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Dragnet - "Big Number" (Old Time Radio, 1952) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday and Ben Alexander as
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  Speaker 1: Officer Frank Smith take the case for this broadcast of Dragnet.
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  Speaker 1: On October 26, 1952, NBC carried episode 175, Big Number,
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  Speaker 1: with Friday and Smith assigned to the LAPD robbery division.
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  Speaker 1: An armed bank holdup has already been reported when the
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  Speaker 1: detectives arrive. The robber is gone, and the first leads
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  Speaker 1: come from bank employees, a description of the getaway car,
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  Speaker 1: and only part of its license plate number. Their work
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  Speaker 1: follows the details available in Los Angeles, one clue at
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  Speaker 1: a time, as they pursue a robber described as professional
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  Speaker 1: in manner. From Dragnet's radio files, here is Big Number.
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  Speaker 1: And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: Sound off for Chesterfield.
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  Speaker 3: Chesterfield, only cigarette in America to give you premium quality
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  Speaker 3: in both regular and king size, brings you Dragnet.
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  Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear
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  Speaker 4: is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 4: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. You
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  Speaker 4: get a call that a bank has been robbed. From
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  Speaker 4: the M.O., you know the job was done by a professional.
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  Speaker 4: He's made good his escape.
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  Speaker 3: Your job, get him.
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  Speaker 4: Here's what leading tobacco publications have had to say about
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  Speaker 4: regular and king-size Chesterfield.
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  Speaker 2: U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Tobacco Journal, Boston, Massachusetts. Chesterfield cigarettes in the new king
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  Speaker 3: size is still maintaining large turnovers in this area.
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  Speaker 2: Dealers report that.
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  Speaker 3: Sales continue to climb on this size. And it seems
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  Speaker 3: that volume on the regular size has climbed to new
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  Speaker 3: heights with its new big brother.
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  Speaker 4: And Tobacco Leaf reports from Chicago. More calls for Chesterfield
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  Speaker 4: king-size cigarettes than for most brands being marketed.
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  Speaker 3: The reason for king-size Chesterfield's amazing success is this. All
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  Speaker 3: king-size cigarettes give you quantity. But only Chesterfield king-size gives
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  Speaker 3: you quantity plus quality.
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  Speaker 5: Premium quality.
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  Speaker 4: That means Chesterfield king-size contains tobaccos of better quality and
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  Speaker 4: higher price than any other king-size cigarette. The same fine
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  Speaker 4: tobacco as in regular Chesterfield. Enough more of this tobacco
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  Speaker 4: to give you more than a fifth longer smoke.
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  Speaker 3: So remember, Chesterfield is the only cigarette to give you
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  Speaker 3: premium quality in both regular and king size.
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  Speaker 4: Buy them either way you like them. Chesterfield gives you
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  Speaker 4: the best possible smoke.
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  Speaker 2: Much milder.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 3: next 30 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.
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  Speaker 2: Force in action. It was Monday, January 21st. It was
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  Speaker 2: cold in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch
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  Speaker 2: out a robbery detail. My partner's Frank Smith. The boss
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  Speaker 2: is Captain Didion. My name's Friday. It was 2.56 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: when I got to room 27A. Robbery. Joe? Yeah. Sure
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  Speaker 2: called out. Yeah, paper says you'd warm up a little
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  Speaker 2: before the end of the week. I hope so. How'd
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  Speaker 2: your weekend go? Don't bring it up. What happened? At
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  Speaker 2: my house, there's only one thing that could happen. What
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  Speaker 2: do you mean? My brother-in-law, Armand. All the time, he
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  Speaker 2: just sits around the house, sits there and reads those
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  Speaker 2: detective magazines. Doesn't he work? If he's ever held a job,
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  Speaker 2: he's kept it a secret. Just moves around between the relatives.
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  Speaker 2: This year, it's Faye's turn. He just sits around all day, huh? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Reads those detective magazines. Always sent him for those books
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  Speaker 2: that are sent in the plain wrappers. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: ones that tell you how you can have a business
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  Speaker 2: in your own home. Yeah, I know what you mean. Well,
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  Speaker 2: this time, he really did it. He sent for one
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  Speaker 2: that tells you how to go into the house cleaning business.
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  Speaker 2: I thought at first it might be a pretty good deal.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if it worked out, he could give Fay
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  Speaker 2: a hand with the house. Well, Saturday morning, the book
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  Speaker 2: gets to the house with all the formulas and instructions
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  Speaker 2: for making the cleaners for the rugs and the upholstery. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: First off, he borrows five bucks from me to buy
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  Speaker 2: the stuff to mix the formulas. Then he goes to
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  Speaker 2: the kitchen and takes all of Fay's good pants to
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  Speaker 2: mix up the goop in it. Smells terrible. All those
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  Speaker 2: bleaches and soaps. I'm sitting in the front room watching
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  Speaker 2: television all in all. I'm pretty comfortable. He comes in,
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  Speaker 2: he says the room is filthy and he's going to
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  Speaker 2: clean it. Tells me to get out of the room
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  Speaker 2: and that he's going to surprise all of us. Yeah. Well,
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  Speaker 2: he did. Faye and I took the kid down to
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  Speaker 2: the barber's to have her hair cut and did a
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  Speaker 2: little shopping for the weekend. He should have seen the
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  Speaker 2: house when we got back, Joe. Just miserable. What did
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  Speaker 2: he do? First off, he wasn't there. Left a note
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  Speaker 2: on the kitchen table telling us that he was out
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  Speaker 2: for a walk. I kind of figured what had happened,
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  Speaker 2: so Faye and me walked into the living room. Joe,
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  Speaker 2: you wouldn't believe it. Is that so? Faye almost fainted.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty awful, huh? Worse than that. Room was beautiful. Everything
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  Speaker 2: in it was clean as a whistle. All spotless. Curtains, carpet,
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  Speaker 2: the upholstery. Even the tables had been waxed. What's wrong
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  Speaker 2: with that? Sounds to me like a pretty good deal. Faye.
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  Speaker 2: What about her? Right away, she starts climbing all over me.
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  Speaker 2: Reads me off for being so mean to him. Says
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  Speaker 2: all about how I should be ashamed of myself. Said
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  Speaker 2: that I should have thought of the house cleaning gimmick myself.
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  Speaker 2: I should have given him a hand in cleaning up
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  Speaker 2: the place. And that the next day off, we have
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  Speaker 2: to do the whole house. I tell you, Joe, no
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  Speaker 2: matter what the guy does, it always ends up making
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  Speaker 2: me look bad. Well, you say you've only got this
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  Speaker 2: year with him, huh?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Then he goes to Fay's sister in Piedmont. I'll sure
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  Speaker 2: be glad when that time comes. Yeah, don't worry. Hot shot.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get it. ADT 211. Bank robbery in progress. It
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  Speaker 2: took us a little over four minutes to get to
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  Speaker 2: the bank at the corner of Lebanon and Broadway. In
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  Speaker 2: that time, the bandit had completed the robbery and made
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  Speaker 2: good his escape. A radio card arrived at the scene,
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  Speaker 2: and the officers had gotten a description of the car
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  Speaker 2: and of the bandit. They'd called the information into communications,
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  Speaker 2: and a broadcast was gotten out to all cars in
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  Speaker 2: the vicinity to be on the alert for the holdup man. 2.40 p.m.,
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  Speaker 2: Frank and I arrived at the bank. Back there. Bank guard. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I couldn't walk in.
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  Speaker 2: What do you want me to do? Try to stop him?
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  Speaker 7: Have him shoot that gun off? He'd have killed half
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  Speaker 7: the people in here.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not saying that you should have actually tried to
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  Speaker 5: stop him. All I'm saying is that there is something
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  Speaker 5: that you should have done. You just stood there and
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  Speaker 5: looked at him. You could see the gun. There must
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  Speaker 5: have been something you could do.
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  Speaker 2: I beg your pardon, sir.
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  Speaker 5: You get away. You're probably in cahoots with the robber.
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  Speaker 5: You probably came back to get the rest of the money. Well, Gibson,
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  Speaker 5: don't just stand there. Stop these men.
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  Speaker 2: We're police officers, sir.
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  Speaker 5: You see, Gibson, they're police officers. Do you have a
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  Speaker 5: badge or something? After this, I don't think I'll trust
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  Speaker 5: anyone again.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Here's our identification.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, Officer Friday.
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  Speaker 2: This is my partner, Frank Smith.
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  Speaker 5: How do you do? I suppose you want to ask
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  Speaker 5: me a lot of questions.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there are some things we'd like to know, sir.
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  Speaker 5: You'd like to talk in my office, I guess. It'll
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  Speaker 5: be more quiet there.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be fine.
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  Speaker 5: Would it be all right if Gibson came along? I'd
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  Speaker 5: like to have him see how a couple of real
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  Speaker 5: detectives work.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I think it'll be all right.
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  Speaker 5: Fine. Back this way. Oh, Officer Friday, this is Gibson,
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  Speaker 5: the bank guard, and I use the term loosely. This
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  Speaker 5: is Mr. Jones.
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  Speaker 2: That's Smith, sir, Frank Smith.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, Smith, sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Just sit down any place.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: You listen good, Gibson.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Mr. Allen, you were the victim, were you?
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  Speaker 5: I certainly was. It was just three o'clock. Gibson was
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  Speaker 5: just putting up the chain across the door, you know,
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  Speaker 5: to keep people out.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Gibson was out there. I was in here in my office.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, Gibson. Tell the officers about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he parked his car right in front of the bank,
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  Speaker 1: and when he pulled up, I thought it was a
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  Speaker 1: customer trying to get in before.
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  Speaker 2: The bank closed.
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  Speaker 7: I held the chain for him.
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  Speaker 5: That was nice of you.
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  Speaker 2: What happened then, Mr. Gibson?
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  Speaker 1: As soon as he got to the doorway, I saw
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  Speaker 1: the shotgun. He had it kind of under his coat,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I tried to stop him, but he had
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  Speaker 1: the gun pointed right at me. He said that if
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  Speaker 1: I made a move, he'd as soon shoot me as
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  Speaker 1: look at me.
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  Speaker 2: You sure it was a shotgun, eh? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: I could tell it was a 12-gauge.
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  Speaker 2: It was sawed off.
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  Speaker 1: He told me to get over in that little alcove
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  Speaker 1: near the entrance to our escrow department. I did, and
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  Speaker 1: he told me to hand over my gun. I started
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  Speaker 1: to get it out of the holster, and I thought
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  Speaker 1: that maybe I'd have a chance to surprise him, but.
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  Speaker 5: He must have known what I was planning.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you say that?
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  Speaker 1: He told me to face him in the corner. Then
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  Speaker 1: he took the gun out of the holster.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I did what he told me.
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  Speaker 2: What happened then? He asked me where the manager was.
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  Speaker 2: I pointed out his office. Well, to this time, did
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  Speaker 2: any of the people in the bank have any idea
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  Speaker 2: what was going on? No, sir.
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  Speaker 1: The way he acted, he knew what he was doing.
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  Speaker 1: Right off, I knew there wasn't anything I could do.
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  Speaker 1: Kept thinking about the people in the bank. That shotgun
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  Speaker 1: didn't want anyone to get hurt.
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  Speaker 5: Only bright thing he did.
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  Speaker 2: Now, do you want to go on? What happened then?
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  Speaker 1: Well, like I said, he asked where the manager's office was.
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  Speaker 1: I showed him, and he told me he wanted me
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  Speaker 1: to go back there with him.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-huh. We walked back there.
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  Speaker 1: He put the shotgun under his coat, and by some miracle,
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  Speaker 1: nobody saw it.
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  Speaker 5: That's where he brought me into the picture. He just
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  Speaker 5: walked in, told me it was a stick-up. He had
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  Speaker 5: this little leather bag, the kind a doctor uses. He
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  Speaker 5: opened it up, told me to walk in front of him. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 5: He made me carry the bag. Kept the gun at
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  Speaker 5: my back all the time. I could feel it. Made
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  Speaker 5: me walk down the row of windows, the ones into
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  Speaker 5: the teller's boxes. Each one, he made me stop and
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  Speaker 5: ask the tellers for the money.
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  Speaker 2: Did he touch anything at all, do you remember?
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  Speaker 5: No, no. He wore gloves all the time. He was
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  Speaker 5: real careful, wouldn't touch anything. After I put the money
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  Speaker 5: into the bag, he'd tell each one of them that
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  Speaker 5: if they made a sound, he'd kill me, then come
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  Speaker 5: back and kill them, too. It was terrible. Almost scared
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  Speaker 5: me to death.
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  Speaker 2: Well, who was it that turned in the alarm? Walter,
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  Speaker 2: the cleanup man, sir.
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  Speaker 7: He was in the back of the bank, and he came.
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  Speaker 1: Out of the vice president's office. He saw the robber,
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  Speaker 1: and then he sneaked back into the room and called her.
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  Speaker 1: The bandit just barely got out of the place when
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  Speaker 1: the police car pulled up.
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  Speaker 5: We gave the other officers a description of the car
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  Speaker 5: and the bandit.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. We heard the broadcast. All the cars in
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  Speaker 2: the area have been alerted.
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  Speaker 5: I wonder if I could have a drink of water, officer.
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  Speaker 5: I'm so nervous. I'm still not over it. My stomach's
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  Speaker 5: going to be grinding for a month.
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  Speaker 2: You're a member of the Federal Reserve here, aren't you?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes. Well, then the Federal Bureau of Investigation will
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  Speaker 5: be in on it, too.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Water's right over here. I keep it in the office
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  Speaker 5: for my pills. I have ulcers, you know.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 5: Would you like a drink?
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  Speaker 2: No, sir. No, thank you. Thank you. Well, what happened
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  Speaker 2: after the man finished taking the money from the cages?
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  Speaker 1: He walked out of the front of the place and
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  Speaker 1: got in his car. By that time, I could hear
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  Speaker 1: the sirens of the police car coming.
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  Speaker 2: He'd just left.
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  Speaker 1: On the way out, he said if we told him
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  Speaker 1: anything about him, he'd come back and kill us.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, and he looked right at me when he said it.
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  Speaker 5: You've got to give me some sort of protection. I'm
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  Speaker 5: not going to make a sitting duck of myself.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take care of that, sir. Could you give us
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  Speaker 2: a description of the man, sir?
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  Speaker 5: I've already given it to the two officers who are here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we know, sir, but if you wouldn't mind.
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  Speaker 5: Of course not.
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  Speaker 2: How tall would you say he was?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, about 5'11, maybe 6 feet.
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  Speaker 2: How old would you say he was?
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  Speaker 5: 30, 35, around in there.
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  Speaker 2: How much do you think he weighed?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, about 160, maybe more. I'm not very good at
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  Speaker 5: guessing weights.
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  Speaker 2: How about his coloring? Was he dark or light?
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  Speaker 5: Light, light. He had real light blonde hair. His eyebrows
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  Speaker 5: were almost invisible. They were so light that you almost
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  Speaker 5: couldn't see them at all. Same with his eyelashes.
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  Speaker 2: How about his clothes?
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  Speaker 5: Beg your pardon?
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  Speaker 2: His clothes? What was he wearing?
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  Speaker 5: Well, he had on a blue shirt. No, I'm sorry, sir.
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  Speaker 7: I think it was a white shirt.
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  Speaker 5: Was it? No, I'm sure it was blue. I remember
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  Speaker 5: because he was wearing a brown coat. I thought that
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  Speaker 5: he certainly didn't have very good taste... what with wearing
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  Speaker 5: a blue shirt and a brown coat. No, Gibson, no.
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  Speaker 5: The shirt was blue. No tie. Brown coat and black
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  Speaker 5: loafers shoes. I remember these because they were the only
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  Speaker 5: thing about him that looked good... They look like those
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  Speaker 5: ones that are advertised in the magazines, you know, Skigums
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  Speaker 5: or something like that. Black.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Is there anything unusual about them?
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  Speaker 5: I beg your pardon?
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  Speaker 2: Anything unusual about them? Anything that might cause you to
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  Speaker 2: remember them? You know them if you saw them again.
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  Speaker 5: Well, they were the bandages.
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  Speaker 2: What's that, sir?
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  Speaker 5: When he came in, he had bandages on his face.
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  Speaker 5: One over his right eyebrow, another on his chin. Right here,
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  Speaker 5: sort of on the throat.
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  Speaker 2: You mean regular bandages?
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  Speaker 5: No, sir.
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  Speaker 1: They were those adhesive cards, you know, with the gauze
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  Speaker 1: and tape all together.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. And you say he had one over the
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  Speaker 2: right eyebrow and one on his chin? Yes, sir. I see.
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  Speaker 7: I still think it was a white shirt.
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  Speaker 5: I said it was blue. Are you trying to say
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  Speaker 5: that I don't know blue when I see it?
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  Speaker 2: No, sir.
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  Speaker 1: I just think that you might have made a mistake
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  Speaker 1: in all the excitement.
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  Speaker 5: Officer.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 5: It was a blue shirt.
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  Speaker 2: All right, sir. How about his car, the one he
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  Speaker 2: got away in?
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  Speaker 5: It was parked right out in front.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see it?
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  Speaker 5: Certainly, I saw it. I was standing right in the
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  Speaker 5: door when he drove away.
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  Speaker 2: Can you describe the car for us?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, like I told the other officers, it was a
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  Speaker 5: late model Buick, dark blue, a coupe.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, sir, but it was a green Ford Sedan.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see if we can't let Mr. Allen tell his story, Mr. Gibson.
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  Speaker 2: We'll check it with you when we finish with him,
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  Speaker 2: all right?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what you're trying to prove with these officers.
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  Speaker 5: After the way you handled the affair, there's no use
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  Speaker 5: trying to impress them with your prowess as a detective.
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  Speaker 5: It was a dark blue Buick Coupe.
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  Speaker 2: Anything unusual about the car that you could see? Any
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  Speaker 2: dented fenders, stickers, windshield emblems, anything like that, would you remember?
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  Speaker 5: No, I didn't notice anything special.
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  Speaker 2: No, sir. It looked pretty new as far as I
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  Speaker 2: could tell. All right, fine. Well, you two gentlemen have
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  Speaker 2: helped us a lot here. There are some questions we'd
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  Speaker 2: like to ask the other people in the bank.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, that's what the other officers said. I told
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  Speaker 5: them all to stay. You'd like to talk to them now?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 13:10
  Speaker 5: Fine, I'll send them in here to you.
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: No, we can talk to them out there, sir. It'll
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: be all right.
• 13:13
  Speaker 5: Oh, fine. Gibson, maybe you can help them.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: No, thank you.
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: Officer. Yes, Gibson.
• 13:22
  Speaker 7: I didn't want to tell you while we were in there.
• 13:23
  Speaker 7: He'd probably make some remark.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: I didn't even tell the other officers. It's about the
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: license number of the bandit's car.
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: Did you get it? Well, not all of it, sir.
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: Just the first three numbers. The bank guard went on
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: to explain that in the confusion, he had failed to
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: give the information about the license number to the other officers.
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: We continued to talk to him. He told us that
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: the bandit had tied a cloth over the rear license
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: plate and that as he drove away from the scene,
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: a corner of the cloth had come loose and he
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: was able to see the first three numbers of the plate.
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: We called this information into communications and a supplemental broadcast
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: was gotten out. In company with agents from the FBI,
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: we talked to the rest of the employees in the bank.
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: From them, we got a fairly good description of the
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: holdup man and of his car. They agreed that it
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: was a late model dark Ford sedan. With FBI agent
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: Tom Ashford, Frank and I checked by the office and
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: asked the stats office to make a run on the M.O.
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: We checked the oddity file and R & I on
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: the possibility that the tape might have been used to
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: cover scars or other marks that would make identification easier. 9.46 p.m.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: We stopped and got some sandwiches and coffee, and then
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: we went to the DMV offices. Hi, Joe. George, you
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: know Frank. Yeah, hi. How's it going, George? This is
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: Tom Ashford, agent from the FBI. He's working with us
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: on this thing.
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: Oh, hi.
• 14:37
  Speaker 7: Glad to know you.
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, same here.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: Where do we find the files here, George? Oh, what's
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: the number again? 1U5. That's all we have.
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: Not much.
• 14:44
  Speaker 7: Oh, you'll find the files for that number in these
• 14:45
  Speaker 7: drawers here. You know what kind of car it is?
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a Ford sedan, late model. We're not sure what year. Uh-huh. Oh,
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: go to it.
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: I don't envy you.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. 9,999 possibles.
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 14:57
  Speaker 7: Well, that's it for the night. I think I'll shove off.
• 15:00
  Speaker 7: Anything you guys need, there'll be somebody here. You can
• 15:02
  Speaker 7: give me a call. I'll leave my home number on
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: the desk.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Right. Thanks a lot. Good night, George.
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: Good night.
• 15:05
  Speaker 7: Hope you find it before I get back.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Wake. Well, let's get to it.
• 15:09
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: All right. Let's see. 1U5. It took us the next
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: eight hours to go through the almost 10,000 license registrations.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: Each file card had to be checked for a similarity
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: of make and model. Each automobile in the Los Angeles
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: area was listed, and then each one in the entire state.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Each of them had to be checked out. 6.02 a.m., Tuesday,
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: January 22nd. We finished checking the files. That does it.
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: I didn't know there were so many cars in California.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Let alone that many with a license that begins with
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: 1U5 in the Los Angeles area.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: What's the total, Joe? How's it look? Well, we've got
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: a place to start here. 302 names. 6.30 a.m. We
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: checked back into the office and then we went home
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: to get a couple of hours sleep. At 8.30 a.m., Frank, Tom,
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: and I met in the robbery office. Captain Didion had
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: assigned four other teams of men to work with us.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: The FBI had also assigned additional agents. The list of
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: possibles was divided up and we began to check them out.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: We spent three days on it. In each instance, we
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: didn't talk to the person involved directly, but to their neighbors.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: We didn't explain what it was that we were after,
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: merely that we were conducting an investigation. We ran into
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: the usual false leaves, the usual petty jealousies, and the
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: neighborhood feuds. It all served to slow us down and
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: make the job more difficult. There'd been no replies to
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: the local or the APV that we'd gotten out on
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: the car or the bandit. The stats office had come
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: up with two possibles on the M.O. These were both
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: checked out, but led us nowhere. We went back to
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: checking out the license plate numbers January 28th. The names
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: on our list were down to seven. The next one
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: was a Mr. Ivan Q.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: Field.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: We rang the bell to the house next door and waited. Yes?
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Sorry to bother you, ma'am. Police officers. Wonder if we
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: could talk to you.
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: Police? Well, what's it about? I haven't done anything.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: No, ma'am. We'd just like to ask you a couple
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: of questions about your next-door neighbor, Mr. Field.
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: I should have known. I thought a couple of times
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: about calling you about him myself. Miserable man.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: I wonder if we could come in, ma'am. Might be
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: better than talking on the phone.
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: You just bet you can.
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: Come right in.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you what you want to know.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: What do you want him for?
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: What's he done?
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Well, we're just conducting an investigation, ma'am. A few things
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: we'd like to know about Mr. Field. Uh-huh.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: Well, you don't have to play cozy with me. I
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: know what kind of people they are. Can't understand it either.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Ma'am?
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: I said I couldn't understand it. His brother's so nice,
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: a real gentleman. Seems hard to believe that they'd even
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: be related, let alone be brothers. Nothing but trouble since
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: he and his wife moved in.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: You mean it's not their house?
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: Oh, of course not. Don't think either one of them
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: could afford the rent on a one-room apartment, let alone
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: a house.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Would you know if they have a car?
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: No, no, not them. Like I said, I don't think
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: he's ever worked. Just lives off his brother. His brother
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: has a car. It's real nice.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: What kind of a car is it, ma'am? Do you know? Yes,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: it's a Ford. Do you know what model?
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: Model?
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am. Is it a coupe or a sedan?
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: Oh, sedan. Real nice. Sort of a dark green. Only
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: I guess it really isn't dark. Then it isn't light, really.
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: Just green.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Pretty, though. Yes, ma'am. Do you know if Mr. Field
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: is in right now?
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: Yes, I think so. I saw him out in the
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: backyard a couple of hours ago, him and his wife.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: She was prancing around in one of them skimpy little
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: sun suits.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Terrible.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: No decency at all. I tell you, officer, neither one
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: of them's any good.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Do you know what Mr. Field does for a living?
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: Oh, you mean does he work?
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am. Oh, no.
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: At least I've never seen any indication that he does.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: All he does is just sit around the yard and
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: throw rocks at my cats.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Terrible.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: That's what I was going to call you about. Isn't
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: there a law or something about throwing things at poor
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: dumb animals?
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am.
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: Of course, cats aren't really dumb. Lots of times I
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: think they're a lot smarter than some people I know.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I wonder if you could describe Ivan Field for us, ma'am. Oh, sure.
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: He's kind of a little man, not very big.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: About how tall, ma'am?
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: Oh, maybe five feet seven.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: How about his coloring?
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: You mean his hair?
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am. Dark, very dark. It lets us out. It
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: looks that way. Well, thank you very much, ma'am. Sorry
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: to cause you all this trouble.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: Oh, no trouble at all. Are you going to arrest
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: him now?
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: No, ma'am.
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: Well, why not? What about the rocks and my cat?
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Well, I think the SPCA are the people you want
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: to talk to on that.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: Well, all right. But I tell you right now, Mr.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: Field isn't going to like it. He likes my cat.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: He isn't going to like the idea at all when
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: he hears about it. Just wait until he gets home.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: I'll tell him about his brother's been acting.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, just a minute, ma'am. Yes? You mean that the
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: man living next door isn't Ivan Field?
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: No.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: I didn't say it was. It's his brother, Harry.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Brother?
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: What's the matter with you, young man? Don't you hear well?
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: Everything I say, you ask me to repeat.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I don't mean to, ma'am, just that I want to
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: be sure of what you say.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: What's going on here? First you ask me a lot
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: of questions about Mr. Fields, and then I tell you
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: that he isn't home, and his wife went back east
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: for the holidays. They haven't come back yet. While he
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: was gone, he said that his brother could use the house.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: I thought at first it would be nice.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: Then I found out.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: Harry is nothing like his brother, nothing at all.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I wonder if you could describe him for us.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: My, you want to know about everybody, don't you?
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Well, we just like a description of Harry Field, ma'am,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: that's all.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: Well, he's taller than Ivan. Harry must be close to
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: six feet. Doesn't look anything like Ivan. in any other way.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: Ivan's dark and Harry's light. His hair almost doesn't have
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: any color. He's real blonde.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: How long ago did they move in?
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Well, now, let me see.
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: Elizabeth, that's my Persian cat. Well, Elizabeth had her last
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: litter in December. December the 12th. Harry and his wife
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: moved in the next morning. I remember that because I
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: was up most of the night with Elizabeth. She didn't
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: need me. Awfully independent. But it was the morning that
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: they moved in. Oh, I remember it well. Elizabeth had
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: six little kittens. It was December the 13th when Harry
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: moved in.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: And they've been using Ivan Field's car? Oh, my, yes.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: Hardly a day goes by but what they don't drive
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: it somewhere.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: I wonder if we could use your phone, ma'am. Oh, sure.
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: It's on the table there in the hall.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Thanks. I'll check the name through R. All right, Joe. Okay.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Would you happen to know if this Harry Field has
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: any marks or scars on him?
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: Well, now, let me see. I think so. Seems to
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: me that I saw him and his wife out in
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: the backyard one day. He was wearing swimming trunks, and
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: she was in one of those sun suits I told
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: you about.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Disgraceful.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am.
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: Well, it seems to me that he had a scar
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: on his leg. Yes, just above the knee. I think
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: it was the right leg.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: No, what I meant, ma'am, was does he have any
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: marks on his face, on his forehead, or on his chin?
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: No, no, no marks. Oh, wait a minute. The other
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: day I noticed he had a cut over his right eyebrow.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: It looked like he'd been in a fight. Probably a
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: drunken brawl.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Joe? Yeah, anything? Talk to Cunningham. He checked the name.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Looks like it might be the same one. What's that?
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: They paroled a Harry Q. Field from San Quentin. Description
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: checks out. When did they parole him? December 10th last year.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Did a term for robbery.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: police force in action.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Chesterfield was first to name its ingredients. Ingredients that give
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: you the best possible smoke. Now, Chesterfield is first to
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: give you scientific facts in support of smoking.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Nose, throat, and accessory organs not adversely affected by smoking Chesterfields.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: First such report published about any cigarette.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: A responsible consulting organization reports a study by a competent
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: medical specialist and staff on the effects of smoking Chesterfields.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: For six months, a group of men and women smoked
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: only Chesterfields. Ten to forty a day, their normal amount.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Forty-five percent of the group of smoked Chesterfields from one
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: to thirty years, for an average of ten years each.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: At the beginning and end of the six months, each
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: smoker was given a thorough examination, including x-rays, and covering
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: the sinuses, nose, ears, and throat. After these examinations, the
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: medical specialist stated.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: It is my opinion that the ears, nose, throat, and
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: accessory organs of all participating subjects examined by me were
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: not adversely affected in the six months period by smoking
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: the cigarettes provided. Remember this report, and buy Chesterfields either
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: way you like them, regular or king size. Premium quality Chesterfields,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: and much milder. January 28th, 4.30 p.m. We called the
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: office and told them of the latest developments. Tom Ashford
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: called the local FBI office and arrangements were.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Made to take Harry Field and his wife into custody.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: A further check on him was made through R &
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: I and we found that his record listed four arrests
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: for armed robbery with only one conviction. He spent four
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: and a half years in San Quentin before he'd gotten
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: his parole. The name of his brother was also checked.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: He had no previous records. The car in Field's driveway
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: matched the one used by the bandit. 5.12 p.m. The
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: men from robbery arrived and the plan for taking Field
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: was formulated. The working detective knows that to successfully apprehend
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: an armed and dangerous suspect, he must act quickly and
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: employ the one big advantage on his side, the element
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: of surprise. By moving rapidly before the suspect becomes aware
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: of any attempt to apprehend him, the officer, in many cases,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: cannot only avoid bloodshed, but can often have a better
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: chance of preserving any and all physical evidence necessary to
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: prosecute the suspect. 5.36 p.m. We were ready to move in.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: All set, Joe.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: The men are on back.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Good. No indication he knows what's up. The lights are
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: still on. Let's hope it stays that way. Officer?
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Mr. Friday?
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: The Jenkins woman. Yeah.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Officer! Ma'am, would you mind keeping your voice down? We
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: don't want Phil to know we're here.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm not talking loud, but there's something.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: I want you to know.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Well, it'd be better if you went back into your house, ma'am.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Just stay there till this is over, will you?
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: That's sort of what I want to tell you about.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Ma'am.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Well, I got to thinking, and I figured maybe Harry
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: wasn't too bad a sort after all.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: We don't want to be rude here, but I think
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: it'd be better if you go back in your house.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: All this talking's allowed, but let him know that we're here.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: But that's just it. I don't want anybody hurt, so
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: I called him.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: What?
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: I called him. Told him he didn't have a chance
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: to give himself up.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Unknowingly, Mrs. Jenkins had made it impossible to take the
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: suspect without violence. By warning him, she had put him
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: on the alert. We had no alternative now but to
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: apprehend him as best we could. 5.40 p.m.
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: McCaleb and Crowley are covering the back.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Other fellows are covering the side windows. All right. Let's go.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: Where you at?
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Open up. Come on, Phil.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: We want to talk to you.
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll be there in a minute.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: Take it easy.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Open up, Theo. Police officers.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: All right. I'll be there in a minute.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Let's go. He's stolen. All right. Locked. Come on. Let's
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: hit it.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Stay in the car.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Fireplace, Joe.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: I'll get it.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Guys, I'm through.
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: You cops won't leave him alone.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: I'm straight.
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: Bag's full of money, Joe.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Parsley burned.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: My money?
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: I can do what I want with it.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: You bet you can. Hands behind you. Come on. I'll
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: shake him down. All right. Yeah, he's clean, Joe.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: You got him, huh?
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got part of the loot, too. He was
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: trying to burn it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: Charlie and I will shake the rest of the house.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Right, Mac.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: All right, how about it, Phil?
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: We got the money, people who can identify you. Car
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: parked in the driveway, fits the description. You've been through
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: this before. You got out of queue on December 10th.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: You pulled this job on January 21st. Is that right?
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: Like I said, I fell once.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I did my time.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Joe?
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Mac?
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: Found his wife hiding in the back bedroom. Found a
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: sawed-off shotgun.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: All right, let's get him out of here. Say, Frank?
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: Message came in for you before I left the office.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Forgot about it. Say who it was from?
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: No, I didn't leave a name. Here's the number. Why
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: don't you phone right away?
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I'll call it now.
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: We can take Field in.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Good, Mac. Thanks. We'll be right behind you. We're going
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: to talk to his wife anyway. Okay, Field. Let's go.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: All right. Come on, Frank. Come on. Hollywood 24709. I
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: don't know anybody with that number. Well, a simple way
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: to find out is to call him. It's kind of late. Well,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: go ahead and call him anyway. Yeah. Here's the phone.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: I'll check with you later, Joe.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Frank.
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: Right, Tom.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: We'll check you.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Bye, Tom.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Come on. Let's go. I want to use the phone. Oh, yeah.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: You got a dime?
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. I'll leave it for the call.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Huh, I wonder who it is.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Hello. What place is this?
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Oh. Well, this is Frank Smith.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Were you looking for me?
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he does.
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the right address. Yeah. I should have known.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: What's that? A call from the Murphy House Cleaning Company.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Who are they with? My brother-in-law. Called them in to
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: clean up our house. Yeah, what about it? Now they
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: want to know where to send the bill.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: The story you have just heard was true. The names
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: On February 19th, trial was held in federal court, city
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: of Los Angeles, state of California.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: In a moment, the results of that trial. Now, here
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: is our star, Jack Webb. Thank you, George Fenneman. Before
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: a case goes to trial, the working detective has to
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: get all the evidence. He interviews witnesses, takes statements, checks
• 28:00
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• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Field was tried and convicted of violation of the federal
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: bank robbery statute. He received a sentence of 20 years
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: in a federal penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington. Investigation showed his wife,
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Dora Field, was not implicated in any way in the robbery.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office of
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. Technical advisors,
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. Heard
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: tonight were Ben Alexander, Whit Connor, Jack Crucian. Script by
• 29:17
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  Speaker 4: transcribed from Los Angeles. Tonight, it's Barry Craig, confidential investigator
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: on NBC.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: The curtain falls on Dragnet, episode 175, Big Number. Follow
• 30:02
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