# The Line Up: The Topaz Earring Murder (Encore) (EP4884)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 8 Jan 2026, 33 min.

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An investment advisor is murdered and suspicion falls upon his jilted fiancée. Original Air Date: November 23, 1950 Originating in Hollywood Starring: Bill Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie; Wally Maher as Sergeant Matt Groebs; Howard McNear Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Take the listener survey at http://survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call at 208-991-4783 Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectives Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.

## Transcript

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[1:25] Speaker 1: And now it's time for today's episode. The Tope has
[1:29] Speaker 1: earring case.
[1:30] Speaker 2: Bring on the.
[1:31] Speaker 3: Line, ladies and gentlemen. We take an hour behind the
[1:35] Speaker 3: scenes of the police headquarters in a great American city,
[1:38] Speaker 3: were under the cold blowing lights will pass before us.
[1:41] Speaker 4: The innocent, the vagrant, the thing, the literary. This is
[1:46] Speaker 4: the lineup.
[2:00] Speaker 5: Anyway you wanted, missus Craymer, don't you tell me what
[2:11] Speaker 5: right here?
[2:12] Speaker 4: I'm sure won't need no ring sights sheets.
[2:13] Speaker 6: To pay that name again, where was she doing them?
[2:15] Speaker 7: The minute?
[2:16] Speaker 6: She's kind of I can't get down.
[2:17] Speaker 4: And she certainly wasn't that when I saw her, she
[2:20] Speaker 4: was scared. Scared well, that was about forty five minutes later,
[2:24] Speaker 4: mister Craymer, when she went near a drug side.
[2:25] Speaker 8: Yeah.
[2:28] Speaker 9: Please, you're peeping out there on the other side of
[2:31] Speaker 9: the rire in the audience room. Hey, I do girl, bechel.
[2:36] Speaker 9: My name is gret Sergeant mat Grab. I'll explain the
[2:39] Speaker 9: lineup to you.
[2:41] Speaker 4: Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered.
[2:43] Speaker 9: I'll call off the number, the name, and chide you
[2:47] Speaker 9: have any Testom's eyes Ben a petition, call off the number.
[2:51] Speaker 7: If you're sure.
[2:52] Speaker 9: I'm not too sure of a suspect have her health.
[2:55] Speaker 9: The officers who took your name of the sister Judy
[2:57] Speaker 9: are seated among you.
[2:58] Speaker 4: I wish you're really good. Question your identifications. When the
[3:03] Speaker 4: prisoners leave here, the.
[3:04] Speaker 9: Matron takes them back to the bathroom or they dress
[3:06] Speaker 9: back into their drill clothes. That makes it quite difficult
[3:09] Speaker 9: to bring them back after they leave here. The questions
[3:12] Speaker 9: I asked these stuff fixt on merely to get a
[3:14] Speaker 9: natural tone of voice, so do not take too much
[3:17] Speaker 9: attention to their answers, as they often lie.
[3:19] Speaker 4: Bring on the line.
[3:23] Speaker 9: All right, girls, all right, persuade, move on over to
[3:26] Speaker 9: the end of the stage. That's it.
[3:29] Speaker 4: I'll tend around in face front and steel side you
[3:34] Speaker 4: and speocide. Now let's fit ahead.
[3:38] Speaker 9: Number one, Georgina tells fest ever Gonn arrested the poll
[3:42] Speaker 9: of Georgina.
[3:43] Speaker 5: I've been arrested the farm.
[3:45] Speaker 4: Where were you.
[3:45] Speaker 9: When the officer arrested you?
[3:46] Speaker 4: Georgina? Officer, there's just a spot. What were you wearing
[3:51] Speaker 4: when you tried to leave the store?
[3:53] Speaker 9: I dress?
[3:53] Speaker 8: What else?
[3:55] Speaker 9: Three other dresses on the nag? Number two Colleen hodges
[3:58] Speaker 9: as that's a good question.
[4:02] Speaker 4: Where did you used to Colleen? Through? Fourteen fantet, third floor?
[4:06] Speaker 4: Why did you beat up your landlady? We didn't get along.
[4:09] Speaker 4: Number three Margaret Kenline open charge. How long have you've
[4:13] Speaker 4: been in time?
[4:14] Speaker 10: Margaret?
[4:14] Speaker 7: About where is it from? That's her, Lieutenant, that's the one.
[4:20] Speaker 6: Right now?
[4:21] Speaker 4: About it, Sergeant Graham Bless Lieutenant all number three points
[4:24] Speaker 4: derogation in here, Margaret, say Ben, I'll be down in
[4:42] Speaker 4: communications if you want me. We're letting a couple of
[4:44] Speaker 4: them go, nobody will identified them. Okay, yeah, sure, Oh
[4:48] Speaker 4: here's the cigarette you wanted. Thank you, Saddamus ken Lenon,
[4:54] Speaker 4: I'm Lieutenant Benthe Do you like one of these?
[5:00] Speaker 7: Oh?
[5:03] Speaker 4: It's kindline. How long were you engaged to Larry Zimmermann?
[5:09] Speaker 10: Got four months?
[5:13] Speaker 4: Four months? The cab driver who took it as Zimmerman's
[5:18] Speaker 4: place at five this afternoon said you were angry?
[5:23] Speaker 10: I was er. Yes, I guess it's an old story
[5:29] Speaker 10: until it happens to you. I found out this afternoon
[5:34] Speaker 10: Larry has been seeing another woman. It's been going on
[5:37] Speaker 10: for a week, right under my nose. That was humiliate.
[5:41] Speaker 10: I didn't hurt well when I found that. I went
[5:46] Speaker 10: to his apartment to.
[5:47] Speaker 7: Really read him.
[5:48] Speaker 4: All good, Now, who is this other woman?
[5:51] Speaker 8: You know?
[5:53] Speaker 10: Edith? The local Kenny got me.
[5:56] Speaker 7: I didn't kill Marry.
[5:57] Speaker 6: I didn't do it.
[5:59] Speaker 8: You.
[6:00] Speaker 4: You have a business here in town, haven't you, missed,
[6:02] Speaker 4: ken lean Yes, dress shop? Isn't it? Run it along?
[6:07] Speaker 7: No?
[6:08] Speaker 10: I have a partner, missus, Steve Lloyd Steed.
[6:12] Speaker 4: I see how's it going?
[6:15] Speaker 1: All right?
[6:16] Speaker 4: Good?
[6:18] Speaker 10: We're having a style children town to night. Lord didn't care.
[6:24] Speaker 4: You were You're stopped in a dread store at a
[6:27] Speaker 4: quarter to six tonight on the corner opposite Larry's a parmenade.
[6:32] Speaker 4: The drug has noticed you because you were frightened. I
[6:36] Speaker 4: explained that once, well, explain it to me please.
[6:41] Speaker 10: Larry's apartment was unlocked. I went in and found them
[6:47] Speaker 10: in the bedroom. You've been stepped.
[6:50] Speaker 4: Why did that take you forty five minutes?
[6:52] Speaker 10: I don't know.
[6:53] Speaker 4: I didn't realize it did I was pleased. I guess
[6:56] Speaker 4: I should think it would have been. By the way,
[6:58] Speaker 4: who is rifkin Risk? I don't know, Oh kamis Kinline
[7:06] Speaker 4: Bank saying yes, that said? The coroner says Larry Zimmerman
[7:11] Speaker 4: died just about five o'clock.
[7:14] Speaker 10: May I call a lawyer?
[7:16] Speaker 4: Sure, sure, if you want to, But I don't believe
[7:18] Speaker 4: it's necessary. Mis kin Line. I think we're going to
[7:21] Speaker 4: turn you loose. Man close the window and said, down,
[7:38] Speaker 4: will you? You're making me nervous. I'd be nervous if
[7:40] Speaker 4: I were you, all right, i'd be good in nerve
[7:42] Speaker 4: close the window. Huh. I don't understand that, That's all.
[7:48] Speaker 4: I just don't understand. I understand why why you let
[7:51] Speaker 4: her go? That ken Line girl, I told you she's
[7:53] Speaker 4: being followed. I put Peter's on her. Yeah, but even so, well,
[7:56] Speaker 4: he couldn't have held her anyway, not for long. Be sads.
[8:00] Speaker 4: There's a couple of other items, man, Let Manila envelope
[8:03] Speaker 4: they find up there with the name Rifkin on it,
[8:05] Speaker 4: for one, ripped open and empty. If we knew what
[8:08] Speaker 4: had been in h and then Matt. From the looks
[8:11] Speaker 4: of the bedroom, Zimmerman put up quite a struggle for
[8:13] Speaker 4: the boys, saying more than you'd expect if he was
[8:16] Speaker 4: fighting with a woman, even a jealous one mad enough
[8:19] Speaker 4: to kill him.
[8:20] Speaker 3: I don't know, Ben.
[8:21] Speaker 4: Well, come on, man, let's go out there and have
[8:23] Speaker 4: a look at bear. How goes it?
[8:42] Speaker 8: Beggar?
[8:42] Speaker 4: Okay, that wagon just left as about claimed that Sagas
[8:47] Speaker 4: and Sanders one that left on man, thank you? They
[8:53] Speaker 4: are oh high man, man, Hi, we're just about three.
[8:56] Speaker 4: Not much.
[8:57] Speaker 8: Everything in the place is loaded with French excepts the
[9:00] Speaker 8: handle of the knife.
[9:01] Speaker 4: Where's the bedroom? That door there over the wed man,
[9:04] Speaker 4: here's something hearing where this come from?
[9:07] Speaker 8: I was hangled up in the rug under the body.
[9:10] Speaker 8: I'm not much of a jeweler, but I can recognize
[9:12] Speaker 8: the real thing. And that's it all at a tool
[9:14] Speaker 8: pad the rent for a few months.
[9:16] Speaker 4: You say you found this hearing in the rug under
[9:18] Speaker 4: the body steals me servants such a mail. That guy's
[9:22] Speaker 4: back again. That same guy in the gray Homburg hat
[9:24] Speaker 4: just went past what all.
[9:26] Speaker 8: Sary could have been kind of hanging around for the
[9:28] Speaker 8: last half hour.
[9:29] Speaker 4: I got there another on my mail. We'll talk to him.
[9:31] Speaker 4: Read to go back and down Halder left their lieutenant,
[9:33] Speaker 4: there's alarms down that way.
[9:35] Speaker 7: That guy never was right here.
[9:37] Speaker 4: That's heard of me.
[9:38] Speaker 1: That's good to.
[9:42] Speaker 4: H That must be the guy there. Then, yeah, bug
[9:46] Speaker 4: an evening. Oh well, all right, you live here in
[9:50] Speaker 4: the building. No, we're from the police department. No, I
[9:52] Speaker 4: Lieutenant Greffrey, This Sergeant grim Oh, I don't know you
[9:56] Speaker 4: waiting for someone, mister Rifkin. I had to give you credit, lieutenant,
[10:02] Speaker 4: and there had a mission on your tie b. I
[10:03] Speaker 4: hope there's been some trouble down. Oh, mister Zimmerman's apartment there.
[10:07] Speaker 4: That's so I noticed you, uh, seemed pretty interested in it,
[10:09] Speaker 4: mister Rifkins. You had my lorry, sergeant, so maybe you
[10:13] Speaker 4: know why I'm interested. No, we don't. Why are you
[10:16] Speaker 4: Jimman opens.
[10:17] Speaker 8: Some money, Lieutenant, I expected to be paid to night
[10:19] Speaker 8: close to twenty five thousand dollars.
[10:22] Speaker 4: That's quite a debt.
[10:23] Speaker 8: And it was my money in the first place, no profit,
[10:26] Speaker 8: no PROMI he was a broker investments. I placed that
[10:29] Speaker 8: money with him to be invested, and I found out
[10:32] Speaker 8: he was trimmed on his last deal. He took an
[10:34] Speaker 8: off of beating. I told him I was pulling my
[10:36] Speaker 8: money out before it went too told him that this
[10:39] Speaker 8: morning on the phone. He didn't like it, but I
[10:42] Speaker 8: he said he'd have it for me tonight.
[10:44] Speaker 4: Zimmerman's been murdered. I guess you figured that, yes, yes,
[10:47] Speaker 4: but uh, how'd you get my name? Do you mind? No?
[10:52] Speaker 4: We find it on him another end would open his
[10:53] Speaker 4: bedroom and the money what about him and ope had
[10:56] Speaker 4: been opened was empty? What that money? He's gone rob though?
[11:01] Speaker 4: Look sad way Yeah, yeah, that's the way it looks. Well,
[11:07] Speaker 4: that takes kill of that. Just a minute. Where do
[11:10] Speaker 4: you live, mister Rifkin. We may want to get in
[11:12] Speaker 4: test with it alway? Be sure, I hope.
[11:14] Speaker 8: So the Beakman Plaza room to twenty, the.
[11:17] Speaker 4: First names Walker, room to twenty. Okay, well smoke, then hangs,
[11:24] Speaker 4: you've got to go back to the lineup, don't you.
[11:25] Speaker 10: Man?
[11:25] Speaker 4: Well, pretty soon you coming. No, let me have that earring, mat,
[11:29] Speaker 4: I'm going to look up a lady Rogan. Yeah, yeah,
[11:52] Speaker 4: I'm mister Roger who knows the police department, Lieutenant Ben Guthry,
[11:56] Speaker 4: oh Lan Slowgraddon? Are you then? I want to talk
[11:59] Speaker 4: to you for a minuto me that man, I'm gonna
[12:02] Speaker 4: bring her brand. I've got a dress important, mister Roker
[12:05] Speaker 4: about Larry Zimmerman's death. Oh, I already heard about that
[12:10] Speaker 4: for Larry. You don't seem too broken up? Eater you
[12:13] Speaker 4: thinking of help any No, you're not wearing your ear rings?
[12:17] Speaker 4: Eat it. The pinchmark shows that's.
[12:21] Speaker 3: Laying my room.
[12:23] Speaker 4: Little pinch that I put him up. Hey, look, am
[12:25] Speaker 4: I under arrest of senting?
[12:27] Speaker 6: No, but I along.
[12:29] Speaker 4: Look, I'll be back about midnight the room side and
[12:32] Speaker 4: be comfortable and talk about anything you want for as
[12:34] Speaker 4: long as you want. That is you could care to rote, Lieutenant,
[12:37] Speaker 4: I might just do that. Mister Roker.
[12:39] Speaker 7: You'll see that rush up on the corner.
[12:53] Speaker 4: Must be the one. Yeah, how come the lights are
[12:55] Speaker 4: still on and I had a style show speeds the
[12:58] Speaker 4: partner in it. Let's stop that. Yeah, yes, sir, and
[13:04] Speaker 4: I'm waiting. The cars come on man right m hm,
[13:17] Speaker 4: must be in the back, Oh hurricanes, Missus Speed, open
[13:23] Speaker 4: the door the police, thank you. I'm attendant traffic as
[13:32] Speaker 4: the sergeant. Fred. How did you rob? I suppose you've
[13:36] Speaker 4: heard about Larry Zimmermon. Yes, yes I have.
[13:38] Speaker 6: It's a terrible crew, Margaret, Missus Cameron told me. In fact,
[13:42] Speaker 6: she just called me from her place about five minutes ago.
[13:44] Speaker 4: She's frightened.
[13:45] Speaker 6: She thinks she did follow.
[13:47] Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, there's nothing to be worried about. Missus Speeds.
[13:50] Speaker 4: The plane close offered him. Oh, mister Speeds. We'd like
[13:56] Speaker 4: to know how miss ken Ryan got acquainted with Larry Zimmermon.
[14:00] Speaker 6: In fact, it was through many Yes, Larry and I
[14:02] Speaker 6: are quite good friends. We lived next burder each other,
[14:04] Speaker 6: oh for ever year.
[14:05] Speaker 4: Do you know much about his business, mister Speed, and
[14:08] Speaker 4: how he made his living? Well, man, not much?
[14:09] Speaker 6: Actually, he all sat of an adventurer, really quite as
[14:13] Speaker 6: successful one. I always thought very clever with the money
[14:15] Speaker 6: investment in the sims in the market you mean, Oh yeah,
[14:20] Speaker 6: I always counted my pennies and envy the.
[14:22] Speaker 4: Nerve Larry had the perner mister Speeds, do you happen
[14:26] Speaker 4: to know if miss ken Lyon had copaz hearings? We
[14:29] Speaker 4: found one of Gimmerman's place.
[14:30] Speaker 6: Forgive me in the ten Jessie, But I really believe
[14:32] Speaker 6: we should try to get in touch with Margaret, miss
[14:34] Speaker 6: ken Lane. I told him she was a crowded to
[14:36] Speaker 6: stay home, she should leave and go to my place.
[14:38] Speaker 6: That's Manue Avenue A forty one eleven.
[14:40] Speaker 4: So I've planned on leaving, all right, Maybe you're right.
[14:43] Speaker 4: What's the number at.
[14:44] Speaker 6: Abbey two three four four on the phones? Yes, but
[14:48] Speaker 6: she's doing a quite upset you assis step mower here,
[14:50] Speaker 6: you know? And if it should have happened to morrow,
[14:52] Speaker 6: I just don't know what I'll do.
[14:53] Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I can appreciate how you feel. That's then
[15:02] Speaker 4: must have already left no answer? Hello, oh oh who theaters?
[15:10] Speaker 4: There's Lieutenant guy. Oh, I want to lieutenant. She's gone.
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[16:30] Speaker 4: Well it's a phony, all right, Ben Lasa Ripkin hasn't
[16:34] Speaker 4: lived in the Beacon Plaza in five years, but we
[16:37] Speaker 4: dug up the home address on him and an office
[16:39] Speaker 4: set up downtown. Yeah, well, well nothing then The office
[16:42] Speaker 4: was just a bunch of stockbrokers catalogs in a waste
[16:44] Speaker 4: basket full of scribbled figures. Nothing more. In the house
[16:48] Speaker 4: missus Ripkin and two cats. She hasn't seen husband who
[16:52] Speaker 4: walts her in a week, and I don't think she
[16:54] Speaker 4: cares if she ever sees him. Well, how'd you make
[16:57] Speaker 4: out Rifkin's never been arrested, There's none a line on
[16:59] Speaker 4: him in the so so I'm stupid Nahasy, I should
[17:03] Speaker 4: have played it your way. Matt should have kept Margaret
[17:06] Speaker 4: Kenline under arrest and locked up war of Rifkin just
[17:08] Speaker 4: to keep her company. Maybe, but you didn't, Ben, So
[17:10] Speaker 4: let's take it from there. Yeah, matters well, man. Look, One,
[17:18] Speaker 4: Larry Zimmerman was killed. Two Margaret Kenlan could have killed him.
[17:22] Speaker 4: I don't think so. Why not soft face, soft voice?
[17:25] Speaker 4: Then no, no, or a Rifkin, Matt. If Margaret Kentlane
[17:30] Speaker 4: did kill Zimmerman, why did Rifkin go after him? The
[17:34] Speaker 4: missing twenty five grand lady. That's a good reason, Ben,
[17:36] Speaker 4: that's a lot of know. Yeah, I guess it is.
[17:40] Speaker 4: Hello who well, yeah, I put him on Sargeant Manny
[17:44] Speaker 4: palmerin Matt. It will cost us a little, but it
[17:46] Speaker 4: might be worth it. I talked to him about Rifkin
[17:48] Speaker 4: earlier the night. Hello, Manny, Oh fine, fine things. Yeah
[17:53] Speaker 4: what'd you find out? Uh? Well yeah, yeah, sure it
[17:57] Speaker 4: can be important there, eat it? Somebody eat it? You're sure, okay, okay,
[18:04] Speaker 4: just checking, yeah, but sure, sure it's the help any
[18:09] Speaker 4: Sure we'll come on in the morning, will you, Yeah,
[18:12] Speaker 4: come on? Good views, Ben, Yeah. Farm Lay says that
[18:16] Speaker 4: Rifkin has a girlfriend, in town. Up round and eat it.
[18:19] Speaker 4: Somebody eat Itthroca, Ben, Yeah, eat Itthdroka the reason Larry
[18:24] Speaker 4: Zimmerman tossed Margaret over. But this is a new angle,
[18:26] Speaker 4: mat eat it tying into Ripkin. You want to come along,
[18:30] Speaker 4: it's the Marble Hotel. I can't right away, Ben, I
[18:32] Speaker 4: gotta run a late line up for the narcotic spoil. Okay,
[18:34] Speaker 4: click for you later, Mat.
[18:57] Speaker 6: Oh, you're again?
[18:59] Speaker 4: How I thought you guys? I'd like to talk to you,
[19:01] Speaker 4: mister Roker.
[19:02] Speaker 6: I'm too tired.
[19:03] Speaker 4: I still got to put my hair. Mister Roker, were
[19:06] Speaker 4: you at Walter Rifkin's apartment tonight since I saw you?
[19:09] Speaker 4: I mean no? You sure? I'm positive you weren't in
[19:13] Speaker 4: the neighborhood. I wasn't within a mile of the neighborhood.
[19:16] Speaker 4: One of my men says Difference and tell him to ask.
[19:18] Speaker 3: For a pension.
[19:19] Speaker 2: He's going blown.
[19:21] Speaker 5: You look, mister Coup.
[19:22] Speaker 10: When I left here, I went with a Broadmoor ball
[19:24] Speaker 10: and grill.
[19:25] Speaker 8: I never moved out of it until I came back here.
[19:28] Speaker 10: And just in case you don't get around, the Broadmoor
[19:31] Speaker 10: is on Lanchester and East thirty ninth.
[19:33] Speaker 4: A couple of fat miles from.
[19:34] Speaker 6: He's sixtieth and Chelseas.
[19:37] Speaker 4: Know anything else been?
[19:38] Speaker 5: Let's get a ward and arrest me.
[19:40] Speaker 4: Huh, I'm very tired. Hey we are okayy corner sixtieth
[20:00] Speaker 4: in Chelsea Garage. You're a vacant a lot of duplex
[20:03] Speaker 4: from an apartment house. Okay, bet you wait here, sagean Grebin.
[20:07] Speaker 4: I'll try the apartment house first and that should be
[20:09] Speaker 4: in Come on man, yeah, so ben eh, that's either
[20:15] Speaker 4: too rope. Do you think she took off lifting? I
[20:18] Speaker 4: sure do, but I had the hotel desk refused her outsideline.
[20:23] Speaker 4: If she asked for one, and I called in for
[20:24] Speaker 4: a squad car to pick the repp, she won't be
[20:27] Speaker 4: in the way. Well, i'll see how this is a
[20:31] Speaker 4: mailboxes are away away. Then there's not a little boy. Yeah,
[20:36] Speaker 4: I help you. Gentlemen were in the police department. There's
[20:39] Speaker 4: mister Walter Rifkin have an apartment here? Yes, through certainly
[20:42] Speaker 4: does three d oh. I guess you don't want to
[20:46] Speaker 4: be announced though. Huh. Why do you guess that? In
[20:49] Speaker 4: any trouble? Oh, not exactly trouble. What happens to him?
[20:52] Speaker 4: Nothing much? It was just a girl. I think he
[20:54] Speaker 4: called her Margaret, maybe it was Marjorie.
[20:57] Speaker 8: Anyhow, she ran out of here a little while ago,
[20:59] Speaker 8: came down the step who got no care about time?
[21:01] Speaker 4: Mister Ripkin was after her, but she got a right
[21:05] Speaker 4: Ripkin went back. When was this about ten minutes ago?
[21:08] Speaker 8: You want to go up?
[21:09] Speaker 4: I think we're better.
[21:14] Speaker 6: Well, yeah, that you fellows squad on freendy change cases.
[21:20] Speaker 4: At all hours.
[21:22] Speaker 8: I mean.
[21:26] Speaker 4: Good, you're right, Thanks going back downstairs? Then yes, come
[21:32] Speaker 4: me man right the police, mister Ripkin going, well, let's
[21:44] Speaker 4: tell what brings you here. Mister k was very helpful,
[21:48] Speaker 4: mister Ripkin. She said she didn't want to be mixed
[21:51] Speaker 4: up in a murder. Mister Ripkin, may we come in sure?
[21:55] Speaker 4: Why not?
[21:55] Speaker 8: I have nothing to hide.
[21:56] Speaker 4: Come in the living room straight ahead. Now this is fun,
[22:00] Speaker 4: mister Rifkin. The lieutenant means that poker book on the
[22:03] Speaker 4: table there, Oh that well, it's I'd always do a
[22:06] Speaker 4: lot of time, mister Rifkin. The pocketbook isn't that important.
[22:09] Speaker 4: We know what happened. The elevator boy told us about
[22:11] Speaker 4: Margaret Kentlan running out of here. The police officer you
[22:15] Speaker 4: sat at Miss Kentlan's apartment got a good look at
[22:17] Speaker 4: you first look, Lord Teller. What I told you before
[22:20] Speaker 4: was the not all of it. You didn't tell us
[22:22] Speaker 4: about Edith de Roker being your girlfriend. How does she
[22:25] Speaker 4: fit in?
[22:26] Speaker 8: Well, we we were working together. I wanted Larry Zimmerman's files,
[22:31] Speaker 8: his contacts, names and numbers.
[22:33] Speaker 6: I wanted the inside track that he had.
[22:36] Speaker 4: I'd know what to do with it.
[22:36] Speaker 8: Getting all that was Edith's job.
[22:38] Speaker 4: What about Margaret Kenlan? Why did you bring her up here?
[22:40] Speaker 8: Because I think she killed Zimmerman and whoever killed Zimmerman
[22:43] Speaker 8: must have gotten the money that was supposed to be
[22:45] Speaker 8: returned to me.
[22:45] Speaker 4: Did you find it on her?
[22:47] Speaker 10: No?
[22:47] Speaker 4: No, she she got away from me before I could
[22:49] Speaker 4: search her. You've looked through her purse there, look ten times,
[22:54] Speaker 4: it's not there. But what is there?
[22:56] Speaker 8: Lord Tallan convinced me I've got the right party. What
[22:59] Speaker 8: do you mean the first man, I'll mean that I
[23:01] Speaker 8: found a receipt in that pocket. Look for a pair
[23:03] Speaker 8: of earrings, a pair of tope has ellings.
[23:06] Speaker 4: What do you know about that?
[23:07] Speaker 8: All I know is what I heard a cop say
[23:09] Speaker 8: over at Trimmerman's place. But one hope has earring was
[23:12] Speaker 8: fouled on the rug under the body.
[23:14] Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, let's see what's then? I am yeah, compact lipstick, wallet,
[23:21] Speaker 4: pack of Lifesavers, another lipstick, and the receipt made out
[23:26] Speaker 4: to Miss Margaret Canlin for one pair of topaziering soft
[23:30] Speaker 4: faced softy Man, my mistake, mister Rifkin. Does Margaret Kinland
[23:36] Speaker 4: know that you've seen this receipt? No?
[23:39] Speaker 8: No, I didn't go through a stuff until after shoe ran.
[23:42] Speaker 4: Maybe she didn't run too far then, yeah, her partner's place,
[23:45] Speaker 4: Lloyd speeds monro Leaven of forty one eleven. Say, if
[23:48] Speaker 4: you find her and she still has my money, I'll
[23:50] Speaker 4: get it, probably, mister Rifkin, But exactly what you'll do
[23:54] Speaker 4: with it? For a while, I don't know what do
[23:56] Speaker 4: you mean? The lieutenant means that you're under arrest for
[23:59] Speaker 4: assaulting an op sir, among other things. Oh, Ben, do
[24:02] Speaker 4: you want to have a second look at.
[24:03] Speaker 3: Any of this?
[24:03] Speaker 4: No, I don't think so. Our seat's enough for me, Matt,
[24:05] Speaker 4: I'm sorry. And that look at that? What do we
[24:09] Speaker 4: see it again?
[24:10] Speaker 5: Yeah?
[24:11] Speaker 4: Read it carefully in that, then take mister Rifkin in William.
[24:15] Speaker 4: I'll see what the morning line up?
[24:37] Speaker 6: What all the time, guess riding expect to see you
[24:40] Speaker 6: again tonight. We'll come in.
[24:42] Speaker 4: Thanks, mister Speed. Has Margaret been here? I know she
[24:47] Speaker 4: had well last night?
[24:48] Speaker 3: I mean, do you careful drinks with him?
[24:50] Speaker 4: Speed? Yes? She was here, wasn't she?
[24:54] Speaker 10: Oh?
[24:54] Speaker 4: No?
[24:58] Speaker 10: Oh?
[24:58] Speaker 6: Well, what difference doesn't mean? She was here about twenty
[25:01] Speaker 6: minutes ago? She killed Larry, Lieutenant. She said that when
[25:05] Speaker 6: I meant to be your room that you said was
[25:07] Speaker 6: Simon Wodoman's apartment, she stopped trying to hide things.
[25:10] Speaker 7: She admitted other.
[25:12] Speaker 8: Thing wasn't very nice to hear.
[25:14] Speaker 4: And jealousy was her motive. Man, I'll take that drink now,
[25:19] Speaker 4: mister Speed.
[25:20] Speaker 6: Yes, it was jealous Lieutenant.
[25:21] Speaker 10: Uh huh?
[25:23] Speaker 4: And when she left, should give you any idea where
[25:26] Speaker 4: she was heading?
[25:27] Speaker 6: No, she didn't, Lieutenant, No place at all was what
[25:29] Speaker 6: she said when I asked.
[25:30] Speaker 4: Her, what are you looking for?
[25:33] Speaker 6: A lieutenant?
[25:34] Speaker 4: No place at all? Could be suicide? Speed. I know
[25:37] Speaker 4: I know that she's a murderous lieutenant.
[25:40] Speaker 6: I didn't try to stop her.
[25:42] Speaker 7: Should I have?
[25:44] Speaker 4: Could you have stoptor stopped her and turned her over
[25:48] Speaker 4: to me? Could you've done that?
[25:50] Speaker 7: Speed?
[25:51] Speaker 3: And of course I suppose, though why not you do?
[25:55] Speaker 4: For one good reason? Your life. Speed. You see, I
[25:59] Speaker 4: think you murdered Larry's emmerment.
[26:03] Speaker 6: Oh no, no, no, no, it was Margaret.
[26:05] Speaker 4: I told you that. Yes, I know, but I don't
[26:07] Speaker 4: believe you. I even think Margaret's still here someplace in
[26:10] Speaker 4: this house. You haven't had time to take her, no
[26:13] Speaker 4: place at all.
[26:14] Speaker 6: Isn't the important?
[26:15] Speaker 4: Don't They can't sure? They don't sure more than anything else. Well,
[26:19] Speaker 4: then you know I have the receipt for those earrings.
[26:22] Speaker 6: It's a receipt made out to.
[26:23] Speaker 4: Margaret's right to Margaret for a pair of top fan's
[26:26] Speaker 4: earrings which she rented mm hmmm for one of the
[26:32] Speaker 4: models in tonight's fashion show. No doubt the fashion show
[26:35] Speaker 4: speeds that you ran because Margaret wasn't going and you were,
[26:38] Speaker 4: so it was you who had the earrings, not Margaret,
[26:41] Speaker 4: and you who dropped one of them at Larry Zimmermonds
[26:43] Speaker 4: again not Margaret. Now where is she? Speed, I don't know,
[26:51] Speaker 4: in the bedroom.
[26:55] Speaker 10: Slid off all right. I wasn't going to do anything
[26:59] Speaker 10: until later I had to kill him.
[27:02] Speaker 4: Why spies did you invest with him too?
[27:05] Speaker 6: It was only two thousand dollars when everything I had
[27:07] Speaker 6: in the world.
[27:09] Speaker 7: Determine I lost my money.
[27:10] Speaker 10: I just went out of my mind.
[27:14] Speaker 4: Yes, and Walter Reskins money the twenty five thousand that
[27:18] Speaker 4: was in the envelope.
[27:19] Speaker 3: You have any yes, well, you never medalized the lineup,
[27:52] Speaker 3: but before you passed the innocent, the vagrant, the thief,
[27:56] Speaker 3: the murderers. Listen again next week when we again you
[28:01] Speaker 3: the line up.
[28:02] Speaker 9: May I please you people out there on the other
[28:06] Speaker 9: side of the wire in the audience room, may I
[28:08] Speaker 9: have you affect?
[28:10] Speaker 3: Thank you.
[28:11] Speaker 9: My name is Greb Dodge is Matt Grebt.
[28:13] Speaker 4: I'll explain then to you.
[28:16] Speaker 9: The suspect you will see will be number.
[28:18] Speaker 4: I'll call up the Samon John.
[28:22] Speaker 9: If you have any questions or identifications, call them if
[28:26] Speaker 9: you're youre.
[28:35] Speaker 3: The line up, starring William Johnstone as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie
[28:38] Speaker 3: and Walle Mayer Sergeant Matt Grebb, was written by Gene
[28:41] Speaker 3: Lovett and Robert Mitchell, the music by Eddie Dunstetter. Featured
[28:45] Speaker 3: in tonight's cast were John Stephenson, Ken Christy Gene Bates,
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[30:01] Speaker 3: This is CBS the Stars Address the Columbia Broadcast.
[30:21] Speaker 2: Welcome back.
[30:22] Speaker 1: Well.
[30:22] Speaker 2: The lineup script for female suspects pretty much the same
[30:28] Speaker 2: as for males, except for some differences, of course, the
[30:32] Speaker 2: use of matrons. Some of an interesting story behind that
[30:37] Speaker 2: in some parts of the country. Mary Sullivan, who will
[30:43] Speaker 2: actually meet in a few weeks, I'll tell you more
[30:47] Speaker 2: about that when we get to her, was the first
[30:51] Speaker 2: head of policewomen anywhere in the country, and one thing
[30:57] Speaker 2: she tried to do was to get rid of the
[31:00] Speaker 2: title of police matron, because the matrons actually earned less
[31:06] Speaker 2: money than the mail police officers and they had a
[31:10] Speaker 2: worse pension. So her effort was you abolished that role
[31:14] Speaker 2: and everyone gets paid the same as a patrolman. And
[31:17] Speaker 2: I've actually had the idea too of having listeners because
[31:21] Speaker 2: that lineup script's the same. I've actually got it at
[31:24] Speaker 2: Great Detectives dot Net. I've actually thought of having listeners
[31:31] Speaker 2: read the lineup scriptancy who does perhaps the more interesting performance.
[31:40] Speaker 2: So if you would like to read your own version,
[31:42] Speaker 2: you can call two A one nine nine, one four,
[31:44] Speaker 2: seven eight three well played in the after show a segment.
[31:47] Speaker 2: If you've got an interesting twist on it, you can
[31:50] Speaker 2: just read it into the voicemail, or you can also
[31:52] Speaker 2: send an MP three file along. Well, we do turn
[31:58] Speaker 2: now to a couple quick show matters. Coming up tomorrow.
[32:04] Speaker 2: We have another episode of the Court of Last Resort
[32:09] Speaker 2: and you'll sure want to watch that if you can.
[32:14] Speaker 2: It's a great mystery. And Joel comments on Facebook, I
[32:22] Speaker 2: like this program. It has the Christmas of drag Net,
[32:24] Speaker 2: but a bit more drama and human interaction. It is
[32:27] Speaker 2: well acted and the plots are interesting. I think that's true,
[32:30] Speaker 2: particularly with today's a really good little mystery here, and
[32:35] Speaker 2: Karen says I love this program. Well, thanks so much,
[32:38] Speaker 2: Karen and Joel appreciate your comments. That'll do it for today.
[32:43] Speaker 2: We will be back tomorrow with a video theater episode,
[32:48] Speaker 2: and then join us back here on Monday for the
[32:50] Speaker 2: adventures of Frank Race. In the meanwhile, you can send
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[33:09] Speaker 2: seven eight three uh From Boise, Idaho. This is your host,
[33:15] Speaker 2: Adam Grahamson and off

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