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The Big Fake [episode 51], Broadcast 6/1/1950 · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 5: It was Wednesday, April ninth. It was foggy in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: We were working a day watch out of personnel. My
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  Speaker 5: partner's Ben Romero, the boss's deputy Chief Home and Commander B.
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  Speaker 6: I A. My name's Friday.
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  Speaker 5: We're on the way over from the City Hall and
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  Speaker 5: it was five twenty five pm when we got the
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  Speaker 5: Central Division Assembly Room. Why Sam Joe, Yeah, it looks
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  Speaker 5: like him over there.
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  Speaker 6: Hi you Russell Clark.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right Friday, Ramero personnel are end of Drummond.
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  Speaker 6: Over b I'd like to talk to you, all right?
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  Speaker 6: When'd you want to see me? Right now? Okay? All right?
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  Speaker 6: Were looking at the captain. Okay, let's go where they
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  Speaker 6: want to see anybody you know, Drummond will tell you. Okay,
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  Speaker 6: how long you been on the job, bluh, about two
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  Speaker 6: and a half months. How do you like it? Oh?
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  Speaker 6: I like it fine?
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  Speaker 7: Wife doesn't mean much of it. She wanted me to
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  Speaker 7: stay at my own job. What was that selling insurance?
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  Speaker 7: I likes to be home nice, doesn't like to be alone,
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  Speaker 7: especially now. Yeah, she's expecting a couple of months, you
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  Speaker 7: know how yet? Yeah that's cross you. Hey, I uh
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  Speaker 7: put in a request for day work. Do you think
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  Speaker 7: that's why personnel wants to see me?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. I don't think so why I should
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  Speaker 6: like to get that day watch? Yeah? Not the way
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  Speaker 6: you full of started? I did? Yeah he started and trapping,
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  Speaker 6: didn't you bet?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Huh I have nine months go ahead? Uh no, thanks,
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  Speaker 6: I have to be on the job at six. Think
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  Speaker 6: just gonna take right long. I don't know. Hi Friday,
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  Speaker 6: Hi Friday, and let's situ waiting.
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  Speaker 8: Listen to al Coleman, Lieutenant, Yeah, commit, This is offic
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  Speaker 8: to Clark, Lieutenant drummon.
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  Speaker 6: How did you say? Oh a Clark? Sit down? Thanks?
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  Speaker 8: A couple of questions for you, Yes, sir, you were
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  Speaker 8: on special duty at the Olympic Auditorium last night there, right, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 8: for the fights.
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  Speaker 6: Anything unusual happened out there last night? I wasn't very important, Lieutenant.
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  Speaker 7: After the fight's drunk fell down the stairs, on my
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  Speaker 7: way out of the outitorium, broke his arm. I took
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  Speaker 7: him to Georgia Street and he took care of the arm,
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  Speaker 7: and I drove him home, and he's pretty drunk.
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  Speaker 6: Why didn't you book the man? I didn't think it
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  Speaker 6: was necessary. How long you've been with the department, Clark,
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  Speaker 6: two and a half months, sore?
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  Speaker 8: Did you know he should have been booked for violation
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  Speaker 8: of forty one to twenty seven a lamc oh man?
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  Speaker 7: It was in pretty bad shape, Lieutenant broke an arm.
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  Speaker 7: I guess I didn't think the law was that straight law.
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  Speaker 8: I was there for a purpose. He decided to forget it.
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  Speaker 8: Now you're in a mess right up to your neck.
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  Speaker 6: I don't understand. You remember the name of that drunk
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  Speaker 6: he took care of last night. Yes, her name of Stacey,
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  Speaker 6: lives out in West LA.
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  Speaker 8: What's the matter of time that drunk mister Stacey wants
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  Speaker 8: to finally complain against you?
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  Speaker 9: What for?
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  Speaker 8: He claims you took him back to the auditorium, beat
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  Speaker 8: him up, broke his arm, and robbed him of one
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  Speaker 8: hundred and twenty eight dollars.
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  Speaker 6: Crazy, he's lying. I didn't do that. Got his word
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  Speaker 6: against George Clark. The fact seemed to favor him, but.
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  Speaker 7: I can prove it whether there was at least a
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  Speaker 7: couple of dozen people around it, there was a doctor, he.
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  Speaker 5: Continued, Maybe you better take it from the beginning, Clari,
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  Speaker 5: Exactly how did it happen?
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  Speaker 7: I was right after the fight, so I was on
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  Speaker 7: duty in the lobby and I saw a bunch of
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  Speaker 7: people crowing around the foot of the stairs.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I went over to see what the trouble was, and
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  Speaker 7: they were looking at this man lying on the pavement, Stacy.
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  Speaker 6: A doctor was examining his doctor. Did he identify him yet? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I asked her.
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  Speaker 7: Was that identification? He showed it to me, Dave McK carr.
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  Speaker 7: He was doctor, All right, yeah, go ahead. Well he
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  Speaker 7: told me that he had seen Stacy fall down the
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  Speaker 7: stairs coming out of the auditorium, said that Stacy had
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  Speaker 7: broken his left time.
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  Speaker 6: What'd you do then?
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  Speaker 7: Well, the docs said'd be okay to move him. So
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  Speaker 7: I helped him into my car and take him down
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  Speaker 7: to Georgia Street. So drunkyard to stand up the attendants.
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  Speaker 6: He took care of his arm. Well, they can tell
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  Speaker 6: you all.
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  Speaker 8: About this maybe, but they can't help you on his witnesses.
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  Speaker 8: You could have beaten up Stacy, robbed him, then take
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  Speaker 8: him into Georgia Street.
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  Speaker 7: But I didn't, Lieutenant, Lieutendant, is Stacy's lying? What'd you
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  Speaker 7: do when you left Georgia Street? Well, I drove into
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  Speaker 7: Central and told him what happened. I told the watch
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  Speaker 7: commander I was going to drive this Stacy home, and
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  Speaker 7: he warned me about it. I guess I should have
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  Speaker 7: known him better. But well, I swear to you that
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  Speaker 7: Stacy's lying.
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  Speaker 6: You should have known him better. Where'd you go? Out
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  Speaker 6: to your left? Central?
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  Speaker 7: I drove him home. On the way, he said he
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  Speaker 7: was hungry, so I stopped. I bought him a sandwich,
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  Speaker 7: some black coffee. Kept telling me what a nag his
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  Speaker 7: wife was, said he was afraid to go home.
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  Speaker 6: Go on.
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  Speaker 7: Well, when I got himTo his place, his wife started
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  Speaker 7: chewing me out. I just said, good night. That's it,
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  Speaker 7: that's it, so help me. That's exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 8: How about the doctor at the auditorium, the one who
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  Speaker 8: saw Stacy fall. Did you get his name in the dress?
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  Speaker 6: Well, no, no, Lieutenant, I didn't. I think it was necessary.
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  Speaker 6: How about the crowd that was standing around, just about
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  Speaker 6: anybody you know, no, no, no, I didn't. Just a
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  Speaker 6: bunch of people coming out of the fights. And you
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  Speaker 6: haven't got anyone to corroborate your story. But all those
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  Speaker 6: people saw it. There must have been a couple of
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  Speaker 6: dozen of me. What are their names? I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: All I know is I didn't beat him up and
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  Speaker 6: I didn't take his money. I tell you that Stacy's lying.
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  Speaker 6: You could be lying. We got no proof either way.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not lying, Lieutenant, I didn't do it. We might
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  Speaker 6: believe you, Clark. That doesn't make any difference. If this
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  Speaker 6: man files at two eleven against he's got to be
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  Speaker 6: settling the court. But I didn't do it. I tell you,
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  Speaker 6: I swear I did it.
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  Speaker 8: In just a minute, Mike said it, mister Stacy. You
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  Speaker 8: can hear the story the way we get it from
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  Speaker 8: Stacey and his wife.
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  Speaker 6: I'd like to hear it. I don't know why he's
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  Speaker 6: doing this. Tell me I helped him all I could.
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  Speaker 6: Look Gary Barriers, that's the one. Yeah, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 6: mister Stacy. What's this all about? Clark? Mister Stacey, would
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  Speaker 6: you repeat the same story I told us this morning? Please?
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  Speaker 6: You know what I told you. Chief, You had the stenographer.
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  Speaker 6: Take it all down. It's the same thing. Like to
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  Speaker 6: have you repeat it in front of officer Clark. Here
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  Speaker 6: he's in title. I know what you're charging with? Man
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  Speaker 6: like that entitled to nothing? You want to be a
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  Speaker 6: shamed of yourself? Fuck lady, your husband's line. Don't call
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  Speaker 6: my husband a liar. You're not a policeman. You're a
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  Speaker 6: hold of them all right? Wait a minute, I don't
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  Speaker 6: know what the city's coming to.
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  Speaker 10: CoP's going around beating up private citizensh don't we trust
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  Speaker 10: if we can't trust the policeman? Just a minute, please, No, captain,
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  Speaker 10: you should have seen my husband when that officer brought
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  Speaker 10: him home last night. I'm all banded, face, all cut up.
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  Speaker 10: He was hurt so bad he could hardly stand up.
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  Speaker 6: He was too drunk to stand up. Don't get fresh,
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  Speaker 6: all right, that's enough.
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  Speaker 11: This cop got hold of me as I was coming
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  Speaker 11: out of the fights, took me in back of the auditorium,
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  Speaker 11: told me if I didn't hand over my wallet, he'd
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  Speaker 11: booked me on a drunk charge.
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  Speaker 6: Were you drunk, Stacy? I was not. Had a couple
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  Speaker 6: of beers, that's.
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  Speaker 11: All, and I wouldn't give him my money and beat
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  Speaker 11: me up, broke my arm and took my wallet.
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  Speaker 9: Had a man like you ever get on the police force.
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  Speaker 11: He figured he'd cover up, so he took me and
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  Speaker 11: had my arm fixed at the emergency hospital, and he
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  Speaker 11: drove me home, threatened me all away.
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  Speaker 6: He said, you tell anybody about this and I'll get you.
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  Speaker 6: That's just what he said. I don't get it, Stacy.
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  Speaker 6: You know that story is a pack of lies. Why
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  Speaker 6: are you doing this to me?
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  Speaker 11: It's the truth and I'm gonna press charges and get
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  Speaker 11: my money back.
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  Speaker 6: One hundred and twenty eight dollars.
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  Speaker 4: What have you done with it?
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  Speaker 6: We can take care of the question, Missus Stacy, don't
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  Speaker 6: see you're doing it. Make him tell what's o money?
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  Speaker 6: I haven't got it.
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  Speaker 4: Don't talk back to.
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  Speaker 6: Me, mister Stacy. You and your wife want to find
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  Speaker 6: a crime report at this time? You want to press charges?
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  Speaker 8: Romero, Yeah, take mister missus Stacey's down. The record bureau
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  Speaker 8: haven't make out a report for two eleven and it
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  Speaker 8: so all right way.
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  Speaker 10: Please now listen, we're going to get action. If we
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  Speaker 10: have to take this to the district attorney. We're not
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  Speaker 10: afraid of the publicity. We'll go to the newspaper if
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  Speaker 10: we don't get action.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am, what's it, Cark? They're lying. I can't I
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  Speaker 6: can't prove it, but they're lying.
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  Speaker 8: You can see the position that puts us in. If
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  Speaker 8: you're innocent, will do all we can. If you're guilty,
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  Speaker 8: we'll see you get everything that's coming to you.
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  Speaker 6: But they're lying. You know that not up to us.
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  Speaker 6: The court's going to have to decide. That's it. That's it. Well,
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  Speaker 6: there's no other way. Clad. We got forty five hundred
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  Speaker 6: men in the department. We don't claim they're all saints.
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  Speaker 8: Once in a while the bad top comes along and
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  Speaker 8: pulls the caper and all of us get a black eye.
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  Speaker 8: This book of rules is the only protection we got
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  Speaker 8: against that. By failing to enforce the law, you have
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  Speaker 8: violated your duty as a police officer at yourself in
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  Speaker 8: a real mess.
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  Speaker 6: Clark, like anybody else, should get a fair trial. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I'm dropped from the force.
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  Speaker 8: Those people have filed the crime report, draw suspension pending
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  Speaker 8: the outcome in the case after that.
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  Speaker 6: If you're cleared and be your hearing before the boarder arrives.
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  Speaker 8: Right through right now, you'll be booked for robbery and
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  Speaker 8: assault in Hilton County Jail.
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  Speaker 6: Case will be presented the Districttorney tomorrow. What kind of
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  Speaker 6: I'll have to have your badge on the desk. You're done,
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  Speaker 6: ID card? Yeah on the desk. Yeah, all right, Joe,
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  Speaker 6: that's it, Okay, take them. Six pm.
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  Speaker 5: Ben returned to the office and together we took rookie
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  Speaker 5: police officer Russell Clark across the street to the Hall
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  Speaker 5: of Justice at the County Jail booking desk on the
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  Speaker 5: twelfth floor. He was booked on suspicion of two eleven
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  Speaker 5: PC and assault with intent to do great bodily harm.
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  Speaker 6: Was lodged in the cell block.
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  Speaker 5: Investigating charges against a police officer involves exactly the same
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  Speaker 5: procedures cases where private citizens are concerned.
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  Speaker 6: Proved the suspect innocent or guilty, that's the job.
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  Speaker 5: If Clark was innocent, looked like there was only one
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  Speaker 5: way of proving that was somehow to find the unnamed
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  Speaker 5: doctor who was supposed to have seen Stacy fall down
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  Speaker 5: the auditorium stairs and then examined him afterwards. If Clark
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  Speaker 5: was guilty, we had to find proof that his story
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  Speaker 5: about Stacy falling downstairs was a lie. Besides that, we
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  Speaker 5: had to find evidence that he beat up Stacy at
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  Speaker 5: the rear of the auditorium that night, and then he
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  Speaker 5: robbed him of one hundred and twenty eight dollars. Thursday,
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  Speaker 5: April tenth, Ben and I checked in for work seven
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  Speaker 5: forty five am and found a message from the jailer
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  Speaker 5: on the phone board. Tack wanted to see us right away.
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  Speaker 5: We met with him in the county jail interview room.
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  Speaker 6: How you doing, not too bad? Don't let it sour you.
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  Speaker 7: Huh, sergeant, you really think I rolled that character? I
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  Speaker 7: want too in the truth. We check you out, good family,
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  Speaker 7: You got a fine army record. No, we don't think
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  Speaker 7: you did it. I just can't understand why he picked me.
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  Speaker 7: I tried to help him all I could. Then he
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  Speaker 7: walks in the next day with a frame story like that.
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  Speaker 7: You got any idea why Stacey would pull something like
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  Speaker 7: this on you, I don't know. I'm worried, Sergeant, believe me.
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  Speaker 7: I can't afford to sit here missing my pay. We
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  Speaker 7: lived pretty close to the budget with a baby coming.
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  Speaker 7: I'm worried about the wife. I just don't know what
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  Speaker 7: to do.
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  Speaker 6: And you sure you told us everything about this that
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  Speaker 6: you remember.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's the one reason I wanted to see. I
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  Speaker 7: didn't sleep much last night. I kept trying to remember
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  Speaker 7: the name of that doctor.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I.
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  Speaker 7: Remember once he did mention his name, and then when
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  Speaker 7: I had for his identification, he showed me one of
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  Speaker 7: his cards.
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  Speaker 6: Any idea what his name was? Well, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 6: of it.
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  Speaker 7: As I remembered, it was some kind of a Swedish
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  Speaker 7: or Norwegian name, something like Johnson Tolson, you know, something
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  Speaker 7: with a son on the end of it.
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  Speaker 6: It's on that card, and that doesn't errate down too much.
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  Speaker 6: What is it going?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I think I put his card in one of
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  Speaker 7: the pockets of my other uniform shirt. That's why I called.
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  Speaker 7: I wonder if you could check that for me. It's
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  Speaker 7: at home? Sure, Where do you live out on Norwich
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  Speaker 7: Road four eleven. It's right near the coliseum or eleven. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: all right, we'll check it out for just ask the wife.
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  Speaker 7: Cards should be in one of the pockets, Yeah, if.
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  Speaker 6: You put it there.
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  Speaker 5: Ben and I left the interview room at the County
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  Speaker 5: Jail and drove out to the home of Officer Clark
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  Speaker 5: on Norwich Road. We introduced ourselves to his wife and
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  Speaker 5: told her what we were after. Her eyes were red
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  Speaker 5: and looked like she'd been crying. She asked about her husband.
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  Speaker 5: We told her he was all right.
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  Speaker 9: They're making a terrible mistake. Sergeant Rust never did anything
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  Speaker 9: crooked in his life.
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  Speaker 6: He didn't do it.
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  Speaker 12: I know he didn't.
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  Speaker 6: Everything began to spreading it out. Missus law court will
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  Speaker 6: have the final say.
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  Speaker 9: I knew Uss shouldn't have left his insurance job. I
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  Speaker 9: just knew it all this trouble.
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  Speaker 5: How about that shirt your husband told us about the
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  Speaker 5: when he wore that night at the auditorium.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, yes, it's had a uniform shirt.
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  Speaker 6: Can we see it please?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, certainly, it's right this way back in bed. What's
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  Speaker 9: so important about the shirt? Sergeant?
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  Speaker 6: Your husband told us that there might be a card
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  Speaker 6: in one of the pockets. I helped clear up.
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  Speaker 9: Things should be hanging up here in the closet. I
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  Speaker 9: always like to keep Russ's shirts on hangers. She keeps
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  Speaker 9: a much nicer looking.
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  Speaker 6: What's my this morning?
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  Speaker 9: I sent it to the cleaners.
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  Speaker 6: Clark's wife, Ben and.
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  Speaker 5: I drove down to a dry cleaning shop a few
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  Speaker 5: blocks away, where Missus Clark had left the shirt the
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  Speaker 5: counter girl there told us that the truck had already
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  Speaker 5: been by that morning and picked up the day's cleaning.
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  Speaker 6: It was a store rule to check all garments for contents. Nothing.
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  Speaker 5: We got the address of the main plant, the Great
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  Speaker 5: Northern Dry Cleaners, a place down on Factory Street. Ten
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  Speaker 5: fifteen am. We checked in at the main plant and
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  Speaker 5: explained to the manager what we were. After we gave
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  Speaker 5: him the tag number of her cleaning, Missus Clark gave
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  Speaker 5: him the description of the shirt. We waited in the
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  Speaker 5: manager's office while he made a search for the dark
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  Speaker 5: blue wool police shirt.
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  Speaker 8: How about this one, lady, it's the only blue wool
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  Speaker 8: shirt picked up at your cleaners this morning.
• 15:25
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  Speaker 5: Thursday, April tenth, shortly after noon, the daily newspapers were
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: on the streets, and the head on one of the
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  Speaker 5: top front page stories read Rookie cops slugs rob citizen.
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  Speaker 5: Ben and I went back to the county jail and
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  Speaker 5: told Clark that we'd failed to find the card. He
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  Speaker 5: could give us no other lead that might help in
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  Speaker 5: clearing the case. During the next two days that followed,
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  Speaker 5: Ben and I ran down every possible lead, no.
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  Speaker 6: Matter how remote it was.
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  Speaker 5: I made a thorough check on mister and missus Stacey.
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  Speaker 5: We double checked back on Clark's record. For one full day,
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: we did nothing but phone doctors in and around the
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  Speaker 5: city of Los Angeles. From a list of hundreds, we
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: came across three doctors who had been president the Fights
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: and Olympic Auditorium on the knight Stacey claimed he was
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: beaten up and robbed by Officer Clark. None of the
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: three had seen a man tumble down the stairway leading
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: from the balcony to the lobby. None of them had
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: seen any accident or had been called on to help
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: anyone professionally. Monday, April fourteenth, we met with Lieutenant Ralph Drummond.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: No go, thanks good us, Ralph. We can't figure it's
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: almost to fact Stacy's line. Clark, what about him.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Well, there's still nothing to show that he didn't do it.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: He had the opportunity, maybe he had a motive. He
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: needs money, you know who didn't How much you get
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: on Stacy. He and his wife run a second hand
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: furniture store in South Flower. It's a small business. Stacy's
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: quite a gamber. He bets on the fights. Yeah, he
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: checked around with some of the gang down at the auditorium.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Stacey's well known down there. He laid some pretty heavy
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: bets the night he claims Clark rolled him. How much
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: you got the dope there, Ben? How's it figure out?
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: He lost over seventy five dollars in small amounts. Add
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: to that the fact that he was doing some partying
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: that might have cut for the one hundred and twenty
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: eighties message. Stacey blew the role, was afraid to tell
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: his wife, so he cooked up the story against Clark.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, sure, maybe that could have been the way it happened.
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: What do you got on the other side? Not much? Well,
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: couldn't dig up anything against Lark. I don't know. He
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: doesn't seem like the type to pull something like that.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: Maybe not. You still can't prove he didn't do it.
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: How about the papers you've been plugging for witnesses. Yeah,
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: here's the ad. Had it running in personals for four
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: days now.
• 19:19
  Speaker 13: Well, there's man for a stairwayitorium. Please call Michigan five
• 19:24
  Speaker 13: two one seventy five. No his Also, you know all
• 19:28
  Speaker 13: the possible doctors in town have been checked out too.
• 19:30
  Speaker 13: How about the local medical magazines? Got an add in there, raff,
• 19:33
  Speaker 13: nothing's happened. Well, one thing is sure, something's gonna happen.
• 19:38
  Speaker 13: News papers are scorching the kid in the department along
• 19:40
  Speaker 13: with him. Victim without a trial makes good reading in
• 19:44
  Speaker 13: the tabloids. There's one thing I can't understand that Clark's leveling.
• 19:47
  Speaker 13: There was a doctor the fight that might have looked
• 19:48
  Speaker 13: at Stacy didn't. Where's the doctor? We've had this thing
• 19:51
  Speaker 13: noised all around down.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: Uh, give it a little more time. He might turn up.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: I kind of like the Stacy angle. What do you mean?
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: Well, suppose we get in here. I think we could
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: break him down into question. No, I doubt that we
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: can't even get close to him. That wife of his
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: and that lawyer there with him all the time. He's
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: afraid to talk to us. Maybe if we passed the
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: word to his wife had been gambling. How far can
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: we go on that, Well, she might believe us, she
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: might not. You've seen what she's like.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I got an idea.
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: He sold her on a story, and she's tagging along
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: to get the one hundred and twenty eight dollars back,
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: And it gives me an idea.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: You know, one thing we might have missed.
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we found out that Stacy did a little partying
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: before he went to the fights at the auditorium at
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: and I didn't.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: We Yeah, go ahead. We checked out a couple of
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: the bars he was drinking at.
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: But we figured he must have parted away at least
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: fifty out of one hundred and twenty eight dollars.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: He didn't spend that much at the bar. Oh well, sure,
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: he probably hit a few other places too.
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: That's what I mean. That's still a lot of money
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: to drink up alone. You figure a woman, maybe you.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: Got any reason to think stay? She plays around? Just one? Yeah,
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: his wife Monday one pm.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: Been a nice at the canvas of bars and small
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: nightclubs in the general area around the Olympic Auditorium. We
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: started with those where Stacy was a regular customer. We
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: failed to turn up any leads. Either of the bartenders
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: refused to tell us that they had no knowledge of
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: Stacy's running around with other women. We kept at her
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: another day passed, two days, nothing one of the newspapers
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: started a campaign against the brutality of police officers.
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: On Thursday, we.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Got a tip from a bartender to place out on
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Washington Street, the Brown Cow. He told us that he
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: thought he saw a man answering Stacy's description in his
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: bar a few nights before, with a flashy blonde in
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: the late twenties. He said he didn't know Stacy too well,
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: but he knew the girl, and he knew the hotel
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: where she stayed. Her name was Sandra Gay, an acrobatic
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: specialty dancer of the Cheap nightclub.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: We checked out her hotel, but she wasn't in.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: We f word for to get in touch with us,
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: and we picked up a hammerger and a potato salad
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: for lunch and checked back in at the office.
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: How you doing, cal Not as good as you two?
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: I mean, don't you smell a proof self of blonde
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: named Sandra Gate. She's waiting in the next room. Won't
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: talk to anybody but you.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: Thanksmando. Didn't waste much time, did she very few? George Strong?
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Your name Sandra Gay?
• 22:20
  Speaker 14: Yeah, you a fella's been looking for me.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: Drop by your hotel. We'd like to ask you a
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: few questions.
• 22:26
  Speaker 14: Yes, sorry, this is.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: My partner sides with Meryl. My name is Friday.
• 22:29
  Speaker 14: I am can you prick?
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: What can I help you with?
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: Do you know anybody but the name of Gerald Stacy?
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: Miss Gay Gerald?
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I hate that name. Do you know any man
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: who calls himself man?
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: No?
• 22:42
  Speaker 14: I think that's a terrible name for man.
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: Joe.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: The man we have in mind is pretty short, stocky bill,
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: dark hair, and he wears steel rimmed glasses.
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: Where's your hang out place out in Washington? The Brown
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: Cow supposed to have been seen with you, Gerald Stacy?
• 22:56
  Speaker 14: Oh, yeah, I think I know you have mean furniture business.
• 22:59
  Speaker 14: And is a place near the Brown Cat?
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: That's right? You know him?
• 23:03
  Speaker 14: Oh?
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: Pop, Sure, I know him.
• 23:05
  Speaker 14: I got together once a while.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: He's a kick, pretty big spender.
• 23:08
  Speaker 14: Oh he's got Yeah. Last time we went out, he
• 23:11
  Speaker 14: was flying. He can kick it around when he wants to.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: Oh, Pops, when's the last time you were out with
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: a miss game?
• 23:18
  Speaker 14: Maybe a week two weeks ago? The Tuesday night, I think, yeah,
• 23:23
  Speaker 14: Tuesday the eighth.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: Is that about right? That must have been it?
• 23:26
  Speaker 14: Why was it all about?
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: Did you spend most of the evening wedding? No?
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: I had to get back to the club do my act.
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: He went on to the fights over to Linton.
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: I get it person now on Friday? Is this Sergeant Friday? Yes,
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: that's right, this is doctor Samuelson talking Sergeant.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I've been out of town.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: I just got back this morning. I saw the ad
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: in the paper. Yes, sir, I was at the fights
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: at night, sageant, what does JO wanna know? Would you
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: mind telling us? Doctor? Did you see a man fall
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: down one of the stairways to the lobby. Suddenly? I
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: was the one who examined him.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Five pm, mister and missus Stacy were called to Lieutenant
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Drummond's office. Arrangements were made to have Officer Russell Clark
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: brought over from his cell.
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: In County Jail.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: At five point fifteen, Ben and I checked into the
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Lieutenant's office. Stacy and his wife were already there.
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: Certainly proud of our police department. Chief, no whitewashing this time.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: You gave that fellow exactly what he had coming. Thanks.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: You're sure you don't make a mistake. I'm sure, Chief,
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: that's the right man.
• 24:25
  Speaker 10: You got him, Jerry, don't make mistakes on things like this. Inspector,
• 24:28
  Speaker 10: how about our money one hundred and twenty eighty.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: Tell you where he hit it? No he hasn't. We'll
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: bring Officer Clark in from County jail. Figure we try
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: to crack it. That's right. Make him tell what he
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: did with our money? Joe, will you have officer Clark
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: brought in by the way? All right? There he is?
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: Where our money? What have you done with it?
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: Just a minute, please, Stacy, you sure Officer Clark here
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: is the man who beat you up and robbed you.
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: Of course he is.
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: Dragged me behind the auditorium and almost beat me to death,
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: broke my arm, took all my money twenty eight dollar's
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: worre is it?
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: I haven't got your money, Joe, bring the doctor in.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: Can you hear that?
• 25:05
  Speaker 14: All right?
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: Mister Stacy, you're a liar. This officer didn't break your arm.
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: I saw you fall down a flight of stairs at
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: that auditory and break your own arm.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: I examined that.
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: Who is this man?
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: What about it? Stacy?
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: He doesn't know what he's talking about. I never saw
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: him before in my life. No, but I've seen you, Stacy.
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: You were drunk.
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: I saw you fall down those stairs. You're crazy, Joe said,
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: this gay and he is strong perfume. You recognize any
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: of these people? Miss Gay?
• 25:39
  Speaker 14: Hello?
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: Tops, I don't know you.
• 25:41
  Speaker 14: Don't you remember the perfume you give it to?
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: Who is this woman?
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: Just a friend? Honey?
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: All right, Stacy, Now let's have it straight. It was
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: all a mistake. I don't want to make trouble for anybody.
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: It wasn't this copspake. I don't want to make any
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: trouble about this woman. It was all a mistake. Believe
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: you took that money.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: Gerald, you spend it on her.
• 25:59
  Speaker 10: Now, wait a minute, causing all this trouble, squandering our
• 26:01
  Speaker 10: money after all I did for you.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: You're no good this time and through? All right, Clark,
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: let's go. Okay, Well that's it. I don't know how
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: to thank you. Phyllis. And doctor's the best friend you've got. Yeah,
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: I better call a wife. You want to know. Friday
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: phone message for you here? Oh, thank you.
• 26:26
  Speaker 15: From your wife, Clark. Yeah, she found that doctor's card.
• 26:37
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• 26:38
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• 26:42
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• 26:43
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  Speaker 1: Gerald Stacey was tried on charges of filing a false
• 27:59
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• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Russell Clark was returned to duty with full back pay.
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