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Dragnet: The Big Ben (EP4718) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: Great Detectives dot net. Now from March fifteenth, nineteen fifty one,
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  Speaker 1: here is the Big Ben.
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  Speaker 2: The story you're about to hear is true, only the
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  Speaker 2: names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
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  Speaker 2: detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery detail. A man is
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  Speaker 2: pulled from his car on a deserted street. He's robbed,
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  Speaker 2: beaten viciously. His car is stolen. A criminal makes his escape.
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  Speaker 2: Your job find him.
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  Speaker 3: Drag Net the documented drama of an actual crime. For
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  Speaker 3: the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 3: Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
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  Speaker 3: side of the law through an actual case transcribed.
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  Speaker 2: From official police files.
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  Speaker 3: From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, drag Net
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  Speaker 3: is the story of your police force and action.
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  Speaker 4: It was Monday, July ninth. It was warm in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 4: We're working the day watch out of robbery detail. My
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  Speaker 4: partner's Ben Romero. The boss is bad Brown, Chief of detective.
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  Speaker 4: My name's Friday was nine to fifty five am when
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  Speaker 4: we got to the Stacey Hollywood Department Store Personnel.
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  Speaker 5: Department, Stacy Hollywood, that would be the Yardish Department. Yes, mam,
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  Speaker 5: I'll connect you. Yes, can I help you?
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  Speaker 2: Police officer? Yes, sir, like to speak to one of
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  Speaker 2: your employees. Uh, Harvey Kimbrough.
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  Speaker 5: Guess a moment, I'll page him for you.
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  Speaker 6: You gotta match.
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  Speaker 2: Mm. Yeah, here we are.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Well. I was a kid.
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  Speaker 6: I never could figure out what that was.
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  Speaker 2: What's their the auto call system to call the employees
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  Speaker 2: to the phone rings all over the story and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 5: Office, Yes, mister Kimbro They're two policemen waiting to see
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  Speaker 5: you on the tenth floor. All right, that was mister Kimbro.
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  Speaker 2: He's on his way up.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you very much. Did I give you the crime
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  Speaker 6: report on this thing?
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 6: I think you kept it.
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  Speaker 2: Then let me see say your home. Oh yeah, you'll
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  Speaker 2: hear it, mart, I'll say one' they what do you
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  Speaker 2: got there? They call him pepto pails are good, farmer,
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  Speaker 2: And what are they for? They call it the stomach
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  Speaker 2: for stomach cats. You know I'm good.
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  Speaker 6: Oh I haven't got a stomach ache.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. These gentlemen here stella. Yes, that's right you Harvey Kimbro, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 2: that's right. I sure appreciate you people coming over here.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like to take time off from work. It
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  Speaker 2: makes it tough on my partner's clide Morren, Yes, for
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  Speaker 2: wednespent janitor. Work in a big store like this keeps
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  Speaker 2: you hopping?
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  Speaker 6: Do you do?
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  Speaker 2: You haven't got any idea who the hold up men
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  Speaker 2: are yet? Have you? No?
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  Speaker 4: Sure we have, and we'd like to get a little
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  Speaker 4: more information on what happened when you.
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  Speaker 6: Did you talk to the two officers and the police car.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we did, but it's customary for us to make
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  Speaker 4: a follow up for any additional information.
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  Speaker 2: You fellas who play clothes mines that it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we're from Central Robbery.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I see well, I never knew i'd get this
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  Speaker 2: much service.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir, I wonder if we might step outside the officer.
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  Speaker 4: I don't imagine you want to discuss your personal business
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  Speaker 4: here in the office.
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  Speaker 6: It's very considered of you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for.
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  Speaker 6: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if you'd mind going over it again for
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  Speaker 2: as Mster Kimbro. Maybe something you didn't think of when
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  Speaker 2: the other officers talked. I believe I told him everything.
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  Speaker 2: I was on my way into work this morning about
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  Speaker 2: five am. You live out Mill m.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: I take the freeway in.
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  Speaker 6: It was all the commercial street that you were held up.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Commercial right near Alameda, almost to the corner.
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  Speaker 2: Whether tearing those buildings down. Man flagged me down. Looked
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  Speaker 2: like his car was stalled. Well, always make it a
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  Speaker 2: habit to stop when I see somebody in trouble. I
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  Speaker 2: know how it is at time in the morning, no
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  Speaker 2: gas stations opened. Figured maybe the fellow needed a shove
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  Speaker 2: or something, so you stopped to give him a hand.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right? That's what I had in mind. I'd
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  Speaker 2: no more to stop the car, and he came over.
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  Speaker 2: He pointed a gun at me and told me.
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  Speaker 6: To get out.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you do well? I asked the fellow, what'd he want?
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  Speaker 2: I told him I didn't have any money, told him
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  Speaker 2: I was on my way into work. What do you
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  Speaker 2: say to that? Didn't say anything. He just opened the
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  Speaker 2: car door, grabbed me by the arm, and pulled me out.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't prepared for it, and I kind of fell
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  Speaker 2: out onto the street. Yeah, I still didn't know what
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  Speaker 2: he was after thought at first he might have been crazy.
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  Speaker 6: He was going to kill me? Or why'd you think
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  Speaker 6: he was going to kill you?
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  Speaker 2: He's no With the gun and all, and the way
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  Speaker 2: he pulled me out of the car, I just couldn't
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  Speaker 2: make it out.
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  Speaker 6: I see, did you go on police? Well?
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  Speaker 2: He took my wallet from me, all the money I had,
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  Speaker 2: fourteen dollars, and then he said, don't bother to get
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  Speaker 2: up and stay right there for five minutes after I leave,
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  Speaker 2: and then he bent down and I hit me in
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  Speaker 2: the face. What'd he hit you with? With his fist?
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  Speaker 2: Hit me right right here in the mouth. You can
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  Speaker 2: see the cart right in shadow I lived here. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you see the blood pretty heavy there. It's a nasty cut. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's better now. The men who came in the ambulance
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  Speaker 2: they put something on it. It'll be all right.
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  Speaker 6: Well did he knock you out when he hits you?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: I saw him get into my car, and then the
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  Speaker 2: car parked up ahead and took off. And this man
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  Speaker 2: who helped me up, he followed my car.
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  Speaker 6: Well, do you have anything more on the description of
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  Speaker 6: the hold up man or his car?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 2: I think I told the other officers everything I can remember.
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  Speaker 2: Would you recognize a man if you saw him again,
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  Speaker 2: mister Gimbre, Yes, sir, I think I would.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Your car is a blue nineteen forty eight dots sedan
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  Speaker 4: right rear fender damage.
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  Speaker 6: Is that correct? Yes, sir? Any other identifying marks at all?
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  Speaker 2: No, sir, that's about the size of it.
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  Speaker 4: And the other car looked to you like a late
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  Speaker 4: model Chevrolet I forty nine or fifty anyway, two tone green,
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  Speaker 4: that's sir, that's.
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  Speaker 6: What we have. Did you see the license number on that?
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  Speaker 2: No, sir, I didn't this. Uh, this witnesses lestid you,
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  Speaker 2: mister Sidney Ferguson that was the fellow that stopped and
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  Speaker 2: picked me up, brought me into work. Did you talk
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  Speaker 2: to him yet? It might be able to help when
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna see as soon as we leave you eight
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  Speaker 2: hundred block on Saturday, Yes, sir, that's right. Sure, hope
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  Speaker 2: you get that thief. My car too awful hard to
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  Speaker 2: get her on Los Angeles is out a car.
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  Speaker 6: I won't do her best. I was just wondering, mister Kimberle. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 6: what's that? Well?
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  Speaker 4: You say that when the man hit you, he didn't
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  Speaker 4: knock you out. You weren't unconscious.
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  Speaker 2: No, sir, I was not well.
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  Speaker 6: Did you try to locate a phone call for help?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have to this mister Ferguson pulled up and
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  Speaker 2: stopped right away, and then the officers came. Besides, I
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  Speaker 2: figured I'd better do what I was told. How's that
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  Speaker 2: I was afraid? I was gonna wait five minutes then
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  Speaker 2: and I left the department store.
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  Speaker 4: Picked up our car in the parking lot next door,
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  Speaker 4: and drove out to the San Fernando Valley.
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  Speaker 6: The eight hundred block on.
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  Speaker 4: Sataquoi Avenue, Sidney Ferguson's home was a typical valley residence,
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  Speaker 4: one story farmhouse.
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  Speaker 2: Style round back to the gate.
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  Speaker 7: They on the driveway, mh this way, I guess huh yeah,
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  Speaker 7: Hi there, this is the Ferguson house.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir, we're looking for Sidney Ferguson.
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  Speaker 2: Surely I'm Sidney Ferguson Police officers.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Ferguson got that hold up this morning out on
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  Speaker 6: commercial stream, Yes, sir, that's right. This is Sergeant Romero.
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  Speaker 2: My name's Friday, Happy new him. Excuse my wet handmen
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  Speaker 2: cleaning out my tanks from rising your fellows work out
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  Speaker 2: of the city hall. Yes, we do. Wouldn't happen to
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  Speaker 2: know with John O'Grady down there, Narcotics Division went to
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  Speaker 2: high school with John.
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  Speaker 6: No, I don't believe I know him then? Oh Grady?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, tall fella, kind of blonde, wave the air, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: yeah that's right, good looking fellaw. Yeah, I think I've
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  Speaker 2: seen him around, good friend of mine. Wasn't that a
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  Speaker 2: shame this morning? That kimber guy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a rough one, And the reason we
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  Speaker 4: came out to see is that we thought that maybe
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  Speaker 4: you could give us some additional information on it.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to give you all the help I can like
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  Speaker 2: to see you get that hold.
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  Speaker 6: Up man, mind giving us a rundown on what happened
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  Speaker 6: this morning, Not at all.
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  Speaker 2: It's around five o'clock this morning. Not usually up that
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  Speaker 2: time in the morning. But I was on my way
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  Speaker 2: back from Monterey Park. Generally try to make it down
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  Speaker 2: there at least once twice a month go down and
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  Speaker 2: see Jack Robinson and a choir's friend I have down there,
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  Speaker 2: and we swapped fish.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: See, I was on my way back coming down Commercial
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  Speaker 2: Street when I saw this man sitting on the side
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  Speaker 2: of the curb. Looked like he was hurt. To me,
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  Speaker 2: uh huh, I see, wouldn't have noticed it. Probably it
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  Speaker 2: was pretty dark because two cars pulled out, one right
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  Speaker 2: after the other seemed to be in a big hurry.
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  Speaker 2: And you pulled up to give kimbro a hand. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I did, of course. When I got close enough, I
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  Speaker 2: could see the guy had been kicking the teeth bleeding
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  Speaker 2: pretty bad. Offered to take him to hospital, but he
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  Speaker 2: said he didn't want to be late for work. After
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  Speaker 2: the officers came and talked to him and the ambulance
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  Speaker 2: men treated him, I drove him up to Stacey's Hollywood,
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  Speaker 2: dropped him off there that's where he works in. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the report says here that you got the license
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  Speaker 4: number of the getaway car, but you couldn't find the
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  Speaker 4: paper that you'd written it on when the officers interviewed.
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  Speaker 2: You think, yes, I did, and that doesn't beat them all.
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  Speaker 2: What's that? Well, I had the piece of paper a
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  Speaker 2: few minutes before the officers got there. I guess I
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  Speaker 2: was more rattle than the kimbro fella. When I got
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  Speaker 2: home here this morning, there was a slip of paper
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  Speaker 2: right on the floor of my car. A little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a break, isn't it.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, so it is.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if we could have it. You bet you can't,
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  Speaker 2: watch step In Siens.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the fish officers. It's my hobby. Tropical fish.
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  Speaker 2: Sure got a lot of it. Yeah, let's see now,
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  Speaker 2: when I put that piece of paper, I really wrote
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  Speaker 2: it down. Believe me, I just misplaced it some place
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  Speaker 2: here I'm trying to get rid of so in the
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  Speaker 2: AlSi off the glass of the tanks.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, look at these. Have you ever seen the thing
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  Speaker 6: pretty in your life?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? So that's what they call clown fish salt water fish.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh?
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  Speaker 6: Do you keep all tropical fishing salt water.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, most of 'em are fresh water. And there's
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  Speaker 2: the ones that breed good in captivity.
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  Speaker 6: Where do you get all these fish catching?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? No, place called a Quium Stock Company out on Beverlely.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh loo card Joe down the corner sea him over. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's a seahorse, Joe, Yeah, that's right. They're also kept
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  Speaker 2: in salt water. Sure is interesting on Joe. Yeah, how'd
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  Speaker 2: you fellas really like to see something you haven't seen before?
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  Speaker 2: What's that put in this tank here? Hoprochromas multicolor. That's
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  Speaker 2: her scientific name, commonly known as the Egyptian mouth breeder.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a fie? It's a little female man. She's
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  Speaker 2: one of the most sacrificing mothers in a Quiam history.
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  Speaker 2: One of the strangers too. How's that bunch? Lays her
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  Speaker 2: eggs and a small depression and the sand down there
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  Speaker 2: at the bottom of the tank.
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  Speaker 6: How many eggs would that be?
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  Speaker 2: Usually eighty to ninety. Now here's the strange part. As
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  Speaker 2: the eggs are fertilized, she scoops.
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  Speaker 6: Him up in a she eats him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, they remain in her mouth while they hatch. Well,
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  Speaker 2: how long does that? They over fourteen days? Oh? How
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  Speaker 2: does she eat?
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  Speaker 6: Adjust it?
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't. She doesn't touch food in any farm for
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  Speaker 2: this two week period. Seems just waste away. And what happens?
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  Speaker 2: Then finally the eggs hatch after fourteen days and the
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  Speaker 2: little fry comes swimming out of the mother's mouth. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: while the fry are growing up first, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: can hardly stand there so tiny. While they're growing up.
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  Speaker 2: If anything frightens him, quick as the price, theyre back
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  Speaker 2: in the monther's mouth. M. That's certainly amazing. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Hopochroma smulticolor. I'm commonly known as the Egyptian mouth breeder.
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  Speaker 2: That as big as they ever get, Yes, sir, one
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  Speaker 2: inch to an inch and a half. It's hard to believe.
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  Speaker 2: The betters are almost as strange. The male builds a
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  Speaker 2: bubble nest on the surface of the water. That's these
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  Speaker 2: in this tank. Hum, here's that different? Hm? The one
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  Speaker 2: I wrote the license number on it?
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's foot I wonder if I could see that please? Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: thanks you, I'm pretty sure this number, Yes I am.
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  Speaker 2: I got a good look at it.
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  Speaker 6: Well, thank you very much, sir, Yeah, thank you, not
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  Speaker 6: at all.
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  Speaker 2: Wish could come home and spend a little time. You
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  Speaker 2: seem kind of interested in tropical official Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Well maybe I'll do that sometimes. Go bye, nic, Thanks
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  Speaker 6: very much. That's a good break. If this license number
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  Speaker 6: checks out, Yeah, Thatt Ferguson is a nice fella.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, say sergeant for the now, Yes, sir, you almost forgot.
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  Speaker 2: I'm meant to ask you, what's that about five weeks
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  Speaker 2: from now? Yeah, I would you like a nice pair
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  Speaker 2: of baby Egyptian mouthbreeders.
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  Speaker 4: Ten forty five am Ben and I got in the
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  Speaker 4: car and headed back toward town. I called communications and
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  Speaker 4: had them check the license number Ferguson gave us through DMV.
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  Speaker 4: They called back and told us that the car was
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  Speaker 4: a nineteen forty nine Chevrolet four door Sedan. The registered
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  Speaker 4: owner was a Jack B. Grant one nine one one
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  Speaker 4: two Beacon Street, which in the southwest part of Los
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  Speaker 4: Angeles was a large old ash residents that had been
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  Speaker 4: converted into a roaming house. We checked with the landity
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  Speaker 4: and missus Ida Fisher.
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  Speaker 5: He's been with me here about eight months.
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  Speaker 6: What time did you say Grant left this morning, missus Fisher.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it was pretty early, must have been a round
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  Speaker 5: four am when I heard him go out. He came
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  Speaker 5: back in again about eight o'clock this morning, parked his car,
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  Speaker 5: and then he drove off with some other man.
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  Speaker 6: Would you happen to know the other man? No, I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 6: I just saw him drive off. We're just Grant Parker's
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  Speaker 6: car man round.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the garage.
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  Speaker 6: What if you'd mind if we take a look.
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  Speaker 2: I know that's all right. You just go right around
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  Speaker 2: the back there down the drive.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you very much, ma'am.
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  Speaker 5: Now there's two cars parked in there. The black Ford
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  Speaker 5: belongs to mister Spencer, yes, ma'am, thank you. And the
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  Speaker 5: nineteen and forty nine Chevrolet that's mister Grant's.
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  Speaker 6: We checked the car and the license number.
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  Speaker 4: It matched the description given us by the victim, Harvey
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  Speaker 4: Kimbro and the witness Sidney Ferguson. Together with missus Fisher,
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  Speaker 4: we checked Jack Grant's room. We found nothing of importance.
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  Speaker 4: His clothing and personal effects were all there, nothing to
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  Speaker 4: indicate that he wouldn't be back. We told the landlady
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  Speaker 4: that we were placing the house under surveillance and if
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  Speaker 4: Grant should return, not to say that we've been there.
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  Speaker 4: She agreed and offered further assistance. She said she'd signal
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  Speaker 4: us by raising lowering our front window curtain. When Grant returned,
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  Speaker 4: we parked down the street, called the office and advised
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  Speaker 4: them we were on stakeout. Two men were sent out
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  Speaker 4: and they covered the back entrance, Ben and I covered
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  Speaker 4: the front. By six o'clock that night, Grant had failed
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  Speaker 4: to show. Nine pm, still nothing, eleven pm.
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  Speaker 2: What time did they say that relief team was coming out?
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  Speaker 2: Around eleven sometime? Chandler and Records. Huh yeah, I guess so? Oh,
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: I sure. I am stiff. Feels like needles all over
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: my body. Been about twelve hours, isn't it. Yeah, it's
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: like driving up to San Francisco. Wife always makes me
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: drive all the way. When I climb out of that
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: gar H'm as stiff as a board. Uh car pulling
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: up down the street there, Yeah, that's racked.
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: Its hi, Jack Friddy?
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Who's that you got with you?
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: Same guy brought you your lunch yesterday?
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Stop ragging. That's the house right up there.
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right, the green and white from there.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: No side of 'em at all.
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: Huh no nothing, Oh you guys wanna take off? Yeah,
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: I guess you can make out Rick Its you got
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: Chandler with you.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: I feel sorry if you Friday drawing this guy for
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: a partner.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: Man after seven years, he kind of grows on. You
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: like to check out the landlady before we take off.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Her name's are the Fisher?
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Jack?
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: Right you?
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: It's good? Joe? Yeah, see you later, Jack.
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: Say hello to Chenley right then, night swim? I had
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: rack Its sure is a ribs taker.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: Front room lights is still on and she's sweating it
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: out with her. Yes, loves it.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Police officers, Ms Fisher, Oh Sorryan Friday, Oh yes, sorry
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: to buy you again.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Man, that's all right.
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: I just couldn't see who it was.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: My porch likes Burner. Yes, ma'am. Mister grand still hasn't
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: come in.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: I wonder if you might if we took another look
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: at his room.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: I don't see why it hasn't come in.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: What's it? Joe?
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: What do you doing.
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: Out the bar?
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Joe? Joe? You all right?
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: Didn't know he had a gun.
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: He made me hiding, made me lady. Would you call
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: an abun and hurry yo?
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: It was not dead as lady.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: Get the ambulance please.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Monday, July ninth eleven, twenty eight pm, the ambulance arrived
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: and Joe was taken to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: His condition was critical.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Despite the fact that the other men on a stakeout
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: at the house had closed in as quickly as possible,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Jack Grant somehow succeeded in jumping out a side window
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: and making good his escape through a maze of neighboring backyards.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: The men at the scene began a search of the
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: immediate area. I called in and communication stt out of
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: broadcast on APB. A special detail of men and cruiser
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: cars was rushed to the scene and a blockade thrown
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: up around the area. I stayed on and worked with
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Rickitgs and Chandler. Under questioning the landlady, missus Fisher, broke
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: down and admitted that Grant had given her ten dollars
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: to keep his presence in the house a secret. She
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: told us that when we'd searched the suspect's room earlier,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: he had hidden in the cellar. She was taken into
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: custody one thirty am. I got a relief and I
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: went downtown to the Georgia Street Receiving the Hospital. P
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: and f for were removed one slug from the upper
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: thoracic reach and another one from his right shoulder. Looked
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: like they could have been thirty at caliber. They've been
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: marked for evidence. How's he doing? As well as can
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: be expected? What does that mean? It's hard to tell.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Depends on how it goes the next four hours. Can
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I go see? No, No, we're not admitting anyone in there.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: And under said it has lost quite a lot of blood.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: It's pretty weak. He need anybody for confusion? Oh, that's
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: all taken care of. His relatives be notified, Yes, sir,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: just his mother. She's visiting relatives up in rent in Washington.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I sent him a wire, little bricks and news to her. Yeah,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: that's about all we can do for now. Oh, I
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: wonder if I couldn't sneak in and leave this card
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: in a cigarettes one prayed.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: It's gonna be some time before Sergeant Friday can use 'em.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Just leave him. I'll have a nurse take care of
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: it all right, dot Uh, thank you? Is there anything
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: I can get for him? Anything he needs? No?
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: Doing everything we can for him. You don't think I
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: could just look in for a minute. No, I'm sorry,
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: must be something I can do. He got a good prayer.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Handy two a m. I left Georgia Street receiving hospital
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: and drove back to the scene of the shooting. The
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: search for the suspect, Jack Brant was still going on.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: The neighborhood was checked and rechecked. Everything possible was done
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: to find the man who would shot down the sergeant.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: You'll Friday. He's been said that the police department goes
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: all out its efforts to run down a criminal who
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: attacks a police officer. It's true, but most people aren't
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: aware of the reason. Certain elements would like you to
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: believe that the police officer places the safety of his
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: fellow officers above that of the citizen. This isn't true.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: His first day at the academy, the cadet peace officer
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: is taught this basic fact. If a criminal would shoot
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: down the armed police officer, he wouldn't hesitate to shoot
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: down the unarmed citizen. Three am I finally located looked
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: in at jack Rickitts at the corner of Coronat and
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Bacon Street, seven blocks from the scene of the shooting.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: How is he not too good depends on the next
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: four hour.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: What are his chances? I didn't ask.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: We're not getting any place here, nothing at all.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: Nothing. Something's gotta break.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Channelers still downtown to come and through grants package down
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: at the IE Bureau and come up with anything. Not
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: the last time, I cheer back about forty minutes ago.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Not any idea fresh out. You couldn't have gotten far,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: but this soon he couldn't. Bus depots, train terminals and
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: airports are all covered.
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: Highway patrol has been alerted.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Nothing so far. He's someplace close.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: He's got to be. I think he's holed up.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: In town two. But where. Yeah, he's in the jam.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: He's had good publicity. A lot of his friends are
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: going to hide the welcome.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: At Maybe that narras it now a little maybe let's
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: find him.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Three thirty am. Jack records and now got back to
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: the city Hall. We went directed to the Eye Bureau
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: channel learning powers that sifted through Jack Grant's package. They'd
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: drawn up a list of all Grant's known friends and associates.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: There were twenty two names on the list. Three of
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: them were in San Quentin Penitente Street. Two of them
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: were doing time at the county work for him. I'd
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: left seventeen names on the list. Further checking showed that
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: five of 'em had out of store eight addresses twelve names.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: The list was split down the middle. Ricketts and I
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: took six names, ten and Power six of the twelve,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: with the exception of one. All names had appeared on
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: the police blodder in the past eight years. Raymond Weller,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Peter Denton, Orrace Phillips, Henry Brien. Ricketts and I checked him.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Some were in bed, some hadn't been to bed. We
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: were reasonably sure. Now Exam knew that we're about to dissuspect.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I called Georgia Street to find out about Joe. He
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: told me no change in his condition. Four fifty five
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: a him.
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: After this time, we get a cook bite to eat.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Huh, you don't look so good and I'm not hungry.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: What's this one's name?
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Anthony Baxter, Room twenty three, He says it, yeah, Anthony Baxter. Yeah,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: please offers, we want to talk to you. It's a
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: fine hour to get a guy out of bed. Do
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: you always sleep with your clothes on? And step back
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: there in the room. What's going on? You are a
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: friend of Jack Grins. Why do you know Jack Grinn?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Why Jack Grant's a friend of yours. I'm gonna tell
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: you anything that I know. Why you wanna talk here
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: and downtown. I got a right to know what it's
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: all about. Get your hat and cool if you just
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: want to know if I know Jackie Grant? Is that
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: all you want?
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: To?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Get that coat in there? I know Grant? Where is he?
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: I don't wanna get mixed up in anything you're mixed
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: up in And already you know him?
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: You know it's the trouble with you guys. Guy tries
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: to walk straight down and you guys come around, try
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: and push him into a corner. Where's Grin. Look, I've
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: been in jail and I did my time. You haven't
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: got anything on me. Actually, let's get this straight. We're
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: not after you. We're after Grinn. We didn't come here
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: to push you around. We don't want you to push
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: us around. And where I'm gonna tell you something. I
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: don't like being talked to this when I'm not going
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: to stand for it. I got certain rights and I'm
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: gonna stand on now. You listen to me. A friend
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: of mine's laying in the hospital because of your pal
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Jack Grant.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: He put two bullets in him. Now, I'm tired and
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: I'm out of patients.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Where is he?
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Where is he?
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: All right? Bennett's all right, it's the last time around.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Back to tell us where Grant is?
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: We go downtown, Come on quick.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Hotel sober room six oh five, five twenty seven am.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: We located the Philbert Hotel on North Crocker Street on
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: the way over. We called in and told him what
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: we'd find. Chandler and Powers met us outside the hotel.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: They took up their position. Reckitts and I checked with
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: a desk clerk and confirmed that the suspect was in
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: room six oh five. He was registered under an alias.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: He took the elevator to the sixth floor. Room six
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: oh five is directly across from the elevator. What is it,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: police officer? Watch your pant now, keep your hand out
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: of that pocket, Ran, I wouldn't wanna shoot you. Five
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: forty two am. Rickits in China took the suspect into custody.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: It was six o three am when I got to
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Georgia Street Receiving Hospital.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: Be in their fort Sigean, how is he?
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: You can go in and stay too long?
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: Thank you? Hi Joe, Hi, you were tired?
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: How you feeling, Oh, I'll do.
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: I'd to go.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: I got grind. You were tired, you been working straight
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: through on Yeah, h I can get you. No, I
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: guess I'm better hurry up and get out of here.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Huh why we still got that stolen cardifined, the story.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: You have just heard was true, only the names were
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: On November seventh, trial was held in Superior Court Department
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: eighty nine, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: In a moment the results of that trial, Jack Grant
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: was tried and convicted on one count of assault to
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: commit murder. He and his accomplice were convicted on several
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: counts of first degree robbery. Assault to commit murder is
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: punishable by imprisonment for from one to fourteen years, first
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: degree robbery by imprisonment from five years to life. The
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Landlady Ida Fisher was placed on probation.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: You have just heir.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Dragnet a series of authentic cases from official fights. Technical
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police wh Parker,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles Police Department.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. I've seen a number of black and white
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: dragging that TV episodes before I had heard this one,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: and I have to admit that I was very surprised
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: when Joe Friday was shot because in the TV version,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: which was after Ben Alexander played Friday's partner Frank Smith,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: it was Frank that was shot, not Joe, and this
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: illustrates why, despite the fact that he only appeared in
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: two TV episodes and one hundred odd radio episodes, many
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: of view Barton y Our Borrow as Joe Friday's best
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: partner as a character. While Bill Gannon and Frank Smith
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: brought some lightnous, fun and balance to Dragnet, Ben Romero
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: was probably the only one who could be followed as
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: a credible substitute protagonist taking over for Friday and being
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: able to dial into some real intensity and be able
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: to deliver some real raw emotion and still be true
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: to the character. And Alexander was more credible as someone
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: who was interested in tropical fish. So an interesting contrast
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: of the strength of the two portrayals. Well, now we
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: turn to listener comments and feedback and we go over
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: to Spotify where sham Spade rights regarding the episode The
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Big New Years. It's episodes like this that make me
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: regret that Dragnet is written in reality because you know
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the news is about to be delivered. My stomach ache
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: for Joe and Ben and my heart breaks for the wife. Well,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: thanks for the comment, and I think Dragnet does a
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: really good job of bringing home how difficult these situations
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: are that law enforcement has to deal with each time
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: they need to do it. It's awkward and it's difficult,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: and there's some real uncertainty. I think it reflects the
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: reality that it doesn't get easier. Well, now it's time
• 30:43
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• 30:45
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• 31:14
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• 31:18
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• 31:23
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• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Wear, and Robert, imagine finding you here. Well, it's certainly
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: as a small world, much too small.
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: You're going somewhere. Well, if you are I devoid Cairo,
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: I don't think you'd like it this time of year. Well,
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: you'd have arranged to stay naturally, Oh, that would have
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: been lovely. Still it might have posed a problem. What
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: about yes Man?
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't that her name?
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: She's beautiful, Robert Mullah showed me her picture.
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: Suppose we leave her out of this discussion and she
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: knows nothing of activities.
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: Why, Conrad, you haven't gone middle class and fallen in love.
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: I said, we will leave her out of this.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Now here your orders. I refuse to accept.
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: Himim I wouldn't get on that plane, Robert, I don't
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: think you'd like the welcoming committee in Cairo. Do you
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: remember Emil Russo?
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: Emil Oh, he's waiting for you at.
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: The airport there now. Personally, I never believed those stories
• 32:42
  Speaker 8: that he learned his trade working for the Nazis at duckholl.
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: No.
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: One never knows.
• 32:48
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