 Ladies and gentlemen, we take you now by transcription behind the scenes of a pulley 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 I'm Conway. I'm lieutenant Guthrie. I talked to you on the phone this afternoon. Oh, yes, lieutenant Well, do you think you have them? Well, we don't know mr. Conway like to have you tell us Do my best, but it was a year ago. Yes, I know any particular place you'd like to sit. Oh, this will be fine. Okay There you people really stay on it, don't you? Hmm. I mean it happened a long time ago I thought you'd forgotten about it down here. We don't like to forget anything like that mr. Conway Oh, didn't I meet him once? There's such in Congress. Yeah, he was on the case. Oh, yeah Remember now may I have your attention, please 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 conger sergeant Pete. Cogger. I'll explain the lineup to you each of the suspects You will see will be numbered. I'll call off the number the name and charge if you have any questions or Identifications, please remember the number of sign of the prisoners. I call his name The end of each line when asked for questions or identifications call off the number if you're sure or not too sure of the suspect Have him held the officers who took your name will assist you their seated among you Please be prompt with your questions or identifications when the prisoners leave here They're sent to the washroom and dressed back into the jail clothes makes it quite difficult to bring them back after they leave here The questions I asked these suspects in order to get a natural tone of voice But they're not pay too much attention to their answers as they often lie Okay, bring on the line. All right. Move it right along boy all the way to the end of the state I Is the man which one mr. Conway the tall one in the dark suit Well, let's wait till he's questioned. I wanted if I'd know him by saw him again That is him your eyes straight ahead when I call your number step out to the circle your address is the last place You slept in town number one fattiest nukem burglary Where do you live 141 West Colfax? What do you do lover? Work for yourself. Do you know? Consolidate a plumbing outfit on Bixby Avenue. You own a car fattiest. Yeah, I got a Chevy. What year? What color 49 sort of a Gray-green anyone with you when you're arrested George Trujillo George Trujillo Number 16. How long have you known George Trujillo all my life. This your home since I was 14 With all this time you're on a gun. No, you're married. No Okay, number two Henry Parch robbery Henry yes, sir. What do you live west side? He address Henry 233 center hotel Parkwood. What is in the hotel? How long you lived there? Three years off and on any weapons when you were arrested. Yeah, I had a gun. What kind of a gun Henry? 44 Smith and Wesson chrome blue steel one Steer horn handles nickel plated. You have a car. No What's your profession Henry trucker? Don't look at me look out there through the screen Take your hands out of your pockets You always wear a mustache. Yeah, anybody with you when you're arrested. No, what about Carl Engels? Don't know anybody named Carl Engels. That's him standing right back there. Henry take a look Well Which one hand of the line He told me his name was Jack Cannon. He was with you wasn't he? Yeah, why'd you say no one was with you at first? It's your lineup cop. I like to see your work back against the wall Henry What was that nothing? Number three Chester Abrams open shot. I know that's him. All right. We're just a minute. I'll away hotel on 3rd Street All five six third Street I think so and I've been there a couple of days. Where'd you come from? What a big Canada you're a Canadian citizen. No, just been living in Canada last couple of years before that They were a little louder. I don't think they can hear you. Where you from again? St. Louis, Missouri That's better. You own a car Certainly, that's him ever since he walked on the stage little bit. He's one of the man who killed my wife Okay sergeant Cogger Number three hold for interrogation Yeah, kind of a spot on them right away music on okay Well, then the officer responsible for the arrest is here, huh? Yeah, his name put you'd been on the force three years He's in your office. Okay Yeah, Pritchard. Yes, sir. I'm Lieutenant Guthrie glad to meet you same here, sir No, that was good police work picking up Abrams. What's your unit 405 cap medicine? Yes Long memory like yours helps a lot. Maybe it's because it was one of my first lieutenant I had to beat near the Strand Theater I was about half a block away when I heard the shots. I came up found Conway slug cold and Mrs. Conway dying She was the one who gave me the description. They weren't filed in the crime report. Yeah I remember telling me what the man looked like and she was a pretty brave woman and I hated to see her die like that It's gotten personal with me. I've been looking for Abrams ever since I guess well We've got him now Pritchard. Thanks to you. You'll be hearing from me. Yes, sir. Nice to meet you the same here See you Sarge. Yeah St. Louis has a fingerprint classification check FPC 19 primary 32 over 32 in our overrider final 15 over 70. He's our boy Yeah, but his name is Abrams real name Chester Cully alias Jack Rourke alias George Freeman alias Victor Adams 13 arrests two convictions both armed robbery Last one July 19th 1947 got out 18 months ago, bro. No, he did it all hold on back Conway thing happened 13 months ago Kelly could have been in town for it All we have to do is prove it was here and find out who he was working with we're closer than you think But mm-hmm. I was asked you he went through Cully's hotel room turned up an army 45 hidden in the mattress Mrs. Conway was killed with a 45 slug, wasn't she? Yeah, yeah, we'll see what happens now, Ben Asher sent out a tag on this. Yeah, he's checking with the army now. Give me a hand here. What do you bet? Oh, yeah? Sure find it Can you get that Pete please? Oh, yes? Everything's at once Hey, I got it. All right now easy. Yeah Two test slugs, yeah, okay, I'll tell him Your wife want you to call her as soon as you can. Oh, is she ready? Oh, not quite but the kid you got as measles Yeah, you got those evidence slugs Ben. Yeah Here you go. Oh right now. I'll see what we got now both of these were taken from Mrs. Conway's body No, no just the one the other stuck in the car seat. Oh, it's nice. Hey, now if I can get this wax there Now one of those test slugs. I just fired on the ballistics box. Oops Thanks Okay Stick it right here under the lens Take a look then how they use the screws Now revolve the slug holder slowly and hold it when you think the striations match Yeah, what do you think then just a second and the test slug matches with the one that killed Mrs. Conway, right? Like a pair of twins You guys got yourself a case Who's the guy man named Chet Cully? What do you have to say? Tell you later. I haven't talked to him yet. Well, you at least got something to talk about Stuffy in here. Okay, Cully. Let's have it have what? What are you jokers trying to pull you're trying to pull anything Cully I'm asking you for a statement statement, huh? I'll give you one nuts Cully we want to know who you were working with Well, you can make it easier you can make it tough any way you want it. We're giving you a chance. You don't need a gun me a chance You got nothing on me look on it. We found your gun Bullets from your gun killed Mrs. Rita Conway in a parking lot hold up here a year ago Two men were in on that job The woman's husband has definitely identified you was one of them. It was your gun that killed it Well, we've got you Cully we want the other guy I Don't even own a gun. Who's the other guy Cully? Who's the other guy Cully? Dom cops. Who is he Cully? Dom jerk cops. Hand me that folder. Yeah Thanks Where's your brother these days Cully? He's still in St. Louis He was out here with you last year, wasn't he? You know, we'll get him Cully. You know that don't you you get enough You're too stupid. How are you get him out of here Asher? He'll talk later on on your feet shut Yeah, sure You're wrong Guthrie. I won't talk later on. I got nothing to say. Come on Get him out you guys will have a hard time tying this up you go with him Pete, right then, okay? So long Guthrie. I hope you sleep. Well, oh my you jerk. Come on, Ben Stop trying to get down to the garage crazy fool. What does he think he can do? Cully maybe before he hits the car on a feed over his head. Are you still going? Yeah taking the emergency exit You can't let him run the street Cully stop Okay, Pete. You're not a saint. I tried for his leg. Help him Pete. Call an ambulance America's schools are in trouble. All America is in trouble because a strong enlightened democracy has its roots in good free education America's schools are in trouble now. We are overcrowded under staff often in wretched condition You can help to improve the situation by joining with civic groups or school boards in your own community And working with them to improve conditions Oh, Ben. Well for Wallaby gave you those cuffs Want some coffee, Ben? No, thanks Dave? Yeah I'll try some Black I don't see Cully's got a wife in St. Louis. She's on her way out here. Yeah I talked to her long distance. We've got to be sure about all this Test slugs from the gun we found in Cully's room match up with the slug that killed Mrs Conway Conway himself made a positive identification on Cully Mrs. Cully's going to have to know all these things and she's going to have to know him right She's only been married to him six months and she's talked about false arrest and suits Anything on the hotel room? Yeah, I've been staked out ever since we picked him up No visitor. No phone call How about his mom machine? Here you are St. Louis had a good file on him. We sent them the description of the man who pulled the job with him Police there looked up everyone and Cully's she not a possible in the whole bunch They're still looking though. It could have been somebody he tied up without hand Looks that way Stats officers running through again all we got is a medium-sized man dark young and tough I wish it'd been Cully's brother make our problems simpler Huh, he was killed in an accident to leave six months ago came in while you were out of the hospital How about the army? Well, nothing from them yet on the gun Well, we know that gun was the one used on mrs. Conway But we don't know which one of them did it Conway was out of the picture when the shooting took place It's pretty good bet. It's cully's guns since it was in his room. There was only one way to be sure How's that find the man who was with him? I don't know. I don't Now he came to about an hour ago. He was doing nicely after we got the slug out of him My nurse was in there giving him intravenous She said to open his eyes and set her up knock the equipment down. Hmm. And he tried to climb out of bed Yeah, my hemorrhage started right away. No way to stop him We're doing pretty well until then think you'll make it. No He asked for a priest. I got parlor Hanson over here. You know what cully did. Hmm. He broke a glass and tried to shove it in his face Boy, he's a real one. Yeah You said anything he had a lot to say the kind of filthy hero only wants in a lifetime. Yeah, better lose that cigarette Oh Cully can you hear me? That's your name chester desmond cully Yeah, where do you live? For this you understand you're seriously hurt cully You You're the wrong place You did this Cully you're on your way out. You know then Yeah, we'll show us ticket book. You're with me Are you willing to make a statement now? Hey We want the name of the man who was with you when you killed mrs. Conway Cully, I don't know what you believe in or what you feel about this But you know, we'll get that man sooner or later Cully you can do something in your own favor right now. Tell us who he is Well, we can find him. I'll look every man wants a chance to Bro, please Most of all, I wish he He was with me party Jeff you figure again, I can't then you can't Hi crime feed around. Oh, no, not sure anything. No. Yeah, I got a kickback on cully now Detroit police want to match test slugs with us Cully sounds like the same animal robbin killed a filming station man there six months ago Use the 45 working alone No description of the accomplice came with a request matches with Conway's description of the man with cully. Yeah The 45s u.s. Army property. All right stolen. They're listed as missing. How about the cereals? There's a figure gone disappeared and flat somewhere cully was never in the army He may never get that point straightened out unless his friend tells us yeah You can follow up on Detroit's request. Send him all we have right then Then oh, I think we may have me Huh? Pocket merch staked out at the hotel just picked up a man who came in asking to see cully How's it look? Two of a kind Ben tried for his gun when they said they were police officers Okay, Roger the inside Now sit down Roger Are you in charge runner? That's right sit down. Oh, what's the idea of picking me up? What's the big? You have a permit for the gun Are you kidding now? You know why you're here? Look, you haven't done You know and I haven't done anything. What are you worried about? Oh, listen, you I don't make smart talk from nobody cop or not Why did you try to pull the gun when the officer stopped you? I didn't like their looks How do I know the cops and they told you they showed you the banter? Why the gun? I use it business. What business? I travel. I sell things. Jewels. How do you travel? What do you mean? How do I? Car plane train what? Train. Is your home? No What's your address there? 45 16 first ever. How long have you been in town? A couple of days. What train to come in on? Santa Fe. What time to get in? I don't remember. You don't remember? No, I don't remember Why are you staying? Roger. Oh, look, I don't have to go through this kind of stuff now Book me if you want to and book me for whatever you want to book me for I'll be out of here 24 hours Oh, just book me. It wouldn't work, Roger We're talking about a murder A what? A murder Mr. Conway Mr. Conway, have you ever seen this man before? Can I not like this? Now come on stupid. Have you ever seen me before? I haven't seen him before, Mr. Where, Mr. Conway? In a parking lot at the stand here You're certain? I would never forget his face, Mr. Conway Seeing that other man kill my life in cold blood I would kill you with a gun Oh, what's with this? Shut up. Thank you for coming down, Mr. Conway Thank you All right, now what's all that's supposed to mean? I mean, you're it, Roger It's tied up with Cully. That's enough for us Tied up with who? Shep Cully. The man you went to see at the hotel when the officer picked you up Come off it, Rogers. We got you cold. We worked stick up with him. You killed a filling station man in Detroit. You killed that Conway woman out here a year ago. You've just been identified. Be smart. I don't know what you guys are talking about. I'm a salesman, not a stick up That won't get you anywhere. Cully was just a name and a card to me. I told him to go see Who gave you the name? Cully told us everything Cully hasn't told you anything No? No. I don't even think you've got it We've got him, Roger. Okay. We'll show you That's top. I thought you were taking him to see Cully We are Don't you like it? The way you're keeping him in a dungeon No, exactly See? Yeah, use the back door sometimes Come on What about Cully? Oh, he's here, you see Yeah Feel all right, Roger? I feel okay Yeah Oh, come on. What is this? Section 2, Ben, 218 What happened? We got shot trying to escape You know we had him cold I don't believe you, jerk What was that? Dumb, jerk cop You're hanging yourself, Roger Come what? Do it and understand Cully? Yeah He doesn't believe it Show him Okay Open your eyes, Roger Take a good look No, take a good look I'm looking Sit him up No I want you to see him real good, Roger This is what happened No, don't Look He was crazy to do that I didn't really care I just went with him on the job I just went with him I didn't do anything shooting Come on, get me out of here Get me out I didn't do anything shooting You can't hang that on me Okay, I'm gonna cry You won't? You said you were with him No, he was responsible as he was Before you pass the innocent The vagrant The thief The murderer Listen again next week When we again bring you the line up I have your attention, please 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 Roger Sergeant Pete Roger, I'll explain the line up to you Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered I'll call off the number in the name of George If you have any questions or identification Please remember the number assigned to the prisoner As I call his name The end of the line when I ask for questions or identification I'll call off the number If you're sure enough to show the suspect How to navigate The line up starring Bill Johnstone As Lieutenant Ben Guthrie With Jack Moyle, the Sergeant Pete Carter Was written by E. Jack Newman With music by Eddie Dunsteader Featured in tonight's cast were Howard McNeer Bob Sweeney, Plaking Post Bill Conrad, Hi-Averback Dave Young, and Stacey Harris The line up was transcribed in Hollywood By Jaime Delvalli Tomorrow night, the Gene Opry Show Repeats a Christmas program that has become A radio classic On the drama portion of the program, Gene tells A neighbor boy, the story of the Yuletide In truly delightful western fashion And the rest of the Melody Ranch gang Join Gene In bringing you Christmas songs All the family will be anxious to hear Don't forget one and all, it's the Gene Opry Show And it's tomorrow night on most of these Same stations Another holiday observance at the Star's Address Presented by CVS Radio Surely speaking This Christmas, give the gift that grows in value Year by year, United States defense bonds There's no more welcome gift And remember For a full hour of music, nonsense And variety, tune in to Steve Allen's show Saturday nights on the CVS Radio Network