 Ladies and gentlemen, we take you now behind the scenes of a police headquarters in a great American city Where under the cold glaring lights will pass before us the innocent the vagrant the thief the murderer We take you now to police line up. Can I sit here? Sure. Sure. Any chair in the room, Mr. You'll sit beside me Lieutenant Guthrie. Sure. I Hope I didn't do wrong about that boy lieutenant, but I'm pretty sure there was a bullet hole in that coat You did just right Like the other people here you've all come to try to identify someone in the lineup for one reason or another May I have your attention, please? Let's sergeant grab and charge at the lineup. He'll explain it to you You people out there on the other side of the wire in the audience room. May I have your attention, please? Thank you. My name is grab sergeant Matt Grev I will explain the lineup to you each of the suspects you will see will be numbered I call off a number their name and charge if you have any questions or Identifications, please remember the number assigned to the prisoner as I call his name at the end of each line when I ask for Questions or identifications call out the number if you are sure or not too sure of the suspect have him held The officers who took your name will assist you. They are seated among you. Please be prompt with your questions or identifications When the prisoners leave here They're sent to the bathroom and dressed back into their jail clothes makes it quite difficult to bring them back after they leave here The questions I ask these suspects are merely to get a natural tone of voice So do not pay too much attention to their answers as they often lie to bring on the line All right boys this way You the front one walk the end of the stage and take your place the rest follow Turn around and face front Answer your sides look straight ahead. Hey you hold your head up. Look straight ahead so the people out there can see you That's right Number one George Marvin concealed weapon. Where do you live George? I'm sorry. I can't hear you. Where do you live? I said I live downtown Where downtown what street a moon hotel on Front Street? How long have you been in town George? Did the officer find a gun on you? Yeah, what kind 32 on a 45? Number two James Hodge theft. How long have you been in town Jimmy? All my life 23 years Where do you live? 1215 Pennsylvania Avenue where you aren't when the officer arrested you. No sir. Never wanted a gun in my life Number three Mickey Bianco robbery. Where do you live Mickey? Hi, I don't know sir. Where'd you sleep last night? Mission house on Ruxton Avenue. Was anyone arrested with you? Yes, sir fell next to me number four Harry Greco Robbery was anyone arrested with you Harry? Yeah, the kid you just talked to known him long. Yes, I mean That's how long did you have the gun the officers found or did make for me? Are there any questions or identifications from the audience any questions or identifications from you people out there? Hold number two sergeant. All right lieutenant Rest of you boys go through this door you Jimmy Hodge stay All right, Jimmy turn sideways Face the wall Turn sideways To the front Along since you shaved Jimmy one day I shaved yesterday This man has a slight half moon scar on his right cheek obscured by his beard height 5a Does anyone make identification? I'm sure that's him lieutenant. All right, Mr. Sergeant Graham. Yes lieutenant hold for interrogation How you can sit down thank you Well, Ben, I picked up the release forms on a couple of the boys in the lineup We're letting them go no one identified them. I run them down to communications sure go ahead and grab yourself some coffee I'll do that. Thanks. It's a hot night, huh? Yeah There's a hot night you can turn on that fan if you wanted Jimmy. Yes switches right behind you on the wall, okay Cigarette Jimmy. I still have some of my own sir and light up good My name is Ben Guthrie Jimmy I Want you to understand the laws as much on your side as I know all about that mr. Guthrie Yeah, I guess you do Where'd you get that coach you tried to sell Jimmy? I told the arresting officer. Tell me to Got it from a man. I work for sometimes. I sweep up and clean the wind What's his name Jimmy mr. Roy Cameron? He's got a little jewelry shop 12th Street. He calls on on me now and then And mr. Cameron gave you the coat. Yes, he did. Why would I lie about a thing like that? You can ask him We will Jimmy he gave you a coat. Why do you suppose he gave you a woman's coat? You wouldn't have any use for a woman's coat. I don't know why he gave it to me I guess he just wanted to be kind. He knows I got a sister. Oh But you didn't give it to your sister tried to sell it. Why why because I don't make much money mr. Guthrie I thought I could pick up a couple of bucks easy Why didn't you try to sell it the usual way to a friend or an old clothes shop something like that? I did they thought I'd stole it just like that man did who yelled for the police and all I did was come Out of that alley and sell him an old coat. Where's the coat now Jimmy? After I ran away. I gave it to my sister Ruth Ruth Hodge. Yeah, and we'll check This mr. Holt that's the man who had you arrested and identified you tonight in the lineup You know what made mr. Holt really suspicious of you a lot of things I guess because it came out of the alley because Because in the back of the coat he saw a bullet hole mr. Holt says to him it looked like a bullet hole a bullet hole I didn't know anything about that mr. Cameron gave me the coat all wrapped up I didn't even see until that man asked me to unwrap it and show it to him I don't know nothing about a bullet hole. Nothing about it That's all Jimmy Roy Cameron on 12th Street. Yes, sir. That's the man just ask him just ask him mr. Guthrie Good morning. May I help you watch and engagement ring it? Yes, I'm Ben Guthrie police mr. Cameron. Oh Let us shake hands mr. Guthrie Thank you. I Respect you men very highly all you police. We're holding a boy on suspicion mr. Cameron Jimmy hodge, you know him Jimmy. Of course. I know is he in trouble. No Before you tell me please come into the back room and have a cup of coffee with me Please mr. Guthrie. Thanks. I will good Who knows curtains? It's perking Take a cup off that hope mr. Guthrie Jimmy said you gave him a woman's coat say when One thanks the boy said you gave I gave him a coat Anybody here Stop excuse me. Mr. Guthrie customers. Make yourself at home man. I'm coming coming May I help you? Oh might if we look around pops my wife and me are looking for a Winner knows something pretty. Okay. We look around please browse all you like when you've decided just call me I'll be in the back room. I'm having coffee with the prayer. Yeah, sure go right ahead pops my wife me get all the time in the world Oh You finished your cup mr. Guthrie another I know thanks about Jimmy hodge mr. Cameron. Oh, yes So many interruptions the code Yes, I gave it to Jimmy. He works hard. I thought it was What's Jimmy done mr. Guthrie? When did you give it home? Yes to the afternoon when he finished work about five o'clock What's Jimmy done mr. Guthrie something bad? It was a girls coat. It had a bullet hole in it I know what You said something mr. Cameron You said you knew it had a bullet hole in it. I know But the neatest coat my daughter's The coat she was murdered in My child Anita Then your The father of a murdered girl Two months ago, mr. Guthrie. You must remember. Yeah. Yeah, I do This is a happy day for me mr. Guthrie Tomorrow Saturday will be happier tomorrow night at 10 o'clock will be much much happier. Oh, yeah Tomorrow at 10 the man who killed my child Anita will be executed for murder tomorrow That's why I respect you police mr. Guthrie You'll kill him tomorrow Saturday Hello, Ben. I was just getting ready to go Sergeant grab ready to run them through the lineup. Oh, I'll be right to hold it a minute Oh, yeah, I'll be with you in about 10 minutes officer. What's on your mind, Ben? You once ran a boy through the lineup named Charles Dixon get out his files Prince galley No, Charles Dixon murder convicted a couple of months ago in a hold-up shooting papers called of the Anita Cameron case Oh, yeah, I remember Dixon slated for execution Saturday now Well, that's tomorrow night. Yep, that's the one. Well, what is it a last-minute plea the DA want the files? No me Sure. Well, by the way, did you get the 415 report? I put on your desk. No, I haven't been upstate you Well, maybe I can save you some time alley attack on a woman off Pennsylvania Avenue. What about it? Woman's name is Ruth Hodge Roots huh That kid we had in the lineup last night Jimmy hard. His sister's name was Ruth. Oh, well anyway, she's at st Anthony's hospital. I just thought I'd let you know Ruth Jimmy gives her a coat with a bullet hole in it and she gets beaten up Do a thing for me Matt files files on Charles Dixon get them Wow, there's much time that kid slated to die Saturday night. That's tomorrow night get the files Matt and while I'm going read them Read them carefully Matt massage Miss Ruth hard. Yes, I'm a policeman massage. My name's Ben Guthrie. I've already been questioned. You police did that already I know I'm afraid I'll have what do you want to know What happened who beat you up? I told them I told them all about well. Tell me who beat you I don't know. I don't have any new answers. Mr. Guthrie a man. What are your money? Is that it the police keep telling me? That's it, but it's not that at all. All right. What is my coat the man? Well, the coat I was wearing. Oh, I Told them that the coach your brother gave you yes Jimmy gave me that coat Well, all right Jimmy gave it to you not then what I don't know well It's important that you should know miss Harge Jimmy gave you the coat you put it on and wore it Yes, what didn't you care that it had a hole in the back of it? What the hole in the back of the coat? Oh, it didn't show much. Well, all right. What happened? I walked into the side street the one that looks like an alley off Pennsylvania Avenue Pen more places called where I live and go on a man was there standing in a doorway, I guess Walked up in the back of me and whispered in my ear He said don't turn around but that he'd give me $10. He said it was for the coat. I was wearing Well, then what I screamed started to hit me try to tear the coat off of me He said stop screaming, but I didn't guess he got scared he ran would you recognize the man? No, he was in back of me I told you yes, you did Where's the coat now hanging over there, mr. Guthrie. It's in the closet This one yes take it mr. Guthrie take it. I don't want it anymore Close the window a band all right you could stop squivelling to What time is it man you asked me that five minutes ago What are you trying to build Ben a boy named Charles Dixon is gonna be executed a tender more or night Saturday for a murder Maybe he didn't do you gonna prove it that with that dressmaker's dummy. I had me drag up here this coat It's got to mean something Put it on the dummy again You mean what's left of the coat don't you okay? There it is Turn it around We've been doing this since eight o'clock. I asked you what are you trying to build? I told you a boy's life Look man eight o'clock I brought this dummy into your office Then I dress it with the dead girls clothes and eat a Cameron's blouse and eat a Cameron's coat The bullet hole in the blouse matches the bullet hole in the coat right on the same line ten o'clock It's still matches ten thirty coffee. Yeah, eleven o'clock. We've torn the coat apart nothing eleven thirty We got a torn up coat. There's got to be something there Matt that coats got to mean something Now first of all it wasn't mentioned in the transcript of the trial. I called Cameron about that You know that the man just forgot to mention it. That's all that's human when he found his daughter He took the coat offer to try to help her with her wound Then why was Ruth Hodge beaten up for the coat the guy like women's coats I'll go over it again for you then Two months ago one Charles Dixon held up the jewelry store of one Roy Cameron in the process of the hold up He shot Anita in the back her father being upstairs at the time They tell me about those witnesses again man two witnesses Vern Meredith and Grace Duncan. They're walking home from a dance They saw Dixon with a gun in the girls back the girl had her hands up in the air They heard a shot. They called the police. How do they know it was Dixon? They didn't they noted the license number of a car parked with its motor running Later this car was found parked in front of Charles Dixon's house in it was found the gun the loot and Charles Dixon dead drunk Can I go home? Yeah Now Dixon's in a death cell waiting for tomorrow night Waiting for Saturday Can I go home now? What time is it man? It's Saturday You are a witness behind the scenes at police headquarters as we bring you police line-up The Vern Meredith he lives here. Yes. May I see him please? He's busy just now. I'm Mrs. Meredith. Can I help you? I'm from the police Mrs. Meredith I want to talk to your husband. I told you he's I'm sure I could tell you whatever you want to know Tell him it's about the Anita Cameron case Mrs. Meredith Tell him Miss Meredith. I think he'd want to talk to me. Oh, of course. Of course. He will please come in We're in the kitchen Vern's having his breakfast Please excuse our things. Look we get up sort of late Vern Vern yeah Yeah, what do you want? It's a man from the police. He wants to Vern put down the newspaper. It's a man from the yeah. Yeah, I heard you Gresh Well I'll just reading this item to grace when you knocked on the door. I missed you Mr.. What? Guthrie Ben Guthrie. All right, Mr. Ben Guthrie. I was reading all She likes it when I do that. Don't you grace? Sure. Sure. I like it This item coincidence Says the case of Anita Cameron is being scratched over by a man named Let me see Guthrie Ben Guthrie You're the same. Yes Says here. He's trying to save a killer's life There's a twist for a cop ain't it mr. Guthrie Tell me exactly what you saw and what you did the night of the hold-up Sound of record very clear very public Anybody can read it. I didn't get around to it. So tell me we were to dance. We were walking home You were with him Mrs. Meredith Then then your grace Duncan the other witness. Yeah Yeah, Grace Duncan now Mrs. Warren Meredith, huh Grace? We but I'll do the talk in my grace Yeah, mr. Guthrie, we were to dance grace and me what dance same like I testified the Eagle Social Club unbent Vern was walking me home. I'll tell him grace I Walked the home because sets romantic to walk a girl home We stopped to look at a jewelry store window and see this Charles Dixon holding up a girl. How could you tell it was a holder? Question She had her hands up in the air girl does that for other reasons. How did you know it was Dixon on the record? After the shot we took down the license number you cops found out it was Dixon not us Mrs. Meredith Was the girl wearing a coat when she was shot at May I The girl was wearing a coat Anything else No, nothing else Not now Thank You mr. Meredith Charles Dixon. My name is Ben Guthrie Charles. I'm a policeman. I want to know this man I want to know what I'm gonna be electrocuted. What do you want me to say? I need a Cameron. I killed her I Shot her in the back Did you I? Told me I did I Believe I did I keep telling me I did I believe it you went into the jewelry shop to Robin I need a Cameron came downstairs when she heard a noise you made a turn around and shot her in the back Is that what you didn't what listen to me? Yeah You're sure of it then you murdered Anita Cameron. I was drunk. I Was it a dance and I got drunk. Why did you get drunk? I did it before I liked it You don't understand. Do you I'm trying to help you did I tell you I? Would be electrocuted That they say it won't hurt Did you know when they kill a man? electrocuted It's painless think Charles think there's something to tell me something I can go on someplace It'll take me someone I can talk to what happened that night when you were drunk. Why did you leave the dance? Did you have a gun when you left the dance? Why did you tell her to turn around before you shot her? Most the way I feel right now drunk Then you don't really remember You don't remember a thing. I killed it They keep asking me to say so They say a man always confesses before he's electrocuted Makes a man feel better So I'm saying it I Killed her and I don't feel anything at all I'm talking to you Ben Why don't you go home? Why? What worries you man? I sit in there like that for hours and Nothing Ben just why don't you go home? What time is it? Three more hours. I didn't ask you that I said what time is it? seven o'clock Look, I'm do over at the lineup. Nobody's stopping you Did you do that a little while ago? Yeah, that got cold. This is nice and hot. You think Charlie Dixon killed that girl You want an honest answer or an answer? It'll make you feel just an answer Okay, I think he killed that girl no matter what's eating you Charles Dixon will die in two hours because he killed her You're through talking. Yeah, I'm through then. What are you hanging around for? Not come in here. Yeah Yeah, well, what do you want? Why did someone beat up a girl to get that coat back? You asked me that 15 minutes ago. I still don't know how do they know about the coat the same time I did I don't know How do they know about the coat the same time I did I've been telling you Ben. I don't know Call up Cameron's jewelry shop. Get me Cameron. It's nine o'clock Ben. Let the poor guy alone. Call him. Okay, Ben Okay, let me look up the number here. Give me that phone. Don't bite my head off for a lousy phone here Come on come on Mr. Cameron, this is Guthrie. Mr. Cameron police department one question. Who was in your shop when I was talking to you? Who was in your shop? Don't take your hat off Matt. We're going out. We'll be ready and justice But it was a cab going someplace Mrs. Meredith. Well, I Sergeant grab just asked you if you're going someplace that the cab grace. No, it's not. No It's not the Cabern That's you What do you want here? Relax, Mr. Meredith. We're just talking to your wife You're going someplace grace Why all the bags that's simple. He's talking to Mrs. Meredith. We're going on a little trip. That's all When did you get married Grace? March March the third I got it right here inside my ring here. I'll show you the day after Anita Cameron was murdered, wasn't it? An impulse grace and me impetuous or a wife can't testify against her husband grace How did your husband kill Anita Cameron? You kid shut up Vern. Yes, your wife Was it like this grace you waited outside until Vern was robbing that storm then Anita came in as a prize He held a gun on her made it turn around and shudder in cold blood Charles Dixon did that remember That's why he's gonna burn and you both got scared Grace You saw Charlie Dixon passed out in his car You planted the gun and whatever you stole in the glove compartment. It was like that wasn't it? No No Where'd you get the gun Vern? I never had a gun, but you know how to shoot one I never had a gun you have a record of robbery in 43. It said you had a gun. I was never confused Why did you kill Anita? In 43 you had a gun. You said you never had a gun All right, so I had a gun. Is that the gun you used to kill Anita? When I was arrested in 43 the police kept that then you use another gun to kill Anita Dixon killed Anita What about the coat? What coat? What are you talking about? What coat are you talking about? The coat Anita was wearing when you shot her Look, we gotta catch a kid. The coat Vern you beat up a girl to get it back on Pennsylvania Avenue You hit in an alley and beat up a girl to get the coat back. Why? Okay, over there over there and face the wall Clasp your hands over your head look, what is this you hurt him against that wall all right like this you did fine burn Sit down grace man, huh Get her a glass of water Where's the kids? Yeah, right through that door Your husband's a murderer Grace Cody tried to tear off a girl's back proves it don't talk to him Grace. He's fishing. He don't know any grace When you and Vern were in the jewelry store, you heard me talking to mr. Cameron about the coat So Vern knew it was important now. I know why Look at your husband standing over there grace He's got his hands clasped over his head a coat rises when a person does that if I shot your husband in the back The bullet hole in his coat would be a couple of inches lower than the one in his shirt Stop the bullet hole the bullet hole in Anita's coat was in line with the one in her blouse That means her hands worried in the air like you told us you lied at the trial grace You lied because your Vern here killed Anita. I'll listen to him grace. I'll trick you. Oh take your time Mrs. Meredith think about it Got a cigarette van Yeah, oh thanks You want one Mrs. Meredith? No, we're sure having a hot spell Mind if I open the window that's better isn't it? You want to be healthy for your trial so don't move Cover him that I've got a phone call to make uh-huh This is the police department. Give me the warden the state penitentiary What time is it man? Don't get yourself excited Ben. You still got ten minutes Police lineup was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and stars William Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie and Joseph Kearns as Sergeant Matt Grebb Music was composed and conducted by Eddie Dunstetter Featured in tonight's cast were David Ellis Jack Edwards Jester Herston Byron Kane Vivian Baber Lillian Biaf Herb Butterfield and Anthony Barrett You've been listening to police lineup Or before you have passed the innocent the vagrant the thief the murderer Listen in again next week when police lineup brings you This will help me get my little girl back. We want you to identify the man you saw talking to her Attention, please. My name is Grebb Sergeant Matt Grebb. I'll explain the lineup to you Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered. I call off the number of their name and charge If you have any questions or identifications, please remember the number assigned to the prisoner as I call his name At the end of each line when I ask for questions or identifications call off the number This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System