 by transcription we take you now behind the scenes of a police headquarters in a great american city for under the cold glaring lights will pass before us the innocent the vagrant the thief the murderer this is the line-up can you run into it i didn't see him anything interesting in the line here's the shape take a look oh yeah i'll be proud of this the second bunch of things yeah it's the second may i have your attention please i'm going to sit down under the wire we're going through a minute have your attention please thank you my name is carter sergeant pete carter i'll explain the line-up to you each of the suspects you see will be numbered i'll call off a number of their name and chart you have any questions or identifications please remember the number of sign of the prisoner as i call his name if you're sure or not too sure the suspect have him held the questions i see suspects are merely to get a natural tone of voice so they're not paid too much attention to their answers as they often lie okay bring on the line keep it moving right over here at the end of the stage you will back it up a little back right up against the wall okay hands at your sides face pump now when i call out your number step out and look straight ahead keep your voice loud enough so everyone can hear you okay number one Ernest Fletcher robbery stand up straight take your hands out of your pockets don't look at me look straight ahead okay where do you live Ernest well i put the tree west 109th street hotel house or what hotel i guess you call it well you call it everything i can think of how long you live there how long i guess about three years yeah about three years maybe a little more were you arrested with anybody yeah who were you arrested with girl names uh i don't remember her name hold hold Lisa hold please yeah that was it please it she was with me when i got picked up you didn't know nothing about it it turned her loose you have any weapons with you just please any weapons Ernest no i'm in a car you picked up before i had a chance to get a car you own a car no i don't own one where you're from Ernest detroit it's been here about four years okay step back Ernest number two jack tasper assault what do you live jack west now talk up washington avenue 107 west washington avenue what do you live there with another guy will it keep their love with him see the guy you hit yeah he's a guy why do you hit him i don't know i guess i just felt like he had a common he's in pretty bad shape might turn into manslaughter they hit him hard he had a common what do you hit him with the shovel i was digging out back and i hit him with the shovel you just hit him yeah i'd run around and bolted him in a face he had a common you keep saying he had a common he did well why why yeah why do you have it coming i've been living with him for seven months he's a terrible guy to live with anything you do he's got something to say about it you take a bath he tells you you're doing it all wrong he's been telling me i've been doing everything wrong for seven months the other day told me i wasn't using the shovel right so i bumped him with it why didn't you leave why didn't you stop living with him for a while i thought maybe he was right okay step back number three stanley phillips robbery where do you live Stan it is only six and a half south adam how long you live there all right i've been there i guess about a couple years i guess bad all right thank you can i see sure yeah automatic describe it 45 i don't know of course um let's go call from general hospital 12 people have been carried into my last hour they were poisoned about in three more a few minutes ago well that's that's 15 people and what did it bad booze why somebody sold them some bad liquor they're going blind having convulsions they talked to them and that's yeah they're all too sick they're actually going blind calling one of the doctors oh there he is well let's talk to him names actually doctor this is lieutenant gutsy and sergeant quine oh hello boys hello doctor hi i was just called in doctor maybe you better brief me well lieutenant there isn't much to brief you on at the moment 15 or 16 cases and already and most of them are in very serious condition poison wood or alcohol probably four or five are already blind and you have them well enough to talk to who was one that came in a short time ago i don't know his name and he's well enough to be questioned he was when i looked at him he's pretty sick but he seemed much better than the rest this is pretty terrible i'm telling how many people got in hold of this stuff with bad liquor yeah it's homemade every one of the people who've been brought in are from the poorest section of town we got some addresses from them but the rest you can tell someone sold it for less than the government price on that yeah that's why i'm worried about this turning into an epidemic it's bigger than just a party making it in the bathtub whoever brewed this stuff was planning on making some ready cash if they've sold it to 15 they probably sold it to a lot more well look that guy i'd like to talk to this one man sure sure just come this way going to need more space words are already pretty full is this man in the one no no he was for a while until he got better he's on a cock in the hall we need all the beds for the really sick ones tell me doc any of the victims say where they got this stuff no no i fact i haven't asked them oh oh i just want to talk to you now listen here how do how do you feel that's not worse that's not much worse the name is to me now stand between me and i feel good enough to leave and i know these guys miss to me i'm lieutenant guthrie and this is sergeant corn that's right mr to me this is sergeant law that's right mr to me i'm a very sick man doctor i feel very sick and i think i should rest for the while i wanted to leave i simply drank something and didn't agree i haven't done anything you can throw me in the poke for him he'll been thrown in before i would you tell me i want to lie oh i feel very sick again all of a sudden you excuse me i have to be getting back to the water we should go right ahead now well okay i said i was very sick and very sick you can't just leave you'll be all right mr to me all right doc i'm feeling very sick again all over again i'll be like the rest of those romis in there oh you're well enough to talk i'm sick i'm sick i'm very very sick if you go walking off mr to me i i think that i'm the best judgment then trade me stomachs you talk to these men i'll be back oh no fellas now just a minute mr to me we're not gonna let you win if we just want you got a cigarette cigarette sure you just want to talk that's right mr to me i tell me where did you get the stuff you were drinking which stuff all the stuff that made you sick well i guess i got to confess to you i've been feeling pretty bad lately i've been awful low troubles you know and depressed kind and i've been drinking okay just skip all come on so many women escaping ever since their first new year well lately more than usual well once that got to do with the stuff that made you sick well last night and yesterday and you know this morning i was drinking it's kind of hard to tell what stuff i got sick on now what were you drinking all various things it's kind of hard to keep track oh i was very depressed now just to pick out just which one of the when did you first get sick well i remember when i woke up and where'd you wake up well i was lying down in a particular alley that's when you first got sick yeah well i had a bad stomachache i knew it was something unusual because i'd been drinking various things for some time and i'd generally get by oh maybe an occasional lapse of memory or a slight headache or something but nothing like this stomachache oh i thought pretty sick and oh and then i had a most disgusting thought what else is also oh i'd be laughing stock so i went directly to the hospital to find out but tell me uh what times you wake up in the alley well i have no idea well what times you go to sleep in the alley i have no idea where were you before you went to the alley where was i yeah where was i before i went in the alley well just give me a second no i can't thank you you have no idea well i remember going into a limkey on river street that's it what'd you drink there well i spent my last 15 cents on something that limkey was advertising at a very reasonable fee where were you before limkeys oh now look as soon as you answer the quicker you can take it easy well fellas i was in so many places i was in the bleach cat i was in the barrel oh no the barrel i wasn't in i have given that place up max is not at all sociable he forgets the people who kept his barn going during the tough days but the last place you remember before the alley was limkey that's right i was limkey you know all those bones they've been bringing in they might have gotten into some high-test gas i knew a guy once named wadley who drank 97 octane but orange joe holy cow he was very fatal did you drink any gasoline last night i had no idea talk limkey custom is no you're gonna ruin business if we're making nervous let's go to the back who's gonna run the place let's go in the back come on just want to talk to you you want to back home all's good man all right now come on what's the beef bunch of people were carried into the hospital are they yeah they were all poisoned i mean the guy did it they've been drinking bad booze my booze ain't the best but it don't poison nobody you've been selling any illegal stuff illegal what alcohol oh stop i'm not home now you've been here before you know what i sell what did you sell it to me last night that rummy what did you sell them i don't exactly remember i sold him wine i think there was something cheap everything's cheap you guys know the trade i get in here you know to me you couldn't buy nothing except wine or maybe beer he says it wasn't wine or beer oh look boys i don't care what that rummy says you don't know what he's saying anyways one of the biggest luscious and some of those people they brought into the hospital have already gone blind blind yeah some of them might die okay i gotta get back out in front i can't be the place of nobody to look at it saturday night i got a big crowd out there let's see the bottle you served a wine to two me out of i told you i don't know what i said let's take a look at your stock my stock yeah i'm sure she'll hold stuff oh lord show us see what you guys do to my business everybody's beat as soon as we leave they'll all be back go on show us your stock oh you guys you gotta believe me i i didn't sell nothing illegal okay here's the stuff take a look for yourself off a lot of stuff but i'm gonna start with anything that doesn't look good oh wait a minute wait a minute yeah i sold it okay where is it and here's the life i bought it for 480 a gallon take a whisper i didn't know to make anybody's shake didn't just sample it now oh hi small we found it i don't think it's not all of it i love limkey small we were able to talk to some more of the victims i got a list of four more places like limkey i didn't know it was dangerous you should have thought about it they brought in seven more people that makes 20 where'd you get the stuff limkey from a guy i don't know i saw a chance to make a quick box so i bought six gallons right it's methyl alcohol all right they analyze it okay limkey let's go i'm in a lot of trouble huh yeah you don't know a lot of trouble methyl alcohol mostly some artificial flavoring some other things but nothing important how do you get methyl alcohol oh you can get it anybody back here it should be those bars were checking anybody back here but you know limkey find anything in the mug find you know about you okay limkey didn't know the guy who sold the mister he swore as he didn't what some guys will do to make a buck yeah well it's been four hours since the first victim was brought in last report made it 33 people six of them blind half a dozen not expected to live hello small said they stopped coming in now that's something that three of them had died talked to doc archer and he said it was a good bet two or three more would die before evening and who are the dead ones here's the names and addresses how about families only one had a family Arthur Jones wife and three kids wife was at the hospital when he died they were never made that stuff couldn't have done better with a gun yeah Crockett's coming in with the owner of the room the owner say who sold him the stuff so they didn't know the guy how about the other places I haven't done anything yet yeah I should just call from my niece's limkey as far as the man was selling the stuff well having bring limkey up here right and check and see how those other guys are doing and when Crockett gets here have him bring his man up okay stuffy in here I'll open the window and good idea thanks for you that sunset how about that you know I've lived here all my life you really don't think about how great your own hometown looks to sometimes when you see a sunset like that even the south side looks kind of like a painting the palace is supposed to be the most beautiful city in the world thank you this I've seen it in pictures I guess it's beautiful let's go be French cops and find out yeah I'd like to see Paris sometime I'd like to see a lot of other places but places oh Italy you know Rome Venice I like to see India India yeah I was real good history student in school like to read about places I always like to read about India okay this is the monkey called out well aren't you Peterson by the record yeah are you sure this is the man limkey sure that's the guy came into my place asked me for one of the biased I said five dollars I said four and a half I paid four eighty like I told you that's the guy that's over and last address 9108 south river I got a check on it let's go over and see for us what's gonna happen to me how about going a little easy since I picked this guy out for you actually yeah Crockett's coming in with another guy who's been selling the stuff showing the pictures and see if he bought it from Roger Peterson too all right how about you limkey my help didn't I three of those people who drank the stuff just died they say I was the one that saw it though they didn't have a chance to say anything second floor number 12 hey they're going to be trouble not if we can help it then you don't mind if I leave the place for a while we might want to talk to you I'll just be down a block staying out of the way to trouble you're going to try not to help now you better stay in your room one of this I'm shooting we'll try not to aim at the floor okay I'll stay in 12 yeah end of the world in second floor he's probably sleeping always does in a daytime wakes nice doing what all night garage you got a key yeah that's what I'll bring the right thing okay that he collects his rent right on time give me not come on Peterson come on come on wake up wake up huh hey hey what's going on what are you doing please get out of bed please get out of bed and get your clothes on let me wake up well yeah let me wake up look like you got bucking into my room I'm arresting you on suspicion of murder but what are you talking about get up and put your clothes on we tell you all about it murder you guys must be nuts I told you to get up okay okay I'm up I'm up okay where your clothes on the chair but you don't mind telling me you guys come busting in here tell me you want me on suspicion of murder yeah and where's your warrant to come busting in here like this right here oh well let me in on it who'd I kill huh three people three maybe more about it man me kill three people you're not getting your clothes what three people tell me what three people I'm supposed to have killed the people who drank that stuff you've been selling I don't know what you're talking about we'll tell you all about it at the station well wait a minute I haven't got my pants told you to hurry up well let me at least get my pants on and move okay let's go watch that leave me alone all right get up I didn't make it on it oh did make it my boss the guy I work for who is the guy you work for names King Dave King we know Dave yeah well I work for at the garage yeah at the garage you bought the stuff and mixed it I just pedaled it for where is Dave King if you ain't holding me at the garage honestly I didn't make this tough you believe me don't you sure Peterson here's your hat what do you guys want they asked you who you were maybe I don't feel like telling them I think you're better with police officers yeah yeah what'd you say your name was Fisher Sam Fisher I'm a mechanic here now when did you say Dave King would be in he said I should be at any minute just called from the house that he was coming right over what's it all about when did Dave buy six gallons of metal alcohol that's all alcohol yeah Wendy buy it I don't know I don't know nothing about Mr. King's business I'm just a mechanic well you just wait around for Mr. King when he comes in I don't think it'd be a good idea to tell him who we are well you see it we're just customers you've got a car stalled on the block you understand yeah okay let's take a look around here by the way Sam yeah if you decide to take a walk don't there's a dozen cops around the building try to find the metal better if we find the mix any garage owner might have metal there's a door Sam yeah what's in here up in the bottom to hang him higher than that tells me you're unhappy we just found your mix too bad you weren't a few minutes later you want to dump those barrels and get out of town put down the gun places coming I didn't see nobody when I come in King the whole place is covered as a cop in the door right now oh come on got three drop it okay quine sure better take Sam down to the station let's go Sam I told you I read about it and liked it then next week when we again bring you the lineup Sergeant Pete Carter I'll explain the lineup to you each of the suspects you see will be numbered I'll call off a number their name and charge you have any questions or identifications please remember the number assigned to the prisoners I call his name the end of each line when I ask for questions or identifications call off the number if you're sure and I