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to these through your kindle. Nowit's time for today's episode of the Lineup,
the keenly clipped kennel that case.Bring on the line, ladies and
gentlemen. We take you now behindthe scenes of a police headquarters in a
great American city, or under thecold, glaring lights. What that before
us? The innocent, the vagrant, the thief, the murderer? This
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is the line up? Him?All right, how's it going? Okay?
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How about so same miss donald show? Yet Patterson called about ten minutes
ago and said she caught a coldtoday. That doesn't think she should come
out in the night there. Iwant to know if she could come down
tomorrows. And it's a third timeshe's had some excapement. I'm coming down.
We can't hold that suspect forever.Hey, yeah, I've got to
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smoke on you. Oh yeah,yeah, sure, thanks. Tell me
why is it people who holler andyell for protection and law until they're blue
in the face, and then whenI have a chance to do something about
apprehending and convicting a criminal, Ijust can't get in the car and drive
down to the police station and identifya suspect. Just can't do it you'd
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tell me then. Now about Keith, it is he here who said it
there this morning and at least latenow you want him to look at that
four fifty nine came in the afternoonan extradition. Yeah, so, Rigo
is a guy's name, number thirtyfour. He'll be in the last run
off, and I better hold itdown by the door in case he comes
down dark out there on the otherside of the wire in the audience room,
May I have your thank you?My name? The threads lineup.
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Each of the suspects you will seewill be number. I'll call up a
number, the name and charge.If you have any questions or identifications,
please remember the number of signs ofthe prisoner as I call his name at
the end of each line. WhenI ask for questions or identifications, call
out the number. If you're sureor not too sure of the suspect.
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Adam Hell, the opposers have tookyour name. Will as sister there seated
among you, please a bit partwith your questions or identifications. When the
prisoners leave here, they are sentto the latch room and dress back into
their jail foes. It makes itquite difficult to bring them back after they
leave here the questions I asked thesesuspects. I'm merely to get a natural
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tone of voice, so do notsay too much attention to their answers,
as they often lie. Bring iton the line, Ahl, right,
boys, keep it moving. Lineover to the end of the stage,
past ship. Come on, I'llturn and face front. Hands to your
side. You take your hands outof your pockets. I'll step out to
the circle when I call your namea number. When you answer my questions,
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talk up to the people in theback of the room. Can hear
what you have to say? Oh? Okay, number one? William?
You older, grand temp Auto?Where do you live with him? Here
in town? I live here?You got an address? Sure? All
myers speak one thirty two pound myersspeak. Watch your business well, I
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worked for Warner Gear loading in theB and O yard. Anyone arrested with
you, William? Yeah, JimBarnes, he's in the next room.
I see him. One. Icame a Jim Bond number sixteen. Any
weapons? Will him? You know? So age and grow up yet I
ask him to say, fill itup and check the oil. Okay,
yeah, yeah, well say it, fill it up and check the oiler,
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saying it like a minute, likeyou were in a filling station.
I wish I was ever mine.Fill it up and check the oil.
Okay, sergeant, we'll want tosee him all right over on that saturn
the stage, William Next number two, Robert Ducks and failings to register come
us, winging at Roberts. Yeah, right here in the stinking jail before
you're arrest A stinking jail up stagethe stake, fen Entry. Yeah,
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where'd you fall from? That?The county in nineteen forty nine? But
how long you've been out? Threedays? Looked at me, look out
there, and they one arrested withhim. Sylvia, there's no way you
have a gun? No, didcheat? No? Well then we got
an extra thirty two automatic around theplace and Nickel played at one. Robert
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and Ivra Johnson, you're sure youdidn't have old shure and shure your wife
didn't have any No, you're ona car three days out here? Answer
no, No, I don't owna car. He's got a gun,
it's got nothing, it's done nothing. Why you got me up here on
this line up? Anyway? Ifailing to register for one or so our
register Bring out your little green Brookand our raisers did a couple of times
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if you want me to. Butwhy as the gun the officers found that
Jimmy a finch power glass cutter,screen cutter and a lot of jam all
in your possession of the Times viewrest. That's why what said proved nothing?
Well, you did a little timefor second story. Who second story
work? Was? Say? Ryan? Okay, well my victims shows take
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care of him. I've been wiserthe question. You haven't done anything.
You haven't done anything that we want. Sixty three two eighty six A are
arming and seven see the man seventythree three fifteen en oh hi, then
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come on in. Sorry, thisis George mccattin. You're kind of Guthrie.
How do you do? How doyou do? They guards and chairs?
Boy. About six months ago,old mister McCadden met a girl named
Vivian Hannah posted to the restaurant overon Fifth Na. Yeah, I know
the play. Well, I'm inthe advertising business. My office is in
the Park Norton building right across thestreet. Suppose you tell Lieutenant Guthrie what
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you told me? All right?I think something's happened to Vivian and started
at the beginning, Police Paul,Well, Vivian is a pretty girl and
always very pleasant and nice. Ibegan seeing her now and then we've had
dinner and we went to a fewshows together. She lived by herself in
a little apartment over on Maragonni Street. A couple of months ago, I
went over there to pick her upin an older woman answered the door,
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and Missus Kennebuck. She said shewas Vivian's mother. When Vivian came into
the room, there was quite ascene. Missus Kennebuck was pretty upset about
Vivian going out with me and keptrepeating that Vivian was a married woman all
When we got on side, Viviantold me that she had been married once,
but it hadn't worked out, andshe'd been divorced more than a year.
The guy. His name was BobHarmon. He lives in New Orleans
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now. She said her mother hadtried to talk her out of divorcing this
guy and never really accepted the factthat the marriage didn't exist anymore. Well,
it seems her mother was going tolive with her at the apartment from
then on. When I brought Vivianhome that night, the aldready was waiting
up, and she had some prettystrong things to say, accusing Vivian of
all sorts of things, and orderedme to get out and never come back.
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She hit Vivian the mouth and cuther lip before it was all over
with. Well, after that,I wouldn't go to the apartment to pick
up viv I met her downtown orsomeplace else. She quit at the restaurant
and got a job in a defenseplan. She wanted some more money,
thought she could buy herself a car. Well, I was out with viv
two weeks ago. We went toa movie. My phone was ringing.
When I got home. It wasmissus Kenneva telling me that I'd never see
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Vivian again. And she was prettymad. He said she knew what I'd
been meeting viv all this time.How old was Vivian twenty seven or tenants?
Sure old enough to do what shewants, don't you think? Yeah?
Going Well, viv didn't call meei the next day or the next,
and I finally took a chance andcalled the apartment. I called three
days. I didn't get an answer, so I drove by a couple of
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times and saw this car in thegarage. You didn't want to go up
to the apartment on account of missusKennebac. Now that's right. I didn't
want to stir up things, butI did want to see viv couldn't you
call her? It were? Oh? I tried to get her, but
I got the personnel office, andI was surprised when they told me she
was taking an extended leave. Alessons or what else did they say?
Well, that's all the information theygave me. It didn't seem right,
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and I'm worried about it a lotbecause I liked viv You mean, it
seemed funny that she'd do this withouttelling you. Yeah, yeah, So
I finally just went out the apartmentand camp on the doorstep until the old
woman showed up. She told methat Vivin was out of town on a
vacation and she didn't know where,and she didn't know when she'd be back.
She said there was no place Icould write her either, And that's
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all the explanation you got. Yeah, And I thought about it a lot
before I came down here. Wellwhat do you mean, miss McKennon.
Well, viv told me that hermother been beating her up all her life,
since she was thirteen, or fourteen, and always accusing her things.
She said she married this harmon guyjust to get away from home. I
tried to get viv to kick theold lady out or move away herself.
I even offered to help her outfinancially, but she wouldn't listen to that.
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It was a louty situation for anice kid like that to be in.
The old lady just couldn't do anythingbut complain. Well, do you
think that something violent might have happenedbetween Vivian and a mother, Miss McKinnon,
That's exactly it. If viv wastaken any kind of a trip going
anywhere, I'm sure she'd have toldme, and I'm sure she'd have taken
that little old forty seven FOURD withher. No. What makes you say,
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then, Well, she was crazyabout that little car. Used to
get out every Saturday and polish itup and take care of and look after
it. She didn't have any moneyfor a train ticket or a plane ticket.
Liv lived it pretty close to thebone, and the cars still there,
still lar in the garage. Yousay you saw her last two weeks
ago. Two weeks ago, Tuesday, the nights, the old lady calling
me up and told me I'll neversee her again. This may be nothing.
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I might be yacking for no reasonat all, but I'm worried,
sick. I think that old ladykilled Vivian if she had half a chance.
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Good morning, man, Bannie Quin. It's seventy two. Seems like
spraying instead of water. You cancold last night though, Matt coming in?
Yess in your office? Okay?Anything from Murpha crockettin. I'm still
out the defense plan. I'll letyou know, man, Hi, Hi,
Hey, we're gonna have to geta new hot plate. Ben took
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me an hour to make up apop let me sugar lind Yeah, here
you go, Hey go, let'sgo with up. Mcknn complain yea Nash,
he's out with Shelley checking on thecannon. Seems okay so far,
good family, good business, notrouble. How about the girl? Nothing
down here on her cry and saidhe'd stopped by the restaurant and ask around.
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They don't open untill noon. Uhboy, I could stand a lot
of this weather. Yeah me too. Hey you gotta match? Yeah,
catch how about missus keno Orn?They're gone hurt either, well, they're
waiting Art just bought up into thebest play or anything. Yeah, told
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him Vivian Harmon's on an extended leaveof absence. She give any reason,
didn't give anything. Mother called andtold him Vivian had to leave town unexpectedly
two weeks ago. The tenant gutfi, that's right, Missus Knova, Miss
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Sergeant Graham, how do what isplease? Well, we'd like to talk
to you a few minutes, ifyou can spend the time, missus kinderby
and cleaning house? Is he important? Oh, we won't take too long.
Come. I hate small apartments alwaysso dat he is small places gift
his way in Europe. I livein peak house cleaning is Vivian around the
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day? Vivian my daughter? Yes? Why you are here? Just a
routine checkman's kind away. Friend ofVivian's complained that he tried to see her
a couple of times, and whenhe talked to you, you told him
driving and left town. He didn'tthink your information about it was very satisfactory.
Left a cabin man, George,he went to you. That's right.
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The people at the defense plant tellus you phoned him and said,
Vivian a left town rather suddenly.He's true, we'd like to know where
she went, missus kindaway, donot know that? That seems it's rather
strange. She's your daughter, youlive with her. Didn't she tell you
where she was going? No?Well, did she tell you why she
was leaving town? She talks tome little Villian does She said it was
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jobbed singing with bands? Villian alwayswants to sing with band all her life?
What band? What's the name ofit? I do not know?
Did she ever do that kind ofwork? Before one? When she is
nineteen? She met her husband andband mister Harmon her ex husband her husband,
well, they were divorced over ayear ago, on't they He's her
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husband. She cannot change it.I see. Well, when exactly did
the Vivian league town? He's twoweeks now. Did she take a plane
or a train? And do notknow? Taxi pick her up early in
the morning. She left in prettymuch of a hurry, didn't she?
Yes? Has she written you?Yes? Twice she has written? Do
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you have the letters here? No? I banned and never keep letters.
Well, what did she say inthe letters, missus Kinnavan? That she
was well and happy and getting herown good do you happen to remember where
they were written from. Oh,see Nix and then New Mexico place.
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He says, she's traveling with aband. Yes, but when did these
letters come? It was Saturday,last Saturday, both of them on the
same day. Yes. Did shegive you an address you could ride back
to? No? I tell youonce before. Yes. Did you happen
to notice if the letters were writtenon hotels Fishonary? No? I did
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not notice this. That George shouldnot have come to do. He was
worried about Vivian, missus kinnavy.She's all right. No need to worry
about Vivian. She is not he'sto worry about. She belongs to another
man. You mean, Robert Harmon. He's her husband. You You don't
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like mister mccatton much, do you. I'm not like you know, worry.
She's fine. I do not worry. Now you go. I finished
my house. Well, would welook at her room first? This is
her room? Bed comes down outof the word bathroom there. What about
the closet where she kept her clothes, same place where bed comes from.
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What do you mind if we lookat that for a second. Well,
I am citizen of this country.Is there a law and We just like
to look at it. Mister Kennaway. See what clothes she took with him?
We can get a search warrant.All right, go ahead, mister
Luke, I show you is closet. See yeah, these all her clothes
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on mine. Look a little smallboy, Missus kinderwack some a Vivian,
now you go. Does she takemany clothes with him, Missus Kinnaway,
Yes, she leaves them here allright, missus kinda thanks a loon?
Yeah, thanks, goodbye? Ohif Vivian nice to you again? Would
you mind letting us know? Please? Why? Just like to know where
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she is? What time? Allright? You're gone now? Yeah,
here's my car? Just call methere, all right, goodbye bye.
It's lovely, really lovely now.Lash and I went out with a car.
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Yeah, we no shovel on theback, stick around it from a
hardware and stow it out town.Some mud on the end. We took
samples for the crime lab. Ohyeah, there was dried blood on the
floor mat. The time February first, nineteen forty five. The place a
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battlefield in Western Europe. An Americaninfantry company was crossing a stretch of open
ground and a night attack on Heckercite. Suddenly, the group was pinned down
by a vicious burst of machine gunfire from a house on the outskirts of
Sounds. Private Edward D. Bennettstarted to crawl toward the edge of the
field in order to flank the house. Even though a machine gunner spotted him
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and tried to cut him down,Bennett managed to reach the protection of a
few trees. Under the cover ofthe trees, he worked his way to
the rear of the building, whichharbored the gunners. Disposing of the century
with his trench knights, the younginfantryman charged into the darkened house. There
he was set upon by seven menin a furious hand to hand battle.
He's silent all of them. Nowhis company could move on and sweep all
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resistance from the town. The fillis initiative and stalwart combatibility of Edward Day
Bennett brought him the Medal of HonorEdward Bennett, who asked not what his
country could do for him, butwhat he could do for his country.
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Yeah, gagering GONZEALI is staying thereto keep an eye on it to day,
and Murph and Crocket will take overit. For I'll need four more
men. Yeah, all right,and were at the post office substation.
Now okay, fine, okay,yeah, while they're sending him, then
out the question. Harmon broken habitat checking into the musicians union and booking
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agencies around town to see about theband. But look it's almost two ben
that male carrier should be in bynow. Yeah he said he didn't wait
for it. Good. How longare they going to take it? The
crime raab only should have something inan hour? Uh, this is just
here. Oh you the two policemanlisten to me and James. That's right.
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My name is Guthrie. This isSergeant Graham. Yeah. I hope
you can help us on this.The postmaster tells us that you handled a
route on the nine hundred block onMaraghani Street. Oh, yes, having
can here for about eighteen years.What's it? Just checking? You know
an apartment building at nine ten Ohhold the Sherwood. Yes, what about
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what A woman by the name ofkind of lives there has a daughter named
Vivian Harmon, missus kind of backtells us that she had a couple of
letters last Saturday, one from Phoenixand ether from New Mexico. Do you
happen to remember delivering them. Ohno, are you sure you know the
place? Oh? Yes, yes, it is a big two story job.
It's kind of a court affair.All the boxers are set in front
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and a little sort of any roomman. Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Yeah, I don't even recognize thosenames you gave me, and I
remember names of the people on myRR two Or haven't you ever delivered mail
to missus Kennebec before? Yeah,not that I know. How about the
Vivian Harman? No, no horries. Let's see, there's sixteen units in
that building now offhand, I couldname fourteen families they deliver mail. Do
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you see you're gonn putty good inthere? And then you're sure you didn't
deliver two letters that last time?Oh, I'm positive? Or maybe Friday
or Thursday or something like a lieutenant. I've never delivered mail to either one
of those names. I just I'msure how long they lived there? Over
a year? Again, No,never delivered it. Well what's upe of
didnting room? Just check? Thanks? You like? Oh sure, I'm
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glad to help you. Yeah,hey, yeah, especially we might be
able to help here. They mighthave taken something out there. I wouldn't
able to tell you about that.We already checked them. They haven't made
a delivery to that apop in hospitalfour weeks if anybody picked up a band
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here in ZHN. I went onthe road with him the last month.
He did his own booking. Hedidn't tell the union about it. Huh
anything else, Well, it'll takea while on the trains and planes in
the buses, cap companies being checkedtoo. Asher and I worked a building
all day long. Only three peoplein a place in o Vivian and a
mother that missus. Deadman lives rightbelow them. Didn't have much to say,
didn't even notice. Vivian hadn't beenaround for a while. Man lives
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across the hall side of hearing,so he wasn't much healthy there, Manager,
Merchant Blacklayer's waiting in your office.Uh yeah, he had quite a
bit of same weech. Can Icut you don' want to see him for
sure? With Matt knock on,he's in the crime lay I'm working with
Sam. Oh, mister Blackler,this is Lieutenant cutthree. Hello, mister
Blackman. Sergeant Quine tells me youmight be able to help her. Yeah,
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I don't know about that. Ihopeful mister Blacklers around the apartment house
all the time a tenant. Hethinks he saw Missus ken Over. I
put something in the back seat ofthe Ford one night. Oh yeah,
last Wednesday night, very late nowor just about to google bed on or
outside of my window, and metmister Blackler says. It looked like a
rug or something. Isn't that right? Yeah? As a matter of fact,
I got thinking about it next dayand I went up to apartment.
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I'm sure enough living rub rug wasgone. I asked Missus kenneback bart On
the four again and she said she'sjust taken it out to be clean.
Well, the rug was there whenI saw the place this morning. But
funny she'd taken herself that time ofnight too. Yeah, mister Blackman,
you happen to know what time Missuskind of like came back that night.
Oh gosh, I went right tosleep, but I know she was back
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Broughton early next morning. How doyou know that? Well? I get
up early, damn for the garbagecans and sweep the holes, and she
was in front of her place withthem all. I guess she spilled something
in orders cleaning it up. Didyou see what it was, no funny
thing? Are doing that? Why? Why that's my job? Lieutenant?
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Why it as your gain? Hecame in ten minutes ago, yain hardware
still man, remember selling the shovel. His description fits. Missus kind of
back car, still on his wayin Matt going from the lab playing field
in the garage. Blood stains onthe floor. I checked out about two
to three weeks old, according tothe Tack says the third on the shovel
could have come from anywhere around.But then it guth resolve, Well,
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yeah, it's just a nut's kindof back on the phone. Hello,
Yes, this is Lieutenant gut three. Yeah, yes, yes, miss
kind of y When I said,well, I'd like to see them if
I may. Oh, thank you, thank you very much. Bye.
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M What now? She says shegot another letter from Vivian in this afternoon's
mail right here? Well, mayI see the letter? Please ready if
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you want. She's in Tucson,man in Arizona. Yes, do you
have the envelope? I came in, missus kinder throw it away, just
the letter, go ahead read,I don't mind right uh huh here man,
thanks you see, he says,all everything fine, Yeah, but
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she doesn't give an address, missuskindervag just two sons enough, h it's
fine. Did you write this letter, missus kinnavang Hi? No Dvan she
writeing where we talked with your postmanafter he finished today's deliveries. This letter
couldn't have come today. He did. He came in this afternoon mail.
There is no afternoon mail. Itell you it came in this mail.
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The postman told us he's never deliveredany mail to you with this address.
I get a letter from Davian likeI tell you, would you mind writing
your name for us? Why?Just to compare your handwriting with a handwriting
in this letter? I not writefor you. I show you a letter,
now you go. We'd like toask you about the shovel in the
car Invariance car. I understand youbought the shovel last Wednesday afternoon at the
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Central Hardware store. I did nottell you that. Well, we looked
into it. That was the dayVivian left town with the band, wasn't
it? Yes? Why don't youuse the shovel for missus kind of man?
Where were you digging? There werebloodstains in the calm? What day
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Vivians this is a warrant for yourarrest her. I'm suspicion of murder.
She was not a good girl allin my life. I tell her to
stay away from men who will harmher. But she not believed me.
She not respect her mother when shemarried. He marry man who loved her,
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but she not love him. He'snot right for girl to marry man
then leave him he's still married,has no right to see other men.
This all I tell her. Whereis she? I take you, where
I bury her. I take youmyself. I very a deep, very
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deep, so I can forget her, so deep that I can forget her
forever. Yeah, I want toget your con I have it all right.
I hate small place, always getso dirty. The line up,
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where before you passed the innocent,the vagrant, the thief, the murderer.
Listen again next week when we againbring you the line up. May
I have the other tention free.You'll be the other side of the wild
the audience room. May I haveyour efficiency? Thank you. My name
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is grim Sergeant Matt Gable Bay.In the lineup to you, each to
the perspect you will see will benumber. I fought up a number the
name and jog do you have anyquestions? No identification number, the number
of signs of the Brazils, welcomeback. You know, this was one
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of those episodes of the Lineup thatwas you know, just screamed. Reminded
me of Dragnet. I was waitingfor you know, I will thought at
the end, I was thinking,you know, what would happen is if
this for Dragnet is when she talkedabout small places and h in hating small
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rooms, website would Joe Friday wouldsay it's too bad? How's and she
would say how's that? Because becausewhere you're going, the rooms don't get
much smaller. So I missed thatfeature. But other than that, this
one really did have probably the strongestdragging at feel of any episodes so far.
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Well Land will do it for today. Coming up on Sunday this month's
Video Theater, This one will bethe case of the Winthrop legend from the
nineteen fifty four fifty five Sherlock Holmesprogram. And we will be back with
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you on Monday on the radio foryours truly, Johnny Dowler, and join
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