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Dragnet - "Big Car" (Old Time Radio, 1950) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Four months of food market holdups have kept Los Angeles
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  Speaker 1: Robbery Detail busy, and the reports point to a well dressed,
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  Speaker 1: armed man whose method leaves detectives little to work with.
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  Speaker 1: Then a fire engine read new Pontiac enters the picture.
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  Speaker 1: A detailed Sergeant Joe Friday and Sergeant Ben Romero must
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  Speaker 1: weigh against every other lead. From NBC's Dragnet, starring Jack
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  Speaker 1: Webb as Friday and Barton Yarborough as Romero. This is
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  Speaker 1: Big Car, episode seventy seven, first heard November thirtieth, nineteen fifty.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: The case moves from robbery bulletins to interviews and citywide
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  Speaker 1: checking as the detective sorts solid evidence from misleading information.
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  Speaker 1: And now our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: The story you're about to hear is true, only the
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  Speaker 2: names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 2: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery detail. In
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  Speaker 2: four months, fifteen food markets in your city have been
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  Speaker 2: held up and run the bandit is well dressed, well armed.
• 1:24
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• 2:36
  Speaker 3: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 3: next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 3: you will travel step by step on the side of
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  Speaker 3: the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files,
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  Speaker 3: from beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is
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  Speaker 3: the story of your police force and action.
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  Speaker 2: It was Monday, February twelve. It was cold and say
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  Speaker 2: we were working the night watch out of Robberie detail.
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  Speaker 2: My partner's Ben Romero, the boss's dad Brown, cheap of detectives.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Friday.
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  Speaker 5: It was nine forty eight pm when we got the
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  Speaker 5: room twenty five, a interrogation room.
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  Speaker 2: I have a chair, mister Potard. Thanks, No, what is
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  Speaker 2: it that you wanted to tell us? Well? Do you
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  Speaker 2: have a cigarette? Please? Yeah? There you are. Thanks. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a little nervous. This never happened to me before, so
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  Speaker 2: I after I thought it over, I knew it wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be any use to keep it up. I knew you'd
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  Speaker 2: find me. Well. I got quite full of it. I
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  Speaker 2: want to confess, that's why I came here. I knew
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  Speaker 2: what I was doing wrong. I just couldn't help myself.
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  Speaker 2: What have you done? I'm not trying to defend myself
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  Speaker 2: and needed money, that's all. Wasn't anything else I could do.
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  Speaker 2: But we still don't know what you're talking about. Pollock
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  Speaker 2: been after me four months, so maybe you recognized me
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  Speaker 2: from the description. Some of the people must have seen
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  Speaker 2: me those food market holdups. Do you pull those robberies
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  Speaker 2: by yourself? Yeah? Fifteen them needed the money. Pollard? Is
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  Speaker 2: that your true name? That's right, ye have Frank boy,
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  Speaker 2: have you ever been arrested before? Drunk charge? Just so,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why I went wrong it just did.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever done any big time? Now? Why do
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  Speaker 2: you want to confess? I get it off my mind.
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  Speaker 2: I want to tell somebody, everybody. Okay, call him newspapers now,
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  Speaker 2: I'll give him a whole story. I'll tell them everything.
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  Speaker 2: How many of those markets did you hold up? Polly fifteen?
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  Speaker 2: And you said you needed the money? Is that right? Why?
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  Speaker 2: Personal reasons? Look, you've got to light again the smokes out?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he was pretty much the same routine and all
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  Speaker 6: of the hold.
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  Speaker 2: Ups, is that right? Yeah? I only pulled one job
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  Speaker 2: a week. I figured that was the safest way. Dressed
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  Speaker 2: pretty well like a salesman. Always had a briefcase with me.
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  Speaker 2: Said will you carrying the gun? Yeah? Always worked too,
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  Speaker 2: and show up at posing time, get the manager in
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  Speaker 2: the back room, and then pull Hyes, what kind of
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  Speaker 2: a gun did you use? Service? Pistol? I had it
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  Speaker 2: from when I was in the army. How do you
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  Speaker 2: usually work it? Oh? When I got the manager alone
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  Speaker 2: in the back office, I'd just pulled a gun and
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  Speaker 2: I'd say, give me the money. All of it. They
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  Speaker 2: knew I wasn't fooling. They give me the dog.
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  Speaker 5: We don't seem to fit the holdup man's descriptions too closely.
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  Speaker 5: Did you wear a mask on those jobs there?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it did, sometimes it didn't. How about the man
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  Speaker 2: who worked with you is he wasn't anybody else, just
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  Speaker 2: me worked them alone. That's where you cops are wrong.
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  Speaker 2: You thought there were two of us and it was
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  Speaker 2: out So yeah, boiled every job by myself. That's where
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  Speaker 2: I crossed you up. And anyway I was doing, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't need any help. But how about that market out
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  Speaker 2: of the West seventh that you held up last night?
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  Speaker 2: Did you pull that one alone too?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure I always worked alone because I had you
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  Speaker 2: guys going huh. Guess Joey doesn't come very close and
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  Speaker 2: man after he doesn't use the service pistol, He never
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  Speaker 2: wears a mask. What do you guys get in that?
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  Speaker 2: I told you I pull those robberies. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how it happened. I used the service pistol. Did you
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  Speaker 2: use it and let robbery last night that went out
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  Speaker 2: on West Seventh? Sure? I always used the same gun.
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  Speaker 2: Last night was no different. They're wasting time, mister. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: I just want to confess there wasn't any robbery last night.
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  Speaker 2: On further questioning the suspect, Frank Hollard broke down and
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  Speaker 2: admitted his confession was a lie.
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  Speaker 5: He explained that he wanted the publicity to impress a girlfriend.
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  Speaker 2: We had him finger credit and delivered him to the
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  Speaker 2: Georgia Street Hospital. Detail was filed on and then we
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  Speaker 2: moved to.
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  Speaker 5: The psychopathic ward at the Coulie Hospital for further examination
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  Speaker 5: and treatment. Our four month old search for the market
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  Speaker 5: Bandit went on.
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  Speaker 2: In the two weeks that followed. We tracked down more leaves.
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  Speaker 2: They led nowhere.
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  Speaker 5: The real market Bandit was still at large. On the
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  Speaker 5: night of February twenty fifth, he hit again, this time
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  Speaker 5: at a supermarket out on Santa Monica Boulevard. We interviewed
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  Speaker 5: the manager of mister Harry Talbot in his small office
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  Speaker 5: at the rear of the store.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I should have known better. He got the
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  Speaker 2: bullet and you sent out on the guys description everything.
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  Speaker 2: I just wasn't thinking. I guess he came in the
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  Speaker 2: market just before closing time, Is that right? Yeah, A
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  Speaker 2: couple of minutes after eight look well addressed, had a
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  Speaker 2: briefcase under his arm. I fell forward like the rest
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  Speaker 2: of him. I thought he was a salesman. How about
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  Speaker 2: the man's descriptions about five foot eleven hundred and seventy pounds.
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  Speaker 2: I guess gray suit, it's the same description you have
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  Speaker 2: carried up in the paper. Was anyone else a run
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  Speaker 2: when the man came in the door. One of my clerks,
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  Speaker 2: Everett Smiley, he saw him leave and get in a
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  Speaker 2: car right after the robbery. Was this clerk still around?
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  Speaker 2: He'd like talked to him, but he went down the
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  Speaker 2: street and he'll be right back, and maybe that's him.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, mister Talbot, do you remember me missus Bolton?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 8: Last ask you a favor, mister Talbot as an old customer.
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  Speaker 2: I'm tied up right now. Man, Could I see you
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  Speaker 2: a little later on? I don't come in.
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  Speaker 8: You see, we're having our annual benefit PAS party down
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  Speaker 8: at the community church. They were going to have it
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  Speaker 8: next Thursday, but I made them put it off another
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  Speaker 8: week so we could get some decent prizes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 9: Of course, lots of our people.
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  Speaker 8: Are good customers of the store here, so I knew
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  Speaker 8: you'd be willing to give something to the prize.
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  Speaker 2: Listen.
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, shall I put you down to one of
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  Speaker 8: the door prizes, maybe two or three market baskets full
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  Speaker 8: of can corn.
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  Speaker 2: Pease things like that. Yeah, okay, missus Bolton. I'll have
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  Speaker 2: ever fixed him up tomorrow, of course.
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  Speaker 8: Well, thank you very much, mister Talbot. I'll have my
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  Speaker 8: boy Robert fix him up tomorrow. You'll have the best fixed.
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  Speaker 2: Up, real nice, won't you, Yes, ma'am, I'll take care
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  Speaker 2: of thank you. Goodbye, goodbye, ma'am, goodbye, gentlemen. Mister Talbot,
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if you could tell us what happened after
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  Speaker 2: you got back here in your office with a hold
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  Speaker 2: up man. It happened pretty fast. He reached into the
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  Speaker 2: briefcase he was carrying like he was going to get
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  Speaker 2: his order book, and he came up with this gun.
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  Speaker 2: He told me to open that safe there, but I stopped.
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  Speaker 2: I said, I didn't know off and I said, and
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  Speaker 2: that's when he started telling me what he'd do to
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  Speaker 2: my family, my wife if I didn't open the safe.
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  Speaker 2: He knew all about us, my address, my wife's name,
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  Speaker 2: my kids. He said he'd get them if I didn't
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  Speaker 2: do what I was told. Same Amo never failed him.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you do then? Tell it? Money's not worth that
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  Speaker 2: much to me. I opened the safe and gave him everything,
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  Speaker 2: a little over four hundred dollars. I still don't know how
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  Speaker 2: I got that information about my family. Do you have
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  Speaker 2: any suspicions at all? No, nobody I can think of.
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  Speaker 2: How about the gunning ed? Can you describe me? But
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  Speaker 2: just like you haven't listed in that bulletin on him
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  Speaker 2: thirty eight revolver blue steel long bow. Come on in
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  Speaker 2: and officers, this is my clerk, Everett Smiley. I am sorry,
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  Speaker 2: I forgot your name.
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  Speaker 5: Friday and Romero, Robert Y Tampton, Hi and Richard Talbot
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  Speaker 5: says that.
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  Speaker 2: You saw the hold up man leaving the market? Is right? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's right. He walked right out of the store and
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  Speaker 2: down the street, just like nothing happened. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: anything was wrong till later. Did you notice that the
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  Speaker 2: men got in the car? Yeah? I did. Car was
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  Speaker 2: parked about halfway down the block. Another guy was driving
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: motor was running to catch the license number. No, but
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  Speaker 2: it was a brand new sa'dan a Pontiac. I think
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  Speaker 2: you shouldn't have much trouble finding it without a license number. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's a brand new car. I remember the color. I
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  Speaker 2: couldn't forget that, you know, bright red, just like a
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  Speaker 2: fire engine.
• 10:19
  Speaker 5: Ninety percent of the time, color identification of the car
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  Speaker 5: means nothing. For one thing, a getaway car can be
• 10:24
  Speaker 5: painted in the matter of a few hours. And for another,
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  Speaker 5: the color of a vehicle is not listed on the
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  Speaker 5: registration slip. It's impossible to check a car through DMV
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  Speaker 5: on color alone.
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  Speaker 2: But in this case we figured that we had half
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  Speaker 2: an exception to the rule. The car used and the
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  Speaker 2: robbery was new.
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  Speaker 5: Was painted a very distinctive color. We began an immediate
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  Speaker 5: canvas of automobile dealers.
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  Speaker 2: Throughout the city.
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  Speaker 5: After a day and a half of calling and checking,
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  Speaker 5: we found two dealers would sold two new cars within
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  Speaker 5: recent weeks with fire engine.
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  Speaker 2: Red paint jobs. We got the names and addresses of
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  Speaker 2: the purchases and check them out. One of them was
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  Speaker 2: a MISMOONA Taylor, an ad taker for one of the
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: daily morning papers. I'm sorry to body that you're working,
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  Speaker 2: stay not at all.
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  Speaker 9: Most of it's over for today.
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  Speaker 5: What if you want to know we understand that you
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  Speaker 5: bought a new Ponti accident about three weeks ago.
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: Is that correct? Yes? I did. Oh.
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  Speaker 9: If this is about that parking, take it like I've
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  Speaker 9: already taken care of it.
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: No, man, that's not it. We just like to know
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  Speaker 2: if you're still own that car.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I don't own it yet, I'm still paying on it.
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  Speaker 2: Color is there? Bright red? Is that right? Yes?
• 11:24
  Speaker 9: It is fire engine red. I like bright color.
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: Well, does anyone else beside yourself drive the cars tailing? Well?
• 11:30
  Speaker 9: Yes, once in a while I lend it to my
• 11:31
  Speaker 9: boyfriend now Al Daily acting on.
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  Speaker 2: Him prolonged time. Excuse me, that's not as Miss Taylor. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they're a two room apartment. I'm finished, all right. You
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  Speaker 2: got to smoke?
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  Speaker 9: Yes you Beverly Hills.
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  Speaker 10: Eighty dollars?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yes, sir, Tomorrow Morning edition, Yes, two for two days?
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  Speaker 2: Did I have your name of the telephone numbers? Thanks you, sir.
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: I loot this friend of yours, Miss Taylor, and this
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  Speaker 2: Al Daily. How long have you been landing him your car?
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  Speaker 9: Since he got his new salesman's job, got to make
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  Speaker 9: night calls on customers out in the valley, so I
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  Speaker 9: let him have a car.
• 12:16
  Speaker 5: Usually about once a week when's the last time that
• 12:19
  Speaker 5: he borrowed the commis two nights ago.
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: Mona Taylor. We got the address of her boyfriend, Al Daily.
• 12:27
  Speaker 5: We located him in a rooming house on South Boulevard Avenue.
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  Speaker 5: He admitted he borrowed the Taylor girl's car the night before,
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: but he denied that he drove it anywhere in the
• 12:34
  Speaker 5: vicinity of the robbery.
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: How about your friend, Jimmy Bray, I don't know. I
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: owned the car. That's all. He gave me. Thirty bucks. Well,
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: that's an awful lot of rental money. Why did he
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: need a car, Savann? I don't know. Let's ask Ken.
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: Where's he stayed? Followed hotel? Thanks for the flop. You
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: go over to see him, now, that's right? Why? Well,
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: I thought if you were going over they he wouldn't
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: mind taking this with He left in the car when
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: he brought it back his briefcase. I'm Savado, it's a matter.
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: It's all a pus about a briefcase. Yeah, what is it?
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: Let's see? All right? You get an answer for that? Daily?
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: Sure a funny place to keep a drum.
• 13:25
  Speaker 5: We took our Daily downtown where he was held for questioning.
• 13:28
  Speaker 5: We had a steakhout placed on his rooming house. We
• 13:30
  Speaker 5: had both Daily and Bray check through R and I.
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: No criminal record.
• 13:34
  Speaker 5: The briefcase and the thirty eight revolver were booked as
• 13:36
  Speaker 5: evidence with the property clerk.
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  Speaker 2: There was no record of prints on the gun.
• 13:39
  Speaker 5: The Taylor Girl's car was impounded to be checked for fingerprints.
• 13:43
  Speaker 5: Seven PM, we drove out to the Bible Hotel on
• 13:45
  Speaker 5: eighth and Flower. The room clerk confirmed the fact that
• 13:48
  Speaker 5: Jimmy Bray was a registered guest at the hotel.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: We want to call the office too, Yeah, all right,
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  Speaker 2: I'll do it.
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  Speaker 10: You got changed, Yeah, I think yeah, Okay.
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: City Hall robbery powers, Jeff Briddy, John, We're at at
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: Bray's hotel. We're gonna take it out. He's not in yet.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: That's what I think of. What do you mean? Market
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  Speaker 2: out on twelve Street was held up a minute ago.
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  Speaker 2: Bandit carry briefcase.
• 14:45
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• 16:12
  Speaker 5: After checking Bray's room and finding nothing, Ben and I
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: remained on stake out at the Bartler Hotel.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: The suspect failed to show up. At midnight, Young and
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Mackenzie came out and relieved us.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: We drove back to the office and got the particulars
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: on the hold up of the Twelfth Street market. The
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: mo was almost exactly the same as in the other
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: sixteen robberies. The victims description of the hold up man
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: matched perfectly with Braves. By noon the next day, the
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: suspects still had not returned to his hotel.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: An intensive canvas.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Of the immediate neighborhood around the Bartler Hotel needs nothing.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Nobody remembered Bray.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: We checked the bars and restaurants that he was known
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: to patronize.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: No one had any idea where he might be. Details
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: at the airport, railroad stations, and bus terminals were alerted.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: We got out a supplementary description on our original APB.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: The Sheriff's office was kept advised has passed. Still no
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: sign The questioned and requestioned al daily. Either he couldn't
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: or he wouldn't add anything the way he'd already told
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  Speaker 2: us about Bray.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: A series of stakeouts replaced at food markets and areas
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  Speaker 5: where Bray had staged robberies previously. A composite picture of
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: the suspect was made up and given wide distributions throughout
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: the city.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: It all went for nothing.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: The following Tuesday, March for it, Ray robbed the neighborhood
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: market in the Island Park of one hundred and fifty dollars.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: I had to give him the money, Sogeant he fpt
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: in my wife and kids, said he'd see something happened
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: with them if I didn't open the safe. Did you
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: say ward blows? That's right, I thought I didn't dry,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: but first salesman wearing gloves like that, didn't think about
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: it till it was too late. Did you notice if
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: he was on foot or did he get away in
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: a car? He had a car all right, fought down
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: the street. That saw through the window. Another fellow was
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: at the wheel. Did you notice anything else about the car?
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: The license number? Maybe no, I couldn't see that. But
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: it was a coup I'm sure of that, eh.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: It was red, bright red. It was one angle we
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: could figure. Bray has been on a steady career of robbery.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: Why did he use an escape car painted the most
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: conspicuous color possible. We checked out Mona Taylor's car again,
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: there was no connection. The search went on two weeks,
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: three weeks, another month.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Bray kept to his usual schedule, one robbery a week.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: The legwork went on too.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: On March twentieth, we got a call from one of
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: Ben's informants. He told us that he'd seen a man
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: answering Bray's description in the Venice Park amusement area down
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: to the beach.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: When we drove out of Venice to check it out.
• 18:30
  Speaker 12: What a good card for a cold nine?
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Where do we find a print of yours?
• 18:35
  Speaker 12: See why they might go around?
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Here's up ahead?
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just beyond that.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: They run front of the pools. You throw baseballs. It's
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: pony milk.
• 18:42
  Speaker 12: Bobby's three cass a front dime, you know, Yeah, he
• 18:45
  Speaker 12: and his wife running.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: They been out here for years. I don't know how
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: they ever make a living.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Eh.
• 18:50
  Speaker 12: They those hot dogs smelt good, don't they. That's your
• 18:58
  Speaker 12: friend's blue across away there?
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they control them.
• 19:06
  Speaker 12: Lest the girls have a free throw when it's looks
• 19:09
  Speaker 12: like mag's running in place tonight, mad, that's just wh
• 19:12
  Speaker 12: Yeah you don't side this all right?
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: This is my partner, Joe Friday.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, glad to know you, Joe.
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: Guess you look at the scooter.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Huh yeah, you know just down the way.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Sh Hey, hell us, they let try.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Your luck on sid time.
• 19:26
  Speaker 12: Were the good crowds in that? Mom?
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, okay, not spend them Husbland.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Good at all lately? What'd you say? Your husband was?
• 19:32
  Speaker 12: Man just down the way, old man husband's out the
• 19:35
  Speaker 12: child get.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: It runs the America on for now. Thank you, mom.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Let's drop back and see before we leave.
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 19:40
  Speaker 12: Glad to meet you, Yeah, I glad to meet you
• 19:42
  Speaker 12: by Control Scooters.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I would you said, that's a guy's name, Yeah, Dry.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: He used to run the scooter drome.
• 19:50
  Speaker 12: You know, a little electric car you could drive around,
• 19:53
  Speaker 12: bumpers all around him. Yeah, there are you, Scooter, Hey,
• 20:04
  Speaker 12: Scooter night, you've been waiting for you.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: You'll go ahead, you okay. I was good to see it, Scooter.
• 20:18
  Speaker 12: My partner Joe Friday, Oh yeah, yeah, I'm glad to
• 20:22
  Speaker 12: know you.
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: Joe.
• 20:23
  Speaker 11: I guess we could talk here as well as I'm plays.
• 20:25
  Speaker 12: Huh sure, what's the story, stoodent?
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Uh smack?
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: I told you on the phone.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: Murphy Donald Penny Arcade. He knows the guy first. He
• 20:35
  Speaker 11: pointed them out to me.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Sure it's supposed to praise description.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: When did you first see him?
• 20:41
  Speaker 11: Or two nights ago? I wasn't sure it was braying
• 20:44
  Speaker 11: the first time. And I saw him last night, and
• 20:47
  Speaker 11: that sins I.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Didn't hear that.
• 20:49
  Speaker 11: I said I saw him last night, not that tense.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: When did this? Murphy was at his name? What did
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: he first see him now about a week ago.
• 20:56
  Speaker 11: He's got an eagle eye. First change his hangerund Murphy
• 21:00
  Speaker 11: thinks the guys staying out of here or something on
• 21:02
  Speaker 11: the idea where Yeah, just a minute, no jumping around
• 21:08
  Speaker 11: like that.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I'm not a ball bang ahead.
• 21:13
  Speaker 11: What just about this man scooter same place Murphy did it.
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: He's hanging around the shooting gallery down the way, the
• 21:20
  Speaker 11: guy who runs the places now where we don't know
• 21:23
  Speaker 11: him well enough to ask him about it.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: You mean this matter looks like Brake just names around
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: the corner there, No, not exactly.
• 21:30
  Speaker 11: You see his little office the one side of the
• 21:33
  Speaker 11: shooting gallery.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: And in times I.
• 21:36
  Speaker 11: Seen the guy, he was either coming in or going out.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: There wasn't the last time of store stood. There wasn't
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: the least time of show.
• 21:43
  Speaker 11: Oh earlier tonight about six thirty. I think Murphy is right.
• 21:48
  Speaker 11: Guys going up in there, hold on there currently, I
• 21:53
  Speaker 11: don't try to get off from Mary. Go On'm gonna stop.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: That becular scooter. We'll check back with you formerly. Yeah, okay,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I shall hope it helps y'all. Got I mess right
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: steel there.
• 22:09
  Speaker 12: There's a shooting gull ery down there by the bull's
• 22:11
  Speaker 12: eye sun.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the guy is Bray. It's funny that he hasn't
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: been spotted before. This area is pretty well patrolled here
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: kye skill fellas ten shots only water or police officers
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: like to ask a few questions. Oh what about what's
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: your name? Gridley? Max? Gridley? You know anybody who the
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: name of James Bray Gray? Oh? I know?
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: How about this? Missus Ridley? You know anybody who fits
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: that description? Thank you? Now, that doesn't mean anything to me.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: What's the matter anyway? A man answering that description has
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: been seen entering and leaving his office right next door
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: over here. It's part of your concession, isn't it. Yeah,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: that's right. I'm the only one who use it. Somebody
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: must have got the wrong then you wouldn't mind if
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: we looked it over routine investigation. I don't know. Yeah,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: all right, come around, open door for you. A right
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: comes hold. As you can see, trying to use it
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: as destroyage place. Some guys have my lunch in here,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: taking app once in a while. Looks pretty well lived.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Then all those clothes are yours, mister Gridley. That's right?
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Why a lot? I think it's customers? Excuse me? Man,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: be right back, tack, go ahead, Hey Joe, Yeah, over here,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: have a look this towel. Look at the name of
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: stenciled bottlet hotel. Nine thirty pm.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: We advised the shooting gallery operator not to attempt any
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: phone calls, and then I called the office in Rick.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Some Powers came out to help us with a stakeout
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: on the shooting gallery in the adjoining office.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Ben and I covered from the Penny Arcade direct the
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: office of the Shooting Gallery.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: Reckets and Powers were staked out two doors away at
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: a stands that advertised handwriting. Analyzed twenty five cents. We waited,
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: then munched on a bag of popcorn. Ten thirty pm,
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: no sign of the suspect. Eleven o'clock, still no sign.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Getting pretty cold. Everybody go home? Yeah you got any
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: more of that? Talk? Run here? Oh yeah, here you go.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I feel bags left very good. Must have been not
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: much in there now. Oh I'm sorry. I can get
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: another bag machine right over there? No turn it off?
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: How about some fena?
• 24:48
  Speaker 12: No?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: No thanks?
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: Oh sure there's some in there Joe once time? No, sure,
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: would like to see Bray show up. It's just spend
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: the night's steak down here.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Huh. The shooting gallery. The guy in the blue suits
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: talking to the manager. He's going around to the side door.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Half money, He's going inside. All right, hold it right there, mister,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: don't watch it. Wicked Kelly, come to the back. I'll
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: get the door. I want to hit it.
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: Yeah, what out the back?
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Come up, hold it.
• 25:27
  Speaker 12: Johnny's got it?
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, good Johnny, Okay, yeah, roughly, let's roll him over.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Ye all right, how about it? Joe sure, Dark, complexy fat?
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: What do you think? I don't know, but it's not Bray.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Wicked and Powers remained on steak out at the shooting gallery.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Will then and I took the suspect downtown along with
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: a proprietr of the shooting gallery, Max Gridley. We had
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: the man treated for cuts and bruises at Georgia Street
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: Receiving Hospital, and we took him to the office. He
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: identified himself as Blake Chatfield, an unemployed salesman. After two
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: hours of questioning, he broke down and admitted that he
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: was Bray's.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Accomplished in each of the eighteen robberies. He drove the
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: getaway car. He said for the.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: Past month, he and Bray had been living in the
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: office adjoining the shooting gallery, who was booked at the
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: New City Jail on suspicion of two leven PC Max Gridley.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Was held for further questioning. One am. We checked back
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: in at the office. Yes, I had too many hot
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: dogs out there. The once a man, Oh, indigestion. Maybe
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: it was a pop car. A couple of messages in
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: the book. My wife wants you to call him pay
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: go Hello, Amy? Yeah, long night? Yeah? What both for
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: graham bread? I'll try I okay here, Hey, I'm by
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: the same old thing. I get it. Robbery Friday? Yeah, John,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: how's it going? Jimmy Bray finally showed we got him
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: any trouble, no grove up and a bright red coop.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Couldn't miss it. You're coming in now, just leave, see
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: right John? Well, I picked up brave Bring him in now.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Should have been a long almost five months. You know
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: it's a long time. Hein't Joe? Yeah? Where am I
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: going to get a loaf of graham bread at this
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: time in the morning. The story you had just heard
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: was true, only the names were changed to take them suit.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Now here is our star, Jack Webb. Thank you for
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: the past few weeks.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: I've asked you to send me the names of dealers
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: who are out of fatimas. You see, the demand for
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: fatimas is so great I want to make sure that
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: all of you can buy them, So keep on writing.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: If you find a dealer fresh out of fatimas, let
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: me know we'll have something done about it. Write your
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: dealer's name and address on a card and mail it
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: to me. Jack Webb, Post Office box nine to five
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: to one Hollywood twenty eight.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: That's Jack Webb, Post Office box nine five to one
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Hollywood twenty eight. Now a word for you, mister dealer.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: The coming holiday season will find new thousands insisting on
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: Fatima quality, so step up your orders for Fatima tomorrow
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: get in on the increasing demand for the quality long cigarette.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: James R.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Bray and Blake A.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Chatfield were tried and.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Convicted on several counts of armed robbery and received sentences
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: as prescribed by law. Max Gridley was filed on for
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: failure to register as an ex convict. Bray and Chatfield
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: are now serving their terms in the state penitentiary. Technical
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Police W. H.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: This is Bob Hope.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Can we steal a second chest?
• 29:27
  Speaker 12: You always think certain miles that I can't reason after take,
• 29:33
  Speaker 12: so open up.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Pack, give m a smile. Welcome. Don't forget to give
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Crosby for Christmas.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: I mean a chest to feel Christmas Carton with being
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: as Papa Santa Claus.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: See you Tuessie.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Fatima cigarettes, the best of all long cigarettes has brought you.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Drag Net portions transcribed from Los Angeles. Coming Up with
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: the People, then screen Director's Playhouse on NBC.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: That brings us to the close of Dragnet Big Car.
• 30:07
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