 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 line up Jefferson couldn't make it man from the Skyway station called said he'd be here valley division from the car. Yeah 10 minutes ago Parked on a side street in Granby stolen this morning from a man named Carlisle was on a hot sheet And what's that? That's a necktack. Oh My brother's kid gave it to him for far this day asked me to wear it once. Yeah, once will be enough. I see you later, Clint Yeah, but hi hi Dave You hear that game today? Yeah, I'll never listen to another one. What you mean? Hope we got a make on this bird has been sticking up those filling stations three jobs and three nights me too 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 Cogger sergeant Pete Cogger. I'll explain the line of view Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered. I'll call up a number their name and charge You have any questions or identification? Please remember the number of sign of the prisoners I call his name The end of each line will ask for questions or identifications call off the number if you're sure not too sure the suspect having The officers who took your name will assist you their seat of the month Please be prompt with your questions or identifications when the prisoners leave here They're sent to the washroom and dress back into the jail clothes. It makes it quite difficult to bring them back after they leave here The questions I asked 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. All right bring on the line No talking no talking up there I keep it moving over here to the end of the state Right out stand facing the screen Take your hands out of your pockets. Look straight ahead of you when I call your name step out to the white line in the center of the state Number one Earl Philly burglary. Come on, Earl step up Don't look at me look out through the screen. I can't see nothing straight ahead Where do you live, Earl? 3315 and a half mission please speak right up 3315 and a half mission place. Yeah, that's right Don't look at me face the screen What do you do for a living, Earl? Mechanic working town. No, Cicero. How long you lived here? Almost eight months. Haven't you been working here couldn't find a job. How do you live, Earl? How do you get along? How'd you eat for the past eight months if you didn't have a job? Well, I had a little money and I've barred some you own a car. Yeah, I got a car Well coupe sedan what 46 buick see that net what color black? Any weapons hmm. Can't you hear me any weapons Earl a knife or gun? Oh, no All right number two Irving Waxman petty theft Now over to the left there are What's your address 1897 Grant Street apartment 308 you have a job Yeah, I drive a route for the Columbine laundry. How long you've been doing that about three weeks What'd you do before that you mean work? I mean work. They still can't open it Where? How's the house? You know you have a car. No any weapons. No, anyone arrested with your Irving. Yeah, my wife Virginia Waxman. Yeah, anyone else guy who lives with us fall Daryl. I've seen him in the next room before I come out It anyone else Frank you see the barca See the barca. Yeah, he's in the next room too. How we know it. I slide on down Number three Stanley worms are assault up to the white line Stanley. What do you live? The number Stanley 351 what is that? Well, that's where I live. What is an apartment house hotel? What? Well, it's a restaurant. You live in a restaurant Stanley. Well, I own it I live upstairs that where you were picked up. No, what? I was picked up downstairs Any weapons. Oh, no, what about the chair? Well, what about it? You were using it as a weapon, weren't you? No, didn't you threaten a man named Ernest Grover with a chair? No According to the officers report. That's what happened. Well, they reported wrong. Usually don't make mistakes on these reports Stanley Did you threaten Ernest Grover with a chair? No, no, no, I broke it over his head. Oh Pardon me You know him who Ernest Grover. Oh, no, no, he was just some yo-yo who drifted in my place He was looking for trouble. Why didn't you call the police instead of getting in trouble yourself? I can handle trouble. I've got a lot to handle now Stanley. Oh, I'll be okay. Oh, don't you worry about me? Oh, we'll try not to next number four Abraham Mason vacancy That finish with that car came up with two good prints make of you Working on it now rise didn't do any good. I looked at 38 suspects None of the others even got excited Stats office gave us a breakdown on the description. I've got them looking over the mugs now ashes with him You want to go on down and give my hand? Yeah, maybe we'll get something on those prints. I hope so. I've been a cold one so far Yeah, well see you. All right How's the neck pain still stiff three days now it's been this way Did you see McMasters? No, not yet. There's no any better by tomorrow morning. I'll go see him You should have seen him when I first started. That's what the wife said No, I look this over There's the crime reports on those filling station job. Yeah. Yeah mo's identical on all three Rise says the bandit drove in and asked for a tank full of gas Well rise was filling the tank he got out when inside the station to use the phone Rise got a good look at him, man. He got another good look at him under the light inside the station Size coloring bill general description matches up in all of these reports And this bird doesn't care if we know what he looks like It's like a new boy to me. They're starting out. Yeah, and from what all three victims have said about his attitude Uncertainty and nervousness hasn't had much experience. Yeah I don't got three your boy's getting ambitious man. Now what now just help another gas station two five three pearl two five three Thanks, Dave. Let's go Pete 142 bucks as near as I can figure he didn't bother with a change 142 Well, now let's check this back You say it was a green mash late model license number three seven J six seven seven eight Yeah, that's it. I wrote it down when he drove away, and he's about six feet dark brown hair sport shirt Gray slacks medium build. Yeah, do you remember anything outstanding about him, Mr. No, he was a nice-looking guy Didn't look like no stick up artist. I thought it was a nice fall About 25 would you say well, I'm not very good on ages but round there, I guess now He got out of the car and said he wanted to use the phone, right? Yeah, that's it Sergeant I filled the tank he walked inside the station here He was still on the phone when I finished I came inside and he hung up and turned around and he had a gun in his hand Well, I seen her right away. What kind of a gun little thing a 25 or a 32 something like that He didn't say anything at first. He just sort of stood there shaking a little Then I began to shake. Wow scared that thing was gonna go off Well, he walked over to me said it right in here man He said I want all the money you've got. He may have been nervous, but he meant it. I didn't argue with him either Oh, I got a customer. All right, go right ahead. Hey, yeah, hey You got any change? Oh, yeah, I think so Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna call in. Hey These things for Bugs Stick them on the radiator ornament keeps bugs off the windshield As Sergeant quine, please anything on that mash yet quine. Yeah, I gotta make on a few minutes ago Then a Jack Myers reported it stolen at four o'clock this afternoon. Good. Okay. Thanks. Oh, anything else? No, pretty quiet right now. No, hope it stays that way. See you right back Gotta make on the car stolen You think you'll ever get this guy lieutenant. We're gonna try Say look, do you happen to hear anything he was saying on the phone when you walked in? I can't think of anything. Maybe he said goodbye to someone. You know, I really don't think he was talking to anybody on that phone I Think he just pretended he was using it so he could get me in here by the register. I got to give this guy's change Okay, I Think I'll get me one of these things. He's a good idea. Well, if you're driving on a long trip this well, I Hey A 32 is a woman's gun Anybody's gun bit. Yeah And ours held up once before in 1946. Please never caught the guy. I don't think they even cared we care, mr. Todd Might ask you to come down and look at some suspects tomorrow tomorrow Oh, gee, that's my day off. Oh, we'd like to get this guy sure appreciate your help well Okay, I'll talk to the wife, but I don't see how you're gonna get him. He could be in China now There's a oh, hey, that's a police car, isn't it? Hi, Ben. Hi, this is Thelma Lacey works at the Pearl Street pharmacy over there. How do you do miss? Thelma tell him what you told me I saw that man drive in here tonight the man who held him up Going he was in the drug store before that sat down at the fountain for maybe an hour I didn't think anything about it until a little while ago when this officer came in How do you know it was the same man Thelma? Well, he had this green car parked out in front. It's a filthy looking car He just wheeled it around and came right in the station I saw him from inside the store case it from the drug store, Ben. Yeah, it sounds like it. Did you talk to this man Thelma? Oh, yeah, we talked you've known him before oh, no tonight's the first time I ever saw him He said his name was Roy. Do you tell you his last name? No, but I think I can find out for you How now I told him I was married, but when he left he kind of laughed and That he'd keep trying said he'd drop in again and see me first chance. He got Every Saturday night on CBS radio Tarzan brings you new fascinating jungle adventures It's the fabulous man of the wilds created by Edgar Ice burrows favorite of fiction and the screen yours to enjoy Every Saturday evening on most of these same stations tomorrow night stay with CBS radio Listen for Tarzan Lord of the jungle for a thrilling story of intrigue desperation and madness titled black and gold Which one is this number 13 Cherry Hill station $64 yeah, and what's the total? $1348 not bad for two weeks work. He's a one-man epidemic then he's making monkeys out of his Pete 13 jobs in two weeks, and we can't even get a line on him We know exactly what he looks like and how he operates We have his description on every bulletin and a half a dozen good prints from those cars. He's stolen Still we can't stop him. Well, he hasn't pulled a job for two nights now. Maybe he's left out. I doubt it I've been doing too well around here to quit now Hey, I think I want to know if you know anything about these How about this one let me see Yeah, small and Crockett handled it. Okay, so you go to work on it. Well, yeah, you can put them on the night watch Okay, but hey wait a minute Klein While you're at it, we might as well get the rest of this stuff assigned All of these filling station jobs have been pulled in suburban residential areas Cherry Hills Park Hill Pershing Heights Capitol Hill or Vada Lynn, Dalen Monarch now Right in here He doesn't move from this kind of area We'll bank on that We'll bank on the fact that you'll keep right on picking off these stations Starting tonight. I want an extra car in every one of these districts two minute with car Okay, we'll be up to the officers assigned to locate every filling station in that particular area to keep special watch on those stations Including the ones that have already been held up. You might come around twice. Oh, what hours been at Pete What's the time incident? None of the holdups have been pulled before dark none later than midnight most out of it seven keep model one Quine, okay, every man should have a sheet from the stats office on this case general description will be enough At least most of them agree on that right? Is that it? Yeah He's got 13 stations in those areas about 82 more to go. Don't remind me Let everybody shift, but we'll try it this way until something happens. Yeah, he's bound to make a mistake sooner or later He's already made it When he held up that first station, you're a nice night. Yeah Want to turn down Chessman? Mm-hmm That's all McMasters today. Oh, do you find out what's wrong? Funny thing minute I get in his office and lay down on the table at stop Thought I was crazy Maybe you are oh, I watch it. No, I saw that he see you well I was might be a 502 Yeah, I'll call it in yeah, wait a minute That's down one more block. Let's move P There it is. Yeah, Ben Pete. Hi. Hi victims name is Eddie Fremont in here Skullfrags right thing. He's got a real wallop there. Oh, yeah Cash register like this. Yeah quite a nice. I'm working here alone about an hour ago Check back about 10 20 didn't seem around then we found them any witnesses not so far. I put out a call It's coming to Okay, Kim easy easy need a hand. No, that's okay Can you hear me son? Yeah, I'm a police officer Ambulance will be here in a minute. Can you tell us what happened? He did take it easy now How did happen son? He drove in Said he wanted some gas fill this tank well While he came in here to phone and what kind of car Chrysler convertible 50 you get the license No, I Was a cream colored job right then Did you get a good look at him? Oh, sure. I was watching them all the time. I was filling the tank When I finished I walked in here. He turned around he had a gun in his hand. I Didn't think he meant it Thought he was kidding me. I laughed at him. You've read about these filling station hold-ups, haven't you? Yeah, but not him Imagine him coming in to hold me up Maybe didn't recognize me. You know him. Yeah, we graduated high school together in 38 names Roy Dayton Yes What is it? How do you do we'd like to see Roy Dayton, please? I'm Roy's mother. What is it? You want is he home mrs. Dayton? I'm mrs. Courtney Roy's not home If you'll give me the message, I'll see that he gets it. This is sergeant cargo mrs. Courtney I'm lieutenant Guthrie with police officers. How do you do? How do you do? Did you say police a lieutenant? Guthrie, ma'am. Yes, ma'am Is it something important? We'd like to know where we can get in touch with him Well, he's out of town and I'm late for an appointment. This is important mrs. Courtney. I'd like to talk to her dear Will it take long? No, I don't wish to appear impolite, but I am late Come inside, please. Thank you. Thank you In here sit down, please But what is so urgent why do you want to see Roy a routine investigation mrs. Courtney? You say he's out of town. Yes, he's in Chicago Is Roy in trouble? Where's he staying in Chicago? I don't know. He'll probably be back in a few days I'll have him get in touch with you when he gets home. What is it a traffic violation? When did he go to Chicago? He left two weeks ago Lieutenant you have an annoying habit of disregarding my question. Why do you want him? We have reason to believe your son is connected with a series of hold-ups. We're investigating Partively absurd lieutenant Absolutely the most absurd thing I ever heard and we're just trying to get all the facts mrs. Courtney We have to follow every lead. It's our job. You understand that of course But doesn't this home and the obvious environment he's had influence you at all and as I say we have to follow every lead Is Roy in Chicago on a visit or is it business? Just a visit but you don't know where he's staying No, did he go by train or plane? No idea. He left one night while I was out. I came home all of his things were gone. Did he have a car? No Roy always used my car. What kind of work does he do? You're making me terribly late. Sorry Roy works for me managing the estate in the ranch. Have you heard from him not a word Seems strange he'd go away and not an impertinent thought Mrs. Courtney understand we have to find him and we will find him our job is to get as much information about his habits And where he might be as we can Act as though he were a fugitive. What is this all about? We can tell better after we talked well I'm certain I can't help you then Well, here's my card if he gets in touch with you. Would you mind giving me a ring, please? Not at all What connection do you think Roy has with these hold-ups? We think he's the man who's been pulling them Holding people up with a gun. Yes, ma'am Well, thank you for your time. Yes. Thank you Good day Lieutenant. Yes, Roy is not in Chicago. He's here in the city Where he's living? I don't know. I've seen him on the street twice. He didn't even speak to me his own mother. I Don't know how he's living. He's always depended on the estate me for everything That's why I've been worried this time When we've argued before and he's left he's always had money with him when it runs out. He comes back This time he took no money with him He hasn't touched the account Can you think of any friends he might be staying with? I've called all of them unless they're lying. He's not with any of them. How about his wife? You know about her we found out he was married to a girl named koreen helman in 1945 The marriage was a null. Do you know where we can locate her mrs. Courtney? I understand. She lives in new york city now Roy never should have married her in the first place. Oh, why do you say that? His place is here I can't delay any longer. It's past 11. You'll have to excuse me or certainly and thank you for your help Not at all. I'm I'm certain this is all a mistake I I I can't think of any reason. Roy would go out and hold up a person. I can think of one What? He hasn't touched your account How'd it come out? Well, the picture's 12 years old three of them were positive dating's a guy Want some of this? What is it? Ice tea? No, thanks Ben? No, thanks Brian, we don't have to print that picture if we don't get a line on him pretty soon Now who's watching that huh? Small and ollinger. A crocodile going on four with murphy. Okay Hey, you better keep one man free to watch mrs. Courtney Lieutenant Guthrie. I don't think you'll remember me lieutenant. This is Delmalacey at the pearl street pharmacy Well, sure. I remember you miss lacy. What can I do for you? That Roy fellow that we were talking about lieutenant He's in here now having double molded milk I'll be careful. Ben. He's a newcomer. Nobody's given him any trouble yet Can't tell what he might do if he has that gun on him. Yeah mistake close to the door Oh miss a miss Yes, sir, let's see. I'm right there. Uh, package your chest of heels, please. Yes, sir You've been asking you to go out with him? Yes Tell him to come back and Pick you up after work tonight. Aren't you going to arrest him? I'm not in here. I don't worry You'll probably leave when you tell him that you'll go out with him. I see here your cigarettes. Hi matches. Oh Okay, thanks And uh, don't be scared. I'm all right Yeah, a lot of kids in there. I don't want to take any chances I walk on down to that dry cleaning store. He's uh wearing a gray plain old suit dark straw hat sunglasses might be out in a second I got it Penis check man. Have you careful police officers want to talk to you The police were before I haven't done anything Hey, hey, well What is this? I'll talk about it downtown. Let's go Are you arresting me? What do you think? 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