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

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  Speaker 1: Three hold-up men rob and beat two Los Angeles supermarket operators,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: sending Detective Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith to
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: robbery detail. Witness descriptions and a chain of leads point
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  Speaker 1: toward an obvious suspect, until that man appears to have
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: an airtight alibi in Phoenix. Friday and Smith follow those
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: leads from the LAPD robbery detail day watch, checking the
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  Speaker 1: evidence behind that contradiction. On November 17th, 1953, NBC presented Dragnet,
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  Speaker 1: episode 222, Big Flight, with Jack Webb as Friday and
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: Ben Alexander as Smith. Chesterfield was the sponsor. And now,
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  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Dragnet.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen. The story you are about to hear
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  Speaker 3: is true.
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  Speaker 4: The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
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  Speaker 4: a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. Three hold-up
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  Speaker 4: men have robbed and beaten two supermarket operators in your city.
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  Speaker 4: You've got a good description of the thieves. Your job,
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  Speaker 4: get them.
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  Speaker 2: It was Tuesday, November 3rd. It was cold in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: We were working the day watch out a robbery detail.
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  Speaker 2: My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Chief of Detectives
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  Speaker 2: Thad Brown. My name's Friday. We'd gotten a hot shot
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  Speaker 2: call about a robbery and it was 9.46 a.m. when
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  Speaker 2: we got to the corner of Lockwood and Barton Avenues.
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  Speaker 2: The Lockton Market.
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  Speaker 3: Officer back there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Friday and Smith, Central Robbery.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, I'm Jackson, Unit 387.
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  Speaker 2: You answered the call?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we got here a couple of minutes ago.
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  Speaker 3: Where's the victim?
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  Speaker 5: Back room there.
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  Speaker 3: He's pretty bad off.
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  Speaker 6: Ambulance attendant's with him now.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 6: My partner's checking the neighborhood. If there's nothing you need
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  Speaker 6: me for, I'll give him a hand.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, make a 211 report for your lead, will you?
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Looks like there was quite a fight. Yeah, stuff all
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  Speaker 3: over the place. Come on.
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  Speaker 5: What do you got in that bottle?
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  Speaker 6: It sure stinks.
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  Speaker 3: I got to clean up these cuts.
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  Speaker 6: I'll try to hold still.
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  Speaker 5: Ow! Hey, take it easy, huh?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, something you want?
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  Speaker 3: We're out of central robbery. Is this the victim? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: a couple of cuts.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing serious.
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  Speaker 3: Tell him about Andy.
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  Speaker 6: He's the one who really got it.
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  Speaker 3: Who's Andy? The other clerk.
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  Speaker 5: Pretty rough.
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  Speaker 6: Looks like it might be a fractured jaw.
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  Speaker 3: He's on the truck now.
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  Speaker 6: Now, let me get this tape on you now, huh? Ow!
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  Speaker 6: That should do it. Might be a good idea if
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  Speaker 6: you saw your doctor.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, what about Andy? We're going to take him down.
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  Speaker 6: To Georgia Street receiving.
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  Speaker 5: You going to call me and let me know about him?
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  Speaker 6: It might be better if you call them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 5: I'll see you guys, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. Thanks. Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 6: Boy, that one guy really clouded me.
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  Speaker 2: Hurt. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: What did he feel after telling us what happened here?
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  Speaker 5: Three of them.
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  Speaker 3: Three.
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  Speaker 7: He came in and held up the place, clouded me
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  Speaker 7: and Andy.
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  Speaker 5: Sure hope he's going to be all right.
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  Speaker 6: What's your name, sir?
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  Speaker 3: Cliff Hall. You own the store, do you?
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  Speaker 6: No, me and Andy run it, though. We'd like to
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  Speaker 6: buy it.
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  Speaker 3: What time did these men come in?
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  Speaker 6: Must have been around 9.30, around in there.
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  Speaker 3: Did you give the officers or answer the call or
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  Speaker 3: description of the men?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was the first thing they asked me.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead, please.
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  Speaker 7: I was getting the money ready for the bank deposit.
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  Speaker 7: Andy was back here stacking bottle cases. These three guys
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  Speaker 7: came in. First off, I thought they were customers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: A couple of them walked to the back of the place.
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  Speaker 7: I thought they were picking out stuff. The other one
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  Speaker 7: kind of stood around by the cash register where I was.
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  Speaker 7: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Well, after he was there for.
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  Speaker 7: A minute and I see the other two aren't picking
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  Speaker 7: up nothing, I asked him if there was something I
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  Speaker 7: could get for him.
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  Speaker 6: That's when he pulled out a gun.
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  Speaker 3: What about the other two?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, it worked like they had some kind of signal.
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  Speaker 7: As soon as the one in front pulled his gun,
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  Speaker 7: the other two did too. The fellow asked me to
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  Speaker 7: put all the money in a paper bag. Got the
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  Speaker 7: bag from up in front there. Took it right out
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  Speaker 7: of the stack and handed it to him. He said
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  Speaker 7: for me to put the dough in it.
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  Speaker 3: You recall his exact words?
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  Speaker 2: What? The way he said it, the words he used.
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  Speaker 3: You recall them?
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  Speaker 6: Let me see. I think it was... Put all the
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  Speaker 6: dough in this bag. Don't say anything.
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  Speaker 3: Just do as I say.
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  Speaker 6: That was the way he said.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you do then?
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  Speaker 6: Like he said.
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  Speaker 7: He had that gun pointed right at me. I could
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  Speaker 7: see the other two guys. I wasn't going to do
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  Speaker 7: anything but what he told me. I put the money
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  Speaker 7: in the bag. I thought they'd leave the place, but
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  Speaker 7: that's when Andy came out. I guess he wondered what
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  Speaker 7: the other two were after. You see, from where he was,
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  Speaker 7: he couldn't see the guns. He walked out to them,
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  Speaker 7: asked if there was anything special they were looking for.
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  Speaker 3: What happened then?
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  Speaker 7: Then he saw what was happening. Saw the guns and
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  Speaker 7: he tried to throw the guys out. I don't know
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  Speaker 7: why he did it. Andy's like that. He gets an
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  Speaker 7: idea in his head and there isn't anything that'll shake
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  Speaker 7: it loose. He tied into those two guys. Almost had
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  Speaker 7: him whipped, too, even with the guns. The guy that
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  Speaker 7: was with me saw what was going on and yelled
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  Speaker 7: back at him, told him not to shoot. He ran
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  Speaker 7: back and laid his gun alongside Andy's head. It all
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  Speaker 7: clouded him right along in here. Andy dropped like a
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  Speaker 7: sack of potatoes and the three guys ran.
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  Speaker 3: Out of the store. How much money did they get,
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  Speaker 3: do you know?
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  Speaker 6: I hadn't finished up with the bank statement yet.
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  Speaker 7: I'd just be guessing, but I'd say about $ 8, 000... Might
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  Speaker 7: run to.
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  Speaker 6: 8'5, but that's about it.
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  Speaker 5: I see.
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  Speaker 3: Now, if you could just give us a description of
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  Speaker 3: the man. All three of them?
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  Speaker 2: If you could, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: The one who was with me must have been about 5'11.
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  Speaker 7: Kind of dark complected, had straight black hair.
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  Speaker 3: What color were his eyes? Brown. He have any marks
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  Speaker 3: or scars you could see? No. Clean shaven?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, he had a real dark beard. Looked kind of
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  Speaker 7: like he had some kind of talcum powder on.
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember how he was dressed? Let's see.
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  Speaker 6: Dark blue suit, gray top coat, gray hat.
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  Speaker 3: Was he wearing a tie, do you know?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, a gray tie with maroon stripes. You know, kind
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  Speaker 6: of diagonal. A thin tie.
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  Speaker 3: Anything unusual about him? Make it easier for us to
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  Speaker 3: identify him?
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  Speaker 6: No, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: How about the gun he was carrying? What kind was it?
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  Speaker 6: I couldn't see the name.
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  Speaker 2: No, sir.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, was it an automatic or revolver?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, an automatic.
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  Speaker 6: Looked like a big caliber.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say.
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  Speaker 5: 45.
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  Speaker 7: One of the other fellas had a revolver, but the
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  Speaker 7: guy with me.
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  Speaker 6: And the small one had automatics.
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  Speaker 3: You know if they drove a car?
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  Speaker 7: If they did, I didn't see it. Might have had
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  Speaker 7: it parked right out in front for all I know.
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  Speaker 7: I told you, I was busy when they came in.
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  Speaker 7: When they left, I was too worried about Andy to
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  Speaker 7: pay any attention to him. The way they hit him,
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  Speaker 7: a terrible thing, right along here.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, excuse me a minute. I got some aspirin here
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  Speaker 5: in the drawer.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: I sure hope Andy's going to be all right. We've
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  Speaker 6: been together a long time. Can't get over that little guy,
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  Speaker 6: the one who hit me. I should have taken him.
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  Speaker 6: But the big one, he's a tough looking, a real fighter.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this isn't going to help much. Huh? He's going
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  Speaker 3: to lose this one.
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  Speaker 2: We got the descriptions of the other two men and
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  Speaker 2: a supplementary local broadcast was gotten out. The two officers
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  Speaker 2: who'd answered the call found a woman in the neighborhood
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  Speaker 2: who'd seen three men leave the vicinity immediately after the robbery.
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  Speaker 2: She said that she was parked in a car half
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  Speaker 2: a block from the store on the same side of
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  Speaker 2: the street. She explained that about 9.20 a.m., a car
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  Speaker 2: had pulled into a parking place in front of her.
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  Speaker 2: She'd seen three men leave the car and walk down
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  Speaker 2: the sidewalk in the direction of the Lockton Market. About
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  Speaker 2: ten minutes later, the men came back to the car.
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  Speaker 2: They appeared to be in a hurry. One of the
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  Speaker 2: men was upset and arguing.
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  Speaker 3: With the other two.
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  Speaker 2: She told the officers that they'd gotten into the car
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  Speaker 2: and driven off toward Hollywood Boulevard. We asked her to
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  Speaker 2: describe the three men. The description she gave us matched
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  Speaker 2: the one we'd gotten of the thieves. She gave us
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  Speaker 2: a description of the car, and another supplementary broadcast was
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  Speaker 2: put out. We asked her to come down to City
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  Speaker 2: Hall to go through the mug books to see if
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  Speaker 2: she could give us a positive identification. The report from
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  Speaker 2: Georgia Street Receiving Hospital indicated that the victim of the slugging,
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Rich, was suffering from a fractured jaw and a concussion.
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  Speaker 2: He was given emergency treatment and removed to the county hospital.
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  Speaker 2: The crime lab crew came out and they went over
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  Speaker 2: the store for physical evidence. They were able to lift
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  Speaker 2: three partial fingerprints from the counter next to the cash register.
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  Speaker 2: Dean Bergman in latent prints explained that the partials were
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  Speaker 2: not enough for identification, but that if we apprehended the
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  Speaker 2: holdup men, he'd be able to tell us if they'd
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  Speaker 2: left the impressions. 10.27 a.m. We took the victim Clifford
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  Speaker 2: Hall and the woman who'd seen the car to the
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  Speaker 2: mug room. They went through the mug books, but they
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  Speaker 2: were unable to come up with an identification. We had
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  Speaker 2: the stats office make a run on the M.O., They
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  Speaker 2: came back with a list of 17 names of men
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  Speaker 2: who at one time or another had used the same
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  Speaker 2: method of operation. The list was split, and Sergeants Meade
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  Speaker 2: and Leitner worked with us in checking the names out. Thursday, 3.48 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: Frank and I got to the sixth name on our list.
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  Speaker 3: Jerry Evanston, that right?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's sure dark in this hall.
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  Speaker 2: We ought to wash the windows, let some light in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, here we are. Why not be in? Yeah, we'll
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  Speaker 3: try it again. Now let's talk to the manager. Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Who is it?
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  Speaker 3: Manager, we want to see you a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Mann.
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  Speaker 6: What do you want?
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  Speaker 5: A sleep?
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Emerson, open up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, get out of here, please.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, come on. Watch it, Joe.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 2: All right, come on, Emerson, get up.
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  Speaker 5: What are you doing, McQueen? Look, you got no right
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  Speaker 5: to come busting in here like this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're so clean. What are you putting that trouble for?
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  Speaker 5: I get scared, that's all. I just get scared.
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  Speaker 8: How do you feel if somebody woke you up and
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  Speaker 8: shoves their way into your room?
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  Speaker 5: You ain't gonna stand around and just let them do it.
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  Speaker 3: He's clean, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: I told you that. Look, I got no trouble and
• 9:07
  Speaker 8: I don't want none. You check with Galloway, he'll tell you.
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  Speaker 8: I'm home every night at 9 o'clock, every night.
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  Speaker 3: Where were you this morning? Huh?
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: This morning, where were you?
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  Speaker 5: What time?
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  Speaker 3: You just tell us what you did starting when he
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: got up.
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  Speaker 6: I was up all night. I got a virus or something.
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  Speaker 6: I couldn't sleep.
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  Speaker 8: Take a look there in the dresser. You can see
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  Speaker 8: the stuff I've been taking. I haven't been out of
• 9:25
  Speaker 8: this room, not for a couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: Can you prove that?
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Can you?
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  Speaker 5: No, there wasn't anybody here.
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  Speaker 3: You get any phone calls?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know what this is all about, but you
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  Speaker 8: guys are leaning on me for nothing. Now, you talk
• 9:37
  Speaker 8: to Galloway. He'll tell you I've been working.
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  Speaker 5: Well, look here. I'll show you.
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  Speaker 2: Where are you going?
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  Speaker 5: I just want to show you something I got in
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  Speaker 5: the drawer.
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  Speaker 2: You stay right there.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get it for you.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, I got nothing to hide.
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  Speaker 5: Take a look in the top drawer there, left-hand side. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Please, what you mean?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it. Now, take the rubber band off and look.
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  Speaker 5: You'll see I'm telling you the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you see?
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  Speaker 6: It's all the check receipts I've gotten from where I work.
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  Speaker 5: You look at them. I'm working every day and I'm
• 10:03
  Speaker 5: home at night, oh, 9 o'clock every night.
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  Speaker 3: How about it, Joe? Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Now, you see?
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  Speaker 3: You haven't been out of this room all day, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Not a minute.
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  Speaker 5: Now, come on. What's all this about, anyway?
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  Speaker 6: What are you guys after?
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  Speaker 2: We figured maybe you could tell us. Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry. Without you telling me what you want, there's
• 10:19
  Speaker 6: nothing I can give you.
• 10:20
  Speaker 3: You see any of the boys anymore?
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  Speaker 5: You mean the fellas I knew before I fell?
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: Not if I can help it.
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  Speaker 6: I'm trying to stay away from them.
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: See any of them lately?
• 10:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I saw Alex a couple days ago.
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  Speaker 2: Alex?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Alex Finley. I knew him when I was up in Q.
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  Speaker 8: He came in where I was working. Did you talk
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  Speaker 8: to him at all? I just said hello. Past couple
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  Speaker 8: of minutes talking about some of the guys we knew.
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  Speaker 3: Seeing the rackets now?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Is he on parole?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think so.
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: Did he give you anything?
• 10:45
  Speaker 8: Oh, a couple of rumbles, but if I turn them
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  Speaker 8: over to you, I don't want a credit for them.
• 10:49
  Speaker 8: You don't know where you got them.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 10:51
  Speaker 8: Alex tells me there's a gang that's going to start
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  Speaker 8: working here in town, market jobs.
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  Speaker 2: How many men?
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  Speaker 6: From what Alex says, there's four, all heavy guys.
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  Speaker 3: Finley with them?
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't think so. He told it to me
• 11:01
  Speaker 5: that he just heard it.
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  Speaker 3: Did he say anything about who the four men are?
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't think he knew.
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  Speaker 6: He just said they were heavy and they were starting
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  Speaker 6: to work.
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  Speaker 3: You know where we can get in touch with Alex?
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  Speaker 5: No. Well, you might check with Galloway at the parole office.
• 11:12
  Speaker 5: He might have it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we will.
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  Speaker 8: I'll probably see him again. I'll try to get the
• 11:15
  Speaker 8: information if I can. Well, what does you want to know?
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  Speaker 6: Who the guys are?
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: Now, like I told you, though, I don't want any
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  Speaker 8: credit for it. I'm in real trouble if it gets
• 11:25
  Speaker 8: around that I'm playing footsie with you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 5: I'll try to find out when they're going to start working, too.
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: Well, don't you worry about that.
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  Speaker 5: Huh?
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: We already know that. 4.10 p.m. We got in touch
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: with Fred Galloway at the state adult parole offices and
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: we checked on Jerry Evanston. From what the record showed,
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: the story Evanston had told us was true. His parole
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: officer had reported him working and apparently living up to
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: the conditions of his release. We left him one of
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: our cards and asked him to call us in the
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: event he heard from Alex Finley. 4.21 p.m. We checked
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: back into the office and we met with Sergeants Meade
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: and Leitner.
• 11:57
  Speaker 3: They told us that they'd checked out.
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: The names on their half of the list without results.
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: We sent a teletype up to George Brereton, CII, Sacramento,
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: giving him the description of the holdup men and listing
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: the M.O.
• 12:06
  Speaker 5: That they'd used.
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: We asked him to run the information through their files
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: and forward any information they came up with. 5.19 p.m.
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: We went out to get something to eat and then
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: we checked back into the office.
• 12:17
  Speaker 5: Good dinner, huh, Joe? Yeah.
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: I never saw a guy could eat so many enchiladas
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: as you. Yeah, I can't help it.
• 12:22
  Speaker 6: Get started on them.
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: Can't seem to stop.
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 12:25
  Speaker 3: You got any soda in your locker?
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: No.
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: You got trouble again? You know I always do when
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: we have enchiladas. You ought to remember that when you
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: order a half a dozen. I suppose so.
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: I get it. Robbery Friday, yep. When was that?
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: You're pretty sure, are they? Has the lab been called yet?
• 12:44
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 12:45
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: Right, thanks. Oh, that's a break.
• 12:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: They just found the getaway car.
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: 6.47 p.m., we left the office and drove out to
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: where the car had been found. It was parked on
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: Lockwood Avenue, five blocks from the market that had been robbed.
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: The radio car officers who spotted it had called the
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: office immediately when they saw a brown paper bag in
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: the back seat bearing the printed name Lockton Market. A
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: crew from Leighton Prince came out and went over the car.
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: They were able to come up with a single print
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: from a man's index finger. Bergman compared it with the
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: partials found at the market. They matched. We checked the
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: white slip in the car and found that the vehicle
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: was stolen... The report on it had been filed at 10.37 a.m.
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: that morning. We talked with the people in the immediate vicinity,
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: but none of them were able to tell us anything
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: about the people who'd parked the car. However, we did
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: come up with an elderly man who told us that
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: he'd seen three men get into another car at about 9.45
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: that morning. He said that he remembered it because the
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: driver of the car had pulled into a parking space
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: and stopped the motor. Another automobile had parked directly in
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: front of the car, and the driver of the first
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: machine had moved so that there was no one in
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: front of him. The man went on to say that
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: a few minutes after the driver pulled into the second
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: parking place, three men had come around the corner, gotten
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: into the car, and the four of them had driven off.
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: The witness was unable to give us a description of
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: the car other than to say that it was a
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: late model Plymouth or Ford. The only description he could
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: give us of the men was that one of them
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: was large and was wearing a gray top coat and
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: a hat, and that one.
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: Of them was small. 8.40 p.m.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: Frank and I went back to the office and checked
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: out for the night. The following morning at 8.02 a.m.,
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: I checked back in for work. Hi, Joe. Morning. Kind
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: of cold out. Yeah. You look happy this morning.
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: I didn't sleep a wink last night, Joe. Not a wink.
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: What's the matter? Stomach.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: Next time I even think about eating enchiladas, stop me,
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: will you, Joe? Yeah, sure. Any mail come in?
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: I just got in.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: There's an ad here from that store over on West 6th.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: They're having their annual sale. Yeah?
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: I want to try to get over there. I'd like
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: to get me a new suit for Christmas. Yeah, there's
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: a special delivery from Bracken.
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: Probably those mugs we asked for. I'll see.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's six of them.
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: You want to get in touch with Cliff Hall? We
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: can drive over and have him take a look at them. Yeah.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: You got any other pictures? Yeah, we can mix them up.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: I'll call Hall.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: I sure hope we get an ident. We haven't got
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: much to go on.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: There's got to be a break someplace. We've got to
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: find it.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: From what Finley said about the gang starting up an operation,
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: it doesn't sound like just one job. No.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: They start on a string, they can do a lot
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: of damage. Well, it doesn't give us much choice, does it?
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: No. We've got to get to them. 8.27 a.m. Frank
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: and I left the office and drove over to talk
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: to the victim, Cliff Hall. We showed him the mug
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: shots George Brereton had sent us. He picked one out
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: and said that he was positive that the man in
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: the picture was the one who'd held him up. The
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: name on the mug shot was Harold Bishop. According to
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: the record Brereton had sent us, Bishop had been convicted
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: twice on violation of 211 PC.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Armed robbery. 9.20 a.m.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: We drove over to the county hospital and showed the
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: pictures to the other victim, Andrew Rich.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: He picked the.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Mugshot of Bishop as the suspect who'd robbed and beaten him.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: The notation on Bishop's picture gave us the information that
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: he was on parole at the time. We returned to
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: the office and put in a call to Fred Galloway
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: at the state adult parole office. Yeah, Fred, this is
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Joe Friday.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, fine. We'd like some information on a Harold Bishop.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: San Francisco number 82609. Two sixes.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Male, white, Caucasian. We got a mug from Braden. No,
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: he says he's on parole. Yeah, if you will.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Thanks a lot. He's checking the master file now. Me
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: and Leitner are standing by if we need him. When
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: we get this address, we're going to have to move fast. Yeah. Yeah, Fred.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: When was that? Well, how's his report there? I see. No,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, I suppose. All right, Fred.
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Well, you can tell Meaden Lightner to relax. Bishop's got
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: an out-of-state parole. He's living over in Phoenix. Well, he
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: still could be getting into California. No, not likely. Huh?
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Fred checked with his parole officer.
• 16:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: He's got a job, and he's been reporting to his
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: parole officer every month. We asked Fred Galloway at the
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: state parole office to contact Bishop's parole officer in Phoenix
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: and check him closely.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: The report came.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Back that the suspect had a job with a small
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: contractor and that he'd been working regularly. He'd also been
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: giving monthly reports to his officer. We'd had a suspect
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: identified by two of his victims, and yet if the
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: information we'd gotten was correct, it would have been a
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: physical impossibility for him to have committed the robbery. We
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: got a copy of his jacket and looked over his
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: past records. We found that Bishop had been arrested for
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: armed robbery the first time 18 years previously. He'd been
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: brought to trial and acquitted. The next arrest was 10
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: months after his trial. He'd been convicted and served six
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: years at San Quentin. He'd been released, and within six months,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Bishop had been picked up again. This time, he was
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: sent to Folsom Penitentiary. While he was there, he appeared
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: to be a model prisoner, and after serving four and
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: a half years, he'd been placed on parole. After leaving
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: the prison, he'd requested and been granted an out-of-state leave.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: In checking Bishop's M.O., we found that it matched exactly
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: that of the thieves who'd held up the Lockton Market.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: The time of approach was the same. The number of
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: men used was the same. The method of leaving the
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: scene was exact. We had a suspect, and yet he
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: couldn't have committed the crime. Three weeks passed. On Saturday,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: November 26th, the thieves hit again. In checking with the victims,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: they identified the mugshot of Bishop. We put in a
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: long-distance call to the Phoenix Police Department and asked them
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: to check on the suspect. We got word back that
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: he was in their city. They told us that he
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: wasn't at work due to a virus infection. They went
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: on to say that they checked with his landlady and
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: that she told them that Bishop hadn't left his apartment
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: at all on the day of the theft. Monday, November 28th.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: We got our first break in the case.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: I'll get it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Robbery, Smith.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, Jerry. Uh-huh. You sure about that? Sure. Where?
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: How about the rest of them?
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, just a minute.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Toss me that pad, will you, Joe? Yeah, here.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: You go.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Okay, Jerry, go ahead.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm. How do you spell that? L-A-L-E-A-H-Y?
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Uh-huh, I got it.
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: You know the address?
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: Okay, thanks, Jerry.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: We'll get in touch with you.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Jerry Evanston.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Remember the guy we.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Talked to over on South 7th?
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, the way he tells it, we aren't too
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: far off. What do you mean? He saw Bishop in
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: town last Saturday.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: We put in a call and we found that there
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: were two major airlines with flights to Phoenix. The flight
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: time they listed was one hour and 35 minutes by air.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: If Bishop caught the last flight leaving Phoenix, he could
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: arrive in Los Angeles at 11.20 p.m., the night before
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: he planned.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: To commit a robbery.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: The next day, he would be in Phoenix. day after
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: the holdup, he could catch a plane from the Los
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Angeles International Airport that would have him back in Phoenix
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: at 8.25 p.m. By doing this, he would be absent
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: from his work only one day, and he could schedule
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: his flight so as not to hit on the days
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: when he had an interview with his parole officer. Tuesday,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: November 29th. A meeting was held in Chief Thad Brown's office.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: It was decided to put a special stakeout on the
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: airport and wait for the suspect to come into town.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: At that time, he'd be followed and taken into custody
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: as he prepared to commit another robbery. The names of
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: the three other men Jerry Evanson had given Frank as
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: having been involved in the holdups had been checked through
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: R & I. All three of them had arrest records.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Surveillances were placed on their homes and they were kept
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: under constant watch. Monday, December 12th, 11.15 p.m. Frank and
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: I relieved the stakeout at the airport.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: There's a bench over there.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: We can keep all the gates in view.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Wonder when he's going to hit again. I don't know.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: The last couple of weeks have sure dragged by, haven't they?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: Anything on the other three guys?
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Well, I talked to Pinky Meade this morning. He and
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Lightner staked out at Lay's apartment. How are they doing? Nothing.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: They're parking the car.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Down the street. From what they say, he's like a clock.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: He comes in at 5 a.m., leaves at 9 p.m.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: every day.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: You got a cigarette?
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Here you go.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Joe.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Bishop.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Let's let him get outside. Yeah. I wonder if he's
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: got any luggage. I'll go bring it up outside.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: We can wait for him there.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: All right, come on. You see him?
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there he is. Getting into that cab.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Come on.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Frank and I got in our car and.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Followed the cab taken by the suspect. We followed him
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: out of the airport grounds and then up La Brea Avenue.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: The cab turned right on Washington Boulevard and headed for
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: downtown Los Angeles.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: We pulled up to a stoplight. Still got him?
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's still up ahead in front of that blue Mercury.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: See him? Yeah. You got the number of the cab? Mm-hmm.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: 2974- There's the light. All right, let's go.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Better try to pick it up a little, Frank. Cap's
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: pulling away from us. Yeah.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: You think he's seen us? No. Can't you close in
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: a little?
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Traffic's too heavy.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Can't use a siren.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: We'll tip him.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Still see him?
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah. There's a break.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Guy had to make it a right turn.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Now we're right behind the cap. Yeah. I'll close in now.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Watch it, Frank. That guy pulling out of the alley.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Hold on. As we drove down the street after the
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: stoplight had changed, a car had failed to make a
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: boulevard stop coming out of an alley, and we'd hit
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: it broadside. The damage done to both cars was considerable,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: and we'd lost our suspect. Frank got to a phone
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: and called the office. He gave them the number of
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: the cab that Bishop was in and asked for a
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: traffic investigation card. The office started a search for the
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: missing suspect. Lieutenant Jack Smyers told us to proceed to
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: the apartment of Tom Leahy to wait for further development.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: In the meantime, a citywide broadcast went out carrying the
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: description of Bishop and the other three men.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Involved in the theft.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Frank and I arrived at the apartment and we relieved
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Meade and Leitner. We had the manager of the place
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: let us into Leahy's room.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: We waited. 1.30 a.m., 2.30, 4 o'clock, 5.30 a.m. Frank
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: and I had been on duty for over 21 hours.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: At 5.45, the phone in the apartment rang once and
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: then it quit. That was the arranged signal between us
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: and the office. Frank put in a call. Lieutenant Smyers
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: told us that Officers Max Herman and Ed Benson were
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: on the way out to relieve us.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Fifteen minutes later, we heard somebody in the hall. Joe? Yeah,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: probably Benson and Herman.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: I'll get it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: Watch it, Joe. Look out, the gun's coming up for you.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: You all right, Joe? Yeah, come on.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Sam? No. You want to take that side? Right. Watch it.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Behind the elevator shaft, Joe.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I see him.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Get away from me, cop.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: You're in trouble, Bishop.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Don't build any more for yourself.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: I got nothing to lose.
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: Been healthy again.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: I'll be up at the joints for life.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Don't cost no more to kill you.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: There's no way off this roof, Bishop.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Throw that gun out here and you follow it.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: You're out of your mind, cop.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Give it up, Bishop.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: Now, come on. Throw that gun out.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: I'm going out, cop.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: If you try to stop me, I'll blow your head off.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: You all right, Joe? Yeah.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: How is he? I'd better call an ambulance.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. What's that fit out of his pocket?
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Something he'll never use.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Airplane ticket to Phoenix.
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: Albert Martin Kruger, Harold Nelson Bishop, Thomas Nagel Leahy, and
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: Charles Everett Lee were taken into custody and brought to
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: trial for two counts of robbery in the first degree.
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: They were convicted and received sentence as prescribed by law.
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: Robbery in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment in
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: the state penitentiary for a period of not less than
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: five years. Because of his previous record, Thomas Nagel Leahy
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: was given the maximum sentence and is now serving life
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: imprisonment in the state penitentiary, Folsom, California.
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: Dragnet is a presentation of the United States Armed Forces
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: Radio Service.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: We leave Dragnet with episode 222, Big Flight. This is
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Victor Sterling. Until next time, good night. Follow Dragnet for
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