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Dragnet - "Big Shock" (Old Time Radio, 1954) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: August 24th, 1954 brought NBC listeners Dragnet, episode 262, Big Shock.
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  Speaker 1: In Los Angeles, Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith
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  Speaker 1: are assigned to burglary detail, investigating a series of break-ins
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  Speaker 1: at neighborhood stores. Routine leads bring the detectives to a
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  Speaker 1: list of suspects, while the trail begins to extend beyond
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  Speaker 1: the shop burglaries themselves. Jack Webb is Sergeant Friday, and
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  Speaker 1: Ben Alexander is Officer Smith. In the long-running police series
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  Speaker 1: built around the work of the LAPD, here is Dragnet,
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  Speaker 1: Big Shock. And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear
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  Speaker 2: is true.
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  Speaker 3: The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet... You're a detective sergeant.
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  Speaker 5: You're assigned to burglary detail.
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  Speaker 3: For the past several weeks, a gang has been breaking
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  Speaker 3: into neighborhood stores.
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  Speaker 6: Routine investigation fails to turn up any kind of a lead.
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  Speaker 4: Your job, find one.
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  Speaker 7: The End.
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  Speaker 2: Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 2: next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 2: you will travel step by step on the side of
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  Speaker 2: the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files.
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  Speaker 2: From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is
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  Speaker 2: the story of your police.
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  Speaker 3: Force in action.
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  Speaker 7: It was Tuesday, March 20th. It was cold in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 7: We were working the day watch out of burglary detail.
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  Speaker 7: My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Bernard. My
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  Speaker 7: name's Friday. We're on our way out from the office,
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  Speaker 7: and it was 9.47 a.m. when we got to the
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  Speaker 7: third floor of the Bell Alarms Hotel, room 314.
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  Speaker 8: Sure dark.
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  Speaker 7: Want to try it again?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Sounds like somebody's moving around.
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  Speaker 8: Who is.
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  Speaker 1: It?
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  Speaker 7: You're Jed Nagel?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, why?
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  Speaker 3: Police officers would like to talk to you.
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  Speaker 8: I ain't done nothing wrong. There's no reason to rouse me.
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  Speaker 3: You want to open the door?
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 8: Come on in. I just got up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: You alone?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, there's nobody else.
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  Speaker 3: Frank?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: That's the bathroom.
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  Speaker 9: I told you that there wasn't anybody else here.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you don't mind if we look around, do you?
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  Speaker 4: I do, too, mind.
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  Speaker 9: I don't like your cops coming around. They're going to
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  Speaker 9: ruin my reputation.
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  Speaker 8: People in the building are going to think you're friends.
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  Speaker 7: Well, now, I'll tell you, we won't tell them if
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  Speaker 7: you don't.
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  Speaker 8: What do you want, anyway?
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  Speaker 7: We got a report that you were down on East
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  Speaker 7: 5th last night.
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  Speaker 3: Is that right?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: All last night's kind of foggy. I don't remember where
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  Speaker 8: I was exactly.
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  Speaker 7: You remember being downtown?
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  Speaker 8: I told you I didn't. Why? What are you trying
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  Speaker 8: to lay off on me now? The place is clean, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: I told you it was.
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  Speaker 9: Now you want to fill me in on what this
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  Speaker 9: is all about?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I would like to know what you were doing
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  Speaker 7: downtown last night.
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  Speaker 1: Well, how do I know?
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  Speaker 5: I had it rough last night.
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  Speaker 8: Anybody else along with you? No, not that I remember.
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  Speaker 7: Remember being near the Palace Liquor Store?
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  Speaker 8: No, not right off.
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  Speaker 9: I might have checked in, though. I threw a lot
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  Speaker 9: of business there away.
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  Speaker 4: Why all the questions?
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  Speaker 8: Is there something wrong?
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  Speaker 7: We'd like to have you tell us.
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  Speaker 8: I'd like to help out, but there ain't nothing I
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  Speaker 8: can do.
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  Speaker 7: We got a field interrogation report that you were in
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  Speaker 7: the area. Police car stopped and shook you down, isn't
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  Speaker 7: that right?
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  Speaker 8: Ain't nothing new. I'm always getting stopped.
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  Speaker 7: You ever been arrested? Couple of times.
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  Speaker 3: What charge? Junk. At all?
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  Speaker 8: Yes. Never stood anything heavier than drunk.
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  Speaker 4: Ever do any big time?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 8: A couple of months this past day. Went up to,
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  Speaker 8: you know, take the cure.
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  Speaker 7: Didn't hold on, did it?
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  Speaker 8: Well, no.
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  Speaker 7: Never mind.
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  Speaker 8: You don't happen to have an aspirin, do you?
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  Speaker 7: No, we don't.
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  Speaker 8: How about your friend here?
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  Speaker 3: He said we didn't.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, that's too bad. You know, I sure could use one.
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  Speaker 9: Mind if I take a look in the bathroom? There
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  Speaker 9: might be something in there to take care of my head.
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  Speaker 8: Sure, go ahead. We checked your record before we came
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  Speaker 8: up here. Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Find out anything? Enough to know there's a warrant on you.
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  Speaker 8: For what?
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  Speaker 4: Seems you got two wives back in Texas.
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  Speaker 7: They're both looking for you. All right, now come on.
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  Speaker 7: Get your clothes on.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Do you want to tell me what this is
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  Speaker 5: really about?
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 9: They didn't send two plainclothes cops down here to take
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  Speaker 9: me in on a bigamy charge. What's the real pitch?
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  Speaker 7: There was a burglary last night. I wondered if you
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  Speaker 7: had anything to do with it.
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  Speaker 1: Burglary?
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  Speaker 7: That's right. Not me.
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  Speaker 8: I haven't got the guts to get into something like that.
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  Speaker 9: That's what caused all the trouble with my women.
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  Speaker 4: What's that?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, I'm all the time telling me I should get
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  Speaker 9: off the dime and do something.
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  Speaker 8: Morning, noon, night.
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  Speaker 9: All the time running off at the mouth about how
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  Speaker 9: I was lazy. Can't expect a man to take much
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  Speaker 9: of that.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, get your clothes on.
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  Speaker 8: You're going to send me back to Texas?
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  Speaker 7: We don't know what's going to happen. We just have
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  Speaker 7: to take you in. Gee, I sure hope I don't
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  Speaker 7: go back.
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  Speaker 8: Woman's nothing but trouble, Mr. Nothing Else. You remember.
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  Speaker 7: Must not bother you much.
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  Speaker 9: Huh?
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  Speaker 7: You're married to him. Jed Nagel was taken to the
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  Speaker 7: main jail and held for the Texas authorities. A check
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  Speaker 7: of his actions on the previous night showed that he
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  Speaker 7: couldn't have committed the burglaries.
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  Speaker 8: 11.30 a.m.
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  Speaker 7: Frank and I checked by the office, and then we
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  Speaker 7: went over to the crime lab. Ray Pinker was just
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  Speaker 7: finishing up his investigation.
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  Speaker 3: Come on in, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: How's it going, Ray?
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  Speaker 5: Eh, just wrapping it up.
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  Speaker 7: You got anything for us?
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  Speaker 5: Same as you had on the last three jobs. Here,
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  Speaker 5: pictures are there.
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  Speaker 8: Take a look.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, there's still a little dam.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: This is the entrance, huh?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It went through the wall from the barbershop into the bar.
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  Speaker 8: How'd they get in there? Barbershop? Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Used a jimmy on the back window. Climbed in, went
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  Speaker 5: to work on the wall.
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  Speaker 7: I wonder why they didn't go right into the bar.
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  Speaker 5: The place is covered by an alarm system, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: Here.
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  Speaker 3: This is the box inside.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: They turned it off after they got into the place.
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  Speaker 7: You get any prints?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 5: Went over all the windows.
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  Speaker 3: Safe.
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  Speaker 5: Bar itself. Didn't turn up anything you can use.
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  Speaker 7: What about the men themselves? Can you guess anything of them?
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  Speaker 5: Must have been at least two of them. Might have
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  Speaker 5: been three.
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  Speaker 7: How'd you come up with that?
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  Speaker 3: Footprints.
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  Speaker 8: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: They kicked up a lot of plaster when they went
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  Speaker 5: into the place. A lot of dust around. One of them.
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  Speaker 3: Wore a size 9 shoe and the other one had
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  Speaker 3: a size 7 1⁄2 foot.
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  Speaker 8: Where'd you get the third man?
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  Speaker 5: A lot more of the smaller impressions. Either the little
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  Speaker 5: guy jumped around more or else it was someone to
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  Speaker 5: help make the prints.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 7: Anything else, Ray?
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  Speaker 5: We got some good pictures of the Jimmy Marks in
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  Speaker 5: the barbershop. If you come up with a tool, we'll
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  Speaker 5: be able to match it for you.
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  Speaker 7: What about the safe, Ray?
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  Speaker 3: Punch job.
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  Speaker 5: No class there.
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  Speaker 8: Anything on it?
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  Speaker 9: Mm-mm.
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  Speaker 5: How much they take this time?
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  Speaker 7: Owner guesses at about 5,000, wouldn't.
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  Speaker 8: It, Frank?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Gives them a total of what?
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  Speaker 7: Well, according to our figures, a little over 12 since
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  Speaker 7: they started working.
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  Speaker 5: Scoring good.
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  Speaker 7: Better than they think.
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 7: We've just about run out of leads, Frank, and I've
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  Speaker 7: been all over town trying to scratch something up. None
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  Speaker 7: of them work out.
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  Speaker 5: Got to be one someplace.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Skipper keeps telling us that. Corner pocket's on his back.
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  Speaker 3: Bound to be.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I guess so.
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  Speaker 7: Doesn't make it any easier on us, though.
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  Speaker 5: You signed the application.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, well... Thanks, Ray. Anything turns up, give us a call,
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  Speaker 7: will you?
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  Speaker 3: Sure, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: Isn't likely, though.
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  Speaker 7: You've had it.
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  Speaker 5: You going back to the office?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Stats office should have those cards for us by now.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: I hope they point somewhere.
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  Speaker 7: You better get in line.
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  Speaker 3: Take it easy, Ray.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Drop around sometime.
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  Speaker 3: I'll pop for a lunch.
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  Speaker 7: We got this one cleaned up a little by.
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  Speaker 5: You got a deal.
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  Speaker 4: My wife will go for that.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 5: She's been after me to lose some weight. Uh-huh. Looks
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  Speaker 5: like it'll be a long diet.
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  Speaker 7: Frank and I went back to City Hall and checked
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  Speaker 7: with the stats office. In the runs they'd made, they
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  Speaker 7: came up with cards on seven men who were known
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  Speaker 7: to have used the same method of operation in committing burglaries.
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  Speaker 7: We checked the list through R & I. Three of
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  Speaker 7: the possibles were still serving sentences in San Quentin. One
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  Speaker 7: of them had died, and two were in eastern jails.
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  Speaker 7: The seventh, a Norris Pauley, had a record listing four
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  Speaker 7: arrests and one conviction. His address was given as 4622
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  Speaker 7: 50th Street. We left the office and went out to
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  Speaker 7: check on him. The register listed him as living in
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  Speaker 7: apartment 12. We walked upstairs. Should be on the left, huh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, here it.
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  Speaker 4: Is.
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  Speaker 7: Want to try it again?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Just a minute.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Like to see Norris Pauling?
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  Speaker 9: In here.
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  Speaker 3: Where is he?
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  Speaker 5: Don't see where that's any business of yours.
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  Speaker 3: Police officers.
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  Speaker 5: What do you want to see Norris about?
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  Speaker 7: Better if we talk to him about that.
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  Speaker 8: Get yourself.
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  Speaker 5: Don't make any difference to me.
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  Speaker 7: You mind if we come in? You can talk right
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  Speaker 7: out there in the hall. All right, Miss Pauly, open
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  Speaker 7: that door.
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  Speaker 3: Take a jump. Sadie, what's all the noise?
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  Speaker 7: Lady, either you open that door or we will. All right,
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  Speaker 7: get out of the way, lady. All right, Pauly, hold
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  Speaker 7: it right there.
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  Speaker 3: You get out of here. You got no right to
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  Speaker 3: break in here like this.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, will you shut up, Sadie?
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to do you a favor and look what
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  Speaker 3: thanks I get. Well, who asked?
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  Speaker 4: You know, go on, get out of here.
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  Speaker 7: This time I try to do anything for you last time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 8: Bye.
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  Speaker 3: Real harpy, always trying to take care of me.
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  Speaker 8: Real harpy.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 3: You know, she means good, but she.
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  Speaker 8: Doesn't know how to carry it off.
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  Speaker 3: Always trying to protect me.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. What do you want to see me about?
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  Speaker 7: I want to ask you a couple of questions.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, I'll go along with you. No reason for me
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  Speaker 3: not to. What do you want to know?
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  Speaker 7: How come you're home?
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  Speaker 3: Where did you expect to find me?
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  Speaker 7: You're on parole, aren't you? Well, you knew that before
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  Speaker 7: you asked the question. Supposed to have a job?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got one.
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  Speaker 7: How come you're not working today?
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  Speaker 3: I see what you're getting at. I've got a cold
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  Speaker 3: kind of virus infection.
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  Speaker 7: Figured I'd take the day off, get it all cleared up.
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  Speaker 3: I was in bed when you got here. That's the
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  Speaker 3: reason you had all the trouble.
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  Speaker 7: Your employer know where you are?
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  Speaker 3: Well, sure. I called him and told him. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: trying to pull any deals. I've been punching the clock
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  Speaker 3: since I got out. I want to keep it that way.
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  Speaker 7: Where do you work?
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  Speaker 3: Parking lot downtown. Not killing the world, but I'm paying
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  Speaker 3: the rent. I got no beef.
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  Speaker 7: How do you spend your off time?
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  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 7: When you're not working, what do you do?
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  Speaker 3: Mostly sit around the.
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  Speaker 8: House, watch the TV.
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  Speaker 7: You go out nights?
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  Speaker 8: No, not much.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe every couple of weeks, he'd go down to the
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  Speaker 3: Mexican place on the corner, have dinner, take in a show.
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  Speaker 3: That's about it.
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  Speaker 7: You've been out this week?
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  Speaker 3: What night?
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  Speaker 7: Tell us about all of them, will you?
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  Speaker 3: No go. I've been home every night.
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  Speaker 8: Can you prove that?
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  Speaker 7: What, do I have to? It'll make you look better.
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  Speaker 8: Well, ask Sadie.
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  Speaker 3: She'll tell you. We've been home together every night, just
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  Speaker 3: sitting here watching the TV.
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  Speaker 7: What time do you go to work?
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  Speaker 3: I check in about 7.
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  Speaker 7: When do you quit?
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  Speaker 8: 4.30.
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  Speaker 3: Once in a while, if it's crowded, I stay over.
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  Speaker 3: You work late this week? No, you can check that
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  Speaker 3: with the boss.
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  Speaker 8: He'll tell you.
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  Speaker 7: All right, we will.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what's this all about, huh? You guys are after something,
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  Speaker 3: aren't you?
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  Speaker 7: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, why don't you tell me what it is? I
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  Speaker 3: hear stuff once in a while.
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  Speaker 5: I might be able to help you out.
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  Speaker 8: You see the old crowd anymore, Norris?
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  Speaker 3: Well, once in a while they walk down the street.
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  Speaker 3: They nod, I nod. Nothing more.
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  Speaker 7: Now, what are you after? Tunnel jobs.
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  Speaker 3: You figured I might have a piece of that action, huh?
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  Speaker 7: Matches the way you work?
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  Speaker 3: No, it doesn't fit. I told you, I've been with
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  Speaker 3: the bucket since I got out. Even with taxes, I
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  Speaker 3: make more.
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  Speaker 8: You heard anything about who's working?
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't go out of this room?
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  Speaker 7: We won't take it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. The boys found out I was giving you information.
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  Speaker 3: My insurance premiums sure go up real fast. Well, don't
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  Speaker 3: you worry about it.
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  Speaker 7: Nobody will know.
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  Speaker 6: Words are out.
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  Speaker 8: There's two guys.
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  Speaker 7: We had that going in.
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  Speaker 3: They pulled three jobs.
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  Speaker 7: Well, they made it four. I don't know about the
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  Speaker 7: other one. It'll be in the papers.
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  Speaker 4: You got a name?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 5: Just heard that they were working.
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  Speaker 3: Where'd you hear? A fellow down on 7th. He sells
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  Speaker 3: papers down there. We have a cup of coffee once
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  Speaker 3: in a while. He told me.
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  Speaker 7: You know where we can get in touch with him?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it'd be better if you didn't. He'll lead
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  Speaker 3: right back to me.
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  Speaker 8: Sadie?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, wait a minute, honey.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you going with the suitcase? I'm leaving you. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: come on. Isn't anything serious? You don't ever talk to me.
• 11:13
  Speaker 3: If I do you a favor and you take their side,
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: I've had it from you, bum. Oh, come on, Sadie.
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: Don't be sore. Take your hand off of me. Baby, please,
• 11:19
  Speaker 3: don't be sore. I'm going to tell you once more.
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: Take your hand off of me. Look, I'm sorry if
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: I hurt your feelings, Sadie. What did you go and
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: hit me for? Because you're a bum. Don't go trying
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: to get me to come back to you. I'm through
• 11:31
  Speaker 3: this time.
• 11:33
  Speaker 7: Too bad, Paulie.
• 11:33
  Speaker 8: No, it isn't.
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: I've been trying to figure some way to get her
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: to walk out since I got out of jail.
• 11:37
  Speaker 7: I've never been able to do it.
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: I sure ain't sorry. I ought to buy you guys
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: a drink for taking care of it for me.
• 11:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: Only one thing that worries me is her big mouth.
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: She's always talking. She might have heard me say I'd
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: give you a hand. She blabs that around. I'm in
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: real trouble.
• 11:48
  Speaker 7: You didn't give us any names.
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: That doesn't make any difference. She gets to talking. She'll
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: have me telling you the name of every hoodlum in town.
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: Whether that gets around, I'm a gone duck. I got
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: to get after her. Yeah, Sadie and her big mouth.
• 11:57
  Speaker 3: You're going to get me in trouble.
• 11:59
  Speaker 7: Well, it makes you even then, doesn't it?
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: Huh? Yours kept you out of it.
• 12:05
  Speaker 7: Before we left the apartment, we checked Paulie's story and
• 12:08
  Speaker 7: verified the fact that he was not implicated in the burglaries.
• 12:10
  Speaker 7: We drove down to the corner of 7th and Wild.
• 12:12
  Speaker 7: We found a newsman Norris Paulie had told us about.
• 12:15
  Speaker 7: We talked to him for about 15 minutes before we
• 12:16
  Speaker 7: were able to convince him that he wouldn't get into
• 12:18
  Speaker 7: trouble by giving us the information that he had. He
• 12:20
  Speaker 7: told us what he knew about the tunnel burglaries. He
• 12:22
  Speaker 7: was unable to give us a name of the suspect
• 12:24
  Speaker 7: that he had in mind, but he did give us
• 12:25
  Speaker 7: a description and a nickname, Kiko. With this information, we
• 12:29
  Speaker 7: returned to the city hall and checked the moniker file.
• 12:31
  Speaker 7: There were several key codes listed, but only two that
• 12:33
  Speaker 7: matched the description. The first one checked out clean. The second,
• 12:36
  Speaker 7: a Franklin James Zweig, WMA, 33 years old, had done
• 12:39
  Speaker 7: time in the state penitentiary as a cat burglar. We
• 12:41
  Speaker 7: contacted the state authority and found that Zweig was on
• 12:43
  Speaker 7: active parole. From them, we got his address and we
• 12:45
  Speaker 7: went out to see him. It was a small one-story
• 12:47
  Speaker 7: modern house built in the early 30s. The chrome railing
• 12:50
  Speaker 7: up the front stairs was rusty and the paint on
• 12:51
  Speaker 7: the front of the building was peeling. We rang the
• 12:53
  Speaker 7: bell and waited.
• 12:55
  Speaker 9: Yep.
• 12:55
  Speaker 4: Your name's Wig?
• 12:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right.
• 12:57
  Speaker 8: Police officers.
• 12:58
  Speaker 7: This is Sergeant Joe Friday. My name's Smith.
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: What do you want me to do? Why don't you
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: ask us in? It's all the same to you. I
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: don't want to get the carpet dirty.
• 13:04
  Speaker 8: Let's talk outside.
• 13:05
  Speaker 7: Come on, mister. Get your coat.
• 13:06
  Speaker 8: What for?
• 13:06
  Speaker 3: I want to talk to you. About what?
• 13:07
  Speaker 7: We'll tell you about it downtown.
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: You make a charge or I ain't leaving the house.
• 13:10
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: Suspicion of burglary. You're going to drag Dad up again.
• 13:13
  Speaker 7: We don't make the rules.
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: You do time once in your life and the cops
• 13:15
  Speaker 3: never get off your back.
• 13:16
  Speaker 7: He should have thought of that going in.
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: What good would it do? You cops never learn.
• 13:19
  Speaker 7: Well, you're not much of an example, are you?
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: What's that mean?
• 13:21
  Speaker 7: You're probably going back for another course. Before we took
• 13:27
  Speaker 7: the suspect downtown, we made a thorough search of his home.
• 13:30
  Speaker 7: We found nothing to tie him in with the burglaries.
• 13:32
  Speaker 7: He was taken to the squad room and questioned for
• 13:33
  Speaker 7: over an hour. During that time, he'd say nothing. We
• 13:36
  Speaker 7: was booked in at the main jail, and Frank and
• 13:37
  Speaker 7: I checked out of the office. The next day, Wednesday,
• 13:40
  Speaker 7: March 21st, we had him brought from the cell. We
• 13:42
  Speaker 7: talked to him in the interrogation room in the main jail.
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: How long do you guys think you're going to be
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: able to hold me?
• 13:45
  Speaker 7: Depends on when you decide to talk.
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: Tell you what, cop, I'll make a deal with you.
• 13:49
  Speaker 7: No deals.
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: What do you mean?
• 13:50
  Speaker 7: We don't want you. We want the guy who engineered
• 13:51
  Speaker 7: the burglaries.
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: Well, then why don't you let me go now?
• 13:53
  Speaker 7: I want to make sure the story gets a play
• 13:55
  Speaker 7: in the papers.
• 13:56
  Speaker 5: Well, what's that going to prove?
• 13:57
  Speaker 7: Your friend will get worried. He'll figure you're going to talk.
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: Look, if I was mixed up in anything, I'm not
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: one way or the other.
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: But if I was, why should he get worried?
• 14:03
  Speaker 7: Word's out that he's the brains.
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: Well, where's that from?
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: All over town.
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: It's not true.
• 14:07
  Speaker 7: The way we got our stories around, you went along
• 14:08
  Speaker 7: for the ride.
• 14:09
  Speaker 8: Other fellas did all the brain work.
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: Who said that?
• 14:11
  Speaker 7: Everybody we've talked to.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: Well, then if everybody's talking about him, why ain't he
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: here instead of me?
• 14:15
  Speaker 8: Because he's a smart one of the pair. Somebody's got
• 14:17
  Speaker 8: a fall, might as well be you. He can pick
• 14:19
  Speaker 8: up another partner.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: You telling me the real scam? That's the way we
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: get it. Not true.
• 14:23
  Speaker 7: Well, we only got your word for that. All I
• 14:25
  Speaker 7: know is if I ever get in trouble, I'd want
• 14:26
  Speaker 7: to make sure I had a pigeon waiting to take
• 14:27
  Speaker 7: the beef. You're here.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: He's out.
• 14:30
  Speaker 7: Now, you tell me who's smart.
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: How'd you get to me?
• 14:32
  Speaker 8: It was in the books.
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: Not like this.
• 14:34
  Speaker 7: I fell for cat burglary.
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: Nothing to do with tunnel jobs. Somebody had to blow
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: the whistle.
• 14:37
  Speaker 7: That so?
• 14:38
  Speaker 8: Sure.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: You had no call to pick me up. Just right
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: out of left field, you walk in.
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: Who did it?
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: Who made the call? Somebody did, huh? Somebody pointed me out.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: Come on. I know who it was. You ain't going
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: to get him in trouble telling me. Somebody told you,
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: didn't they? That's right. It all fits real good. Well,
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: I tell you this, cop, I ain't that dumb. A
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: lot of things I've done that I don't want anybody
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: to know about, but I never blew the whistle on
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: a friend. That's one thing I didn't do. All that
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: stuff about him being the brains, that's.
• 15:05
  Speaker 7: A lot of coconuts.
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: He can't get into a phone booth without help.
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: I figured the whole deal.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: It was me who said we'd had it and ought
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: to stop. He wanted to keep going.
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: That's why I left.
• 15:13
  Speaker 8: When was this?
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: Night before last. After we got through, he was sore
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: because there was only a little over $ 4, 000 in the box.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: We heard there was around 10. Yeah. Said he wanted
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: to make a big score before we quit. Said to
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: go together on one more.
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: Told me what he wanted to do.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: I wanted no part of it. The guy's off his rocker.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: I left.
• 15:28
  Speaker 7: What's he got in mind, you know?
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: Wants to tunnel into a bank.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: police force in action.
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: We continued to talk to Franklin Zweig. From him, we
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: got a complete description of the second suspect and the
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: name Lester Kroll. We checked the name through R &
• 16:01
  Speaker 7: I and we came up with a record for him.
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: Listed were several arrests for purse snatching and suspicion of assault.
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: In spite of the arrest, Kroll hadn't served any time
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: in jail. We showed the mugshot and the package to
• 16:11
  Speaker 7: Zweig and we got a positive identification. We asked the
• 16:14
  Speaker 7: suspect in custody where Kroll lived. He gave us an
• 16:17
  Speaker 7: address on South Figaro, but when we checked there, we
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: found that Kroll had left without giving a forwarding address.
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: We talked to all of the people listed in this
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: package as having known the suspect. None of them could
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: or would tell us where the man was. We questioned
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: Franklin Zweig further, but he was unable to tell us
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: what bank Kroll had in mind. We contacted Vern Alm
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: of the Bank of America, Frank Stumpf of the Security
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: First National, and other special agents of Southern California banks.
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: They in turn notified the branch managers to be on
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: the lookout for evidence of Kroll working in their neighborhoods.
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: Special M.O. bulletins were put out to all officers in
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: the city, giving particulars on the methods the suspect was
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: known to use. In addition to these, local broadcasts and
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: APBs were gotten out on all suspects. For a week,
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: the search dragged on. During that time, there were no
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: further reports of attempted tunnelings and no sign of Lester Crowell. Friday,
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: March 30th, 8.01 a.m., I checked into the office. Frank
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: was waiting for me.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Morning, old buddy.
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: Hi, Frank.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Beautiful day, huh?
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: No, it's a little cold out.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but it doesn't make any difference to you, huh,
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: old buddy?
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: No, no, it doesn't.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: You feel any different?
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: Hmm?
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: You're feeling different today than you did yesterday.
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: Are you all right?
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Never felt better.
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: How about you, old buddy? Yeah, I'm fine.
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: Hey, just a minute. I know what's wrong.
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: You do, huh? Yeah. You didn't think I'd forget, did you? Listen,
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: I don't even know what you're talking about.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Ah, come on, old buddy.
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: Just a minute. I'll get it.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Got it right over here, right up on the top shelf.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: I brought it in myself.
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: Here you are, Joe. Wrapped it myself, too.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Looks pretty good, huh?
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess it does.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: I didn't have nothing to put on the top, so
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: I found a couple of Christmas tree ornaments.
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: Put them on with a ribbon.
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: That's nice.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: Dig down in there.
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: What is it?
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Go ahead.
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: Open it up.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: Got them yesterday after lunch. Thought I wasn't ever going
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: to get you out of the way. Remember when I
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: told you I was going out.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: To buy a new hat? Remember?
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: You know, Frank, I think maybe you made a little mistake.
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: Oh, just take the top right off.
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: The box, Joe.
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: Open it right up.
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: All right. There. What do you think?
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: Nice, Frank.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: You bet. Police line slippers. Got a pair myself.
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: Greatest thing in the world, a cold morning.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Keep your feet warm, Joe.
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: Police is warm, you know. Yeah.
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: I got a pair myself. See the card?
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: There's a card there.
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: Open it up. Go on, read it. Go ahead.
• 18:41
  Speaker 9: Out loud?
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: This is the day that comes once a year. The
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: day your face does shine. A happy day for one
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: and all. Because today you're nine. Doesn't match too good,
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: I guess. It's all I had at the shoe store.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: Happy birthday, Joe.
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: You know, I just don't know what to say, Frank.
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: Well, I know how you feel, old buddy.
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: I understand you're all kind of choked up, huh?
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: Yes, I am. This isn't my birthday, you know.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: Oh, you're choked up.
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: Huh?
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: This is not my birthday, Frank.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Well, it's the 30th, isn't it?
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: March 30th?
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: My birthday's August 30th. Now, wait a minute, buddy.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: It can't be.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: I got it right here in my little book.
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: Wait a minute.
• 19:24
  Speaker 9: See?
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: See right here?
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: Well, March 30th, Joe's birthday. I wrote that myself. You
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: know my handwriting.
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: March 30th.
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you got the date right, but it's not mine.
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: You kidding me?
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: Frank, I know my own birthday.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Huh.
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: It must be somebody. Who do I know named Joe?
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: I got it.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Joe.
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: Burglary Friday.
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: Yes, sir. March 30th.
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: That's right.
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: August 30th.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Where is that? I see.
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: All right, sir. We'll be right out.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: Right away.
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: Come on, old buddy. We got one to roll on.
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: August 30th.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: I say we got to roll. Let's go. Barry over
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: at the street department. They got a call this morning.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: Looks like somebody's trying to dig a tunnel in the
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: storm drain. Frank and I left the office and we
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: drove over to the corner of Silver Lake Boulevard and
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: McCollum Street. We met with Barry Falcon of the street department.
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: He led us to a manhole in the middle of
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: the intersection. He told us that there'd been numerous complaints
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: from citizens in the area that the cover on the
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: outlet kept rattling. When the street department checked it, they
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: found that the cushioning material around the metal plate had
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: been removed. It was replaced, but the next day there
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: were several more calls. When the neighbors were questioned, they
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: told of a man who arrived in a pickup truck
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: about 2.30 in the morning. He'd lift the cover and
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: enter the storm drain. Before the daylight hours, he'd leave
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: and he'd drive away. From the description they gave, it
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: was possible that the repairman was from the street maintenance department,
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: but a check of their record showed that no crews
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: were working.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: In that area.
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: After talking with Falcon, Frank and I climbed down the
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: ladder into the drain. We walked about 20 feet up
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: the tunnel and we found the reason that we'd been called.
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: Barry tell you what's over us? From there's we can
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: figure it's the vault in the bank, isn't it?
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: Sure is, I'm kidding.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: Take a look over here.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: Got all the equipment, lamps, couple of drills. Yeah, but
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: he's not going to be able to use them unless
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: he ties into an electric line someplace.
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: I probably figured he'd run into one.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: And what's that over there in the corner?
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: We'll take a look.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Can you see it?
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but I leave it alone. What do you got?
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: He's got it all figured. What do you mean? That
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: bottle over there?
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: Looks like nitroglycerin. The people in the immediate vicinity were
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: shown the mug shots of Lester Crowe. He was positively
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: identified as the man who had worked in the storm drain.
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: We asked about the truck, but none of the people
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: could give us a good description of it. The employees
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: in the bank were cautioned, and Frank and I arranged
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: for a 24-hour surveillance to be set up on the
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: storm drain outlet. Two days passed without activity, and then
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: on Monday, April 3rd, we waited in our car down
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: the street from the intersection. 2.20 a.m.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Another cup of coffee, Joe?
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah, wouldn't be bad. Boy, it sure gets cold this
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: time of the morning.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: Say, I finally figured it out. What do you mean?
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Who Joe was.
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: What's that? Here. Yeah, it's hot.
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, thank you. Joe. You know the name of my book,
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: The Birthday? Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: It's our mailman.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Hmm?
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: It's our mailman. It was his birthday. Oh.
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: I got him one of those cards that says, we're sorry,
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: we forgot.
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: You know the kind.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: We gave him the card and a carton of cigarettes.
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: Old Joe sure got a kick out of it.
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: Yep.
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: Sure gets cold this time of the morning.
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: Take a look.
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I see it.
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: Clock in there.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: You see his face?
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Not from here.
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: Until he gets out.
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: Look at.
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: That.
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: He even got a hook for the manhole cover. How
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: do you like that? Watch it now. He's going under
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: the light. It's him. All right, let's let him get
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: down in the storm drain. That way we'll be able
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: to get him while he's working.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: Let him get in there.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Okay. Okay.
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: Okay, let's go.
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: You want to give me a hand with the cover?
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Let's go.
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: Okay. Hold it up a minute. Give him a chance
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: to get to work.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Okay, let's go.
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: Come on. All right.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: You're sure not wasting any time. Probably figures I'm making
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: a break this morning.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Uh-huh. Take it easy now.
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: You seem good now.
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: You're sure going after it. All right, come on.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Let's take him. All right.
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: Come on.
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: How about it?
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: He's dead.
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: Look at that. See up there? He ran into one
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: of the power lines into the bank. Yeah, he almost
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: made it, Joe.
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: A couple of more inches, he'd have gotten in.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: He must have figured wrong someplace. Made a mistake somewhere. Yeah,
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: when he bought that drill.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: The story you have just heard is true.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: The names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: On August 16th, trial was held in Department 97, Superior
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Court of the State of California, in and for the
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: County of Los Angeles.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: In a moment, the results of that trial.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Franklin James Weig was tried and convicted of burglary in
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: the second degree, three counts, and received sentence as prescribed
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: by law. Burglary in the second degree is punishable by
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: imprisonment for a period of not less than one, nor
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: more than 15 years in the state penitentiary.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: At a coroner's inquest, the death of.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Lester Bruce Kroll was found to be accidental, occurring while
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: in the commission of a felony.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: Music You have just heard Dragnet.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: A series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: comes from the office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles Police Department.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Our visit with Dragnet, Big Shock, concludes here. Follow Dragnet
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