The Corny Complainant's Case

Ladies and gentlemen, we take you now by transcription behind the scenes of a police 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 lineup love that hi mr. Dempsey show up yet not yet You people out there the side of the wire and grab a chair. Let me know when she comes in. Yes sure

Thank you. My name is Sergeant Pete Carter. I'll explain the line up to you. Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered. I'll call up a number, their name and charge. If you have any questions or identifications, please remember the number assigned to the prisoners I call his name.

Please be prompt with your questions or identifications. The questions I ask of these suspects are merely to get an actual tone of voice. They'll not pay too much attention to their answers as they often lie.

All right, bring on the line. Keep it moving boys all the way to the end of the stage. That's it all the way. Now turn and face front. Speak right out to the people in the back of the room can hear you.

Number one, Francis Gilligan, open charge. Step out Francis, right to the circle. Where do you live? To later. Last place you slept in town? To one nine, balance seven. Partment ten. And on the east side?

Yeah. When were you arrested? Night before life. Where? Golden Gate. And an eating place? Yeah, it's the restaurant downtown. What's your business? Clumber. You'll have to speak louder. Clumber. That's more like it. Anyone with you when you were picked up?