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

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  Speaker 1: Two young Marines are gravely ill after a night out,
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  Speaker 1: and Naval Intelligence calls on Los Angeles Homicide for answers.
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith begin at a hospital,
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  Speaker 1: then follow the case to a Fifth Street hotel and
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  Speaker 1: a man known as Stubby, who offered what he said
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: were hangover pills. Jack Webb stars as Friday with Ben
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  Speaker 1: Alexander as Smith in John Robinson's script for Dragnet, episode 174,
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  Speaker 1: Big Pill, originally heard on NBC October 19th, 1952. A
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  Speaker 1: small bottle, a hotel registration card, and the steady work
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  Speaker 1: of the detectives set the investigation in motion. And now
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  Speaker 1: we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. Naval intelligence
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  Speaker 3: tells you that two Marines have been picked up for
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  Speaker 3: the shore patrol. They're reported sick. One is in critical condition.
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  Speaker 3: Foul play is suspected.
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  Speaker 4: Your job?
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  Speaker 3: Crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police
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  Speaker 5: It was Tuesday, July 10th.
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  Speaker 2: It was hot in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 4: We were working the day watch at.
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  Speaker 2: A homicide detail. My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is
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  Speaker 2: Captain Lorman. My name's Friday. It was 7.58 a.m.
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  Speaker 5: When I got to room 42. Homicide.
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  Speaker 4: Morning, Joe.
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  Speaker 6: Hi.
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  Speaker 4: Just get in? Yeah. Anything in the book?
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  Speaker 5: I'm looking.
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter? Are you hacked about something? No, no.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you ask that?
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  Speaker 2: I figured you saw about something. What did you do?
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  Speaker 4: Take a sour pill?
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  Speaker 2: If you keep this up, you won't be asked to
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  Speaker 2: post a toothpaste ad.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's funny.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: Tell your Uncle Dudley what's the matter. Well, I said
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  Speaker 4: court deal yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: It was miserable.
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  Speaker 4: The thing you and Gaffney have been working on? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: the white glove band. It came up while you were
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  Speaker 4: out on vacation. Spent over a.
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  Speaker 2: Month on it.
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  Speaker 5: Covered it from every angle. Yeah. Looked like we had
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  Speaker 5: the guy any way he turned. We had an idea
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  Speaker 5: how much he'd taken on each job.
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  Speaker 4: Lee thought he.
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  Speaker 5: Traced him on every move he made on each of
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  Speaker 5: the deals.
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  Speaker 2: We figured we really.
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  Speaker 4: Had the guy.
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  Speaker 2: DA's office thought so, too. That quit him? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Let him walk right out. Twelve men, good and true.
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  Speaker 5: Let that cheap hoodlum walk right out on the streets
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  Speaker 5: a free man.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the way it goes sometimes. Mm-hmm. Is there
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  Speaker 2: a Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Friday here?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Friday. Is there something I can do for you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm Richard Houston, Naval Intelligence.
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  Speaker 7: Deputy Chief Brown directed me to you.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's my partner, Frank Smith, Lieutenant Houston.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Houston. Would you like to sit down, sir? What
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  Speaker 2: is it we can do for you? Well, we got
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  Speaker 2: a weird one.
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  Speaker 7: That's why we thought your department ought to be in
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  Speaker 7: on it. About all I can tell you is just
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  Speaker 7: the skeleton of the thing. We don't know all the details.
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  Speaker 7: We haven't gone into it completely yet. We figured you
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  Speaker 7: fellas would like to be in on.
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  Speaker 2: It from the beginning. Looks like it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a police investigation. Yes, sir. To begin, I should go
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  Speaker 2: back three weeks ago and tell you.
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  Speaker 7: The story as near as we've been able to reconstruct it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, go right ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a couple of Marines left the base. They'd just
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  Speaker 2: gotten back from Korea.
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  Speaker 7: Both on a 48-hour pass. We figured they came up
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  Speaker 7: here to L.A.
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  Speaker 2: They had a lot of.
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  Speaker 7: Back pay in their pockets. We don't know where they started,
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  Speaker 7: but they ended up in the chief hotel. We got
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  Speaker 7: a call from the shore patrol early Monday morning. They'd
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  Speaker 7: gotten a complaint that the two boys were causing a
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  Speaker 7: disturbance in the hotel. They picked them up and found
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  Speaker 7: they both were in a pretty bad way. They had
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  Speaker 7: them shipped to the Naval Hospital down at Long Beach.
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  Speaker 7: By the time they got there, they were really rocky.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm sorry, sir, but I don't quite see just
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  Speaker 5: how we're.
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  Speaker 4: Connected with this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm getting to that. I'm sorry. All right, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a little long-winded.
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  Speaker 7: Anyway, last night, the boys had been AWOL for over
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  Speaker 7: two weeks. They were brought into the hospital, like I said.
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  Speaker 7: Doctors did what they could, but it was too.
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  Speaker 4: Late to help.
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  Speaker 7: One of the boys died late last night. We're not
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  Speaker 7: sure about the other one. That's where you come in, sir.
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  Speaker 2: They were both poisoned. 9.06 a.m.
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  Speaker 5: Frank and I talked with Captain Lorman, then we checked
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  Speaker 5: out a crypt car and left for Long Beach. When
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  Speaker 5: we got there, we talked with the doctor in charge.
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  Speaker 5: He told us that it would be later that night
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  Speaker 5: before the boy would be completely out of danger. He said, however,
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  Speaker 5: that we could talk to him if we phrased our
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  Speaker 5: questions so that the answers could.
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  Speaker 4: Be kept fairly brief.
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  Speaker 5: We looked over the boy's record. His full name was
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  Speaker 5: Jack Wayne Walker, age 24. He'd enlisted in the Marine
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  Speaker 5: Corps on January 14, 1950. He'd spent almost a year
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  Speaker 5: in the Far East, and his service record had been
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  Speaker 5: good until this time. The record of the victim, PFC
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  Speaker 5: Edward Monaghan, was pretty much the same. The boys had
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  Speaker 5: both come from the same town in Arkansas. The date
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  Speaker 5: of their enlistment was the same. They'd served overseas the
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  Speaker 5: same time. At 3.48 p.m., the doctor ushered us into
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  Speaker 5: Jack Walker's room.
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  Speaker 2: Who are you? Police officers, Jack.
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  Speaker 4: We'd like to talk to you.
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  Speaker 2: What's it about? I haven't done anything. At least I
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  Speaker 2: don't think I did. No, it's not that.
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  Speaker 4: We'd like to find out what happened while you were
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  Speaker 4: up in L.A.
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  Speaker 2: I killed my buddy up there. That's what happened. You
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  Speaker 2: heard about that, didn't you? Yes, we did.
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  Speaker 4: That's what we want to talk to you about.
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  Speaker 2: Poor Ed. Year in Korea. Guys taking pot shots at us. Cold, mud.
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  Speaker 2: And we've got to come back here to get it.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't trust that little crumb. I knew we shouldn't
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  Speaker 8: have had anything to do with it. Well, you shouldn't
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  Speaker 8: have trusted who, Jack?
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  Speaker 2: Stubby. You know the rest of his name? No, just Stubby.
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  Speaker 2: I just can't believe it about Ed. He shoved off
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  Speaker 2: for L.A. going to have a last fling. Ed was
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  Speaker 2: getting married as soon as we got home.
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  Speaker 4: All right, if you could just start right at the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 8: Well, first, we both had a 48-hour pass. We figured
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  Speaker 8: to go to L.A., like I said, for a last fling.
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  Speaker 8: A few drinks, look at some of the lights, have
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  Speaker 8: a little fun. Sort of a bachelor party for Ed
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  Speaker 8: before it got hitched. Well, we pulled into town, let's see,
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  Speaker 8: I think it was Saturday morning. A couple of buddies
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  Speaker 8: told us about a joint up there where we could
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  Speaker 8: have some fun.
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  Speaker 2: We head up there, nice little place.
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  Speaker 8: That hour of the morning gets about 10, 10.30.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're starting to drink. It gets pretty foggy after that, like.
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  Speaker 8: Little parts in a jigsaw, you know. You sort of
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  Speaker 8: see a little bit of everything, but the whole picture
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  Speaker 8: ain't there. Well, I remember we hung around the place
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  Speaker 8: for two days, and then it all really goes black.
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  Speaker 8: Next thing I remember, we woke up in some fleabag.
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  Speaker 8: I remember looking at the calendar on the wall. We
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  Speaker 8: was already a couple days AWOL. Ed and I talked about.
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  Speaker 2: What we should do.
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  Speaker 8: And then we get to trying to think up an
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  Speaker 8: excuse for the CO for being AWOL. Our CO ain't easy.
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  Speaker 8: He's that expert to try. Ed says, you figure out something.
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  Speaker 8: So we start for the bus depot, get back to base.
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  Speaker 8: On the way, we pass this bar. And Ed says, well,
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  Speaker 8: maybe we ought to stop and have one more for
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  Speaker 8: the road.
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  Speaker 2: So we do. And I don't remember much for a
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  Speaker 2: couple more days. Now, I remember once we stopped and
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  Speaker 2: watched the guy get tattooed. Ed and I got talking
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  Speaker 2: about it, you know, whether or not we should have
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  Speaker 2: it done. Finally, we figured it was kind of kid stuff,
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  Speaker 2: so we didn't.
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  Speaker 8: I remember that because it was right after we left
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  Speaker 8: the tattoo place and went to this bar where we
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  Speaker 8: met Stubby.
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  Speaker 4: Now, this is the fellow that you were talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's him.
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  Speaker 4: And you met him in a bar? Uh-huh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Ed and I were sitting there trying to figure out
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  Speaker 2: what we was going to do, you know.
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  Speaker 8: We were pretty broke by this time, and then he
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  Speaker 8: was over two weeks AWOL.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, Slyster, we had big trouble.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we walked into this place. It was about 4.30
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  Speaker 2: or 5 in the afternoon. At least near as I
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  Speaker 2: can tell. That's about what time it was. The whole
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  Speaker 2: deal gets kind of foggy.
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  Speaker 8: We sat down at this bar and ordered a drink.
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  Speaker 8: Just sitting there minding our own business, trying to figure
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  Speaker 8: what we ought to do. Then this stubby joker comes up,
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  Speaker 8: sits down next to Ed, brings his drink with him.
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  Speaker 4: He was in the bar when you came in, isn't
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  Speaker 4: that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, at least I think so. I didn't pay
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  Speaker 2: much attention, but he had a drink when he came
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  Speaker 2: up to Ed and me.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, go ahead.
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  Speaker 8: Well, he got to talking about the core, and next
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  Speaker 8: thing we know, he's setting up the drinks.
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  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: We was fixed as long as he wanted to buy.
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  Speaker 2: We wasn't going to argue.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Did they seem to know this stubby in the bar? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the girl that waits on tables called him by name.
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  Speaker 4: All right, you want to go ahead?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, this stubby kept going on about.
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  Speaker 8: how he liked the core and how he'd won a
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  Speaker 8: whole flock of citations in korea told us.
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  Speaker 2: All about the time he'd spent in japan.
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  Speaker 8: First we thought he was just throwing a bunch of
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  Speaker 8: coconuts at us but we'd ask him about places in
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  Speaker 8: korea and things you could only know if you was
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  Speaker 8: there he'd come up with the answers all right but
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  Speaker 8: even with all that there was something that just didn't
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  Speaker 8: ring true yeah Anyway, along about 8 or 8.30 that night,
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  Speaker 8: Stubby got in a thrash with the bartender, something about
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  Speaker 8: the price of the drink, so he suggested we go
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  Speaker 8: up to his place and get.
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  Speaker 2: A jug, you know, and drink up there.
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  Speaker 8: I wasn't too hot for the idea, but Ed said
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  Speaker 8: we had nothing to lose, and we didn't have a
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  Speaker 8: sack for the night, and there wasn't much dough left,
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  Speaker 8: so we shoved.
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  Speaker 2: Off with him. Where did Stubby live? A hotel down
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  Speaker 2: on 5th. I'll tell you how to find the place.
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  Speaker 2: Same place you were picked up in?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We got the address, then.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: What happened when you got Stubby's room?
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  Speaker 8: Well, we cracked the jug, sat around drinking for a while,
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  Speaker 8: and then Ed and I went to sleep. I tell you,
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  Speaker 8: the next morning we had the biggest hangovers in the
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  Speaker 8: entire United States and Canada, both of us.
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  Speaker 2: We felt miserable.
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  Speaker 8: Ed started beefing about the cheap booze Stubby'd rung in
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  Speaker 8: on us.
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  Speaker 2: That's when he tried to tout us on them pills.
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  Speaker 4: What pills are those?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, them things supposed to relieve hangovers. Oh, you mean
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  Speaker 2: the kind they sell in drugstores? Oh, no, not them.
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  Speaker 8: Stubby told us about that one. He'd come back to
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  Speaker 8: the States. He'd stood some duty in the hospital. He
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  Speaker 8: said that while he was there, he got them pills.
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  Speaker 8: He said there was a special prescription that was great
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  Speaker 8: for head shrinking.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted us to try them. Did you?
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, not right away.
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  Speaker 8: He kept after us, though, kidding us about being big,
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  Speaker 8: tough Marines with a hangover. Then he took one of
• 11:36
  Speaker 8: the pills, at least as we thought he did. So
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  Speaker 8: Ed and I figured then we didn't have anything to lose.
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  Speaker 2: You took one of these hangover pills then, did you? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we both did.
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  Speaker 4: What happened then?
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  Speaker 2: Well, nothing right away.
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  Speaker 8: Stubby said, take a little time for it, take effect.
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: We got up and started to get dressed. Ed and
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  Speaker 2: I thought we'd better get back to the base, you know.
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  Speaker 8: We'd probably be in enough trouble as it was without
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  Speaker 8: worrying about a hangover.
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  Speaker 2: You left the room? No, we was just getting our
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: stuff together and Ed took sick.
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  Speaker 8: Said he had an awful pain in the stomach, like
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  Speaker 8: a cramp, you know. We asked Stubby if the pill
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  Speaker 8: could have caused it.
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  Speaker 2: He said no. Must have been the booze.
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  Speaker 8: Well, right about then, I was getting ready to mop
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  Speaker 8: up the place with this Stubby.
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  Speaker 2: I figured, sure, he'd given us a Mickey. I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: figure why, though. Then it hit me. I felt it.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I guess so. Real bad cramps in my stomach.
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  Speaker 8: I got real dizzy. The room started to go round.
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  Speaker 8: We asked the stubby to call a doctor, and that's
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  Speaker 8: when we knew.
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  Speaker 2: He was really in trouble.
• 12:28
  Speaker 4: How's that?
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  Speaker 8: We knew then he was nuts off his trolley. Neither
• 12:31
  Speaker 8: of us could walk. Ed doubled up and passed out,
• 12:34
  Speaker 8: and I could hardly keep awake. We both just lay.
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  Speaker 2: On the floor. I kept asking his phone to get
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: us a medic. Could he?
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  Speaker 8: No, he just stood there and laughed at us. Laughed
• 12:42
  Speaker 8: like a crazy fool. He kept saying, we was big,
• 12:44
  Speaker 8: strong Marines. We should be able to take a little
• 12:46
  Speaker 8: stomachache without running to a doctor.
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  Speaker 4: At no time did he make any attempt to get
• 12:50
  Speaker 4: you medical help.
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: No, just like I said, he just stood there and
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  Speaker 2: laughed at us. Then he got real mean.
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  Speaker 8: Got crazy leer on his face. Said he'd show us
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  Speaker 8: that he'd fix us up good for what we'd done.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what did he mean by that?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. All I thought about was getting Ed
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: and me to a doc. About this time, I didn't
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: much care what the little screwball did.
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  Speaker 8: Then he really started harping on how he's getting even
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  Speaker 8: with us. I tried to get at him, I'd have
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  Speaker 8: killed him if I could have. I tried to get
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  Speaker 8: at him, but I fell and went out, I guess.
• 13:16
  Speaker 8: That's when he said that thing about that we wouldn't
• 13:18
  Speaker 8: be the last ones he'd get.
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  Speaker 6: What?
• 13:21
  Speaker 8: Well, he said like this, you guys are the first,
• 13:23
  Speaker 8: just the first, but there's going to be more.
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  Speaker 2: A lot more.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We continued to talk to Jack Walker.
• 13:35
  Speaker 5: He gave us a complete description of the man he'd
• 13:37
  Speaker 5: known as Stubby, and going over the story again with him,
• 13:40
  Speaker 5: there were a few changes in it, but none that
• 13:42
  Speaker 5: couldn't be accounted for by his condition. We got the
• 13:45
  Speaker 5: address of the.
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  Speaker 4: Bar where he'd met Stubby.
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: We checked with the doctor.
• 13:48
  Speaker 5: And he told us that both boys had been given
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: a powerful corrosive poison. He went on to say that
• 13:53
  Speaker 5: it was a miracle that Jack Walker was still alive.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: 9.26 p.m.
• 13:58
  Speaker 5: Frank and I drove back to Los Angeles. We checked
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: into the office and ran the name Stubby through the
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: moniker file and R & I, but we found nothing.
• 14:05
  Speaker 5: We got out a local and an APB on the
• 14:07
  Speaker 5: description and the name. The stats office started a run
• 14:10
  Speaker 5: on the M.O. Frank and I checked the hotel on
• 14:12
  Speaker 5: 5th Street and the manager showed us the room, but
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: he said that it had been cleaned and occupied since
• 14:17
  Speaker 5: the two Marines had left. Leighton Prince went over the
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: room but failed to come up with anything. We took
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: the hotel registration card and booked it in as evidence.
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: The man had signed his name as Alton Richard. The
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: manager gave us the same description as the one we'd
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: gotten from the Marines. We ran the name through R
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: & I, but we failed to come up with any
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: new leads. There'd been no replies to the broadcast, and
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: the staff's office had finished the run and had come
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: up with four possible suspects. These were checked out, but
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: they led us nowhere.
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: 2.30 a.m. We checked the bar, but we thought it
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: was closed. Wednesday, 8.14 a.m.
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: We briefed Captain Lorman on the developments, and then we
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: went over to again check the bar where the two
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: Marines were supposed to have met Stubby. The place was
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: deserted except for one man drinking a beer. The waitress
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: was sitting in her rear booth filing her fingernails.
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: Frank and I went back to talk to her.
• 15:08
  Speaker 9: Yeah, something you want?
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: Well, police officers, miss.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: We'd like to talk to you.
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: Captain. Yes, ma'am.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: This is my partner, Joe Friday.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: My name's Smith. Smith.
• 15:18
  Speaker 9: Boy, does that sound phony.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: Here's my ID card.
• 15:22
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's Smith, all right. What do you want?
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: Do you mind if we sit down?
• 15:25
  Speaker 9: No, go ahead, Liv.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Thank you. What's this all about?
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: Do you work here, Scotty?
• 15:31
  Speaker 9: Yeah, most of the time.
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: What's your name, miss?
• 15:33
  Speaker 8: Vera. Vera Gay.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Well, Miss Gay, were you working here around the 8th
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: or 9th or the 10th of July?
• 15:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and you can make it Vera.
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: You know most people who come in here regularly?
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I suppose so. I wonder if you'd look at
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: this description and tell us if you.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: Know the man here.
• 15:48
  Speaker 9: WMA. What does that mean?
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: White Male American.
• 15:52
  Speaker 9: Yeah, WMA.
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: 36 years, 5 feet 7 to 5 feet 9, 155
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: pounds stubby.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know him.
• 16:04
  Speaker 9: Comes in here all the time.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Nice guy.
• 16:06
  Speaker 9: Loud when he gets drunk. He's always nice to me, though.
• 16:09
  Speaker 9: Tells me I should be in pictures.
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: You know the movies?
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: Have you seen him today?
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: No. He never gets in before maybe noon, 1 o'clock.
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: It just doesn't bother you, does it, my father-in-law?
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: Not at all.
• 16:20
  Speaker 9: He does bother some people, you know.
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: Like running a piece of chalk down a blackboard.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: Miss Stubby, does he have any other name?
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: Do you know it? Yeah.
• 16:27
  Speaker 9: Paul Rogers.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: That's another one, Joe.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Well, do you want to go ahead, ma'am?
• 16:32
  Speaker 9: I went out with him a couple of times, finally
• 16:33
  Speaker 9: gave it up. I couldn't go that route.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: What's that, ma'am?
• 16:36
  Speaker 9: All he talked about was.
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: Either him and the Marine Corps and what a big
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: hero he was or else how he was going to
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: get me in pictures, you know, movies.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am.
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: I didn't come out to California to get in the movies. Well,
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: I came out to be a private secretary. Only those
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: jobs are a little hard to get, so I work here.
• 16:50
  Speaker 9: I make enough for coffee and cakes. And when a
• 16:53
  Speaker 9: job comes along, I'll take it. Work in a big office,
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: nice boss. Who knows, he might even marry me. That
• 16:59
  Speaker 9: movie hokum for me, you know, sir, and not your
• 17:01
  Speaker 9: little Vera.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: Did you work on the night of the night, the
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: night before last?
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Let's see.
• 17:05
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I was in.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: You happened to see the Stubby Rogers that night?
• 17:08
  Speaker 9: Well, you got to think about that. Let's see. That
• 17:12
  Speaker 9: was the night we had the fight just before closing.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he was in earlier.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: You happen to notice if he was with anybody?
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: What's that all about? He do something you're running for?
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: No, we just like to talk to him.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:22
  Speaker 9: Well, if he did anything, we had nothing to do
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: with it.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: This is a good place.
• 17:24
  Speaker 9: We got nothing to do with the people who come in.
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: Got the price of a drink, they get served. We
• 17:28
  Speaker 9: don't ask for trouble.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, we aren't going to cause any trouble, miss.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: We just want to talk to this Rogers.
• 17:32
  Speaker 9: Yeah, well, we aren't running into it.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Do you remember if he was with anyone?
• 17:36
  Speaker 9: Yeah, he was with a couple of Marines. Left with them.
• 17:39
  Speaker 9: Had a beef with Sam. He's a night bartender. Complained
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: that the drinks were too high. I don't know what
• 17:43
  Speaker 9: he was crying about. He's been drinking here a long time.
• 17:45
  Speaker 9: Never had problems before.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: You saw him leave with these two Marines then?
• 17:48
  Speaker 9: Yeah, three of them walked out. I think actually they
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: sort of floated out. The two kids were really boiled.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Remember what time it was when they left?
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: Oh, that'd be kind of hard to tell. We were
• 17:56
  Speaker 9: pretty busy.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Well, it's pretty important, Miss.
• 17:58
  Speaker 9: You know, let me think. I guess maybe around 8,
• 18:01
  Speaker 9: maybe 8.30, around in there. It's just a guess, though.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Do you have any idea where this Rogers lived?
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I've been there a couple of times. Hotel on
• 18:08
  Speaker 9: South Hill.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Can you give us the address?
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I got it in person.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: I should have known he was a phony. All he's
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: saying is how he could get me in pictures, you know, movies.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes.
• 18:19
  Speaker 9: Don't come that way. Of course you understand I didn't
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: come out here to get in pictures. I came out
• 18:23
  Speaker 9: to be a private secretary.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Here's the address.
• 18:27
  Speaker 9: Here, keep it. I won't be using it anymore.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Miss Kay.
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: Here's our card. If you think of anything more you
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: think we ought to know, we'd appreciate a call from you.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks. Sure appreciate your help.
• 18:37
  Speaker 9: I'll need your help sometime. Matter of fact, you might
• 18:40
  Speaker 9: be able to lend me a hand. Producers. You know, movies.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Frank called the name Paul Rogers into the office in
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: a supplementary broadcast in an APB we're gotten out.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: A stakeout was arranged on the bar.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: We went back to the city hall and a check
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: through R & I on the name Paul Rogers netted
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: us nothing.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: We drove over to the hotel on South Hill.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: The manager told us that Rogers was not.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: In his room.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: He went on to say that Rogers had not been
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: using his room regularly for the past week or so,
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: but that he had been in a couple of days
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: before in the company of a soldier, and that as
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: far as he knew, the soldier was still in. In
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: the company of the manager, Frank and I went upstairs.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: The manager unlocked the door and we went in. Minimum
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: strength is someone in bad air.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Come on, you.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: How about it? Just a minute.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: How about it, Joe?
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know. He's dead.
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Story of your police force in action. And now a
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: report every smoker should hear. Nose, throat, and accessory organs
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: not adversely affected by smoking Chesterfields. First such report published
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: about any cigarette. A responsible consulting organization reports a study
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: by a competent medical specialist and staff on the effects
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: of smoking Chesterfields. For six months, a group of men
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: and women smoked only Chesterfields, 10 to 40 a day.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Their normal amount.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: 45% of the group have smoked Chesterfields from 1 to
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: 30 years, for an average of 10 years each. At
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: the beginning and end of the six months, Each smoker
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: was given a thorough examination, including x-rays, and covering the sinuses, nose, ears,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: and throat. After these examinations, the medical specialist stated, It
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: is my opinion that the ears, nose, throat, and accessory
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: organs of all participating subjects examined by me were not
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: adversely affected in the six-month period by smoking the cigarettes provided.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Remember this report, and buy much milder Chesterfields, regular or king-sized.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Bye.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: Bye.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Wednesday, July 11th, 12.40 p.m. We called the coroner's office,
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: then we got in touch with the crime lab and
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: the photographers. After the pictures had been taken, the body
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: was removed. The victim was a soldier in his mid-30s.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: On the nightstand beside the bed, we found an empty
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: pill bottle and a suicide note. The note was booked
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: as evidence and turned over to Don Meyer for comparison
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: with a handwriting taken from the hotel registration card that
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: Rogers had signed. The men from Leighton Prince went over
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: the place thoroughly. They came up with several classifiable prints.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: Fingerprints found on the bottle belonged to the victim. There
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: were several other sets in the room which were not identified.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: The crime lab went over the room, and they went
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: back to the lab.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: To make their analysis.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: All officers in the area were alerted to be on
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: the lookout for Rogers. Frank and I talked to the
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: manager of the hotel, a Henry Corey. He told us
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: that Rogers had lived in the hotel for the past
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: four and a half months. He said that Rogers was quiet,
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: kept pretty much to himself, and for the most part
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: was a good tenant. He said that on several occasions,
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Rogers had gotten behind in his rent, but that he'd
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: always managed to come up with the money. The manager
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: told us that in the conversations he'd had with Rogers,
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: the main topic had been the Marine Corps and the.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Suspect's record overseas.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Rogers presented himself as an armchair general, constantly calling down
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: the way the situation was being handled He would refer
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: to his own exploits, but when questioned about his leaving
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: the service, he became vague and evasive. Additional handwriting samples
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: were obtained and sent to Meyer. The manager told us
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: that the latest victim had come in with Rogers the
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: night before and that at the time he'd been pretty drunk.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: They'd gone upstairs, and when Rogers had left in the morning,
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: the manager had assumed that the soldier had gone the
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: night before. 3.20 p.m. Frank and I went back to
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: relieve the stakeout at the bar.
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: Back again?
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, Miss Gay.
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: Sit down.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: It seems like every time I see you, I'm doing
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: something with my nails.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: This morning filing them, now I'm filing them again.
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: I'm going to put polish on them after this. I
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: guess you think I'm pretty vain.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: No, not at all, miss.
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: A new color called Frosted Rose.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Isn't it pretty?
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: Kind of iridescent, is what the label says. You're sprinkling
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: your nails with stardust.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am.
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: Pretty bottle, too. They sure put things up nice nowadays.
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 23:19
  Speaker 9: Uh-oh, here comes your boy.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: That's Rogers. Yeah. Yes, Steffi, one of the beans.
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: Perfect, folks.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: How's it going, Steffi? Same old six as before.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty dull.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: You're doing a great business.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: No, not as early as.
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: Here's your drink.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: It'll be four bits. Here you.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Go. All right, thanks, guys. All right, Frank, let's go.
• 23:40
  Speaker 9: No trouble now.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Not unless he makes it. Hi, fellas. Something you want?
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: You Paul Rogers? Yeah, who are you? Police officers. We'd
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: like to talk to you.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: I don't want any trouble in here.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, there's not going to be any trouble. Always fights.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Why is it everybody comes into a bar and starts fights?
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Ain't there someplace else to be?
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: All right, come on, Rogers. Well, four.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: You got nothing to haul me in.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: We'll talk to you about that, too.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Well, let me finish my drink. No, pray not. Let's
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: go now. Look, I said I was going to finish
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: my drink.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: Don't lean. Let's can it, Mr. Ngo.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: I said I was going to finish my drink. All right, mister,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: on your feet. That's an honor. Let's take him to
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: the office. Sergeant. Yes, sir. Thanks. Sure appreciate it.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Well, what's that?
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Thought for a minute there you were going to have
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: a fight.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: We took the suspect back to the city hall. Then
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: we checked the name through the Marine base in San Diego.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Lieutenant Richard Houston called back to say that Rogers had
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: received a court-martial and a dishonorable discharge.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: In January of that year.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: He'd been tried by a military court on the charge
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: of stealing alcohol from the hospital pharmacy and selling it
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: to the patients in the hospital. We stopped in handwriting
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: analysis and Don Meyer took an exemplar of the suspect's writing.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: When we checked by the office, there was a message
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: from Sergeants Bill Cummings and Harry Hansen stating that their
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: investigation had shown that the death of the soldier in
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Rogers' room was suicide.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Beyond any doubt.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: 7.46 p.m.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Frank and I talked to the suspect in the interrogation room.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Terrible thing, treating a veteran like this. All right, let's
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: save it.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: Rogers, there's a few questions we'd like some answers to.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: I got nothing to hide.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: All right, what were the conditions for your discharge from
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: the Marine Corps?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Did you get an honorable discharge or a dishonorable discharge?
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: I had a little trouble. Lousy officers. Never did understand
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: what the problems of the enlisted man were. What do
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: you do for a living, Rogers?
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: I work.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Where?
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: Around.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: You have a steady job? What do you mean, steady?
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: One you've held for, say, more than six months.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Haven't been out of the.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Service that long. Where'd you serve in the Corps? Japan? Korea?
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: How long were you there? About four or five months.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Why'd you come back? I was wounded. How? What do
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: you mean, how? Just that.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: How were you wounded?
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Well, I wasn't exactly wounded. I had my feet frostbitten.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: According to this here, you went AWOL and got lost.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: When they found you, your feet were frozen.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Is that right? What's that you got? Your record in
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: the Corps.
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: You've got a lot of nerve digging into that. That's
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: what you got me in here for, anyway. I've done
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: nothing that puts me in line for this kind of treatment.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: You know a couple of Marines named Ed Monaghan and
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Jack Walker? Monaghan? Walker? No, I don't think I know.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: You ever register in a hotel on Fifth Street? No,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I live over on Hill. You know a soldier named
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Marty Wilkins? What's he got to do with it?
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: We found him dead in your room.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: You're cracking up.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, Rogers.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: We just dreamed we found that body. Nothing to do
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: with him. Met him in a bar. He said he
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: wasn't feeling too good. Said he didn't have a place
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: to sleep. I let him have my room. Something wrong
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: in that? Be a little kind, and now even that
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: gets you in trouble.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: You sure you don't know a Marine named Ed Monaghan?
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Positive.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: There's something wrong, Rogers. The girl at the bar said
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: she saw you leave the place with two Marines. They
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: could have been Monaghan and Walker.
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: Well, maybe I know them. I might and still not
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: know their names. You didn't take them up to a
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: room you'd rented in a hotel on Fifth Street?
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: No, I told you once I never lived on Fifth.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Check with our handwriting man.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: He says your writing matches some samples we found on
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: the hotel register.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Maybe I write like somebody else.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: No, we don't think so, mister. How about Jack Walker?
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: Maybe you know him, you just didn't remember him.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: No, I keep telling you I don't know them. Vera
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: says you do. Well, she's lying. Is she? Sure she is.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: She's trying to save her own skin.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: From what?
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't want to stand a rap for murder, can't
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  Speaker 2: you see? Now, go ahead, Rodney. I'm saying nothing until
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I see my lawyer. You sure you don't want to
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: tell us why I did it? I got nothing to say.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Makes it tough, Rogers. What do you mean? Just makes
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: it rough, that's all.
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  Speaker 4: Looks like you're going to have to stand a murder rap. Yeah?
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: That's the way it looks.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't mean it. I didn't. I just wanted to
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: get even, that's all. Just get even. For what, Rogers?
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: For the way the court treated me. Kicked me out.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: I didn't do anything really wrong. Copped a little alcohol,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: that's all. No harm done. They look at it a
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: little differently. Yeah, that's the trouble. Stinking brass, they're all alike.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: They don't care what happens to us. The guys in
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: the field try to get a job. I looked everywhere.
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: I just didn't fit. Seemed like everywhere I went, I
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: got into trouble. I wanted like it was when I
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: first went in. Like it was after boot camp. Walking
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: down the street, girls looking at you.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: A Marine, a big man.
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: They took that away from me. They wouldn't let me
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: enlist again. I tried, but they wouldn't let me. You
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: can understand what that would do to a guy, can't you?
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: It would tear me apart. Right then, I decided to
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: get even with all the stinking gyrenes in the world.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: They wouldn't let me in, and I hated them.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Remember what happened the day you gave the two boys
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: the pills, do you?
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Sure, I remember all of it. They cried for a medic.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: They weren't big men then. No, sir, they sure weren't.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: All right, Rogers, we'll get a stenographer. Tell me, Sergeant. Yeah.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Did I get both of them?
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: No, Walker's going to be all right.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: He the young one? That's right. Real nice kid. Lucky, too.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Is that right? Yeah, no worries. Really got it made. Uniform,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: that's what does it. Uniform makes all the difference in
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: the world.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Don't worry, you'll get one.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: The story you have just heard was true. The names
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: were changed to protect the innocent. On November 13th, trial
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: was held in Department 87, Superior Court of the State
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: of California, in and for the County of Los Angeles.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: In a moment, the results of that trial.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. Thank you, George Fenneman.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: In modern crime detection, the working detective depends on scientific research.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: He relies on the services of trained experts in ballistics, communications, fingerprints,
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: to name just a few. He's interested only in facts.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: And as a smoker, you should be interested only in facts.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: That's why the report you heard earlier is so important
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: to you. Nose, throat, and accessory organs not adversely affected
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: by smoking Chesterfield. First such report ever published about any cigarette.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Remember it.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: And next time, buy Chesterfield. Regular or king-size, premium-quality Chesterfield
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: gives you the best possible smoke.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Paul M.
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  Speaker 3: Rogers was tried and convicted on one count of murder
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: in the first degree. He was sentenced to life imprisonment
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: in the state penitentiary, San Quentin, California. You have just
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles Police Department. Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. Heard tonight were Ben Alexander,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Virginia Gregg, Jack Crucian. Script by John Robinson. Music by
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Walter Schumann. Hal Gibney speaking. Sound off for Chesterfield. Either
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: way you like them. Regular or king size. Possible smoker.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Much milder Chesterfield. Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet transcribed from
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Chesterfield.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: Tonight, it's Barry Craig, confidential investigator on NBC.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: That was Dragnet, episode 174, Big Pill. Follow Dragnet for
• 31:04
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