 by transcription we take you now behind the scenes of a police headquarters in a great american city we're under the cold glaring lights we're passed before us the innocent the vagrant the thief the murderer this is the lineup you can't seem to get enough sleep lately i could feel spelt like that i lie at bed can't get to sleep kick and toss and smoke it does a cigarette yeah how many in the line uh 23 your witnesses down the first row i'm out of there yeah oh thanks see you later brianford hello lieutenant i'm waiting long i just got here a few minutes ago well i've got the man we just need an identification that's what the officer said that officer over there oh sergeant quine yeah the suspects you see will be numbered i call out the number their name and charge if you have any questions or identifications please remember the number sign of the prisoner as i call his name if you're sure or not too sure of the suspect have him held questions i have these suspects and remember to get an actual tone of voice so do not pay too much attention to their answers as they often lie okay bring on the box and talk up it's a big room out there and i want everybody somebody's got a pet you own a car yeah whose car was it oh friends who's the friend who yeah who's friends pretty easy i guess so any weapons okay number two but them so not any more she's in the last thing she didn't even duck she has a pretty bad concussion yeah he is of nagging and giving me a nearly breaking up my home at certain times turning some of my best friends against me making me lose the job nearly driving me into an institution i figure we're even that that looks like the man well you went out in six and matters what do you work with me i'm here sir yeah i'm thirty two one of my sergeant carger yes with them all number three for interrogation to make it easy i was alone you walked into the burners grocery store and tried to stick it up okay there was a guy waiting in a black mercury sedan i walked in i wasn't a no black mercury sedan the clerk identified you in the line had meant i walked into the store and tried to stick up the clerk says he saw you get out of the black mercury he's crazy when the officer showed up you ran for the car and the guy driving pulled away before you could get to it i would just run and i didn't want for no car even the officer says you didn't look maybe there was a car there maybe it was a black mercury sedan but i wasn't running for it before i hold out the guy driving ran out on you i try and protect it look i tell you i was alone walking i wasn't three other robberies this week have identified that black sedan i'm telling you i was a driver i don't know we got a lot of time to find out all right then find out i don't know you were in that car when it drove up i was walking where to walk from now you walk from some place to that store yeah where i was on lincoln what were you doing on lincoln walking just walking yeah planning to stick up yeah where were you before you started walking on lincoln in that home you live at 106th and madison yeah and where on lincoln were you walking where what block i don't know i would just walk in close to the store i guess and that would make it about the 1100 block yeah i guess you walked all the way from 106th and madison to the 1100 block on lincoln well not all the way what you do take a street car yeah i took a street car what car what car that's right the lincoln car 106th and madison no i i i walked to lincoln why did you pick the brenner's grocery store come on moment i'm telling you you took the lincoln street car yeah you're walking 106th and madison that's right what time was that what what time did you catch the lincoln street car i don't know an hour before the sticker i don't know i don't remember exactly how long would you say it took you to get to 1100 lincoln look what difference does it make when we just like to know we're going to keep finding out things until you tell us who was in that black mercury sedan with you what time did you get off at 1100 lincoln lincoln nine and four east orange right i'll take it oh what's the matter the guy driving that black mercury sedan just held up a gas station on east orange shot the attendant so what do you want me to do about it tell us who's driving that car i don't know the attendance pretty bad well i can't help it i didn't blow him up i didn't stick up the station you know who did no okay melinsky that's gonna be the other attendant he was across the street having dinner he's in the station did you get the license number no a lot of people heard the shot but nobody got the license number yeah this is bill phillips then oh bill the lieutenant got three and sergeant carger hi hi tell us about it everything you told me how there really isn't much i was across the street in the diner right over there the dixie bar barbecue uh well i finished and started for the station i heard the shots and looked over and saw some guy jump into a black merc sedan and drive away i didn't get it at first where was your partner harv was stumbling out the door that's when i got it through my thick skull it's something that happened i ran across and harv was unconscious yeah this guy who jumped into the black merc what do you look like i don't know it it happened so fast and i wasn't sure anything was wrong at first not fast things can happen yeah well he was tall i guess so no i don't know what's the use of trying to describe the one i can't i'd like to be able to but really i can't nobody else thought happened asher's out trying to find somebody but i don't think he's gonna have much luck there wasn't anybody else in the station and this isn't a particularly crowded section what direction did the mark go bill that way west okay come on paint let's go back and talk to melonski melonski i don't know i i don't know how can i tell you when i don't know i told you i wasn't with nobody i was alone i i walked to lincoln i caught a street car and a lincoln from 106 street yeah yeah you might get off with a lighter sentence if we knew who drove you to that storm look i i told you i took this street car from madison yeah madison runs parallel with lincoln i mean from 106 if we picked that guy up and he says you were with him in that car we'll nail you for withholding evidence are you kidding how long did you walk on lincoln how long how long did you walk on lincoln before you tried to stick at the grocery store i don't know maybe a half hour i don't know i don't remember you just walk yeah i walked i walked i walked i told you which way i was getting ready to pull a stick up how do i know which way and you took the street car yeah yeah you got three yeah guy you're a friend in the black merc shot i don't know nobody in a black merc the guy he shot in the gas station just died his name is walker go up and cover the hall all right you're the manager yeah i'm a tenant got three okay what do you want your name if you don't mind hi you have a tenant here which one is stan walker number 10 what's he done we just like to talk to him number 10 but don't make a lot of noise mr simpson and nine works nice well i'd like to keep please i can't do that i have a warrant why don't you just go up and talk to him if he ain't done nothing serious i just like you to cooperate look mister the last time you coughed was here you hauled some guy out there was a lot of trouble my tenant we'll try not to make any trouble well if walker ain't done nothing serious mrs hersh do you want us to break down the door you can knock can't you mrs hersh i who's this is sergeant quiet about car in the garage man are you looking for mr walker's car yes and we'd like to go upstairs and see if walker's in this room okay and we'd like the key okay a piece they try to keep it as quiet as possible we don't try give you trouble doesn't like cops seems the last time the law was here a tenant's complain i should stick up the garage yeah this one's for number 10 thanks i suggest you stay in your room you don't have to suggest nothing charlie you better stay down here and cover the front door right ten couldn't hear anything let's go in and take a look get up a storm at nine and mr simpson works night and get away on the other side well let's see what we can find let's see he's down in here and if we don't find anything let me go check with that blonde melenski told us about Nancy Shelton yeah the walker was seeing her as much as melenski said she might know where we can find him hey uh i just noticed the guy in number nine quit snoring probably rolled over on the stomach there's a girl in the room all right but it isn't walker's girl to roommate no where's Nancy Shelton desk works that she went out about an hour before i got here doesn't own a car takes taxes and what's the roommates name uh bernice eddington i saw her once she came down to get a paper it's pretty good you haven't talked to her hey say good morning you'd have to do that and quite a natural but walkers wasn't there uh uh they got a call here of walker shows now let you know and what's the room 104 a second one to hit the hall okay uh bernice yeah eddington miss eddington that's right now we're the police police i'm lieutenant gothrey this is sergeant cargan how do you do police i would like to talk to you please well i was just getting ready to go off meeting nancy Shelton nancy i know she went out earlier this morning you might have we come in all right what's the matter nancy in trouble why didn't she go so early this morning i don't know i was asleep i woke up just as she was leaving what's wrong what did she do you know stan walker stan walker yes do you know it i know it what stan got himself in trouble i knew it how did you know it is no good i never did like him i told nancy she shouldn't know to go running around with him because he's no good good nancy have gone out to meet him this morning i don't know i guess she could i'll look man's a nice kid if stan did something she didn't have nothing to do with it how long is she knowing walker i guess about six or seven months i didn't like him when he first came here do you know harry molenski harry molenski is he a friend of stan's yeah sure dark kind of mean looking that's right i met him he's been up here a couple of times man tried to fix me up with a date but i didn't want to i didn't want to go out with no friends of stan's i just never liked stan from the beginning and i didn't want to go out with nobody was a friend of his nancy didn't say where she was going no honest what's been done he's in a lot of trouble i know what i know what look fellas nan's really a great girl i've lived with maybe that's her now look at you better i answer yeah tenor what's up small uh blonde girl just drove up to walker's apartment in a black merc she went up to walker's apartment and a keen took out some of his clothes quite an asher of tailing her oh gosh i told her to stay away from him i told her she should have listened the suitcase met him here he's got on dark glass uh no idea what train he's taking uh-uh i hate to take him in the middle of all this crown oh we can do it fast four of us i don't think you try to use this gun you and i should stay behind this when we do it step in and get the girl right heading for the trains there's asher might be just as well pick him up on the train away from all this crown all right don't stick together i'll all mine on the train yeah so your ticket please the westbound train no one i wonder if she's going with him hasn't got a suitcase no come on room b rampa thank you next excuse me let us uh wait a minute you'll have to show you oh let's go don't be tough there are many people in there you take the girl didn't you no honor she just told me to pick up his car from here at the station why didn't he pick them up i don't know he said he was in a hurry and he couldn't how'd you get his car he gave it to me but he couldn't get his own clothes okay so i knew he was in some kind of trouble but i didn't know was this serious i didn't have nothing to do with this miss one of the things that makes our job tough it's people like you pick it please please don't go to jail uh one of the friends today thank you let us through please uh oh yes come on through is uh everything all right yeah oh uh miss uh did walk a bias ticket under his right name williams uh and there's a reservation that's not going to be yours coach four or three and the name williams