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Dragnet - "Big Missus" (Old Time Radio, 1955) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A worried woman comes to the Los Angeles Police Department
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  Speaker 1: with word that her ex convict husband may be planning
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  Speaker 1: a hold up. That report brings Detective Sergeant Joe Friday
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  Speaker 1: and Officer Frank Smith of the robbery Detail into the case.
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  Speaker 1: From NBC's Dragnet, starring Jack Webb and Ben Alexander, This
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  Speaker 1: is Big Missus episode three hundred twelve, first heard August ninth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty five, in its final season of new radio broadcasts,
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  Speaker 1: Dragnet continued to follow the work of the LAPD through
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  Speaker 1: the familiar voices of Friday and Smith. And now our
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  Speaker 1: story begins.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, The story you're about to hear is true.
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  Speaker 2: The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
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  Speaker 2: a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. You get
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  Speaker 2: a telephone call from a woman who wants to see you.
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  Speaker 2: She says it's about her husband. She's afraid he's going
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  Speaker 2: to pull a hold up your job.
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  Speaker 3: Check it out.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnett the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 4: next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 4: you will travel step by step.
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  Speaker 5: On the side of the law through an actual.
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  Speaker 3: Case transcribed from official.
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  Speaker 4: Police violence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 6: There was Wednesday, Little clod was cool in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 6: We're working to day.
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  Speaker 7: Watch out a robbery detail. My partner's Frank Smith, the
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  Speaker 7: boss's tivity taking his stab brown mon.
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  Speaker 6: Name is Friday.
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  Speaker 7: I was on my way into the office. That was
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  Speaker 7: seven forty nine am. When I got the room twenty
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  Speaker 7: seven am.
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  Speaker 5: Robbery morning, Joe.
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  Speaker 6: I'm well, well, what good money? Right? Oh?
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  Speaker 8: Hi?
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  Speaker 7: What's eating you to be mad about something i'd be
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  Speaker 7: mad about. I don't know that you didn't say good money.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just not going over there anymore. That's over where
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  Speaker 7: the Talbot's who the Talbots? You know I lived down
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  Speaker 7: the streets tells me. I say, well, we brought our
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  Speaker 7: house from it. You see, you got to be friends.
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  Speaker 7: He sa his wife and fair friends. I never cared
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  Speaker 7: for much myself.
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  Speaker 6: For what happened between you and him. You have to fight.
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  Speaker 6: I don't fight with people, Joe. You know that. So
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  Speaker 6: that's right now. I just found him out, that's all.
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  Speaker 6: Just found him out. The guy really is, Is that right? Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: they use signals, well, signals him and his wife. Can
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  Speaker 6: you imagine that they use him? What kind of signals?
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  Speaker 6: Different ones for different words? What do you mean when
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  Speaker 6: they play charade? Oh? I said, yeah, we had us
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  Speaker 6: over there place last.
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  Speaker 7: Night, some other couple two about eight or tenamus and
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  Speaker 7: all them. Yeah, ten five on each side.
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  Speaker 6: And for the charade game. You played it, haven't you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: When I was about ten years old, he when I look, buddy,
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  Speaker 7: it's no kids game, not the way they play.
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  Speaker 5: Was that right?
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  Speaker 6: I'll give you stuff to act.
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  Speaker 7: Out, titles and quotations you've never even heard of half
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  Speaker 7: of them. And the top it off, they got signals. Yeah, now, verb,
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  Speaker 7: little word, big word, person's name, letters, the alphabet, they
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  Speaker 7: got signals for all of them. You can spell something mouth.
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  Speaker 7: What's the point of the game? You know, beach pretty
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  Speaker 7: bad to me last night in the game you lost.
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  Speaker 7: It hasn't got anything to do with it, joke. It
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  Speaker 7: doesn't matter who wins or loses. It's the principle of
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  Speaker 7: the things. All of the signals.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I got it, and they use them robbery freddy.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am. Well, I don't know what seems to be
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  Speaker 7: the trouble. I see, yes, I guess we could.
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  Speaker 6: Where is that?
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  Speaker 7: Are they open this early? All right, yes, ma'am, we'll
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  Speaker 7: be there. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 6: Lady wants to talk to us, say she will need
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  Speaker 6: us at a bar out on Melrose. What's it all
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  Speaker 6: about her husband? Yeah, you brought a gun.
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  Speaker 7: Thank and I drove over to a small bar in
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  Speaker 7: the corner of Melrose in eight It was eight twenty
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  Speaker 7: three am when we got there.
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  Speaker 5: Morning jets. Well, I want to be at liye opener.
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  Speaker 5: Just coffee, all right, how about you?
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  Speaker 6: I don't have a cup to please now.
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  Speaker 5: Quite isn't ready yet. I just finished putting it on.
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  Speaker 6: That's all right, we're over.
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  Speaker 5: There's a cafe right around the corner. They're open now. Well,
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  Speaker 5: we'll wait suit yourself. I guess you guys aren't like me.
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  Speaker 6: How's that?
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  Speaker 5: When I want my morning coffee, I want it right now.
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  Speaker 9: I don't even all awake until after I've had a
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  Speaker 9: couple of cups.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, if we take a booth, sure first one's all
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  Speaker 5: cleaned up. I haven't had time to get to the
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  Speaker 5: others yet.
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  Speaker 6: All right, thank you? Like you got here first.
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  Speaker 7: And if she'd give you a name? Did she tell
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  Speaker 7: you your name. No, no, said she didn't want to
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  Speaker 7: talk over the fold.
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  Speaker 6: So so hi, Sally, Hi, give me scotch.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, okay, go ahead, mister take got good.
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  Speaker 8: Look.
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  Speaker 6: I was waiting for somebody. I guess I made a mistake.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, sure did.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry A.
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  Speaker 8: Little later on in my banner, us is a not
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  Speaker 8: at eight thirty am gopt once all the time. Minute,
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  Speaker 8: y'all can't even have a morning to fix me up
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  Speaker 8: with some guys starting moving on us.
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  Speaker 5: Well he's got.
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  Speaker 8: But I'm a dad.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, sure, you know.
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  Speaker 3: How your golfies about?
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  Speaker 6: Ready? All right? Thank you? My cream and sugar they're
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  Speaker 6: all black. How about you, dame?
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  Speaker 5: Coming up?
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  Speaker 11: Don't pay no attention to Sally. Yeah you must have
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  Speaker 11: got out on the wrong side of the best today.
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  Speaker 5: Usually she's real friendly, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, just don't take it personal. That's all right,
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  Speaker 6: I forget it.
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  Speaker 8: That's too bad.
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  Speaker 5: You guys came in so earthly long story evening. We
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  Speaker 5: got a lot of action here.
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  Speaker 6: We're meeting somebody, okay, just telling you that's all. Oh god,
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  Speaker 6: yeah boy, that's all right. I think I burnt my tongue.
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  Speaker 6: That's too bad.
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  Speaker 11: Dop care for Mike speaking. Oh well, I don't know, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, sure, Hey wait you guys got a name. Sounds
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, that's right.
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  Speaker 5: While your being stood up, huh he said to tell
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  Speaker 5: you not to wait.
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  Speaker 6: Frank and I left the tom Cat Barn. We went
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  Speaker 6: back to the office. At ten seventeen am, an informant.
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  Speaker 7: Called with a tip about a grocery store hold up
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  Speaker 7: that had taken place the previous Monday. We interrogated a
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  Speaker 7: possible suspect, but his alibi checked out. The next day, Thursday,
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  Speaker 7: May eighteenth to nine forty three am.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I guess Roby Fifth. Oh oh yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So Friday, Yeah, yeah, I remember, well.
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  Speaker 6: We were there. Well, why don't you give me your
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  Speaker 6: name this time? Now?
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  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, we'll have to have your name Flint f
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  Speaker 7: l I NT all right, now look on this point
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  Speaker 7: of this some kind of a game, all right, if
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  Speaker 7: you're sure this time?
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  Speaker 6: Right? All right?
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  Speaker 7: Goodbye the woman again, woman who called yesterday morning.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, she want that same thing me this at
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  Speaker 6: the bar, and she's on the level. I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: It sounds like at this time, why didn't she show
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  Speaker 6: up yesterday? That says she tried, but she just couldn't.
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  Speaker 6: Why not said something about loving her husband?
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  Speaker 7: Eh, when the chips were down, she couldn't bring herself
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  Speaker 7: to turn him into us. I have a too well.
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  Speaker 7: Nunn says she has to have a too well. Nut
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  Speaker 7: Man says she has to she can't wait any longer.
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  Speaker 7: Why I says it might be too late. Ten sixteen am,
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  Speaker 7: Frank and I left the office and drove out to
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  Speaker 7: the bar. When we got there, there was only one
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  Speaker 7: customer in the place, a small, dark haired woman sitting
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  Speaker 7: in the corner booth.
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  Speaker 6: Alw are you to day?
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  Speaker 8: Well?
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  Speaker 5: The peak off again? Yeah, okay, what do you want?
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  Speaker 7: Well, we'll let you know. That woman over there in
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  Speaker 7: the corner. Yeah you know who she is. Oh, I
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  Speaker 7: don't think she's been before.
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  Speaker 6: I thank you.
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  Speaker 5: I say that reminds me.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Sally was round last night. I asked about you.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 5: I guess you had to change your heart.
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  Speaker 6: You're a pretty good kid. Yeah, miss Flynn? Are you
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  Speaker 6: miss Flynn?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Well, my name is Friday. It's my partner, Frank Smith.
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  Speaker 6: And we sit down there.
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  Speaker 8: I guess so you guys watch your coffee over there.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll be fine. How about the lady would you
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  Speaker 6: like something, man.
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  Speaker 8: I'd like to drink all right, I'm gonna need it.
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  Speaker 5: What would be I don't care.
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  Speaker 8: Bourbon, okay, bourbon and ginger ale.
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  Speaker 6: Lady wants a bourbon and ginger ale.
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  Speaker 8: I does he know man bartender? Does he know your cop?
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  Speaker 6: Well? I don't think so. We haven't told him.
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  Speaker 8: If anybody finds out I talked to you. If rod
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  Speaker 8: ever finds out, I guess that just about wash us up.
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  Speaker 7: Roger, your husband's right, yeah, Rodney Flynn? Well was that
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  Speaker 7: his name?
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  Speaker 8: I'm not really not his real name. But what is
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  Speaker 8: it that I don't know if I'm doing the right thing.
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  Speaker 8: I just don't know. He'd never understand. He'd say I
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  Speaker 8: was double crossing him. Maybe I am.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe he got two coffees and bourbon and ginger Will
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  Speaker 9: you that's a buck?
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  Speaker 5: Even there?
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  Speaker 6: You go?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, thank you.
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  Speaker 8: Four years. I've been thinking about it, living with it.
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  Speaker 8: Four years. I've been trying to make up my mind
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  Speaker 8: whether I should go to the police or I. But
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  Speaker 8: things seem to be working out. He was doing so well,
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  Speaker 8: making good money. He's changed too, honest, he has.
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  Speaker 6: So I suppose you give us the whole story.
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  Speaker 8: You married Argon how about you. Yeah, tell me something
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  Speaker 8: that Jim, You tell me the truth.
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  Speaker 6: What's that?
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  Speaker 8: Suppose your wife got you in trouble. Suppose she squealed
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  Speaker 8: on you. What would you think of her?
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  Speaker 6: I guess it would depends on why she did it.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I've got a reason, best reason in the world.
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  Speaker 8: I'm in love with him.
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  Speaker 6: That's time.
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  Speaker 8: I wasn't I just walk out If I didn't love him,
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  Speaker 8: might have walked out years ago.
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  Speaker 7: When you called us yesterday, you said your husband had
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  Speaker 7: bought a gun.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 6: Do you know what he wants with him?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 6: No, for sure, you got a pretty good idea that
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  Speaker 6: I haven't. Was your husband ever done any time?
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  Speaker 12: This?
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  Speaker 6: When?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah? What fo he stole a car?
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  Speaker 6: Anything else?
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  Speaker 8: Robbery? Supermarket? Back?
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  Speaker 5: Whereabout Michigan?
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  Speaker 8: He used to live in Detroit. How much time did
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  Speaker 8: he do seven years?
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  Speaker 6: Did he come out free?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know what you mean.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry afterwards? Was he on parole? Did he had
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  Speaker 6: to report to a parole officer?
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  Speaker 8: Oh? Yeah, there was supposed to be ten years. When
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  Speaker 8: did he get out of prison five years ago?
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  Speaker 6: When did you come to California about a year later?
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  Speaker 6: Did he have permission to leave the state of Michigan. No,
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  Speaker 6: what made him leave?
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  Speaker 8: Then he just came home one day, said he couldn't
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  Speaker 8: take it any longer, said he's going to LA And
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  Speaker 8: then it was up to me whether I came with
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  Speaker 8: him or not.
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  Speaker 7: Do you know if he's wanted for anything else beside
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  Speaker 7: violation of parole?
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  Speaker 8: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 7: You know, you still haven't told us his real name,
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  Speaker 7: crazy ralph rasey, it's missus Frasy.
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  Speaker 6: And what about the gun?
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  Speaker 8: Well, like I said, everything was going along pretty well.
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  Speaker 8: He's got a good job and he's had three or
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  Speaker 8: four raises finally Pacific Crest Oil Company. He likes to work.
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  Speaker 8: They like him. But the longer we live out here,
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  Speaker 8: the better things are. Well, that just makes him more scared.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want you're scared of.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, it's somebody wh'll find out who he really is
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  Speaker 8: and he'll have to go back to prison.
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  Speaker 13: If he just sees a copy goes all to pieces.
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  Speaker 13: He's sure that finally caught up with him, just a
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  Speaker 13: traffic copy. Even he gets worse all the time, jumping
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  Speaker 13: and nervous and well, scared, that's the only word for it.
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  Speaker 8: He's been drinking a lot more too, nearly every night,
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  Speaker 8: and then just last week he ran into a guy
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  Speaker 8: that used to be a friend of his making Detroit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: this fellow knows all about him, but he's been in prison,
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  Speaker 8: and Rod's afraid, I mean, Ralph has called him Rod
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  Speaker 8: so long I keep forgetting this isn't real name. Sure anyway,
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  Speaker 8: he's afraid this guy will say something to somebody that'll
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  Speaker 8: all come out and just driving him crazy.
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  Speaker 6: So he brought a gun, he say why.
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  Speaker 8: He was a pretty drunk night before last. That's when
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  Speaker 8: he brought it home. He mumbled something, if he was
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  Speaker 8: going to go back to prison anyway, might as well
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  Speaker 8: make it worth their while. Maybe he's planning another robbery.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know. I don't really think he would, but
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  Speaker 8: with all this drinking and being so darned have to say, well,
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  Speaker 8: I don't know what he might do.
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  Speaker 6: Where's the gun now, I'm as phrasy at home.
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  Speaker 8: He hid it in the stove, in the pan under
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  Speaker 8: the broider there at least that's where he put it
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  Speaker 8: last night after after what, well, you see, he was
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  Speaker 8: carrying on doing a lot of talking and he was
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  Speaker 8: holding the gun at the same time, waving it around,
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  Speaker 8: telling me how easy it'd be to go out and
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  Speaker 8: rob somebody. M said that way he could get enough
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  Speaker 8: money for us to leave the country and go to Mexico,
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  Speaker 8: maybe where they'd never find it. Right in the middle
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  Speaker 8: of everything, the pistol went off. You see, it was
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  Speaker 8: just an accident. He wasn't pointing at anything. The bullet
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  Speaker 8: only went into the ceiling. I'm sure he didn't mean
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  Speaker 8: to pull the trigger. But when he heard the shot,
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  Speaker 8: he acted like he was going out of his mind.
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  Speaker 8: He was sure the neighbors had heard it too, and
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  Speaker 8: that they'd report it to the police.
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  Speaker 6: What'd he do? Then?
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  Speaker 8: He dug the bullet out of the ceiling, got rid
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  Speaker 8: of us. After that, he just waited. How that proves
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  Speaker 8: he's changed, doesn't it that he really isn't a criminal anymore?
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  Speaker 5: What do you mean that?
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  Speaker 8: Well, he didn't run away, Well, stayed there all night
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  Speaker 8: long waiting, and he didn't keep the gun. He put
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  Speaker 8: it in the oven. He didn't have it on him,
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  Speaker 8: so there wouldn't have been any trouble even if the
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  Speaker 8: police did come. See, I kept praying that they would
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  Speaker 8: over and over. I prayed you'd come and find out
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  Speaker 8: who he is. He's gonna go back to prison and
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  Speaker 8: finish out his sentence. I'm sure of that now. If
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  Speaker 8: he doesn't, I just don't know what will happen to him.
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  Speaker 6: What about you, miss crazy?
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  Speaker 5: Me?
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  Speaker 6: Why he's in prison? What do you do?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 8: I can work? I did before. I'm many.
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  Speaker 6: It's crazy. What times your husband come home from work?
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  Speaker 8: That's later and later since he started drinking nine o'clock,
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  Speaker 8: maybe he's ten. He's never there for supper anymore?
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  Speaker 6: Is there someplace else you can go this evening? Over
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  Speaker 6: to my neighbors? Maybe?
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  Speaker 8: I suppose so? Why, Well, it.
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  Speaker 6: Might be better if you weren't there when we pick
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  Speaker 6: him up.
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  Speaker 8: But you can't, I mean, well, not so soon, not Tonine.
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  Speaker 8: Does it have to be to night rest?
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  Speaker 6: Maam? It does?
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  Speaker 8: And know it was me that it had something to
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  Speaker 8: do with it. He's vombino.
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  Speaker 6: We'll keep you out of it if we can.
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  Speaker 8: What are you gonna tell him? What kind of an
• 16:12
  Speaker 8: excuse will you use?
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  Speaker 14: Let's see what kind he has?
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  Speaker 7: Frank and I continue to talk to missus crazy. She
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: agreed to be out of the house during the evening.
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  Speaker 7: She also gave us a description of her husband. She
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: said he was WMA thirty eight years old five eleven.
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  Speaker 7: He weighed about one hundred and seventy. She told us
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  Speaker 7: he had black hair, brown eyes, and.
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  Speaker 6: A dark complexion. Eleven twenty seven am we went back
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  Speaker 6: to the office. He ran the names Rodney Flint and.
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: Ralph Frasey through our eye. They had nothing on Flint.
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  Speaker 7: Under Frasey, we found a want from the State of
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  Speaker 7: Michigan for a violation of parole. The dates given on
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: the want checked with what Missus Frasey had told us.
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  Speaker 7: We contacted the Pacific Prest Oil Reclinery, and without stating
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: that we were from the police department, we learned that
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: a man named Rodney Flint had been employed there for.
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: The last three years.
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  Speaker 7: They said he was a steady, dependable worker. Six thirty
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  Speaker 7: two pm and we drove out to the address Missus
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: Frasey had given us. It was a modest, one story
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: home just off Santa Monica Boulevard. We parked across the
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: street and waited for Frasey to return from work.
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  Speaker 6: Seven oh five pm.
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  Speaker 7: We saw Missus Frasey go into a neighbor's home three
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: doors west. Frank and I continue to wait. Eight forty
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: six pm. Yeah, cross Street and he's turned into the driveway.
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: Just give him a minute, let him get inside, all right? Now,
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: my lights are on.
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  Speaker 6: Now let's go.
• 18:04
  Speaker 12: Don't see the bell over there? Oh he's coming.
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 7: Would I talk to you for a minute? What about
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: for police officers? Police?
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: This is Frank Smith. My name is Friday.
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: I didn't send enough cops. Sorry, if we come in,
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: what do you want? I just want to talk to you.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: That's all. You're talking out here, but easier if we
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: were inside.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: I got all night.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: Nea ribe, this will take very long. Okay, come on, alight,
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: stand he standstill?
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: Well is all that?
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: He's clean? Joe? What's your name? Come on?
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: Give us your name on first name to Rod Rodney?
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: You long?
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah? You live a room? All right? Shop? She left
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: me know, said she's gone. All the neighbors babysit for
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: we your home last night?
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: I was home all night from about ten o'clock on.
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: Did you hear a gun?
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: Go on?
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: What a gun? Did you hear? Wouldn't go off? Of course?
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: Not?
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Well somebody didn't. They reported it, said it sounded like
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: it came from this house.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: Well last night. She said, that's right.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: For what a police force? The cops.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: I'll be real proud of yourself. Well, it's all you
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: got to do. Check up on some characters. Has been
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: hearing things.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: There wasn't any shot I didn't hear.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: But you see, kind of late to be asking anything.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: We just got around to it. It's a whole day.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: Where was you need a cop? What are you supposed
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: to make an appointment ahead of time?
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: You're sure about this?
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: About what?
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: You didn't hear any gun fight?
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: I didn't hear nothing.
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: There's a lot of traffic down the boulevard. Maybe a
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: car was backfire. Maybe that's where do you own?
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: Again? Are you sure about that?
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Well, i'd know if I had a gun, wouldn't I Sorry?
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: If we look around?
• 19:54
  Speaker 14: What for?
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Will he give you a place that once over?
• 19:56
  Speaker 9: No, it's not okay. Oh I'm gonna have your busting
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: in the Come on going.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: And beat it. We can get a search work and
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: come back.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: Are you listening to me? And you listen?
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: Good? Huh?
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: This isn't skid row, mister, This is my hall, my
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: hownor you're not messing around on main street.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Bum. Either I got a good job or a big company.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: They pay a lot of taxes in this Tommy, pay.
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: A lot of your salary.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, my boss a pretty important guy. He's got friends.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: And now you just take your little badgers and move on.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: If that's what you want, that's the way I want it.
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: Just give us one more thing. What are you afraid of?
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: I'm not afraid of anything, you guys, especially if you're
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: not very anxious for us to look around, there must
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: be a reason for them. Well, okay, okay, go ahead
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: and search. It's no skin off of my Yes, I
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: thinks that chance you'd have a fine on something even
• 20:41
  Speaker 9: if it was here. Some cops, it took your whole
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: day to get here, a whole day to answer one
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: lousy crackpot call.
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: I don't forget. Yeah, I got answered Frank, and I
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: began a routine search of the house. Well.
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: Frank went through the two bedrooms. I took the living
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: room and dining area. We found nothing suspicious.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: Nine pm. We finished through the front part of the
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: home and we went into the kitchen. The suspect followed us.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: Okay, if I fix myself a drink while you're missing the.
• 21:10
  Speaker 15: Joint up, it's up to you.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: You guys want one, But I'm blast you want one.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: Okay, what about you?
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: No you don't drink. Uh, not hurting my feeling.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: I'll check the service ports, Joe.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: You know my wife's gonna raise Kane when she sees
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: what you guys have been in the house.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: We'll be as careful as we can.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: But yeah, sure we'll not come on. How about winding
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: it up on just.
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: A couple of minutes.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: Well, you boys really believe in wasting time, don't you.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: What do they do pay you by the hour?
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: There's nothing out there? Yes, that takes care of it.
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: Yeah, come on, I'll be glad to show you to
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: the door.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: With it. She checked the stove. Huhm, the stove. No,
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: I thought you did? All right?
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: All right, know what we forgot something?
• 22:09
  Speaker 15: Yeah?
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: Well looks fanty. What's for you?
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: You think I'm cooking a gun?
• 22:16
  Speaker 15: Yeah, it's okay, Joe, all right, soon as we get.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: This fan back, Hey, watch it, there got them joke.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: Wait a minute, you're not going anywhere.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: But I don't know what this is all about. It.
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: I never saw that gun before in my whole life. Yeah,
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: I don't even know how it got Well.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: Let's talk about it downtown. Come on.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: But wait a minute. Now, you can't hold me in
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: like this. What have I done? You gotta have a charge.
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: I know the law.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: You got to charge me with something you won't find it?
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: We found again.
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: We drove this ass back down to the city Hall,
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: rolled his prints, and booked him in on suspicion of robbery.
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: Eleven o six pm. We brought him into the squad
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: room for questioning.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: All right, set down over there.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: What kind of a frame is this?
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: Come on?
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: How about letting me in on it? Who'd I rot?
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: Who?
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: Forget about our robbery charge? I guess we made a mistake.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: Well, that's what I've been telling you. We had to
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: check the gun.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: We had to be sure.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Now, I said, I don't know. Okay, no hard feeling.
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: What you heard me? Sit down?
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: Maybe we were wrong about the robbery charge, but we
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: came up with something else I want from Michigan.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: Violation of parole? What about it? Freddy?
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Well, what do you want to know? You've got it?
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: Oh? The story? Why'd you leave Michigan? When did you
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: jump parole?
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: What differences made?
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: Four? As you tell us about it? I didn't have
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: no choice.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I used to play around some pretty rough boys.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: I got out of the joint. They're still in Detroit
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: looked me up.
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: Ay, you guys think I'm conning you, but well, look
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: I wanted to go straight. They had different ideas, Phil,
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: So we came out here, Dorothy and me.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: She's my wife.
• 23:59
  Speaker 15: I see, well you can check on that.
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: I've been clean ever since I asked the company talk
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: to anybody about me.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you I'm clean.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: Live.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: That's gonna help back in Michigan. Well, that's not up
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: to us. Sure, I thought that was why they sent
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: you to jail. So you'd learned something so when you
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: come out you won't do it again.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: That's part of it.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: Well I learned, what's good? Did it do me?
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: Maybe you didn't learn to live?
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: Huh?
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: There's a law against the next condact having a gun?
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Are you gonna stick me with that one? Too? And
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: that's not up to us either. I see gun edmands
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: that gun. You never found me.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: It might have taken a little longer, that's all sure,
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: that's what.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: I don't know why it went off the other night.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: I thought the safety was on.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: Just my luck.
• 24:39
  Speaker 9: I never had a decent break in my whole life,
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: not one who Well, is there any more you guys want?
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: Though?
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: I guess now anyway, so I call my life.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll fix it for you.
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: Or now she's gonna take you but a little. I
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: guess you'll stick by me. She always hands all a
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: lot and breaks in a matter of way.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, she'll stay wak They had one good break.
• 25:05
  Speaker 15: The huh when you narrator, the story you've.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: Just heard is true.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: The names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: On Thursday May, the meeting was held in the District
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Attorney's office in and for the County of Los Angeles,
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: State of California. In a moment the results of that meeting,
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: in the interest of justice and because of the suspect's
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: good behavior record in Los Angeles, it was decided not
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: to press charges against him for possessing a gun. Ralph
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Putnam Frasey alias Rodney Flint was turned over to Michigan
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: authorities to serve out his previous sentence. He has since
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: been released and has returned to his former employment in
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: Los Angeles. You have just heard Dragnet, a series of
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: authentic cases from official files. Technical advice comes from the
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: Office of Chief of Police wh Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: That was Dragnet Episode three hundred and twelve Big Missus.
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