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Dragnet: The Big Threat (1951) (EP4736) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: dot Great Detectives dot nit Now. From April twelfth, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty one, here is the Big Threat.
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  Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true, only
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  Speaker 2: the names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
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  Speaker 2: a detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery detail. A middle
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  Speaker 2: aged businessman in your city has robbed and beaten senseless,
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  Speaker 2: The hold up men escape, the victim refuses to report
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  Speaker 2: the crime. Your job investigate.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 3: the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files,
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  Speaker 3: from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is
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  Speaker 3: the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 4: It was Tuesday, October eighth, was overcast in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 4: We were working the day Watch out of Robbery detail.
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  Speaker 4: My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Bideon. My
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  Speaker 4: name is Friday. Was eleven twenty three am when we
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  Speaker 4: got to seven hundred South Hill Boulevards, the Butler Accordion
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  Speaker 4: Studios thing. Oh, I don't know, it must be upstairs,
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  Speaker 4: I guess, huh oh, yeah, yeah, there it is main office,
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  Speaker 4: second floor. Yeah. Who is that?
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  Speaker 5: Joe right, had portrait up there on the wall in
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  Speaker 5: a minute, some printing underneath here, nice finny, that says
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  Speaker 5: Damian the father of the Accordion Vienna eighteen twenty nine.
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  Speaker 5: What do you know about that? Must be it down there? Huh, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I want to try. Yeah, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Are you Lewis Butler?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right. Can I help you?
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  Speaker 4: Police officers? Mister Butler like talk to you for a minute.
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  Speaker 4: Is your name Friday, Yes, sir, that's right, that's my partner,
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  Speaker 4: Sergeant Romero.
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  Speaker 7: How do you do?
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, sergeant, I told you on the floor and
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  Speaker 6: I just don't want to talk about it.
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  Speaker 4: We'd appreciate it if we could have your cooperation. It's
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  Speaker 4: pretty important matter.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'm the only one concerning it as far as
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  Speaker 6: I can see. I just assume forget the whole thing. Besides,
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  Speaker 6: I got a pretty busy day ahead of me.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we'd like to straighten me out, mister Butler. Concerns
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  Speaker 4: a lot more people than just yourself. No, we're not
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  Speaker 4: going to take much of your time. Just a few questions.
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  Speaker 6: That's all I told you on the phone, Sergeant, I
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  Speaker 6: don't want to talk about it. Can't you just forget
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  Speaker 6: about the whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's only going to take a few minutes there, all right,
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  Speaker 4: come in if you want, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Places in kind of a mess. Wife's away to mother's.
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  Speaker 6: You can sit down if you want. Oh, thank you
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  Speaker 6: very much. All right, Pepper, I'll feed you just a minute.
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  Speaker 4: It's some nice cats you got there, Siamese a little bit.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's my wife's. Don't care too much for cats myself.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Pepper, No, wait a minute, dude knows that.
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  Speaker 6: Heny go, Pepper to hold you for a while.
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  Speaker 7: Look at that.
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  Speaker 4: Jill sure goes for that mail confidence, he sure does.
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna have to make it fast, Sergeant, I got
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  Speaker 6: appointment for lunch down town.
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  Speaker 4: All right, sir, I'd just like to have you elaborate
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  Speaker 4: on what doctor Hart told us.
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  Speaker 6: Is he your family doctor, by the way, Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 6: He had no business calling you in the first place.
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  Speaker 6: I told him I didn't want it to get out.
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  Speaker 6: What'd he tell you?
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  Speaker 5: He said you came to him for treatment night before last.
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  Speaker 5: He told him you had been beaten up and robbed.
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  Speaker 5: He treated you for cuts and bruises about the face
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  Speaker 5: and head.
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  Speaker 6: No, it was nothing, didn't amount anything.
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  Speaker 4: Well, was there actually a robbery, mister Butler?
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  Speaker 6: Believe me, sergeant, it didn't amount anything. I don't even
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  Speaker 6: want to go into it.
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  Speaker 4: How much did the robbery involve money?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I'd rather not say. I don't want any
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  Speaker 6: fuss mate about it. That's why I didn't report it.
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  Speaker 6: Just thisn't worth it to me.
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  Speaker 4: We understand the hold up man took more than eight
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  Speaker 4: hundred dollars from me. Wouldn't you like to get that
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  Speaker 4: money back?
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to be nasty about this thing, but
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  Speaker 6: I was the one who was held up. Now, if
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to press the case, I don't see
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  Speaker 6: why anyone else should worry about it. It was my money.
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  Speaker 4: How about the beating of the thieves gave you?
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  Speaker 6: It's nothing serious. It's like I told you on the phone,
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  Speaker 6: I want to forget about the whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it must have been involved more than just a
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  Speaker 4: few scratches from the looks of you, and the doctor
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  Speaker 4: had to treat you.
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  Speaker 6: Take my word for a police. I'm all right. I
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  Speaker 6: don't want to press charges.
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  Speaker 5: Appreciate it if you'd give us some kind of an explanation,
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  Speaker 5: Miss Butler.
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  Speaker 6: Why I don't want to bother that's all. There's nothing
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  Speaker 6: to explain.
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  Speaker 4: But you would have to admit that this is a
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  Speaker 4: little unusual. Somebody beats you up, slugs you, takes eight
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  Speaker 4: hundred dollars from you, and you don't want to do
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  Speaker 4: anything about it.
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  Speaker 6: You're going to have to excuse me a minute. I
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  Speaker 6: have one of my accordion students down the hall in
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  Speaker 6: the practice room, almost time for him to go. I
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  Speaker 6: have to give him his lesson for next week, all right,
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  Speaker 6: So go out ahead. It'd long to be a me.
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  Speaker 7: How about that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it acts like you're scared to dead. Well, whoever
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  Speaker 4: it was, they gave him a going over half of
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  Speaker 4: his head and bandage, his face all swollen. Sure, something funny. Well,
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  Speaker 4: he's not going to be much help unless we can
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  Speaker 4: talk him into a crime report. Somebody's got to him.
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  Speaker 7: I'm bet on it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh Ti there, kiddy, Hi kitty.
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  Speaker 6: I've been thinking it over. Officers. Sorry, I had to
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  Speaker 6: come out here go to all this trouble, but I
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  Speaker 6: just as soon forget the whole thing. I don't even
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  Speaker 6: want to talk about it, if you don't mind.
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  Speaker 4: We don't mean the high pressure you butler, but we
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  Speaker 4: like some kind of an explanation.
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  Speaker 6: Can't you understand. I just don't want to make a
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  Speaker 6: big fuss about it. I'd like to have you go
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  Speaker 6: along with my feelings in the matter. It's my affair,
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  Speaker 6: isn't it.
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  Speaker 4: No, sir, it's ours too. Half a dozen people like yourself.
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  Speaker 4: I have been beaten up and robbed in this neighborhood
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  Speaker 4: all in the last five weeks. Now, if we can
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  Speaker 4: find the thieves, we can put a stop to it.
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  Speaker 4: We can make sure the same thing doesn't happen to
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  Speaker 4: your neighbors.
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  Speaker 6: Well, they're going to have to look out for themselves.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not getting tied up in a big investigation. The
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  Speaker 6: neighbors don't worry about me.
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  Speaker 5: Freddie Good's a little further than then. You've been beaten
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  Speaker 5: up and robbed once. How do you know it isn't
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  Speaker 5: going to happen again.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's not, that's all. I'll make sure it doesn't.
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  Speaker 4: How what's going to stop the same thieves from knocking
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  Speaker 4: you over again?
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  Speaker 6: Look, if it's all the same to you, I want
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  Speaker 6: to forget about this. I'm going to have to be
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  Speaker 6: running along. It's getting late now.
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  Speaker 4: It's just one more thing. Butler, when the doctor was
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  Speaker 4: treating you the other night, this doctor Hart, he says
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  Speaker 4: you told him that you knew who the hold of
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  Speaker 4: men were? Now, is that right?
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  Speaker 6: No? He got it all mixed up. I didn't mean
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  Speaker 6: it that.
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  Speaker 4: How did you mean it?
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  Speaker 6: I'm in a funny position. I just can't explain, that's all.
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  Speaker 6: I can't take the chance good to hold up men
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  Speaker 6: threaten you. I can't talk about it. Give me a.
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  Speaker 4: Break, please, you're making a mistake, mister. Play ball with
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  Speaker 4: those thieves and they'll ruin you.
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  Speaker 6: It's not only me, it's my family too. I'm not
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  Speaker 6: going to take the chance.
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  Speaker 4: If they threatened you and your family, you're taking more
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  Speaker 4: of a chance keeping quiet about it. They'll bleed your
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  Speaker 4: white blackmail, robbery, anything you can think of. Now, this
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  Speaker 4: has happened before. Can't you see the spot? I'm mean,
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  Speaker 4: I know who they are, I know what they can do.
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  Speaker 4: I got a wife to think about. Would you put
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  Speaker 4: your family in that position? If you're buying protection from
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  Speaker 4: a couple of hoods and now figured out, how much
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  Speaker 4: does it work? How far can you trust them?
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  Speaker 6: If you pick them up, they'll know I told you
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  Speaker 6: I don't want anything to happen. Can't you see that?
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  Speaker 6: I haven't any choice? What else can I do?
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  Speaker 4: Help us? Put the thieves where they belong. You'll have
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  Speaker 4: all the protection you needle.
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  Speaker 6: Are locked up. It's a big order.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know you and your wife will be under
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  Speaker 4: twenty four hour guard. Now that's a promise.
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  Speaker 6: How long would that have to go on?
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  Speaker 4: Long enough to bring them to trial and convict him?
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  Speaker 6: How about it? They warned me about telling the police.
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  Speaker 6: They said they'd get both of us if I did,
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  Speaker 6: me and my wife. Now they meant it too, they'd
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  Speaker 6: get us. What can you do about it?
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  Speaker 4: Them first? After another hour of talking, we finally persuaded
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  Speaker 4: the robbery victim, Lewis Butler, to come downtown with us.
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  Speaker 4: He dictated a full statement about the hold up and
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  Speaker 4: filed a crime report. He told us he'd been robbed
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  Speaker 4: and slugged late at night a few blocks from his
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  Speaker 4: music studio. Eight hundred and twenty dollars had been taken
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  Speaker 4: from him by two bandits, both of whom were armed,
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  Speaker 4: both of whom he recognized. He said. One of the
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  Speaker 4: men was a Marvin Carter, a former bartender at a
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  Speaker 4: neighborhood tavern. The other was Ralph Quincy, a merchant seaman.
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  Speaker 4: We went across the street and met with Deputy District
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  Speaker 4: Attorney Fred Henderson. The next day, the case was presented
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  Speaker 4: to the grand jury and a true bill was returned.
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  Speaker 4: The two suspects, Marvin Carter and Ralph Quincy were indicted
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  Speaker 4: on one count of armed robbery. That afternoon. Both of
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  Speaker 4: them were booked at the main jail and then released
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  Speaker 4: after posting a required bail of ten thousand dollars. Four
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  Speaker 4: point thirty PM. Ben and I went back to the
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  Speaker 4: office and met with Captain Dideon. I'm making out on
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  Speaker 4: a pretty fair shape, Skipper. The arraignment set for two
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  Speaker 4: weeks from Thirsty. How about protection for the victim?
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  Speaker 6: Now it's all set up.
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  Speaker 4: Butler and his wife are under twenty four hour guard,
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  Speaker 4: three teams of men on it.
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  Speaker 5: There's two thieves getting out on bail. It's not going
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  Speaker 5: to make it any easier. I'll be working with from
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  Speaker 5: the DA's office.
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  Speaker 4: Anderson seems to think we've got enough to convict both men.
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  Speaker 6: What makes them so sure?
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  Speaker 4: Well, for one thing, we got a line on a
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  Speaker 4: couple of good witnesses to the whold up.
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  Speaker 6: Excuse me, robbery did in?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Might no, I'll check it before I leave, right.
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  Speaker 4: I was that about witness. The man by the name
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  Speaker 4: of Bartlet runs a drug store. He and his son
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  Speaker 4: were in the neighborhood when Louis Butler was held up.
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  Speaker 4: They're supposed to have spotted the two thieves running from
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  Speaker 4: the scene.
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  Speaker 5: Have you talked to him yet, just over the phone.
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  Speaker 5: We've got an appointment with him at six o'clock tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Take their statements. I guess I don't have to tell
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  Speaker 5: you to stay as close to this thing as you can.
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  Speaker 5: If we miss this time, we may not get another chance.
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  Speaker 5: You know as well as anyone out tough it's been
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  Speaker 5: reaching these things.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we wouldn't be this far along if Butler didn't
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  Speaker 4: decide to cooperate and file charges.
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  Speaker 5: I wish I knew how many victims there are and
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  Speaker 5: this thing just like Butler, people we don't even know about.
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  Speaker 4: Scared they don't dere file charges. Yes, there's a dozen
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  Speaker 4: of them anyway.
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  Speaker 5: I can't figure people hire a police force on salary
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  Speaker 5: to protect them and their property, then they turn around
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  Speaker 5: try to make a deal with a bunch of hoods
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  Speaker 5: buy them off. How far have you gotten on the
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  Speaker 5: hold up gang behind me? The two men you've got
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  Speaker 5: Tam Carter and Quincy. Anyone else working with him possible?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure yet. Both Carter and Quincy have juvenile records.
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  Speaker 4: That's about it. We're still checking on them.
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  Speaker 5: Robbery didon yeah, Tom right.
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  Speaker 7: No, I'll tell them.
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  Speaker 6: They're here with me now, right, Thank you started already.
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  Speaker 7: How's that?
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  Speaker 5: The victim, Lewis Butler, he got a phone call at
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  Speaker 5: his house a few minutes ago. Yeah, I figured it
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  Speaker 5: was one of the hold up gang. They gave Butler
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  Speaker 5: a choice for They say either he drops the charges
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  Speaker 5: or they'll kill him.
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  Speaker 4: Five pm Captain Diddion issued orders that the two suspects
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  Speaker 4: in the case, Marvin Carter and Ralph Quincy, be placed
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  Speaker 4: under twenty four hour surveillance. An additional team of men
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  Speaker 4: was assigned to guard Lois Butler. Each officer was carefully
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  Speaker 4: instructed to take all possible precautions to prevent the robbery
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  Speaker 4: victim and his wife from being harmed in any way.
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  Speaker 4: Six pm, Ben and I met with the two witnesses
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  Speaker 4: to the hold up, a drug store proprietor Sam Bartlett
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  Speaker 4: and his teenage son Harold. They told us that they'd
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  Speaker 4: been in the immediate vicinity the night Butler was robbed,
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  Speaker 4: and that they'd gotten a good look at the two
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  Speaker 4: gunmen as they ran from the scene of the hold up.
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  Speaker 4: Bartlett and his son Harold identified the suspects as Marvin Carter,
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  Speaker 4: and Ralph Quincy. Statements were taken and both witnesses were
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  Speaker 4: warned to maintain absolute secrecy about their part in the case.
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  Speaker 4: Next day we made arrangements to have the druggist and
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  Speaker 4: his son subpoena for the Superior court arrangement. Six days
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  Speaker 4: went by Thursday, October seventeenth, eight am, we checked in
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  Speaker 4: the office and found the message waiting for us. What
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  Speaker 4: is it Joe the druggist's son, Harold Bartlett? What about
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  Speaker 4: farn him in an alley three o'clock this morning? What
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  Speaker 4: slugged and eaten? Late that afternoon, Ben and I received
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  Speaker 4: permission from the doctors to visit briefly with our witness,
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  Speaker 4: seventeen year old Harold Bartlett. His injuries were painful, but
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  Speaker 4: not critical. The beating he'd received was nothing less than brutal.
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  Speaker 4: His left forearm had been broken, and he'd been beaten
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  Speaker 4: viciously about the face and chest. He told us that
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  Speaker 4: he was on his way home from a neighborhood movie
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  Speaker 4: just before midnight when two men jumped him from behind
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  Speaker 4: on a deserted street.
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  Speaker 8: I drove around some maybe five or ten minutes. It
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  Speaker 8: must about at least three minutes in.
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  Speaker 4: The car, And why do you say that?
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  Speaker 8: There were two men in the back sat with me.
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  Speaker 8: Somebody else had to be doing the driving, and it
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  Speaker 8: had to be a sedan in a club coup.
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  Speaker 6: I guess.
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  Speaker 8: So after he drove around a while, they stopped the
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  Speaker 8: car and then they began slugging me. Didn't say a
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  Speaker 8: word the whole time, just started slugging me. I asked
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  Speaker 8: him why I just kept slugging me. See, at first,
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  Speaker 8: I think they were hit me with their fists. I
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  Speaker 8: felt like something to lock it a lot harder, a
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  Speaker 8: piece of iron or metal or something. That's when I
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  Speaker 8: grabbed the cloth off of my face and I started
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  Speaker 8: to holler what happened?
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  Speaker 4: Then?
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  Speaker 8: Ah, yes, nobody heard me. Nobody came anyway. One of
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  Speaker 8: the men swore at me and grabbed my arm hit
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  Speaker 8: it with something. Sure, Sure they didn't say anything to
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  Speaker 8: you all this time, Just before they pushed me out
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  Speaker 8: of the car. It seemed like I was at that
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  Speaker 8: car for hours.
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  Speaker 4: When they started to talk to you, Harry, what they say.
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  Speaker 8: I was about that robbery my father and we saw
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  Speaker 8: the one you talked to us about last week.
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  Speaker 4: What they say about it?
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  Speaker 8: I said, maybe this will help you keep your mouth shut,
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  Speaker 8: stay out of the people's business. I said that a
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  Speaker 8: couple of times. I said a lot more. It happened
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  Speaker 8: to Dad and me if we went to the police,
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  Speaker 8: if we were witnesses at that trial.
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  Speaker 4: Do you remember if some men called each other by name?
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  Speaker 6: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 8: I don't remember anyway.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Son, you remember when we talked to you and
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  Speaker 4: your father last week. We told you to say nothing
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  Speaker 4: about the case to anyone.
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  Speaker 6: I remember. I guess it's my fault.
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  Speaker 4: Well, did you tell other people that you were a
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  Speaker 4: witness in the case. Did you mention it in public?
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: I did.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I didn't think it was that important. I guess
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  Speaker 8: I talked about it quite a bit. I'm sorry. It's
• 15:29
  Speaker 8: my fault, all right.
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: All right, Harry, if you remembered from now on, it'll
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: save a lot more drum.
• 15:33
  Speaker 8: I remember, Sergeant, those two men last night scarving for
• 15:36
  Speaker 8: a while. I guess most of us talk. Huh, how
• 15:40
  Speaker 8: do you mean? So they never warned me about staying
• 15:42
  Speaker 8: away from the cops that said they killed me and
• 15:45
  Speaker 8: my dad. If we were witnesses, they were probably just
• 15:48
  Speaker 8: trying to scare us.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: They were fooling you know.
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: You had a sample last night, so yeah, where are
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: they fooling? After we left Harry Bartlet, we went back
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: to the office and arranged for a twenty four hour
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: guard to be assigned to the teenage boy and his father.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: A thorough investigation of the attack on the boy failed
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: to turn up any leads. On the surface, the two
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: robbery suspects, Carter and Quincy were not involved. During the
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: week that followed, we heard of no further threats or attacks,
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: either on the victim, Lewis Butler, or the witnesses involved
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: in the case. Ben and I worked with Deputy District
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: Attorney Henderson preparing the case against the two suspects. Two
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: days before the trial opened in Superior Court, we got
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: an urgent call. Yeah I know, but how did it happen?
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: Mm hmm, yeah, all right, Tom'm saying, what's the trouble?
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Couldn't be worse? No victim? What do you mean, mister
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: and missus Butler and disappeared.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: You are listening to dragnet from beginning to end? Is
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: the authentic story of your police force in action.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Tuesday, November fifth, nine am the trial of robbery suspects
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: Marvin Carter and Ralph quincy opened in Superior Court, Department
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: eighty eight. The complaining witness, Lewis Butler, failed to appear
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: for two solid days. We'd been busy checking all of
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: the Butler's friends and relatives in the city. They couldn't help.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Each time the Butlers had left their residence, they'd been
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: under surveillance. We'd had an understanding with them that in
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: the event that they were in their automobile and for
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: some reason the officers assigned to them lost them in traffic,
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: the Butlers would immediately return to their home. On the
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: night of November three, under the pretext of going to
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: a neighborhood theater, the Butler's made a right hand turn
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: from a left hand lane of traffic, so it became
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: obvious that they were trying to elude the officers following them.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: A check was made at their home as pre arranged,
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: and they failed to return. When they failed to appear
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: for the trial, a bench warrant was issued by Superior
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Court for the missing couple. Deputy District Attorney Henderson asked
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: the court to grant a delay in order to find
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: the Butler's. It was granted. In the meantime, we'd gotten
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: out a broadcast and an APB Missing Persons detail helped
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: out in the search. Still no sign. Tuesday, November twelfth,
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: eleven am Deputy da Henderson phoned us from the Hall
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: of Justice. When was that Fred?
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: Is that right?
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: Hey?
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: Thanks a lot, What do you have to say? The
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: attorney for Carter and Quincy asked the court for dismissal.
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: No complaining witness. Well the judge rule on it hid.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, case dismissed. No matter how guilty the two men
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: might have seemed. There was nothing further anyone could do
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: without a complaining witness. Our case was finished. The two suspects,
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Carter and Quincy, were released from custody in a few days.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Quincy left town for the East. Carter remained in the city.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: The search for mister and Missus Butler went on, no
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: sign of either one of them. December came, and then
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: the Christmas holidays New Years. On January sixteenth, Louis Butler
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: suddenly reappeared back in town and surrendered on the bench warrant.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: They explained to the judge that because of the numerous
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: threats on their lives just before the trial, they were
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: afraid to appear, and that they left the state without
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: telling anyone. The judge gave them a lecture in a
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: warning and dismissed charges. Another month passed February and then March.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: On April second, we got word from Denver, Colorado, that
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: one of our former robbery suspects, Ralph Quincy, had shot
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: and killed a twenty four year old policeman while attempting
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: a robbery in that city. Quincy was tried and convicted
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: of murder and received a life term. In the meantime,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: we'd heard little or nothing about the other former robbery suspect,
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Marvin Carter. Another two months passed. Spring months wore on
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: into summer. Monday, July eighth, eight am.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: Friday, Romera.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: See you a minute, yea skipper, you want to sit down?
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: You got something before? Yeah?
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: The hold up victim man, but the name of Sheridan
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: came in late last night. Filed this crime report here
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: ever looked thanks, So let's see, Joe. You can notice
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: that it happened in the same area where we had
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: that ration hold ups last fall. I see victim robbed
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: and beaten suspects. He used the same approach, same mo
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: followed it right down the line.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, victim warned not to contact police, bodily harm threatened
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: if victim did so. How about the descriptions of the
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: hold up the man here? The victim pretty sure about them.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: Gaffney handled a report. The victim said he got a
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: good look at one of the thieves. Gaffney gave him
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: a bunch of mugshots to look at. Yeah, he's the
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: one he picked out of the line.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Oh thanks, I have a look Jill Marvin Carter. As
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: soon as the robbery report had come in, an immediate
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: check had been made of Marvin Carter's last known address,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: an apartment in the West Peico district. The landlord revealed
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: that the suspect had moved at least two months before.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: We got out a broadcast and an APB on him.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Together with Sergeants Gonzales and Henry Ben and I started
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: on a systematic check of all of Carter's known friends,
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: relative and associates. After that, we started on the places
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: he was known to frequent hotels, bars, restaurants. No luck.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Two weeks went by, there were no further reports of
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: robberies where the m of the criminal matched.
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: That of Carter's.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Tuesday, July twenty sixth, two PM, we got a call
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: from one of our informants, Bertie Simmons, who told us
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: that he might have some information for us. He said
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: it concerned Marvin Carter. He told us he'd meet us
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: at MacArthur Park on the sixth Street side at two
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: thirty pm. Two fifty pm.
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: You'll have to excuse me. Sorry, I'm late. I have
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: to move from that other place. Things haven't been going
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: to a good for me.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: That's all right, Bertie. What's the matter? No luck with
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: the horses, Yeah, a lot of luck.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: It's all bad.
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: If it's a pig in the race, I have to
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: bet on him every time, getting so I can't even
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: pick them to show anymore.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: I don't know what else is new with you, Bertie.
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: I'm still looking, but down around some of the joints
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: south May now I meet it, keeping the near to
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: the ground. Want to smoke, Yeah, thanks, don't matter if
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: I do you.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Like for you?
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: Hm?
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: What have you heard, Bertie? Anything in the layout that
• 22:17
  Speaker 9: Marvin Carter? You're still looking for a man't you?
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: That's right, any Rember?
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: I heard it.
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: Last night having a beer downtown. I knew you fellas
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: were in a little bind on a thing. I always
• 22:27
  Speaker 9: like to help you when you're in a bind. Well,
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: what'd you hear Burt Kitter's still in town hiding out?
• 22:32
  Speaker 9: Like I say, I always like to help you out
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: when you need it. I know what it is to
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: be in a bind. That's when you appreciate help most.
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: I'm kind of in a bind right now, little short.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: You know, couple of dollars Burke, that's all I have
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: on me. WI might help you out at me?
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: Saved my life, sergeant, tell you the truth. I didn't
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: know where dinner was coming from tonight, No need telling you.
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: I appreciate it.
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: What was this you heard about? Carter still in town?
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: It's a place down by Venice to the beach. Kyle
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: has been seting there once twice lately. It's a little seafook, joint,
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: beer and clams down by the beach.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Well, now is that somebody's story or is it the
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: real thing?
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: The real thing? So I don't you know me better
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: than that? No phony leads from me?
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Where's Kurt is supposed to be staying down there?
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: You know?
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: Well I do, and I don't. I guess what do
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: you mean? This move to? Told me about Kyler last night?
• 23:22
  Speaker 9: He didn't know the address, but he described the place
• 23:25
  Speaker 9: God is supposed to be hiding out, and I know
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: the joint.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: He mean, But you don't know the address.
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: No, but I can point out the place he means.
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: It's a shack.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Right along the speedway down there, down by the beach.
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: I want to run down there with us, now, sure
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: I've pointed out for you.
• 23:40
  Speaker 9: I'm not going near it, though, Why do you say that?
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: I don't want to mix with it. That's all I
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: got the wood? What do you mean, Kyla won't be
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: an easy one to take? How do you know he's
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: got a gun?
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Two fifty five pm, along with our informant Bertie Simmons,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Ben and I drove down to the beach town of Venice.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Bertie pointed out of brown wooden frame cottage where Carter
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: was supposed to be hiding out. While Bertie waited in
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: the car, Ben and I checked it out. Was nobody
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: at home, but there was plenty of evidence inside the
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: cottage that Carter was living there. I went back down
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: the street to.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Where we parked our car.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: I kept an eye on the cottage while Ben got
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: to a phone to call the office.
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: Pretty down here, I saga.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a nice day.
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: I don't get out in the air, and I think
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: that's my trouble. Some of this good ocean there makes
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: you feel like a million.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:34
  Speaker 9: Did you notice the place where your partner went to phone?
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: Down the street there?
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: What about it?
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: You see the.
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: Sign beer and clam right over the door, Beer and clams. Yeah,
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: best in the city. I know, I've been there. Only great,
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: good beer for a dime, fresh clams. Nothing better. You
• 24:55
  Speaker 9: like clams?
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're all right once in a while.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: What am I going to do? So if you two
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: have to wait here all night.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Well we'll get you back to town Burg and figure
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: out something for you.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: Hi, Ben, did you get a hold of Captain Yeah,
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: Marvin Carter was picked up downtown twenty minutes ago.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: What yeah, driving a rended car. Traffic un picked him up. Well,
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: they tab him on his description. Not at first. The
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: reason they noticed him was because he was double parked
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: on a busy street and they pulled him over and
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: got a better look at him. I did any trouble with.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: Him, not at all.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Got him booked at Maine jail. Say that's sure too bad,
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: And what do you mean by in short case. Isn't
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: it how long your fellaw's been working on her? M
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: just about a year, hon Joe, Yeah, just about it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: Coming all this way from nothing, you're ready to make
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: the pinch and somebody else does it for you must
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: be kind of disappointing.
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: Huh, all that time? All that?
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: What?
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Well, Carter's in jail, that's the main thing. I guess
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: we better drive back in ib.
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: Yeah, say just a minute, sidgeant, no use coming all
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: this way for nothing.
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: One if you do me a favor.
• 25:58
  Speaker 9: What's that burg that's signed down the street white the
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: blue and white signed Barren Clam. What if you could
• 26:06
  Speaker 9: drop me off right in front Barren Clam? Oh yeah, Berna, sure,
• 26:11
  Speaker 9: and nice of you. Just like I was saying, what's said,
• 26:14
  Speaker 9: no use coming all this way from that?
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: On October twenty ninth, trial was held in Superior Court,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Department eighty six, City and County of Los Angeles, State
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: of California. In a moment the results of that trial,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Marvin Lawrence Carter was tried and convicted on several counts
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: of first degree robbery and was sentenced to the State Penitentiary,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: where he is now serving his term. First degree robbery
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: is punishable by imprisonment from five years to life.
• 27:01
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• 27:05
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• 27:10
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• 27:13
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• 27:16
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• 27:19
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• 27:20
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• 27:27
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• 27:30
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• 27:33
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• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back. This is a case where the show tells
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: a story that teaches a lesson without connecting the Oh
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: it's in a direct way, but it has to be
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: said that the refusal of the first complainant to appear
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: at trial led to the death of the policeman in Colorado.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: It brings home the weight a failing to follow through
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: on your responsibility and goes back to what they were
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: trying to tell him earlier that the decision to report
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the crime wasn't just about him. On a latter note,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I love Bertie Simmons. He has to be one of
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: my all time favorite Herb Butterfield characters. I didn't make
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: the connection that it was Butterfield in the past, but
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I recognize it now and it's so different than nearly
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: every other character I've heard him do. Though, poor Joe
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: had to give away his last couple bucks for an
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: unnecessary tip that didn't help them solve the case. Though
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: on the bright side, Bertie gets beers and clams, so
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I guess good for him. It's also worth noting that
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: this is one of those episodes where the title israe is.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: That's why we designated it. If your look up at
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: the title, it says the Big Tried nineteen fifty one,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: because there's another one, and I believe nineteen fifty three,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: same title, entirely different in terms of its plot. Well,
• 29:17
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• 29:20
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• 29:23
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• 29:26
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• 29:31
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• 29:50
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• 30:02
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• 31:01
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• 31:40
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• 31:45
  Speaker 1: And then we have a comment on Spotify regarding the
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: episode The Big Trunk. Uh listener rights Lol. They need
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: to know why he jumped before they can do an investigation.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I feel like the investoration would be what uncovered that,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: And honestly, when I first read it, I was confused
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: since that's not a main plot of the episode. But listening,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I recalled, I think that was the stuff they were
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: talking about at the beginning, and indeed, the opening narration
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: as Friday saying that they needed to know who he
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: was and why he jumped before they could proceed with
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the investigation. And I think the listener is right, that
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: is a very odd statement to make, and it's easy
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: to overlook because it's just kind of a throwaway before
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: they got put onto the case of the retired performer
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: who got killed by a guy because they thought she
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: had valuables in her trunk. And it feels like that
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: got written because they're like, Okay, Friday has to say
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: something since they don't have the case at the beginning,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: so let's just give Friday some words to say. Because
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense because, as the listener said, an
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: investigation would be what you would do to determine who
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: he was and why he jumped. Not only that, but
• 33:23
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• 33:29
  Speaker 1: had jumped, and you knew who he was, what else
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: exactly do you have to investigate. It's not like some
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  Speaker 1: complex robbery case where you know, you lift a toolprint
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  Speaker 1: and then you have to go and do searches and
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  Speaker 1: figure out what the exact tool was that made the mark.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, once the two facts that Friday says that
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  Speaker 1: you need before the investigation can proceed are obtained, there
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  Speaker 1: is nothing really left to investigate. Now there might be
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  Speaker 1: some police nomenclacier that we're missing here, some sort of
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  Speaker 1: separation between investigations. So maybe this isn't quite as silly
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  Speaker 1: as it sounds. And I mean, I would tend to
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  Speaker 1: give benefit of the doubt to Dragnet, but if anyone
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  Speaker 1: is an expert on why he would say that, because
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  Speaker 1: it's such a weird thing to say. It's so weird
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  Speaker 1: too on Dragnet because it's generally very well written, which
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  Speaker 1: I guess is the reason why I just tended to overlook. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: wait a second, that actually kind of sounds like nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: Good catch, and if anyone has any way to make
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  Speaker 11: Have I the pleasure of speaking with mister Michael.
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  Speaker 2: Wedding And that's your idea of pleasure? Who is this?
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  Speaker 11: I'm afraid my name won't mean much to you.
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  Speaker 4: It's George Venezuelo's George Venezuelas.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, your embassy suggested I get.
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  Speaker 4: In touch with you, and what can I do for you?
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  Speaker 11: I believe the shoe is on the other foot. I'd
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  Speaker 11: like to do something for you. You're aware that the
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  Speaker 11: Communist Party is outlawed in Greece. Yes, Well, suppose I
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  Speaker 11: told you that the number one man is right here
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  Speaker 11: in Athens. What would you say to that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the first thing I'd say is, what's his name,
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  Speaker 2: I take it. Then you're interested, interested as hardly the word.
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  Speaker 11: Well, I live at fourteen Tracopas Traycopas.
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  Speaker 2: That's the street right near the monument to Byron, isn't it.
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  Speaker 11: That's the one. Can I expect you at ten?
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  Speaker 2: You wouldn't want to make it earlier.
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  Speaker 11: Try to be patient, mister wedding. After all, you chaps
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  Speaker 11: have been looking for this fellow for years. A few
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  Speaker 11: hours more or less shouldn't matter.
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