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The Big Gun Part 2 [episode 206], Broadcast 5/31/1953 · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Sound off for Chesterfield.
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  Speaker 2: Chesterfield First with premium quality and best for you.
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  Speaker 1: Chesterfield brings you drink, Ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: The story you were about to hear is true. The
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  Speaker 3: names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
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  Speaker 3: detective sergeant. You're assigned to auto theft details. You arrested
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  Speaker 3: one member of an organized ring of thieves.
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  Speaker 1: You're after the head man of the gang.
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  Speaker 4: Your job get him.
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  Speaker 3: Here is Chesterfield's record with smokers and important to you.
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  Speaker 2: No adverse effects to the nose, throat and sinuses from
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  Speaker 2: smoking Chesterfield.
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  Speaker 3: That's the report of a doctor who has been examining
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  Speaker 3: a group of Chesterfield smokers for a full year and
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  Speaker 3: two months. Don't you want to try a cigarette with
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  Speaker 3: a record like this? Chesterfield first with premium quality, Chesterfield
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  Speaker 3: first choice.
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  Speaker 5: Of young America.
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  Speaker 3: And that's from a survey made in two hundred seventy
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  Speaker 3: four colleges and universities.
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  Speaker 5: Try Chesterfields today, Chesterfield.
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  Speaker 3: Regular or King Size. They are much milder and best
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  Speaker 3: for you.
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  Speaker 2: Drag met the document a drama of an actual crime.
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  Speaker 2: For the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los
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  Speaker 2: Angeles Police Department, you will travel step.
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  Speaker 6: By step on the side of the law through an.
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  Speaker 2: Actual case transcribed from official police violence, from beginning to end,
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  Speaker 2: from crime to punishment. Dragnet is the story of your
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  Speaker 2: police force connection.
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  Speaker 7: It was Wednesday, June twenty fourth. It was warm in
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  Speaker 7: Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of
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  Speaker 7: Autoift detail. My partners Frank Smith, the boss's that brown
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  Speaker 7: chief the detectives.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Friday.
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  Speaker 7: We were at the main jail and it was eight
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  Speaker 7: fourteen am when we got to the second floor the interview.
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  Speaker 5: Room, sit ons phone.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah right there. You guys start pretty early in the morning,
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  Speaker 6: don't you. Yeah, once while you got a cigarette?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, thanks.
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  Speaker 6: I never feel like I'm alive. I never got a
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  Speaker 6: cigarette in the morning. I'm about a machine here, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: like it that first cigarette? All right? What's this all about?
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  Speaker 5: You know that? As well as we do a few questions,
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  Speaker 5: we want to ask, go ahead, ask what's your apartment setup?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what you're talking about?
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  Speaker 5: Now, it will work slowly. Got the whole story from
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  Speaker 5: summer soon?
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  Speaker 6: What do you need from me?
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  Speaker 5: It just like to check out a few things.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean you got the whole story from summers?
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  Speaker 7: What did he say, teld us everything he knows about
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  Speaker 7: the setup and what he says.
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  Speaker 5: You're the key man. Everything goes through you.
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  Speaker 6: Then, yeah, you believe him, got no reason not to.
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  Speaker 5: That's why we're here. Get your side of the story.
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  Speaker 5: How much you tell you said everything he knows?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, that figures.
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  Speaker 5: You get a guy with.
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  Speaker 6: Agen like that, and as soon as the roof starts
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  Speaker 6: to drop, they spill their insides out. That's the trouble
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  Speaker 6: with doing business with Hypes. You always run into me.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, don't know. Let's hear your side.
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  Speaker 6: Sure I knew going in. If you lock Summers up,
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  Speaker 6: he'd break. It's a matter of time before he started
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  Speaker 6: seeing things and talked all over the place.
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  Speaker 5: Why don't you do a little of the same.
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  Speaker 6: I got no choice. Where do you want me to start?
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  Speaker 5: How about the beginning?
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  Speaker 6: As good a place as any?
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  Speaker 5: I guess? All right, who's the big gun in the setup?
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  Speaker 6: You're not gonna believe it?
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  Speaker 5: Why don't you try us?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know who he is. I haven't got the
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  Speaker 6: slightest idea. And that's the truth.
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  Speaker 7: Asking us to buy the fact you work for a
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  Speaker 7: guy you don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I don't care if you buy it or not. That's
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  Speaker 6: the way it is. I don't know who the big
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  Speaker 6: man is. He calls me where my place?
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  Speaker 5: When?
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  Speaker 6: When I got something for him?
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  Speaker 5: How does he know?
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  Speaker 6: We got to set time? Each day he calls in,
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  Speaker 6: he tells me what he wants done. I tell him
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  Speaker 6: what's going on?
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  Speaker 5: What happens if you want to talk to him? And
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  Speaker 5: it's not the time? Nothing? I gotta wait. How do
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  Speaker 5: you get paid?
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  Speaker 6: He calls me and tells me where to go. I
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  Speaker 6: show up there and that does Wait?
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  Speaker 5: All right, now you start at the beginning, give us
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  Speaker 5: the alright.
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  Speaker 6: I got him down about six months ago from outside
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  Speaker 6: of Chicago, right. I laid around town for a few days,
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  Speaker 6: and I got this rumble that maybe I can pick
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  Speaker 6: up a job. You, Oh, just around. I couldn't tell
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  Speaker 6: you where. It was a word here, another one there,
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  Speaker 6: just around.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, Well, I'm home.
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  Speaker 6: One day in the phone rings, I answered, and the
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  Speaker 6: guy asked me if I wanted to go to work
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  Speaker 6: for him. I'm on my opera, So I asked him
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  Speaker 6: what he wanted me to do. When he springs his
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  Speaker 6: car ice thing on me, I told him.
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  Speaker 5: I wanted no part of it. Yeah, he kept on
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  Speaker 5: talking kept.
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  Speaker 6: Telling me how I was such a sweet, clean racket.
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  Speaker 6: Now we could work it without being tagged. Finally I
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  Speaker 6: told him I might be willing to sit down and
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  Speaker 6: talk to him about it. He says, no, go that
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  Speaker 6: he didn't want anybody to know who he was, and
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  Speaker 6: that went from me too. He told me he'd swing.
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  Speaker 5: The operation on what do you mean swinging?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 6: He said he'd tell me how to set it up,
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  Speaker 6: how to make it work, w to contact, that he
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  Speaker 6: had the organization already, but he needed a man to
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  Speaker 6: take charge of the LA.
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  Speaker 5: Part of it.
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  Speaker 6: He told me that I was the guy he wanted shim.
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  Speaker 5: How he happened to come to you, I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I did time when I was a kid for grand
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  Speaker 6: theft auto first time I got off light.
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  Speaker 5: What did you do the time? New York State? A
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  Speaker 5: right going?
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  Speaker 6: Well, maybe he got a rumble about that. He knew
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  Speaker 6: that I was down, Maybe figured that I was the
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  Speaker 6: guy to handle it for him. I don't know why
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  Speaker 6: he just called.
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  Speaker 5: Did you have any idea who this man on the
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  Speaker 5: phone was?
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  Speaker 6: No. I thought about it a lot. I tried to
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  Speaker 6: come up with an answer, but there just wasn't any,
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  Speaker 6: at least none that I could find.
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  Speaker 5: Might have been somebody who met back east.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, could be. I got nowhere knowing the
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  Speaker 6: way the deal worked out. I didn't have any reason
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  Speaker 6: to get nosey. This guy really had to figure it
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  Speaker 6: out like a charm. I still don't know how you
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  Speaker 6: tagged us.
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  Speaker 5: How about it?
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  Speaker 6: You tell me you know better than Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Right, go ahead. What happened after you talk to this guy?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I wasn't real anxious right off. I told him
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  Speaker 6: I'd have to think about it. You see, next day
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  Speaker 6: he cause again told me he wanted to tell me
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  Speaker 6: the deal, lay it out for me. If I thought
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  Speaker 6: it was good, I could go along with it. Otherwise
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  Speaker 6: we could call it quits. Now I was just about
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  Speaker 6: to get bounced out of my room, so I listened.
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  Speaker 6: We must have talked for about an hour. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 6: when he laid it out for me. Where he had
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  Speaker 6: looked the plane couldn't miss, wasn't anything he hadn't thought
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  Speaker 6: of all along the line. He had the leaks all
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  Speaker 6: plugged up tight. You see, all right, how this deal worked.
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  Speaker 6: I thought Summers gave you the line up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah he did, But we'd like to hear it from you.
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  Speaker 6: Sure, you ain't trying to con me into something.
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  Speaker 5: You said it yourself. You had no choice, now I
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  Speaker 5: have you.
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  Speaker 6: Well, the way to work was smooth, real smooth. The Boss,
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  Speaker 6: that's what I called him. He'd call me, tell me
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  Speaker 6: what kind of car he wanted. I'd get in touch
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  Speaker 6: with one of the boys and pass the order on.
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  Speaker 6: You see, Yeah, Hype would steal the car, call me book.
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  Speaker 6: Some Hype would steal the car and call me right away,
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  Speaker 6: tell me where he had the car. And the Boss
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  Speaker 6: would call and I'd tell him. He'd drive by look
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  Speaker 6: at the car. If he okate did he'd call me
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  Speaker 6: and I'd tell the fellow that stole it to get
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  Speaker 6: it rolling.
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  Speaker 5: They'd drive it to Mexico.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. First off, I'd meet him and give them enough
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  Speaker 6: money to get back here though, and after that they'd
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  Speaker 6: switch the plates in the car and.
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  Speaker 4: Shove ou where'd you get the plates all?
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  Speaker 6: The boss would get him some place, then they'd be
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  Speaker 6: delivered to me. Always cold plates. I think he probably
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  Speaker 6: got him if he used car lots. I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: That's the way it looked like to me.
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  Speaker 5: He said, Yeah, what happened?
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  Speaker 6: Then another guy drive the car straight through. He'd delivered
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  Speaker 6: the car to a contact down a Tijuana.
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  Speaker 5: What about the payoff for Mexico?
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  Speaker 6: How they worked there and I went through me too.
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  Speaker 6: I'd get a call from the boss, he'd tell me
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  Speaker 6: where the meat was. I'd show up and pick up
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  Speaker 6: a paper bag with the narcotics.
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  Speaker 5: That's the way the stolen cars were paid for. Narcotics.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Heroin was the best. So by the time we
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  Speaker 6: cut it down, I went a long way.
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  Speaker 5: What'd you do with this stuff?
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  Speaker 6: Well, what I'd used for paint off the hype that
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  Speaker 6: lifted the car, and the rest went on.
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  Speaker 5: To the boss. How'd you get it? Ton?
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  Speaker 6: He'd call me, tell me where to leave it. Maybe
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  Speaker 6: an alley down town, a telephone pole on Central, once
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  Speaker 6: in the fountain, right in front of city, or every
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  Speaker 6: time it was a different place.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Is it possible any of the others might know
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  Speaker 5: who he is?
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  Speaker 6: I talked to him, not him, No, I don't think
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  Speaker 6: they'll hold him out.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, this boss, You ever say anything that could let
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  Speaker 7: you know where he was calling from?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 5: How about his voice? You got anything from man?
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean do you have an accent something
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  Speaker 6: like that?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 6: Nothing, He talked just like you and me. There's one thing.
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  Speaker 6: What's that he's been around? He knows the tricks. He
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  Speaker 6: knows about me, everything I've ever done. Where he talks,
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  Speaker 6: you know, he knows all the rackets.
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  Speaker 5: He ever sent you anything through the mail?
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean like with the Postm's right now?
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  Speaker 6: A couple of times he sent me a batch of
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  Speaker 6: plates to use in the cars. But they come by
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  Speaker 6: and missing you.
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  Speaker 5: One of the companies here, No, just a guy.
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  Speaker 6: I asked him who sent him? But they couldn't tell me.
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  Speaker 5: Couldn't or wouldn't.
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  Speaker 6: I ain't sure, but I really don't think they knew.
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  Speaker 6: It's always a different guy each time, never the same one.
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  Speaker 5: Twice he got some of the plates around.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, we used the last one on the car last night.
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  Speaker 5: When is the boss usually send him here?
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  Speaker 6: It depends how many cars we've taken. He keeps track.
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  Speaker 6: When we're out of coal plates, another batch of him
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  Speaker 6: shows up. It depends on the car.
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  Speaker 7: How about the other men working with you? The ones
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  Speaker 7: here in town? You give us a list of them?
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  Speaker 6: If I do, it makes me a pretty big think
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  Speaker 6: it doesn't, it's going to make a big trouble. I
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  Speaker 6: of course, So there's none you guys can promise me
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  Speaker 6: for this.
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  Speaker 5: You know the answer to that too.
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  Speaker 7: We can see that the District Attorney's office knows about
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  Speaker 7: the healthy gave us.
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  Speaker 5: That's all we can do. It's better than nothing.
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  Speaker 6: I don't care. I'll give you the names now.
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  Speaker 3: When this goes to trial, we can figure you'll be
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  Speaker 3: a witness for the state.
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  Speaker 6: Against who well, this boss, whoever he has Sure if
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  Speaker 6: you can get him, I don't think you will love
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  Speaker 6: that right. Sure it stands to reason. I worked for
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  Speaker 6: the guy. I never got to say. He ain't gonna
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  Speaker 6: want to see the police.
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  Speaker 5: Now. He's a little like you, and he huh, he's
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  Speaker 5: got no choice.
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  Speaker 7: We got the list of names from the suspect and
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  Speaker 7: then we checked with Captain Carl Shi in our Coonics division.
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  Speaker 7: He assigned two men to work with us on the case.
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  Speaker 7: We got in touch with the Sheriff's department and built
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  Speaker 7: Sergeant Judge Shelton.
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  Speaker 5: In on the developments.
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  Speaker 7: A call was put into al Gaton at San Diego
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  Speaker 7: and he said that he'd get in touch with the
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  Speaker 7: Mexican authorities and line up the cooperation we needed from them.
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  Speaker 7: The name of the contact in Dijuana was given to them,
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  Speaker 7: but they were unable to.
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  Speaker 5: Locate the suspect. We asked the staff's office.
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  Speaker 7: To make a new run of memo of the auto
• 9:00
  Speaker 7: thefts and an attempt to come up with a new
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  Speaker 7: lead on the head of the ring of thieves. They
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  Speaker 7: turned up six leads that were checked out and netted
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  Speaker 7: us nothing. We got in touch with the State Highway
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  Speaker 7: Patrol and we worked out a system to intercept any
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  Speaker 7: cars that might be stolen in the future by the
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  Speaker 7: same gang.
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  Speaker 5: The plan was that in the event we.
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  Speaker 7: Received a call regarding a stolen vehicle, we'd put it
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  Speaker 7: on the air with the heading of the code word ALYX.
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  Speaker 7: This would alert all police officers between Los Angeles and
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  Speaker 7: the Mexican border. The men named for us by the suspect,
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  Speaker 7: Harry Sloan, were all taken into custody. Further interrogation netted
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  Speaker 7: us no new information. In the meantime, the leader of
• 9:34
  Speaker 7: the gang had apparently succeeded in setting up a new
• 9:36
  Speaker 7: group of thieves and was operating again. The thefts continued
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  Speaker 7: through the next month. During that time, all precautions were
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  Speaker 7: taken to keep the stolen cars from getting to the border.
• 9:45
  Speaker 5: With the speed with which the.
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  Speaker 7: Gang operated made apprehending them almost impossible. The radio operation
• 9:50
  Speaker 7: with patrol units along the highway was tried, but by
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  Speaker 7: the time the cars were reported stolen to us and
• 9:54
  Speaker 7: we were able to get a broadcast out on them,
• 9:56
  Speaker 7: they were already across the border.
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  Speaker 5: Thursday, July thirtieth, Franks and I checked into the office.
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  Speaker 5: I'll check the book right anything, nh, it's call a
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  Speaker 5: hair from say, that's all you.
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  Speaker 8: Know.
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  Speaker 5: The skipper sure hacked about this thing, you know. I
• 10:13
  Speaker 5: Can you blame him?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 5: I suppose nice. He got a lot of people leaning
• 10:15
  Speaker 5: on him. I don't know, Joe. It's about time the
• 10:18
  Speaker 5: breaks start falling on our side.
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  Speaker 7: Well, we've been saying that for a long time too.
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  Speaker 7: Doesn't seem too much good. Even when we do nail
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  Speaker 7: the big gun, we're gonna have to prove it and
• 10:24
  Speaker 7: that isn't gonna be easy. Yeah, the way he's gotta
• 10:26
  Speaker 7: work that, it's gonna be offul to have to build
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  Speaker 7: a case it'll stick.
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  Speaker 5: Well. He doesn't handle the narcotics, he doesn't handle the money.
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  Speaker 5: All he does is okay to jobs there. But it's
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  Speaker 5: gotta be an outlet for the hairin. Where's he getting
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  Speaker 5: rid of it?
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  Speaker 3: That's a good question, you know. He's been trying to
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: come up with the answer a long time. No rumbles informans,
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  Speaker 3: don't know anything.
• 10:40
  Speaker 5: I get it out off that Friday, that's ma'am. Well
• 10:47
  Speaker 5: maybe we can help you, yes, ma'am. Uh, well, yes,
• 10:52
  Speaker 5: well could we meet you? Oh no, ma'am, you won't
• 10:54
  Speaker 5: be involved. Yo. What's that address again? Yeah, yes, ma'am,
• 11:01
  Speaker 5: we'll be there. What about ten minutes? Was that no, ma'am,
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  Speaker 5: just my partner. Yes, that's right, all right, see that right? Goodbye?
• 11:10
  Speaker 5: Oh maybe this is a break. It was a woman.
• 11:12
  Speaker 7: She wouldn't give us her name. She said that wasn't important.
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  Speaker 7: She wants us to meet her.
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  Speaker 5: What about something to do with use cars? Ten ten am,
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  Speaker 5: Frank and I left.
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  Speaker 3: The office and drove to Hollywood to meet the woman
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: who called in. She said that she wanted to meet
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: us in one of the.
• 11:27
  Speaker 5: Coffee shops along Vine Street.
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  Speaker 7: We drove out the new Freeway to Hollywood Boulevard and
• 11:31
  Speaker 7: then down to Vine Street. We parked the car and
• 11:33
  Speaker 7: walked up to the coffee shop. The girl on the
• 11:36
  Speaker 7: phone and refused to give us her name, so Frank
• 11:37
  Speaker 7: and I had no way of knowing who she might be.
• 11:39
  Speaker 7: She told me to take a booth at the back
• 11:41
  Speaker 7: of the restaurant and that she'd find us. Frank and
• 11:43
  Speaker 7: I said, Alan ordered a cup of coffee and we waited.
• 11:46
  Speaker 7: There was no sign of the caller. Eleven am she
• 11:49
  Speaker 7: still hadn't shown up. They were about ready to leave
• 11:51
  Speaker 7: when a tall woman, well dressed in their middle thirties
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  Speaker 7: came in.
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  Speaker 3: She stopped at the door and looked around the place,
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: and then she headed for our booth. So now she's
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: heading for the next boot.
• 12:02
  Speaker 8: Are you from the police.
• 12:04
  Speaker 5: Are you a policeman? Oh what, No, I'm mine.
• 12:11
  Speaker 3: Are you from the cops?
• 12:12
  Speaker 8: Yes, ma'am, I'm the one who called you and told
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  Speaker 8: you to meet me here.
• 12:15
  Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am, I'm Joe Friday. This is my partner, Frank sma.
• 12:17
  Speaker 8: You got some way to prove it, ma'am.
• 12:19
  Speaker 5: Prove it your cops.
• 12:20
  Speaker 8: I don't want to talk to nobody who laying the cops.
• 12:22
  Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am, here's my ID card.
• 12:25
  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, that's you, all right?
• 12:27
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 12:27
  Speaker 8: How about you?
• 12:28
  Speaker 5: Yes, here's mine?
• 12:29
  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, Oh say, that's a real nice picture. You
• 12:34
  Speaker 8: put on some weight, haven't you.
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: Do You like to sit down? Man? We can get
• 12:36
  Speaker 5: started on this. Oh, yes, yair, what was your name?
• 12:41
  Speaker 8: And you don't need that, It doesn't make any difference,
• 12:43
  Speaker 8: all right.
• 12:43
  Speaker 5: We order you something maybe, Yeah, I like a.
• 12:45
  Speaker 8: Coke, alright, I'll get it jump you make sure it's
• 12:47
  Speaker 8: a real coke, though, genuine. Al right, ma'am, I'm sorry,
• 12:52
  Speaker 8: I'm late. I got tied up.
• 12:53
  Speaker 5: That's all right, man, whaton if we can get started?
• 12:55
  Speaker 8: Well, I was across the street waiting by the radio station, yes, ma'am,
• 12:58
  Speaker 8: waiting for that singer. Oh, what's his name? You know
• 13:02
  Speaker 8: what I mean, the cute one with the curly hair.
• 13:05
  Speaker 8: You never can think of his name anyway. I was
• 13:07
  Speaker 8: waiting for him to come out. He's doing a show
• 13:09
  Speaker 8: over there, you know, in a wonderful voice, and he's
• 13:11
  Speaker 8: so cute.
• 13:12
  Speaker 5: I know, what's this all about? This thing you wanted
• 13:13
  Speaker 5: to tell us.
• 13:14
  Speaker 8: Crazy kids in their autograph books. I couldn't even get
• 13:16
  Speaker 8: a mar him.
• 13:17
  Speaker 5: Miserable. I wonder if we could get out of business here, ma'am.
• 13:19
  Speaker 5: You said on the phone that you could give us
• 13:21
  Speaker 5: some information.
• 13:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I can help you out. This seems
• 13:24
  Speaker 8: to me that you might want to talk to this
• 13:25
  Speaker 8: man what's his name? Well, maybe I had to tell
• 13:28
  Speaker 8: you about him first, and then if you want to
• 13:30
  Speaker 8: know his name, I can tell you that.
• 13:31
  Speaker 5: All right, ma'am, go ahead, here's a cooke, ma'am.
• 13:34
  Speaker 6: I think.
• 13:37
  Speaker 8: Mm. That's good, it's cool.
• 13:42
  Speaker 5: Do you want to go on on, yes, ma'am about
• 13:45
  Speaker 5: the man? Oh?
• 13:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Well, there's this fella and he's got an office
• 13:49
  Speaker 8: in a building where I work. Where would that be,
• 13:51
  Speaker 8: a corner of Hollywood and Dick Street, right on the corner,
• 13:54
  Speaker 8: ninth floor. Elevators always out of order, Yes, ma'am. Well,
• 13:58
  Speaker 8: he's got this office and I see him a lot,
• 13:59
  Speaker 8: you know, the elevator, maybe down at the magazine rack
• 14:02
  Speaker 8: and the lobby. Anyway, I ask him a lot. Well,
• 14:04
  Speaker 8: about a week ago, he asked me for a date,
• 14:06
  Speaker 8: just like that, come up to me while I was
• 14:08
  Speaker 8: looking at TV stars Parade as a magazine all about
• 14:12
  Speaker 8: television starts, where they work, what they're like, all interesting
• 14:16
  Speaker 8: things like that, like do they like garlic? And what
• 14:18
  Speaker 8: kind of not do they use in their ties? All
• 14:20
  Speaker 8: interesting things like that.
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: So this man ask you for a date, huh?
• 14:25
  Speaker 8: Came up just like grass and asked me out. Call.
• 14:27
  Speaker 8: First off, I was kind of flattered, you know, he's
• 14:30
  Speaker 8: pretty nice. That's a nice car and all. And I
• 14:33
  Speaker 8: told him I couldn't go out with him. And then
• 14:35
  Speaker 8: I told him and I thought he should be ashamed
• 14:36
  Speaker 8: of himself. I told him he should be ashamed of himself.
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am. Pure see.
• 14:42
  Speaker 8: I know he was married, nice little wife, real cute.
• 14:45
  Speaker 8: I saw a couple of times around the building. Lately
• 14:48
  Speaker 8: she hasn't been too well. He's real cute. Imagine him
• 14:52
  Speaker 8: asking me out and him a married man.
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: Well, yes, ma'am, But why do you think that the
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: police might be interested in him?
• 14:57
  Speaker 8: I'm coming to that. That was good. Well, I kind
• 15:05
  Speaker 8: of checked around, you know, to see what this guy
• 15:07
  Speaker 8: did in my business he was in, Yes, ma'am. He
• 15:09
  Speaker 8: used to use car business, sells old cars.
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: I see.
• 15:12
  Speaker 8: That's it, sells used cars in an office building, not
• 15:15
  Speaker 8: even a lot. Nothing. There's a glass door.
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: Is there any lettering on it? Yeah?
• 15:21
  Speaker 8: Not about that too, But there isn't.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: No, that's all.
• 15:23
  Speaker 8: He's got just this little tiny office desk and a
• 15:25
  Speaker 8: couple of chairs. Glass door.
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: Well, ma'am, there's nothing illegal in that, you know.
• 15:29
  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, but he doesn't have a license, No, sir,
• 15:32
  Speaker 8: he doesn't have a license.
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: Big.
• 15:34
  Speaker 8: I work for a lawyer alphabetical filing. And Jeita, Oh,
• 15:37
  Speaker 8: I asked my boss if you didn't have to have
• 15:39
  Speaker 8: some kind of license to sell cars in my boss,
• 15:41
  Speaker 8: as you do. This man doesn't have one. He goes
• 15:44
  Speaker 8: out and buys these old cars and then fixes them
• 15:45
  Speaker 8: up and sells them.
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: And he doesn't have a license.
• 15:48
  Speaker 8: Not only that, the man he sells the cars too.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: Why do you say that, because I do.
• 15:53
  Speaker 8: That's why he's coming in the office. And they sit
• 15:56
  Speaker 8: there and talk and talk and then they leave. I
• 15:57
  Speaker 8: get in the hall sometimes and they laugh and they're
• 15:59
  Speaker 8: real spoogy guys, real spooky.
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: And what's the man of man?
• 16:03
  Speaker 8: Man that just came in? Wonder the kind of blonde
• 16:05
  Speaker 8: hair you see him?
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am? What about him?
• 16:08
  Speaker 8: Isn't that?
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 16:10
  Speaker 8: What's his name? I know it as well I know
• 16:12
  Speaker 8: my own. He started in all those space things, you know,
• 16:14
  Speaker 8: like the Saturn Saga and the Martian Maniac was on
• 16:16
  Speaker 8: last week. And this saw that one that just came in. Well,
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: he had on this kind of suit all covered with lights,
• 16:22
  Speaker 8: a space suit. Was so cute.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: Yes, Well, if you'll tell us the name of the
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: man in your building and you'll check on him.
• 16:28
  Speaker 8: Oh there's more to the story, ma'am.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: There's more.
• 16:31
  Speaker 8: I'm not finished.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: Would you like to sit down and go on?
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: Oh? Yeah.
• 16:36
  Speaker 8: Well, day before yesterday, I'm standing by the elevator and
• 16:39
  Speaker 8: one of this man's customers come out of the office
• 16:41
  Speaker 8: and he walked over the elevator. He reached into his
• 16:44
  Speaker 8: pocket and took out a cigarette. Kept the pack up
• 16:46
  Speaker 8: here in the pocket up here, you know, here with
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: the handkerchief.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: Man, Well, when he pulled a pack out, he dropped
• 16:51
  Speaker 8: a little package fell around on the floor, and he
• 16:53
  Speaker 8: didn't see it right away. He got into the elevator
• 16:56
  Speaker 8: and went down, and I went over and picked it out,
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: a little tiny thing, got it right here in hers.
• 17:02
  Speaker 8: I was going to give it to the man, and
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: then I thought maybe I better come to you. And
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: I saw a picture of a thing like this in
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: the newspaper. Here it is and you just look at
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: that there you see, yes, ma'am, what is it?
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: Jeff Approly, eleven forty am. We continued to talk to
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: the woman. She gave us the name of the man
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: who ran the used car agency in.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: Her building, Ralph Holland.
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: She also gave us a description of him and a
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: description of the man she'd seen dropped the narcotics. We
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: went back to the office and checked the name through
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: R and I. Holland had a record listing one arrest
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: on suspicion of violation of the state and narcotic ag
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: The date of the arrest was August seventeenth, nineteen thirty seven.
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: He'd been released for lack of evidence. We checked the
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: name in the phone book and came up with a
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: business and a residence address.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: He lived with his.
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: Wife in a large track out in the San Fernando Valley.
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: One fifteen PM, Frank and I drove out to talk
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: with Hollan's neighbors. They told us that the family was
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: known and respected throughout the area.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: None of them could recount any actions that might cause suspicion.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: They told us the Hollands had lived in the house
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: for the past five years, but that Missus Holland had
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: said that the family was planning to move into town.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: From the neighbors, we found out that Missus Holland was
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: a semi invalid and rarely left the house.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: We called the office and arrange for.
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: A stake out on the house, and then we drove
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: back into Hollywood to talk with Holland's business associate.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: From them, we got the same story.
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: Ralph Holland was a respected member of the community and
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: was a member of several civic clubs. None of his
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: friends could tell us much about his business activities. We
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: did learn, however, that many of his friends couldn't figure
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: how the family could live at the scale that they did.
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: They said that Holland had a good business, but they
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: couldn't see how he could.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: Afford the new cars that he drove for the new
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: house he was planning to move into.
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: By forty six pm, we checked back into the office
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: and talked with Captain Nelson. It should take us a
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: couple of days to get the information back from the banks.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah. In the meantime we got a lot of walk
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: into It's going to be tough. I'll Skipper say, we
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: could have all the help we needed. You've get in
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: touch with narcotics. Yeah, I called him this morning. They'll
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: give us a hand. Yeah, that's duty.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: And then what do you mean, Well, we say, the
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: guy's gilly looks good for it.
• 19:02
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  Speaker 5: Friday, July thirty first, the legwork started.
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: Two teams of men were assigned from auto theft detail
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: to help us, and Narcotics sent two more teams to
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: work with us. For the next three weeks, Ralph Holland
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: was kept under twenty four hour surveillance. A stakehout was
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: maintained on his house and on his office. His business
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: records were checked.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: From these, we came up with an estimate of what
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: the suspect's income was. Then we began to check his expenditures.
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: As a result, we found that he had control of
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: at least two hundred and fifty thousand.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Dollars that his business could not account for.
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: Everyone who visited the Hollands, either at their home or
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: at his office, was checked on. Among his visitors, we
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: found several known narcotic dealers. The auto thefts continued, but
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: by now the code system had begun to work. From
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: July thirty first to August twenty fifth, sixteen cars were
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: stolen that we attributed to Holland's operation.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: All of them were recovered between.
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: Los Angeles and the Mexican border. All of the drivers
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: of the cars were taken into custody, but none of
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: them could give us any information to aid us in
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: obtaining a conviction. During that time, Holland didn't make any
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: attempt to handle any narcotics.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: A dictograph had been.
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: Placed in his office and all of his conversations were monitored,
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: but nothing incriminating was said. We got the address of
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: the new home the suspect had bought, and a complete
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: set of.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Listening equipment was installed there.
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: From the time the couple moved into the house, their
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: conversations were monitored twenty four hours a day. The recordings
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: were played for Captain Nelson, Captain Shi of Narcotics Division,
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: and for the men from the District Attorney's office. They
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: agreed that there wasn't enough evidence to issue an indictment. Friday,
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: August twenty eighth, Frank and I checked into the listening post.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: I might as well sit down, Frank.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: We got a long night. It's gonna be better with
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: a speaker. Fella's downtown putting a speaker. See earphones get
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: too heavy? Oh yeah, I was talking to Guy Anderson.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: He was out here.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Said by the time he sat with those things in
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: your head for a couple of hours, feels like somebody
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: shot your ears full of novagain.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Speaker's better man, easier too. I don't better turn on her. Yeah,
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: I'm come home. Yeah, just walked in before we got here.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: There they come.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: O Cary, Honey. Yeah, I'm gonna drink you. What they
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: call I'll fix it.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: Sounds like a living rub.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one take trip with me.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: We're two. Oh, oh, may we drive down south? You
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: know I figured I'm going to Mexico. Oh, I got it, Honey,
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: And anybody else that's said things been rough late. They've
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: been picking the boys up as fast as I can
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: find 'em. Why did you call it quit?
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: You?
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Maybe enough just about through that, honey, that's the last trip.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: I'm glad of that.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Honey, I don't like it.
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: Maybe I'm just getting jittery, but I swear there's been
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: men watching the house.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Good, take a drink. Oh, you're just getting jumpy, honey,
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: there's anybody watching and anybody who knows about it. Gad
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: you think I'm not too sure anymore? Is there's nothing
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: to worry about.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: We're clean.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: This is the last trip after.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: That, we call it quit.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: So okay, glad when it's over, if you go with me,
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: that'll be good for you to get out of the house,
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: see the country, get you over this case of nerves
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: you got. It might be kind of nice. Sure, the
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  Speaker 4: best thing in the world for you to see some
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: new thing. When do you think it goes? Oh, I'm
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: gonna pick up the car in the morning early. I
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: thought we'd get away about eight and can stay down
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: there for a couple of days and get back to Tuesday.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Take our time, have a few last let's go pick
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: up the car. The kid named Jimmy. You're gonna be
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: to halfway just outside of delamorrow. I'll take the car
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: from there. I'll be glad, I know I can feel,
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: and I'll give you my word tomorrow. That's the end
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: of it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: Well, let's hope he's not kidding.
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: The following morning, at six thirty am, Frank and I,
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: along with the men from Narcotics Division, we're parked down
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: the street from the Holland home. At eight thirty six am,
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: we saw the couple.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Come out of the house and get into Ralph Holland's car.
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: They drove out to the perviit of Boulevard Andy turned south.
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: All units of the state police notified to watch for
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: the car. Members of the Sheriff's Department were stationed along
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: the road just outside del Mar.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: If we could take.
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: Holland into custody while he was in the possession of
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: a stolen car and confront him with the stories of
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: the two suspects we picked up earlier, George Summers and
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: Harry Sloan, we thought that there was a.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Good chance that he might confess. In any event, we'd
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: be able to bring him to trial on the grand
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: theft auto charge. The meet was made with the man.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Who'd stolen the car, as scheduled, and Holland started to
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: drive south to the border.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Men from the Sheriff's department took the thief into custody,
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: and we followed Holland. About four minutes.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Later, we pulled the car over to the side of
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: the road in front of a small coffee stand. He
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: and his wife got out of the car and they
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: went into the place. We drove by, and then we
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: doubled back and parked about one.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Hundred yards up the road from the stand. Let's go.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: The boy should be around back by now. Yeah, like,
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: come on at the end of the corn. Yeah you
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Ralph Holland.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Yes, where you want?
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: You? Driving at Greendwick out there? Yeah? So what wonder
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: if we'd see the registration papers on the car? What
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: poor sauage, we'd like see the registration?
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: What are you doing?
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: You got no right?
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: Hit him like that.
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: We weren't doing anything.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: You got no right?
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: Quite a little rough, didn't you.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: We didn't call it, you did right? Hands it back,
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: you standstill? How about it? He's clean, You guys, you
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: got a lot of nerve to come in here beat
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: him up like this. Don't worry about it.
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: Somebody had to, but there wasn't anybody that knew nobody
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: at all? How'd you find out?
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: All?
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: Right?
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: Come on, it's perfect the way around.
• 25:30
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• 25:31
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• 25:43
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• 25:44
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• 25:46
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  Speaker 7: regular and King's size. You smoke a couple of packs
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: and you'll see what I mean. Chesterfield's are milder with
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: a wonderful taste, and you want to remember this. Chesterfield
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: is America's best cigarette buy see for yourself, won't you.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: Ralph P.
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  Speaker 2: Holland was tried and convicted on twelve counts grand theft auto.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: His wife, Mildred R. Holland, was tried and convicted of
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: one count grand theft auto. Seven other members of the
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: gang were apprehended and brought to trial on the same charges.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: They all received sentences as prescribed by law. Grand theft
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: auto is punishable by imprisonment in the State penitentiary for a.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Period of not less than one or more than ten years.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Four suspects were apprehended and tried on charges of violation
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: of the State Narcotic Act of Felony. They were convicted
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: and received terms as per described by law. Violation of
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: the State Narcotic Deck the felony is punishable by imprisonment
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: in the State penitentiary for a period of not less
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: than one nor more than six years.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: You have just heard drag Man, a series of authentic
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: cases from official files.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. H. Parker,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles Police Department Technical Advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vans Frascher. Heard tonight were Ben Alexander,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Stacy Harris, Virginia Gregg, Vic Perrin. Script by John Robinson,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: music by Walter Schumann, Hell Gidney speaking.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: For a million laughs. Tune in Chesterfield's Martin and Lewis
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Show Tuesday on this same NBC station and sound off
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: for Chesterfield either regular or King size. You'll find premium
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: quality Chesterfield much milder. Chesterfield is best for you.
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: You.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet transcribed from Los Angeles.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Now New Fatima has the tip for your lips Fatima
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Tips of perfect cork, King's size for natural filtering, Fatima
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Quality for a much better flavor and aroma. So remember
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: New Fatima has the tip for your lips. Fatima. See
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: how smooth they are.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Remember Fatima is made by the makers of Chesterfield, Liggot
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: and Myers, one of tobacco's most respected names,