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Dragnet: The Big Purse (EP4460) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: this week's episode of Dragnet. The original Laritay June the fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty and the title is The Big Purse.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: One year ago to night, through the facilities of your
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  Speaker 2: To all of these, and to you our gratitude. Here
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  Speaker 3: The story you are about to hear is true, only
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  Speaker 3: the names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
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  Speaker 3: a detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery detail. Scores of
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  Speaker 3: long women have been beaten and robbed. The victims have
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  Speaker 3: been unable to identify the criminals. Your job get them.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 4: next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 4: you will travel, step by step on the side of
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  Speaker 4: the law through an actual case transcribed from official police violence.
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  Speaker 4: From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is
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  Speaker 4: the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 5: It was Monday, July first, was mild in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: You're working to night watch out of robbery detail. My
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  Speaker 5: partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Ed Walker, Captain a robbery.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Friday. Was nine to twenty seven pm
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  Speaker 5: when I left the phone booth at the Sunset driving.
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  Speaker 6: And got to our car eighty k anything new?
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  Speaker 5: Captain Walker's wife had her baby boy eight pounds.
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  Speaker 6: Oh that's swell. She are right?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so does the captain. Look at the uniform on
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  Speaker 7: the waitress them. They should dress 'em up, don't they?
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  Speaker 5: Good?
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  Speaker 8: Evening? Hi Daisy, Oh hello, didn't recognize you. What do
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  Speaker 8: you have? The usual?
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  Speaker 5: No? I think I'll have something else besides the hamburger
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  Speaker 5: this time.
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  Speaker 8: Here's the man. You take a charge?
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  Speaker 6: Thank you? Yeah, I'm kind of hungry. Maybe I'll take
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  Speaker 6: a meal.
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  Speaker 8: Forty two are eight sixteen west five shrimps?
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  Speaker 5: Good?
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  Speaker 6: Where's that.
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  Speaker 8: Right there?
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  Speaker 9: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? Ninety five cents?
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  Speaker 8: What's all that stuff I've been reading in the paper?
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  Speaker 6: M what's that?
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  Speaker 8: A couple of guys going around snatching purses and beating
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  Speaker 8: up women. Paper says it's happened seven times in the
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  Speaker 8: last two weeks.
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  Speaker 6: Roast beef ninety cents.
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  Speaker 8: Roast beef's good too. Don't you know who's been doing it?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 6: Not yet.
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  Speaker 5: What do you get of these liver and onions?
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  Speaker 10: Us?
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  Speaker 8: Everything else?
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  Speaker 6: Do?
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  Speaker 8: Potatoes and coffee?
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  Speaker 6: Eighty five cents.
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  Speaker 8: Hun could just take the purse. Why do they have
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  Speaker 8: to beat up the women?
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  Speaker 6: We don't know?
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  Speaker 8: The headlines turned me in the pace. Every time I
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  Speaker 8: open the paper. I'm getting afraid to walk home at night.
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  Speaker 6: Do you get coffee in dessert with the Salisbury's Day? Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: sixty five cents.
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  Speaker 8: Seventy two d Roger and your car. Hey, do you
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  Speaker 8: guys know what I've been talking about?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Daisy, you know I'll take the Salisbury's Day. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: Saul I.
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  Speaker 8: Hamburger specials going too well done on mine?
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  Speaker 6: Please burn?
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  Speaker 8: Okay, be a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks.
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  Speaker 10: All units in the vicinity of one oh one six
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  Speaker 10: North macatt.
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  Speaker 8: That's us, get ready four ps from.
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  Speaker 10: Slugging three all units in the vicinity of one oh
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  Speaker 10: one six North McAdden for eighty four ps and slugging
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  Speaker 10: cow three sixty one. I have take the call.
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  Speaker 6: I let her know where's going. Okay, I'll be right there.
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  Speaker 6: Oh we're leaving, We'll be back.
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  Speaker 7: You know I've been wondering on said Hamburger and salad
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  Speaker 7: Ferry's take. What's the different price to the police officer.
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  Speaker 5: The lowest thief and most cowardly is the personnat who
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  Speaker 5: prays on women for more than a month alone. Women
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  Speaker 5: throughout the western section of the city have been robbed
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  Speaker 5: and beaten. The descriptions were confused and varied because the
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  Speaker 5: attacks took place at night.
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  Speaker 6: Ten h six pm.
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  Speaker 5: We got to the location on North McAdden where the
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  Speaker 5: woman was lying on the sidewalks. She's been badly beaten
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  Speaker 5: about the face and neck, and her jaw had been broken.
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  Speaker 5: Officers read and shell of Unit sixty one half were
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  Speaker 5: already there.
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  Speaker 11: Any witnesses offer, Yeah, there's a man in the sweater here,
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  Speaker 11: so it happened, says the victim's name is Swanson, is
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  Speaker 11: mister Kahn?
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  Speaker 5: How do you do? This is sergeant Romero. My name
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  Speaker 5: is Friday. I wonder if we could talk to.
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  Speaker 6: You please, certainly you want to come into that right
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  Speaker 6: over here. Be all right.
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  Speaker 5: That officer there says that you saw it happen.
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  Speaker 6: That's right.
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  Speaker 12: I was watching television. I heard this scream outside. I
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  Speaker 12: looked out and saw the two men.
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  Speaker 6: Beating her up. Can you describe it?
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  Speaker 12: The light there wasn't real good. They're about as tall
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  Speaker 12: as you two, but they had slighter bills.
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  Speaker 6: How old were they?
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  Speaker 5: Did you see that?
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  Speaker 12: I'd say they were young and maybe eighteen nineteen. I
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  Speaker 12: saw them knock her down. It was terrible. They hit
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  Speaker 12: her and then they kicked her. They picked up a
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  Speaker 12: person and ran down that way.
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  Speaker 6: And you called the plate, yes, but not right away.
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  Speaker 6: I ran out and.
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  Speaker 12: Saw them get in the car across the street. They
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  Speaker 12: drove right past me. Then they turned east there on remain.
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  Speaker 12: Can you describe the car for I got the license
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  Speaker 12: number for you. The last three numbers were five five two,
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  Speaker 12: Just three numbers.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Can you describe the car?
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  Speaker 6: What kind was it? Oh? I don't know. It was new.
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  Speaker 6: I think it was black. Maybe you said that.
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  Speaker 5: What was it a large car or a small old
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  Speaker 5: kind of medium? Do you notice the.
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  Speaker 6: Back of it?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, that's why I saw the license plate.
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  Speaker 6: No, I mean, did you notice anything about the car?
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  Speaker 5: A dent on the fender or a sticker on the window.
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  Speaker 6: I did look at the window. Did the car have
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  Speaker 6: a spot ladder, a radio antenna?
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  Speaker 12: I guess I didn't see any. I was trying to
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  Speaker 12: look at the license plates.
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  Speaker 5: Did you know anything unusual about the car, any identifying
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  Speaker 5: marks at all?
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  Speaker 6: No? No, I didn't notice. How about the make of
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  Speaker 6: the car. Do you see what kind of one.
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  Speaker 12: No. The last three numbers on the license plate.
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  Speaker 6: Were five to five two California license plate. Yes, it was.
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  Speaker 6: That should be enough here. Do you think you'll catch
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  Speaker 6: them tonight?
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  Speaker 5: Do you know how many plates end in five or
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  Speaker 5: five two?
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  Speaker 13: Well?
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  Speaker 5: Ben called in a general description of the car and
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  Speaker 5: the two attackers.
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  Speaker 6: I talked to the other bystanders.
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  Speaker 5: I found out that the victim's name was Missus Frida K. Swanson,
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  Speaker 5: a widow. She had a room at one O three
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  Speaker 5: North McAdden. None of the neighbors had seen the robbery
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  Speaker 5: or the beating take place. Eleven, twenty eight pm, Ben
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  Speaker 5: and I arrived at Hollywood Receiving Hospital interview Missus Swanson,
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  Speaker 5: but she was unable to talk or do identify her attackers.
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  Speaker 5: She wrote on a piece of paper that you'd been
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  Speaker 5: slug from behind. She never got a good look at
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  Speaker 5: the man. Besides a broken jaw, she was suffering from
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  Speaker 5: a fractured wrist, a broken nose, and bruises.
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  Speaker 6: About the face and body.
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  Speaker 5: Tuesday, July second, the getaway car used in the attack
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  Speaker 5: on the previous night was found abandoned on Hollywood Boulevard and.
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  Speaker 6: Proved to be a stolen car.
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  Speaker 5: Licensed number six Young four five five two. The victim's
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  Speaker 5: empty purse was found inside. Routine investigation developed no leads.
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  Speaker 5: We met with Captain Walker. Because the last four attacks
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  Speaker 5: had taken place within a six block radius, we set
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  Speaker 5: up a plan of decoys in an attempt to.
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  Speaker 6: Trap the two perse snatches.
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  Speaker 5: Four police women from Juvenile Bureau and a special detail
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  Speaker 5: from Metropolitan Division was assigned. Tuesday four pm. A special
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  Speaker 5: detail was ordered to the squadroom for briefing.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, Joe, Oh, Hier Dorothy, hi's a taxedo back in Mossball.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, hire your feet, my feet, nothing the matter with them.
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  Speaker 14: You're a good dancer.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I bet I could use some lessons.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, you don't need lessons, Joe, you need practice.
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  Speaker 15: Okay, let's get started.
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  Speaker 11: I don't have to tell you the risks involved in
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  Speaker 11: an operation like this. I want all of you to
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  Speaker 11: know where everybody will be at any given time. By
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  Speaker 11: all of you, I mean the police women and also
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  Speaker 11: the men who'll be in the squad cars.
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  Speaker 15: Anybody misses anything, stop me.
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  Speaker 11: We don't have much of a description of the men
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  Speaker 11: were after. There are two of them, both about eighteen
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  Speaker 11: years old. Usually they wear sneakers, slacks and sport coats.
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  Speaker 11: They've been in different kinds of cars, all of them stolen.
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  Speaker 11: And keep each car for a few days and ditch you.
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  Speaker 11: Hold on the map let me joe, Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Sir, over.
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  Speaker 11: Now here's the area here residential. Ninety percent of the
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  Speaker 11: dwellings have garages, so if a cars parked.
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  Speaker 15: Down the street, it might be unusual.
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  Speaker 11: Each of you'll be given a list of cars stolen
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  Speaker 11: in the last forty eight hours. Still outstanding. I want
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  Speaker 11: you to check all parked cars against the hot sheet.
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  Speaker 11: Oh uh, first, hole up your purses, please, young lady,
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  Speaker 11: that person is too small. I'm afraid. Let's make it
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  Speaker 11: look worthwhile. Yes, sir, all right, but you won't be
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  Speaker 11: carrying your guns in your purse. You wear a shoulder holster.
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  Speaker 11: Before you leave, Sergeant Friday will pass out some mark
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  Speaker 11: Bill's I want you to carry.
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  Speaker 15: Can't now, Policewoman short.
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  Speaker 11: You'll board a westbound street car at Western and Santa
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  Speaker 11: Monica Boulevard at at nine o three pm.
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  Speaker 15: Don't worry about these schedules. The street car'll be there.
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  Speaker 11: Get off at Los Palmis at nine thirteen, Walk south
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  Speaker 11: to Willoughby, turn east down Willoughby to Hudson and north
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  Speaker 11: one block to Romaine. You'll go west n Romain to
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  Speaker 11: Kowenga and then retrace your steps to the starting point
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  Speaker 11: and you're through, got it? Yes, you'll be covered by
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  Speaker 11: Unit eighty one. Captain.
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 15: How fast or slow should we walk?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 15: I'd say a pretty good pace. No woman likes to
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  Speaker 15: be alone on the streets at night, so it'll be natural.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Sir Policewoman Ball.
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  Speaker 15: Yes, you board an eastbound.
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  Speaker 11: Bus at Lebray and Melrose at nine thirty five pm.
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  Speaker 11: You get off at Wilcox and Melrose at nine five
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  Speaker 11: Walk north on Wilcox to Wearing, Turn west on Wearing for.
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  Speaker 15: Two blocks, and north on Cherokee. Follow Cherokee for two blocks,
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  Speaker 15: turn east on Romain, follow Romayne.
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  Speaker 6: To Coal, and turn north on Coal.
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  Speaker 11: When you get to Santa Monica Boulevard, retrace your steps
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  Speaker 11: to your starting point.
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  Speaker 15: You'll be covered by Unit eighty seven.
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  Speaker 10: K Will the cars be cruising or will I be parked?
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  Speaker 11: Both Friday and Romero be cruising all the time. I'll
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  Speaker 11: get to the others when I finish with these instructions.
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  Speaker 11: Of course, if you see any police card, give no recognition.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, you said the two suspects wear sneakers.
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  Speaker 15: That's right, it'd be pretty hard to hear them come
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  Speaker 15: up behind you.
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  Speaker 6: I'd say, so did any of the victims.
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  Speaker 11: Here they had, they wouldn't be victims.
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  Speaker 5: Nine pm the decoy plan went into effect. We waited
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  Speaker 5: Tuesday night pass nothing happened. Wednesday night nothing. Thursday July fourth,
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  Speaker 5: the decoy plan was enlarged to include a larger area.
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  Speaker 6: But everything was quiet.
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  Speaker 5: Friday, July fifth, Captain Walker decided that the new plan,
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  Speaker 5: covering an area from Lebrae to Vine Street and from Sunset.
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  Speaker 6: To Beverly, would be kept in operation.
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  Speaker 5: Ten forty five pm, Ben and I cruised the exposed area.
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  Speaker 6: We've been thinking about moving to a new place. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Only trouble is we don't know what's gonna happen. You
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  Speaker 6: mean if rent control goes up. Yeah, we don't know
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  Speaker 6: if rents will go.
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  Speaker 7: Up or now he's got at least even seventy one in.
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  Speaker 10: Maripos are five or seven parties.
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  Speaker 6: We're gonna know what to do. Even toss a coin
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  Speaker 6: to decide. It's about as good a way as any.
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  Speaker 7: Coin came up tails four times in a row. Yeah, wife,
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  Speaker 7: changed your mind on.
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  Speaker 5: Each to no decision grid you seventy one on got
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  Speaker 5: a policewoman down there?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's sure. You've got a rout there.
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  Speaker 7: Uh south on Hudson, east on Melrose, then up Wilcox
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  Speaker 7: to sun said.
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  Speaker 10: All units, will it ben Hudson for eighty four bs
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  Speaker 10: and slugging three? Let's roll on it eighty three, as
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  Speaker 10: will it be n Hudson for eighty four bs and
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  Speaker 10: slugging coat three.
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  Speaker 5: We drove to Willoughby, just sol in the corner and
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  Speaker 5: saw a woman sitting on the grass with a few
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  Speaker 5: people around.
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  Speaker 6: She was a young woman, about twenty five. Her clothes
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  Speaker 6: had been torn and was a red weld in her
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  Speaker 6: right cheekbone. She was trying to get to her feet.
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  Speaker 2: As we came up.
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  Speaker 6: There'll be an ambulance here in a few minutes. Miss.
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  Speaker 6: Can you tell us how it happened? My cheek swelling?
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  Speaker 6: Did you see who attacks?
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  Speaker 12: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: I did.
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  Speaker 8: I can tell you about him. Look here I ripped
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  Speaker 8: off one of their pockets.
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  Speaker 14: These cards fell.
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  Speaker 6: Off, driver's license George Landon.
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  Speaker 14: Here's the piece of cloth I tore off his pocket.
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  Speaker 6: Shall I take that man?
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  Speaker 5: Thank you? You want to stay with her? See if
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  Speaker 5: I can get a make on this license.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, would you give me your name, please? Bab cut.
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  Speaker 5: Eighty K to control one, eight ok to control one,
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  Speaker 5: go ahead, eddycakee check suspect for making warrants. George Landon
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  Speaker 5: mail white, age eighteen five feet nine inches, one hundred
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  Speaker 5: and fifty five pounds, blue eyes, black hair, Address twenty
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  Speaker 5: seven twenty two and a half, Arthur Avenue, KM eight
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  Speaker 5: three six seven, got your eighty K.
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  Speaker 6: I did you see their cos? Yes?
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  Speaker 14: I saw a white sidewall tires of the club coup.
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  Speaker 10: I tried to see the license to play.
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  Speaker 14: I couldn't make it out.
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  Speaker 6: What good was it cased?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know, DoD Green, I think I'm so Madic Boil.
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  Speaker 6: Can you describe the man?
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  Speaker 5: Well, you got the driver's license, it's all there. Well
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  Speaker 5: it's just for one of them. And you said there
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  Speaker 5: were two men.
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  Speaker 11: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I grabbed one of their coats and the other one
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  Speaker 6: hit me. I think I'm so mad about it.
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  Speaker 8: As I tried to scream and nothing had come out.
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  Speaker 5: I understand, all right, Hi here the sixty three f
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  Speaker 5: we got the call.
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  Speaker 6: It's fine. This is the victim, Miss Curtis.
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  Speaker 5: If you'll handle the report and see that she gets home.
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  Speaker 6: We gotta lead to check out here.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, thank you, troll want eighty K?
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: Can't you call back Jill?
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: We better get it to my on right way? Eighty
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: K to control one, go ahead, eighty K.
• 17:15
  Speaker 10: Suspect as mister Mianor and felony record one arrest, suspicion
• 17:19
  Speaker 10: of robbery and one arrest GTA no once at this
• 17:22
  Speaker 10: time a streets and address on suspect twenty seven twenty
• 17:26
  Speaker 10: two and one half Arthur Avenue.
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: Roger been in trouble before, fellow name mister Mayor. You
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: know and the dress matches maybe this cloth does?
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: You are listening to drag Net the case history of
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: a police investigation presented in the public interest.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Friday eleven, Ben and I drove to twenty seven to
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: twenty two and a half Arthur Avenue was a small
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: house at the rear of a lot on the east
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: end of town.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: Alongside the front house, there was.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: A narrow passageway leading to the house in the back,
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: with a small lawn between the two.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: Was no alley, and anybody leaving from the.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: Front or back door had to go through the narrow passage,
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: So we approached the house. A light was on in
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: the front room, and through the window we could see
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: a middle aged woman reading a magazine.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: We rang the bell. Yes, police officers. Does George Landon
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: live here?
• 18:34
  Speaker 14: Why? Yes, he does, I miss aunt, Miss Landon, What
• 18:38
  Speaker 14: do you want?
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Can we come in?
• 18:40
  Speaker 14: Why yes?
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: Don't kill.
• 18:45
  Speaker 14: Won't you sit down?
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Thank you?
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: Man?
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: Is George Landing at home now?
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: No?
• 18:51
  Speaker 14: He isn't, but I think he'll be home soon. He
• 18:54
  Speaker 14: never stays out late. He isn't in any trouble, is he.
• 18:59
  Speaker 14: You know where he is with his friends? I suppose
• 19:02
  Speaker 14: he's a popular boy. He really should be home soon.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: Where's he been, Miss Lennon, I don't know.
• 19:09
  Speaker 14: He goes out at night, you know, with his friends. Well,
• 19:13
  Speaker 14: I really don't know. You see, it's difficult to keep
• 19:17
  Speaker 14: track of a young boy. He's a big boy and
• 19:20
  Speaker 14: he's full of vitality. He has to find things to do. Yes, ma'am,
• 19:25
  Speaker 14: he lives here with me. I'm his aunt. I'm not married,
• 19:29
  Speaker 14: so I take care of him. His parents died when
• 19:32
  Speaker 14: he was a baby.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: I see, is George worker? Does he go to school?
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 19:36
  Speaker 14: He's finished school. You aren't here about that? Automobile that
• 19:42
  Speaker 14: was torn a year ago. Are you no, ma'am, he
• 19:46
  Speaker 14: had some trouble then. Uh, I'm sure he didn't do it.
• 19:50
  Speaker 14: Since then, he's been very good. He hasn't missed a
• 19:54
  Speaker 14: day's work, and he goes to church with me any
• 19:56
  Speaker 14: time I ask him.
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: Where does he spend his evenings?
• 19:59
  Speaker 14: Do you know what I told you? With his friends?
• 20:03
  Speaker 14: A young man has to use up his energy. I
• 20:06
  Speaker 14: don't try to hold him too tightly. Good boy like him.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: Can we look at his room?
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 20:11
  Speaker 14: Yes, if it's right here, all right, I'll show you
• 20:15
  Speaker 14: how neat he keeps it all there in that night, Yes, ma'am.
• 20:23
  Speaker 14: I'm not trying to defend him. I'm only telling you
• 20:27
  Speaker 14: about him. He keeps this room cleaned up himself. He
• 20:31
  Speaker 14: smokes a little, but I've never smelled a drop of
• 20:34
  Speaker 14: liquor on his breath. He's a very good boy.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am.
• 20:39
  Speaker 14: He even reads a lot.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: You.
• 20:40
  Speaker 14: You can see his books over here.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: M Yes, ma'am.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Do you mind if we look around a little?
• 20:44
  Speaker 14: No, No, that's alright. Should be home soon. He's probably
• 20:51
  Speaker 14: at a movie. Do you wanna wait for him?
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: No, I won't be necessary.
• 20:57
  Speaker 14: He's always home by midnight. I'll tell you were here.
• 21:01
  Speaker 14: Oh that must be George. Now, George, the men would
• 21:06
  Speaker 14: like to talk to you, the police officers.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: All right, take it easy, young fellow.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: Let go hold him, turn him around. Ye stands to
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: young fellow. That's no gun.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: What do you guys think you're doing.
• 21:22
  Speaker 16: I didn't do anything.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: It was just out for a ride this year, nephew. Yes,
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: coat torn, joe pocket ripped off this year.
• 21:29
  Speaker 13: Driver's license here, George, Yeah, I lost it when last week.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: It was found tonight.
• 21:38
  Speaker 13: So what how'd you tear your coat getting out of
• 21:42
  Speaker 13: the car the other night. Here's a piece of cloth.
• 21:45
  Speaker 13: A girl who was attacked tonight gave it to us.
• 21:47
  Speaker 13: It matches the tear there in your coat.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: What if you done?
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: George?
• 21:52
  Speaker 16: Tell her I didn't want to do it. I didn't
• 21:55
  Speaker 16: want to do it anytime he talked me into it.
• 21:57
  Speaker 16: He made me do it. He's got a gun, and
• 21:58
  Speaker 16: he stole the cars.
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: He made all the plans.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: Who made all the plans?
• 22:01
  Speaker 16: Tommy, Oh, we never did anything. He sapt to hang
• 22:03
  Speaker 16: out at the drug store until that time a year ago.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: What's his last name?
• 22:06
  Speaker 15: He said that it'll always be held against me and
• 22:07
  Speaker 15: I better go along with him.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: Tommy who Decker? Was he with you tonight?
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 22:11
  Speaker 16: He's the one that hit her when she grabbed hold
• 22:12
  Speaker 16: of me. He's the one that always hit him. I
• 22:14
  Speaker 16: never wanted him to do it.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: Where's the stuff you took out of that purse?
• 22:19
  Speaker 13: Tommy's gonna hide it? Where back of where he works?
• 22:22
  Speaker 13: Where's that garage someplace? I don't know where he just
• 22:26
  Speaker 13: started working there?
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: Where does he live? Place on West Sixth? I never
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: been there? What does this Decker look like?
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Nice?
• 22:33
  Speaker 13: Same age I am, but about an inch taller and
• 22:36
  Speaker 13: must be fifteen pounds heavier.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: He's got dark hair. How's he dressed?
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Just like me?
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: Sneakers and bronze slacks and a tan.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Sport cod Better call the office, man? Yeah?
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: Can I use your telephone? Man?
• 22:47
  Speaker 14: Oh, it's in the hall behind the door.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: You said Decker's got a gun?
• 22:53
  Speaker 14: Yeah, Officer, Will you tell me the truth?
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: I'll try.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 23:00
  Speaker 14: Are George and this Tommy Decker? The two men the
• 23:02
  Speaker 14: papers have been writing about. I'm afraid so the ones
• 23:05
  Speaker 14: who'd been robbing the women man and beating them up.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't mean it.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: I didn't know what I was doing.
• 23:11
  Speaker 14: I raised your George. I didn't either.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Eleven forty two pm we checked into the office with
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: the eighteen year old suspect, George Landon. While Ben and
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: a police doenographer took down the statement. I went down
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: to R and I and pulled the package on the
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: other suspect, Thomas Decker. His MAMA sheet showed a petition
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: had been filed on four fifty nine PC and for
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: eighty eight PC. They also showed three different recent addresses
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: for Decker, one on West sixth Street, one on South Mariposa,
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: and a third on North Catalina. Two units were dispatched
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: to the first two addresses. Ben and I went to
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: the address on North Catalina rooming house. We learned from
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: Decker's landlady that he was working as an apprentice mechanic
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: on the swing shift at a large garage on South
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Flower Street. Twelve fifty one am, Ben and I arrived
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: at the garage.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: I beg your pardon, Yes, police officers, does Thomas Decker
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: work here?
• 24:07
  Speaker 14: Yeah?
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: He waits Hyer.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm see Harry is back there.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: Thank you here?
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: You want you are Thomas Decker? Yeah, police officers like
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: to talk to you. Watch a joke.
• 24:29
  Speaker 9: Come on, Jim, take he's going to the locker room.
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: All right, that's locked.
• 24:36
  Speaker 11: He hit it, Jim, No go hey you you over there,
• 24:41
  Speaker 11: and they're all out of this locker room.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the hold in the come on, man a right.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Here we are. Watch it came from.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: Behind that car back but the door. I coovery all.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Right, bets give it back to.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: Throw your gun out?
• 25:04
  Speaker 10: Thrown out.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: Right, now, come on off, hands behind your head.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: I'll get the gun. All right.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: You turn around?
• 25:14
  Speaker 14: Lost it, Joe.
• 25:16
  Speaker 16: Watch it takes getting away?
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: Had him opt out there?
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: No there, I go tut him up, alright, let me
• 25:41
  Speaker 9: let me go, all right, I get the cups on him.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: Ben, Yeah, yeah, eighteen years old?
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: What did it prove?
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: Let it go? Sometimes you kind of wonder if it's true.
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: What's that? There's no such thing as a bad boy.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: The story you have just heard was true, only the
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: names have been changed to protect the innocent.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: On November, first trial was held in Superior Court, Department
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: eighty two, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: In a moment the results of that trial, Thomas Decker
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: and George Lendon were tried and convicted on five counts
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: of grand theft person, five counts of grand theft daughter,
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: and five counts of assault with intent to do great
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: bodily harm. They were sentenced to the State penitentiary for
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: a term as prescribed by law and are now serving
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: their sentence.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, Chief of Police W. A.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Wharton, speaking from his office in City Hall, Los Angeles, California.
• 27:00
  Speaker 17: As Chief of Police of the City of Los Angeles,
• 27:05
  Speaker 17: I wish to extend my hattiest congratulations to the program
• 27:09
  Speaker 17: Dragnet on the occasion of its first anniversary. The overwhelming
• 27:15
  Speaker 17: success of this program, as indicated by the hundreds of
• 27:19
  Speaker 17: commendatory letters, telegrams and personal comments I feel, has been
• 27:26
  Speaker 17: due to the splendid job of portraying police officers.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: And their work. The American public.
• 27:34
  Speaker 17: By its enthusiastic acceptance of Dragnet, has indicated a desire
• 27:40
  Speaker 17: for factual police programs. The Los Angeles Police Department is
• 27:45
  Speaker 17: proud to contribute to the constructive entertainment of both the
• 27:49
  Speaker 17: dults and children through this medium. May I extend my
• 27:53
  Speaker 17: best wishes to the National Broadcasting Company, the sponsor, the actors,
• 27:58
  Speaker 17: the writer, and the producer of Dragnet, and I trust
• 28:03
  Speaker 17: there will be many more years of continued success for
• 28:06
  Speaker 17: this program.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: from official files. Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Office of Chief of Police W. A. Wharton, Los Angeles
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Police Department.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Next to great news show Sarah's Private Caper on NBC.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back, a solid case to mark a year of Dragnet.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: In many ways, the episode illustrated how to be a
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: good witness. For example, hyper focus seen on one aspect
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: of a suspect or vehicle can be harmful. Is getting
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the last three digits of the license plate and really
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: just focusing on that the last three digits but only
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: a generic description of the car was not particularly helpful
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: if you couldn't get the entire plate. Plus, I think
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the more detail you can get the better, particularly if
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: phase which out place or using stolen plates. I did
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: have to chuckle at the show's awkward continuity check by
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: referencing the tuxedo and dancing, which confirmed at the end
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: of the Big Badge that Friday did indeed go on
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: a date with the policewoman, but also did not take
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: any time from the plot and was just a very
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: you know so quick you might miss it sort of notice,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: which I guess illustrates the challenge that this show faced
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: or read into when it tried to do any character
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: development for Friday. Of course, the year of Dragnet had
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: been eventful, and the Chief was right. Dragnet's acceptance would
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: lead to some societal changes, but also changes in entertainment
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: as the demand for more realistic place programming began to
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: take place. There had already been auditions recorded for two
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: other programs, Tales of the Texas Rangers and The Lineup,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: which would be leading Dragnet imitators and would premiere on
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: the air within six weeks of this broadcast, and there
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: would be many, many more, both in radio and in
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the new medium of television. Well listener comments and feedback
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: now and we go to good Pods where alexis comments
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: regarding the Big Fake. The announcement at the end of
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the episode mentions that in the summer they would be
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: scheduling Dragnet half an hour earlier as a response to
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: making it more available to the whole family. What time
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: was it usually on the radio and what was the
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: aide group who may have been missing out on it
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: due to an early bedtime. Well, thanks for the question
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: of likenss, and I do remember that you reference in
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: a previous comment that you're from Australia. So let me
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: explain how it works in the United States, or worked
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: back then. In terms of broadcasting, national programs would originate
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: in one of two ways. There would be a West
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: coast broadcast and an East coast broadcast. So whether a
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: program was recorded in Hollywood, like Suspense or in New
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: York like Ellery Queen, the cast would perform the show twice.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Other programs had a single national broadcast, and that's what
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Dragnet had. I reviewed the logs and it was released
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: at ten thirty on the East Coast, non thirty in
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: the Central time zone, eight thirty in the Mountain time zone,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: and then seven thirty in the Pacific time zone, and
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: so essentially it went half an hour back everywhere. And
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: so the thing is that kids' bedtimes varied wherever they lived,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: and that by being half an hour earlier, there were
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: in theory some parents who would let them listen because
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: now Dragnet was on before their bedtime, or they might say,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: well it's only half an hour, to let them stay
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: up a little later. Because this is educational or it
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: teaches good values, which art decisions that parents make, and
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: it makes particular sense to do that in the summer
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: months where don't have schools, but also where generally radio
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: listening was down because people wouldn't be at home, they
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: would be out and about and not listening to the radio.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: But Dragnett still had a sponsor, it was still on
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: the air, and you wanted to make it as easy
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: as possible for as many people as possible to listen.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: So I hope that answered your question. But going to
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: newspapers dot com, I found a kind of interesting article
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: on Dragnet that was written at the time, this one
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: in the Star Tribune. The author was Will Jones, and
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: he begins for your listening pleasure tonight symphony in disgusting
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Sounds on Dragnet. The sounds will come out as part
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: of the background noise on the most realistic and many
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: ways the most exciting detective program on the air today.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: A nose will be blown here, a throat will be
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: cleared there. There will be a couple of coughs. They'll
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: all sound thoroughly real and unplanned. In the studio, they'll
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: be as carefully planned and cued as the notes from
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: a symphony orchestra, and they'll be produced by a small
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: chorus of disgusting noise makers as carefully conducted as a symphony.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: It's one of the little tricks of production that have
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: made Dragnet a much talked about radio program. Radio actors
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: are always prepared to supply background and crowd noises when
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the script calls for them. Most radio directors are contend
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: to give the crowd a signal and let them take
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: it from there. But Bill Rousseau, who directs Dragnet, is
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: more particular. Usually the actors make too many noises, he said,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: they don't sound real. Rousseau assigns one man to a
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: noseblower for the evening. Another is a polote coffer, another
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: is a throat clearer. At the exact moment, Rousseau wants
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: a noise blown in the background, he points at the
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: ever ready specialists. Other things about Dragnet are startlingly different too.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: On most radio programs, the actors do their emoting carefully
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: a few inches away from the microphone. In the Dragnet studio,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the actors wander all over the place. The microphones are
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: turned up to catch them wherever they are. They breathe normally,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: they walk normally instead of tiptoeing. They pronounce their words sloppily.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: They mumble when it's appropriate. They munch sandwiches, slurp coffee,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: talk with food in their mouths. They make a noise
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: like real people. The result is three dimension Radio stories
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: on Dragnet are taken from the files of the Los
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Angeles Police Department. Often use of actual cases on the
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: radio means the riders have used a couple of basic
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: facts as a springboard for a fantasy. Dragnet has a
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: reputation for sticking to the real facts, changing only the
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: names with complete frankness. The program has treated such subjects
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: as sex crimes and peddlers of pornographic literature, and high schools.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: The stories are told straight, with events in the order
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: in which they happen. Cases that would be considered small
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: potatoes on other programs are used on Dragnet. A couple
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: of weeks ago, the program detailed the search for a
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: hit and run driver who had injured a cheap prostitute.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Police learned the girl had accepted fifty dollars to shield
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: the guy who had run her down. The victim went
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: to jail along with the driver. Sometimes the criminal does
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: not even get caught. At the end. Interestingly, when he's
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: referencing web at the end to give his readers an
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: idea if they don't know who Jack Webb is, he
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: referenced Webb's work on Johnny Madero, which was a series
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: that ran for about twenty weeks three years before this one.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: And I would kind of expect more people to know
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: him from Pat Novak for hire. It's tempting to think
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: they'd know him from Jeff Reagan. But as this was
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: in a Minnesota paper, Jeff Reagan was a West Coast
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: only show, so maybe the writer didn't catch the national
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: version of Pat Novak, but he remembered Johnny Madero at
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: any rate. A really interesting newspaper article with some details
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: on the production I hadn't heard, and I feel like
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I should probably be checking for newspaper articles a bit
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: regularly with dragged In, particularly during this era when it
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: was so popular and people were talking about it a lot.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, now it is time to thank our
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  Speaker 1: Monday for the Adventures of the Falcon where.
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  Speaker 18: Last night she showed up in New York and she
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  Speaker 18: tried to kill Arnold tried to Donold got the gun
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  Speaker 18: away from her, and then he threw her out of
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  Speaker 18: the apartment. Well, I'm afraid she may come back. I
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  Speaker 18: asked my husband to notify the police, but he refused.
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  Speaker 18: He says he doesn't want to make any trouble for
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  Speaker 18: the girl. That's why I came to you.
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  Speaker 2: What do you want me to do?
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  Speaker 18: Well, I thought, if you could find the girl and talk.
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  Speaker 2: To her, what do you want me to say to her.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know find out what she's planning.
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  Speaker 6: To do, where's she's staying.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what's her.
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  Speaker 14: Name, Penny something.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know her last name.
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  Speaker 6: You don't know her name, you don't know where she's staying.
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  Speaker 6: You don't know exactly what you want me to say
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  Speaker 6: to her.
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  Speaker 2: This is a sort of case I love well.
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  Speaker 18: If it was easy, I I wouldn't need the falcon.
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  Speaker 6: I think i'd better have a talk with your husband. No,
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  Speaker 6: you can fill in some of the details.
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  Speaker 18: For but he may be angry about my hiring you.
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  Speaker 8: I don't want him to know.
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  Speaker 6: If you can't give me anything more to go on.
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  Speaker 14: I thought you were supposed to be such a good time.
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