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Dragnet: The Big Youngster (EP1664) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: it's time for today's episode of Dragnet. The title is
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  Speaker 1: The Big Youngster. Original air date is August the seventeenth
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen fifty.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: Next week, Thursday, August twenty fourth, Dragnet will be heard
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  Speaker 3: one hour earlier at nine pm Eastern daylight saving time.
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  Speaker 4: The story you are about to hear is true, only
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  Speaker 4: the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Dragnet.
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  Speaker 4: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to Juvenile Bureau. A
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  Speaker 4: vicious case of wanton and wilful destruction of private property
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  Speaker 4: occurs in your city. Suspicion points to a juvenile. Your
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  Speaker 4: job find him.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet. The document a drama of an actual crime. While
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  Speaker 3: the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 3: Police Department, you will travel step by stovnactual crime. Well,
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  Speaker 3: the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 3: Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
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  Speaker 3: side of the law through an actual case from official
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  Speaker 3: police violence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 5: It was Tuesday, April tenth. It was cool in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: We're working a day watch out a juvenile bureau. My
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  Speaker 5: partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Inspector Bowling. My name
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  Speaker 5: is Friday. Was nine thirty five am when we got
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  Speaker 5: to thirteen thirty five Georgia Street Captain's office.
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  Speaker 2: We'll ask you to sa down. We're not going to
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  Speaker 2: be here that long.
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  Speaker 6: You sound man.
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  Speaker 2: Get your hats right, will you? Where's the car right
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  Speaker 2: out front? All right?
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  Speaker 6: What's up?
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  Speaker 2: A rotten mess?
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  Speaker 5: We got in the car and drove south on figure order.
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  Speaker 5: We got to West one hundred and third Street. According
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  Speaker 5: to Inspector Bowling's directions, we turned right and went about
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  Speaker 5: four miles. He directed this to pull up in front
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  Speaker 5: of a one story frame residence that had been converted
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  Speaker 5: into small business offices. On the right side going in
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  Speaker 5: was a neighborhood jewelers shop. We could see him working
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  Speaker 5: in the window. Over the door of the office. On
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  Speaker 5: the left was a lawyer Shingle. The gold lettering was new.
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  Speaker 2: That's just why oh your belt? That's right. Name's Paul Wilson.
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  Speaker 2: It's me, miss Wilson. Oh, come in, inspect you vote
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  Speaker 2: him mister.
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  Speaker 7: Wilson is the Sergeant Friday Romeo juvenal detail. I'm a
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  Speaker 7: signing him with this case. All right, look at it?
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  Speaker 2: Just look at it. Look at that, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, paint all over everything into that leather chairs, ruined,
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  Speaker 8: the desk smeared with a stiff green paint.
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  Speaker 2: Looks like they threw it on the moped and rug
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  Speaker 2: soaked with it. The walls. You know, they even got
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  Speaker 2: the clock. Yeah, take a good look. Remember it when
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  Speaker 2: you're tag whoever did it?
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  Speaker 6: Need your lawbooks, mister Wilson. Yes, I didn't have to
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  Speaker 6: do this Ford paint all over, Yes, sir, whend always happened.
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  Speaker 2: Sometime last night. Found it this way when I came
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  Speaker 2: in this morning. Any idea who did it? That's why
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  Speaker 2: I called us, and we're gonna find out. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know who'd want to do a thing like this. Just
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  Speaker 2: open my office three days ago. It just hung out
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  Speaker 2: My shame.
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  Speaker 9: You just started practicing laws then, Yes, sir, graduated from
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  Speaker 9: Loyal University Extension Division looking for office.
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  Speaker 2: Space for a long time. Was there anything taken? No,
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  Speaker 2: that's such a dirty, rotten thing or po undoubtedly a kid.
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  Speaker 6: It's pretty vicious for a kid. Can you think of
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  Speaker 6: any enemies that you might have had?
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  Speaker 2: This was no, sir, No one do a thing like this.
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  Speaker 2: Can't understand that. There's no reason for it that I
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  Speaker 2: can think of. Primary report shows that got in the
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  Speaker 2: back door. Is that right? Mick Twilson, Can you come
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  Speaker 2: back here? I'll show you, man. Yeah, here it is
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  Speaker 2: right here. See this used to be the kitchen when
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  Speaker 2: this was her flat. I was gonna put a hot
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  Speaker 2: plate in here for coffee. Nice. You can see where
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  Speaker 2: they cut through the screen door. It's all I it's
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  Speaker 2: been checked. Okay, Oh yeah, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 6: See h any pass kid fit the inside door here? Y, Yes,
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  Speaker 6: that's right.
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  Speaker 2: You can pullow the trailer that green paint right from
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  Speaker 2: this door all the way through the house. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how I'll ever get it all off. You
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  Speaker 2: know of any cleaners would handle things like this. We're
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  Speaker 2: not allowed to recommend.
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  Speaker 8: Anybody missed to Wilson could have somebody in mine would
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  Speaker 8: be happy to call them for you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate it. I was gonna make some calls,
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  Speaker 2: but I haven't got my phone installed yet. That's the
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  Speaker 2: matter of damage. About eighteen hundred dollars. That's right, that's
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  Speaker 2: what I figure.
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  Speaker 9: Guess my law books are over six hundred dollars alone.
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  Speaker 9: Borrowed the money from the bank for the furniture.
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  Speaker 5: You haven't noticed any kids in the neighborhood, and none
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  Speaker 5: of them around while you were moving in.
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  Speaker 9: No, I didn't see anything. I moved everything in myself,
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  Speaker 9: runder the trailer, made several trips together.
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  Speaker 2: All over here. Yess, that was a silly thing to do. Why,
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  Speaker 2: well a story.
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  Speaker 9: I bought the furniture, said they'd deliver it. I couldn't
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  Speaker 9: wait to see everything in first office.
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  Speaker 6: You know, yeah, we understand.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 9: Like I said, I made several trips with the trailer,
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  Speaker 9: and I didn't lock the office each time I left.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't figure it was necessary. It fell across the hall
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  Speaker 2: of jeweler said he keep an eye on things for me.
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  Speaker 6: But you did lock up last night?
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  Speaker 2: To you?
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  Speaker 9: Ohy as soon as I was moved in, I locked
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  Speaker 9: the place at all times when it wasn't here.
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  Speaker 2: That's it, I'll get right on it. I don't have
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  Speaker 2: to tell you again. I want a fast answer. Where
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  Speaker 2: do we start? With an empty pip can?
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  Speaker 5: Before we left at Turning Paul Wilson, we took a
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  Speaker 5: sample scraping of the green paint to serve as a
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  Speaker 5: color check.
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  Speaker 6: We started to canvas the neighborhood door to door.
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  Speaker 5: We covered the area for a radius of six blocks,
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  Speaker 5: questioning the residents and checking out the youngsters. We failed
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  Speaker 5: to come up with anything. We figured another good angle
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  Speaker 5: was to try the schools in the area. We checked
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  Speaker 5: on the students who had been in any kind of
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  Speaker 5: trouble involving malicious pranks.
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  Speaker 6: We had the principal line their students up. We looked
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  Speaker 6: them all over thoroughly.
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  Speaker 5: For any evidences of paint of any kind on their
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  Speaker 5: person or on their clothing. The few leads we found
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  Speaker 5: led nowhere. After a week without success, we went back
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  Speaker 5: and rechecked the neighborhood the paint stores to see if
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  Speaker 5: anyone had bought any green paint anyone they might have
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  Speaker 5: forgotten to tell us about the first time through no leads. Monday,
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  Speaker 5: April eighteenth, been a nice stop for.
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  Speaker 6: A coke at a hot dog stand in the corner
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  Speaker 6: of one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: And third Note few haven'tue a couple of coke? Please?
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  Speaker 2: Do you want to help sells in? Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Okay, here's one I don't see anymore. There's one land
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  Speaker 8: on the side. No, no over there but the grape.
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I mean get it for it.
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  Speaker 10: Here.
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  Speaker 2: You are good every time I think of that. Boys, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it makes me sick. Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: If we could, if we could just get some kind
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  Speaker 8: of a leading anything for a start, pardon me, I'd
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  Speaker 8: be satisfied.
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  Speaker 6: There's nothing to work on us like stabbing in the dark.
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  Speaker 2: Joe. Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Look down the street there, m this is ten canneday,
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  Speaker 8: everybody's got them set out in front of the houses.
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  Speaker 6: That's worth a trying it.
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  Speaker 8: Let's try a place across the street and then work
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  Speaker 8: down the block, all right. I had a cousin moved
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  Speaker 8: down from San Francisco. It took him almost a year
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  Speaker 8: to get used to this ten kansa system here in La.
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  Speaker 2: That's so yeah. Up there, they throw everything into one
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  Speaker 2: garbage can. Ten cans.
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  Speaker 8: No, well I didn't know left yah, sure, tads. My
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  Speaker 8: cousin never could get used to putting the cans out.
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  Speaker 8: The backyard was full up, and for his wife reminded
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  Speaker 8: and butt him out. Garbage kind of piled up to
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  Speaker 8: they wouldn't pick it up with the ten cans in it.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, I won't check these here I get that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see any paint can none here either? How
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  Speaker 2: about those down there? No camp? Or get this box? Wonderfish?
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  Speaker 2: Is any good? I'll say, Prune Jude. See a lot
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  Speaker 2: of empty bottles? Any paint cans? That's so.
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  Speaker 6: That's the way it went. Block after the block, house
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  Speaker 6: after house.
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  Speaker 5: We covered five blocks, checking the containers full of empty
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  Speaker 5: tin cans. Found a few paint cans, none of them
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  Speaker 5: the right color or any combinations that would go together
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  Speaker 5: to make.
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  Speaker 6: The right color. It was a tiring job, but we
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  Speaker 6: figured it was at least a place to start.
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  Speaker 2: Show a lot of cans here. There must be a
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  Speaker 2: new bride.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know anything that's here. How about this?
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  Speaker 2: Huh? This was one gallon can bring? Must ask? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: police officers, ma'am, this empty paint can belong to you.
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  Speaker 10: You can have it if you want.
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  Speaker 11: We threw it out.
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  Speaker 6: Do you have any children here, ma'am?
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  Speaker 10: Here's the boy?
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  Speaker 2: How is he?
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  Speaker 10: One year?
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  Speaker 2: Would you mind telling us what this paint was used for?
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  Speaker 10: We just moved here. Is there any law but throwing
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  Speaker 10: out paintings?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, man, we're investigating a case. Just like to
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  Speaker 2: know what the paint was used for.
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  Speaker 10: Did old man Boone send you over? Mister Boone the
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  Speaker 10: man with ready from no ma'am, so maybe it was him.
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  Speaker 10: He said, we couldn't do any painting.
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  Speaker 2: Inside and we don't know anything about that.
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  Speaker 10: You sure I don't trust him?
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  Speaker 2: No man, he said, the paint we used to redecorate.
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  Speaker 10: He's coming a shot.
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  Speaker 12: In here.
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  Speaker 10: See yeah, Carlos, see my husband and told him I
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  Speaker 10: should have waited to Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Whose idea was it to paint a bad Carlos.
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  Speaker 10: It's going to night school learning English. The teacher told
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  Speaker 10: him the best way to learn was to speaking around
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  Speaker 10: the house. Yes, it's better for the little one too.
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  Speaker 12: Well.
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  Speaker 10: Anyway, Carlos is paid on Saturday night. Then he stops
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  Speaker 10: at the little place where the fellasy works. Well, has
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  Speaker 10: a little drink. He gets his cash there. When he
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  Speaker 10: came home, he said he was going to paint the
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  Speaker 10: bathroom for me.
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  Speaker 13: This is a little girl.
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  Speaker 10: I was in the kitchen and I yelled him to
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  Speaker 10: paint around the top, around the top. I said, like
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  Speaker 10: I said, it doesn't know English too good yet we
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  Speaker 10: have a green top.
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  Speaker 2: I see, well, thank you.
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  Speaker 10: He's going to clean the top next Saturday. Here's the shower.
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  Speaker 2: Painted that too, didn't he Well, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 6: Man, I'm sorry to disturbed you.
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  Speaker 10: That's all right. I'm worried about next Saturday night. He's
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  Speaker 10: not telling what he's going to do with that pantry movement.
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  Speaker 5: Four point thirty pm, we were no closer to finding
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  Speaker 5: out who spread that paint around attorney the attorney's office
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  Speaker 5: than when we started.
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  Speaker 6: We continued checking the neighborhood, but we found nothing.
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  Speaker 5: A few minutes before five, we got a call to
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  Speaker 5: check back in with Inspector Bowling.
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  Speaker 2: You doing a good out there. Nothing until we had
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  Speaker 2: a little action. A new one.
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  Speaker 7: You know what's that came in about an hour ago.
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  Speaker 7: Somebody poured kerosene on three palm trees and set them
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  Speaker 7: on fire. Three trees, three different blocks. Man kept the
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  Speaker 7: fire department busy, tied up the traffic for several hours.
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  Speaker 7: I sent a dish no juvenile cars out there to cover.
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  Speaker 7: Happened in the same general area as the paint. Now,
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  Speaker 7: anyone who will smear paint over an office might set
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  Speaker 7: a palm tree on fire.
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  Speaker 2: Same type of gag malicious mischief. I think there's a
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  Speaker 2: connection between the two wants.
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  Speaker 7: Anybody's guests paint routine is a new one, says the
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  Speaker 7: palm trees. They're both one time only shots. Maybe the
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  Speaker 7: two connects somewhere along the line.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe one's got to stop. We can't even find a
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  Speaker 6: place to begin.
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  Speaker 2: We've tried everything we know, starting again to more. It
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  Speaker 2: isn't going to make that young lawyer for you anybody? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: who are you're taking down to the attention room? He
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  Speaker 2: does huh, all right, I'll see him. Yeah right now.
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  Speaker 2: Sixteen year old boy out there says he's got to
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  Speaker 2: see me.
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  Speaker 6: He's like to talk to him alone.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's right, Tuesday, come in.
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  Speaker 13: You're the chief.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Bowling Juvenile Bureau. Yeah, could I talk
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  Speaker 2: to you alone?
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  Speaker 7: Well, these officers work with me, and you're talk in
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  Speaker 7: front of them, So I guess, sir, come on over here.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say, Hanstan, I'd rather stand if it's okay,
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  Speaker 2: all right? What's on your mind? I want to confess
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  Speaker 2: what do you want to confess? Him?
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  Speaker 13: I murdered somebody.
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  Speaker 3: You are listening to dragnet. Actual case history is taken
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  Speaker 3: from official police files.
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  Speaker 5: Six pm, Monday, April eighteenth, The boy, identified himself as
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  Speaker 5: Arnold Waterman, gave his ages sixteen.
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  Speaker 6: He told us that two days before, at ninety eighth
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  Speaker 6: Street and.
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  Speaker 5: Second Avenue, he had shot a man to death and
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  Speaker 5: hidden his body in the basement of a house. He
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  Speaker 5: was taken the interrogation room, where a police donugrapher took
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  Speaker 5: his statement. Specter Bowling sent Ben and I out to
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  Speaker 5: check his story. Nine to thirty pm. We drove back
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  Speaker 5: to Georgia Street juvel and went to the interrogation room.
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  Speaker 7: Arnold, Yes, sir, these two men have been out at
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  Speaker 7: ninety eighth Street and Second Avenue checking your story.
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  Speaker 13: Do you find a body?
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  Speaker 6: Well, there's nobody out there.
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  Speaker 2: There should be.
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  Speaker 13: I put it in the cellar.
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  Speaker 5: There's no house out there, it's a vacant lot. We
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  Speaker 5: checked all the houses near there. You sure you'd kill somebody, of.
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  Speaker 13: Course, I'm sure. I stole a gun. I shot him
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  Speaker 13: three times in the back.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you do with a gun?
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  Speaker 14: I threw it in west Lake Park where in the
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  Speaker 14: war I ranted a boat and rowed out to the middle.
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  Speaker 14: That's where I threw it in.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you kill the man? I don't know. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't like it.
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  Speaker 5: Look, boy, you didn't kill anybody. There's nothing to back
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  Speaker 5: up your story. There's not an ounce of truth in it.
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  Speaker 13: How do you know you haven't found a body? Just wait,
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  Speaker 13: you'll find and then you'll see I killed him?
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  Speaker 10: More?
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  Speaker 2: Will you show it's where you hit the body?
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  Speaker 13: Why should I? I told you you can find it.
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  Speaker 2: These men have gone over that entire area thoroughly. There's
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  Speaker 2: nobody out there, and you know it.
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  Speaker 14: You cops are funny. When somebody won't admit a murder,
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  Speaker 14: you keep asking questions until they do. I'm telling you
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  Speaker 14: I murdered somebody, and you keep trying to talk me
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  Speaker 14: out of it.
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  Speaker 5: If we can find one's shred of proof, who might
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  Speaker 5: go along with you? You can't be convicted with that proof.
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  Speaker 2: How much do you need? You got my confession. I
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  Speaker 2: offered a sign it, they.
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  Speaker 13: Wouldn't let me.
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  Speaker 2: What more you need?
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  Speaker 6: You need a victim on them?
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  Speaker 13: You knew where to look, you could find it.
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  Speaker 2: We've looked every place you told us till you lying
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  Speaker 2: to us.
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  Speaker 6: Son?
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  Speaker 13: Why I never liked the old man. I hated his wife.
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  Speaker 13: I killed her too. I wasn't going to tell you that.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you go to school?
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  Speaker 13: I quit school to sell papers. I had to support
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  Speaker 13: my mother.
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  Speaker 2: Where's your father. I don't know.
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  Speaker 14: My mother wouldn't tell me. That's where I'm at. The
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  Speaker 14: old man I killed selling papers.
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  Speaker 2: He was my boss.
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  Speaker 13: None of us liked and nobody had the nerve to
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  Speaker 13: do it but me. The rest of the guys were scared,
• 17:27
  Speaker 13: but not me.
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  Speaker 6: That was the old man's name.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: I can't think of it right now. He was your boss.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: He never told us his name. We just worked for him.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: What'd you sell papers?
• 17:35
  Speaker 14: I don't remember. I had to sell papers. We were
• 17:38
  Speaker 14: going hungry. I couldn't stand seeing my mother. Stars couldn't
• 17:41
  Speaker 14: your father were I don't know where he is. I
• 17:43
  Speaker 14: told you that we tried to get on a relief.
• 17:45
  Speaker 14: It wouldn't let us. I mean a lot of money
• 17:48
  Speaker 14: selling papers. After a while we didn't need relief anymore.
• 17:51
  Speaker 14: Made one hundred dollars a week.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Why are you lying to her? Son?
• 17:53
  Speaker 13: Do you think I'm lying? Why don't you let me
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  Speaker 13: go home?
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: We have anything to hold you for.
• 17:56
  Speaker 13: You can go home, not until I have a trial.
• 17:59
  Speaker 13: Already called lawyer.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be over pretty soon. I'm sent for your mother, Arnold,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: she'll come down and take you home.
• 18:05
  Speaker 14: I didn't want her to know anything about this. I
• 18:07
  Speaker 14: mean you have to go to the gas chamber. That
• 18:09
  Speaker 14: would make her feel bad. You shouldn't have called her.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: It's no use.
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: Let's go back to the office. His mother ought to
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: be there by now, all right, merriw you want to
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: stay with the boy?
• 18:17
  Speaker 13: All right, you better go out and find that body.
• 18:19
  Speaker 13: On Joe, I kill that old man. You can't, Shay,
• 18:22
  Speaker 13: I didn't.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: The boy's a pathological liar and it looks that way,
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: probably an inferiorady complex.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: And this is the way of making himself important.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: But we all know he didn't kill anybody. But I
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: wonder if he'd got something else in his mind.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Now, how do you do here? Missus? Waterman?
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  Speaker 12: Yes, inspected bowling.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am. This is Sergeant Friday.
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  Speaker 6: How do you do man?
• 18:42
  Speaker 12: How do you do? I have to excuse my appearance
• 18:45
  Speaker 12: that slept a little late today.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: We've got your boy down the hall. He's all right,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: trying to get us to swallow a few tall stories.
• 18:51
  Speaker 12: Yeah, he's like that.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: What do you tell you he'll try to give us
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: a story about killing somebody.
• 18:56
  Speaker 12: Well, I'm not surprised. This isn't the first time. Never
• 19:00
  Speaker 12: understand that kid.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Has your boy ever been in an institution.
• 19:03
  Speaker 12: Missus water No, he's not bad. He just likes to
• 19:06
  Speaker 12: lie all the time. It's an awful liar. Went to
• 19:09
  Speaker 12: his high school principal the other day, told him his
• 19:11
  Speaker 12: father and I beat him and we wouldn't give him
• 19:13
  Speaker 12: any lunch money.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: Where is your hus He has.
• 19:15
  Speaker 12: A newspaper concession when the railroad trains. How often is
• 19:17
  Speaker 12: he holl Once a week, sometimes every two weeks. It's
• 19:21
  Speaker 12: the only business he knows. Maybe that's the reason the
• 19:25
  Speaker 12: kid's away is. My mother always used to tell me
• 19:28
  Speaker 12: a kid needs his father, so whenever my hobby's home,
• 19:31
  Speaker 12: he always does the right thing. Anill started telling him
• 19:34
  Speaker 12: these lies a long time ago, and ever since his
• 19:37
  Speaker 12: father found out, he catches it good strapping, that's all
• 19:42
  Speaker 12: a kid like him understands. His father knows how to
• 19:45
  Speaker 12: handle him. Every lies he takes a strap to him.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: You think that's the.
• 19:48
  Speaker 13: Best way to handle him, don't you.
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: Well you know what you're doing, mister Waterman. He's your son.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: But if you wouldn't mind a little advice, do you
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: mind my telling you no, no at all? Well, that
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: boy needs care, and he needs it bad. That's not
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: the answer and needs attention. Good supervision and a lot
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: of companionship. I'm not conducting a class in child psychology,
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: but care for that boy of yours. Care for him
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: before the state has to.
• 20:09
  Speaker 12: It was just those stories, it is, That's what's wrong
• 20:12
  Speaker 12: with them. Kim on the other night, with a waterless
• 20:14
  Speaker 12: tail I ever heard, said he through green paint all
• 20:17
  Speaker 12: over somebody's office.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: Ben and I drove out to the Waterman home. We
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: checked through the boys belongings. His mother showed us his room.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: In his closet we found a pair of corduroy trousers,
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: a white T shirt, and other articles of his clothing
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: spattered with the same shade of green paint that had
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: been found in the office and furnishings of Attorney Paul Wilson.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: We asked him, as Waterman where son Arnold was on
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: Sunday night, April ninth, the night that the office had
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: been broken into and smeared with paint. She told us
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: she didn't know, but that he came home that night
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: with paint on his clothing. Ben and I went back
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: to the office, where we filed an application for a
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: petition and detention Section seven hundred SUBMWIC malicious mischief, one
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: count two days later in juvenile court, the calendar was called.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: Arnold Waterman's name was on the list.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: The judge, the subject, and all those concerned in the
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: case retired to the judge's private chambers, Ben.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: And I, Ronold Waterman and his mother.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: The subject was informed of his constitutional rights, and Judge
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Frank J.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: Smith read the findings of our investigations.
• 21:14
  Speaker 15: I don't and the llegers in this petition.
• 21:16
  Speaker 11: At on April ninth, at the approximately eight thirty PM,
• 21:18
  Speaker 11: you enter the office of Attorney Paul Wilson at ninety
• 21:21
  Speaker 11: two eighteen West one hundred and third Street, where you willfully,
• 21:24
  Speaker 11: and without mister Wilson's permission, did maliciously damage his office
• 21:27
  Speaker 11: to the extent of approximately eighteen hundred dollars by pouring
• 21:31
  Speaker 11: paint over his rugs, finiture, books, and other articles in
• 21:33
  Speaker 11: his icies.
• 21:35
  Speaker 15: Is this too, Ronold?
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir?
• 21:36
  Speaker 15: Did you know mister Wilson?
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: No, I don't.
• 21:39
  Speaker 15: I'd like to know why you did that. I felt
• 21:42
  Speaker 15: like it. You have to give me a better answer
• 21:43
  Speaker 15: than that, jun Stay.
• 21:45
  Speaker 13: That's the best I can do. That's good enough, isn't it?
• 21:47
  Speaker 11: No, it isn't good enough. We have a court room
• 21:49
  Speaker 11: full of boys outside who probably want to be helped,
• 21:52
  Speaker 11: and we're going to try to help them. We can't
• 21:54
  Speaker 11: help you unless you want to be helped.
• 21:56
  Speaker 13: You don't want to help me. You don't believe anything
• 21:58
  Speaker 13: I tell you.
• 22:00
  Speaker 11: Surprising, Yes, you and officer of a Merrow investigated this
• 22:04
  Speaker 11: case from its inception we did.
• 22:06
  Speaker 15: As a result of your investigation. What's your opinion of
• 22:08
  Speaker 15: this boy's.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Truthfully, well, you're I think I can speak for officers
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: of a Marrow here as well, in all our talks
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: with the boy and our observations of them, it's our
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: opinion for what it's worth. The boy's a pathological liar,
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: basically seems to have the makings of a good youngster.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: His environment's bad, seems to have very little, if any,
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: parental guidance. Tells lies your honor, lots of them.
• 22:31
  Speaker 15: That seems to be everyone's opinion, it's not mine.
• 22:34
  Speaker 14: If you'd spend more time trying to find out if
• 22:36
  Speaker 14: I'm a lion instead of trying to put me on
• 22:38
  Speaker 14: the spot, you earn your money.
• 22:39
  Speaker 11: Your stories have been thoroughly investigated and double checked by
• 22:42
  Speaker 11: competent police officers. There is absolutely no basis of truth
• 22:45
  Speaker 11: in anything you've said, I'm going.
• 22:47
  Speaker 13: To a second ton of everybody calling me a liar.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Do you hear me?
• 22:51
  Speaker 15: Young man?
• 22:53
  Speaker 11: Sit down in that chair. We review a great many
• 22:58
  Speaker 11: juvenile cases here in my private chambers.
• 23:01
  Speaker 15: But that does not all of the fact that you
• 23:03
  Speaker 15: are in the court of law.
• 23:05
  Speaker 11: You will lower your voice, speak in a gentlemanly fashion
• 23:08
  Speaker 11: and tell the truth. Is that understood? Yes, sir missus Waterman.
• 23:14
  Speaker 11: Could you give this court any reason for your son's behavior.
• 23:18
  Speaker 12: It's a mystery to me, Judge Fred that's his father.
• 23:21
  Speaker 12: He can't understand it either. He's always lied. Father beats
• 23:25
  Speaker 12: him for it. I guess he'll always lie.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: That's all you can say, and.
• 23:28
  Speaker 12: Your son's behal What else is it to say he's
• 23:30
  Speaker 12: a liar?
• 23:31
  Speaker 11: I'm going to ask you once more, why did you
• 23:34
  Speaker 11: smear paint all over at Tourney Paul Wilson's office.
• 23:36
  Speaker 15: I didn't like him? Why didn't you like him?
• 23:38
  Speaker 13: I didn't like him?
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: That's all Charles any funny with him?
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: Guy?
• 23:41
  Speaker 15: You mean you destroyed his property because you didn't like
• 23:43
  Speaker 15: his looks?
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Something like that.
• 23:45
  Speaker 13: He was cheap. I saw him moving in.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: He had a trailer.
• 23:48
  Speaker 13: He was moving his own stuff in Why didn't they
• 23:50
  Speaker 13: hire a mover like everybody else.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I don't like cheap people.
• 23:53
  Speaker 15: Do you know anything about this man? Wasn't no business?
• 23:57
  Speaker 15: Was it of yours?
• 23:58
  Speaker 11: Whether or not mister Wilson decided to move his own furnitures.
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: Do you know that he's a young man, not much
• 24:03
  Speaker 11: older than you, just graduated from law school, took a
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: lot of time, took a lot of his money, money
• 24:07
  Speaker 11: that he earned to put himself through school.
• 24:09
  Speaker 15: And you would sit there and mere sketch a.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Boy passing judgment on a fine young man like Paul.
• 24:13
  Speaker 15: Isn't boy? Let me tell you something.
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: I don't know if you're a god fearing lad or not,
• 24:18
  Speaker 11: but you'd better fall on your knees and ask forgiveness
• 24:21
  Speaker 11: and hope that somebody hears you that he hasn't lost
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: patience with you. You better raise up those sights of yours, lad,
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: and pray for forgiveness. I hope those tears mean something
• 24:33
  Speaker 11: out now. Do you have anything to say before I
• 24:36
  Speaker 11: passed judgment in this case, Yes.
• 24:39
  Speaker 13: Sir, I have.
• 24:41
  Speaker 14: I'd like to tell you about something else I did.
• 24:44
  Speaker 14: There were some palm trees out there. I put kerosene
• 24:47
  Speaker 14: on him and set him on fire.
• 24:48
  Speaker 15: Oh it's Friday. Would you know anything about this?
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: Yes, sure, honor. That checks with the reports.
• 24:53
  Speaker 15: Any property damage?
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: No, yeah, kept the Friday department pretty busy about all.
• 24:57
  Speaker 13: I didn't kill anybody.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I just made that up.
• 24:59
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 25:01
  Speaker 15: Do you have anything else to add?
• 25:03
  Speaker 12: This is what No. I don't know what else you
• 25:05
  Speaker 12: can do with a kid goud to somebody else's problem.
• 25:08
  Speaker 11: According to the findings of the probationary officers and the
• 25:11
  Speaker 11: investigating officers, and what I've heard and observed in these chambers,
• 25:14
  Speaker 11: I have no alternative but to remove this boy from
• 25:17
  Speaker 11: his present home and environment and place him in a
• 25:19
  Speaker 11: foster home where he will receive closer supervision in the
• 25:22
  Speaker 11: care that he requires.
• 25:24
  Speaker 15: Does that meet with your approval? Missus woman?
• 25:26
  Speaker 12: It's fine with me. Judge Tred and I can hardly
• 25:29
  Speaker 12: make ends meet now, and it's a shame to waste
• 25:31
  Speaker 12: what money we have on this kid. So I can
• 25:34
  Speaker 12: do to squeeze off a new clothes I need, and
• 25:36
  Speaker 12: you approve this player, you can't wait to tell Fred.
• 25:39
  Speaker 11: Well, when you tell Fred, you can also tell him
• 25:42
  Speaker 11: the taxpayers are not going to assume the burden of
• 25:44
  Speaker 11: the mistakes that you and your husband lavished on this boy.
• 25:48
  Speaker 15: What do you mean, Judge expensive?
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: Placing the boy in this foster home comes to the
• 25:52
  Speaker 11: amount of thirty five dollars a month. You and your
• 25:54
  Speaker 11: husband will pay this sum. The law covers that it's
• 25:57
  Speaker 11: an a a lot of money. The payment will be
• 25:59
  Speaker 11: due the first day of each month. You will meet
• 26:02
  Speaker 11: this requirement. I'll be held in contempt at court. I'm
• 26:05
  Speaker 11: only sorry. That's as far as the law goes. The
• 26:08
  Speaker 11: laws of the State of California do not make the
• 26:10
  Speaker 11: parents responsible for the thoughts of their children unless contributory
• 26:14
  Speaker 11: negligence can be proven. My eyes, it is contributory negligence
• 26:18
  Speaker 11: on your part not Unfortunately, it cannot be proven. Any
• 26:23
  Speaker 11: false that this boy may have are yours? You as
• 26:26
  Speaker 11: a parent irresponsible.
• 26:28
  Speaker 12: We did the best. We couldn't raising the kid.
• 26:30
  Speaker 15: Madame, you didn't raise him.
• 26:31
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• 26:42
  Speaker 4: only the names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: On April eighteenth, the hearing was held in the private
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: chambers of Judge Frank J. Smith, Juvenile Court, City and
• 26:50
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• 26:53
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