 Ladies and gentlemen We take you now behind the scenes of a police headquarters in a great American city We're under the cold glaring lights will pass before us the innocent the vagrant the thief the murderer This is the lineup Oh slow today. I wouldn't kick about that Is he right? Yeah, thanks How you going on your vacation? No place. I'm gonna paint the house some vacation House needs painting peeling pretty bad Hey, did he brush his the thanks clan neighbors don't know them too. Hey, I have your attention, please You'll have anyone's side of the wire No, I'm just thought I'd watch cargo work. Thank you. That's for life. Okay? This carger Sergeant Pete carger. I'll explain the lineup to you each of the suspects you will see will be numbered I'll call off a number the name and charge you have any questions or identifications Please remember the number of sign of the prisoners. I call his name the questions I asked these suspects a minute to get a natural tone of voice So they're not pay too much attention to their answers as they often lie. All right, bring on the line All the way to the end of the stage boys keep it moving all the way you you in front there me May may yes you over here this end of the stage now get over here All right now turn and face the front You again may yes the front face the screen Stop talking in the line you're number one shut up. Okay. Okay. All right number one It's only Lacelli alias Tom Leslie 12 arrest three convictions Probation six months on the first sentence three years on the second car theft and robbery step out the silly I said step out to where you've been in line-ups enough to do it blindfold and I step out This suit you where do you live in a dump? My old man. What's the address Tony? I don't know someplace in a branch. What's the address Tony? I ain't been in six or seven years. How you think I'm gonna remember all that what's your age Tony 23? And I'm tired of getting pushed around by you guys. I'm asking your opinion. I just want facts. Well, that's a fact Where do you live here? Yeah? I've been this stinking time two hours Can't pick me up too fast even rent a park bench. You want it in st. Louis Denver Phoenix in Los Angeles? Yeah, I get her on the charges went from suspicion of armed robbery to assault with a deadly weapon a knife I'm not selling me. I brought you to this town. I had a job for me. What kind of job? Bill collect explain it Well, this guy wins three G's in the game and don't collect so he wants I should collect one who hired you Got him already. He's down the line Number six running down. Yeah, that's him. I hope you have a pleasant stay with us Tony Now we see if we do better with you number two Thomas Vincent open charge step in the circle What do you live Thomas? Well, 6,000 Parkway chairs that a house Apartment hotel. I'm an apartment seat. What do you do for a living? That's on the third floor apartment. Thank you Now what do you do for a living? You live in a pretty expensive neighborhood boy, you're telling me what do you do for a living you asked me that one I didn't like your answer Well, well what what do you do for a living? I told you nothing What do you do for a living Thomas? I keep books what you mean is you make book yeah Yeah Where we arrested some in a bar what bar where I don't know. Yeah, we're wondering Guess you had it today so the couple of other guys. Oh, who do bank sellers dead where three guys took a national trust bank Submachine guns tore up the place That's pretty nasty in there I expect you're pretty well organized out here Yeah, I'll have some more men here in a minute. They're open off the side entrance now Okay, rope it off here too. Mali setting it the area covered and it's tight. Okay. Let's go in right Mali Set that rope all the way. Hey you folks here keep moving right along, please. What kind of a car did they use? Move along everybody keep moving has nothing to see they come out here side entrance Hello, Ben. Hi doc. She says it's rough Brutal haven't seen men chopped up like that since the service. How many two men tellers They must have brought all 30 slugs the bank guard got hit pretty hard, too. He tried to stop them over there Yeah shoulder and arm torn up Tellers are down here. They really had it They'll cover them up lab men aren't through with their pictures. Oh, all right I've given sedatives to the girl over there hysterical. I can understand that The manager of the bank here. That's him over there then names Thomas Franklin. Oh, all right I get the employees into his office keep the others over there, right and Asher Have the officials take a count on what money's left. They're working on it now. Hey doc. Can I talk to the guy? Dr. Walters is working on it. You better make it fast, right? Can you hear me? You get a good look at them Police here now the police are here. Are you sure you missed? He's hit hard then yeah, you sure trying Okay, let's get this man on the way keep that plasma going Thank you'll make it back. You'll lose that arm anyway the tellers over there. Yeah, what's left of them? But darker. I want your lab reports as soon as possible slugs and cartridge cases We'll try for a make on the guns. All right. I'll get on the slugs, man. They're really unloaded a hundred rounds at least That's a tough way to get you know a good way Where's mr. Franklin's office? Oh over there client. Let's go Mr. Franklin. Yes, I'm lieutenant Guthrie this sergeant Klein Yes, and I'd ask some questions if you don't mind Yeah, of course sit down. Thank you terrible thing terrible Tell me where were you when this happened? I? Here I did I was standing at the door here Door to your office. Yes. I was talking to miss Haynes. She's my secretary. Oh, did you see them come in? I saw them there were three men. Can you describe them? Well, no, I I thought they were orchestra men Well, how do you mean they were all dressed to like suits hats ties to all match What about the features? Well, I I don't know they all looked alike, too. Well, you mean that face. Yes, they're all the same Thought I was dreaming. Were you close enough to notice if they wore masks or make a horrible nightmare? What the lieutenant asked if they wore masks and makeup well I I don't know everything happened so fast. I And then Lee and Joe when they seemed it They're apart. I've never seen anything like that. I guess I painted that yet. Well, it's a natural reaction. Mr. Franklin Need to feel ashamed Well, I do though. I can't help it folks Lee's wife was expecting a baby I'll have to call her and tell her Get that Carson Klein sure Now look the police are taking care of telling the family mr. Franklin The police are taking care of that Please call these wife Let's get them on the van. Yeah, right I'll give my high-five Mr. Franklin all right Nasty shock for a man his age Doctors take care of him. I miss Haynes the secretary may I help? Ten Guthrie Miss Haynes. I'd like to ask some questions if you don't mind Did you see the man? Oh, yes, how close were they? Talking Can you describe them in the clothes features voices anything like that? Yes Tell the truth. I was so scared. I couldn't think well, how are they dressed? They all wore dark brown suits and brown belt hats They all matched with the same styling material and everything. I didn't pay much attention at first that is Oh, well, why not? Yeah, isn't it unusual to see three men all dressed alike? No, not around here We have some theatrical agencies in the building and all kinds of odd characters come and go up Yes, I just thought they were a combo A combo? Yes, you know a small musical group. Oh, yes. Well, what about that features? Well, I remember I started to turn back to my desk when I realized they all looked alike I mean their faces were all the same and And I saw mr. Franklin staring so funny Then I heard the guns their faces were all alike. Yes, like mass Uh-huh Just a second. What kind of mass Miss Haynes? Well, I'm not really sure that's what they were well Well, the face is like Halloween mass. Well, yes only they weren't so good test. Well, they sell that kind too miss Haynes Excuse me a moment, please. Yes, sir What do you have coin? I should find a dead man on the Broadway cable, so gunman. Yeah Guard thought he'd missed he didn't hit him pretty hard. I only stopped him. Uh-huh. His buddies knocked him off two and a head Let's have a look up this way Big telephone company work canvas stretched around a cable intake at the side entrance Uh-huh, and what are the phone men say? No phone in there a bunch of equipment laying around on this way, Ben He started to bleed here Mmm, Mallie call in get the phone people down here on the double. Let's go This puts us on the Broadway runs north and south turn your flash Bigger tunnel and I thought yeah carries all communication watch these pipes. Yeah, I Told you to watch the pipe I know it how far it would come about 50 yards He's up here. Oh I'll hold the lights God caught him inside. His partners sure must have Can't tell much what he looked like We'll get a make-up for Prince They had it figured pretty good cigarette Thanks, then yeah, I could use an aspirin Get in the ground observers core scan our skies in short volunteer periods and fill up the holes in our radar defenses Intercontinental war is possible a fully man ground observer core is the best answer for now to enroll phone or write your local civil defense Center or write ground observer core Air Force Washington DC that your local civil defense center or ground observer core Air Force Washington DC getting to figure Uh-huh more of these over something else. Yeah, they're eggs See daily yeah, tunnel takes the right angle and look out for these beams You heard I Saw my pants. Oh, hey, what are you guys doing down there? Hi, Pete Still saw Pete sort. Oh, you mean the lineup those guys had me going. They sure did Yeah Phone equipment here, too, huh? Where are we alley parallel to main and off second second? That's two blocks from the bank Yeah, Pete see the telephone people have gotten the bank yet if they have got them down here, right? Say coin you can tell your pants. I know what I got a headache, too Yeah, this was a Davis division for one of the phone companies telling cut through almost Davis I got you called a tenant came right over. Thank you. Were you at the bank stop there first certainly a tragedy Tell me is that equipment down there yours? Oh sure loans at truck 37. It's a sign of Jimmy Willard's crew How long will it been with the company? 12 years good man. I hardly think he's mixed up in this well somebody with cable experiences in on it has to be Yes, you're right. I voted all drivers to report in a gun Oh, excuse me. Mr. Davis lineman over there is holding a call from your office. Oh, thank you Sure a cargo will you follow through on that guy you tell him to rush the identification sure man I put out an APB on this truck. Here's the car, but I guess that's all you do here, man. Yeah Yes, mr. Davis. It's the office. They found the truck driver Jimmy Willard. He's in the hospital and slug now get over there coin What time is it quiet? Oh wonder. I'm hungry. I'm right through lunch. Well, Pete's bringing some sandwiches good What'd you get at the hospital? Oh, well, it's still foggy took a pretty bad beating. I think so It's a guy named footsie Mars Mars Telephone man was got fired trouble maker Crockett's checking the file good Well, we found that phone company truck. Well, yeah, where it's at the bottom of Lost Lake Lost like it in the state park mm-hmm two kids phoned in about 20 minutes ago So the guy drove it up to the cliff got out and let it roll into the lake. That's a break But who's on Azure he's got a crew up there now Kids were pretty excited. Oh, but it's kind of funny kids figured on getting a tanning I'll play a hook pick them two hours to get up the nerve to call in Two hours the hoods must have driven straight out to the lake mm-hmm, then the guy drove away in a black Chevy coupe Licensed and they didn't get there Where are the kids now? Ash is buying them chocolate sodas. What did you find out? Here's some make dumbens got a record a mile long My name is Miller Frank Miller. I'm robbery got out four weeks ago Hey got onions on them. Yeah, it smells good He's yours Catch it and milk Lieutenant Guthrie, then this is Azure. Hi, they get the truck out. Yeah, and he leads young Apartment to be on West Palmer Drive. The address is 1327 1327 West Palmer Drive To be set a stake out. They're on their way. Good. We'll meet you there How to match Yeah, I shouldn't have eaten that onion. Why don't you like onions? I do They don't like me. Oh Yes, Asher. Yeah Close tight man. Good your stake outset here three on each side six in the back We're covering the front. We've seen any one of the apartment. There's a chevrolet in the garage registered the Morris Okay, we'll check the manager first There it is See, this is Charles Carter Mrs. Carter. Yes, we're police officers. Miss Carter. We'd like to ask you some questions if you don't mind police Why my goodness, what's wrong? We're looking for someone Miss Carter. Oh Has anyone moved into the building recently? Only those two men in to be they moved in about two weeks ago. Mm-hmm. Can you describe them? Oh, yes One's tall and dark very handsome Why what have they done? You have those mug shots, P. Yeah Yeah, right This the man Yes, that's mr. Morris Is he a crook? Among other things. Yes Pico get Asher sure and miss Carter. You stay in your apartment there. Maybe trouble. Oh gracious and keep your door locked All right, let's go second floor You think the place would have an elevator. Yeah You got a ball tonight. Uh-uh. We drew a bye All right this way Now walk easy easy open up Mars police officers Mars the building's surrounded. We're giving you a chance come out with your hands up hit the lock Asher Stand back You okay? Yeah, yeah got plaster all over me Boy, you really had an armory here. Oh come here, man. Huh? There's the money. He must have been counting it. Yeah Ben, huh? You've been eating onions. Yeah. Want some gum? All right The lineup where before you pass the innocent the vagrant the thief The murderer listen again next week when we again bring you the lineup May I have your attention, please? Thank you. My name is Cogger sergeant Pete Cogger. I'll explain the lineup to you Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered I'll call out the number their name and charge Have any questions or identification The lineup starring bill johnstone as lieutenant ben guthrie with jack moiles as sergeant pete carger Was written by william j ratcliffe with music by eddie dunsteader Featured in tonight's cast were hi ever back peter leads tony barrett Howard mcnear, sydney miller john mackentire and jenette nullan The lineup was produced and directed in hollywood by heimey del valle Never doubt the impact of radio and especially cbs radio or its legions of listeners across the land The last time anyone counted there were over a hundred and five million radio sets in america and people really use them How else could a phenomenon like this take place? 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