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Dragnet: The Big Fire (EP4994) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: Great Detectives dot net. Now from March thirteenth, nineteen fifty two,
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  Speaker 1: here is the Big Fire.
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  Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true. 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 a homicide detail. You receive a
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  Speaker 2: complaint about the owner of an apartment building. He signs
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  Speaker 2: leases for the apartments, then he threatens to kill the
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  Speaker 2: tenants if they move in your job investigate.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet. The document a 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 from
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  Speaker 3: official police violence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 4: It was Wednesday, May night was hot in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 4: We were working the night Watch out of homicide detail.
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  Speaker 4: My partner's Ed Jacobs. The boss's Captain Mormon. My name's Friday.
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  Speaker 4: It was six forty seven pm when I got back
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  Speaker 4: to the Capitol Avenue Auto Corp. Gotti's number eleven.
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  Speaker 5: No, no reason in the world for it. I tried
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  Speaker 5: to reason with him. He wouldn't even listen. It's the
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  Speaker 5: craziest thing I ever saw.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, and Jeorde, you find the phone right? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I checked the office. Lope says. They picked up Daniels
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  Speaker 4: a few minutes ago. They'd bring him downtown.
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  Speaker 7: Now they got him that they're going to put him in.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it depends, ma'am. It's going to take a little
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  Speaker 4: more investigating first.
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  Speaker 7: I don't see what else you need. He threatened us
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  Speaker 7: with a gun. Me and Doris asked me if that
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  Speaker 7: isn't a crime.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what is a few more questions we'd
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  Speaker 6: like to ask you, man, if you don't mind, couple
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  Speaker 6: of things we'd like to clear up.
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  Speaker 5: I told you just how it happened, Doris, I'll tell
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  Speaker 5: you the same thing. It's just a crazy old man.
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  Speaker 5: If you ask me how to be put away?
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  Speaker 4: Do you ever have any trouble with mister Daniels before
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  Speaker 4: this afternoon? Miss Cameron?
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  Speaker 7: Excuse me? The baby?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 7: What is it now? Honey? Can't you sleep? You try now?
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  Speaker 4: I want you.
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  Speaker 7: Daddy'll be home pretty soon.
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  Speaker 6: Boy, you try and sleep, Miss Cameron.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, oh, you'll be quiet now. I don't want any
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  Speaker 7: trouble from you. You heard me, be quiet now?
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  Speaker 6: You got your hands full?
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  Speaker 5: Man, don't I know what a canary of four months
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  Speaker 5: old baby trying to keep house on an auto court.
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  Speaker 7: I knew it was going to be like this. I
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  Speaker 7: never would have left passer Robles.
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  Speaker 4: You've only been in town a week or so? Is
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  Speaker 4: that right?
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  Speaker 7: It's closer to two weeks. Seems more like two months.
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  Speaker 5: Trying to get along in a place like this, a
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  Speaker 5: room in the bath, no place to cook, rints out diapers.
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  Speaker 7: It's terrible.
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  Speaker 5: I told my husband, he should come down here alone,
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  Speaker 5: find us a place to live first, then we could move.
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  Speaker 7: No, he had to have it his way.
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  Speaker 4: Say, your husband made the first contact with Daniels. He
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  Speaker 4: gave him a deposit on this apartment.
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  Speaker 7: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: The same day started work at the aircraft plant in
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  Speaker 5: the valley. We've been living in passor Robe since we
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  Speaker 5: got married a month ago. Pete, that's my husband. You
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  Speaker 5: get a lead on this aircraft job down here. Him
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  Speaker 5: and Ralph came down signed.
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  Speaker 7: Up for it.
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  Speaker 6: Ralph, who's that, ma'am?
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  Speaker 5: Ralph Ashby? He's Doris's husband. Doris Ashby, she's my best girlfriend.
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  Speaker 5: We were neighbors out in passer Rob. I see we're
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  Speaker 5: not doing much better than.
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  Speaker 7: We are right now.
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  Speaker 5: They're staying in another court up the street, same thing,
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  Speaker 5: room in the bath. Doris is expecting to a poor kid.
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  Speaker 7: Did you hear me? You'd be quiet now. You want
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  Speaker 7: to wake up the baby.
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  Speaker 4: About the arrangements your husband made with Daniels to Lease's apartment,
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  Speaker 4: Miss Cameron.
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  Speaker 5: When it was all this, we could go Monday, the
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  Speaker 5: day after I moved down here, my husband and Ralph
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  Speaker 5: Ashby saw the rental ad in the paper and they
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  Speaker 5: went over and talked to Daniels. He said, all right,
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  Speaker 5: he had an apartment for the Ashby's, the one for us,
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  Speaker 5: nice places too.
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  Speaker 4: I see.
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  Speaker 5: Ralph and my husband signed the leases, gave him the
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  Speaker 5: first and last month's rent in advance.
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  Speaker 7: Was all decided.
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  Speaker 6: Well, how is it you couldn't move in right away,
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  Speaker 6: miss Cameron?
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  Speaker 5: He said, he was in the apartment house redecorated. Daniels
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  Speaker 5: Did I mean? He told Ralph and my husband the
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  Speaker 5: apartments would probably be ready for us on the eighth.
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  Speaker 5: That was yesterday, he said, the ninth, for sure, And
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  Speaker 5: that's today, And.
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  Speaker 4: You tried to move in this afternoon and Daniel's refused
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  Speaker 4: to let you in. Is that it?
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  Speaker 5: I had the movers get all our things out of
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  Speaker 5: storage and move them out to the apartment. So then
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  Speaker 5: my girlfriend, Doris, the movers were just starting to get
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  Speaker 5: our furniture out of the van and move it into
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  Speaker 5: the apartment when mister Daniels showed up. He acted like
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  Speaker 5: a crazy man.
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  Speaker 6: Would to give any reasons why he couldn't move him.
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  Speaker 5: We tried to give us a lot of reasons. None
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  Speaker 5: of them made any sense. She could ask Doris, She'll
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  Speaker 5: tell you.
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  Speaker 7: She was there with me.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what did Daniel's say? Not just for instance.
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  Speaker 5: We said a lot of things. First, he told us
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  Speaker 5: there was no water in the apartments, hadn't been turned
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  Speaker 5: on yet. He said the gas wasn't turned on either.
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  Speaker 5: Well I knew that was a lie. I was in
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  Speaker 5: the apartment late in the morning. Everything was fine, the
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  Speaker 5: gas was.
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  Speaker 7: Working, so was the water.
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  Speaker 5: I see when I caught him in that lye, he
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  Speaker 5: got madder than ever, made some more excuses. Then he
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  Speaker 5: started yelling and swearing at me right there on the sidewalk.
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  Speaker 5: Said the apartment just wasn't ready yet.
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  Speaker 7: I told him he'd climb a tree. We signed the
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  Speaker 7: least who paid the rent.
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  Speaker 5: We were moving in anyway, told the movers to go
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  Speaker 5: ahead take in the furniture.
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  Speaker 6: What Daniels say then?
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  Speaker 7: Nothing?
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  Speaker 5: He just got real purple in the face, and he
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  Speaker 5: put his hand in his coat pocket and he took
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  Speaker 5: out a gun.
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  Speaker 7: Pointed it at me and Doris, and I had the
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  Speaker 7: baby in my arms.
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  Speaker 4: Imagine that he actually told you he shoots you. You
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  Speaker 4: tried to move in the apartment the right.
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  Speaker 5: So many words, Yes, he did. He threatened the moving
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  Speaker 5: man too. They tried to talk to him. He wouldn't listen.
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  Speaker 5: We all tried to talk to him. We didn't make
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  Speaker 5: any sense at all. I wasn't gonna take any chances
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  Speaker 5: with the baby in my arm. Doris and I got
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  Speaker 5: in the car and drove away, so the movers they
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  Speaker 5: left with us. I can't say I'll blame them either.
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  Speaker 5: Tat Daniels must be out of his mind. It's the
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  Speaker 5: only thing Nighting figure real nut Well.
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  Speaker 4: Did either you or your husband have any arguments with
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  Speaker 4: him at all before this afternoon?
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  Speaker 7: No, everything was fine. This afternoon was the second time
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  Speaker 7: I ever spoke to the man.
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  Speaker 4: He had no objections to your having children or pets
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  Speaker 4: in the apartment.
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  Speaker 7: None at all.
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  Speaker 5: That's one of the first things my husband told Daniels
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  Speaker 5: when he went to look at the apartment. We had
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  Speaker 5: a baby in a canary. Daniels said it was all
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  Speaker 5: right with him. He didn't object at all.
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  Speaker 6: I understand there's six apartments in the building, Miss Cameron.
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  Speaker 5: That right, Yes, that's right. They're all vacant as far
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  Speaker 5: as I know. Daniel was just bought the bullion a
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  Speaker 5: month ago. That's why he told my husband. Anyway, he
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  Speaker 5: had the place redecorated and the work was all done.
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  Speaker 5: The apartments are just sitting there. That's why I can't
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  Speaker 5: understand it. Why won't he let us move in? Yes,
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  Speaker 5: we paid our money, signed the least he gave us
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  Speaker 5: any kind of a good reason why we shouldn't move in.
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  Speaker 7: I could understand it.
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  Speaker 5: But to keep us out for no reason at all,
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  Speaker 5: to stand out there in the sidewalk and threaten to
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  Speaker 5: shoot us if we move in, me with a baby
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  Speaker 5: in my arms, I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: He must be crazy.
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  Speaker 4: You say you were in the apartment this morning, Missus Cameron.
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  Speaker 4: Did you notice anything unusual about the place, anything out
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  Speaker 4: of the ordinary. No?
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  Speaker 7: Nothing.
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  Speaker 4: When you say Daniels couldn't give any reason at all
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  Speaker 4: why you shouldn't move in, just.
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  Speaker 7: One, it convinced me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I had gone before we left, Missus Cameron. We
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  Speaker 4: took her crime report and had her sign it, and
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  Speaker 4: then we drove back downtown to the squadroom where Geene
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  Speaker 4: Bechdel and Lloyd Bond were waiting with the suspect, Edward Daniels.
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  Speaker 4: They'd already checked him through our and eye. He had
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  Speaker 4: no previous criminal record. They gave us a twenty two
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  Speaker 4: caliber H and R Revolver along with six shells, which
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  Speaker 4: had been found on the suspect at the time of
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  Speaker 4: his arrest. The gun had been loaded. Pawn Shop records
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  Speaker 4: showed that the weapon had been purchased by the suspect
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  Speaker 4: and had been registered in his name. We had stenographer
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  Speaker 4: Eleanor Eastlack type up the crime report and ed and
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  Speaker 4: I took Daniels down the hall of the interrogation room.
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  Speaker 4: He was a small, thin man, blue eyes, gray hair.
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  Speaker 8: Don't know what all the fuss is about out in
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  Speaker 8: the building. I can keep people out of for WANTA.
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  Speaker 6: When we saw the leash signed with the Camerons. The
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  Speaker 6: other couple too. They paid their rent. Why the sudden
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  Speaker 6: change of heart.
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  Speaker 8: I don't think that's any of your business. Mattered between
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  Speaker 8: me and the tenant.
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  Speaker 4: It's our business when you threaten them with a gun.
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  Speaker 4: Daniel's assault with a deadly weapon, that's a felony.
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  Speaker 8: Didn't hurt the woman, just wanted to scare. That's all
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  Speaker 8: just a couple of farmers anyway. Never should have given
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  Speaker 8: them the lease in the first place. While was a
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  Speaker 8: kid with him, not bird chirping all the time.
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  Speaker 4: Odd you happen to have that gun with you this afternoon.
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  Speaker 8: Didn't happen to have it carry it all the time.
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  Speaker 8: It's my business. Isn't it registered down here?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you got a permit to carry this gun.
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  Speaker 8: Don't need a permit. Its registered, isn't it.
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  Speaker 4: It gave you the idea because the gun's registered, you
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  Speaker 4: can carry it around.
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  Speaker 8: Your pocket, friend of mine. Nothing wrong with it, is there?
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  Speaker 4: Having a gun registered is nothing more than keeping a
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  Speaker 4: permanent record of it. You can keep the gun in
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  Speaker 4: your home or in your office, but it doesn't give
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  Speaker 4: you the right to carry it around with you.
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  Speaker 8: Oh well, to tell me that when I had it registered?
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  Speaker 6: You were told much of Daniels.
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  Speaker 8: You know that, well, I don't remember.
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  Speaker 6: It doesn't make much difference if you remember or not.
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  Speaker 6: Nobody is a permit to threaten people with a gun.
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  Speaker 8: Told you it wasn't going to hurt her. She just
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  Speaker 8: kept arguing with me. I'm a sick man, you know.
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  Speaker 8: Thought she was going to hit me.
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  Speaker 4: You. Meanwhile, she was holding that baby in her arms.
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  Speaker 4: I come off with, Daniels, what's this thing all about?
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  Speaker 8: Told you before? I think that's my Because.
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  Speaker 4: You signed a year's least with the cameras, you accepted
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  Speaker 4: the first and last month's rent. You took their money,
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  Speaker 4: you're advising they could move in this afternoon. When they
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  Speaker 4: try to move in, you meet him at the front
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  Speaker 4: door and threaten them with a gun. Now, what's it
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  Speaker 4: all about? None of this makes any sense?
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  Speaker 8: Change my mind. I'm not ready to rent them out yet.
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  Speaker 6: Well, and why'd you sign that, least with the cameraon?
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  Speaker 6: Sow about it, mister Daniels. If there's something in that
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  Speaker 6: building you're trying to cover up, you might as well
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  Speaker 6: tell there's a couple of men out there now checking it.
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  Speaker 8: You can go ahead and check. I don't care, they
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  Speaker 8: won't find anything. Got nothing to hide. How long you
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  Speaker 8: lived here, Daniels, eighteen twenty years.
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  Speaker 4: Why where'd you live before you came here?
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  Speaker 8: Ohio? Cleveland, Ohio.
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  Speaker 4: You ever been arrested?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, couple of traffic tickets. Cops said, I went through
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  Speaker 8: a stop signal. It wasn't gilly though. What's the point anyway?
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  Speaker 8: What are you trying to get at, trying to force
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  Speaker 8: me to let those people in that apartment.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not trying to force into anything, Daniels. Business about
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  Speaker 6: the lease is a civil matter that's between you and
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  Speaker 6: the camerons.
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  Speaker 8: And what are you holding me here for We told.
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  Speaker 4: You you threatened that woman with a gun. She sent an
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  Speaker 4: ADW report.
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  Speaker 8: What do you mean ADW assault with a deadly weapon?
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  Speaker 4: That's a pretty serious charge.
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  Speaker 8: Daniels didn't hurt the woman, didn't even touch her.
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  Speaker 6: Planted the gun at her, didn't you.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Gun was loaded, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Capable of being fired.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, But I wasn't going to shoot her. I told you,
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  Speaker 8: just wanted to scare her off, get her out of there.
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  Speaker 8: It's the truth. I wasn't going to shoot her. What
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  Speaker 8: do I have to do to convince you?
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  Speaker 4: You don't have to convince us.
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  Speaker 8: What do you mean, who do I have to convince?
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  Speaker 4: You? Got your choice? A judge or jury ed and
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  Speaker 4: I took the suspect, Edward Daniels down to the main jail,
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  Speaker 4: where we booke him in on suspicion of four sixty
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  Speaker 4: seven PCADW. Before he was locked up, Daniels asked us
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  Speaker 4: if we would take the keys to his car and
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  Speaker 4: the keys to his apartment house to an Oliver Randall,
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  Speaker 4: an employee of his who acted as a janitor and
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  Speaker 4: general handyman at two other apartment houses Daniel's own. We
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  Speaker 4: told him we would. After we left the main jail,
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  Speaker 4: we checked by the office, and then we drove out
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  Speaker 4: to the location of the apartment house to interview the
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  Speaker 4: neighbors and deliver the keys to Daniel's handyman, Oliver Randall.
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  Speaker 4: Other than telling us that they considered mister Daniels a
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  Speaker 4: little eccentric, the neighbors were unable to give us any
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  Speaker 4: additional information that might help us in the prosecution. After
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  Speaker 4: we finished talking to the neighbors, we went across the
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  Speaker 4: street to the apartment house. There were lights burning in
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  Speaker 4: the upper rear apartment. We tried the bell, but there
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  Speaker 4: was no answer. From the set of keys Daniels had
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  Speaker 4: given us. We found the one that fit the door
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  Speaker 4: and let ourselves in. We heard somebody moving around on
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  Speaker 4: the floor above us. We went up and found a
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  Speaker 4: man there who identified himself as Oliver Randall. He appeared
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  Speaker 4: nervous and upset. There were papers and rags scattered over
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  Speaker 4: the floor of the room.
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  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, I was just cleaning up here. Mister Daniels
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  Speaker 9: told me to be sure and clean the step the
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  Speaker 9: papers and gentle.
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  Speaker 6: I see, well, here's some keys for your Randall. Daniels
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  Speaker 6: ask to get them to you.
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  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, Piper and house keys. Mister Daniels was supposed
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  Speaker 9: to meet me here, he said, eight o'clock. I think
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  Speaker 9: that's but he said, I wonder where he is. You
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  Speaker 9: know where he is.
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  Speaker 4: He's in jail.
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  Speaker 9: Oh what's he doing in jail? Did he do something wrong?
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  Speaker 4: He's had a complaint file against him, assault with a
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  Speaker 4: deadly weapon.
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  Speaker 9: Where it happened he get mad at somebody. Mister Daniels
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  Speaker 9: gotten awful, bad temper. When he gets mad at somebody,
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  Speaker 9: he doesn't forget it. I know I worked for him.
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  Speaker 9: How long have you worked for him, Randall? I don't know,
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  Speaker 9: A long time, maybe five years.
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  Speaker 4: I forget You say Daniels is a bad temper. Have
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  Speaker 4: you ever known him to be violent? Randall?
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  Speaker 9: How's that?
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  Speaker 4: Well? Have you ever known him to be violent? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: have you ever known him to hurt anyone?
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  Speaker 9: I don't know. I don't remember. A lot of times
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  Speaker 9: he says he's gonna do things. I work for him.
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  Speaker 9: You know a lot of times he gets mad at me.
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  Speaker 9: He says, I don't work fast than or I don't
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  Speaker 9: do the right things. He always carries his gun, you know,
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  Speaker 9: once he said he was gonna shoot me. I was
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  Speaker 9: pretty scared. You live with mister Daniels, do you No,
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  Speaker 9: I have a room downstairs in another apartment house Sea
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  Speaker 9: Oones and place over on South Hoover. It's a nice room.
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  Speaker 9: It's got a window in it.
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  Speaker 6: You're on a regular salary, that the way you work?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, fifteen dollars a week. I get the room free two.
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  Speaker 9: It's not bad.
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  Speaker 4: You ever been arrested, Randall me?
• 12:55
  Speaker 9: No, I've never been arrested.
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: Have you ever been in the state hospital any kind
• 12:58
  Speaker 4: of an institution.
• 12:59
  Speaker 10: No.
• 12:59
  Speaker 9: I was put Camaio for a couple of years. I
• 13:01
  Speaker 9: didn't like it too much. I came down here to
• 13:03
  Speaker 9: live with my sister. She's dead now, she died about
• 13:06
  Speaker 9: four years ago. She's the one that got me this job.
• 13:09
  Speaker 9: You know that's Oh yeah, this isn't a bad job
• 13:11
  Speaker 9: at all. John's are pretty hard to get now, That's
• 13:14
  Speaker 9: what mister Daniels says. It's real tough to get a
• 13:16
  Speaker 9: good job. Now. That's why I do what I'm told.
• 13:18
  Speaker 9: I better get on fixing up this place.
• 13:21
  Speaker 4: How do all these rags and papers get here? Randal
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: the painters leaving behind?
• 13:25
  Speaker 9: Oh I guess so, I guess somebody left him here.
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: We understood the apartments were already cleaned up, they were
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: ready to move into.
• 13:31
  Speaker 9: What's that?
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: I say, we understood the apartments were all fixed up,
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: that they were ready for the tenants to move right into.
• 13:35
  Speaker 9: Oh, I don't know. I wouldn't know about that. Mister
• 13:38
  Speaker 9: Daniels takes care of renting the places. I just help him.
• 13:40
  Speaker 9: I do what he tells me.
• 13:42
  Speaker 6: Joe, Yeah, you notice that smell seems to be stronger
• 13:45
  Speaker 6: out in the hall.
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I do. How long has it been
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: since the painters were working here? Randal? Do you know
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: that painters?
• 13:51
  Speaker 9: I don't know. A couple of days. I guess what's
• 13:53
  Speaker 9: the man?
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: That's a pretty strong smell. Might be painting or something
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: like that. Don't you notice it?
• 13:58
  Speaker 9: Oh? Yeah, I've been wondering that. I noticed that when
• 14:01
  Speaker 9: I came in. It might be from upstairs. The attic
• 14:03
  Speaker 9: painters were working up there too, I think.
• 14:05
  Speaker 6: Don't you think you ought to check it see what
• 14:07
  Speaker 6: it is?
• 14:08
  Speaker 9: Mister Daniels didn't tell me too. I guess they're better though.
• 14:12
  Speaker 9: Smell it's pretty strong. I guess I better see what
• 14:14
  Speaker 9: it is.
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: How do you get to the attic from here?
• 14:16
  Speaker 9: Down the end of the hall. There's a stairway there.
• 14:18
  Speaker 9: It goes right up in the attic. Off show you
• 14:20
  Speaker 9: all right, fine, Yeah, snows like gasoline or something.
• 14:26
  Speaker 6: Only apartments are vacans, that right, No one living in
• 14:28
  Speaker 6: the building.
• 14:28
  Speaker 9: All yeah, that's right. We go up the stairs here,
• 14:33
  Speaker 9: Sir Daniels had the whole place work over. Nobody here
• 14:36
  Speaker 9: at all? Right now, I guess he'll be moving in
• 14:38
  Speaker 9: pretty soon. It's gonna be a lot of work. Got
• 14:41
  Speaker 9: the other two apartment houses take care of, and there's
• 14:43
  Speaker 9: gonna be this place. It's gonna be a lot of work.
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: Daniels, Hire anyone else beside yourself to help out with
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: the work.
• 14:48
  Speaker 9: I mean, no, I don't think so. Just me. I
• 14:50
  Speaker 9: keep pretty busy. Here's the attic.
• 14:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's must be where it's coming from.
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's strong enough to knock you over in.
• 14:59
  Speaker 9: The light switch is over.
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: Here's a mess, sure mess, papers, boxes, pound a little rags.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: Had five yeallon? Can they're on the floor, kerosena. Yeah,
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: it's just about empty too.
• 15:15
  Speaker 9: It's all spilled all over the floor. Mister Daniels ain't
• 15:18
  Speaker 9: gonna like that. He's gonna get mad.
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: Usually keep this stuff up here. Do you Rental?
• 15:21
  Speaker 9: No, I guess it was with the painters stuff. There's
• 15:24
  Speaker 9: cans and things on the table there. I guess he
• 15:26
  Speaker 9: got knocked off and spilled spilled all over the place,
• 15:29
  Speaker 9: didn't they.
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: Well, how come a painting crew didn't take their stuff
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: with him when they left? All this equipment here are
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: all finished with a job, aren't they?
• 15:34
  Speaker 9: I guess so you'd have to ask mister Daniels about that.
• 15:37
  Speaker 9: They're all finished on the inside. I know that they
• 15:39
  Speaker 9: had the outside to do though. Maybe that's why they
• 15:41
  Speaker 9: left their stuff.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: It was not a very safe way to leave it. Rags, papers,
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Look here, kerosene spilled all over. You better get this
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: place cleaned up first, don't you think, Rendal?
• 15:48
  Speaker 9: I don't know. I sure wish mister Daniels was here.
• 15:52
  Speaker 9: You won't let him know what?
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: Do you mean? Let him know what?
• 15:55
  Speaker 9: Don't tell him? I'll let you see the attic. Huh.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: Nine thirty five pm. Ed and I left the handyman
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: Oliver Randall at his apartment house, went outside and got
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: in the car. Neither one of us could find any
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: explanation for it, but we both had a hunch that
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: was something wrong with a setup. We drove to a
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: neighborhood service station, called the office and told them we
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: were going to stake the apartment house. We drove back
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: and found a place to park where we could keep
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: the building under surveillance without being seen. We waited ten
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: pm ten thirty eleven o'clock. At a few minutes past eleven,
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: we saw Randall come out of the front door of
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: the apartment, get in a blue sedan and drive off.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: We followed him to an apartment building on West Pico
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: and saw him uter a rear door. We waited. At
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: twelve fifteen am, ed got to a phone called Captain
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Bernard at the Business Office and notified him of our location.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: At twelve forty five am, two men arrived to relieve
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: us and we briefed him on the facts. We drove
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: back to the office, made out of fifteen point seven
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: to Captain Norman, and signed out. At four o'clock. The
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: next afternoon, we reported back in for work. We checked
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: the book and found a message that the suspect, Edward
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: Daniels had been released from jail that morning on a
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: wrint bail twenty five hundred dollars. The wrint was returnable Thursday,
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: May tenth. There was also a message in the book
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: for us to contact Daniel's attorney, A Richard Tiernan ed
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: put in the call.
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir, I see what's that? Yeah, yeah, I know
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: all right, mister Turnan, Yeah, thank you, goodbye. You are right, Joe,
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: what do you mean? Daniel's lawyer want to know how
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: serious the charges are. It says Daniels is pretty upset.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: It seems he had some trouble lately his insurance company.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: More, what's the matter? You have an accident?
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: Insurance company doesn't seem to think it was an accident
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: happened two months ago at an apartment house over in
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: South Union. Yeah, burn don.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: force in action.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Thursday May tenth, four thirty pm, we contacted the Fire
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Department's arson Squad to find out if the fire at
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Daniel's apartment house on South Union Avenue two months before
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: was under investigation. After checking back, they told us investigators
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: from the arson squad had found a large amount of
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: kerosene to be present and some of the burned timbers
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: found in the debris after the fire was put out.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: They said that mister Daniels had admitted after the fire
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: that the apartment building had been recently redecorated, and that
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: kerosene paint and other inflammables had been stored in the
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: attic of the building. Ed and I contacted the insurance
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: adjuster handling the case as Snyder Peebles, and he told
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: us there wasn't any doubt in his mind that the
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: fire at Daniel's apartment house two months before was of
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: incendiary origin, but he said so far the investigators were
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: unable to prove it. The one thing that seemed to
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: puzzle him was if Daniels planned on burning down the building,
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: why did he go to the trouble and expense of
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: redecorating first.
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: Well.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: As soon as it was dark ed and I drove
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: out relieved the men on stakeout at the apartment house
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: on West Pico, where the handyman Oliver Randall had his room.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: They reported no unusual activity during the day. Seven thirty
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: two pm, Randal came out of the apartment house, got
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: in a car and drove off.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: We followed him. If we got this Randall made right,
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: it shouldn't be too long before we find out Daniels
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: are using him to work something out. I'm pretty sure
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: we can count on that.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe I'll watch it d he's turning down Union. Yeah,
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: he's pulling up ahead. Don't cry him.
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: There's a good spot here. Shouldn't be able to see it,
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: all right, pull.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Up in here, all right, it's fine. He's getting out
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: of the car.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: He's going over the house, down the driveway, going around back.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: He's out of side.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Now right, let's go.
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: There's still no lights in the place. Oh yeah, there
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: they go in the basement. All right, easy, let's take
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: it easily. Yeah, I think I can see the back
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: door from here, right, Come on, easy?
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Now, what is it? Right? Easy with this story? Ed?
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Don't let it be huh? Why now sounds like somebody
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: upstairs the right Come on, watch a step man, come
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: on next floor up? Yeah, yeah, it's up in the attic.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Come on, all right, come on through the store back
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: in the corner.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: End, I say, all, I told you, what's the mattic.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: There's a fire right over in the corner. I'll get it.
• 20:25
  Speaker 9: Hold on him, right, well, don't put it out.
• 20:29
  Speaker 11: You needn't help show you're getting a right So I'm
• 20:31
  Speaker 11: getting an r a minute.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: All I got it.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: Okay, you want to get the lights and I got him.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: All right, Randall, what's the story.
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: You told me to do it? He told me to
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: come back tonight and burn the whole place down.
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: Who told you?
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: He said, I'll you go back to the place, to
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: the attic, light a match, that's all, and then get out.
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: Mister Daniels. That's just what he said.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Daniels told you to do this.
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: He told me, just light a fire and nobody'd know.
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: He said, there wasn't going to be any trouble, no
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: trouble at all.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: It gives you the edge, doesn't it.
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: No trouble?
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: He said, yeah, Well, next time and you see him,
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: you can call him a liar. Eight fifty pm, after
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: making sure that the place was secure and that there
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: was no danger of fire from the recent arsenal, attempt
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: ed and I took the suspect, Oliver Randall outside and
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: put him in the car where we questioned him. He
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: made no attempt to disguise the fact that he had
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: been directed by his regular employer, Edward Daniels, to commit
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: arson by setting fire to the attic of the apartment house.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: In addition, he told us that Daniels had threatened him
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: with bodily harm if he refused to obey the order
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: and set fire to the building.
• 21:30
  Speaker 9: He had this gun, you know, mister Daniels did. He
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: always had it with him. I was scared of it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: I don't mind telling you.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: Huh. He threatened to kill you if you didn't do
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: what he wanted that.
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I guess so. You used to get mad all
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: out of the time, and he had this gun. He
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: as had the gun and get mad at me and
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: tell me he was going to shoot me. I'm afraid
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: of guns.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: How about to fire at the other apartment house Ali,
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: the one over on South Union Avenue.
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: That was a big fire.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Did you start that one?
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: Daniels told me there was nobody living there. He said
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: nobody'd get hurt. Nobody did get hurt.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: Did they Do you start the fire?
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah? I guess so, I guess I did.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: Mister Daniels tell you to do it?
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: He said it was his building, he owned it, He
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: could do anything whether he wanted to. I didn't want
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: to do it. He told me i'd have to. He
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: said he'd hurt me with that gun, and he said
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: he'd fire me too. I didn't want to lose my job.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: You knew you were doing wrong, didn't Jolly?
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: I guess I did, yee? What could I do?
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Though?
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: I didn't want to lose my job? Good jobs aren't
• 22:18
  Speaker 9: too easy to get nowadays. You know that.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Where's mister Daniels? Now?
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: You know you're not going to tell him what I
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: told you? Are? He said, not to say anything about it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: He said, nobody believe me anyway. Nobody said he'd tell
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: everybody I was a liar, said they'd believe him before
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: they'd believe me.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: Where's Daniels?
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: If I tell you, you won't let him hurt me,
• 22:35
  Speaker 9: will you?
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: No, we won't let him hurt you. You're gonna have
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: to help us out, though.
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: What do you want me to do?
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Like to find out where Daniels is? First?
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: He's in a movie over on Pico by his house.
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: He's waiting for me.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: You mean he's waiting for you in the show?
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: See in the center section ten rows from the back.
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: He's waiting for me.
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: Now, well, how's it you're supposed to meet him there?
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: No, he said, if anybody wanted to know where we
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: were tonight, this is proof we didn't start the fire.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: We were at the show.
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: I was supposed to start the fire and then go
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: to the show and meet him ten rows from the
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: back of the center section.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: You want to show us where this movie is, Alie.
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, mister Daniels won't tell you anything. No, he's
• 23:07
  Speaker 9: going to be mad. He won't tell you anything.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Well, that's where we need your help.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: Ally, what do you mean, We'll let him tell you.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Nine four pm, ED and I, along with a suspect,
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Oliver Randall, drove to the movie house on West Pico.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: On the way, we explained to Randal what he was
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: supposed to do. Nine fifty five pm, we parked our
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: car half a block from the movie house, bought three tickets,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: and went inside. The feature picture was still on. There
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: wasn't much of a crowd. We sent Randal down the
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: aisle ahead of us and watched him move into the
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: tenth row and sit down next to somebody. Ed and
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: I followed him down and found seats in the road
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: directly behind him. We recognized the man sitting next to
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Randall as Edward Daniels.
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: Hello, mister Daniels, I did it just the way you
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: told me up in the attic. It was okay.
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: Nobody saw you didn't have any trouble, doll.
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: No, it was okay. I don't feel so good about it, though,
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: What do you mean what are you talking about?
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: Maybe somebody might find out. Don't you think we'd get
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: in trouble if they've found out?
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: We just keep your mouth shut out, attended there, nobody's
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: going to.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Find out, all right, Daniels, you mind coming outside? We'd
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: like to talk to you.
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: What are you doing here?
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: Come on, we'll talk that time.
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: What's this all about?
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: We'll let you tell us.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: All right?
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: What do you want? You' arresting me?
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: That's right, mister.
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: Why what's it supposed to be this time?
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: Thank?
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: Arsenal conspiracy? Cotton Randall here? Call him right in the act.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: He told us the whole story?
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: What Holly?
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: What story?
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: What is this?
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: I told you I didn't want to do it, mister Daniels,
• 24:32
  Speaker 9: I told you we'd get in trouble.
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: Fool, stupid fool. Should have known better.
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you should have just two questions for you, Daniels.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: Why'd you burn down your own property? Why'd you redecorate
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: the buildings? First?
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: I never forgot it, told him, when had happened. I
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: wouldn't forget it as long as I lived.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: What do you mean forget what?
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: Twenty four years ago? I was just starting out a
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: small store back in Ohio burned down, real fire. Was
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: the insurance company. They wouldn't believe me. Had to sue
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: lost the whole thing, had to start all over again.
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: I told him I'll never forget it. Told him I'd
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: make him pay.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: You've been nursing this grudge for twenty four years.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: Why not? Why shouldn't I lost everything everything I had?
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Why do you redecorate the apartment house if you planned
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: to burn him down?
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: Simple? Gave me a good excuse. Can have all those
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: things stored in the buildings? Paint kerosene? Besides, who think
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: I'd burned down the building right after I got done?
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: Redecorating on a bad idea? Worked pretty good, didn't it.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're going to jail. You figured.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true. The names
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: On August eighteenth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: eighty six, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: In a moment, the results of that trial.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Now here is our star Jack Webb.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Thank you, George Gentleman. Friends. Comparisons are often very helpful
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: in modern police work. Now, for instance, the suspect may
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: be identified by comparing his mo or method of operation
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: with the known facts of a case.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Edward John Daniels was tried and convicted of two counts
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: of conspiracy and one count of arson, and received the
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: sentence as prescribed by law. Conspiracy is punishable by imprisonment
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: in the state penitentiary for not more than two years.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Arson is punishable by a prison term of not less
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: than one or more than five years. Daniels accomplice, Oliver Randall,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: was examined by three psychiatrists appointed by the court and
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: was found to be mentally incompetent. He was placed in
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: a state hospital for the mentally deficient. The charge of
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  Speaker 3: assault with a deadly weapon against Edward Daniels was dismissed.
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  Speaker 3: Ha ha, you have just heard Dragnet a series of
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  Speaker 3: authentic cases from official files. Technical advice comes from the
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  Speaker 3: Office of Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles
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  Speaker 3: Police Department Technical Advisor, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Winn,
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  Speaker 3: Sergeant Vans Brecher heard tonight We're Barney Phillips and Vic Perrin.
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  Speaker 3: Script by Jim Mosey, music by Walter Schumann, Hell Gibney speaking.
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  Speaker 4: Well, It's Counterspy on NBC.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome Back. Dragnett has followed Broadways My Beat in our
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  Speaker 1: line up for nearly a year, ever since we went
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  Speaker 1: from six shows a week to five, and I have
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  Speaker 1: to say, this is the first time that the Broadways
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  Speaker 1: My Beat episode has a more believable motive. It kind
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  Speaker 1: of shows that truth is stranger than fiction. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you did a Broadways My Bat or a Johnny Dollar
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  Speaker 1: story where the criminal began setting fires insurance payouts as
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  Speaker 1: an act of revenge against the insurance industry, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's not even against the company, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: if we've been listening to Johnny doll Er, yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: do evidentely have the idea that it's very unlikely that
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  Speaker 1: the same company is going to be ensuring property in
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  Speaker 1: Ohio as will be insuring property in California. So he's
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  Speaker 1: essentially doing this to get back at the insurance industry.
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  Speaker 1: And he's right that the fact that he had the
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  Speaker 1: places repainted and paid for all that work help to
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  Speaker 1: cover the fire in terms of the insurance company being like,
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  Speaker 1: why would he do this? But he's also ensuring that
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  Speaker 1: he's getting the least profitable insurance fraud, because part of
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  Speaker 1: the fraud is pain to have the property repainted and
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  Speaker 1: totally done off. And the guy had the goal to
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  Speaker 1: be like, boy, wasn't this a clever plan? Officers, It's
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  Speaker 1: not clever when the reason that the police in the
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  Speaker 1: insurance company can't catch you is they can't imagine you
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  Speaker 1: being that stupid, petty and spiteful. Again, such a point
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  Speaker 1: would be ridiculous on Broadways, My Bait and other programs,
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  Speaker 1: but here, apparently he is close enough to cheot a life.
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  Speaker 1: And this was from the one suspect that they did
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  Speaker 1: find mentally competent to stand trial. Listener comments and feedback,
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  Speaker 1: and we start on YouTube with some comments on the
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  Speaker 1: bake producer Jeffrey Wrights, love your wrap up of the
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  Speaker 1: day's show. Yeah, thank goodness, such crime against kids is
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  Speaker 1: punished more stiffly now we truckers have organizations such as
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  Speaker 1: TAT to identify and report human trafficking and juvenile exploitation.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Adam, and thanks so much. I appreciate the comment.
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey and I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that
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  Speaker 1: despite the fact of courts not really having strict enforcement
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  Speaker 1: at the time, Dragnet was doing Yelman's work in explaining
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  Speaker 1: how these type of schemes took advantage of young women.
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  Speaker 1: And this would even continue into the nineteen sixties series,
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  Speaker 1: and doubtless what Dragnet did lay to the found foundation
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  Speaker 1: for changes in the law regarding these offenses. On the
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  Speaker 1: same episode Immortal Sergeant Rights, thank you Adam for bringing
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  Speaker 1: us this great episode, and James says, excellent episode. Thanks well,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I appreciate you taking the time
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  Speaker 1: to comment over there on YouTube. Well, now it is
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  Speaker 1: for yours, truly, Johnny dall more aware?
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  Speaker 12: When did he and Baron get out of the clink
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  Speaker 12: about two weeks ago?
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  Speaker 9: I see?
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  Speaker 12: So, what's the proposition Shakli has made?
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  Speaker 10: Your brother, Johnny Adam has spent the past nine years,
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  Speaker 10: ever since he was released, out there building up this
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  Speaker 10: small brokerage office here in the east. Now he and
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  Speaker 10: his wife are finally beginning to reap the fruits of
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  Speaker 10: their labors. Children, two fine upstanding kids, are in college
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  Speaker 10: over in New York State.
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  Speaker 12: So, but if it were ever.
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  Speaker 10: To become known that he once served a term in
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  Speaker 10: prison for participation in a stocks.
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  Speaker 11: Fan, I would kind of pull a rugger right out
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  Speaker 11: from under him.
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  Speaker 4: What.
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  Speaker 10: It would completely ruin him, Johnny, And it would probably
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  Speaker 10: kill his wife. This nine years of struggle of trying
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  Speaker 10: to make up for that one mistake has been just
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  Speaker 10: as hard for her as it has for him. Right now,
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  Speaker 10: she happens to be in the hospital with a serious
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  Speaker 10: heart condition.
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  Speaker 8: I see.
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  Speaker 12: Is she the beneficiary of his insurance?
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  Speaker 4: Yes? She?
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  Speaker 10: And then of course the children.
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  Speaker 12: All right, now, what is this proposition that Shackli has made.
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  Speaker 10: He's demanded seventy five thousand dollars happen.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, unless Adam pays it in cash and unmarked bills,
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  Speaker 10: Shockley will release to the papers anonymously.
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  Speaker 4: Of course.
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  Speaker 10: Well, he'll tell them all about Adam's unfortunate part in
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  Speaker 10: that stock selling racket years ago.
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  Speaker 11: Which means that if Adam had a single customer left
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  Speaker 11: instead of a week to be America, then Shockley says,
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  Speaker 11: after he's.
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  Speaker 3: Ruined him, he'll kill him.
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  Speaker 12: He'll want it unless he pays this money. Of course,
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  Speaker 12: he'll make it look like suicide after all.
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  Speaker 10: Under the circumstances, well you know, the ruined businessman.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I do know.
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  Speaker 11: Sure, there'll be no reason for anyone to think it
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  Speaker 11: isn't suicide exactly. Wait a minute, that's the insurance angle,
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  Speaker 11: isn't it. Yes, If Adam's death is called suicide, his
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  Speaker 11: policy'll be void.
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  Speaker 12: His wife and kids will get nothing.
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  Speaker 10: And if this man Shockly is as clever as Adam
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  Speaker 10: says he is, he'll do it in such a way
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  Speaker 10: that any court in the land.
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  Speaker 12: Will call it suice sor well, I just can't believe it.
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