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Dragnet: The Big Grandma (EP4568) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: October nineteenth, nineteen fifty, here's the Big Grandma.
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  Speaker 2: The story you are about to hear is true, only
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  Speaker 2: the names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
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  Speaker 2: a detective sergeant. They're assigned to pegery detail. An accomplished
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  Speaker 2: check forger resumes operations in your city. The suspects described
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  Speaker 2: as a middle aged woman. She's written more than twenty
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars in bad checks. Your job get her.
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  Speaker 3: In a moment, an authentic case from official files.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. Well the
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  Speaker 4: next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 4: you will travel step by step on the side of
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  Speaker 4: the law through an actual case from official police files,
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  Speaker 4: from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is
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  Speaker 4: the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 5: It was Monday, April seventeenth. Was warm in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: We're working a day watch out of Forgery Detail. My
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  Speaker 5: partner's Ben Romero. The boss's Captain Elliott. My name is Friday.
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  Speaker 5: I was on the way back into work and it
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  Speaker 5: was seven fifty three am when I got to Room
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  Speaker 5: twenty nine, Forgery Detail.
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  Speaker 6: Morrange, Joe, Hi, how the weekend go?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 8: Pretty slow? Stay at home?
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  Speaker 6: DIDs mc gardner. How about that new Lorne you put in?
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  Speaker 6: How's it doing?
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  Speaker 8: We want a loan, We're going to have to move.
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  Speaker 6: What's the matter now?
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  Speaker 8: Them old things go first, Lesbie, one hundred of Them's
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  Speaker 8: so many holes at the top of the loan. Looks
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  Speaker 8: like an old punch boy. No, that's too bad. Can't
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  Speaker 8: you try some kind of poison on them? Or how
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  Speaker 8: about those new things?
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  Speaker 6: They got out. Well, they call them gopher bombs.
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  Speaker 8: I use them with a dozen.
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  Speaker 6: They eat anything, Joe, Ben, Yeah, for instance.
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  Speaker 9: Money and kept one's see.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, what's up Bergin, You ain't gonna like it.
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  Speaker 9: M Skiperal brief you.
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  Speaker 8: Oneing Skipper, Hi, got's see anything? You two finished up
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  Speaker 8: with a Benson case yesterday?
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  Speaker 6: That right, Yeah, it's all watched up.
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  Speaker 10: We're clear, good and you can start on this one
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  Speaker 10: right away to work with Frank Besser and Ferguson.
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  Speaker 8: Here, what is it Grandma? Ird a hunch?
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  Speaker 6: Joe?
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  Speaker 10: What are we doing to deserve this? It's nothing any
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  Speaker 10: of us have done. It's what we haven't done. I
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  Speaker 10: want to stopped once and for all. Are we any
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  Speaker 10: closer to her than we have been?
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  Speaker 6: Fergue?
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  Speaker 10: Just about same, Joe. That's why I'm putting two more
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  Speaker 10: of the on it. How well do you know the case?
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  Speaker 10: Just what we've heard around the office. Same here, I
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  Speaker 10: could stand some briefing. Ferguson, Well, you.
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  Speaker 11: Must have heard how she operates three months out of
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  Speaker 11: the year April, October December.
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  Speaker 12: That's all.
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  Speaker 8: She's never been known to change that schedule, not.
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  Speaker 9: As far as I know. She's been doing it the
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  Speaker 9: same for nine years.
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  Speaker 11: All the funny checks she cash is your first, no change,
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  Speaker 11: that's right. She never writes in less than two dollars,
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  Speaker 11: never more than one.
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  Speaker 8: Hundred nine years.
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  Speaker 12: She been doing that.
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  Speaker 10: Long nine and a half. It'll be in even ten
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  Speaker 10: this October. You want to check them out on the.
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  Speaker 11: Totals fergus up to and including the first of this month,
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  Speaker 11: she's cash twelve hundred and seventy three checks.
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  Speaker 13: Total is a little over twenty two thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 8: Anything special about the way she writes the check, Nothing
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  Speaker 8: but the signatures as an alias list down out of
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  Speaker 8: than not your eye out more than two hundred different names.
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  Speaker 8: Her description is still the same, about fifty years old,
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  Speaker 8: kind of plump, nice face.
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  Speaker 13: A few minor changes. Last year she had gray hair,
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  Speaker 13: dress very plain. This year she dyed her hair of
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  Speaker 13: black dresses a little more expensively.
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  Speaker 8: Nine years. That's a longest creak of luck for any
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  Speaker 8: paper hair.
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  Speaker 6: That's just it.
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  Speaker 10: This old gal's not just an ordinary Paperhanger's no amateur.
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  Speaker 10: Don't get me wrong, but she doesn't operate like any
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  Speaker 10: check for a drive or no. She counter addicts part
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  Speaker 10: of a ramo, part of it.
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  Speaker 6: She doesn't.
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  Speaker 8: She takes chances an ordinary paperhanger.
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  Speaker 10: It never taken. She gets away with him. Take a
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  Speaker 10: look at just one of these exhibits. Yeah, this one here,
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  Speaker 10: twenty eight checks passed on the same chain of grocery stores,
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  Speaker 10: same company.
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  Speaker 8: She passed them all in one month.
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  Speaker 6: No, that's just the point.
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  Speaker 10: Two years ago, she passed fourteen of them, spread them
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  Speaker 10: out over a period of a month. Last year she
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  Speaker 10: passed another batch of fourteen, all within three days. One year,
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  Speaker 10: she used a different name on each check. On this batch,
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  Speaker 10: she used the same names. Well, does she have any
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  Speaker 10: identification when she passes each checks?
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  Speaker 13: Always pony, driver's license, social Security cards?
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  Speaker 9: Who works? And she's got that sweet grandmother smiles.
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  Speaker 13: Brooks rarely turn her down when she shows up.
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  Speaker 9: With a check.
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  Speaker 8: You can get used to different descriptions of her too.
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  Speaker 8: G's a file of Look, hardly three of the check
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  Speaker 8: victims can get together. And when she looks like exactly, well.
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  Speaker 5: Where are they getting stun most downtown or out in
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  Speaker 5: the neighborhoods, the.
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  Speaker 8: Neighborhoods anywhere from the beach area at the valley.
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  Speaker 10: This whole Cliou skipper. That's not just her work, is it?
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  Speaker 10: Every last bit of it. We can't fit it in
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  Speaker 10: a six foot shelf. In nine years, I've had five
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  Speaker 10: teams of man work this thing. None of them reached it.
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  Speaker 10: You and Friday make the Sixth's April seventeenth. How's she
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  Speaker 10: doing so far this month for cash?
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  Speaker 11: Six hundred and twenty four dollars in checks we know
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  Speaker 11: of since the first of the month, Same general description,
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  Speaker 11: same general m O.
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  Speaker 6: No fresh leads.
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  Speaker 9: She's been operating nine years.
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  Speaker 8: Joe, Yeah, just as good as ever.
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  Speaker 5: To the working detective, there's no tougher job than tracking
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  Speaker 5: a lawbreaker.
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  Speaker 6: Who's half professional and half amateur.
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  Speaker 5: You can expect a criminal who's entirely professional to react
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  Speaker 5: generally the same in a given set of circumstances, and
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  Speaker 5: the same with the amateur. But take the two, the
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  Speaker 5: professional and the amateur, and intermingle their possible and probable reactions.
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  Speaker 5: You'll likely have a sound reason why and how an
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  Speaker 5: elderly woman could victimize merchants with twenty thousand dollars in
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  Speaker 5: bad checks over a period of nine years with being caught. Grandma,
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  Speaker 5: as she'd come to be known, worked only three months
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  Speaker 5: out of each year April, October and December her apparent
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  Speaker 5: fine sense of timing and her knowledge of psychology was
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  Speaker 5: far and away superior to that of the ordinary paper hanger.
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  Speaker 6: If the file on Grandma.
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  Speaker 5: Was any indication, she apparently had been born to be
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  Speaker 5: a successful check for me. After Ben and I spent
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  Speaker 5: three days on the case with Sergeant's furgus, an investor,
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  Speaker 5: we were almost convinced that there was only one way
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  Speaker 5: we could reach the suspect. She had to make a mistake, Bergin,
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  Speaker 5: how'd you do?
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  Speaker 9: Pretty sorry? Poor checks? In two days? Would you fell
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  Speaker 9: us get two?
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  Speaker 6: Don Meyer checked the signatures, they're all hers.
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  Speaker 11: Here's our list if you're interested. Meet market out in
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  Speaker 11: Pico twenty five dollars, grocery in West Hollywood.
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  Speaker 13: Forty eight dollars, two department stores downtown, hundred bucks apiece.
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  Speaker 6: How do they describe the woman?
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  Speaker 9: Same old yarn? She was a nice, charming little.
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  Speaker 11: Lady, about fifty five or sixty, small, dark hair, grain,
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  Speaker 11: dark eyes, nice smile. Clerk told me she reminded of
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  Speaker 11: his mother. Now'd you make out on those two yours?
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  Speaker 8: All about the same? Even a story about it looking
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  Speaker 8: like somebody's money. One thing? Sure, her timing is just
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  Speaker 8: as good as it was nine years ago. Downtown Merchants
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  Speaker 8: Associations screaming again. They're looking for action, so are we.
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  Speaker 9: You talked to Captain to day.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's looking for action too.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what we can do unless we get
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  Speaker 5: some kind of cooperation from the merchants.
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  Speaker 6: Every time the old gal pushes a bump check.
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  Speaker 5: It's three or four days before it gets to the
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  Speaker 5: bank and we hear about it.
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  Speaker 6: Trail's pretty cold by then.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Joe and I we're talking just before you came
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  Speaker 8: in Forgie. We can't expect too much to happen where
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  Speaker 8: we're going.
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  Speaker 9: Any ideas there's.
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  Speaker 6: More men and more steakhouts. The captain says, they'll buy that.
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  Speaker 6: It's about all we can do.
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  Speaker 13: A number ten days in April will be over. Grandma'll
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  Speaker 13: be through pushing checks till October again.
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  Speaker 14: I don't know, Jill. Her forming is too perfect. I mean,
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  Speaker 14: it's got to be a flaw and at some place.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you got out a bulletin of it.
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  Speaker 8: Revised description of a frigid Yeah, it's all taking care of.
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  Speaker 9: Special notices were mailed out the merchants too.
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  Speaker 8: Again now as it is it, that's so right away, Thank.
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  Speaker 14: You, supermarket on Temple Street. Grandma hit him with two checks.
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  Speaker 14: Any lead clerk says, you'd remind him of his money.
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  Speaker 5: A week passed, the number of stakeouts on business places
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  Speaker 5: throughout the city was doubled them, and description of the
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  Speaker 5: suspect was circulated among the merchants in the downtown and
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  Speaker 5: suburban shopping centers. Clerks were especially warned to be on
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  Speaker 5: the lookout for The precautions went for nothing. Grandma's checks
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  Speaker 5: kept showing up at the rate of two and three
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  Speaker 5: a day. On April twenty seventh, she passed a check
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  Speaker 5: for fifty dollars at the Delicate Tessa on Hollingwood, Bulevard.
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  Speaker 5: We drove out to interview the owner, mister Hammerston, do
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  Speaker 5: you have.
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  Speaker 8: One of those circulars we send out on this woman.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm ashamed to say it, sergeant, that I have
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  Speaker 3: hanging right back there in the storeroom. The thing of
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  Speaker 3: it is, I never connected the tool, the woman and
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  Speaker 3: the notice. It's the waste she looks at you, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I could be a healed even question.
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  Speaker 6: How was she dressed the last time?
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  Speaker 3: She was empty reminy, Well, she had kind of a
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  Speaker 3: plain black cold on now let's say, would you excuse
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  Speaker 3: me a minute.
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  Speaker 8: I don't like to keep customers waiting if you're going yes, ah.
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  Speaker 15: Missus lions need some cold meat. The kids lunches, well,
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  Speaker 15: you got nice and fresh you.
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  Speaker 3: See right there in the case head cheese is very fresh.
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  Speaker 3: Good for the kiddies. The mento loafs nice too.
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  Speaker 15: Kids don't like either one fussy? Better give me thirty
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  Speaker 15: five cents that small baloney.
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  Speaker 9: Would you?
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  Speaker 12: Yes, ma'am?
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  Speaker 16: Well, kids are so fussy nowadays, got to be in Europe,
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  Speaker 16: That's what I tell her.
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  Speaker 12: I know what it is.
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  Speaker 16: Oh, you better give me a couple of those large
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  Speaker 16: kosher pickles too.
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  Speaker 15: Husband's crazy for him, yes, ma'am. And the loaf of
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  Speaker 15: the rye to would you know?
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  Speaker 9: See?
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  Speaker 12: Yes? Are the kiddies doing in school? Missus Lyon fine?
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  Speaker 8: Mallon's in a school pageant next month. She's going to
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  Speaker 8: be the queen.
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  Speaker 12: Oh that's nice.
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  Speaker 15: I don't know how nice.
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  Speaker 14: It is.
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  Speaker 15: More work, that's all I have to make her costume.
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  Speaker 12: Here you are, missus Lyons, put it on the bell?
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, would you do that?
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  Speaker 15: I'll see you the fifteenth of the month.
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  Speaker 12: Right, Sorry to keep you waiting. Office and I tell I, see,
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  Speaker 12: now where was I?
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  Speaker 6: Well, we asked you how the woman was dressed.
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  Speaker 12: Oh yeah, I had a black coata and I told
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  Speaker 12: you that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, very plain looking clothes like any other housewife. Print dress,
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  Speaker 3: some kind of a scarf around the neck. That's about
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  Speaker 3: all I noticed.
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  Speaker 14: How about that description of her in the bulletinly sense
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  Speaker 14: you that's very pretty well?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I guess so.
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  Speaker 3: She didn't exactly seem plumped to me, though, kind of
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  Speaker 3: a nice figure for a woman of her age.
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  Speaker 6: You know, if any of your customers were acquainted with her.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't know that she acted as though she knew
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  Speaker 3: some of them. But now that this has happened, I
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  Speaker 3: can see she was just putting on. She was a
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  Speaker 3: great disappointment to see if she is to a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people. Mister Joshua her all the time. I'm a widower,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I thought once or twice I might even
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  Speaker 3: date her up. Yeah, she seemed like a real good
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  Speaker 3: sport joshing all the time, fine personality, just as homely
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  Speaker 3: as you please.
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  Speaker 6: That fits in with the other descriptions.
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  Speaker 12: Are you ever going to catch somebody like that?
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  Speaker 6: Two days later, on April thirtieth, right on schedule.
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  Speaker 5: The flow of bogus checks in Grandma's handwriting suddenly stopped up.
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  Speaker 5: If she continued to work for the same timetable she'd
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  Speaker 5: been using for the last nine years, she wouldn't start
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  Speaker 5: operations again until the first of October. During the next
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  Speaker 5: five months that followed, from May to the end of September,
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  Speaker 5: Besser Ferguson Ben and I handled the usual run up checkcases.
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  Speaker 5: At the same time, we used up every spare hour
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  Speaker 5: we had making preparations for the suspect's next appearance. Every
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  Speaker 5: businessman throughout the city who might be a possible victim
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  Speaker 5: was alerted. A revised description of the suspect, together with
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  Speaker 5: a ramo, was printed up and given wide distribution. Every
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  Speaker 5: possible precaution was taken. October came. Grandma started on the
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  Speaker 5: tenth year of her for three career without a hitch.
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  Speaker 5: On October first, she cast a check for seventy five
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  Speaker 5: dollars at a large downtown women's shop. As soon as
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  Speaker 5: we got the report, we went to the department where
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  Speaker 5: the check had been received.
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  Speaker 6: A fashion show was in progress.
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  Speaker 9: She carried.
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  Speaker 17: Shake there.
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  Speaker 18: He would notice them then skirting the doll be recorded.
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  Speaker 6: Please are you, mister Montrose.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, what is it?
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  Speaker 6: Police officers, sir? Forgery detail?
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  Speaker 9: Oh? Yes, that check.
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  Speaker 12: I wonder if you could hold on to just a moment.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, it and.
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  Speaker 17: Striking the originality with the rule line look and laughing
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  Speaker 17: fell a top of an acal deckline pluctuated the ball bridge.
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  Speaker 8: Thank Joe. What kind of outfit is that? The models wearing?
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  Speaker 8: Not much?
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  Speaker 6: Do it?
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  Speaker 8: All right?
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  Speaker 13: Officers would like to step this way please?
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  Speaker 8: Okay, this is my office here.
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  Speaker 13: Well, I don't know what I can do for you, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 8: Check was pasted, very unfortunate the currents you okay the
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  Speaker 8: check for canty?
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  Speaker 6: Is that correct? Yes?
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  Speaker 8: The sales girl handled the transaction.
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  Speaker 9: She showed me the check.
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  Speaker 14: I knew the signals, so I ocated Mary Walker. Yes,
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  Speaker 14: that's how his check is signed. What kind of identification
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  Speaker 14: of the woman? All her charge accomplate? You know, the
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  Speaker 14: small metal card charge of plates would go? I recognize
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  Speaker 14: that in the signature immediately.
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  Speaker 6: You know this Mary Walker pretty well.
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  Speaker 8: She's one of our best customers.
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  Speaker 4: You are listening to Dragnet authentic stories of your police
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  Speaker 4: force in action.
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  Speaker 5: Friday, October fourth, two pm, before we left the store,
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  Speaker 5: we found that another worthless check during the signature Mary
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  Speaker 5: Walker had been cast in a different department of the
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  Speaker 5: store the same day. The woman had used the same
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  Speaker 5: means of identification, a metal charge account plate stamped with
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  Speaker 5: the name Mary Walker. We took the two checks back
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  Speaker 5: to the office and had Don meyern handwriting compare the signatures.
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  Speaker 5: There wasn't any doubt in his mind the writing on
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  Speaker 5: both checks was Grandmaw's.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it was only a hunch.
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  Speaker 8: But it was beginning to look as though the suspect had.
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  Speaker 6: Finally done what we've been waiting nine years for her
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  Speaker 6: to do. She'd made a mistake.
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  Speaker 5: Then, and I drove out to an address in the
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  Speaker 5: Wilshire district to interview with missus Mary Walker. She fit
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  Speaker 5: the same general description of the suspect, but she denied
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  Speaker 5: writing either one of the checks, which bore her signature
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  Speaker 5: out of the question.
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  Speaker 16: Sergeant, I couldn't have written the checks. I haven't even
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  Speaker 16: been in the city for the past five days.
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  Speaker 8: Then the signatures on these two checks here, Missus Walker,
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  Speaker 8: they're not your.
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  Speaker 16: It looks like my handwriting, but it's not. I didn't
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  Speaker 16: write those checks. They are forgeries.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am, you do have a charge account the start uncemam.
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  Speaker 16: Oh, yes, I've had an account there for years. Nothing
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  Speaker 16: like this has ever happened though.
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  Speaker 14: You have one of those charge account plates, Well, yes
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  Speaker 14: I did have one.
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  Speaker 8: You lent it to someone in your family?
• 16:50
  Speaker 16: No, as a matter of fact, I lost it. I
• 16:53
  Speaker 16: meant to report it to the store, but it slipped
• 16:55
  Speaker 16: my mind.
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: Do you have any idea of where and when you
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: might have lost it?
• 16:59
  Speaker 16: Well, I think it was last Sunday night. I'm not sure.
• 17:03
  Speaker 16: Oh well, just a minute, I know who would remember,
• 17:07
  Speaker 16: and Nurse.
• 17:07
  Speaker 12: Lamber jes there.
• 17:08
  Speaker 15: I'm sure she'll remember, girlfriend's mine.
• 17:12
  Speaker 9: She lives in your neighborhood.
• 17:21
  Speaker 15: Hello, Amy Mary Water I married.
• 17:25
  Speaker 18: Oh just fine and you.
• 17:28
  Speaker 15: Oh good, it's day.
• 17:31
  Speaker 19: I knows which night was that we went to the
• 17:33
  Speaker 19: Boosters club meeting Sunday.
• 17:36
  Speaker 15: Yes, I thought that it was, oh nothing.
• 17:40
  Speaker 19: Just some silly misunderstanding. Well all right, Dinas, thanks for
• 17:46
  Speaker 19: remembering for me. Yes, goodbye.
• 17:51
  Speaker 16: It last Sunday night, charge and nights Lambert and I
• 17:54
  Speaker 16: went to the neighborhood Boosters club meeting.
• 17:56
  Speaker 15: I'm sure that's where I must have lost it.
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: So you think the charge account wait, fell out of
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: your purse isn't.
• 18:01
  Speaker 15: It neither that or it was taken?
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: Why do you say that?
• 18:04
  Speaker 15: Man, Well, it's a serious thing. I didn't want to
• 18:09
  Speaker 15: mention it.
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: What's that?
• 18:10
  Speaker 16: I left my purse on the chair next to me
• 18:13
  Speaker 16: part of the evening. When I got home, I thought
• 18:15
  Speaker 16: I was missing a five dollar bill for my change
• 18:18
  Speaker 16: pers I didn't notice at the time my charge of
• 18:21
  Speaker 16: plate was gone.
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: Do you remember who was at that meeting?
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: Was walking?
• 18:24
  Speaker 15: Oh, forty or fifty people at least?
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: How many women?
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: Would you say?
• 18:29
  Speaker 16: Dozens? So I suppose I am not accusing anybody robbery. Sergeant,
• 18:34
  Speaker 16: I know it's a serious charge to me.
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: You know if one of the club officers might have
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: taken a list of those present.
• 18:41
  Speaker 15: Oh, they didn't have to. We did the same thing
• 18:44
  Speaker 15: at every meeting.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: What's happening?
• 18:46
  Speaker 15: We all signed the attendance book when we leave.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: Three pm.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: Ben and I contacted the secretary of the Neighborhood Boosters
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: Club and gave us a list of those present at
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: the Sunday night meeting of the club. Mary Walker had
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: told us each person present had signed his or her
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: name and address in the attendants book. We took the
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: record downtown with us and had don Meyer compare each
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: signature on the list with samples of Grandma's handwriting.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: Number thirty two on the list.
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: Fellows, that's it positive. Make no doubt in my mind,
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: that's Grandma's handwriting. How she signed it, missus anas Lambert.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: We went down the hall to R and I and
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: had him check the name Anaz Lambert through the files.
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: She had no criminal record.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Together with Vesser and Ferguson, Been and I spent the
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: next day and a half trailing Aanz Lambert. Wherever she went.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: She fitted the description of the suspect perfectly. We questioned
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: her friends and their neighbors. We dug back into every
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: corner of her life for the past ten years. The
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: results were pretty amazing. We found that she was highly
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: respected by everybody she knew. She was active in a
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: dozen Civican church organizations. Her reputation was spotless. There was
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: only one hitch. Missus Lambert's hobby was charities. By checking back,
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: we found that during the past ten years, she donated
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: an average of three three thousand dollars annually to various
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: charitable organizations.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: Her husband's total.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Annual income was seven thousand dollars from her bank we
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: obtained specimen's Vinez Lambert's handwriting. It matched almost perfectly with
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: every signature in the Grandma file. Monday, October seventh. Then
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: and I call on missus Lambert.
• 20:16
  Speaker 18: Oh, yes, officers, won't you come in? Mary Walker was
• 20:20
  Speaker 18: telling me about you come in?
• 20:21
  Speaker 15: Pease?
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: Thank you?
• 20:22
  Speaker 12: Mary.
• 20:24
  Speaker 18: Mary told me about the things missing from her purse
• 20:26
  Speaker 18: at the meeting. Is that what you're inquiring about?
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am.
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: We've got a few other questions asked you besides that.
• 20:32
  Speaker 18: Well, you've sort of caught me at a bad time,
• 20:35
  Speaker 18: just getting ready to put some baking in the oven
• 20:37
  Speaker 18: for dinner tonight. Would you mind very much if we
• 20:39
  Speaker 18: talked back in the kitchen God to get this done?
• 20:42
  Speaker 14: Oh not at all, man, it's back this way.
• 20:48
  Speaker 18: Oh there goes my cream sauce again.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: Boiled over.
• 20:52
  Speaker 15: Just take a chair, their officers.
• 20:54
  Speaker 18: I'll be right with you.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: Thanks.
• 20:58
  Speaker 18: Cream sauce is so temperament. People can't take your eye
• 21:01
  Speaker 18: off it for a minute.
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: Okay, she boil over.
• 21:05
  Speaker 18: Now, would either of you officers care for a cup
• 21:09
  Speaker 18: of cocoa chili hot today?
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: Well, no, thank you, ma'am. We only have a few
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: questions for.
• 21:13
  Speaker 18: It won't take long, Yes, all right. Would you mind
• 21:16
  Speaker 18: holding this bull just a minute?
• 21:18
  Speaker 15: Sergeant?
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: Oh, oh yeah, I just.
• 21:20
  Speaker 18: Have to get this in the oven for dinner. My
• 21:22
  Speaker 18: husband's favorite dessert. It's called pinch pie. It's kind of
• 21:26
  Speaker 18: meringue tart.
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: Let's see. Take two eggs.
• 21:30
  Speaker 18: I mean there we are that these egg whites beaten
• 21:37
  Speaker 18: up nice and light that cup of sugar on the sink, sergeant,
• 21:41
  Speaker 18: would you be so kind?
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, beg you sugar, ma'am, thank you.
• 21:48
  Speaker 18: Now, what is it you wanted to know?
• 21:51
  Speaker 14: Missus Walker had her charge act place stolen that night
• 21:54
  Speaker 14: at the Busters sub meeting.
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: Somebody's been using it to catch bad checks in her name?
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: Is that so?
• 22:00
  Speaker 18: Mary didn't tell me that the.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: Same person who's using that charger plate has been cashing
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: bad checks all over the cities.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: He's been doing it for some time.
• 22:07
  Speaker 18: Oh my, well, I don't think I can help you, Sergeant.
• 22:11
  Speaker 18: I went to that meeting with Mary. She says. Somebody
• 22:14
  Speaker 18: must have been in her purse, but I didn't see them.
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: Do you have that charge account plate, missus Lambert, Oh.
• 22:20
  Speaker 18: No, I have my own.
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: I'll let me see.
• 22:23
  Speaker 18: He's chum vanilla, he'ssum vinegar wolf combined in a small.
• 22:29
  Speaker 15: Picture or cup.
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: We've got good reason to believe you have that charge
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: account plate, ma'am? Did you take it from Missus Walker.
• 22:36
  Speaker 18: That's a silly thing for you to say, Sergeant. I
• 22:38
  Speaker 18: told you I have my own charge plate and never
• 22:40
  Speaker 18: borrow anyone else. There's no reason to add a few
• 22:44
  Speaker 18: drops of combined litus constantly.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: Did you cash two checks last week and sign them
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: with Missus Walker's name?
• 22:52
  Speaker 15: Of course not.
• 22:52
  Speaker 18: Why should I do such a thing. Mary Walker is
• 22:55
  Speaker 18: one of my best friends. I wouldn't do that to her,
• 22:57
  Speaker 18: even as a joke.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Compared the signatures on those two checks, Missus Lambert, Both
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: of them match your handwriting.
• 23:05
  Speaker 18: And all the ingredients have been added. Continue to beat
• 23:09
  Speaker 18: the meringue for several minutes. Oh, I'm sorry if what
• 23:14
  Speaker 18: was that you said? Sergeant?
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: I said that the signatures on those two forwarded checks,
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: our handwriting man compared them with specimens of your signature.
• 23:23
  Speaker 18: They both matt Well, then your handwriting man certainly made
• 23:26
  Speaker 18: a mistake. There's a large white platter up on that
• 23:29
  Speaker 18: cupboard there.
• 23:29
  Speaker 15: Would you beat you for me? Please?
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: There you are, ma'am?
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: Well, thank you?
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: Now you deny that you wrote those two forged checks
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: last week. You deny that you've written in cash about
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: fifteen hundred worthless checks in the last nine years.
• 23:49
  Speaker 18: Of course I deny it.
• 23:50
  Speaker 15: You're sure you haven't made a mistake.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: We're sure, ma'am. I'm sorry. You'll have to come downtown
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: with us for questions.
• 23:58
  Speaker 14: Oh what's that?
• 23:59
  Speaker 18: Oh man, it's the cream sauce again, Sergeant. I can't
• 24:11
  Speaker 18: leave the house now, right in the middle of getting
• 24:13
  Speaker 18: dinner ready. My husband to be furious. If you want
• 24:16
  Speaker 18: to talk, couldn't do it later on?
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, man, I'm afraid not.
• 24:20
  Speaker 18: But you certainly can't accuse me of doing anything wrong.
• 24:23
  Speaker 18: The folks at the church will vouch for me.
• 24:25
  Speaker 14: We've got just as many people who say you've cheated them,
• 24:28
  Speaker 14: people who catch those checks for you, quite a few.
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: Of them, ma'am.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: Nine years worth.
• 24:33
  Speaker 18: But that's silly, nine years cash and checks. I'm sure
• 24:36
  Speaker 18: you must mean somebody else, Sergeant. I've got to get
• 24:39
  Speaker 18: this platter grease. Let's see keep lorringue upon lightly greased
• 24:44
  Speaker 18: platters here.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Look, we have a record downtown on every single check
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: that you passed since you started.
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: Man, We've got.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Specimens of your handwriting and people to identify them. We
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: know what your income is, we know how much that
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: you've given to charities.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: Moneys have got to come from someplace.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: Is that what the checks were for?
• 25:09
  Speaker 18: Excuse me, I've got to get this money in the
• 25:11
  Speaker 18: ovens to seventy five degrees.
• 25:20
  Speaker 15: Yeah, I hope we'll put in enough for Milla.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: No one tell us about it.
• 25:38
  Speaker 18: I never thought about anyone finding out. I guess I
• 25:42
  Speaker 18: should have expected it, shouldn't I it was all for charity.
• 25:49
  Speaker 18: There were so many of them. Or if its Old
• 25:52
  Speaker 18: People's Home, Christmas Poor Fund and then the overseas relief charities.
• 25:58
  Speaker 18: They all need money. Somebody has to take care of them.
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: Your husband knew nothing about this for ten.
• 26:05
  Speaker 18: Years, nothing at all. They were my charities. I had
• 26:10
  Speaker 18: to have money for them. I took money from people
• 26:13
  Speaker 18: who had it and gave it to those who didn't.
• 26:17
  Speaker 18: What do you think a sergeant was I wrong? Do
• 26:22
  Speaker 18: you think the Good Lord will say.
• 26:23
  Speaker 15: I was wrong?
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't know, ma'am.
• 26:26
  Speaker 18: Only wanted to help the poor like he did. I
• 26:29
  Speaker 18: came to help the poor.
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: Oh there's a big difference, ma'am. Yes, he didn't use
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: a check book.
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: All the story you have just heard was true, only
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: the names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: On December eighteenth, trial was held in Superior Court Department
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: ninety one, said the in County of Los Angeles, State
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: of California, in a moment the results of that trial.
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: Now here is our star, Jack Webb.
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: The efficiency of any local police department depends on the
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: quality of its personnel. Each and every man is carefully
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: selected and thoroughly trained. In uniform or plane closed. Your
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: police officer knows his job.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Miez Lorraine Lambert and her a plea of guilty to
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: two counts of forgery and the remaining charges were set
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: off calendar. She was sentenced by the court for the
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: term prescribed by law. You have just heard Dragnet a
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice comes
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: from the office of Chief of Police W. H. Parker,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Los Angeles Police Department.
• 27:44
  Speaker 12: This is Robert Young. Here we the people next on NBC.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Welcome a great case and I think it showcases the
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: strength of Dragnet in being able to really bring out
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the dramatic elements in dealing with cases that don't involve
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: violent crime and the idea that the combination of the
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: pro and amateur together posed this challenge for the police
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: that went on for nine years is really fascinating. Of course,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: as in many of dragnet cases, it came down to
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: her making a mistake, just like Friday thought, and that
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: mistake was a purely amateur one, taking the charger plate
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: of someone you knew and doing it at a meeting
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: where everyone had to sign in. But you have to
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: say that she really remained dedicated to her character and
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: to really leaning into that reputation and appearance brought up
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: till the end. How unflappable she was while being questioned
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: was just fascinating. I found myself thinking, how would Poirot
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: react if somebody was this calm and cool while he
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: laid out the case for why they were guilty. I
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: have some new thoughts on her question at the end,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: regarding the rightness of her action, her point that she
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: was doing it for charity, and the quasi religious justification
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: for it. It been something I thought about over the years. Obviously,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: there's points about the over morality of stealing, and you
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: could also explain from a Christian perspective how this is
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: not an appropriate way to do charity. To me, What
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: really impressed me this time is that there's harm beyond
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: whatever money she stole from the merchant, and whether it's
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: a question of whether the merchant could eat it or not.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: She just seemed to assume just because the merchant cast
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: a check, they had money to burn. Obviously not the case.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: But that's not even the biggest long term thing, because
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: we live in a low trust society, and part of
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the reason for that is that there have been people
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: who have been dishonest and manipulated others for some sort
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: of stated good in You could come up with all
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: kinds of examples, some of them controversial. I won't give
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: specifics here, but in most cases these good means are
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: either secondary or just lies people tell themselves to justify
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: doing the wrong things they want to do. And as
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: a result of that, our ability to trust each other
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: has been undermined. And so when she's committing this crime,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: using people's trust and rest for older motherly women, and
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: being this masterful manipulator, she is really doing far more
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: damage than just taking people's money. I remember the shopkeeper
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: talking about being disappointed she didn't just cheat him, she
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: undermined his trust in his fellow man and that sort
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: of thing does far more damage than we might credit.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: I think the way that we've gotten to where we
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: are with our lack of trust in society isn't one
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: big things, but a lot of little things that have
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: happened that have been in the news, that have happened
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: to people individually. It's death by a thousand paper cuts,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: and this is the type of action that, in a
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: small way, contributed to that. I will also say that
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the actress was magnificent in this role. I've heard this
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: episode multiple times. I've seen the TV episode as well,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: and there was still a small voice in my head
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: that was like, are we sure they got the right
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: woman here. You also have to admire the sound effects
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: work on Dragnet. It does have me a bit spoiled,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: you know. I'll listen to other programs and they say,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: you know, we're at a location like we're going down
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: to a bowling alley, we're going to a bar, we're
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: going to a casino, and they don't do any sound
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: effect works to make you feel like you're listening to
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: something happening in a bar or casino, or it is
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: just very bare minimum and drag Now you actually get
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: to hear people order groceries and you get a fashion show.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: And the ordering groceries part was interesting. For the throwaway
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: line about her picky children, it does suggest that the
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: parents of those of us who grew up in the
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: eighties and told us about children in Africa may have
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: ripped off their own parents' line, but just changed it
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: from war torn Europe. It does seem like we are
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: progressively getting more picky about food, and maybe that for
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: better or for worse, the mental loaf is still around.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I hadn't noticed it, but it apparently it's hiding somewhere
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: in the deli case. I just hadn't seen. But headcheese
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: seems to be a bit more of a specialty item
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: here in the US for those who like it, you know,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: you can find somewhere, but it is not likely to
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: end up in any kid's launches. All right. Well, now
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we have
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: a comment from Spotify regarding the big pair the Lions.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: I wrote, what do you get for a wedding present
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: when you leave it to a man to pick it out?
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: An anti apple peeler?
• 33:43
  Speaker 19: Now there.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I'd never thought of it as just a man issue.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: That that was what Ben Romero picked out. I'd like
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: to think that even without the benefits of modern wedding registries,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: that there were men who were more aware than Sergeant
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Romero about what you actually needed to set up housekeeping.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: And like I said, it's a bit surprising that they
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: end up doing that because he is actually a married man,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: though I don't know, maybe there were more guys who,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: even if they're married, they didn't really understand what went
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: into setting up the house. I'd at least use the
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: phone a friend and you know, call your wife. But
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: be that as it may. Then we have a comment
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: on YouTube. This one's not regarding Dragnet. It's actually regarding
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: our four thousand, three hundred and fiftieth episode special, which
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: is the Hollywood Star Playhouse presentation of Hotspot. And usually
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: I don't read out comments regarding episodes that old, just
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: because either you know, you have new people in the audience,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: or we all can't retain all the details of all
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the episodes we played. But this one was kind of
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: an interesting comment and struck me as relevant to dragging that,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: so I'll go ahead and read it. Mechanic six six
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: ' eighty two writes Hatam. I've been listening to about
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty of these stories, and I can't
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: recall a single time a suspect ever asked for a lawyer.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: It's not believable that a big Hollywood agent would be
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: interrogated and harassed by cops and never call a lawyer.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Same with all of the suspects miss On, Mister Chameleon
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: and most other shows. I know that these were before Miranda,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: but rich people and most criminals knew of their right,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: thank you so much, And that is a good point.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I would say that there are mentions of bringing in
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: a lawyer or a lawyer being called in. That happened
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: every now and again, but it's surprise infrequent. It's part
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  Speaker 1: of the dramatic style, and honestly, lawyers got too involved.
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  Speaker 1: It would be kind of hard to get many of
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  Speaker 1: these episodes done in half an hour. One of the
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  Speaker 1: big episodes where a lawyer got involved in a case
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: quite a bit was the Dragonnet episode Eric Kelby, where
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: in fact Friday and Romero sat out to try to
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: find some way to question this guy apart from his lawyer,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: who would get him to clam up and he wouldn't
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: provide any information, but thanks so much for the observation.
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  Speaker 1: And then we have a comment from Saysoft, and this
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  Speaker 1: one is on Bulldog Drumming Adam. A few weeks ago
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  Speaker 1: someone commented how bad the English accents of the two
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  Speaker 1: Bulldog Drumming Star sound. In reality, there are other examples
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  Speaker 1: of Americans with bad English accents that are even worse.
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  Speaker 1: The earliest example I know about is the movie Hell's Angels,
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  Speaker 1: which was produced by Howard Hughes in nineteen thirty. Although
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: it was a story about the British Royal Air Force
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: during World War One, Hughes hired all American actors who
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  Speaker 1: didn't even attempt to affect in English accent. The worst
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  Speaker 1: one of the bunch was Gen Harlowe. The movie isn't
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  Speaker 1: all that bad, but it is marred by having American
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  Speaker 1: actors who didn't even attempt to speak with the proper accents.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Fast forward to the nineteen sixties and we have Dick
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  Speaker 1: Van Dyke trying to speak with a Cockney accent in
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: the movie Mary Poppins. He was a total failure getting
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: that accent right and was roundly criticized for it. The
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  Speaker 1: third and final example I know of about is Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Costner's version of Robin Hood. I never saw that movie,
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  Speaker 1: but apparently Costner's English accent was so bad that mel
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Brooks had the Robin Hood character men in tights say
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  Speaker 1: something to the effect unlike other Robin Hoods, I can
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  Speaker 1: speak with the proper English accents. Of course, he was
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  Speaker 1: referring to Costner, So compared with these three examples, I'll
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  Speaker 1: just say that the English accents of The Bulldog Drumming
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  Speaker 1: Stars are actually pretty good, fair point, and probably part
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  Speaker 1: of the reason why I didn't really complain about the
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  Speaker 1: accents myself. I think that the way they did it
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  Speaker 1: was fine for the time, and there were four worse accents,
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  Speaker 1: and I would say that would go on both sides
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  Speaker 1: of the Atlantic. There were some pretty really rubbish British
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  Speaker 1: plain American people in various British productions, probably into the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen nineties. Thanks so much, appreciate the comments, says Off.
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  Speaker 20: I often to give you a lift a headquarters, Yes, wearing,
• 39:40
  Speaker 20: so you could pump me about the Eberhart case.
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  Speaker 2: Well a lot of good it did me.
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  Speaker 8: I told you all we know wearing, which adds up.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: To a big fat zero.
• 39:47
  Speaker 13: You haven't any more on a missing patient than I have.
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: If there is a missing patient.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: There is, Sergeant, you'll know there is no no nowhere.
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  Speaker 20: It's just because you stuck your neck out. Don't expect
• 39:57
  Speaker 20: me to follow. Look, I said I'd find that character
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  Speaker 20: for a call, and I will more power to you
• 40:02
  Speaker 20: after Oh, there are only ten million people in New York.
• 40:05
  Speaker 21: That's right, So why couldn't at least one of them
• 40:07
  Speaker 21: have seen this guy?
• 40:08
  Speaker 8: Still, assuming there is such a guy.
• 40:10
  Speaker 21: Oh, why couldn't he have left the clue? Why isn't
• 40:13
  Speaker 21: there something one easily lead to his identity? Why can't
• 40:17
  Speaker 21: I keep my big mouth.
• 40:18
  Speaker 8: Shut of that? Wearing?
• 40:20
  Speaker 21: Is the question promising missus eebahat, I've planned the guy
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  Speaker 21: when there's not a single thing.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: To go on, don't worry.
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: Just leave it to me.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Everything is going to.
• 40:28
  Speaker 20: Be all right.
• 40:29
  Speaker 21: You know something, COVID, I must be nuts wearing For
• 40:33
  Speaker 21: the first time in my life, I'm inclined to agree
• 40:37
  Speaker 21: with you.
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