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

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  Speaker 1: Witnesses to a string of Los Angeles supermarket holdups identify
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  Speaker 1: Bernie Hanson as the man in charge. But Hanson is
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: seriously ill, confined to a hospital bed, and Sergeant Joe
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  Speaker 1: Friday and Officer Frank Smith must determine how the evidence
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  Speaker 1: can fit the man. From NBC, with Jack Webb as
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  Speaker 1: Friday and Ben Alexander as Smith, This is Dragnet, episode 195,
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  Speaker 1: Big Impossible, first heard March 15th, 1953. And now, the
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  Speaker 1: original broadcast.
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  Speaker 4: a detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery detail. A hold-up
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 3: next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 3: you will travel step by step on the side of
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  Speaker 3: the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files.
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  Speaker 3: From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is
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  Speaker 3: the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 6: It was Monday, July 7th. It was warm in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 6: We were working the day watch out of robbery detail.
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  Speaker 6: My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Didion. My
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  Speaker 6: name's Friday. We were on the way out from the office,
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  Speaker 6: and it was 10.22 a.m. when we got to the
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  Speaker 6: corner of 67th Street and Jefferson Boulevard, Lamont Brothers Market.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I guess I should have been scared of the
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  Speaker 5: golfers and said he wanted the money. I gave it
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  Speaker 5: to him. I wasn't going to mess with him.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Haskins?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I'm Haskins. Who are you?
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  Speaker 6: Police officer, sir. My name's Friday. This is my partner,
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  Speaker 6: Frank Smith.
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  Speaker 5: Friday and Smith.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You're the fellows I was talking about, huh? Sir? The
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  Speaker 5: other ones, the cops in the car. They said there'd
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  Speaker 5: be a couple of detectives here. Have you seen the
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  Speaker 5: other cops yet?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: We talked to them. They've already put out a call.
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  Speaker 6: I wonder if we could get some information from you.
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  Speaker 5: Sure. Want to come back here to the office? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Come on. Back this way.
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  Speaker 2: We can talk there.
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  Speaker 5: Just sit down. Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Haskins, if you'd just tell us what happened, please.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's pretty simple. I was sitting here getting the
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  Speaker 5: money ready for the bank, and this guy came in.
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  Speaker 5: He said he wanted the money.
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  Speaker 6: He had a gun, so I gave it to him.
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  Speaker 5: That's it.
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  Speaker 6: None anymore.
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  Speaker 5: He just took the money and left.
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  Speaker 6: What time was it, sir?
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  Speaker 5: Around 8.30, quarter to 9.00.
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  Speaker 6: How many men were there, sir?
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  Speaker 5: Well, there was two. Two is all I saw. I
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  Speaker 5: don't think there was any more of them.
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  Speaker 6: All right, sir. If you could just tell us exactly
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  Speaker 6: what happened.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I told you they came in and they took
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  Speaker 5: the money.
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  Speaker 6: I know, sir, but if you'd go into more detail.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I came in about 7.30 this morning, like always.
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  Speaker 5: Checked things over the store to make sure that everything
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  Speaker 5: was okay. Then I started checking out.
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  Speaker 2: The week's receipts.
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  Speaker 5: Well, then, like I said, it must have been 8.45
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  Speaker 5: or so when I heard this knock.
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  Speaker 6: On the door.
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  Speaker 2: Thought there must be something wrong.
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  Speaker 5: The employees know not to bother me when I'm making
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  Speaker 5: up the deposit slips.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: That's when I knew that something was wrong. Right away,
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  Speaker 5: I said to myself, Larry, there's something up. Something isn't good. Yes, sir. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: it was right. Went over to the door and unlocked it.
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  Speaker 5: There he was, this big fellow. There was a gun.
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  Speaker 5: His eyes lit up when he saw all that money
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  Speaker 5: laying on the desk.
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  Speaker 6: Did you get any idea of how much money was taken, sir?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it was about 6,000 cash. I guess another 1,500 checks,
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  Speaker 5: more or less. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 6: I wonder if you'd give us a description of this man,
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  Speaker 6: could you?
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  Speaker 5: Well, like I said, he was a big one. Real
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  Speaker 5: mountain of a man. Well over six feet. Had this gun,
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  Speaker 5: you know. Uh-huh. He stood there and said, this is
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  Speaker 5: a stick-up. I want that money. And he pointed at
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  Speaker 5: the money with his gun.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, what kind of a gun was it? Could you tell?
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  Speaker 5: That's a great question. Of course I could tell. He
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  Speaker 5: had it right under my nose. Shotgun. Saw it off.
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  Speaker 5: Had the stock cut down, too. Looked like a horse pistol. Well,
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  Speaker 5: he handled that thing. I wasn't going to mess with him.
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  Speaker 5: I told him, take the money. Take it and get out.
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  Speaker 5: Not to shoot that thing off.
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  Speaker 6: He did.
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  Speaker 5: Walked right over to the desk and scooped up the money.
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  Speaker 5: He had a paper bag. He put it down by
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  Speaker 5: the table and he scooped the money into it. Then
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  Speaker 5: he said to me to stay put. Not to try
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  Speaker 5: to yell or be brave. He didn't have to tell
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  Speaker 5: me that. I wouldn't have tried anything.
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  Speaker 6: He said there was another man, is that right?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I saw him when I left. He was a
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  Speaker 5: little fellow.
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  Speaker 6: About how tall would you say?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it would be kind of hard to tell. I
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  Speaker 5: didn't get very close to him.
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  Speaker 6: Well, was he armed, too?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he was carrying a revolver.
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  Speaker 6: Did they drive a car, would you know?
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  Speaker 5: Well, if they did, I didn't see it.
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  Speaker 6: You went out after them, then?
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  Speaker 5: I should say not.
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  Speaker 6: That one fellow waved that gun around.
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  Speaker 5: And I stayed right here. He said to stay put,
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  Speaker 5: and that's just what I did.
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  Speaker 6: What did this big man look like?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, a real mountain. He was 6'2, anyway. He must
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  Speaker 5: have weighed in at about 215. How about his coloring?
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  Speaker 5: It was dark.
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  Speaker 2: He had black hair.
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  Speaker 6: His eyes were dark.
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  Speaker 5: Not brown. It was almost black. Real dark.
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  Speaker 6: And when he spoke, did he have an accent, anything
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  Speaker 6: like that that you might have noticed? No.
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't think so. At least there was one.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't notice it.
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  Speaker 6: Did he have any scars or marks?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 6: Any scars or marks? Anything that might make it easier
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  Speaker 6: for us to identify him?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, there was a little scar right here. Right
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  Speaker 5: over the bridge of his nose. Across here.
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  Speaker 6: How about his clothes?
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  Speaker 5: What was he wearing? Had a brown hat on, a
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  Speaker 5: brown jacket. Short kind. Kind of what you'd call that
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  Speaker 5: real slick material, you know. Satin, like bowling teams wear. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Had on a pair of brown pants, brown shoes.
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  Speaker 6: How was the other one dressed?
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  Speaker 5: I couldn't tell you for sure. Like I said, I
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  Speaker 5: only saw him for a minute when I opened the door.
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  Speaker 5: He was out there telling the people to just mind
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  Speaker 5: their own business. Do that and they wouldn't get hurt.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't get a good look at him, but that
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  Speaker 5: big one.
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  Speaker 6: He was a real mountain. Do you usually have this
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  Speaker 6: much money around in the store?
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  Speaker 5: No, not usually. See, this was a long weekend. You know,
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  Speaker 5: the 4th was Friday, and whenever we have a long weekend,
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  Speaker 5: we usually have $ 10, 000 or $ 12, 000 in cash here. That's
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  Speaker 5: where the guys really goof. Sir? Really missed them both.
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  Speaker 5: You know, if they'd known what they were doing, they'd
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  Speaker 5: have gotten a lot more.
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  Speaker 6: Well, how's that?
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  Speaker 5: The safe out in front. Another $ 7, 000 out there. Guys
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  Speaker 5: missed it completely. Yes, sir. Yeah, I sure hope they
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  Speaker 5: don't come back for it.
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  Speaker 6: 11.05 a.m. Frank and I checked with the officers in
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  Speaker 6: the radio unit that had answered the call. They'd gotten
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  Speaker 6: out a broadcast on the bandits and then started the
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  Speaker 6: canvas of the neighborhood, but they didn't find anyone who
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  Speaker 6: could give them any information. One of the clerks was
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  Speaker 6: able to describe the smaller of the two suspects, and
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  Speaker 6: we got out a local and an APB on them,
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  Speaker 6: and we took the market manager downtown to look at
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  Speaker 6: the mug books.
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  Speaker 2: He told us that the.
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  Speaker 6: Larger man had worn gloves all the time he was
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  Speaker 6: in the store, so there was no need to look
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  Speaker 6: for fingerprints. The market bandits had been operating for the
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  Speaker 6: past eight months. In that time, they'd held up 17 stores.
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  Speaker 6: Their method of operation was always the same. They'd hit
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  Speaker 6: only after a weekend or on the Monday following a
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  Speaker 6: holiday weekend. They'd hit only the larger supermarkets of the
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  Speaker 6: ranch type. Their operations had taken them all over the Southland.
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  Speaker 6: We'd tried to stake the markets that might be hit,
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  Speaker 6: but their field of operations had been so wide that
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  Speaker 6: it was impossible.
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  Speaker 5: 2.15 p.m.
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  Speaker 6: The market manager, Larry Haskins, started on the sixth mug book.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, a lot of them.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: All these fellas all committed some crime, huh?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir, that's right.
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  Speaker 5: That one there looks like my brother-in-law. He's got a
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  Speaker 5: weak chin. Uh-huh, yeah, just like him. No? Uh-uh. So
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  Speaker 5: a few of these and they all begin to look alike.
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  Speaker 5: Did you ever notice that?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: This fella here.
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  Speaker 5: This one right here.
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  Speaker 2: You see? Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 5: That's the fella. There's no doubt about it. That's the one.
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  Speaker 6: The market manager had identified Bernard R. Hanson as one
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  Speaker 6: of the holdup men. The other employees of the store
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  Speaker 6: were called in and they identified the same picture as
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  Speaker 6: being the man who'd held them up. We checked on
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  Speaker 6: his record and found that he'd been convicted for armed
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  Speaker 6: robbery and had been sentenced to the state penitentiary. He'd
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  Speaker 6: also served six and a half years and had been released.
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  Speaker 6: We got the last known address of the suspect. Frank
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  Speaker 6: and I checked it out and found that Hanson had
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  Speaker 6: moved some months before but had left a phone number
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  Speaker 6: where he might be contacted. 6.30 p.m. Frank put in
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  Speaker 6: the call. Yes, sir. That's right, sir. You're sure about that,
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  Speaker 6: are you?
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  Speaker 5: I see.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if there's anything more you can think of, I'd
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  Speaker 6: appreciate a call. That's right. Michigan 5211. Extension 2511. Smith,
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  Speaker 6: that's right. Or if I'm not in, ask for Joe Friday. No, sir, Friday,
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  Speaker 6: like the day and the week. That's right. All right,
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  Speaker 6: thank you very much, doctor.
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  Speaker 5: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 6: Anything? Yeah, talk to Dr. Corby and place his arrest home.
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  Speaker 6: Hanson's there as a patient. Been there for the past
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  Speaker 6: four months. Doctor says he's bedridden. We checked on the
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  Speaker 6: rest home. It was a private sanitarium in the valley.
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  Speaker 6: We got in touch with the medical authorities and found
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  Speaker 6: that the head of the hospital was listed as Dr.
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  Speaker 6: James Corby. Frank and I drove out and talked to Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Corby and the rest of the staff. From them, we
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  Speaker 6: got the story that Hanson had been a resident of
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  Speaker 6: the home for the past four months. We found that
• 11:00
  Speaker 6: he had a lung ailment and was confined to his
• 11:02
  Speaker 6: bed 24 hours a day. The doctor showed us his
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  Speaker 6: records and charts. From what we could tell, it would
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  Speaker 6: have been impossible for Hanson to have been the bandit.
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  Speaker 6: Three weeks passed. On August 4th, the market thieves hit again,
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  Speaker 6: this time out in East Los Angeles. They got away
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  Speaker 6: with a little over $ 9, 000. The manager of the market
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  Speaker 6: came downtown and checked the mug books. They again identified
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  Speaker 6: Hanson as the thief. We had the stats office make
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  Speaker 6: another run on the MOUs. The result came back, and
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  Speaker 6: out of the thousands of cards checked, only one fitted
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  Speaker 6: the way the robbery had been carried out. Hanson's. We
• 11:35
  Speaker 6: called the rest home and found that on the day
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  Speaker 6: of the holdup, the suspect hadn't left his bed. Another
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  Speaker 6: month passed. During that time, we ran down all leads.
• 11:43
  Speaker 6: Informants were questioned, but they could tell us nothing. Apparently,
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  Speaker 6: the holdup men were hitting and then dropping completely out
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  Speaker 6: of sight until they hit again. Monday, October 27th, 8.05 a.m.
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  Speaker 6: I checked in for work.
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  Speaker 4: Joe?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, did you just get in?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, a couple of minutes ago. Sure is a beautiful day,
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  Speaker 6: isn't it? Yeah, did you see Didion yet? No. Well,
• 12:01
  Speaker 6: he talked yesterday. I don't want to. He's pretty hacked.
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  Speaker 6: I can't blame him too much. The guy sure seemed
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  Speaker 6: to have a stop. The thing I can't understand is
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  Speaker 6: that everybody's positive it's Hansen. Doesn't seem to be any
• 12:10
  Speaker 6: doubt in their minds. That doesn't make any sense. Did
• 12:13
  Speaker 6: you get the kickback on the doctor? Yeah, I came
• 12:15
  Speaker 6: in late yesterday. How about it? Can't find anything on him.
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  Speaker 6: Family man. Lives out in the valley. Couple blocks from
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  Speaker 6: the hospital. Protected bank account. He does pretty well. Not great.
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  Speaker 6: No big deposits lately. Did you check the AMA on him? Yeah,
• 12:26
  Speaker 6: he's not a member. They haven't got anything on him.
• 12:28
  Speaker 6: How about the rest of the staff out there? Well,
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  Speaker 6: it seems to be okay. Two of the nurses have
• 12:31
  Speaker 6: been there for over two years, and the male nurse
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  Speaker 6: was hired about five months ago. That'll be just before
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  Speaker 6: Hanson got there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Well, what's his record?
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  Speaker 5: There isn't any.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing on him in the files. Nothing from Washington. Well,
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. He seemed to come up out of
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  Speaker 6: the ground, pull the jobs, and then drop back in.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing on the partner? No, thought I had something. Talked
• 12:49
  Speaker 6: to an informant this morning while I had coffee. He
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  Speaker 6: thought at first that he knew who the little guy was,
• 12:53
  Speaker 6: but then he remembered that the fellow he was thinking
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  Speaker 6: about died two years ago. It's a hot shot.
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  Speaker 5: I'll get it. Well, let's go.
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  Speaker 6: I hit again. At 8.01 a.m. that morning, a pair
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  Speaker 6: of hold-up men had walked into a market out on
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  Speaker 6: Adams Boulevard and robbed the place of a little under $ 11, 000.
• 13:17
  Speaker 6: The manager gave us a description of the hold-up men.
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  Speaker 6: One was large, dark, and had a small scar over
• 13:23
  Speaker 6: the bridge of his nose. The other was small, sandy-haired,
• 13:26
  Speaker 6: and had no visible marks or scars. We showed the
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  Speaker 6: manager mug shots of Hanson, and he positively identified him
• 13:32
  Speaker 6: as the larger of the two men. A local and
• 13:35
  Speaker 6: an APB was gotten out on the pair, and then
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  Speaker 6: Frank and I drove out to the hospital to see Hanson. 8.46 a.m.
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  Speaker 6: We talked with Dr. Corby.
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  Speaker 7: I know you men are trying to do your duty,
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  Speaker 7: but I've told you before, it couldn't possibly be Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Hanson.
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  Speaker 7: I know for a fact that he hasn't been out
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  Speaker 7: of his bed this morning.
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  Speaker 6: Was it possible for him to get out of his
• 13:51
  Speaker 6: room without you knowing it?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 6: I wonder if we could see him, doctor.
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  Speaker 7: No, I don't think that'd be possible. He's still asleep
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  Speaker 7: and I can't have him disturbed.
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  Speaker 6: You're sure, though, that he couldn't have left the hospital
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  Speaker 6: without you knowing it?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely. No chance of it.
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  Speaker 6: What time does Hanson generally wake up, doctor?
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  Speaker 5: Depends.
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  Speaker 7: Usually, though, I'd say he's awake by 9.30 or so.
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  Speaker 6: What if we could wait and talk to him?
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  Speaker 7: If you like. I'll tell one of the nurses to
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  Speaker 7: call you when he's awake.
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  Speaker 6: All right, sir. That'd be fine.
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  Speaker 5: One thing, though, I must insist on.
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  Speaker 6: What's that, doctor?
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  Speaker 5: He mustn't be excited.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think you gentlemen really know how ill Mr.
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: Hanson is.
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  Speaker 7: If you had any idea, you wouldn't.
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  Speaker 5: Be out here with this ridiculous questioning. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: We understand. We're just trying to get this thing straightened
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  Speaker 6: out as soon as we can.
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  Speaker 3: Fine.
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  Speaker 7: I'll go along with you part of the way, but
• 14:30
  Speaker 7: I'll not have my patient disturbed. Any excitement would be
• 14:33
  Speaker 7: very bad for him.
• 14:34
  Speaker 6: Well, don't worry, doctor. We'll be as brief as possible. Fine.
• 14:36
  Speaker 7: If you'll excuse me now, I've got some things to do.
• 14:39
  Speaker 7: I'll tell the nurse to call you when he wakes up.
• 14:43
  Speaker 7: And remember, no excitement.
• 14:47
  Speaker 6: What do you figure, Joe? It's got me. The way
• 14:49
  Speaker 6: he talks, every one of those witnesses are wrong. Yeah,
• 14:51
  Speaker 6: but it's happened before. Get a positive identification and end
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: up with the wrong guy. But all of them are
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: so positive, it just doesn't make any sense.
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah. You're the police officer?
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right.
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: Why? Bob Jameson.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: I work here.
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: You're the male nurse, is that right?
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: You're out here about Barney Hanson.
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: Aren't you?
• 15:09
  Speaker 6: We want to see him, yeah. What can we do
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: for you?
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: It's about Barney.
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: What about him?
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: I don't think things are the way they look.
• 15:15
  Speaker 6: What do you mean by that?
• 15:16
  Speaker 8: I wouldn't want the doctor to know I've been talking
• 15:18
  Speaker 8: to you.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: You'd raise a roof, probably fire me.
• 15:20
  Speaker 6: What's it about, Jameson?
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Like I said, it's about Barney.
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
• 15:24
  Speaker 8: When I came here, they told me that Barney was
• 15:26
  Speaker 8: pretty sick.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Said they didn't expect him to live. One day the
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: buzzer rang in his room. You know he wanted something?
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
• 15:32
  Speaker 8: Well, the doctor was on the phone. The other nurses
• 15:34
  Speaker 8: were busy. So I started down the hall to see.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: What Barney wanted. Got to the door of the room
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: and the doctor stopped me.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
• 15:39
  Speaker 8: Really read me off. Said that I wasn't to go
• 15:41
  Speaker 8: into the room at all. That he was taking care
• 15:43
  Speaker 8: of Barney personally. That he'd see what he wanted.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 15:46
  Speaker 8: No, that was just the first time. Same things happened
• 15:49
  Speaker 8: a couple more times. And he told us about you.
• 15:52
  Speaker 8: Told us what to say if you asked any questions.
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: Well, what'd he tell you?
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: He said that we wasn't to tell you anything. That
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: we didn't know anything.
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: Well, why didn't you tell us all this before?
• 16:03
  Speaker 8: Well, you see, this isn't a regular hospital. I don't
• 16:05
  Speaker 8: think that he's even a regular doctor. I worked around
• 16:08
  Speaker 8: hospitals for a long time and I never saw no
• 16:10
  Speaker 8: doctor act like he does. He doesn't even know how
• 16:12
  Speaker 8: to write out a diet, feed some of the people
• 16:14
  Speaker 8: here all the wrong things.
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: Is that right?
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll tell you something else, too.
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: What's that?
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's anything wrong with Barney. I think
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: the whole reason for him being here is phony.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: Bob?
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, Doctor. What are you doing here?
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Came to see if these gentlemen needed anything.
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: Well, I'll take care of it now.
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: Will you check on Mr.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: Hardy, please? See if he's awake yet.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: Just a minute. What?
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: I'd like you to stay here for a minute. I'm
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: afraid we're going to have to see Mr. Hanson right now, Doctor.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: I'm afraid that's impossible.
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: I told you before, I'm not going to have him disturbed.
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: I'm afraid we're going to have to disturb him. It
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: won't take very long. Jameson, where's his room?
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: I'll show you. It's down this way.
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: I'm going to speak to your superiors about this, coming
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: into a hospital and disturbing patients. I'm sure the fact
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: that you're officers doesn't give you the right to do this.
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: This is his room.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: You want to open the door?
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: How about it, Doctor?
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't understand it.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: He's got to be here.
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: He can't get out of bed. I'm sure there's some
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: explanation for his disappearance.
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe he can explain this, too. There's stuff here
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: in his bed. What is it, Joe? A gun and
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: some money.
• 17:31
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• 17:34
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• 18:08
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• 18:18
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• 18:21
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• 18:29
  Speaker 5: A.m.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: We called the office and two more teams of men
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: came out to help us search the place. Hanson was
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: not on the grounds of the hospital. In his room,
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: we found several floor plan drawings of Marcus that had
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: been robbed. The drawings showed the location of the manager's
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: office and of the safe. Along with the drawings, we
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: found several maps with roads marked on them leading back
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: to the hospital. A stakeout was placed on the rest
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: home in the event that the suspect returned and Frank
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: and I drove the doctor back downtown. We talked to
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: him for an hour before he finally told us the story.
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: He said that Hanson had come to him and offered
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: him money to say that he was ill and to
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: give him a room. The doctor went on to say
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: that after he got started, he tried to get out
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: of the deal, but that Hanson said he'd get his
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: family if the doctor said anything about his activities to
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: the police. Dr. Corby gave us the name of Hanson's accomplice,
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: Marty Peterson. He said that he didn't know where Peterson lived,
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: but that he usually came out a couple of times
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: a week to see Hanson. We notified the stakeout to
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: be on the lookout for Peterson, and then we booked Dr.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: Corby at the main jail. We ran the name Marty
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: Peterson through R & I, but we got no make.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: We sent the name to George Brerkin up at CII
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: in Sacramento, and also to Washington. The kickback gave Peterson
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: a record of two arrests of robbery and one for
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: ADW in the East. It also gave the name of
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: a sister who lived in Los Angeles. We checked with her,
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: and she was able to tell us where Peterson lived. Thursday,
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: October 30th, Frank and I drove out to his apartment.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: Who is it?
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: The manager.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: Yes, the manager.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, what is it? You Marty Peterson? Yeah, what do
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: you want?
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: Police officers.
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: You're under arrest.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Come on, come on.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: Get out of here, you lousy bunch.
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: All right, come on. Get up here.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: You got no right to come in here and bother me.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: What's all this about?
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: Want to shake him?
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: Come on, get your hands up on that wall. He's
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: carrying a gun, Joe.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Here.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: I got it.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: What are you guys trying to prove? I didn't do nothing.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: You guys lean on everybody like this.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: This fellow's got a record and right away he's fair
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: game for every crummy.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: Cop in the country.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you bet. Come on, let's go.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: You still haven't told me what this is all about.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: What are you putting the pinch on me for?
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: Robbery.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Robbery? You're off your rocker.
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: I'm out here on a vacation.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: I haven't done anything.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: You're an ex-con with a gun.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: That's a felony.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: Then where's Barney Hanson?
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: Who?
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: Barney Hanson. Where is he?
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: I don't know no Barney Hanson. Don't know what you're
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: talking about.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: Let's come off it, Peterson. Now, where is he?
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: Barney Hanson?
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: I might know what you're talking about. I know a
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: fellow by that name, but he's out in a hospital
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: in the valley.
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: Haven't seen him for a long time in a hospital
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: out in the valley.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Nice try, Peterson. Hanson checked out of the hospital. We
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: got the doctor. He told us all about it. Now,
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: where's Hanson?
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: I don't know. Last I heard of him, he's out
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: at that hospital. If he ain't there now, I don't
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: know where he is.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: All right, let's go downtown.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: That doctor copped out, huh? Yeah. Filled us in on
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: the whole setup. How about the money? Hmm?
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: You find the money?
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: No, we didn't find anything. You didn't find any dough
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: at all? Not a bit.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Crumb, the lousy crumb. He told him to be safe
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: out there. He'd never shake a hospital. Not a dime, huh? No.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: Looks like he left you to stand for this. He
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: probably took off with all the money. Probably never see
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: him again.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we ain't gonna get away with it. No sir,
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: he ain't.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: Looks like he will.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, I'll tell you where he is.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: We took Marty Hanson down to the city hall, and
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: he was booked at the main jail. Before he was booked,
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: he gave us the name and address of Hanson's girlfriend...
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: Frank and I drove over and talked to her. She
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: told us that she hadn't seen the suspect for several weeks.
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: She said that she'd heard that Hanson had been running
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: around with another girl. She also told us that she'd
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: heard Hanson had bought a new car and was running
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: around with a new bunch of friends. She said that
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: she hadn't seen him since he got the new car,
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: but that she'd heard it was a new Oldsmobile and
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: it was painted a fire engine red. We called the
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: office and arranged for a stakeout on her apartment, and
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: then we began to check out the Oldsmobile dealers in
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: the Los Angeles area.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Two teams of.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: Men were assigned to help us in running down the list.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: It took us two days to talk to the dealers
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: in town. Each of the dealers was shown a mugshot
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: of Hanson. Two days went by. Finally, we got an identification.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: A dealer out on Franklin in Hollywood reported that he'd
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: sold a car to Hanson. However, when we checked the
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: address he gave us, we found that Hanson had moved
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: a week before and left no forwarding address. We got
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: in touch with the Department of Motor Vehicles, and from
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: them we got the address where they'd sent the pink slip.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: It was an apartment house out on Highland Avenue. Frank
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: and I went out to check it out.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: Bernard Hanson in?
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: No, he isn't.
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: Something you wanted?
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: You expecting him?
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: I don't know. I haven't seen him this morning. I
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: just got here myself.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: I wonder if we could talk to you.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Who are you?
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Police officers.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: My name's Friday. This is my partner, Frank Smith.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: How do you do?
• 23:07
  Speaker 9: I'm Lily Edwards.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Come on in.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: Thank you, ma'am.
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: Get you anything?
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Cup of coffee?
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: Anything? No, no thanks. When did you last see Hanson?
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: Last night.
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: We got a date at 2.30 this afternoon. What time
• 23:19
  Speaker 9: is it now?
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: Well, it's 2.37, ma'am.
• 23:21
  Speaker 9: Late. He'll be along in a minute.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: What do you want to see him about? Done something?
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: Better if we could talk to him.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Personal, huh?
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: He's a wild one, old Barney.
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: Him and that red car.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: Real wild. Ma'am?
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: That car he drives. You know, it's the red old.
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: He's like a kid with it. Always wiping it off,
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: taking care of it. I think he'd bring it up
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: here at night if he could. Never seen anything like it.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: How long you known Hanson, Miss Edwards?
• 23:45
  Speaker 9: Not long.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Couple of weeks, I guess.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Not much more than that.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: Where'd you meet him?
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: Well, I hope you won't get the wrong idea, but.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: Ma'am?
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: Well, I live down on Vine Street, below Fountain, you know?
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: Well, I usually have morning coffee at the drugstore. The
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: big one on Vine.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: Well, one morning, Barney comes in. I guess it's about nine,
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: somewhere around there. He plunks down on a stool next
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: to mine. Then he takes out a package of cigarettes
• 24:06
  Speaker 9: and starts to light one. He's shaking so much he
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: can hardly hold the.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Match up to the cigarette.
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: Well, I got to laughing because I thought he was hungover. Anyways,
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: we got to talking, and the next thing I knew,
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: he asked me out to lunch.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: Well, I knew it wasn't proper, but I figured, well,
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: he seemed like a nice guy, so I told him
• 24:21
  Speaker 9: that I'd meet him. We had lunch that day, and
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: we've sort of been going together since.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: I see.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: Hanson ever told you what he did for a living?
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: No.
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: I asked him a couple of times, but he wouldn't
• 24:29
  Speaker 9: say anything right to the point. He, you know, kind
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: of heads around the bush. So I figured that he
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: didn't want to tell me, and I stopped asking. He
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: was always nice to me. No need for me to
• 24:38
  Speaker 9: pry into his personal affairs. What time you got now?
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: It's 2.40, ma'am.
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: I can't understand it. He's usually so prompt. I hope
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: nothing happened to him. He said sure to meet him
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: at 2.30. Or was it 3.30? I don't remember too well.
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: Never sure about times or dates, things like that, you know.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: You ever met a man named Peterson, Marty Peterson?
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: Marty Peterson?
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I've met him. Little guy.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am.
• 25:01
  Speaker 9: Yeah, he's a friend of Barney's. They're in some sort
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: of business together. I don't know just what it is,
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: but I know that they're associated in some way.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: Hanson's never said anything about this business to you, has he?
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: No.
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: Like I said, he's very close-mouthed about what he does.
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: You ever mention the Dr. Corby to you?
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Kirby.
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: No, I don't think I've ever heard that name before.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: Would you know how long Hanson's lived here?
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: No, I think he moved in just before I met him.
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: I don't think he's been here very long. Say, what
• 25:25
  Speaker 9: are all these questions about? I hope I haven't said
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: anything to get Barney in trouble. He's such a nice guy.
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: I sure wouldn't want to do that.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: No, ma'am, you haven't done that.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Hi, Lily.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Who are you?
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: What are you doing here?
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: Police officers.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: You're under arrest, Hanson.
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: For what? Suspicion of robbery. I'll shake him, Joe.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Now, wait a minute. What is this, a shakedown? What
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: are you guys trying to prove?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: You got nothing on me.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: I fell once.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I did my time. I owe you nothing.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: He's clean, Joe.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Why'd you do that? I'm not giving you any trouble.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I got no reason. You got nothing on me. I
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: got nothing to worry about.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: I'll go with you.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: There's no reason not to.
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: You mean what these guys say is true? You've been
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: mixed up in some robbery?
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, knock it off.
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: What do you mean, knock it off? Don't you talk
• 26:03
  Speaker 9: to me like that. I'm not going to take talk
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: like that from you.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Like I said, knock it off.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: All right, come on.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Let's go. You really figure you got me for a 2-11, huh? Yeah,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: we got the rest of them, too. Peterson and the doc?
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: That's right. I suppose they talked, huh?
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they told us all about it.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Sweet racket, should have known it could only last so long.
• 26:19
  Speaker 8: Should have figured that the longer I played against the house,
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: the shorter my chances were.
• 26:22
  Speaker 9: It is true, and you never told me. All this time,
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: and you never told me you were a crook. Of
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: all the rotten deals.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: Oh, shut up, will you?
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Always shooting off your big mouth.
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: Listen, Barney Hanson, I told you before, don't you talk
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  Speaker 9: to me like that.
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  Speaker 5: I won't take it.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: You haven't got much choice now, have you, Lily? You
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: know something, cop?
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: What's that?
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: It may be kind of a pleasure to get into
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  Speaker 8: a nice, quiet jail. Get away from this dumb broad.
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: She's the dumbest broad in the entire United States and Canada.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Real pretty, but, boy, she's stupid.
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: Now, I told you, Barney Hanson, I'm not going to
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: have you talk to me like that.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: She's a real truth. Young, and she's a real truth.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: Let's go.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Glad to get away from you.
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: All right, Barney Hanson, that does it. I'm through with you.
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: I've had it. It's going to be a long time
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: before I even talk to you. A long time.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, you're right about that. Let's go. The story
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: you have just heard was true.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: The names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: On February 4th, trial was held in Department 89, Superior
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Court of the State of California, in and for the
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: County of Los Angeles.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: In a moment, the results of that trial.
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. Thank you, George Fenneman.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: Earlier tonight, George Fenneman gave you what I consider pretty
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: strong evidence that Chesterfield is the cigarette you ought to
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: be smoking. That's why I'd like you to try a
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: pack of Chesterfields. I think you'll find they give you
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: everything you want. A real good taste in Chesterfield mildness.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Bernard R. Hanson and Martin S. Peterson were tried and
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: convicted of robbery in the first degree. They were filed
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: on for ten counts and received sentences as prescribed by law.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Robbery in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment in
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: the state penitentiary for a period of from five years
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: to life.
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: Dr.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: James Corby was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: charge and was sentenced to one year in the county
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: jail and placed on probation for ten years. One of
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: the terms of his probation being that he is not
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: permitted to operate a rest home. You have just heard Dragnet,
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: a series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker,
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles Police Department. Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. Heard tonight were Ben Alexander,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Vic Rodman, Herb Ellis. Script by John Robinson. Music by
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Walter Schumann. Hal Gibney speaking.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: For a million laughs, tune in Chesterfield's Martin and Lewis
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: Show Tuesday on this same NBC station. And sound off
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: for Chesterfield's. Either regular or king size, you'll find premium
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: quality Chesterfield's much milder. Chesterfield is best for you.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet transcribed from Los Angeles.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, In the fight against an old enemy, polio,
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: medical research has armed us with a powerful new weapon,
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: gamma globulin. Used soon enough, it can prevent the paralyzing
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: effects of polio. But first, you must furnish the raw.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: Material, blood. Doctors urgently need.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Your donation of blood to make gamma globulin. So call
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: the Red Cross. Please don't put it off. It's too important.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: Call the Red Cross tomorrow and make an appointment to
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: give blood.
• 30:02
  Speaker 9: Tonight, it's adventure with Barry Craig on NBC.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: We've been listening to Dragnet, episode 195, Big Impossible. Follow
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Dragnet for more classic broadcasts.