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  Speaker 1: November 24th, 1953 brings us to Los Angeles with Dragnet,
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  Speaker 1: episode 223, The Big Present. On NBC, Jack Webb stars
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  Speaker 1: as Detective Sergeant Joe Friday, assigned to burglary detail as
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  Speaker 1: a burglar targets neighborhood markets across the city. The thief
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  Speaker 1: leaves behind a calling card that gives police a name,
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  Speaker 1: the Milk Bottle Bandit, but not an identity or whereabouts,
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  Speaker 1: and Friday must work from the sparse evidence left by
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  Speaker 1: the break-ins. Ben Alexander, Sammy Ogg, and Olin Soul are
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  Speaker 1: heard with Webb in this case from Dragnet's 1953 radio run. Now,
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  Speaker 1: back to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, The story you're about to hear is true.
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  Speaker 3: The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 4: Drag men.
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  Speaker 2: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to burglary detail. In
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  Speaker 2: the past two months, a thief has broken into 18 markets.
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  Speaker 2: There's no lead to his whereabouts. No clue to his identity.
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  Speaker 2: Your job, get him.
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  Speaker 3: It was Monday, December 14th.
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  Speaker 5: It was cold in Los Angeles. We were working the
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  Speaker 5: day watch out of burglary detail. My partner's Frank Smith.
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  Speaker 5: The boss is Captain Bernard.
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  Speaker 3: My name's Friday.
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  Speaker 5: We were on our way out of the office when
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  Speaker 5: it was 8.05 a.m. when we got to Georgia Street
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  Speaker 5: Juvenile Bureau. Sergeant Lindsey Simmons' office.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Well, did you give it to him?
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  Speaker 7: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What'd he say?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: When'd he come back?
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 6: Well, did he have it for you?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that'll teach you not to go that route anymore.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Patrick. Tell the sergeant to call me when
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  Speaker 6: he gets back.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Friday Smith.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Lindsey.
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  Speaker 6: Morning, Sergeant. Just talking to Gene Patrick over at Highland Park.
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  Speaker 4: You know him?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I met him a couple of times.
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  Speaker 9: Picked up a youngster a couple of days ago on
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  Speaker 9: suspicion of burglary. Brought him into the office and Patrick
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  Speaker 9: talked to him.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Well, he finally bought it, but the kid didn't have
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  Speaker 9: anything to do with it, so he told him to
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  Speaker 9: go home.
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  Speaker 7: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 9: Kid told Gene he didn't have the money to get home,
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  Speaker 9: so Gene gave him 20 cents. Kid swore he'd come
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  Speaker 9: in and pay it back.
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  Speaker 3: Did he?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he came in this morning, gave Patrick two dimes.
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  Speaker 6: Told him thanks for believing the story.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 6: Then Patrick got the kicker. Kid really did break into
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  Speaker 6: a house last night to get the money.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what's Patrick got to say about that?
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  Speaker 6: Says the kid's honest in a sort of way. He
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  Speaker 6: did pay him back.
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  Speaker 8: Well, where's the youngster now?
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  Speaker 6: Got him over at Highland Park Juvenile.
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  Speaker 8: I better call, Gene. Maybe I can give him a hand.
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  Speaker 8: I got a couple of streetcar tokens I won't be using.
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  Speaker 8: Might like to have them.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, Holden, if I was you, I don't think I'd
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  Speaker 10: bring it up to him for a couple of days.
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  Speaker 6: Well, what can I do for you two?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Lindsey, we've been working on a string of burglaries.
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  Speaker 3: You maybe got the word on them.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 6: What's the story?
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  Speaker 3: Bunch of store burglaries. Papers have tagged them. The milk
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  Speaker 3: bottle jobs.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Seems Hartgrove was telling me something about them the other day.
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  Speaker 6: Where'd we come in?
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  Speaker 7: Well, the way the jobs look, we've been thinking they
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  Speaker 7: maybe belong in your department instead of ours.
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  Speaker 6: How do you figure that?
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  Speaker 8: First off, the milk thing.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 7: Every job he's pulled, we found an empty milk bottle
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  Speaker 7: on the counter.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, what's that prove?
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  Speaker 3: Well, milk and.
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  Speaker 6: Kids go together. Sure, so do milk and ulcers. Maybe
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  Speaker 6: your thief's got the bull horrors when he gets into
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  Speaker 6: the store.
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  Speaker 5: No, Lindsey, there's another thing. The way he prowls the places.
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  Speaker 5: All he takes is petty cash. Just a couple of
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  Speaker 5: bucks outside. Candy, cigarettes, nothing big. Some of the places
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  Speaker 5: he's gone into, you could open the safe with a
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  Speaker 5: pocket knife. And he hasn't even made a move toward them.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe he's a kleptomaniac.
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  Speaker 4: Got a lot of them on the books.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe that's the way he gets his kicks.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's a nice try, Lindsey.
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  Speaker 5: If you know anybody that can climb through a 14
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  Speaker 5: by 10 inch hole, you trot them up and we'll
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  Speaker 5: talk to them.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, I haven't got the names on my desk, but
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  Speaker 9: you take a trip to Santa Anita, you'll meet a
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  Speaker 9: lot of them.
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  Speaker 6: Jockeys. You guys know we'll go along.
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  Speaker 4: With you on this thing.
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  Speaker 9: Anything we can do, but until we're sure that there's
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  Speaker 9: a juvenile involved, there's nothing we can do.
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  Speaker 4: Anything turns up, we'll be sure to turn it over
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  Speaker 4: to you.
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  Speaker 3: Now, look, we're not trying to palm this thing off
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  Speaker 3: on you, Lindsey.
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  Speaker 5: We've had the stats office make so many runs on
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  Speaker 5: small adults that the cards are wearing out.
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  Speaker 3: It just seems that none of the leads we've been
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  Speaker 3: chasing come out anywhere. We figured that maybe you could
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  Speaker 3: come up with some answers for us.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's a new one on me, Joe, this milk bit.
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  Speaker 9: I've heard of a couple of thieves that went for it,
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  Speaker 9: but I can't name you a juvenile offhand. I'll pass
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  Speaker 9: the word around to the day watch, see what they
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  Speaker 9: can come up with. I'll leave a note for Hartgrove.
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  Speaker 9: He can pass it on to the night watch.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate anything you can do.
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  Speaker 4: No trouble.
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  Speaker 6: Been running your ragged on this, huh? Pretty rough.
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  Speaker 3: Just that we can't seem to be able to come
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  Speaker 3: up with anything today.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, excuse me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Georgia Street, Joe. Sergeant Simmons.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they're here.
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  Speaker 9: Which one?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, hang on. For you, Joe, your office.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Friday talking.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Right away. What's the address?
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  Speaker 8: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh, I got it. We'll leave right away.
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  Speaker 8: Who? Yeah, call him. Thanks.
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  Speaker 5: Well, come on, let's go. The milk bottle kid, he
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  Speaker 5: hit again. The call had come from Lieutenant Ginder in burglary.
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  Speaker 5: He told us that he'd just gotten a call from
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  Speaker 5: a storekeeper named Marty Darabertus. The man had called to
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  Speaker 5: report a burglary at his store at the corner of
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  Speaker 5: Jackson and Broadway Streets. Lieutenant Ginder told us that the
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  Speaker 5: crime lab had been notified and had dispatched a crew
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  Speaker 5: to investigate the premises for physical evidence. Frank and I
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  Speaker 5: left Georgia Street Juvenile and we drove over to Figueroa.
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  Speaker 5: Then we turned over onto Broadway. The store that had
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  Speaker 5: been broken into was a small Italian delicatessen on the
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  Speaker 5: southeast corner. By the time we got there, the crime
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  Speaker 5: lab crew had already arrived and was winding up their investigation.
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  Speaker 5: We walked into the place and we met with Ray Tinker.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Joe.
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  Speaker 11: Frank.
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  Speaker 4: Ray. Hi, Ray.
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  Speaker 6: How's it going? Usual thing.
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  Speaker 4: Bottle of milk on the counter. You want to check
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  Speaker 4: it over?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Come on back here. Chief made his entrance back here
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  Speaker 4: at the rear of the store.
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  Speaker 3: There it is.
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  Speaker 4: Broke out the window pane.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, not very big, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Measures nine and a half to twelve and three quarters.
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  Speaker 3: No alarm on the window, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you can see the wires here. Take a look.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: How come the alarm didn't go off?
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  Speaker 10: I talked to the owner. He said he's had trouble
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  Speaker 10: with the alarm system the last couple of weeks. Called
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  Speaker 10: the company and asked them to fix it.
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  Speaker 4: He thought it was okay. Guess there's something wrong someplace.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't work last night.
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  Speaker 6: What kind of alarm was it, Ray? I'll try it.
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  Speaker 4: On the building. You know the kind. Yeah. What'd he
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  Speaker 4: take this time, Ray? Usual round of stuff.
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  Speaker 10: According to the owner, there are about four cartons of
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  Speaker 10: cigarettes missing, several boxes of candy. Can't be absolutely sure.
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  Speaker 10: So he's got a check he's stocked. Be better if
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  Speaker 10: you talk to him on that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we will.
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  Speaker 4: We'll catch him later. Want to wait a minute?
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  Speaker 10: I'll check and see how the boys are doing on
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  Speaker 10: the prints. Have them check the counter and the milk bottle.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Ray. Be right back.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder when we're going to blow the whistle on
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  Speaker 3: this guy.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know. Can't do it fast enough for me. Well,
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  Speaker 8: then what do you know?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Joe. Look at this.
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  Speaker 8: You know, I'd like to get a couple of those
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  Speaker 8: before we leave. What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 6: Salami, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: Those right there, the hard Italian kind.
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  Speaker 6: See, right there?
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  Speaker 7: I remember last summer I was up in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember.
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  Speaker 7: Went up there to pick up a prisoner. Remember, you
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  Speaker 7: were collecting days off.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I recall. I had a hundred of them coming.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, pretty funny.
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  Speaker 7: Anyway, I met Dan Shelley up there. You mean the
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  Speaker 7: Irish tenor? Yeah, he and I went down to Cookie's
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  Speaker 7: bar for lunch. Cookie had some of this salami. Sliced
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  Speaker 7: it like paper. You could almost read through it. That's
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  Speaker 7: the way it's supposed to be.
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  Speaker 8: I know, Joe.
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  Speaker 7: Anyway, Cookie sliced up a bunch of it, served it
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  Speaker 7: with cold cracked crab.
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  Speaker 8: Boy, I never tasted anything so good in my life.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you ever read the newspaper through sliced salami?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I never have.
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  Speaker 4: Have you?
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  Speaker 6: All the time.
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  Speaker 8: Just the funnies. Well, anyway, Faye's tried to find them
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  Speaker 8: for me. Salami like this.
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  Speaker 6: Brought home all.
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  Speaker 7: Kind of things, but she's never found the right kind.
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  Speaker 7: You know, they'd be hard enough to pound tax with them.
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  Speaker 8: She got them, though. Boy, never forget old Cookie and
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  Speaker 8: that spread.
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  Speaker 5: Well, if you can get your mind off food for
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  Speaker 5: a minute, and I know that'll be tough, let's get
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  Speaker 5: on with this thing, Joe. Sure got to buy some
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  Speaker 5: of these before we leave.
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  Speaker 8: Just like Cookie had.
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  Speaker 7: Just finished with powder, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing.
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  Speaker 10: Whoever it was drank the milk. He took the bottle
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  Speaker 10: out of the refrigeration compartment. The bottle's sweated, and there
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  Speaker 10: isn't a print on it.
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  Speaker 4: We can lift.
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  Speaker 8: Too bad.
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  Speaker 6: None of them anyplace, huh?
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  Speaker 4: No, we've gone over the place from top to bottom.
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  Speaker 4: So there we can't find them.
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  Speaker 6: That's not much help, is it?
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  Speaker 4: Came up with one thing. Maybe you can make something
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  Speaker 4: out of it.
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  Speaker 6: What's that?
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  Speaker 10: Outside the window in the back parking lot. Came up
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  Speaker 10: with an open package of cigarettes. Don't know if it
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  Speaker 10: belonged to the thief.
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  Speaker 8: Anything on it?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 4: Fog last night ruined any prints that were on it.
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  Speaker 4: Boys have got it if you want it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we'll take a look at it. Looks like everything's
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  Speaker 3: against us, huh? Another blank.
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  Speaker 10: Don't envy you guys trying to break this one. Most
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  Speaker 10: of the time there's a leak someplace. Somewhere along the
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  Speaker 10: line the guy's going to make a mistake and not
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  Speaker 10: cover something.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we've been saying that for weeks.
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  Speaker 10: This is either the smartest thief I've ever seen or
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  Speaker 10: the luckiest. What's his make for him?
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  Speaker 3: Number 19.
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  Speaker 10: A lot of chances to take for nothing.
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  Speaker 4: He's not getting anything out of the jobs.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he isn't, but we are.
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 3: Headaches. 9.38 a.m. We talked to the victim. He told
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  Speaker 3: us that as near as he could figure, there was
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  Speaker 3: approximately $ 4 stolen from the store.
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  Speaker 5: He went on to say that he'd ascertained that five
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  Speaker 5: cartons of cigarettes and several boxes of candy bars were taken.
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  Speaker 5: He was unable to tell us if any other merchandise
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  Speaker 5: was taken until he'd.
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  Speaker 3: Made a complete inventory.
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  Speaker 5: He went on to tell us that there was over
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  Speaker 5: $ 600 in the safe, but that as far as he
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  Speaker 5: could tell, there'd been no attempt to break into it.
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  Speaker 5: We made a canvas of the neighborhood and talked to
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  Speaker 5: the neighbors. None of them recalled having seen any suspicious people.
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  Speaker 3: In the neighborhood the night before. None of them.
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  Speaker 5: Had seen any suspicious automobiles in the area. The one
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  Speaker 5: thing that was apparent was that the thief was working
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  Speaker 5: in a definite pattern. He worked only on Friday and
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  Speaker 5: Saturday nights, always between 8 p.m.
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  Speaker 3: And 12 midnight.
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  Speaker 5: Frank and I met with Captain Bernard, and it was
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  Speaker 5: decided that we would maintain a rolling stakeout in the
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  Speaker 5: area in which the suspect operated.
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  Speaker 3: Four other cars from Metro Reserves were assigned.
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  Speaker 6: To work with us.
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  Speaker 5: For the next five nights, we worked without results. It
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  Speaker 5: was slow and tedious, but considering the lack of information
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  Speaker 5: on the thief, it was the only way we had left.
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  Speaker 5: We had to be on or near the scene when
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  Speaker 5: the thief struck again. Saturday night, December 19th. Frank and
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  Speaker 5: I met and drove out to the area. The streets
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  Speaker 5: were crowded with early Christmas shoppers.
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  Speaker 6: I'll sure be glad when it's over.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 6: What's the matter? How many rooms in your apartment, Joe?
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  Speaker 12: Three.
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  Speaker 3: You know that. You've been there.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: There won't be enough room. What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 6: Faye. What's Faye got to do with this?
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  Speaker 11: Hack, Joe.
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  Speaker 6: Real hack.
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  Speaker 8: Why?
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  Speaker 6: What's the matter? I got up this morning. I felt great.
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  Speaker 6: Faye's got breakfast on the table. All nice.
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  Speaker 8: Couple eggs. Little pig sausages. Nice, you know.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I come down to the table.
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  Speaker 6: She's got the food on.
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  Speaker 8: And I hit her with it.
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  Speaker 3: What, the food?
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  Speaker 6: No, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: I hit her with what I'm about to tell her.
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  Speaker 8: I tell her I'm going to have to work tonight.
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  Speaker 6: You work every night this week. What's wrong with that?
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  Speaker 8: That's the way I figure it, so I got a
• 10:12
  Speaker 8: way out. You have, huh?
• 10:14
  Speaker 7: Today is Faye's birthday.
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  Speaker 6: You didn't tell me. It's not good to tell people, Joe. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: it isn't.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 6: Faye's over 30.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I kind of figured that. Don't you get it?
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, pal.
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  Speaker 3: You left me a couple of blocks back on this one.
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  Speaker 6: Look, Faye... I may never catch up. Faye's over 30, Joe.
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  Speaker 7: She's getting to the point where she's taken off years, see?
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  Speaker 7: How can you give a person a last birthday present? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I tell you about it.
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  Speaker 8: You're going to give her a present. Only now instead
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  Speaker 8: of 30, she's 29.
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  Speaker 6: You understand?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, to be perfectly honest with you, no. But as
• 10:51
  Speaker 3: long as you do, it's perfectly.
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  Speaker 6: All right with me.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What about this morning?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I told her I was going to have to
• 10:58
  Speaker 7: go to work. I got this present for her. Brand
• 11:00
  Speaker 7: new deep fat fryer.
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  Speaker 6: Real good.
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  Speaker 8: All wrapped up.
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  Speaker 6: Deep fat fryer. All wrapped up with ribbon. Beautiful.
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  Speaker 8: Shiny.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful.
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  Speaker 6: So you gave it to her. Did it do any good?
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  Speaker 7: Not a pound.
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  Speaker 6: You know what she does with it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, at this point, I wouldn't even want to guess.
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  Speaker 4: I'm serious, Joe.
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  Speaker 6: This may mean the end of my home.
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  Speaker 8: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 6: She doesn't even open it.
• 11:20
  Speaker 7: Just puts it in the closet on the back porch.
• 11:23
  Speaker 7: Doesn't even pull the paper apart to peek at what's
• 11:25
  Speaker 7: in it.
• 11:26
  Speaker 6: Real mad, Joe.
• 11:27
  Speaker 8: She may not let me back in the house tonight.
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: Well, you can apologize when you get home.
• 11:31
  Speaker 6: I don't know, Joe. Face pretty sore. Didn't even open
• 11:33
  Speaker 6: the present.
• 11:33
  Speaker 8: Wait a minute. I'm going to peek, huh? Listen.
• 11:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, tell where it's coming from? Yeah, sounds like up
• 11:38
  Speaker 6: on 7th. Come on.
• 11:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, right here.
• 11:44
  Speaker 8: Pull up.
• 11:47
  Speaker 6: I'll take the front. All right. Hey, hold it up there.
• 11:49
  Speaker 8: Police officers, stop or I'll shoot. Frank, he's coming around
• 11:52
  Speaker 8: your way.
• 11:53
  Speaker 6: Okay. Take it easy.
• 11:54
  Speaker 8: Go ahead and shoot.
• 11:54
  Speaker 6: Come on and kill me. Go ahead and shoot me.
• 11:56
  Speaker 6: It doesn't matter anymore. Everything all right?
• 11:59
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 12:00
  Speaker 6: Just a kid, Joe.
• 12:01
  Speaker 12: Oh, sweet.
• 12:01
  Speaker 6: What are you doing in the store, son?
• 12:15
  Speaker 12: What do you think I'm doing?
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: He asked you a question, son.
• 12:18
  Speaker 12: Pretty stupid. What do you think I was doing?
• 12:20
  Speaker 8: How many tours you broken into, son?
• 12:22
  Speaker 12: Figure it out for yourself.
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: Look, what do you got a chip on your shoulder for?
• 12:25
  Speaker 12: You're big guys. Don't give me a lot of conversation.
• 12:28
  Speaker 12: Do what you want to do.
• 12:29
  Speaker 6: All right, boy, you call it. Come on. 11.50 p.m.
• 12:37
  Speaker 5: We called the office and told them that we had
• 12:38
  Speaker 5: a subject in custody and that we were taking him
• 12:40
  Speaker 5: to Georgia Street Juvenile Bureau. We put the boy in
• 12:42
  Speaker 5: our car and we waited until a radio car arrived.
• 12:45
  Speaker 5: We asked the officer to notify the owner of the
• 12:47
  Speaker 5: store and stand by until he got there. We also
• 12:49
  Speaker 5: asked if they'd make a 459 report. 11.55 p.m.
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: He started to take the youngster to the juvenile bureau.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: What's your name, son?
• 12:58
  Speaker 12: What difference does it make?
• 12:59
  Speaker 8: Acting like that isn't going to help you.
• 13:00
  Speaker 12: You guys picked me up, remember? You worry about it.
• 13:03
  Speaker 12: I got nothing to be afraid of.
• 13:04
  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, you have, boy. You could have been shot
• 13:06
  Speaker 6: back there.
• 13:06
  Speaker 12: Maybe you should have pulled the trigger.
• 13:09
  Speaker 5: Look, son, what's the matter with you? Why are you
• 13:10
  Speaker 5: acting like this? You just got real lucky back there.
• 13:13
  Speaker 5: That's the only reason you're alive now. It was dark
• 13:15
  Speaker 5: in there. As far as I could tell, you were
• 13:16
  Speaker 5: an adult. You didn't stop when I told you to. Now,
• 13:18
  Speaker 5: according to the book, I could have shot you.
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: You know that, don't you?
• 13:20
  Speaker 12: You're only a kid. Better make you a big man.
• 13:22
  Speaker 6: No, I'm just bringing it up to prove a point.
• 13:23
  Speaker 12: Say it.
• 13:24
  Speaker 8: Now, look, son.
• 13:25
  Speaker 5: I'm going to tell you something. When you break into
• 13:27
  Speaker 5: a place at night, you're not a kid anymore. You're
• 13:29
  Speaker 5: asking for trouble. You've got both your pockets full of it.
• 13:31
  Speaker 5: The way you work tonight makes us think you're mixed.
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: Up in a lot more theft than just tonight.
• 13:34
  Speaker 12: Is that right?
• 13:35
  Speaker 6: You ever been arrested before? No.
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: Never been in trouble with the law, huh? Sure.
• 13:39
  Speaker 12: I'm a real criminal. I got a ticket once for
• 13:41
  Speaker 12: riding my bike through a boulevard stop. Radio car stopped.
• 13:44
  Speaker 6: Me and tagged me.
• 13:45
  Speaker 12: Big deal. But they're going to send me to San Quentin.
• 13:48
  Speaker 12: Maybe you can give me the gas change.
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: How old are you?
• 13:52
  Speaker 12: What difference does that make?
• 13:53
  Speaker 8: How old are you?
• 13:54
  Speaker 12: You figure.
• 13:55
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: You look like you're about 11 to me.
• 13:57
  Speaker 12: That's what everybody thinks. I'll be 15 my next birthday.
• 14:00
  Speaker 6: Don't kid us, son. It's the truth. Fifteen.
• 14:02
  Speaker 12: That's what I'll be.
• 14:02
  Speaker 6: Fifteen.
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: When were you born?
• 14:03
  Speaker 12: 1939, November 2nd.
• 14:05
  Speaker 6: You're small for your age, aren't you?
• 14:07
  Speaker 12: Why do you say that?
• 14:08
  Speaker 6: Aren't you?
• 14:08
  Speaker 12: It's got nothing to do with it. Nothing at all.
• 14:11
  Speaker 12: I can do anything any other kid can do. Anything.
• 14:13
  Speaker 12: Don't you forget that.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: What's the matter with you? Is that a sore point
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: with you?
• 14:17
  Speaker 6: Huh?
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: Your size. Is that a sore point?
• 14:19
  Speaker 12: Nothing wrong with my size. Doctor says that I'm all right.
• 14:22
  Speaker 12: Just that some people aren't meant to be as big
• 14:24
  Speaker 12: as others.
• 14:24
  Speaker 6: That's all.
• 14:25
  Speaker 12: There's nothing wrong with me.
• 14:26
  Speaker 6: Now, now, come on, son.
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: What's your name? Now, look, you know we're going to
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: find out.
• 14:32
  Speaker 12: How are you going to find out?
• 14:33
  Speaker 6: We will.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: Now, why don't you save us all a lot of
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: time and tell us the truth here?
• 14:38
  Speaker 8: It'd be better if you did.
• 14:38
  Speaker 12: If I do tell you. You going to put it
• 14:42
  Speaker 12: in the papers?
• 14:43
  Speaker 6: What?
• 14:44
  Speaker 9: I'll tell you.
• 14:45
  Speaker 12: There's going to be a lot of reporters around. My
• 14:47
  Speaker 12: name going to get in the papers?
• 14:48
  Speaker 8: Not from us.
• 14:49
  Speaker 12: Can't tell you then.
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: You mean if there's no reporters around, you aren't going
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: to tell us your name?
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: Is that it?
• 14:53
  Speaker 12: That's the way it is.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: It's kind of funny, isn't it?
• 14:57
  Speaker 12: Maybe that's the way it looks to you.
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: Where do you live?
• 15:00
  Speaker 12: Can't tell you that either.
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: You've got things all wrong, son. It isn't what you
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: want to tell us. That's got nothing to do with this.
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: You're going to tell us what we want to know
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: sooner or later.
• 15:09
  Speaker 6: Where are we going?
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: Georgia Street.
• 15:11
  Speaker 12: That's where the jail is.
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: Why do you ask that?
• 15:13
  Speaker 12: Because I want to know.
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a jail there.
• 15:16
  Speaker 12: Reporters?
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: What?
• 15:17
  Speaker 12: There's going to be reporters there.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: What is this thing with reporters in you? What's this
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: all about?
• 15:20
  Speaker 12: Reporters put your name in the papers, don't they?
• 15:22
  Speaker 8: Sometimes.
• 15:23
  Speaker 12: Well, you get the reporters all lined up. You get
• 15:25
  Speaker 12: them from all the papers. You have them there and
• 15:27
  Speaker 12: I'll tell you all about it.
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: The whole story.
• 15:29
  Speaker 12: You just get the reporters and the photographers. Be sure
• 15:32
  Speaker 12: about them, because I want some pictures, too.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: Well, look, let me get this straight.
• 15:36
  Speaker 12: What?
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: You say you aren't going to give us any information
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: without the press being there.
• 15:39
  Speaker 8: Is that right?
• 15:40
  Speaker 12: That's the way it's going to be.
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: Well, you got it wrong, boy.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: What? Doesn't make any difference who's there. You're going to
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: come around.
• 15:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: We'll find out.
• 15:46
  Speaker 8: The End.
• 15:56
  Speaker 11: You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
• 15:59
  Speaker 11: police force in action.
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: 12.10 a.m. We got to Georgia Street Juvenile Bureau. Frank
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: pulled the car into the side alley and we took
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: the subject out of the back seat.
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: Up this way, son.
• 16:18
  Speaker 12: It's a seedy looking place.
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, it's been here a long time.
• 16:20
  Speaker 12: Looks like a set out of a picture.
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: Don't you worry about it, huh?
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: You want to take him down the hall, Frank?
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: I'll check with Hargrove. Yeah.
• 16:27
  Speaker 8: Come on, bud.
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: Hiya, Friday. Working kind of late, aren't you? Yeah, we are.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: I got the note from Simmons on the milk burglaries.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: Checked around the nightwise. Nothing on it, so I didn't
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: call you.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: I don't think you have to worry about it. I
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: think we got the answer. Yeah?
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: We just picked up a kid. We got him dead
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: to rights in the market.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Opened a bottle of milk right next to the cash register.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Where is he now?
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Frank's got him down the hall.
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: You think he's your boy?
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, looks like it. Everything he had, Zeph. The entrance,
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: what he tried to take, the milk. All along, seems
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: to fit.
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: You got that kind of a case, what are you
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: worrying about? There's two things. Yeah? Who he is and
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: why he did it.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: He won't tell you? No.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: He's got some big thing working about the press. Says
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: he won't give us anything without reporters being there.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Makes it rough, Joe.
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: You know the policy.
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I do.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: He won't let us help him.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: If he wants publicity, take me down.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Introduce me as a reporter.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind doing it.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: You won't do any harm to try.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: Go ahead. Thanks. Who am I going to be? Well,
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: tell him you're Sid Hughes from the mirror, huh? Yeah,
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: might as well be one of the good ones.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: Son, you wanted to talk to somebody from the papers.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: It's against the policy, but we swung it for you.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: This is Sid Hughes from the mirror.
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: Hi.
• 17:39
  Speaker 12: You the fellow that held that guy on the phone
• 17:41
  Speaker 12: in Baltimore?
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: Great.
• 17:43
  Speaker 12: I read all about it. You gonna write me up
• 17:45
  Speaker 12: like that?
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: I hope not, son.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: There were two men killed in that operation.
• 17:48
  Speaker 12: I read all the stories. Everybody did. That's how I
• 17:51
  Speaker 12: mean for you to write me up. With a picture.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: What makes you think you got it coming?
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: You break into one store and try to steal a
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: couple of cartons of cigarettes.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: That doesn't make the first page.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: One store?
• 18:01
  Speaker 12: I got into 19 of them. 19 before they caught me.
• 18:04
  Speaker 12: That's important, isn't it? That's a story.
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: I don't know. It might be.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: A couple of things we better get straightened out here.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: First off, what's your name?
• 18:11
  Speaker 12: Better get your notebook out. Be able to take all
• 18:13
  Speaker 12: this down.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Don't worry about it, son.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: You just answer the questions. I'll get it. Yeah. Okay.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 18:18
  Speaker 12: My name's Elroy Graham. That's E-L-R-O-Y-G-R-A-H-A-M.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: How old are you?
• 18:26
  Speaker 12: I told you once. Almost 15.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: You said you'd broke him into 19 stores.
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: Is that right?
• 18:30
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: 19.
• 18:32
  Speaker 12: Might have made him more, but something went wrong tonight.
• 18:34
  Speaker 12: Had trouble with the burglar alarm. Thought I'd turned it off.
• 18:37
  Speaker 12: Bad mistake. He's still working. It wasn't for that. Guess
• 18:41
  Speaker 12: it only takes one, though.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: Huh, Mr.
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: Hughes?
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess so. You want to tell us why
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: you did it? What?
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: He had to have a reason for committing these robberies.
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: You want to tell us what it was?
• 18:49
  Speaker 12: Sure. Good reason. Real good.
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: All right, tell us.
• 18:54
  Speaker 12: Well, you see, I always had trouble at school. Never
• 18:56
  Speaker 12: seemed to quite make it. All the guys liked me.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: They all did.
• 18:59
  Speaker 12: All the girls do, too. Got girls calling me almost
• 19:01
  Speaker 12: every night, asking me to take them to dances, stuff
• 19:03
  Speaker 12: like that. I don't go much for stuff like that.
• 19:06
  Speaker 12: You can understand, can't you, Mr. Hughes?
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: Go ahead, Elroy.
• 19:09
  Speaker 12: Well, they wanted me for all the teams, football, basketball.
• 19:13
  Speaker 12: All the time asking me to play. But I figure
• 19:15
  Speaker 12: if you want to get ahead in the world, you've
• 19:17
  Speaker 12: got to have a name. Someplace where you want to get.
• 19:20
  Speaker 12: Figure out that. Work for it, and you're going to
• 19:22
  Speaker 12: get there. Don't you find that true, Mr. Hughes? Go ahead.
• 19:26
  Speaker 12: That's the way it was with me. All the time,
• 19:28
  Speaker 12: turned down offers to be on some team. Telling some
• 19:30
  Speaker 12: girl that I couldn't take her to a dance. Just
• 19:32
  Speaker 12: didn't have the time. Somehow, I just couldn't make it.
• 19:35
  Speaker 12: You can understand it. You've been around. You know all
• 19:38
  Speaker 12: the successful kind of people. You write something, a lot
• 19:40
  Speaker 12: of people read it. You know what I mean. Don't you? Well,
• 19:46
  Speaker 12: what's the matter? Something wrong? I'm trying to tell you
• 19:50
  Speaker 12: what happened. I'm giving it to you straight. What's the matter?
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Now, you want to tell us the truth, Elroy?
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: What?
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know why you're trying to sell us this line, boy.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: It isn't necessary.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: I don't know why you did what you did, but
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: I do know you had a reason for it. Now,
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: that's all we want to know, just the reason.
• 20:06
  Speaker 12: You don't believe me?
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Afraid not.
• 20:08
  Speaker 12: How about you?
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: No, son, I don't.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: Hughes?
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: No.
• 20:15
  Speaker 12: Can't even lie right. Can't even tell a lie good.
• 20:18
  Speaker 12: All my life I've been trying to be like other kids.
• 20:22
  Speaker 12: All the time getting beat up, getting left out of things.
• 20:24
  Speaker 12: You know why?
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: Do you know?
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, son.
• 20:29
  Speaker 12: Big reason. Biggest reason in the world. Because I'm almost
• 20:35
  Speaker 12: 15 years old and I'm 4 feet 7 inches tall.
• 20:38
  Speaker 12: 4 feet 7 inches. Weight, 97 pounds. That ain't very big.
• 20:42
  Speaker 12: Not big enough. All the time, other kids shoving you around.
• 20:48
  Speaker 12: All the time, you're the joke. Gets to the time
• 20:52
  Speaker 12: when you figure it's easy to laugh, too. Because if
• 20:55
  Speaker 12: you don't, some kid's going to beat you up. Gets
• 20:57
  Speaker 12: to the point where you don't care anymore. I used
• 21:01
  Speaker 12: to clip out those coupons and send them in. Get
• 21:04
  Speaker 12: the books back on how to build myself up.
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: Worked at it.
• 21:07
  Speaker 12: Didn't do nothing for me. It was still four feet
• 21:10
  Speaker 12: seven and weighed 97 pounds. All the stuff I took
• 21:13
  Speaker 12: didn't do no good. Still came out four feet seven,
• 21:18
  Speaker 12: 97 pounds.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: All right, so you want to tell us about the burglaries?
• 21:23
  Speaker 12: I did it to be big, that's why. I had
• 21:26
  Speaker 12: the things other people wanted, cigarettes, candy, the other things
• 21:29
  Speaker 12: kids wanted. I had all that stuff that the other
• 21:32
  Speaker 12: kids wanted. Made me important, don't you see that? You
• 21:37
  Speaker 12: gotta understand it, Mr.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Hughes.
• 21:40
  Speaker 12: That's why I wanted my picture in the paper. That's
• 21:42
  Speaker 12: why I wanted the story. So the kids would know
• 21:45
  Speaker 12: that I'd done something big.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: So they'd know.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: All right, son. It's gonna be all right here. No,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: it isn't.
• 21:57
  Speaker 12: Like everything else I tried to do, I loused it up.
• 22:00
  Speaker 12: I didn't mean to steal, but it was the only
• 22:02
  Speaker 12: thing to do. The only way I had.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Now, wasn't there some other.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: No.
• 22:07
  Speaker 12: No, there wasn't. All the time the other kids laughing.
• 22:10
  Speaker 12: All the time talking. I just couldn't stand it anymore.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: I just couldn't.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: Here you go.
• 22:19
  Speaker 12: Thanks. You can understand it, can't you? It makes sense.
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: What's that, son?
• 22:28
  Speaker 12: Wasn't so much the kids saying I was little.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:31
  Speaker 12: I didn't want them to think I was small.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: 12.36 a.m., we contacted the parents of the Graham boy
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: and asked them to come down to the station.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: We talked to them for an hour and tried to
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: fill them in.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: In view of the fact that the parents of the
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: subject were responsible persons, the boy was booked for violation
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: of Section 459 PC, delinquent, and he was released to
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: his parents pending his hearing in juvenile court. Five days passed,
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: and we heard nothing from the boy. On December 24th,
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Frank and I checked into the office.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: Friday? Yeah, Earl. Kid in the back wants to see
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: you and Smith.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Okay, thank you.
• 23:13
  Speaker 12: Hi, Mr.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: Friday.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Well, hello, Roy.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: What can we do for you?
• 23:16
  Speaker 12: Well, I guess you think it's kind of funny.
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: What's that?
• 23:20
  Speaker 12: I want to tell you that I sure think it's
• 23:22
  Speaker 12: good what you did for me. Helped me with that
• 23:24
  Speaker 12: burglary thing the other night.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Well, it isn't over yet, son. The court still has
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: to make a decision on it.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:29
  Speaker 12: But what you did to make me feel better. As
• 23:31
  Speaker 12: far as I'm concerned, whatever the judge decides, I'll go
• 23:34
  Speaker 12: along with it. I had a long talk with my folks.
• 23:37
  Speaker 12: So we got it all talked out. All the way
• 23:39
  Speaker 12: talked out.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Well, that's good, son.
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: We're glad of it, son.
• 23:43
  Speaker 12: Maybe you guys won't like it. I mean, me knowing
• 23:45
  Speaker 12: you such a short time and all. But I wanted
• 23:48
  Speaker 12: to bring you these. Merry Christmas.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's awful nice of you, all right, but it's
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: a mystery.
• 23:54
  Speaker 12: I want to give them to you anyway. For what
• 23:56
  Speaker 12: you did for me.
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: Well, that's mighty nice of you, all right. Sure appreciate it.
• 24:00
  Speaker 12: A couple of packs of cigarettes. Hope they're the kind
• 24:05
  Speaker 12: you smoke.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, son, they'll be fine.
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: Thanks, son.
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: Well?
• 24:12
  Speaker 12: See you guys around, huh?
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, son.
• 24:17
  Speaker 12: Just one more thing, Sergeant.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, son?
• 24:20
  Speaker 12: Just thought you'd like to know.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what's that?
• 24:23
  Speaker 12: I didn't steal.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: Those.
• 24:33
  Speaker 11: Elroy Merton Graham appeared before the juvenile court where he
• 24:36
  Speaker 11: admitted the alleged burglaries. At this time, under the counsel
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: of the judge of the juvenile court, the subject was
• 24:41
  Speaker 11: placed under the care of the probation department for a
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: period of three years, with provision that his parents take
• 24:47
  Speaker 11: him to a competent psychiatrist.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: You have just heard Dragnet, the authentic story of your
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: police force in action, and starring Jack Webb, a presentation
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: We leave Dragnet with the big present. Follow the 50
• 26:18
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