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Dragnet: The Big Dance (EP4658) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: Now from January eighteenth, nineteen fifty one, here is the
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  Speaker 1: Big Dance.
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  Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true, only
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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. The three
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  Speaker 2: months you've been tracking a pair of hold up men.
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  Speaker 2: There's no pattern to their operation. They're young, they're brutal.
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  Speaker 3: Your job stop them.
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  Speaker 4: Drag Nets the documented drama of an actual crime call.
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  Speaker 4: The next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 4: Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
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  Speaker 4: side of the law through an actual case transcribed from
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  Speaker 4: official police fiolence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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  Speaker 4: Drag Net is the story of your police force and action.
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  Speaker 5: It was Sunday, March third, was reigning in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 6: We're working the night Watch out of Robbery detail. My
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  Speaker 6: partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Harry Didton, Captain of Robbery.
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  Speaker 6: My name is Friday. I was on my way back
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  Speaker 6: from the neighborhood bakery shop and it was eight forty
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  Speaker 6: five am when I got to Collis Avenue.
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  Speaker 5: Number forty six fifty six. H Joe, Yeah, what happened?
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  Speaker 7: Wasn't bakrio?
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it was open. I got the stuff right here.
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  Speaker 7: Oh they have any raising bread?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Right here?
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  Speaker 7: How about the butterhorn?
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  Speaker 5: No, they don't make those on Sundays anymore.
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  Speaker 8: I got bare closy staff. Okay, well, let's get this
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  Speaker 8: stuff open. Okay, Oh, I do you know we are?
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  Speaker 7: Hm? Where do you keep your aid from the refrigerator
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  Speaker 7: right over there? Uh huh?
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  Speaker 5: Find 'em?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I got you know, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: I don't like to say anything, but I can't keep
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  Speaker 8: coming over here to your place every morning.
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  Speaker 5: Well what was your idea? Nobody asked?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, but I know how you are.
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  Speaker 8: You don't know how to cook a decent bread first
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  Speaker 8: for yourself.
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  Speaker 5: The coffee ready yet?
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  Speaker 7: Uh huh uh it's not berking yet. Hey, you sure
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  Speaker 7: there's nothing wrong with this part. It's been on for
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  Speaker 7: ten minutes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you forgot to plug it in.
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  Speaker 7: Oh ah, let's see. Oh what do you want?
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  Speaker 8: Better put the toast on. You always make the toast
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  Speaker 8: before you cook the eggs. Yeah you remember yesterday the
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  Speaker 8: toast was pretty cold.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I try. I better hold off for me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: scrambled eggs.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Well we had 'em yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I try.
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  Speaker 5: Not the only way you know how to fix 'em?
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  Speaker 7: I know what you'd like one of my Spanish genres.
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  Speaker 8: When'd you say your mother was coming back for about
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  Speaker 8: three more days and I'll make a week warner.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah that's right.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I guess I can work something out with Amy.
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  Speaker 8: My wife doesn't like me coming over here every morning
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  Speaker 8: like that.
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  Speaker 5: Boy I told you before, I can make out alright here.
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  Speaker 7: Oh I know it is you think you're imposing? You'd
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  Speaker 7: be lost with that. You can't open say is this?
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  Speaker 5: Uh r, well, the your is gonna take very long.
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  Speaker 5: We haven't got very much time, you know.
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  Speaker 8: I'll have it on your plate and jiffy, what time
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  Speaker 8: are we supposed to see those Victor nine thirty at
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  Speaker 8: the County Hospital.
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  Speaker 7: Where's your tomato in the refrigerator? Uh? Huh?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Twenty three jobs in three months. Those guys really moved,
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  Speaker 5: don't they.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah? Mm, nice tomatoes.
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  Speaker 5: Joe Holling Beck job last night, vicious punks.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and there's no reason to work the old man
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  Speaker 7: over the way they did. What do the doctor say?
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  Speaker 6: Ah, he's gonna get over it alright. But they kicked
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  Speaker 6: out all of his front teeth. He's fifty years.
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  Speaker 5: Old, samemo, every job. Ain't you gonna peel those?
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  Speaker 7: No skins are good for you now?
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  Speaker 9: Uh?
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  Speaker 7: You got a nice big bermuda rup bermuda.
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  Speaker 5: And oh yeah, I'll get you one.
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  Speaker 7: Kids.
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  Speaker 8: It's nineteen twenty year old stick up or it it's
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  Speaker 8: knocked a man's senses for a half a dollar, robbing,
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  Speaker 8: slug and kicking anywhere around the city. Yeah, it would
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  Speaker 8: be one bunch. I'll be glad to catch up with.
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  Speaker 8: Here's your onion?
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  Speaker 7: Good?
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  Speaker 5: Well? I wait a minute. You're gonna peel that, aren't you.
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  Speaker 7: I lose half the flavor.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: I always peel 'em. I see now, and now I'll
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  Speaker 8: make the whole works together. You gonna put it in
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  Speaker 8: that pan on the stove there, Yes, sir, looks pretty hot,
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  Speaker 8: doesn't it's smoking, Joe. That's the way you cook a
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  Speaker 8: Spanish yellmut hot fire and fat.
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  Speaker 7: End of the pan. A whole trick and making a
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  Speaker 7: good Spanish almond? Is you gotta work fast?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? We're all those little brown flakes in the top.
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  Speaker 5: Bring oh onion skins? No, I don't know. It doesn't
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  Speaker 5: look right to me the way do you taste it?
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  Speaker 5: I got it? Friday talking Elton.
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  Speaker 10: Young Joe Romero there with you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's here.
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  Speaker 10: You two are supposed to see those robbery victims at
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  Speaker 10: the County hospital this morning, aren't you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Nine thirty, cancel that out.
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  Speaker 10: Cans Ellis and flowers are covering on that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll come.
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  Speaker 10: Just got the call South Grand and Colonial two eleven
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  Speaker 10: and slugging same description.
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  Speaker 5: Looks like the kid Bandits all right, We'll get right
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  Speaker 5: on it.
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  Speaker 8: It's a new stand near the corner, right bye. Look
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  Speaker 8: at that, Joe, I just took it out of the pan. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: best Benny Shaman I ever made. It's too bad we're
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  Speaker 8: not gonna have time to eat it.
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  Speaker 6: Eight fifty five am we left the house and drove
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  Speaker 6: to the scene of the hold up, one door from
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  Speaker 6: the corner of South Grand and Colonial Avenue the Victims,
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  Speaker 6: where mister and missus John Wilden, proprietors of a small
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  Speaker 6: newspaper and soft drink stand just off the intersection. Missus
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  Speaker 6: Wilden was being carried to a waiting ambulance when we
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  Speaker 6: got there. She was unconscious from her forehead to her chin.
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  Speaker 6: Her face was a swollen mass of welts those had
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  Speaker 6: been broken, and she had fractures of the jaw and
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  Speaker 6: cheep bone. Her husband, John Wildon, aged fifty six, had
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  Speaker 6: a single bruise on his forehead over his left eye.
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  Speaker 6: We questioned him after the ambulance attendance gave him first aid.
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  Speaker 6: His description of the hold up men tallied almost perfectly.
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  Speaker 11: One was a redhead, another one that had dark hair,
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  Speaker 11: both about the same height. I'd say, as tall as
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  Speaker 11: you are, officer.
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  Speaker 7: That's just Joe kid.
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  Speaker 8: Many you know, had you ever seen either one of
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  Speaker 8: these men before, mister Wildon around the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 11: Maybe no, I never did. I don't know why they'd
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  Speaker 11: picked on Madeline and me for a hold up. We'd
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  Speaker 11: never been robbed before. I just got this little hole
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  Speaker 11: in the wall here. Don't see how it could look
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  Speaker 11: worthwhile any crook. You usually open up this early on
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  Speaker 11: Sunday morning. Oh, yes, Sunday's one of our big days.
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  Speaker 11: You see. We handle all the Sunday papers. You'd get
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  Speaker 11: our big trade from the people going to church up
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  Speaker 11: the street there, Saint Joseph's.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I see.
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  Speaker 11: After the church lets out, most of the people had
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  Speaker 11: down this way pick up the Sunday papers. We show
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  Speaker 11: about fifteen twenty papers after every mass. It's a nice
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  Speaker 11: little business, you know. We close up after twelve fifteen.
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  Speaker 5: Well when did the hold up take place? Can you
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  Speaker 5: remember that, sir.
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  Speaker 11: Well, I'd say eight thirty, a few minutes after I
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  Speaker 11: went down to the Athens Cafe down the street there.
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  Speaker 11: I wanted to get some change. I left Madeline here
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  Speaker 11: to handle the counter. Madlin, that's my wife, yes, And
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  Speaker 11: when I got back, she wasn't behind the counter. I
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  Speaker 11: took a look behind here and saw a cash box
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  Speaker 11: laying on the cement there, empty and I didn't know
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  Speaker 11: what to think.
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  Speaker 7: What'd you do? Then? Well?
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  Speaker 9: I pushed through this door. Here.
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  Speaker 11: There's a little dinky storeroom just back to the counter.
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  Speaker 11: It's where we keep our supplies candy.
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  Speaker 5: And soda water. I see you might if we take
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  Speaker 5: a look.
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  Speaker 9: See no, no, no, come out of here.
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  Speaker 7: Uh huh?
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  Speaker 9: You see what? When I came in, first thing I
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  Speaker 9: saw was Madeline.
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  Speaker 11: That's my wife, and she was lying there on the
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  Speaker 11: board's morning, had her hands over her face. The two
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  Speaker 11: young fellas were standing over and both had guns.
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  Speaker 5: Uh What did they do? When they saw you?
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  Speaker 11: And they grabbed me and asked for money. I told
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  Speaker 11: him I didn't have any. I began to holler for help.
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  Speaker 11: One of 'em slugged me with his gun and then
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  Speaker 11: they ran out. Still a little shaky, you mind if
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  Speaker 11: I sit down.
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  Speaker 7: Then go ahead? Oh here, let me get this box
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  Speaker 7: for you.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you? Say, I wonder if we could get you
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  Speaker 5: some water, maybe a cold drink from the cover.
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  Speaker 11: Oh no, no, but you will find a half pint
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  Speaker 11: behind those cases over there, a little brandy.
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  Speaker 9: I keep put away.
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  Speaker 11: Oh over here, yes, that's right behind those cases.
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  Speaker 9: I don't usually drink on Sundays.
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  Speaker 5: This is an exception.
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  Speaker 7: I guess, hey, honest, will what's it on the floor there?
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  Speaker 5: Ben no near your foot there?
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  Speaker 7: See?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, lights are not very good. Oh A book of matches? Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: these yours, mister Willis matches. No, I don't carry him
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  Speaker 8: all your wife's I guess.
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  Speaker 7: Huh.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think so, neither one of 'eus smoke.
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  Speaker 7: What's that ad putting on the back here? Uh?
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  Speaker 8: Big Tin cafe, steaks, chopped short orders, open all the night,
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  Speaker 8: West Pico. Do you have a cigarettes and cigarsis no, sir.
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  Speaker 12: But.
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  Speaker 9: I can his soft drinks, newspapers, that's all.
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Uh? Inside of the match book covered Joe, I'm scribbling.
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  Speaker 8: On her or George Bell asked Cameron fifth and aalometer.
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  Speaker 8: Uh do you recognize this at all, mister Wilder?
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  Speaker 9: Big ten cafe? No, I never been there.
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  Speaker 5: Now about the names here inside the cover?
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  Speaker 9: George Bell as Cameron.
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  Speaker 7: No, I never heard him when you first came in here.
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  Speaker 7: Mister Wilman, do you remember where the hold up men
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  Speaker 7: were standing?
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  Speaker 11: We're not too well. Uh, well, one was over there
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  Speaker 11: and one was over there.
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  Speaker 7: I think could be Joe. One of 'em might have
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  Speaker 7: dropped it. Uh huh?
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  Speaker 9: Trace him from that match book? Do you think that's possible?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, how would you trace them that way? Annaly's this
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  Speaker 11: some kind of scientific work, No, sir, legwork?
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  Speaker 5: Nine tight am. We call Layton fingerprints.
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  Speaker 6: As soon as they arrived, we dropped mister Wilden off
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  Speaker 6: at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital to see his wife.
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  Speaker 5: Ben and I drove back to the office.
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  Speaker 6: We had the crime report typed up and got out
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  Speaker 6: a supplementary broadcast on our original APB.
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  Speaker 5: We asked Frank.
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  Speaker 6: Cunningham and R and I to run the names George
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  Speaker 6: Bell and ask Cameron through the files for possible mate.
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  Speaker 5: We checked for the restaurant advertised on the cover of
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  Speaker 5: the matchbook, the Big Ten Cafe.
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  Speaker 6: The manager of the cafe failed to recognize either the
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  Speaker 6: names on the matchbook or the descriptions of the.
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  Speaker 5: Hold up men nine fifty two. We checked back in
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  Speaker 5: at the office. I'll get it.
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  Speaker 7: Robbery now, yeah, Frank, huh uhh yeah, good right, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Cunningham.
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  Speaker 8: You got to make on the name George Bell, another
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  Speaker 8: one for Sam Cameron. Both of them run together, got
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  Speaker 8: long juvenile record. You got an address home, Yeah, it'll
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  Speaker 8: be hard to run down. What do you mean Main Jail.
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  Speaker 6: Five days before, George Bell, a laborer, and Samuel Cameron,
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  Speaker 6: a part time jewelry salesman, had been booked at the
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  Speaker 6: Main Jail on charges of being drunk and disorderly. The
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  Speaker 6: day after his arrest, Cameron was bailed out. Belle was
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  Speaker 6: still in the drunk tank. Ben and I went out
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  Speaker 6: of the Main jail.
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  Speaker 5: And talked to him. He didn't fit the description of
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  Speaker 5: either of the bandits.
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  Speaker 6: It was very cooperative, but he stated that he'd been
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  Speaker 6: very drunk and he couldn't remember too much.
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  Speaker 11: Just a no sergeant. Sam and I went out and
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  Speaker 11: tied went on. What came to we were here in
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  Speaker 11: the drunk tank. You have no idea at all how
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  Speaker 11: your name's got on this match book. I'm trying to think, well,
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  Speaker 11: pretty well, he did up Samity. That's another thing, that
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  Speaker 11: dirty Sam.
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  Speaker 7: What do you mean he.
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  Speaker 11: Gets a friend of his to come up here and
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  Speaker 11: bail him out. Think you do anything for me? No,
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  Speaker 11: I bought the liquor. He lets me sit here now,
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  Speaker 11: dirty Sam. You think he might remember about that match book?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I'm disgusting with him. Just see him.
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  Speaker 7: You can tell him that, Just on him.
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  Speaker 5: No, he's off mindless.
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  Speaker 8: How about the address here on the matchbook, George Fays
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  Speaker 8: Fifth an alimeter? Doesn't that mean anything to you? Were
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  Speaker 8: you in cameraon hitting some of the spots around that area. No,
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  Speaker 8: we were messing around over in dog Town. Didn't get
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  Speaker 8: down by alometers.
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  Speaker 5: Doll Well, must have some Talian for you. Fifth and alimeter?
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  Speaker 11: No, guy, I know down there is Sanchez. He wait
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  Speaker 11: a minute, Yeah, just a minute, Sanchez. Goud senchiz sure.
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  Speaker 11: I wanted to see Guts. I thought he'd put up
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  Speaker 11: there for us. Yeah, go ahead, I got it now,
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  Speaker 11: I think I have. Anyway, it was the morning after
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  Speaker 11: and I woke up here in the tank o a
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  Speaker 11: big head, you know, really whipped the first thing.
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  Speaker 7: I thought it was out.
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  Speaker 5: I think of Gus.
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  Speaker 11: Sanchez might pop for bail fund of mine. You know,
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  Speaker 11: Gus works at about fifth and alimeter that's it morehow's
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  Speaker 11: Italian out of this? Other mooch is in the tank
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  Speaker 11: next to me. Somebody stopped bail for him and he's
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  Speaker 11: getting out an hour. So I asked him to call
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  Speaker 11: Gusts for me, and he said he would. He wrote
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  Speaker 11: my name down and he wrote down Sam's too dirty Sam?
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  Speaker 5: And he took down Yes, his address?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, Tift?
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  Speaker 7: And either you remember what this man looked back when?
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  Speaker 7: Who took your name?
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  Speaker 11: Oh? Let's see, No, everything was going around. He he's
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  Speaker 11: kind of car I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Would you remember him if you saw him again? Guy
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  Speaker 5: did me a favor.
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  Speaker 11: I'd remember him.
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  Speaker 7: Not like that?
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  Speaker 10: Did he sand?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 5: How about his name? Did he tell you that? No?
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  Speaker 7: I didn't ask him.
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  Speaker 5: I should have.
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  Speaker 7: Uh? You sure about the day this man was released? Positive?
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  Speaker 5: The same guy came in tuesday? Okay, Bell, thanks very much.
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  Speaker 5: We'll be checking back with you.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 5: And what about this guy? You gotta bait for him
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  Speaker 5: or maybe if he's the one we won?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: What do he do? He lost his matches?
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  Speaker 6: Ben and I left the drunk tank and went down
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  Speaker 6: the hall to check with the officer in charge. We
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  Speaker 6: paged through the release book and found that seven men
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  Speaker 6: had been bailed out or discharged from the jail on
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  Speaker 6: the previous Tuesday.
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  Speaker 5: Went back to the.
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  Speaker 6: Record bureau and I had them pull the mug shots
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  Speaker 6: on all seven men, and then we took the pictures
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  Speaker 6: back to the drunk Tank and showed them to George Bell.
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  Speaker 13: M M, yeah, this one, I think, can't be sure,
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  Speaker 13: I think that's him.
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  Speaker 6: George Bell attentively identified the mugshot of a Fred Gunter, WMA,
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  Speaker 6: twenty one years old. Gunther had a previous record of
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  Speaker 6: grand theft, auto perse snatching and drunk charges. His picture
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  Speaker 6: matched closely with the description of one of the suspects.
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  Speaker 6: Four am, we contacted the kid Bandit's most recent victim,
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  Speaker 6: John Wildon, at his home. We asked him to look
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  Speaker 6: at the same group of mugshots that were shown to
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  Speaker 6: George Bell.
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  Speaker 9: Here.
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  Speaker 11: Here, this, here, here's one of them. You sure, mister Wilder,
• 16:53
  Speaker 11: he's the one who slugged me. Who is he?
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: His named s Fred Gunter?
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: Well, then you know him?
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: You want me to identify him?
• 16:59
  Speaker 10: Yes, sir?
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: When we find.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: You are listening to drag met authentic stories of your
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: police force in action.
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: Monday March fourth, nine am, we checked out the suspect,
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: Fred Gunter. No trace of him at any of his
• 17:28
  Speaker 8: previous addresses. We began checking with the other victims of
• 17:31
  Speaker 8: the kid bandits. After a day and a half of
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: leg work, we sat down and figured up the results.
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: More than two thirds of the victims definitely tabbed Gunter
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: as one of the.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: Hold up men. The next step was the record bureau.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: We had them pull the packages on every one of
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: Gunter's known friends and associates.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: There were more than thirty of them.
• 17:47
  Speaker 8: We had mugshots pulled on each one of them and
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: made the rounds of the victims for the second time.
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: Approximately half of the victims had singled out. One picture
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: is that of Gunter's partner in the hold ups. We
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: pulled the package on the man and checked his MAM machine.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: His name was Harold Rhymers, WMA, age nineteen. Previous record
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: included car stripping and one charge eight W no conviction.
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: Friday, March eighth, we continued our check of the friends
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: and associates known to.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: The two suspects gun through in Rhymers. We got nowhere.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: Two weeks passed. On March twenty third, we got a
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: tipp from an informant about a girlfriend of Fred Gunter's,
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: a vocalist working at a.
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: Downtown dance hall during intermissions long haul.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was one more flight.
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: Climb, four flights of stairs and then they expect you
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: to dance.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, uh, I guess this is it? Yeah, come on mage,
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: not floor. Uh, All show's a little aware place has
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: been there for years.
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: Look at those walls. That sailing sure could use a
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: fresh coat of paint.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: Is her name is Stanley? Is that right?
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: That's it over.
• 19:05
  Speaker 14: Loose?
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: Excuse me? Your name Lourene Stanley?
• 19:09
  Speaker 14: Yeah that's right, sweet Lorraine. That's my billing you with
• 19:12
  Speaker 14: the band.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: No, we're police officers. I'd like to talk to you
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: for a minute if we can't sure all right?
• 19:17
  Speaker 14: I was just rehearsing a little. What's it about Alficer?
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: Do you know Fred gunnf Miss Stanley?
• 19:22
  Speaker 14: Fred? Yeah, I know. I'm I used to be engaged
• 19:24
  Speaker 14: to Fred.
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: You happen to know where he is now?
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: No?
• 19:27
  Speaker 14: I don't. I guess I haven't heard from him in
• 19:29
  Speaker 14: three four months. Usually looks me up when I'm in town.
• 19:33
  Speaker 14: Maybe he's sore about something.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: I don't know what was he contacted you at all?
• 19:37
  Speaker 14: Not since I got back from Bakersfield a month ago.
• 19:39
  Speaker 14: I played thirty two weeks in Bakersfield to ramble in.
• 19:42
  Speaker 14: Sure he hated to leave. Nice place?
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Where does Gunther stay in town? Do yet know? That?
• 19:47
  Speaker 14: Used to be that hotel on Selflower called him there,
• 19:50
  Speaker 14: but they said he moved. I used to like fred
• 19:52
  Speaker 14: a lot, not have to marr him.
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: Do you have any idea where he might have grown
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: where we could contact him?
• 19:58
  Speaker 14: No, I really don't. Nothing wrong is soon.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's just a routine investigation. We'd like to
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: talk to him.
• 20:04
  Speaker 14: What's it about?
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Can you tell me it's a robbery investigation?
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: We want to locate gun there he happen to know
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: any of.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: His friends in the city.
• 20:11
  Speaker 14: No, maybe that's why he didn't call. He's in trouble, robbery.
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: Is in it?
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Well, we just like talk to him, that's all.
• 20:20
  Speaker 14: Well, if he's done something wrong, I'm not gonna hide him.
• 20:23
  Speaker 14: I can't afford to get mixed.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: Up in it.
• 20:25
  Speaker 14: I've got a career to think about it. I worked
• 20:27
  Speaker 14: too hard to throw it away.
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: How about the places Gunter usually visits? Miss Dandy Barr's restman,
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: do you know any of those?
• 20:34
  Speaker 14: I remember a few. I can give him the names
• 20:35
  Speaker 14: of your life, poor friend. I hope he didn't do.
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: It for me, ma'am.
• 20:41
  Speaker 14: Fred says he's in love with me.
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 20:44
  Speaker 14: He thinks I want money. Maybe that's why he's doing it.
• 20:47
  Speaker 14: I told him, but he never believed me. All I
• 20:49
  Speaker 14: want is my career.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: What do you think that Gunther might come around here
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: to see it?
• 20:53
  Speaker 14: Probably he usually does when I'm in town.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: How about where you're living.
• 20:57
  Speaker 14: I'm staying at a different hotel.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: That's true.
• 20:59
  Speaker 14: He doesn't know where he is, poor Fred. He's going
• 21:02
  Speaker 14: to be awfully disappointed.
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: How do you mean he said he was going.
• 21:06
  Speaker 14: To get money and buy a ring. He's going to
• 21:08
  Speaker 14: marry me this time? Poor Fred? This is my new theme. Officers,
• 21:18
  Speaker 14: you like it?
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: Uh huh?
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: Just one more thing, Miss Stanley. If Gunter contacts you
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: by phone, will you be sure and let us know?
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: All right?
• 21:23
  Speaker 14: I don't do that.
• 21:25
  Speaker 15: It's sure?
• 21:25
  Speaker 14: A beautiful name, isn't it? Deanna Player of Bakersfield?
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: He wrote it for me?
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Beautiful?
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 21:33
  Speaker 14: Fred understands. I don't want to hurt him, but I
• 21:36
  Speaker 14: can't marry him. Oh, I make him understand? How do
• 21:41
  Speaker 14: I explain it?
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: I don't think you'll have to, ma'am. Before we left
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: Lorraine Stanley, we told her that if Gunther should contact her,
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: not to tell him that she talked with us. Steakouts
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: were placed on the dance hall where she worked and
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: at the hotel where she was staying. Gunther's known hangouts
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: were also covered.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: The next night, the.
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: Kid Banned It were back in business. They hit twice
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: a liquor store on Franklin Avenue. In a tavern on
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: South Flower, gun Through and Rhymers were again identified as
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: the two suspects. The steakouts continued. The search went on.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: Four days later, we got a tip from the proprietor
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: of a shoe shine stand.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: On West Temple with gun Through.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: His partner, Harold Rymers, had been seen entering a small
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: hotel up the street from his stand. We drove over
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: and checked with a desk clerk. He identified Rhymer's mug shine.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: He told us the suspect.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: Wasn't in, but that he was expected back that night.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: Ben and I went on steak out in his hotel
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: room seven pm. Rhymers failed to show.
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: Getting a little hungry, Joe you yeah, what time you
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: got now? Twenty after seven the stomachs starting to crow.
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: And what's that paray? I don't think so let's see.
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: Well it's a salvation army band. Oh yeah, Saturday night.
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: Might as well check the office. Huh we can't get
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: a relief. Well would you get me Mesigan five to
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: two one one please?
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: Michigan five to two one one. Yeah, we'll play for it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: Thank you? Did you close the one to George Illinois? Yeah? Okay?
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: Robbery ply yeah, Young, this is from Meryl. How's that sure? Okay? Thanks?
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: Gunther and Rhymers they pulled a hole up down South
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: Maye twenty minutes ago.
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: Gunter got away, you know, they got rhyming.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Seven forty five pm. Then and I got back to
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: the City Hall and went to the interrogation room together
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: with Young and Carr from Robbery.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: We tried to question the suspect, Harold Rhymers. We talked
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: to him for over an hour. He refused to tell
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: us anything. We took him to the main jail where
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: he was booked on two eleven PC. Nine to fifteen pm.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: We went back to the office.
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: I'll get it, robbery or Meryl, just a minute, fu jure?
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Okay?
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: Things Friday talking sergeant.
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: This is Lorraine Stanley.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, miss Stanley, I'm over at work the dance Will
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: you remember, yes, ma'am?
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: Anything wrong?
• 24:07
  Speaker 14: Well, Fred just called me, sergeant. I told the officers
• 24:10
  Speaker 14: here Fred.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: Gunter, yes, ma'am. Where is he?
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: Did?
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: He say? No? All he said was he wanted to
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: see me. Yeah, he said he was coming right over
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: nine pm.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: We called them in on steakout at the dance hall
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: and alerted them Delton, Young, Ben and I got in
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: the car and drove over. We checked with the detail
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: on steakhout. Gunther hadn't been spotted, but because of the
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: large crowd entering and leaving the dance hall, it was
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: possible that he could have gotten in unnoticed. We talked
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: to the Stanley girl. She hadn't seen or heard anything
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: further from the suspect. Ben and I staked out in
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: her dressing room. Where Gunter said he'd meet the girl
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: was a small converted storeroom at went end of the
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: dance floor, just behind the bandstand. Lorraine Stanley was on
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: during the intermission.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: We waited, what have.
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: You got y know?
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: Almost ten thirty?
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: This guy must feel pretty sure of him, he said,
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: if he posed the robbery's almost picked up in Three
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: hours later, he makes a date to show in the
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: public play.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: You know he hasn't shown yet. I'm not too sure
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: about that Stanley girl.
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: How do you mean she's that big an attraction for him?
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: This is the only way out besides that fire escape
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: off the alley.
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Young's covering the alley. Come on, you gotta find me.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: He's up the alley behind one of those trucks.
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: You can't go for it's day and end.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Stay here, Young and cut him up.
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: You all right? Yeah?
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: He slug may knock me down.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: I didn't see him in the dark. Come on, Ben,
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: easy enough, you're a dark Yeah.
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: What behind that?
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: I want your Joe missed him coming.
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: Back to you.
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: Don't shoot, don't shoot?
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: All right?
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: That show.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: You want to stay with him? Young? We'll call him. Yeah,
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: right close to splace, that little cafe off the alley
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: to the left.
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: Thanks.
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: Come on then, yeah, I'm here, eh, yeah, I guess
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: they got a phone inside. Come on, wait a minute.
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: As soon as we get gun to downtown, we're gonna
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: come right back here. Before take a look at that
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: fry cook in the winter there.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, what about him?
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: That fella makes a Spanish almond exactly like I did.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: On July nineteenth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: eighty six, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: In a moment the results of that trial, Bred Gunter
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: and Harold Reimers were tried and convicted on several counts
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: of robbery and assault. They received sentences as prescribed by law,
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: and they're now serving their terms in the state penitentiary.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases
• 27:22
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• 27:25
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• 27:36
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• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back. One thing that's standing out to me this
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: time through Dragnet is how many of these early cases
• 27:55
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• 28:00
  Speaker 14: Now.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think all of them are all the same.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I think each is interesting to listen to as you're
• 28:07
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• 28:11
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• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Joel Friday trying to help out Ben Romero with breakfast
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: in mom Friday's absence seems to be a case of
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the very near sighted leading the blind. I get the
• 28:30
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• 28:34
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• 28:38
  Speaker 1: that's about it. On the right side. At least when
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: he went to the bakery, Friday didn't have to find
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: a bakery that carried gram bread. We already talked in
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: a previous episode about what a challenge that would be.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Though I do have to say it seems to me
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: that if Friday had been allowed to have burial or milk,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: and I don't think he even he could mess that up,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: he actually would have been able to eat before going
• 29:09
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• 29:13
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• 29:17
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  Speaker 12: I don't know whether you've heard Sojio, but you've got
• 30:42
  Speaker 12: a namesake in town. There's another Tony Paletti.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: You call that news.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: According to the phone book, there are eleven of them
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: in New York.
• 30:49
  Speaker 12: Now, well, one I had in mine works for Gambler
• 30:51
  Speaker 12: named Frank Novak.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: So so I got to rumb A.
• 30:53
  Speaker 12: Little couple of hoods just moved in from Detroit looking
• 30:55
  Speaker 12: for him.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: What's that got to do with me?
• 30:57
  Speaker 12: Nothing, I hope, But these boys are kind of trigger happy.
• 31:02
  Speaker 12: I'd hate to see him make a mistake.
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: Listener, Marie ain't either, limit.
• 31:06
  Speaker 12: How mistakes have happened before, Tony. That's how they finally
• 31:09
  Speaker 12: caught up with murder Incorporated. I get the wrong man.
• 31:12
  Speaker 14: What do you think you should do?
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 31:13
  Speaker 12: I've already called the police and a few people have
• 31:15
  Speaker 12: no objection. I'd like to stick close for a couple
• 31:18
  Speaker 12: of days.
• 31:19
  Speaker 15: Write of your mind why I think it makes sense?
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 31:21
  Speaker 14: Look, he's nothing to worry about.
• 31:23
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• 31:25
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• 31:27
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• 31:30
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• 31:33
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