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Dragnet: The Big New Years (EP4706) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: Now from March eighth, nineteen fifty one, here is the
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  Speaker 1: big New Year's.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. The story you're about to hear is true.
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  Speaker 2: The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
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  Speaker 2: a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. It's New
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  Speaker 2: Year's Eve and your city and you're on special duty.
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  Speaker 2: Thousands of people crowd downtown streets. One of them is
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  Speaker 2: a killer. Your job them.
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  Speaker 3: The documentary drama of an actual crime. Well the next
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  Speaker 3: thirty minute. It's in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department.
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  Speaker 3: You will travel step by step on the side of
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  Speaker 3: the law through an actual case transcribed from official police bilence,
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  Speaker 3: from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is
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  Speaker 3: the story of your police force and action.
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  Speaker 4: It was New Year's Eve was cold in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 4: We were working the night Watch out of Homicide Special Duty.
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  Speaker 4: My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Dad Brown, Chief
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  Speaker 4: of Detectives. My name is Friday. I was on the
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  Speaker 4: way back from dinner and it was eight thirty five
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  Speaker 4: pm when I got to Room forty two Homicide.
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  Speaker 2: Joe, Hi, Arnie, How was are outside? It's cold? Not
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  Speaker 2: keeping people at home though you check the crowds. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and watching her from the window here seems bigger and
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  Speaker 2: last Year's crazy. You're on with Ben and me tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Thought I was gonna have it off. Wife had a
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  Speaker 2: little house party planning everything. No, that's too bad. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: next time, huh. And that's what I said last New
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  Speaker 2: Year's I guess you better start moving. Yeah, where's Ben?
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  Speaker 2: He went down the hall a minute, said he'd be
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  Speaker 2: right back. I better take my top coder. Yeah I
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  Speaker 2: would if I were you. Nothing for us in the book,
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  Speaker 2: is there, Barney? I almost forgot. Jack Conley called having
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  Speaker 2: a little party out of his hospital. Once you were
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  Speaker 2: amero to drop around when you get off, said he
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  Speaker 2: called back.
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  Speaker 5: Huh all right, Jill, alright, ab I ready, yeah, let
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  Speaker 5: me grab my overcoat.
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  Speaker 2: I just take back communications. What sports lit up like
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  Speaker 2: a Christmas tree? Just like last year. They're starting off
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  Speaker 2: strong calls, coming in with a dozen.
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  Speaker 5: I'd like to see it just once, people celebrating New
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  Speaker 5: Year's without tearing up half the town.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a side Friday. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, well Barney
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  Speaker 4: just mentioned it. We'll try and make it. You know
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  Speaker 4: how things are tonight, Yeah, we'll fight.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Jack Conley been on his way home. He wants us
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  Speaker 4: to drop by his place.
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  Speaker 2: Well, get off early.
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  Speaker 5: Not much chance to that. You ready, Yeah, I am
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  Speaker 5: you by? I guess you can't tell. You might get
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  Speaker 5: a break. The crowds are starting in pretty early. Get
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  Speaker 5: chance to break and go home right after midnight? At
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  Speaker 5: you get us off early.
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  Speaker 4: And that was the idea last year. Wasn't it, Ben, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: what time did you get off? Six am? Together with
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  Speaker 4: Sergeant Bonnie Luchak, Ben and I left the city Hall
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  Speaker 4: and started the cruise at the southern end of the
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  Speaker 4: Central Area. As any police officer continure, New Year's Eve
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  Speaker 4: for him is one of the hardest working nights in
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  Speaker 4: the year.
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  Speaker 2: This one was no different for us.
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  Speaker 4: Within an hour, we'd had more than a half a
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  Speaker 4: dozen calls to check out street fights, drunken driving, disturbing
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  Speaker 4: the peace, the usual complaints that i'd expect to get
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  Speaker 4: when a community of three minion celebrates New Year's Eve.
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  Speaker 4: Ninety three pm. The recruising in the area of Alameda
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  Speaker 4: and Macy Street.
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  Speaker 6: Unit seventy two are at LCIER in Geneva at three
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  Speaker 6: eleven at three.
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  Speaker 2: Eleven, KMA three six seven. Roger seventy two.
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  Speaker 6: Are Units one twelve at eighty three and are Avenue.
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  Speaker 6: See the man keeps the peace GMA three.
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  Speaker 2: Six stopping him up. That's a big nine, No Joe,
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  Speaker 2: No no thanks, attention.
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  Speaker 6: All units, All units in the vicinity at East Maine
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  Speaker 6: and Darwin and office in Retail.
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  Speaker 2: That looks like we got one.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, All units in the vicinity at East Maine and
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  Speaker 6: Darwin and opposite needtail M three six seven.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we better handle her. The next rue on the
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  Speaker 2: left bend we can go out, Darling. Yeah, I better
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  Speaker 2: call him. Eighty K to control one, eight OK to
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  Speaker 2: control one. That's matter. I guess they're busy. Eighty K
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  Speaker 2: to control one, eight OK to control one.
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  Speaker 6: Stand by eighty K. Attention all units, all units in
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  Speaker 6: the vicinity. The call to East Maine and dar one
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  Speaker 6: is now a shooting.
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  Speaker 2: You better push it than him. Got it down to
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  Speaker 2: the floor in the vicinity. The call to East.
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  Speaker 6: Maine and dar one is now shooting. The call is
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  Speaker 6: now code three K.
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  Speaker 2: That ship coming up. Yeah, crowd there on the corner,
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  Speaker 2: I guess you better pull up here. Huh, all right?
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 5: Over by light pole, Ben Joe man lying on the sidewalk,
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  Speaker 5: want to check the crowd line?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is through here, we get through.
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  Speaker 7: Excuse me, look, please get back, move back.
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  Speaker 2: Please come on.
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  Speaker 5: I wonder if you just move along, move along, move along,
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  Speaker 5: give us a little room to work than Ben.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Joe, I have a look here. M hm.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Jack Conley right, he's dead. His full name is
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  Speaker 5: John Patrick Connley.
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  Speaker 4: Serial numbers three sixty seven was one of the veteran
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  Speaker 4: officers in Central Homicide. He lay face down on the pavement,
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  Speaker 4: one of his legs straddling the curbstone. He had been
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  Speaker 4: shot twice at the base of his skull. There were
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  Speaker 4: four more bullet wounds in his back. Ben got to
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  Speaker 4: a phone called Homicide and told them what had happened.
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  Speaker 2: Two dozen Cruiser cars.
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  Speaker 4: And more than a half a hundred men were immediately
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  Speaker 4: dispatched to the scene of the killing. They circled the
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  Speaker 4: area for a dozen blocks around and started the door
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  Speaker 4: to door search for the killer. Suspicious looking pedestrians were
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  Speaker 4: stopped at every street corner and questioned. Ten thirty PM,
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  Speaker 4: the ambulance arrived and Jack Conley's body was taken to
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  Speaker 4: the morgue along with Thaxter and Bryan from Homicide. Bonnie Luchek,
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  Speaker 4: Ben and I continued checking in the immediate vicinity of
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  Speaker 4: the killing. We found no one who'd admit that they
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  Speaker 4: actually saw the shooting. Half a dozen people in the
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  Speaker 4: crowd told us that they heard the shots and they
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  Speaker 4: saw Conley fall of the pavement. I had also seen
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  Speaker 4: a man standing behind Conley turn and run down the
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  Speaker 4: street right after the shooting.
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  Speaker 2: No one had followed him.
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  Speaker 5: The man was described as medium build, wearing a dark
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  Speaker 5: suit and a dark hat.
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  Speaker 4: That's all I could tell us. Eleven twenty five pm.
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  Speaker 4: Then and I met Bonnie Luke check back at the.
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  Speaker 5: Car MARTI did you get anything checked out? Every store
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  Speaker 5: in the neighborhood that's opened?
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  Speaker 2: Not much? How about you?
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  Speaker 5: It's the same pretty thin Brian and Faster turned up
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  Speaker 5: a newsboy down the street. He told him he saw
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  Speaker 5: the guy in the dark suit running down the street.
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  Speaker 5: You know, thought he saw the guy come out.
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  Speaker 2: Of this bar here.
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  Speaker 5: We heard that too, Bunnie. We talked to the bartender.
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  Speaker 5: He doesn't call him man. Le'll say, I almost forgot.
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  Speaker 5: I checked for the office. Missus Conley has been calling
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  Speaker 5: and wants to know where her husband is. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I asked personnel to hold off notifying her something bu
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  Speaker 5: fellas who want to tell her? He knew Conley pretty well,
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  Speaker 5: did you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? A long time family, mayn three kids, you fellas.
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  Speaker 4: They want to tell her. I'll co person know back.
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  Speaker 4: They can do it, you know, it's all right and
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  Speaker 4: tell her. Eleven forty pm. Then and I got in
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  Speaker 4: the car and hit it out for the home of
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  Speaker 4: the Slean officer Jack Connelly. The house was on Rawson
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  Speaker 4: they Avenue, just a few blocks from where Bentley. He
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  Speaker 4: parked the car and started up the front walk. The
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  Speaker 4: lights were burning in the living rooms in jum what
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  Speaker 4: I said, it's a lousy job.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, better try it again. Huh you heard it. Somebody's coming. Hi,
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  Speaker 2: Joe there, we're you. Glad you can make it.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody's here, Come in, come in. I'm still waiting for
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  Speaker 6: that wandering husband of mine.
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  Speaker 2: He's not here by midnight. He's going to be in
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  Speaker 2: the dog house for sure. Or here, let me take
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  Speaker 2: your coat. No, buddy, that's all right. I wonder if
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  Speaker 2: we could go back in the kitchen. We'd like to
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  Speaker 2: talk to me. Can't you stay long? No, not too long?
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's too bad. And welcome on back in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get you something. Maybe you can drop back later on.
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  Speaker 2: Jack should be here by then. You'd better be come
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  Speaker 2: on in by the one of you've seen Jack. That's
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  Speaker 2: what we wanted to talk to you about. Betty, what
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  Speaker 2: you want to sit down there? What is it? Joe?
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  Speaker 2: Tell me? Oh, he had an accident. Where is he?
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  Speaker 2: I want to go see him? How about an accident?
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  Speaker 2: Pretty bad? I want to go see him, Joe. If
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  Speaker 2: he's heard, I want to see him. Couldn't be that bad,
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  Speaker 2: could it? Yeah? Oh please, Joe, please not dead?
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  Speaker 8: Tell me Joe please, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, Betty.
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  Speaker 8: Dear god, oh God.
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  Speaker 2: I want to give me a hand here, Joe. Yeah. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: she's wet. Is a sheep? Mean? Worse when she comes
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  Speaker 2: to We better get hold of the family doctor.
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  Speaker 4: Now we're going to have to wait. We'll never get
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  Speaker 4: through now. Huh on lines are probably jam it's midnight.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, happy nire. Twelve thirty am we finally got
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  Speaker 4: ahold of the Conley's family doctor, and he told.
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  Speaker 2: Us that he'd be over as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 4: Some of Bett Conley's relatives at the party said that
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  Speaker 4: they'd look after things till the doctor arrived. Ben and
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  Speaker 4: I left the house and drove back to the scene
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  Speaker 4: of the murder. The house to house check of the
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  Speaker 4: entire area was still going on. There was no trace
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  Speaker 4: at the killer. One thirty am, a low fog moved
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  Speaker 4: in over the city. Traffic began to pin out a little.
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  Speaker 4: The street crowds disappeared. Two am.
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  Speaker 5: The search went on a little before two thirty, a
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  Speaker 5: patrolman on foot located a taxi cab driver in the
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  Speaker 5: neighborhood who claimed that he'd seen a man answering the killer's.
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  Speaker 4: Description just after the shooting. Ben and I went down
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  Speaker 4: the street to talk to the driver. He sat behind
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  Speaker 4: the wheel of his cab. It was especially equipped with
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  Speaker 4: shortwave radio to handle calls directly from the taxi company's
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  Speaker 4: dispatch office.
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  Speaker 5: I got to pass it on for whatever it's worth, Officer.
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  Speaker 5: It happened just a minute or two before I picked
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  Speaker 5: up my last bear.
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  Speaker 2: What time was that? Do you remember? I remembering too?
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  Speaker 5: And I got it right here in a way Bill, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: here we go, nine forty eight pm. I was parked
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  Speaker 5: just where I am now the same old Stan picked
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  Speaker 5: up a fair rode in the north made of Sotelo,
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  Speaker 5: and I came back here. My cam broke down, lousy distributor.
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  Speaker 5: I've been waiting for the repair truck ever since.
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  Speaker 2: Well, just what was it that happened before you picked
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  Speaker 2: up that fair here?
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  Speaker 5: Was it?
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  Speaker 2: Nine? Is that right? Yeah? Nine forty eight?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, I was going to say it was just
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  Speaker 5: a minute or two before that. I was parked right here.
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  Speaker 5: This guy comes running down the street through the crowd.
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  Speaker 5: He was really running too. Yeah, go ahead, he's almost
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  Speaker 5: past me when he stopped all of a sudden, turned
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  Speaker 5: around and looked at me.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he wanted a cab, so I opened the
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  Speaker 2: door for him.
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  Speaker 5: He just looked at me and said never mind, or
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  Speaker 5: something like that, and then he took off down the street.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he was just a little goofed up. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Can you remember what he looked like?
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  Speaker 5: All about your bill? I guess medium. He had a
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  Speaker 5: hat on, dark hat, dark suit.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get a look at his face?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's about twenty eight or thirty, dark complexion.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else remember about it? No, not for sure. He
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  Speaker 2: looked like a hundred other moods.
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  Speaker 5: He's down around this neighborhood, just listening to those calls
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  Speaker 5: come in New Year's even.
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  Speaker 2: I draw a lame cab. Well, nothing else that you
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  Speaker 2: remember about this man that you think might help us him?
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  Speaker 5: No, you got it all, sergeant, Just act a little queer,
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  Speaker 5: that's all goofed up. Probably did you see which way
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  Speaker 5: he went when he took off right down the street
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  Speaker 5: that way, lost himself in the crowd. I couldn't be
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  Speaker 5: bothered how about when he came running down the street, Torch,
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  Speaker 5: and you happen to notice where he was coming from.
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  Speaker 5: Matter of fact, yeah, that was just after I heard
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  Speaker 5: those gunshots. Of course I didn't know those gunshots.
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  Speaker 2: Sam.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, looked to me like it came out of that
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  Speaker 5: joint up there right near where.
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  Speaker 2: The cop was shot.
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  Speaker 5: Which joint was at two twenty eight that bar up there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it wasn't much, but it was the only lead
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  Speaker 2: we had to go on.
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  Speaker 4: Seven persons in the vicinity at the time of the
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  Speaker 4: shooting had volunteered the information that the killer had been
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  Speaker 4: a recent customer at the two twenty eighth club, the
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  Speaker 4: neighborhood tavern. The owner and bartender of the club, or
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  Speaker 4: Ralph Stevens, had been questioned twice that night by different officers,
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  Speaker 4: and he twice denied that there was any possibility that
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  Speaker 4: the killer could have been a patron.
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  Speaker 2: Of his bar.
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  Speaker 4: Stevens denying all didn't make any more sense than the
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  Speaker 4: killing itself. We made arrangements to have the cab driver
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  Speaker 4: we interviewed come down to the city Hall to check
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  Speaker 4: through our Muther books for the suspect. By ten am
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  Speaker 4: the next morning, the body of the slain homicide officer
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  Speaker 4: Jack Connelly.
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  Speaker 2: Had been posted.
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  Speaker 4: Four bullets were taken from his back, two from the
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  Speaker 4: base of his skull. Russ Camp ran the slugs through ballistics,
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  Speaker 4: where they were identified as having been fired from.
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  Speaker 2: A thirty eight caliber Colt Special Revolver.
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  Speaker 4: Eleven am we drove back to the two twenty eight club,
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  Speaker 4: where we talked to some of the customers who'd been
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  Speaker 4: there the night before. Three of them told us that
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  Speaker 4: they'd seen a man answering the general description of the
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  Speaker 4: killer in the bar shortly before the shooting.
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  Speaker 2: Then and I went back to the stock.
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  Speaker 4: Room at the rear of the bar and talked to
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  Speaker 4: the owner, Ralph Stevens.
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  Speaker 2: Look, how long does this thing had to go on? Anyway?
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  Speaker 2: I told you everything I knew last night.
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  Speaker 5: We know that Stevens doesn't seem to jive with what
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  Speaker 5: the rest of the witnesses saw, though, and maybe you
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  Speaker 5: better take it up with him. I don't know anything
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  Speaker 5: about it. I got work to and you're in my
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  Speaker 5: way there.
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  Speaker 2: Here's me. I come, you're so sure that the man
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  Speaker 2: we want wasn't in your place last night? I'm not
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  Speaker 2: on trial here.
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  Speaker 5: You ask me what I know, and I told you
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  Speaker 5: you don't mind.
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  Speaker 2: I got work to do. You mind moving over there?
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  Speaker 5: We'd appreciate it if you cooperate, if you want to
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  Speaker 5: know the truth. You're not good for my business here.
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  Speaker 5: Cops never are coming around asking questions. Customers don't like it.
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  Speaker 5: It's no good for business, no good at all.
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  Speaker 4: A cop was killed last night right outside your front door,
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  Speaker 4: and a half a dozen people say that the guy
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  Speaker 4: who did it was in here drinking.
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  Speaker 2: I run this place. It's mine, I say, the man
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  Speaker 2: wasn't in here. Still like to know how you're so sure.
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting a little tired of this.
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  Speaker 5: I don't have an office down at the city. All
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  Speaker 5: the lines around, and I got work to do.
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  Speaker 2: How about leaving you?
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  Speaker 5: You want to get your coat? We can talk to
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  Speaker 5: you downtown. Come on now before I call my lawyer.
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  Speaker 5: Oh ahead and call him. Where's your coat? Why do
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  Speaker 5: we have to have trouble? I haven't got any beasts
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  Speaker 5: with you. No trouble, Stevens. We have to get to
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  Speaker 5: the bottom of it, that's all I dad.
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  Speaker 2: You cooperate. He know the guy was in here last night.
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  Speaker 2: He came in a couple of times. That's all. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't want it to get out. Bad for business. Those
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  Speaker 2: things can't afford it keeps customers away.
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  Speaker 4: And the man was in here last night, I said, right.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't trying to cover it for.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hardly know him.
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  Speaker 4: I just didn't want it to get out. I got
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  Speaker 4: a right to protect my business. Who is the man,
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  Speaker 4: Harry Talmans? He's a hophead. If he did it, it
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: probably wasn't his fault. How do you mean he was
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: hyped up last night? If he was as heroin, he
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: probably didn't mean his shoe. Where do we find him?
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't know if this is right, Old Adred. What
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: the Fairview Hotel?
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Try there?
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: Eleven thirty five am New Year's Day, we got in
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: touch with Barney Luchack and Tom Bryan from Homicide and
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: they drove downtown to check at the Fairview Hotel for
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: the suspect. Ben and I finished questioning the owner of
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: the two twenty eighth club and we went back to
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: the office.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Eleven fifty eight am.
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: Barney Luchack and Brian got back, Barnie, what have you got?
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Fairview Hotel in South Grant was that the one? Yeah?
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Did you find it? Okay?
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Talked to desk clerk tell me Dredgeter that yeah,
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: he was checked out two months ago.
• 16:55
  Speaker 9: No Leeds, you are listening to drag mitt a series
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  Speaker 9: of authentic case histories documented from official files.
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  Speaker 4: One PM New Year's Day, after we found that the
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: suspect Harry tell Me to checked out at the Fairview
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Hotel months before, Ben and I went back to the
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: office and ran his name through R and I. The
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: information given us by Ralph Stevens, the owner of the
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: two to twenty eighth club, was apparently correct. The record
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: on tell Mead showed that he was a confirmed user
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: of narcotics. He served two brief terms for illegal possession
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: of narcotics and another short term in the county.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Jail for petty theff. We got out a broadcast and
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: an APV on tell Me.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: We checked out all his known friends and relatives, the
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: places that he frequented, hotels, boarding houses that he'd stayed
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: at No Leeds, with the help of Lieutenant Wallers in
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: Narcotics Detail, finally found the trail most.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Likely to lead us to the suspect.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: The peddlers who were suspected of supplying Talmans with narcotics.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: They were kept under a twenty.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Four hour watch, three days passed, no results. January fourth,
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: nine am. Then and I went to the funeral.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: And burial services for the murdered officer Jack Conley. Eleven am.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: We got back to the office. I don't know why, Joe,
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: I just don't cot in the funerals. Not a cops sooner. Anyway,
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: I don't blame you. His wife looked a lot better
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: than she Yeah, she knew burning up good considering well
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: s im Bonnie say, Lennie, Yeah, yeah, tell me you
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: told me about he phoned you, bet Oh is that right?
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: You're give him the information?
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he wanted to know all about taking the police
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: department examination. Who's that one of my neighbors boys, A
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: nice kid wants to get on the force. I told
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: him to fly at Room five City Hall on any
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: weekday to make it an application.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Then had it?
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: Fine, Bonnie thing, Well, they got the recruiting campaign going there. Yeah, oh,
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: this month taking applications from all over. Then I'll get
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: it onmic side Friday.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Wallers this minute, Okay, heyld s O. N.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Donaldson, Okay, fine, thanks a lot, blue Wallers and narcotics
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: might be something. What's that?
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: He got a line on one of the mules who
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: used to push heroin the town. He's got the name
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: of Donaldson. He's been sounded out. He's ready to talk
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: to us. This Donaldson was close to down may Well supposedly.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah you know where down man, Jay, Let's ask him.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Ben and I left the office and drove to the
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: address on South Alameda where Donaldson, a friend of the
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: murder suspect, was supposed to be staying. Turned out to
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: be a cheap hotel in the skid row district. It
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: was next to one of the rescue missions down there.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: We finally located Donaldson across the street. He was standing
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: on the sidewalk along with four or five other men.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: They were listening to a small Salvation Army band playing
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: outside one of the beer joints.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: I hardly miss any of these sidewalk meeting Sergeant like them,
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: band music, even listen to sermons.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Do me a lot of good. Understand you're not pushing
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: junk anymore, duneton.
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: Is, Do you want to call me big?
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Sergeant?
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: Names really John, but everybody calls me big.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: No.
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: I haven't been pushing junk, not for months.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: All through with it? Well, when's the last time that
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: you saw Harry tell me a couple of weeks ago.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: I'm not much for Harry anymore. Like I say, I've
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: been regular at these sidewalk meetings. Hearing the sermons changes
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: the way a fella does things.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, a man's got to turn good sometime during his life.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Not getting any younger fifty eight, I figure it's time
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: I start living by the word.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Say that's nice music, yea. Do you have any idea
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: what we might find?
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: Tell me now, I might have a few ideas on it.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: I don't know, say, I guess these are one of
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: you fellas you smell.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: No, No, I don't bother it does it? I don't
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: go ahead.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: I don't sure I know the last boarding house Harry
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: stayed at it. That'll help any placed on a twelve street.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: I can give you the address. Well, is he's still there?
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: You know you don't think he is, No matter of fact,
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: I'm sure he's not. Wish Harry had come around and
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: see me, like to get him interested in these sidewalk meetings.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Getting listening to the sermons might help him. Did an
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: awful lot for me.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Answer when you say that you saw tell me about
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: two weeks ago.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: Well, not quite two weeks ago. It was a day
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: after Christmas. Came down to my hotel and wanted some money.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: I couldn't give him any. That's when he told me
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: he was moving, going to some rooming house up around
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: the city Hall section up there?
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Did he mention any Andre, not that I recollect. No?
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: That sure is nice news, isn't that?
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Well? How about some of his other friends beings? You
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: think he might be able to help.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Us, Well, Duke might help you. Harry and old Duke
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: are still great friends. Duke sees more than I do.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Where do we find you?
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: Why don't you know the Penny Arcade down in South Maine,
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: right down from the train depot there.
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's where Duke works. He's a gender there.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: I've been trying to get Duke to come to the
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: sidewalk meetings too. He sure could stand it, Old.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Duke, Well, thanks very much, Banks, and it all of.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: A sudden, you know it's glad to help out. And
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: look at that now, all out of snuff. Say you
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: couldn't see your way clear, could you? I you go,
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: mag that's sure, Christian of your sageant, I'll handle this
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: just like a personal loan. It's all right, I think.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: Don't say anything about us talking to you know, not anyone. No, sure,
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: I won't. You can trust me. Say when you see Harry,
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: give him a message. What's that you tell him to
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: come and see. I want them to show up at
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: these meetings here the sermons. It could change everything. Sad
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: could give him a new life, new soul, brand new
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: soul for Harry.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Think of that.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we could use one. Three pm, Tuesday, January fourth,
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: we drove down to the Penny Arcade on South Maine.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Harry tell me his friend Duke wasn't there. The manager
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: of the place gave us his home address and we
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: checked it out. Duke wasn't there either. We staked out
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: at the place for the rest of the afternoon.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Duke failed to show.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: At six o'clock that night, Barney Luchek and Brian from
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Homicide came out and we relieved this. Ben and I
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: had dinner at Johnny Cochin and then we went back.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: To the office. Seven. I want to grab that Joe, Yeah,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I got it.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Homicide Friday. Oh yeah, barniey shoot up here. We're talking
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: about will you tell you anything? Wait a minute, The second,
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: All right, go ahead, westover apartment three. There was one
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: seven two seven West Hoover's that right, apartment three.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: What's the pitch? All right, Brian? Thanks by lue Check. Yeah,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: what's he got? Harry? Tell me supposed to be at
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: this address.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Ben and I got in the car and drove out
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: to the West Hoover Street address where we met lu
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Check and Brian. Seventeen twenty seven was a small two
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: story apartment house Spanish stuckoe in the style.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Apartment three was at the rear of the first floor.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: All right, lu Check, you want to pick up Brian
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: and you cover the bag? All right, Joe, come onday,
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: let's go. Huh yeah, it's up the stairs, number three. Okay, okay,
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: no sound inside doors open? Lets say no, it's empty.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: H I want to try the bedroom. I'll check the kitchen.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Show in here all right. Tell me what got a gun,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Joe Rabbit?
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Alright you lock.
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: Drop my god, my arm, I got it, jail, all right,
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: come on on your feet, all right, gemmen backing you
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: all right, I went whole.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Steale thirty eight revolved Joe cold special, all right, how
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: about it?
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Tell me it's mine? What of it? Where's your coat?
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Why'd you kill him? I don't want
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: or to that's all. He was a cop? Is that
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: your only reason? I told you he was a cop?
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: What's the difference? A big difference, mister, Why I killed him?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: It's just one cop? Less? What's the difference? Ask his family,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: they'll tell you. The story you have just heard was true,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: only the names were changed or protect the innocent.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: On March twenty sixth, the trial was held in Superior Court,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Department eighty sixth, City and County of Los Angeles, State
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: of California. In a moment the results of that trial,
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Harold Wesley Talmadge was found guilty of manslaughter by a
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: jury trial and was sentenced to the state penitentiary. He
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: was paroled after serving six years in prison. You have
• 27:21
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• 27:26
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• 27:29
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• 27:38
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• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back, A good Luck at New Years. From the
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: perspective of police officers for whom it's a very dangerous
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and challenging holidays. It's one of those episodes which isn't
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: going to have a PS say effect. No one's going
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: to listen to that whose tendency is to get drunk
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: or high and ruin their lives and say, maybe I
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: won't do that. But it more helps us emphasize with
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the police officers and their struggles which can often turn deadly.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I will say that the close second for the most
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: loathsome character in this story is the bartender. He's literally
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: willing to withhold information the police need to find a
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: killer to protect his reputation. The ironic thing is that,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: from all accounts, if you're the type of person who
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: goes to his bar, you probably aren't going to be
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: too rattled by it. At least according to him, the
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: killer was a fairly obvious narcotics user, so nobody who
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: went there would have been surprised that things turned out
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: as they did. Well, now we turn to listener comments
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: and feedback, and we go to YouTube where Prince Adam
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: comments regarding the big couple, that's how it ends. Well, yeah,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: I'm not certain to understand the objection to the ending
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: of that one. Both the husband and wife were caught
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: and after trial they were sentenced to prison. That's a
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: pretty standard dragnet ending, So yeah, I'm not certain to
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: understand the problem with that one.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: There are a.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Few dragnet endings which are anticlimactic or puzzling, but ninety
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: nine plus percent of the time it's pretty well established
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: how those things end. Then we have a comment on YouTube.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: A listener writes, sadly, nothing much has changed in seventy
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: five or so years, and I guess, particularly in regards
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: to the Big crime, my answer on whether things have
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: gotten better or worse is generally yes. And so I
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: would disagree and say that things have gotten better and worse.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: And you we can think of a whole lot of
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: things when it comes to the crimes in that episode,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: where we've gotten better with some of our awareness, and
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the type of crime committed in that episode is quite
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: rare relatively, But at the same time, there are so
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: many other forms and methods being taken by predatory people
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: today that arguably it's gotten much worse. So while I
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: might disagree on the exact formulation in the now, the
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: comment or may be right. All right, Well, now it's
• 30:33
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• 30:36
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• 30:46
  Speaker 1: that will do it for this week and next week
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: we will not have new episodes because of a recording break. However,
• 30:55
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• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Our regular programming resumes on Memorial Day with the Adventures
• 31:06
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• 31:10
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