The Elsner Case (aka-Unidentified Woman Strangled)

Ladies and gentlemen, by transcription, we take you now behind the scenes of a police headquarters in a great American city. We're under the cold, blaring lights. We'll pass before us the innocent, the vagrant, the thief, the murderer.

This is the lineup. Well, this, I thought all I had to do was to tell you what I saw in Whitegate Park last night. That is all you have to do, Sidney. Yeah, sit down.

Only take a few minutes. We want to see if you can identify the man in the park who walked past the bench where you and your girl were. That's all. We picked up someone who fits the description you gave us.

Oh, yeah, sure. Well, like I said, Lieutenant, Gloria, my girl, that is, was repairing her lipstick when this guy sawed her by. Boy, imagine me putting a finger on a mirror. I hold her, Sidney. Just look and listen, ma'am.

You people out there on the other side of the wire in the audience room, may I have your attention, please? Good man, Grev, I'll explain the line after you. Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered.

I'll call off a number, their name and charge. If you have any questions or identification, please remember the number assigned to the prisoner, as I call his name. If you're sure enough to share the suspect, Adam Hell, the officers who took your name will assist you.

They'll seat it among you. Oh, wait till the green of the block of your cell. You'll be caught this, sir. I'll have your identification. When the prisoners leave here, they are sent to the bathroom and dressed back into their jail clothes.