thankfully, I'm not a detective who
has to rely on such little points. Will say that there was another episode
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that I'd initially identified as one Ididn't quite recognize and thought might be a
lost episode, and was identified assuch by the group that issued this set
in the episodes we've been listening to. But I was able to ferret that
one out because it had an airdate that identified an episode of Yours Truly
Johnny at all or in one oftheir commercials, and I realized it's not
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the right story. So I'll notifythe organization that put these out of the
discrepancy so that they don't get mislabeledagain, and I'll remove it from the
lineup feeds so that listeners who arelistening through the lineup don't accidentally hear that
one twice. Like I had saidat the time, I thought i'd heard
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it heard it before, but it'stough to tell, particularly with the lineup,
and they did rebroadcast to reperform acouple different scripts. So I appreciate
your eagle ears not quite right,but you know what I mean. Thanks
so much, Jeffrey. Then wehave a comment from Jack, who actually
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follows up on another comment. Hesays, Hey, Bob Bailey was in
that lineup movie last week on TCM. Played a bad guy in a white
trench coat. Interesting. Have notseen too much of Bob Bailey's filmography.
I did see a short film hedid for the Army back in the forties.
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But I'll be interested to see themovie. I've added it to my
Amazon wish list and thanks for thetip. Jack. Also be interested to
see how the lineup looked in liveaction, even as though it was the
movie and not the TV show thatwas on for so long. All right,
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