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Dragnet - "Big Rip" (Old Time Radio, 1953) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A series of office-safe burglaries has burglary detail working through
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  Speaker 1: crime lab evidence, informants, and the department's burglary files. On
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  Speaker 1: April 19th, 1953, NBC brought listeners Dragnet, episode 200, Big Rip.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Webb is Sergeant Joe Friday, with Ben Alexander as
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  Speaker 1: Officer Frank Smith, following a repeated method that has produced
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  Speaker 1: very few useful leads. Then Don Jackson, previously cleared in
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  Speaker 1: another burglary investigation, telephones with information that may move the
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  Speaker 1: case forward. From Los Angeles and the day watch of
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  Speaker 1: burglary detail, here is Dragnet. Now, back to the golden
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  Speaker 1: age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: The Golden Age of Radio.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear
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  Speaker 3: is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 3: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to burglary details. A
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  Speaker 3: string of safe burglaries breaks out in your city. In
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  Speaker 3: the past two months, 35 safes have been broken into.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's more than one man in the operation.
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  Speaker 3: You've got no lead to the thieves' identity.
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  Speaker 4: Your job, get them.
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  Speaker 5: Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 5: next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 5: you will travel step-by-step on the.
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  Speaker 4: Side of the law to.
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  Speaker 5: An actual case transcribed from official police files.
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  Speaker 4: From beginning to end, from crime.
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  Speaker 5: To punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force
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  Speaker 5: in action.
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  Speaker 4: It was Tuesday, August 18th. It was warm in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: We were working the day watch out of burglary detail.
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  Speaker 4: My partner's Frank Smith, the boss of Thad Brown, Chief
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  Speaker 4: of Detectives, planning Friday. It was 1.34 p.m. when we got.
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  Speaker 3: To the second floor of the Central Jail building, the
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  Speaker 3: crime lab. Couldn't sleep last night. Say, and I had
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  Speaker 3: another beast. Oh, what about this time?
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  Speaker 4: Cards, you know, can ask. Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Folks back door came over after dinner and we got
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  Speaker 3: to playing.
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  Speaker 4: They play real good. Mm-hmm. It wasn't long before we
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  Speaker 4: were really getting schlocked. What? You know, schlocked. Beaten. Oh. Terrible. Terrible.
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  Speaker 3: Last hand, they got down right away, Joe. Seemed like
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  Speaker 3: everything I threw on them, they could use.
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  Speaker 4: Picked up everything.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I couldn't do anything right. Just kept building up mills,
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  Speaker 3: they did. Big thing for us was to get out
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  Speaker 3: as quick as we could. You know, get the hand
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  Speaker 3: over with.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Faye wasn't doing any good, finally. I still don't know
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  Speaker 3: how they let it happen. I got enough points to
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  Speaker 3: go down, so I asked Faye if it's okay.
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  Speaker 4: You have to do that, you know, ask your partner
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  Speaker 4: to get the hand of it. You know that? Well,
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  Speaker 4: I played it a couple of times. Yeah, with you. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: that's right. Well, you might not believe it, but you
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  Speaker 4: know what she said? No. She said that she didn't
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  Speaker 4: think it was time. Is that right? Yeah. I know
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of picky, but.
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  Speaker 3: There they were, the other kids just piling up points,
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  Speaker 3: schlocking us all over the place.
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  Speaker 4: Schlocking. Yeah, hanging around a couple of more times.
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  Speaker 3: Each time I asked Faye if she wants to get out,
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  Speaker 3: each time you know what she said?
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  Speaker 4: No. That's it? No. Well, what finally happened? Oh, the
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  Speaker 4: other folks ran out of charge. Wasn't any more plays,
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  Speaker 4: so they got out.
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  Speaker 6: 3,600 points.
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  Speaker 4: And I found out why Faye didn't want to quit. Why?
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  Speaker 4: Had a deuce. What? A deuce of two, you know? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Said she didn't want to get caught with it. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 4: we better get started, huh? Wait a minute. That's not
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  Speaker 4: the worst of it, let me tell you. All right.
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  Speaker 4: All night we're playing, see? All night. I'm saving cards.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm like 10... Like, they get tens. They
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  Speaker 4: save tens. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I guess everybody saves tens. Well, I save more than
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  Speaker 3: other guys. They save a lot of tens. So we
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  Speaker 3: get all through, and you know what? We find out
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  Speaker 3: there are only seven tens in the deck. One of
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  Speaker 3: them's missing.
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  Speaker 4: All night. There's seven tens. Well, that's dreadful. Well, I
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  Speaker 4: tell you. You're a schlock. Schlock. Didn't sleep a wink. Friday? Yeah, Ray.
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  Speaker 4: Back here. Girl's out to lunch. Come on back. Hi,
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  Speaker 4: how's it going, Ray? Moving around, that's about all. Hot out, huh? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: paper says it's going to go over 90 today. Too
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  Speaker 4: hot for me. Yeah, why are you coming on the
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  Speaker 4: job this morning? Finishing up. Looks like the rest of them. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Got some pictures here. Take a look.
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  Speaker 5: Here's a picture of the marks that are left on
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  Speaker 5: the door this morning. See those two long.
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  Speaker 4: Scratches on the wood? Yeah, here? Yeah, over here.
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  Speaker 5: Here's a picture from the Argosy Manufacturing Company's door.
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  Speaker 4: See? Same two marks.
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  Speaker 5: Pretty safe bet to figure that both doors are open
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  Speaker 5: to the same pie bar.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, same type of entrance made this time, huh?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, just the one mark on the door. They know
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  Speaker 5: what they're doing. Insert the bar, hit it once, and
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  Speaker 5: the door opens.
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  Speaker 4: How about the safe? What do you got on that thing? Here.
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  Speaker 4: This is the picture we got of the room. Same
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  Speaker 4: as the others. Standard ribbed job, nothing different. How about marks? No,
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  Speaker 4: no help there. Here's the pictures.
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  Speaker 5: Looks like the same tool that was used on the
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  Speaker 5: other job.
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  Speaker 4: Did you find anything else, Ray? No.
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  Speaker 5: At least nothing that helps. Leighton Prince picked up a
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  Speaker 5: couple from Fayette. He wants to manage the other place.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing else to give us anything.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'd say they were the same, Buck.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, either that or they're lending their tools to the
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  Speaker 5: boys in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, that isn't likely. Will you read, Ray? Yeah, thanks. Frank?
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  Speaker 4: There's the light. Ray?
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  Speaker 5: Thanks.
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  Speaker 4: We've been leaning on you guys for this one, huh? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: Skipper's taking a lot of heat. What's this make for him? Thirty-four, thirty-five? Thirty-five.
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  Speaker 4: Six months. Any near it, though? No, not much.
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  Speaker 5: Anything to tell how many men there are?
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  Speaker 3: It'd be hard to say for sure. The way they
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  Speaker 3: work figures about three or four, maybe. Yeah, that's the
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  Speaker 3: way it looks.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You haven't got any idea who they are, huh? No, nothing.
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  Speaker 5: You haven't got any idea who they are. We could
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  Speaker 5: maybe use the antithene on their tools.
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  Speaker 4: That's great. We've got to find the tools before we
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  Speaker 4: use that. We've got no idea where they plant them. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 5: Seems that one of your informants would be able to
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  Speaker 5: come up with something on him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd think so. We've checked them all, Ray. No
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  Speaker 3: leads to the gang. Doesn't seem there's anybody in town
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  Speaker 3: that knows who they are. Anybody new operating on them?
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  Speaker 4: No, we checked that out, too. Said the stats office
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  Speaker 4: makes so many runs that they're wearing out the cards.
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  Speaker 7: M.O.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't new.
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  Speaker 3: It's been used before, but all the possibles have been
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  Speaker 3: checked out. Stuff from Bratton up at C.I.I., the other
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  Speaker 3: lead from the A.P.D.s, they've all been cleared. No, we
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  Speaker 3: got just what we started with a gang.
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  Speaker 4: Working when they want to, where they want to, and
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  Speaker 4: there's nothing we can do about it. Well, I wish
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  Speaker 4: there was more I could do to help, huh? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I gotta get back to work. Got some precipitant tests.
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  Speaker 5: Homicide wants us there soon.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, we'll see you later, Ray. Right. You want
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  Speaker 4: this stuff booked? Yeah, we'll take care of it. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Excuse me a minute.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Crime lab, Tinker. Yeah? Yeah, they're both here. Which one? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: hold on. Joe? Yeah? This is your office. Thanks. Friday. Oh, yeah, Chandler.
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  Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 4: Wendy, call. Yeah, well, what's that number?
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  Speaker 2: 4-4?
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  Speaker 4: Right. Yeah, I'll call him right away. Bye. Bye. Chandler, huh? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: Don Jackson called. Said he wanted to get in touch
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  Speaker 4: with us. Jackson? Doesn't ring any bells? The guy we
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  Speaker 4: picked last month. Remember? Looked like the guy who was
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  Speaker 4: in on the service station job. Oh, yeah, I remember.
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  Speaker 4: The guy with the white mustache. Mm-hmm. Hello? Don Jackson?
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  Speaker 4: Or could I speak to him, please? Don? Joe Friday. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 4: it's 1.47 now. Take us about ten minutes. How about two?
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  Speaker 4: All right. Fine. Yeah, we know where it is. Right.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see you there. All right. Bye. What do you want?
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  Speaker 4: I want to see him. He's got a rumble on him.
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  Speaker 4: John Jackson had been.
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  Speaker 3: A suspect in a series of service station burglaries we'd investigated.
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  Speaker 3: He'd been picked up and interrogated, but investigation showed that
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  Speaker 3: he couldn't have been involved in the theft. Since he'd
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  Speaker 3: been released, we'd heard nothing from him, and as far
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  Speaker 3: as we knew, he'd gone back to his job in
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  Speaker 3: a downtown clothing store. From what he told me on
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  Speaker 3: the phone, he had some information about the current series
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  Speaker 3: of safe burglaries. 1.48 p.m., Frank and I left the
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  Speaker 3: crime lab and drove over to the store where Jackson worked.
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  Speaker 4: He managed to get relieved, and he took us to
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  Speaker 4: a small coffee shop near the store.
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  Speaker 3: We sat down and ordered some coffee, and Jackson told
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  Speaker 3: us what he knew about the burglary.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I could be wrong about this. I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: But outside, it could be. Uh-huh. Johnny, you got any
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  Speaker 4: one reason for figuring that Scott Cullis tied in with
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  Speaker 4: the job? Well, nothing I can put my finger on,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 7: Just that the guy's never done a full day's work
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  Speaker 7: in his life. Don't think he knows what a callous is.
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  Speaker 7: Yet he's always loaded, always got a role.
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  Speaker 4: It's real, too.
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  Speaker 7: Not like them you see sometimes with a big bill
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  Speaker 7: on the outside and ones in the middle.
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  Speaker 4: Now, this guy's loaded, you know? Yeah. Where'd you meet him?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I was sitting in a bar down the street
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  Speaker 7: one night having a belt before dinner.
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  Speaker 4: We got to talking. Ended up eating together that night.
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  Speaker 4: You remember when this was, Don, when you first met him? Well,
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  Speaker 4: let me see. Yeah, it was the day I got
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  Speaker 4: the trench coat from England. Now, let me see. That
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  Speaker 4: might get about August 4th. Yeah. Yeah, it was the
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  Speaker 4: night I got the coat.
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  Speaker 7: Come to think of it, that's what got us to talking,
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  Speaker 7: the coat.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't I understand? Well, you see, I got.
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  Speaker 6: This here coat.
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  Speaker 4: I had it sent over from England. It's a real beauty.
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  Speaker 4: All kinds of linings and wind straps in the sleeves.
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  Speaker 4: It's great, you know? Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I had him send his coat to the store.
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  Speaker 7: He got there on the 4th. I had it with
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  Speaker 7: me that night. Scotty noticed it. We got to talking
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  Speaker 7: about clothes and went to dinner.
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  Speaker 6: He asked me how much the coat cost.
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  Speaker 4: I told him to run about 40, maybe 50 bucks.
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  Speaker 6: He asked me if I could get one for him,
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  Speaker 6: and I told him, sure. It'd take a couple weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 7: Well, he asked me to send a letter to my friend,
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  Speaker 7: Air Mail Special, and asked him to send a coat
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  Speaker 7: over by express.
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  Speaker 4: I told him I would. And then he asked me
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  Speaker 4: if I wanted to pay him advance. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I told him, no, wait until I knew just how
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  Speaker 7: much the.
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  Speaker 4: Coat was going wrong. You know, duty and postage and
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  Speaker 4: all that. Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 6: Well, he said that'd be okay with him. I saw
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  Speaker 6: him a couple times after that.
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  Speaker 7: And every time he'd ask about the coat, I told
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  Speaker 7: him that was in the works, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Well, finally got the coat. It was beautiful.
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  Speaker 7: Never saw the guy again. I'm out 46 bucks. Promise
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  Speaker 7: God he'll leave me with that coat.
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  Speaker 4: My own money, too. 46 bucks. I don't make enough
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  Speaker 4: to lose that kind of money, you know. Oh, that's
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  Speaker 4: too bad, Jackson. But why do you think this guy
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  Speaker 4: had anything to do with the burglary? Well, now, I
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  Speaker 4: just told you. For one thing, the money. Always had
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  Speaker 4: a lot, but he never had a job. No place
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  Speaker 4: to get the money.
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  Speaker 7: Not only that, but one night, well, I saw him.
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  Speaker 7: We were going out to dinner, and he said he
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  Speaker 7: couldn't quite make it then.
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  Speaker 6: That something had come up. That he had to take
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  Speaker 6: a rain check, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Uh-huh. Well, I asked him what had come up, what
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  Speaker 4: was so important. He said he had to see a
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  Speaker 4: guy over in East LA, some sort of a business deal.
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  Speaker 4: You say what the deal was about? No, I wouldn't say.
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  Speaker 6: The next day, show was uploaded.
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  Speaker 4: Got a roll on, choke a horse. I asked him
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  Speaker 4: where to get it.
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  Speaker 7: I kid him about being one of the guys who
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  Speaker 7: ripped the safe in the office he planned.
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  Speaker 4: What'd he say to that?
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  Speaker 7: Nothing, just got real serious, you know? Asked him why
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  Speaker 7: I asked him that. What made me think he.
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  Speaker 4: Was in on the job?
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  Speaker 7: I kept telling him I didn't know anything about it.
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  Speaker 4: I was just kidding.
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  Speaker 6: He finally bought it and said it was okay, but.
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  Speaker 7: He said I shouldn't go around saying things like that.
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  Speaker 4: All right, go ahead. Well, I got the coat.
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  Speaker 7: Looked Scotty up to give it to him. Wouldn't pay
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  Speaker 7: for it. They locked the coat thing up or something.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know, set the wrong size, and I'm stuck
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  Speaker 7: with it. He wouldn't have anything to do with it.
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  Speaker 7: I figured since I ordered.
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  Speaker 4: It for him, it ain't my fault that it's big.
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  Speaker 4: He should pay for it, you know, 46 bucks. Now,
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  Speaker 4: any way you look at it, I laid out the dough.
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  Speaker 4: I figured he should make good on it. He wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: do it.
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  Speaker 7: And I got sore, and I figured maybe you'd like
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  Speaker 7: to know how he acted about the urgency job.
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  Speaker 4: Larry's a bum. Forty-six bucks that coat cost. You know
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  Speaker 4: where the Scott lives? No, I haven't got the slightest idea.
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  Speaker 4: But I got his phone number, though. I'll give you that.
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  Speaker 4: Can you give us a description of him? Sure. He's
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  Speaker 4: a sneaky little guy. No wonder the coat won't fit.
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  Speaker 6: Little bitty guy, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Now, you say his full name is Leonard Scott,
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  Speaker 4: is that right? Yeah. Call me bum. I hope you
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  Speaker 4: get him. Well, we'll talk to him, Don.
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  Speaker 6: He knows something about it.
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  Speaker 7: I'll bet money on it he knows. Say, I don't
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  Speaker 7: like to bring this up, but you guys could do
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  Speaker 7: me a big favor, you know.
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  Speaker 4: What's that?
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  Speaker 7: No, I don't suppose you could.
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  Speaker 4: What is it, huh?
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  Speaker 6: You know anybody could use a size 52 trench coat?
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  Speaker 4: We continued to talk to Don Jackson.
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  Speaker 3: We got the description of Leonard Scott and his phone number.
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  Speaker 4: 3.15 p.m., we drove back to.
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  Speaker 3: The city hall and checked the names through R & I.
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  Speaker 3: We came up with several possibles.
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  Speaker 4: The mug shots were pulled on them, and they were
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  Speaker 4: shown to Jackson.
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  Speaker 3: He was able to identify one of them as the
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  Speaker 3: man he told us about. The suspect had a record
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  Speaker 3: for burglary and had served two terms in the state
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  Speaker 3: penitentiary at San Quentin.
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  Speaker 4: He'd served his full term and was not on parole.
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  Speaker 3: We checked the last address on his convict registration card
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  Speaker 3: and we found that he lived in a rooming house
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  Speaker 3: on West 11th Street. The phone number he'd given Jackson
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  Speaker 3: was the same as the one on the registration card.
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  Speaker 4: We drove over to talk to him.
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  Speaker 3: We found that he wasn't in his room and from
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  Speaker 3: the landlady we learned that he was expected back around
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  Speaker 3: 7 that evening. We checked his room in company with
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  Speaker 3: the landlady and then we called the office and told
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  Speaker 3: them where we were in the event they had to
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  Speaker 3: contact us. We waited in the living room of the house.
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  Speaker 4: For the suspect to return. 7.15 p.m. So? Yeah. It
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  Speaker 4: matches the description, doesn't it? Come on. Just a minute.
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  Speaker 4: You Leonard Scott? Yeah. Who are you? Police officers. I'd
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  Speaker 4: like to talk to you. What's this all about? It'd
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  Speaker 4: be better if we went up to your room. Oh.
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  Speaker 4: All right. Come on up.
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  Speaker 6: Can't you give me some idea what this is all about?
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  Speaker 4: We'll talk to you about it. Go ahead. Open the door.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, what's the pitch? You've been through it before. Your
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  Speaker 4: next turn. We interrupt this program to bring you a
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  Speaker 4: special news bulletin. Ladies and gentlemen from the NBC newsroom.
• 14:35
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• 14:37
  Speaker 8: men to be sent back to Freedom Village in Moonsan.
• 14:41
  Speaker 8: We have four more names for you at this time
• 14:44
  Speaker 8: of our sick and wounded who have been sent back
• 14:47
  Speaker 8: by the Rebs to the Allied side in Moonsan.
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: Corporal Vernon C. Warren of St. Louis, Missouri. Vernon C.
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: Warren of St. Louis, Missouri. Roy M. Jones of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• 15:00
  Speaker 8: Jones gave no rank.
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: Roy M.
• 15:02
  Speaker 8: Jones of Minneapolis, Minnesota. PFC David Ludlam, L-U-D-L-U-M, of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• 15:10
  Speaker 8: And PFC Ray Medina of New York City. PFC Ray
• 15:14
  Speaker 8: Medina of New York City. All of these men are
• 15:17
  Speaker 8: reported to be in fine shape. Stay tuned to your
• 15:20
  Speaker 8: NBC station for the later news.
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, you're out of your mind.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a witness who tells us he showed
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: up with a pocket full of money the next day.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: He's fallen twice before for burglary.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: You can't account for your time before or after today,
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: but you haven't had an alibi for the night of
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: the hike.
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: You got no steady job, but you got plenty of money. Now,
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: come off it, Scott. We got your nail for the job,
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: and you know it.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: You got a choice of giving us a hand on
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: this thing, and it'll be marked down in your favor,
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: or you can be a big man and stand for
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: this thing alone.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: It's up to you. We'll play it any way you want.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: You figure you can make me for the job? Looks
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: like it won't be too tough. You're in the middle, Scott.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: Why don't you top out? What do I get for
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: turning things? I told you it'd be marked down that way.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: How about it, Scott? All right, I guess I've got
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: to go with you. I wasn't in on the jobs.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: I didn't really have anything to do with the casings.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: Helped a little bit. Not much. Just a little. What'd
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: you figure of it? Once I worked as a lookout
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: for him. So what? I didn't give you the name. Like,
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: see you get them, lousy bunch. Hope you get them good.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: Make every one of them lousy. Mum's the way they
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: treat her. What do you mean by that? Big deal.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: Had the cops running around in circles. Big deal. Nothing.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Work along with him. Everything will be fine. Big deal.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: How many of them are there? Four. Four real bums.
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: They said they were going to take care of me.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: They told me I'd get my share of the money.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Lousy liars. One job I was with them.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: After that, they told me I hadn't done enough to
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: earn my way, that I wasn't any help to anybody.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: Well, next time you see them, you can tell them. Yeah?
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: They were wrong.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: We got the names of the four men who were
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: involved in the burglaries. We took Leonard Scott down to
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: the city hall and pulled the packages on the four suspects.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: He gave us a positive identification on them. We checked
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: with Captain Wisdom and it was decided to wait until
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: we could catch the suspects in the actual attempt to
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: commit a burglary. We checked out the address of the
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: four suspects and got as much information as we could
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: on them without letting them know that they were under surveillance.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Additional teams of men were assigned to the stakeout. Each
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: of them was watched 24 hours a day and each
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: of the teams of detectives were in constant contact with
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: the burglary division.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: Two days passed. None of the suspects made any attempt
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: to make contact with the others.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: We met with the district attorney and it was decided
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: that in the interest of bringing the gang to justice.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: The first suspect, Leonard Scott, should be released.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: From custody to act as an informant for us. He
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: would be kept under constant surveillance. Frank and I were
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: assigned to follow him. In the next three days, he.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Went about his business as usual.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Each evening, he'd leave his rooming house and walk through
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: the bars in the downtown area. He told us that
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: contact and information regarding the burglary was made by the
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: leader of the gang, one of the suspects named Howard Ramsey.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: On Monday, August 24th, we saw Ramsey.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Approach Leonard Scott.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: They talked briefly in the rear of a bar on
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: 6th Street, and then Ramsey left. We waited for about
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: 15 minutes, and then we saw Scott leave the bar.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: We followed him down the street to an all-night coffee stand.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: We sat down next to him at the counter, and
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: at the first opportunity, he told us what Ramsey had said.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: You guys haven't got long to wait. What'd he say?
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: The deal's set. There's gonna be a machine shop out
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: in West L.A. Remember, the state has over 25 grand
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: in it. Biggest job they've tackled. Can you say how
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: it's gonna work? Yeah, I'll fill you in on it.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: Thought you might want to get in touch with your office, though.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: How's that? It's gonna work tonight.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: police force in.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Action.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: 9.32 p.m.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: We got the rest of the story from Leonard Scott.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: The plan, as he outlined it for us, was that
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: the four other suspects would not meet until they were
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: at the plant that was to be burglarized. We got
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: in touch with the men who were following the suspects
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: and told.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Them what had happened.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: 10.07 p.m. We met with Captain Wisdom and put the
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: operating plan into effect. It had been arranged that all
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: of the men following the suspects would.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Be in three-way radio cars so that.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Constant communication could be kept between the units of the operation.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Additional officers were planted on the roofs of the buildings
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: surrounding the plant to be burglarized. These men would be
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: equipped with walkie-talkies so they could keep in constant touch
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: with each other and with us in a three-way radio car.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: In this way, we could direct operations and we'd have
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: a complete picture of what was happening in the immediate vicinity.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: A blockade system was set up to be put into
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: operation once the suspects had entered the trap so that
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: escape would be impossible. 11.45 p.m. The plan was completed,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: and the men involved were in their assigned positions. We
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: followed Leonard Scott to his rooming house, and he changed
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: to his working clothes. He came out of his house,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: and we followed him out the freeway to Hollywood. From there,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: he drove out Sunset Boulevard to Whittier Drive in Beverly Hills,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: and then he went out Wilshire Boulevard.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Toward West L.A. As we drove, we could hear.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: The other units reporting the position of the men that
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: they were following.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: All of the suspects left their homes.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: At approximately the same time, and it looked as if
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: they would get to the plant within a couple of
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: minutes of the scheduled time. Scott had told us that
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: they would not meet at the plant, but they'd rendezvous
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: at a drive-in a couple of blocks from the plant. There,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: they would be given their instructions.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: 2.16 a.m., the five cars pulled into the drive-in, and
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: after a brief conversation, they all left and drove toward
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: the plant. 2.23 a.m., all the police.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Units got into their positions as arranged. Frank and I
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: took up our positions, and we listened to the reports
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: coming in over the radio.
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: Unit 1-K-Y-8-0, Unit 1-K-Y-8-0, Rubles, come in. Unit 1-K-Y-8-0 to Rubles,
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: go ahead. I'm on the roof of the building directly
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: across the street from the factory, Joe. I can see
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: the suspects now.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: How many of them are there?
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: I can see three. I think there's a couple more
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: at the corner as lookouts. Hey, Donovan's down the block.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Maybe he can see the others. Unit 1K, Wyatt, over
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: to Donovan. Come in, please. Over. Yeah, there's one of
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: them on the corner down here. He drove up and
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: got out to take a look at the motor of
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: his car. He's over there working on it now. This Ruble's,
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: I can see another one at the other corner. He's
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: changing his tire. He's got the jack under the car,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: but he's not trying to get the wheel off. The
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: others are at the factory door now. Do you see
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: anything where you are, Joe? Not much. Shadows across the street.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: I can't see the doorway. What are they doing now?
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: They're inside now. They forced the lock on the door
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: and got inside. The door's closed. I can't see him anymore, Joe.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: All units, this is Friday in unit 1KY80. All units,
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: move in to apprehend suspects. Repeat, move in to apprehend suspects.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Units 2R4, 5, 6, and 7. And unit 2R20, move
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: to blockade position.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: All right, let's go. All right. We got the place
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: covered in back, okay? Yeah, all covered. All right. This
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: ought to do it, huh? Right. All right. All right,
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: let's go. Yeah. Well, I have to look out. Yeah,
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: I see. Well, let's take it easy, huh? See him? No.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: The light back there looks like the office. Wait a minute. Yeah.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: All of them must be back there. Sounds like they're
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: putting the blind to the back of the safe, doesn't it?
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Hello, boss. Hi, how's it going? They're in the
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: office now. You want to move in from that side? Right.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: All right, let's go. All right. Come on, get on.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: We haven't got all night. That thing's still like a sardine.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: We're doing the best we can. We've got to pretend
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: our father's giving us trouble. Yeah, let me take a look.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: All right, hold it right where you are. Let's get
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: out of here. Watch it, Joe. Watch it. I'll get him. Right.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Come on, Ramsey. You've got a place to go. The
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: building's surrounded. Back in you go. Get out of here, cop.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: You're never going to take us. Pull it up. Don't
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: shoot anymore. I give up. I give up. Come on, cop.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Come on and get him. He ain't talking for me.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I've had it. I don't want any more shooting. I
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: give up. I'll throw your guns out of here. It's fine.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: All right. Come on out here. Get over there.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Get your hands back in your head.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Stand right there and don't move. I gave up, didn't I?
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: I didn't want any more of it. Come on, Ramsey.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Your partner was smart. Why don't you play it that way, too?
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: You can't accept me, cop.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: You win. I'm out of gel. Don't shoot. Throw that
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: gun out here. All right. Now come on out here.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Keep your hands back in your head. Come on.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Move.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: That's good. Right there. All right. All right. Come on, Ramsey.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Over there next to your partner. Stand still, both of you.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Put your hands against the wall. Stand still. Don't move.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: All right, they're clean, Joe. All right. There were three
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: of them. Where's the other one? I made a break
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: for the front door. They got him out there. Lousy
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: luck all the way around. How'd you know? Who told you?
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: That doesn't make any difference. Well, somebody had to tell you.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: You'd never have found out if somebody had told you. Yeah,
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: that's right. Come on, let's go now. Well, who told you?
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Who turned fake? Somebody had to tell you, didn't they? Well,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: don't you worry about it, mister. What do you mean?
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: You're going to have a lot of time to figure
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: it out. Now, let's go.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: The story you've just heard was true. The names were
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: changed to protect the innocent.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: On January 14th, trial was held in Department 89, Superior
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Court of the State of California, in and for the
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: County of Los Angeles.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: In a moment, the results of that trial. The End.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: Howard Allen Ramsey, Jack Irwin MacArthur, and the other two
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: suspects were tried and convicted of 15 counts of burglary
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: in the first degree. They received sentences as prescribed by law.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: Burglary in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment in
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: the state penitentiary for a period of not less than
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: five years. Because of his cooperation, Leonard James Scott was
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: given a lighter sentence and at the.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Conclusion of his prison term was placed on probation for
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: a period of two years.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, We wish to thank the editors of
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: TV Guide for the cover picture and story on Dragnet.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: You can get TV Guide at your favorite newsstand.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authenticators from.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: That was Dragnet, episode 200, Big Rip. Good night, and
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: may the radio dial keep glowing.