 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 Second row came in about 15 minutes ago. Anything happen? They made Francisco's prints on the showcase and safe. She identifies him He can be arraigned in the morning without any trouble. How many tonight? 42, huh? Yeah, and Masterson's been picking up narcotics suspects all day another thing on Temple Hill Oh, yeah, you getting anywhere broke at this afternoon, I guess a couple of his men found an acre of marijuana growing next to a salary tax Hey, how about those Dodgers today? Yeah, the home was really paid off. I see you lady, right? Pardon me. Pardon me, please Thank you Hello, Shirley. Oh, hi, sit down. Thanks. Tom told me to sit here said you'd be along pretty soon to take care of me. Tom Sergeant Quine, you know. Oh, Sergeant Quine. Yeah Here you are, huh? Now Shirley, have you seen anybody in the line you recognized? Well, didn't you get it? Didn't you arrest the one I saw in the picture? Well, we want you to identify the man you saw breaking into the store if you can. I picked out his picture, didn't I? That's right. Now we want you to identify him in person It's the way we make sure on these things. Oh Hey I know him, don't I? Sergeant Carger. Pete. Yeah, Pete He's so business-like. 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 Carger, Sergeant Pete Carger. I'll explain the lineup to you Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered. I'll call up a 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 out 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 to their seat of the money. Please be prompt with your questions or identifications When the prisoners leave here, we'll send them to the washroom and put them back into the jail room It's exciting, you know, for a girl like me. It makes it quite difficult to bring them back after they leave. Yeah Now the questions I asked, the suspects will be given an actual total voice, not even much attention That's a long time, isn't it? Yeah All right, bring on the line. Get to the stage boys over here all the way to the end. Turn it face to the screen There he is. The tall one. Look at the man I saw in the picture. Say you want to work into the store. Yeah, sir No, it's number one. Okay, let's wait until he's questioned. Speak right up, Clarence. It's a long way to the back of the room. Once more. 727 Painty Arch Street. What's your occupation, Clarence? I work in a liquor store Sell liquor Hapmonds. Hapmonds? Well, Hapmonds liquor, so far and for a third. That way you're arrested, Clarence? Yeah Anyone arrested with you? No, I was all right. Look straight ahead of you, Clarence. Don't look at me. You own a gun? No. Automobile? No, not anymore. I had a board in the last month. Okay, Clarence, step back. I didn't get that, sir. I didn't. Step back against the wall, Clarence. Oh, I didn't understand that. Number two, Joseph Francisco Burgary. Okay, Joe. Okay, why? I'm the line, Joe. What's your address? You hear me? I'm trying to call the Ravensport Hotel someplace on Martiansfield. You're new in town? That's right. Where you're from? Hohel, Missouri. When'd you get here? Last week. Thursday, I get it. No, it's Friday. Are you sure about that? Why are you lying? That's more like it. Just let your hands hang at your sides. You own a car. That's him. What kind? What color? What happens now? Well, at the end of the line, we'll hold him out for interrogation. Anyone with you when you're arrested, Joe? I was with a girl. What's her name? I don't know. It's just some girl I met. I had no beer when the big John Bullwalk did. Sure could use that beer now. Yeah. Well, step back. Look, Clarence. Number three, Robert. No, I'm not. Vacancy. Step up to the circle, Robert. I am. Yeah? Thanks, Wendy. Here's your product. Let me take a minute. It's all right. I got plenty of time. I'd like to have you sign this verification card. I'm sure. Yeah. Thanks. What about now? I'll ask Francisco for a statement. You mean you'll ask him to confess? Not much to that. Isn't that for him? Well, you don't want to confess. I think he understands. We haven't pretty cold on these burglaries he's been pulling. If he makes a statement, he'll get a quicker hearing. I might be calling you back in a few days to appear. In court? Sort of. Magistrate's caught. That's when the complaint will be presented. Oh. Well, thanks for coming down. I really appreciate it. I'm glad to do it. Hello, Pete. Oh, hello. How are you? I'm fine. A hot shot call, Ben. Now, what's up? Double murder. What? Ten minutes ago. Quine's out there now. I'll see you in the garage. Bye. Oh, yeah, so long. Well, goodbye. Goodbye, Shirley. Some party. Yeah. Who are they? Well, that one's Anthony Averilla. This one's Vincent Diocino. You find the knife? No, I had some men look around outside. I thought I'd wait in here till the car is finished. Yeah. Any witnesses? Lots of them. The man lives next door. Edward Pappelli. He says it was a poker game here tonight. Who identified him? Pappelli. He's known Averilla for years. Two months. This is Averilla's room. Pappelli says he ran it about a year ago. Okay. Where's she? Downstairs. Take it here, Pete. Yeah. Come on. Is that her? Yeah, that's her. Uh, Mrs. Kanapka. This is Lieutenant Guthrie. Oh, that terrible king. Such nice boys. All of them. Such nice, nice boys. Playing cards and living and cooking. I understand Anthony Averilla's lived here for a year. Is that right, Mrs. Kanapka? Yes. You know him all that time? Oh, yes. Poor Anthony. Uh, the other victim, Vincent Iachino. You know him too? Friend of Anthony. I know this. Anthony, a little friend. They work together. Now, where? I don't know. Do you know where Iachino lives? Yes. Yes, he lives in Gormitt. Well, 10 minutes ago you didn't remember that, Mrs. Kanapka? No, I do. Uh, how about the others over here? Did you see them? Yes. I see. Did you know them? No. Any of them at all? No. I have seen them here before, but I do not know them. How many were there? No. No. I do not know. Well, did you hear anything unusual tonight? Nothing. Not the word. Peaceful. I was reading my paper. No loud voices from up there? Oh, no, no. Any sounds of a struggle? Struggle. Oh, no. No, only laughing and talking. I saw them come here to poor Anthony's room. They passed by right there in the hall, you see. Well, what, to go up the stairs? Yes, to go up the stairs. I said to them, Dear gentlemen, be quiet. There are others. Mr. Lachman across the hall, sick. Mm-hmm. Well, go on, Mrs. Kanapka. They were quiet. For boys, they were quiet. I mean, I, oh, loud laugh, maybe. Maybe a word, not too nice, but gentlemen. Uh-huh. Mr. Kanapka, you've seen that room up there? Oh, sure. Some furniture broken, one of the windows smashed, bottle broken. What? A broken furniture and glass. Looks like there might have been quite a fight up there, Mrs. Kanapka. Oh, yes. Well? Yes. What did you know about the fire? Oh, there was fighting. I heard that. Oh. About an hour ago. I heard them rush down stairs fast. Then all is quiet. I wait a moment, then I go up to Anthony's room. They see what? Terrible, terrible, oh, terrible, oh. I, uh, know this has been a lot for you, Mrs. Kanapka, but I wish you'd do your best to cooperate with us. Oh, I tell everything. Nothing to hide. Well, did you say anything to them when I came down the stairs? Oh, no, no. Ben. What is this? A police officer, Mrs. Kanapka. Oh. Corn is waiting for you. Okay. Uh, keep on here, Clint. Yeah, Ben. You come back. Yeah, yeah. Thinks it might have been a screwdriver instead of a knife. Oh. Gonna post them tomorrow. You talk to Lacksman? A man who lives in that one? Yeah. He says he knew Havrella and the Hachino. Told me a man named Charles Benda, another one named Bob Fisher, were in the card game tonight. Might be a break. Yeah, I phoned in. R and I got to make phony. Fisher did two years for car theft out last November. Five arrests previous to that. Burglary theft, nothing big. Benders had 13 arrests, two convictions, both narcotics. Six months county jail, 1939. Six months county jail, 1946. Okay, check them out. Now we need at least one more. Takes five men for a poke again. Morning. Anything new? Francisco made a statement. Clears up about 27 burglary jobs. And your friend Shirley Madden called twice. Oh, she won. You. You can get the package together on Francisco, send it over to the district attorney's office. Right. Pete and you? Hey, he's in your office. Benda turned himself in this morning. Yeah? Walked in the fifth precinct, told the desk sergeant. He thought he was one. They just brought him down. Okay. Anything on the others? Watching their houses, checking their mama sheets. Okay. What'll I tell Shirley if she calls again? Oh, say I'll see her at the trial. Want a smoke, Ben? Yeah. Yeah, thanks. Oh, hi, Ben. This is, uh, Shirley Benda. Oh, hello, son. Hello, Lieutenant. You turned yourself in. Yes, sir. I didn't want any part of this. No part of it at all. He was just about to tell us what happened last night. Well, go ahead. I don't know how it started. I really don't. They've been drinking some, but nobody was drunk. Now, who was that? Well, a brother, a chino, then a kid named Fisher, and this new kid that Tony invited. Now, what was his name? Tony just called him Pinky. He was already there when Fisher and me come in. Sitting there with Tony and Ben. Mm-hmm. We just called him Pinky and we sat down to play. You don't know his full name? No, no. And I had nothing to do with it. It was Pinky. He was the one. You mean he did the killing? Yeah. Yeah. You don't know any more about him other than that they called him Pinky? No. Go on. Well, we were playing five card. Me and Fisher had dropped out after the openers. Pinky and Vincent Tony played it out. Tony won the hand. And Pinky got mad about it, said he'd been sandbagged. He began calling Tony names, kept kneeling them. Pinky dealt the next hand, lost that tool. He played Vincewood. Then he started swinging them. Vince went after them. Pinky picked up a screwdriver sitting on a window sill. What? Right in his chest. We all got scared. Tony tried to get his arms around Pinky. Pinky let him have it, too. Yes, you're so aware. It's about the way it happened. Why'd you run, Charlie? Pinky looked at me and Fisher and said we'd better get out of there for somebody called a copsy. Said we were all in it together. Did he threaten you? Did he still had the screw driver in his hand? Did he threaten you? Did he say he'd kill you if he didn't go with him? He just killed two guys. He had the screw driver in his hand. Did he threaten Fisher? No. Well, he just said we'd all be hauled in if we didn't get out of there. Can I have a light this thing without it? Oh. Yep. Thanks. Look, don't you guys believe me? Just trying to get all the facts. Well, I'm telling them to you. What happened after you left the house? Well, Pal and Fisher's car started driving. Pinky said we headed to Chicago. Fisher didn't want to, but Pinky kept talking. Crazy plan. Fisher said, OK, we do that. Pinky said he had a gun in his place. He wanted to stop picking it up, so Fisher drove him over there. Where was that? Clover Street, I think. He went in, come right out. He had a gun with him. What kind? I don't know. Just a gun. All right, then what happened? Fisher said he wanted to get some things at his place, so he drove over there. But there was a proud car out in front when we went by, so he just kept on going. That's really what started me thinking. I knew we were in for it real good. Fisher and me didn't have anything to do with it, but they already wanted us. They knew who we were. I just took a chance when we stopped for a light on Federal. That proud out of car began running. Pinky yelled at me, but I just kept on going. I ran an alley, climbed a fence, and I hid in a filling station. It was closed for the night. I just stayed there until I thought it was safe, and then I found a nearest police station. The whole thing started when Vincent Iaccino won a hand from Pinky. Yeah, that's right. Pinky went after Vincent with the screwdriver, and then he got Tony. All over that one hand? Yeah, yeah. How much money did Pinky lose on that hand, Charlie? 19 cents. Back this Sunday night, Edgar Bergen and company and Eve Arden as our Miss Brooks. Yes, it's the Bergen and McCarthy show with Mortimer Snird, Ray Noble's Orchestra, and guest stars. Back Sunday nights at the Stars' Address, starting this weekend. Returning the same night is our Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden as an English teacher ever seeking her special degree in romance. For comedy galore, enjoy Bergen and McCarthy and our Miss Brooks on most of these same stations. Back this Sunday night, presented by CBS Radio. You said it was a White House. Yeah, yeah, it was a White House. I'm pretty sure it was a White House. On Clover Street. Yeah, yeah, look, I'm doing my best. We've gone up and down three times now, Benda. 32nd to 25th. You said it was here, someplace? It is, it is. Can we try the alley? He took a sense with the alley. Okay, Pete, back it up. I sure want you to get a line on him. You know that, don't you? You know I want you to get him. Yeah, sure, Benda. He's almost six. Benda, I'm getting hungry. Me too. Hey. You spotted? We turned left in the alley just like we did in this one. It made Fisher stop the car right by a big garage. Then he went into the house while we waited. Hey, look, this could be it. Take a good look, Benda. I think this is the place. It was dark, but I remember there was a high fence and he went through a gate like that one. Okay, Pete, give it a try. Yeah. All right. You said you didn't have a chance to talk to Fisher. I didn't, bro. When you were waiting in the car for Pinky, what did you talk about then? We were all alone. Pinky wasn't around. We were scared more than anything else. A crazy guy just killed two people. We were scared, that's all. We just got to play a little penny any last night. That's all. But you could have gotten away from him then. Yeah, yeah, we could have, but we were scared. Uh-uh. That's the truth. Me and Fisher didn't have anything to do with the killing. It was all Pinky. That's true. That's the truth. Yeah. I mean, Harrison owns the house. He's putting on some clothes right now. Three days ago, he ran at the back room to a guy who gave his name as Lloyd Talbot. Tall, red-headed, medium-built, about 27. Hmm. Well, Bender. Hey, I never heard that name, but it sure sounds like him. Harrison got a phone in there. Yeah. Let's take it here, Pete. I'll send somebody out from the crime land. Right, Ben. Call in that name. We might have something. Yeah. Sure, pretty morning, huh? Yeah. You all right, Charlie? Yeah. No, lady. You want the juvenile division? Just sit down on the bench there. Hold on. Okay. This goes 305. Hi. Oh, hi. I haven't got a thing on a Lloyd Talbot, Ben. Well, Monica Farrell's still our best bet, then. Asher brought up his bench a couple of minutes ago. Got some mugs for him to look at. Mm-hmm. How many are they? 325. Hey, look, don't I get any sleep? After you look at these. Come on. Oh, man. Murph and Crockett found a screwdriver. It was in some bushes in front of the house. Blood samples are the same type as those of your chin on a gorilla. Any prints? One good thumbprint being checked now. Now, let me know. Okay. Okay, Charlie. Make yourself comfortable. Yeah. Yeah. Do I have to look at all these? I don't know. What? He might be this first boy. No. No? How about this one? No. Mm-hmm? No. Mm-hmm? No, no. Look, I'm hungry. I'm tired. You want a smoke? Yeah. Thanks. Well, how about this one? No. Here. Okay, let's... They found a car, Ben. Huh? Motorcycle officer on Federal Highway spotted it. Fisher's in it. Shot to death. Let's go. Fire about there. I pulled over to the side of the road to have a look. I saw it sticking out in those trees. Yeah. Must have rolled it down from up there. Tracks across the shoulder of the road. All this brush broken around here. Yeah. What time did you come on, Nevers? At six o'clock this morning, sir. Figured it must have happened before sunrise. Because there are a lot of trucks on the highway early in the morning. Uh-huh. Pretty busy. And he needed a minute or two to get out of the car and push it over. Yeah. Well, it's at about four hours, Ben. Oh, then make it around 2 or 3 this morning, huh? Yeah. Oh. What? That burrs all over the place. Yeah. This patrolman, Nevers, he spotted the car, Sergeant Klein. Oh, Nevers. Well, Sergeant... He looked off from about there to there and over to there. Yeah. Soft ground around here. It might be a footprint somewhere. It'll help. Cover the shoulder of this road on both sides. He might still be around. Lots of cafes and roadhouses up the road, sir. Motels and places he could stay. A walking distance? Uh, five, six miles, maybe, huh? Yeah, we better cover all those, Klein. Right. Where'd you call from, Nevers? Filling station, half a mile down. How much longer the car are gonna be? Another hour or so. Oh, here's Pete. Yeah. Came from the office, then. Gotta make on Pinkie. Oh, been to find him? Uh-uh. On that thumbprint, name is Lester Richard Thompson. Hmm. What was he up for? Auto theft in 1943. Burglary conviction, 1951. Small-time stuff, cheap crook. Oh, uh, what about this year? Looks like he killed Fisher and the car, then pushed it over the side and took off. Hmm. Lester Richard Thompson, then. Yeah. He's growing up. Still cheap. Huh? He's killed three men for nothing. He's on a federal highway about 18 miles from where the car was found. Call the hi-hat. Mm-hmm. Asher covered the place with Murph and Hollinger. Waitress there, name was Vicki Walters. Remember the man who came in the restaurant about 10 or 11 this morning? She said he had mud all over his shoes, looked tired, a little scared. He had some coffee, made a phone call. Taxi came out, picked him up. Did she see the mug on Thompson? Yeah, she wasn't too sure it was the same man, but Asher's checking it out now. Black and tan, calf company. Yeah. You got any sleep at all? Not much. Too hot. Yeah. Pete go home? No, he went over with Asher. Oh, uh, these came in from the lab. Mm-hmm. Especially got it with a .38. Mm-hmm. Full of sticks working on the slugs now. You post over? Yeah. The report ought to be a pretty soon. Found four good prints of Thompson's in the car. Well, he's our boy. Yeah. I would have made him do it all of a sudden, I go, I suppose it's a heap, man. When we get him, I'll ask him. Investigation, Sergeant Klein. Yeah. Oh, what's another? .315, right. Asher, cab driver, identified Thompson's mug. Where'd he take him? Newport Hotel, .315 Bailey. Checked in under the name of Lawrence Tyler. He's on the second floor, room 215. Asher's covering the stairs in the back. Okay. Want to take it here, Klein? Right. You alone? Yeah. This is Mr. Compton, and he's the clerk here. Lieutenant Guthrie. Hello, Mr. Compton. Oh, how are you? Well, I was just telling this officer here. I checked him in about, oh, let me see. Well, it was about 11 o'clock. He didn't have any luggage, but he did pay in advance, and so I thought he was... Hey, tell me, did he get any phone calls, or has he made any since he's been here? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. He just went up to his room, and he's been there ever since. You sure, Mr. Compton? Well, he'd have to pass this desk to get out, unless he went out the fires, can't he? I see. You got a key, Pete? Yeah. Okay. Now, you won't... I mean, there won't be any ruckus. I hope not, Mr. Compton. Well, anything I can do to help. Well, just stay here. Thanks. That's to the right, Ben. Yeah. Let's not give him any chances. Open it. Yeah. All right, Thompson, you're coming. Hey, what is this? What's the idea? Plus, the guy's room when he's sleeping. Police officers, get on your feet and get some clothes on. We want you downtown. Hey, I... Ben, watch your... All right, boy. Come on now. Be sensible. Yeah. I'll kill all of you. Okay. Here you hear me out. Cheap tough guy. The lineup. Or before you pass the innocent, the vagrant, the thief, the murderer. Listen again next week when we again bring you the lineup. 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 follow the number you need. The lineup, starring Bill Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie with Jack Moyle as Sergeant Pete Cogger, was written by E. Jack Newman with music by Eddie Dunstetter. Featured in tonight's cast were High Everback, Virginia Gregg, Howard McNear, Lou Krugman, Anthony Barrett and Larry Thor. The lineup is produced and directed by Jaime Delvalle. 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