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Dragnet: The Big Escape (EP1484) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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All right, well, here from January fifth of nineteen fifty is the Big
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Escape. Ladies and gentlemen. The story you are about to hear is true,
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only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Dragnet. You're
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a detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery Detail. Two armed bandits have robbed
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a large jewelry store in your city. One of the suspects escapes, one
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is apprehended. He's identified as a friend of yours. Your job send him
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to prison. Drag Net the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will
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travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case,
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from official police polence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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That is the story of your police force in action. It was Tuesday,
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February eighth, was cold in Los Angeles. We're working the night Watch out
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of Robbery Detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Thad Brown Schuber
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Detectives. My name is Friday. I was on the way over from the
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City Hall and it was eight thirty five pm when I got the second floor
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of the Georgia Street, Receiving Hospital treatment room. Oh hi, hi di
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Ben, how's it going? Okay? It hurt for a while. Doc
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gave me an injection six of a grain of maffee, another cane injection bullets
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still on your shoulders. About ready to take it out as soon as I
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got the wound clean. Here's the soap and water, enough alcohol squnchly,
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how's it looked at it? There's the X ray shallow penetrating wound in the
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deltoyde area, louds larger than the salt tissue right here? Oh yeah,
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no bullet violet, okay, the bullet, the spin that's good. Feel
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okay, sure, nice entirelight applicate. Just please, alright, let's see
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now what'd you leave? Tia Joe interrogation from Reynolds and Thompson there with him.
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He has a probe. Nuh yeah, you got anything now? No,
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that's it. You hear that? Hear what located the slug of the
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probe? Nice said, thanks, there we go. Oh it's steady.
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You call your wife. She don't not worry. Had his boys on the
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market for evidence. Give it me, nice sailing solution. Get the one
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sign. Thomas partner on Joe got me No, not yet, no?
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Please? How long did you know this tier before he went wrong? I
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mean I met him in the army, helped him line up a job when
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he got on. It's too bad. Sure, it's funny making a friend
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of yours pulled an armed robbery. I was just surprised, you know,
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kind of Do you want me to drive you home when the docks finished?
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He let's go back to office and talk to time for it. Okay,
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bet all right, Doc, I'm staying right here, may till tomorrow morning.
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I haven't got a temperature. By then, I might release it.
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Oh it's only a flea sh wound, Doc, I feel all right.
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I'm not taking any chances with gunshot wounds, infection set in, and you
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were laid up. I'd have the pension committee to answer to. Staying in
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sounds like an order. It is. You can pick him up. I'll
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pay enough flood my morning. Okay, you're gonna need anything, Ben,
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Yeah, I'm phone to tell my wife I won't be home for dinner.
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His name was Max Tyler, White, male American, aged thirty two,
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dark hair, brown eyes, medium bill, married, father of twin boys.
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He was a friend of mine. We served together in the army overseas,
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and when the wharf and east. I came back to my job on
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the forest and Max went back to his old job. It didn't fit him
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anymore. He stopped working and started drinking. His wife didn't help much.
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Max started with small trouble, but it grew fast. On the afternoon of
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February the eighth Tuesday, Ben and I surprised two men holding up a main
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street jewelry jo. Shots were exchanged and Ben received the flesh wound in the
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shoulder. One of the hold up men escaped, the other one was apprehended.
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His name was Max Tyler. Hi, Larry, Hi. Joe,
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Glad you got here. Twas says you won't talk to anybody but you.
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Okay, boy, thanks for standing by. Sure, I'll be outside you
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anything. Max, Joe, you're in deep this time. You shot a
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cop. I didn't. This guy was with me. I didn't fire one.
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You were in on the job. Yeah. Men don't expect presents.
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I don't expect anything. Joe, Glad you came back. I don't want
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to talk to those other cops. I work in the same department. They
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do same job. It's easier to talk to you. What's your story?
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I was crazy to try it. No alibised, Joe, but I didn't
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know what I was doing. Believe me, I just didn't. Really,
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I won't buy it. Max. You told me the same thing fourteen months
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ago when they picked up with those checks you were passing. Sure, I
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hung some paper, but I'm no who with Joe. You all that I
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was drinking. I need a dough for Darthy and the kids. You gotta
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believe me. I need a break. I said that before too. I
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went to bat for you, got off with six months and three years probation.
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Now you turn up with another caper. I'm not you know, I'm
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sorry. You're sorry. Once accident works, but one free rides enough for
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anybody. That's it. Did I say I wanted that kind of a break.
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I'll serve my time, Joe. I'll serve every day I owe.
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And then what can you tell me you couldn't have told the other cops.
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I want to ask your favor. Yeah, I know you're gonna hook me
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on this. So while I'm doing my time, Darthy and the kids are
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staying as welladaves out in Inglewood. Sure, just keep an eye on him
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and John. I don't mean dough. Dorothy can work with kind of watch
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out from h give him a break, chart it's not there, Foe.
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Yeah, sure, I'll take care of it. You do something for me,
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anything you want. Guy, let's have the straight story. Who was
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the guy with you on that hold up this afternoon? George crest you know,
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and not a fulsome short guy black hair. Yeah, he's got a
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room above the Red Owl Bar down East Third near Broadway. That's where he's
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at. Where can we find Creston? Now? Oh maybe there, I
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don't know. I'll give you a list of the places he goes, some
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of those friends I've met. Sure rope me said there was going to be
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an arrested. You were carrying an S and W thirty eighth. Sure.
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Sure. When they got outside the jewelry shot, Creston jammed the gun in
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my hand. I had to put it away, get it out of sight,
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believe me. Joey wrote me into this, said it sounds like an
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alibi. No, this is your second time around, Max, it sounds
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like one. Okay, I got nothing coming. Don't forget about Dorothy and
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the kids. And I promised you. Now you want to give me a
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full statement on the hold up now, and then you say, Joe,
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I'll call for a stenographer. Joe, yeah, I'm sorry. I am
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I believe you. You got the feeling too late, that's all. Max
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Tyler was arraigned in municipal court two days later. Bail was set at ten
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thousand dollars. Three days after that came his preliminary hearing a municipal court.
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At his arraignment in Superior Court, five weeks after he'd been apprehended, Tyler
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entered a plea of nutt yilly. A date was set for his trial in
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Superior Court. Meantime, the hunt for George Crest, of Max's accomplice,
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went on. There wasn't a sign of him. Our informants had no lead
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on him, and the All Points bulletin containing all the information we had on
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Crest had brought in nothing. On Monday, March twenty second, the trial
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of Max Tyler was held in Superior Court. Ben and I were subpoena to
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appear the victim of the hold up. The jewelry store manager was the first
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to testify. He was questioned by both the prosecutor and the council for the
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defense. He left the stand at eleven twenty five am. Did invade your
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honor before the next witness testified? I'd like permission to approach the bench.
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Mission granted Acrosssecuture Mill What that saw about something? So I know, Judge
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he's shaking his hand and public defenders going back to the council state there,
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counsel for the defendens, your honor is my client's desire to change his plead
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or guilty? Oh defendant, rise from place the court, Max Tyler?
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Is that's your true name? Yes, your honor. On the twelfth day
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of March of this year, in the Spirit of Court, Department eighty three,
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City in County wis angela, state of California, who had a boy
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been arraigned on the charge of robbery in the first degree. At that time
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he pled not guilty to the charge in question. Is it now your desire
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to change that league, Yes, sir, it is. You've reached this
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decision to your own free will. Yes, I have. Is there no
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false employers, no promise of maturity or reward REDU should reach this decision?
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No, sir, con prosecution, Yes, your honor, Max Tyler.
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The twelfth day of March of this year in Superior Court, City and County
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of Los Angeles, State of California. You're arigned on the charge of robbery
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in the first degree. That time you went to a plae set forth in
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this information. How do you now plead guilty or not guilty? Guilty?
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Is it stipulated that at the time the commission of the robbery, the defendant
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was armed of the deadly weapon to win a revolver. So stipulated court depicts
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a degree of robbery is robbery's quest degree, Your honor an the interest of
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justice that people moved to dismissed count too sought with a deadly weapon. At
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this time, your honor, the defendent ways time for sentencing and asks that
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he be sentenced immediately. That's the moaning Maank's daughter. It's the judgment of
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this court. On the eighth day of February of this year, you at
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entered the premises set to three one oh Eightiest Main Street in the city,
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and there an attempt ifer only is taking a personal property in the possession of
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another from his person and immediate presence, and against his whip fell. The
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said attempt was made while you were armed with a dangerous and deadly weapon.
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Tater. This can'd find you guilty of robbery in the first degree, Count
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two dismissed decision of this court. You can return to the county jail,
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share up a pass brade in the State Benitentiary, where you'll serve The sentence
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is described by law Jill Miss Tyler, old Marse, she's taking me pretty
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hard. Come on, we better go see her. Hello, Dorothy,
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I love it, Joe. What am I gonna do without him? Children?
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I'll give it you straight, Dorothy. You didn't do much to keep
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Max out of this. You drink right along with him. You don't deserve
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those kids. That's my approbace, know it. Don't make it any hard.
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I'll do anything I can for the kids, Dorothy, that's all.
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Who am I gonna do without him? I can't be all alone without Max.
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It's not right. It's not right. Neither's armed robbery. Goodbye,
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Dorothy. Before the end of March, Max Tyler was delivered to San Quentin
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State Penitentiary, where he started serving his term. His wife, Dorothy Tyler,
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got a job as a telephone operator. She and her children continued living
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with her relatives down in Inglewood. I helped them out whenever I could.
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Six months went by. Every two weeks faithfully. Tyler wrote me a letter
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from prison. I answered most of them. While Ben and I worked on
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other jobs. The search for George Preston went on. We failed to uncover
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a single lead. Ten months past. Tuesday, January sixteenth, nineteen forty
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nine, four pm, I checked in for work as usual. A Hi,
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Joe, hold u huh? Yeah? Did you pick up the mails?
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Letter in your box from San Quentin Tyler? How's he doing anyway?
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Good clean record, got himself a pretty fair job in the prison library.
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Yeah. I talked to the warden up there, says Tyler ought to be
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eligible for parole about a year if he keeps his nose clean. You going
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to Bedford Tyler again? I don't know see what happens? Can you see
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anything in that guy? He's giving you nothing but trouble. A lot of
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people give him the same. Maybe that explains it. Not for me,
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it doesn't. I wouldn't trust him with dirty lunder. I get it.
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Robbery Friday. Joe's Dorothy Tyler. I gotta talk to you, Yeah,
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Dorothy, what's a manner? I found? Christ? I saw him.
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What George Christa, I know where he is. I saw him downtown.
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I followed him to his place. Be sure it was him. I'm positive
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he's staying at one three four Jesse Street. It's a room in house just
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all Alameda, one three four Jesse got it, Thanks, Dorothy, Come
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on Ben. Eight minutes later, Ben and I were interviewing the landlord at
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one thirty four Jesse Street, cheap rooming house down on the south end of
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the city. The landlord's name was Peterson. We showed him Crest's mugshot and
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he told us he was in room eleven. We went up a dark,
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narrow stairway to the second floor. Here we are, remember eleven. I'd
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stand clear. I'll try the door. It's open. Yeah, yoh,
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I have a look. Yes, Lee has passed out. Come and slipped
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the cuffs on. That was easy, all right. I got his gun.
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He's been drinking, all right. You have a big hangover. You'll
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have a long time to get over it. George Crester was booked at Couty
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Jail in suspicion of robbery. Two months and three weeks later, in Superior
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Court, he was tried and convicted of assault with a deadly weapon and first
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degree robbery and sentenced to the state penitentiary. The day after crest was sentenced,
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I was called of the Office of Chief Detectives Thad Brown Friday. This
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Max Tyler is coming up for parole in a couple of months. He's a
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friend of yours, isn't he. That's right in a way. He's been
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writing letters to the warden. We talked to the parole board about him.
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Understand, you're helping on his kids a few presents. They haven't had much
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of a break. It's just youngsters working hard to get Tanna's parole. You
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think he's worth it. Well, I was off both him and his wife,
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and then she gave us that tip about Creston. Tyler's got such a
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good record up a que and figured they'd earned another chance. You're sticking the
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chin on Joe, helping a can to get a pearle. I think you'll
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realize that. Oh, I believe he's a good risk now. She he's
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pretty weak in some things. He needs direction, that's all. His wife's
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getting better. She might help more than she did. Hope both of them
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are worth her. If anything happens, I know I'm going to get it
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from all sides. You really think some men deserve another chance, don't you.
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Yes, sure I do. I wouldn't want your working for me if
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you didn't. Two more weeks went by. Tuesday, April nineteenth, Ben
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came down with a bad cold and had to lay off work. At the
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same time, a new gang started a hold up campaign among the liquor stores
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out in the Wilshire district. A new rash of armed robberies broke out in
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the central area. There was an attempted bank robbery. It was a bad
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week. Ben got back to work on Saturday. Rough time, mon Joe
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busy. Yeah, you beat that cold, all right, Shoe. I
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feel much better. Doctor gave me some new medicine works doing. That's fine.
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Maybe I'll knock off earlier than that if nothing's doing. Yeah, it
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shouldn't leave too much tonight. Oh thanks, Larry. Sure smile of Joe.
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Max Tyler broke out of prison this morning. You are listening to dragnet
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authentic stories of your police force in action. In the course of his career,
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the police officer has afforded two diverse views of the criminal. At first,
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the rookie cop is taught to distrust the criminal at every turn, without
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exception. He's schooled in the thousand and one ways in which the criminal operates,
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his psychology, his mode of operation. Then, when he's thoroughly acquainted
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with the methods of the criminal and how best to detect them, the police
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officer starts to learn the most difficult lesson of all, how to distinguish between
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the confirmed criminal and the lawbreaker in whom there is hope of rehabilitation. For
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nine and a half years of police work, my first experiment in this field
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was with Max Tyler. I'd given him two chances to prove himself, and
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he'd lost on both of them, so did I. Two months before his
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parole hearing, which might have given him his freedom, Max Tyler had suddenly
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decided to escape. How he figured it, I didn't know, but it
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was my job to find him. At five o'clock that afternoon, Ben and
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I met in the Chief of Detective's offices. Two officers, Holland and Grayson
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from the State Adult Authority Escape Detail were there. How did Tyler manage his
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escape? Grayson, same old story. They figured they could trust him up
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there. He had a good job on the prison final and they trusted him
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when they find out he was gone on the early morning count. Have you
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checked his relatives out in Englewood yet, Yeah, we have. We've got
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the home staked out, recovering all the places we figured he might go.
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How about missus Tyler, You get in touch with her, Freddy. Her
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relatives told us that she's on a weekend vacation with the two kids, staying
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with friends down in Laguna Beach. We got a call in to them.
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Should be hearing from soon. I understand Tyler's a friend of yours. Friday
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he was ready for parole. Yeah. I was trying to help him along.
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I thought the guy deserved a break. He didn't need you. Joey
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made his own. He was feeling bad. You weren't the only one fool
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Friday, ye had. The prison official was Buffalo too. Yeah, I
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know. I helped convince them. You got any leeds on Tyler at all?
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Grayson, I mean from the time he broke prison. Pretty strange.
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It traced him as far as Stockton and they lost the trail completely. The
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Stockton police in on the search. Yeah, sure, funny. The guy
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has no money, no car, We know of, no change of clothes.
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You figure he's getting helped from somebody, could be excuse me, not
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Ron speaking. Oh just a moment you Friday, Well, thank you Friday.
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Yeah? When where just a minute? We hold on please, So
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Tyler's friends down to Laguna Beach, mis this Tyner there? No. She
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called him last night about seven o'clock, told him she changed her plan.
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She wasn't coming. She told them where she was going. She wanted to
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know which highway would take her to Stockton. We told the Tyler's friends in
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the Laguna Beach to contact us immediately if they heard from either mister or Missus
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Tyler. We got out on APB on Dorothy Tyler, and then we drove
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out the interviewer relatives and they told us that Missus Tyler had the two children
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with her. She had left their house at six pm the night before by
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taxi. As far as they knew, she didn't own a car. We
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talked with some of her friends in the neighborhood. The only thing they could
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tell us was that she had not borrowed a car for many of them.
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We drove down to the telephone exchange where she was employed as an operator,
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and we spoke with a manager of mister Ralph Cartwright. I'm sorry, gentlemen,
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this is missus Tyler's night off. Is there something I can help you
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with? When there's Missus Tyler do back work, mister Cartwright. She's working
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the ten to seven starting tomorrow doing at ten am. We understand that she's
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on a weekend vacation. Yeah, you see, today was payday. So
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she asked me if she could have her check ahead of time. Said she
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had to have the money for the weekend. Would you give her the check?
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Oh mind, No, I couldn't give her the check ahead of time,
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but I did do her a favor just to help her over the weekend.
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What was that I loaned my car? We got a complete description of
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the car together with a license number and call the office. The information was
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broadcast to all units throughout the city and teletype to all points in the state.
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Chief of Detectives that Brown ordered an immediate steak out on the telephone exchange
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where Missus Tyler was employed. The steak out at the home of Inglewood continued.
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Another day passed. We checked with the bank where Missus Tyler maintained her
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account was ten twenty five am when we got back to robbery detail. Gentlemen,
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what'd you find out as Tyler closed your account three days ago with Drew
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Oller saved four to six dollars and fifty five cents. And you're not going
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to go far on that. Any word about that car she borrowed teletype came
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in about an hour ago. They found it just outside Santa Barbara abandoned.
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Anyone see the Tylers. No reports. I wonder how those poor kids making
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that. We must be crazy. And his wife too. She was going
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to help him pull an the skatewidle. She have to drag the kids along.
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It's away. Some parents figure Friday, they owe their children nothing.
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The children owe them every change Golfway Friday, dat unto Oh thanks Larry Friday.
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Is it Hopkins Friday on? Steak up the phone exchange? Yeahbert Tyler.
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Woman came through a trick. We got it. Dorothy Tyler was brought
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into the city Hall. Whether it was one of her children, he was
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delivered to the juvenile authorities for the time being. Missus Tyler was brought the
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interrogation room. She refused to admit anything to the officers from the adult authority.
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She said she wanted to talk to me. I went in. She
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threw her arms around me and started trying. You won't let him get next
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with you. You won't let them. I'm after him as much as they
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are, maybe more. Where is he? I can't tell you. Why'd
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you do it? Dorothy? Why you know why I had to see him.
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I had to be with Max. It's a bum deal. You traded
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days for years. If I don't tell him where he is, I won't
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find HIM'LL find him. He's got to eat, so do you and the
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kids. He has to go to work, and working with a gun as
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all he knows, he'll leave the trail. We'll find him. What have
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they done to the children? Chris, Jimmy and taking care of him?
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That's more than you did. Where's your other boy? Vans Mac mac cousin.
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That's fine? And Max ought to be a real pride of yourselves.
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I had to see him, you know that. I had to see you.
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Mag Has he got a gun as he as he used it? No,
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he just thought he might need it. He hasn't hurt anyone. I
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swear it. You helped him escape, is that right? You helped him
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he needed help. I met him at San Ravelle. We drove all night.
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He didn't hurt anyone, show he hadn't heard anyway. Where is he
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now? Where is he? All right, Dorothy, we'll find him,
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Joe if I tell you, If I tell you, would you go alone?
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I can show you the way. Would you go alone? Yeah?
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All right, I'll take you to him. Joe. I trust you.
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Yeah. I trusted him once too. Five pm, Monday, April twenty
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fifth, Dorothy Tyler, Ben and I got in the car and headed north
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for the coast town of Santa Maria, acting under orders of Chief of Detectives
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Thad Brown. Larry Thompson from robbery Detail followed in another car. Holland and
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Grayson from the State Adult Authority were with him. It was ten minutes past
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eight when we drove through the town of Santa Maria. Just outside the city,
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Dorothy Tyler directed us to turn off onto a dirt road. We drove
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about two months. She told us to pull up. Proceeds for you.
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Shack by those trees. No man out here. I'll go with you,
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Joe, maybe Max. You won't understand you stay here, Joe. Hood
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car car stopped you. It's Cox Dorthy. It had to be. They
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won't shoot unless Max days we said to go alone. I'll go alone.
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Riding Hello, Grayson, where is he? Should tell you? That shack
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over there across the field. But that clump of trees, he's got one
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of the kids within that right. Yeah, he won't be any trouble.
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He's armed. The cons up at Quinton and say he won't be taking a
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lie. They say he'll shoot it out. They talk a lot better.
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Let us take him. You're not getting paid for this one. I'll take
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him alone. I made a promise the guy in the shacks, and they
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have a breaking promise. I keep in mind. Keep an eye on this.
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Todd will he been? Thompson's watching around coming with you? I told
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her I'd go alone. There's two doors front and back. Which one you're
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going in front? I'll be around back. Yeah, yeah, I'll be
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right back Rayson. I started to cross the field. Shack was about one
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hundred yards from the road. The field was uncutivated and I wasn't sure of
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my footing. I stumbled over a tree stump. Halfway cross the field.
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The lights in the shack went out. Where's that? Where is it?
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Me? Max? Yo? Pridy? Max? Come on, open up
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all right? Max, Why the gun, Joe? I never thought you'd
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take me with a gun. I never thought I'd have to kick down a
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door to get you. You've changed a lot, Max, how'd you find
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me? Dorothy? Tell you? Where is she outside? Your boy over
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there, Vans, you're sleeping, He's okay, butt out your hands.
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Put out your hands, sorry, Joe, Yeah, given good to his
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home and try to explain neither. Will I am axed? Come on,
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the story you have just heard was true, only the names were changed to
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protect the innocent. On June's second trial was held in Superior Court, City
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and County of marin State of California. In a moment the results of that
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trial, Max Tyler pleaded guilty to the charge of escape and was sentenced to
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the term as prescribed by law. He was returned to San Quentin and then
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transferred to Fulsome Penitentiary, where he is now serving his sentence. You have
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just heard Dragnet, a new series of authentic cases from official files. Technical
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advice for Dragnet comes from the office of Acting Chief of Police W. A.
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Wharton, Los Angeles Police Department. Dragnet honors the State of California and
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the men of the California Highway Patrol, another of America's outstanding law enforcement agencies.
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One of these men, Highway Patrol Commissioner Clifford E. Peterson, outstanding
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administrator and educator in the field of law enforcement, dedicates his life to making
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yours more secure. Be sure to hear mister and Missus Ronald Coleman in the
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Halls of Ivy starting tomorrow on NBC Welcome Back Well the first ever nineteen fifties
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Dragnet episode, and it's definitely very different. One thing that people hold in
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general is a view about Dragnet is that it was very black and white.
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But this episode definitely takes us into a gray area, an area where judgment
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and hard choices, and it was an interesting episode. As I said,
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this is the type of story that, in many ways, you wouldn't get
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in the nineteen sixties, when Friday just became such an iconic character. Here
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there's a definite backstory in place, with Friday going off to the war and
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trying to help an old friend. Friday definitely can seem a bit blunt in
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dealing with the wife after sentencing, but it was pretty clear that through the
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story that bluntness was what was called for. I thought the whole family dynamic
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they portrayed here was very realistic and very tragic. Well, I've never known
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people in this exact situation. I don't think that there are many people for
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whom the max Tylers of this world are entirely foreign. Well, now we
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turn to listener comments and feedback, and we have a comment from Aaron White
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who just notes that this is a classic episode. Well, thanks so much,
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Aaron. And then I have an email from Dan who says, I'm
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not sure if you are aware that your mike really sounds terrible while relating your
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comments after each episode, it produces an echoed slash tunnel sound. And then
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I also had a tweet from Mike who says, Adam, have you switched
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your mike recently? Your voice has changed a lot. Sounds soft in money.
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I listen every day. I love show. Well, Mike, I
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have actually changed Mike, not you, but the thing I talk into three
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times in the past three months. I started out I replaced my old Mike
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with another snowball and received complaints on that. So I switched to a Logitech
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headset and receive some complaints on that. And then I thought that the sound
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quality I was getting off of my a Kindle was actually not all that bad,
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and so through yesterday i'd been using that for a while, and so
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as of today's episode, I'm back to the Logitech Mike. Now. I
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do have a request if any of our listeners notice any sound issues, and
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that is just to let us know specifically what episode you're calling about or have
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the issue with, perhaps what episode you started to notice the issue with the
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sound, because without some information as to when you started the issue, what
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show you heard it on, I really can't isolate it and find out what's
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going on. And if I can make an improvement that will make the sound
32:06
quality of the commentary better, I definitely want to do it. I would
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also say that there's a little bit of limitation within this, just because I
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don't have what you would call a studio environment to record it. We've got
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about a three foot by four foot little corner in my townhouse here that I'm
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recording in. But within that framework, I want to have the best recording
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I possibly can. So again, if you do have a concern about sound
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quality, please email in with as much as many specifics as you can.
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If you merely mentioned do you know that there's a problem with your MIC.
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I wouldn't know, for example, what show you were listening to, what
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stage we were at in switching out various microphones. And if a problem starts
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and you notice it continue, it can be helpful for me if I know
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when it started, so then I can go back and see if I change
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something or if there's some sort of problem on my system. So as much
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specifics as possible, that's really appreciated to pinpoint these sort of issues. All
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right, well, that will do it for today. We will be back
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on Monday with the Saint and join us back here next Saturday for dragging it
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