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Dragnet - "Big Laugh" (Old Time Radio, 1953) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: For a year, a confidence man has swindled women with
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  Speaker 1: false promises of marriage. On March eighth, nineteen fifty three,
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  Speaker 1: NBC brought that case to Dragnet. In episode one hundred
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  Speaker 1: ninety four, Big Laugh as Sergeant Joe Friday is assigned
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  Speaker 1: to the Los Angeles Police Department's Bunco Detail. Jack Webb
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  Speaker 1: plays Friday, with Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. Peggy
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  Speaker 1: Weber appears as Grace Terrence, Jack Crushan as Thomas Conant,
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  Speaker 1: and Harry Bartel as Jonathan Benson. Written by John Robinson
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  Speaker 1: for Chesterfield, the broadcast follows Friday and Smith as the
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  Speaker 1: investigation finally produces a lead and brings them closer to
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  Speaker 1: their suspect in a case of deceptive courtship and patient
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  Speaker 1: police work. And now the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Found off for chester Pew. Chesterfield is best for you
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  Speaker 2: first cigarette with premium quality in both regular and King Thighs.
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  Speaker 2: Chesterfield brings you drag men, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: The star you're about to hear is true. The names
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  Speaker 3: have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant.
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  Speaker 3: You're assigned to Bunco Detail for the past year. A
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  Speaker 3: confidence man has been cheating women in your city.
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  Speaker 4: You'll finally get a lead on him, your job.
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  Speaker 3: Get him tonight. I have a new report for you,
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  Speaker 3: a most important one too, because when you're asked to
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  Speaker 3: try a cigarette, you want to know, and you ought
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  Speaker 3: to know what that cigarette is meant to people who
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  Speaker 3: smoke it all the time. After a full year of observation,
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  Speaker 3: a medical specialist who was given a group of Chesterfield
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  Speaker 3: smokers thorough examinations every two months for the full year,
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  Speaker 3: reports no adverse effects to their nose, throat, or sinuses
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  Speaker 3: from smoking Chesterfield. More and more men and women all
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  Speaker 3: over the country are finding out every day that Chesterfield
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  Speaker 3: is best for them. Enjoy you are smoking, Try Chesterfield today.
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  Speaker 3: Their best for you, much milder, with an extraordinarily good taste.
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  Speaker 5: Drag Men the documented drama of an actual crime. While
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  Speaker 5: the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 5: Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
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  Speaker 5: side of the law through an actual case transcribed from
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  Speaker 5: official police files, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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  Speaker 5: Drag Net is the story of your We're a police
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  Speaker 5: force in action.
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  Speaker 6: It was Wednesday, February twelfth. It was cold in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 6: We were working the day watch out a Bunco detail.
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  Speaker 6: My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Steve.
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  Speaker 4: My name is Friday.
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  Speaker 6: We were at the Armstrong Thomas Department Star Cafeteria and
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  Speaker 6: it was three fourteen pm when I got back to
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  Speaker 6: the table.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, John, let me give you a hand. Thanks you
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  Speaker 4: are miss parents.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder if you tell us what this is all
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  Speaker 4: about now?
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  Speaker 8: Man, surely sorry you had to wait, but I thought
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  Speaker 8: it might be better if we talked up here.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am, would.
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  Speaker 8: You pass the sugar please?
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  Speaker 9: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Sam, they are.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it's not a pretty thing. I don't know how
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  Speaker 8: I could have been so foolish, but I guess when
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  Speaker 8: you get to be my age and you haven't gotten anything,
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  Speaker 8: almost any attention makes you forget.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am. How'd you first meet this man? Ben?
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  Speaker 8: I still him first at a musicale. I met him
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  Speaker 8: very briefly that night. He called me the next day
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  Speaker 8: said that he wanted to see me again. Well. I
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  Speaker 8: told him that I didn't think it'd be proper, but
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  Speaker 8: he insisted, so that night we had dinner together. He
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  Speaker 8: seemed so nice I still can't.
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  Speaker 10: Believe it's.
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  Speaker 8: Such a wonderful time. I didn't think anybody could be
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  Speaker 8: so happy. We ate it a wonderful little place down
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  Speaker 8: at the beach, and we went for a long drive
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  Speaker 8: and listened to the music on the radio. Just beautiful
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  Speaker 8: way the ocean looked all moonlight and all.
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  Speaker 4: When did you see him again? Then?
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  Speaker 8: Not until he left. He'd call a couple of times
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  Speaker 8: a day. He got a little embarrassing the girl the story.
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  Speaker 8: He got kidding me about it, but I didn't care.
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  Speaker 8: Then he told me he wanted to marry me. I
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  Speaker 8: couldn't believe it. So wonderful. Well, then one day he
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  Speaker 8: told me that he was going to have to take
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  Speaker 8: a business trip up north.
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  Speaker 4: When was that, you remember, man, I guess it was.
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  Speaker 8: About three weeks ago, something like that. Go ahead, please,
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  Speaker 8: Well he left. I went down to the station and
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  Speaker 8: saw him off. He kissed me and said that when
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  Speaker 8: he got back we'd be married. We were going over
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  Speaker 8: to Las Vegas on our honeymoon. Wonderful plans. Wonderful. Then
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  Speaker 8: I heard from him, and he got to San Francisco.
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  Speaker 8: He called me from the hotel and said that he'd
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  Speaker 8: lost his wallet on the train. He told me he'd
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  Speaker 8: lost everything, all his money, identification, and everything. That's when
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  Speaker 8: he asked me for thee hundred dollars. I didn't think
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  Speaker 8: that anything was wrong, so I sent it to him.
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  Speaker 4: Why did you send it, ma'am?
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  Speaker 8: To his hotel?
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  Speaker 4: Did you hear from me with all after that, ma'am?
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  Speaker 4: Not a word.
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  Speaker 8: At first, I thought that maybe he was just busy.
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  Speaker 8: I did think it was kind of funny that he
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  Speaker 8: wouldn't say something about getting the money I sent, But
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  Speaker 8: not a word. Then I got worried.
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  Speaker 4: Nurse, ma'am, I can't understand.
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  Speaker 8: Finally, I called the hotel and they told me that
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  Speaker 8: he'd checked out. I figured that maybe he was back
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  Speaker 8: in town and wanted to surprise me, so I called
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  Speaker 8: his apartment. The landlady told me that he had left
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  Speaker 8: a couple of weeks before that he didn't leave any
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  Speaker 8: forwarding address.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't know what to think. I didn't want to
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  Speaker 8: believe that he'd just used me, but there didn't seem
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  Speaker 8: to be anything else to think.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 8: Then, of course it was only one hundred dollars. Seemed
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  Speaker 8: that if he'd wanted to rob me, he could have
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  Speaker 8: asked for more. I still don't believe it, even when
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  Speaker 8: I know it's true.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am, I wonder if he could give us a
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  Speaker 4: description of the man.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I can do that. But see he was tall,
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  Speaker 8: about how tall man over six feet maybe six feet too.
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  Speaker 8: He had blonde hair, kind of wavy.
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  Speaker 4: About how much would say.
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  Speaker 8: Wait, I'd just be guessing that. I'd say about one
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  Speaker 8: hundred and ninety ors.
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  Speaker 4: So I see.
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  Speaker 6: I wonder if you'd be kind enough to come down
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  Speaker 6: to the city hall and look at some pictures for
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  Speaker 6: us you think you might have one of the possible man.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe make you feel a little better to know that
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  Speaker 6: you're not the only woman that this bedman has taken.
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  Speaker 4: There's been quite a few.
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  Speaker 8: I guess I knew that, even if I didn't want
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  Speaker 8: to believe it. I guess I knew it was just
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  Speaker 8: a confidence game, such a cool thing though you as
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  Speaker 8: a person's loneliness.
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  Speaker 9: To rob them.
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  Speaker 8: This man it is, and you've yet along in years,
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  Speaker 8: and you haven't got anything to hold on to. Little
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  Speaker 8: attention in the section makes you forget everything else. Nothing
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  Speaker 8: else seems to matter.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am, I guess that's the way they figured. Frank
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  Speaker 6: and I had been looking for Jonathan Benton for the
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  Speaker 6: past year. During that time, he'd taken approximately thirty seven
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  Speaker 6: thousand dollars from women in the Los Angeles area. His
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  Speaker 6: method of operation was to answer the ads in the
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  Speaker 6: personal columns of the day papers.
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  Speaker 4: He'd give the woman a whirl wind courtship, then, under the.
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  Speaker 6: Pretext of having to clean up some business before married,
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  Speaker 6: he'd leave time. He'd call the next day and give
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  Speaker 6: them the story about losing his wallet and identification. He'd
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  Speaker 6: asked them for one hundred dollars. This in itself was
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  Speaker 6: to throw off the suspicions.
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  Speaker 4: Of the victim in.
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  Speaker 6: The event that they suspected that they were being taken
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  Speaker 6: in a racket. One hundred dollars was small enough so
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  Speaker 6: that their fear would answer about twenty.
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  Speaker 4: To thirty of these ads at a time, and.
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  Speaker 6: The requests for money would hit all of the suspects
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  Speaker 6: at once. We'd had several complaints lately, and there was
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  Speaker 6: no way of knowing how many women were being taken
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  Speaker 6: and were too embarrassed to report it to the authority.
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  Speaker 4: Four point thirty.
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  Speaker 6: Pm, we drove Miss Terrence back to the city Hall
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  Speaker 6: and had her check the mud books. She was unable
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  Speaker 6: to give us an identification. However, another month passed. During
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  Speaker 6: that time we received fourteen more complaints. In all instances,
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  Speaker 6: the description of the suspect matched that of Jonathan Benton.
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  Speaker 6: All available sources of information were checked, bulletins had been
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  Speaker 6: gotten out carrying his description in the name he used.
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  Speaker 4: No results.
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  Speaker 6: On Wednesday, March twenty fifth, we got to call it
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  Speaker 6: a man answering Benton's description, and placed an ad in.
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  Speaker 4: The personal columns of one of the daily papers.
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  Speaker 6: He'd used the name of Thomas Coolean's. The clerk at
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  Speaker 6: the ad counter gave us his address, and at five
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  Speaker 6: thirty two pm, Frank and I went out to talk
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  Speaker 6: to him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah you Thomas Coleyan, Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 10: What can I do for his police officers like to
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  Speaker 10: talk to you? Sure, come on in.
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  Speaker 4: Know he's glad to talk to the laws. My partner,
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  Speaker 4: Frank Smith, how do you do, mister Smith?
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  Speaker 10: If you boys will come on in, I'll shut the door.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. And now what's this all about? Ill said?
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  Speaker 4: Did you put this ad in the paper and let
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  Speaker 4: me see.
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  Speaker 10: Texas cowman desires to meet teit young lady object companionship
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  Speaker 10: held everything right dead, Yes, sir, that's mine.
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  Speaker 4: I wrote it all myself. Holong a bit of Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 10: Well, now let's see, got in on the bus last Tuesday.
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  Speaker 10: That make a week in the day.
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  Speaker 4: What brings you out here?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I guess you could say it's kind of a
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  Speaker 10: business trip. A little tired of the same face as
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  Speaker 10: back home, so I thought i'd just see what the
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  Speaker 10: rest of the country looked like. Well, little ladies of it,
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  Speaker 10: I'm from Texas, you know, ambrilla. And what's all this
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  Speaker 10: about anyway?
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  Speaker 4: Some law broke No, it's about that ad. Oh you
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  Speaker 4: found out huh thang, pardon.
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  Speaker 10: Oh you found out about me saying I was a cattleman.
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  Speaker 10: That's it, ain't it?
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 10: Well, now, I.
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  Speaker 9: Didn't mean the harm.
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  Speaker 10: I do have a couple of milk cows on the place.
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  Speaker 10: Hold stein in a Guernsey the real nice too, Just
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  Speaker 10: that I was said, darn lawns, and I kind of
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  Speaker 10: thought this might be a way to meet some nice gal.
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  Speaker 10: I didn't mean the harm. You can see that, can't you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, sir, I guess so, well, if you'd mind taking
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  Speaker 4: a ride with.
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  Speaker 10: Us, and well I should say, not always happy to
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  Speaker 10: go along with the law.
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  Speaker 4: Well you figured to go to I'd like you to
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  Speaker 4: meet somebody.
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  Speaker 10: Well, now that's right, nice, I got some gal you'd
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  Speaker 10: like me to meet him?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I thought, exactly, that's it.
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  Speaker 10: Well, it don't matter none. I got nothing to do anyhow,
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  Speaker 10: just sitting here wondering if I get into replies for
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  Speaker 10: the ad.
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  Speaker 4: All right, sir, you wouldn't mind. Let's go, not at all.
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  Speaker 4: I'll get my hat.
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  Speaker 10: Don't hard to feel conspicuous, and it's had it all?
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  Speaker 4: Was that right? Yep?
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  Speaker 10: Kind of thought people might make something of it, but hardly.
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  Speaker 4: Even notice it.
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  Speaker 10: Had two little kids come up today ask from autograph
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  Speaker 10: just that figured out.
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  Speaker 4: As the movie star.
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  Speaker 10: Made him feel real good too. Then I wrote my
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  Speaker 10: name for him. They didn't know who it was.
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  Speaker 9: That didn't make no mind to him.
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  Speaker 10: They just thanked me, went on about the business that
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  Speaker 10: nice little folks.
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  Speaker 4: Who was you know? Well, let's go, sure, real.
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  Speaker 10: Nice people here in La real nice. Haven't met a
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  Speaker 10: Baton yet.
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  Speaker 4: Well you haven't been here long.
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  Speaker 6: We got him five point forty pm.
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  Speaker 4: We drove Thomas Cornan downtown and.
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  Speaker 6: Had a cargo out and pick up Miss Towns while
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  Speaker 6: we talked to Conan from the interrogation room, she walked
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  Speaker 6: by the open door and looked in at the suspect.
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  Speaker 4: She told us that he was not the man who's
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  Speaker 4: victimized it.
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  Speaker 6: She was returned to her home, and after Cornan had
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  Speaker 6: been checked THROUGHY and I, he was released. Next morning,
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  Speaker 6: Frank and I ran down a tip from an informant,
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  Speaker 6: but it let us know where ten eighteen am. We
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  Speaker 6: checked back into the office. You get the latest bulletin
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  Speaker 6: from San Francisco, Jo, Yeah, I looked it over this morning.
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  Speaker 6: He checked out the hotel Benmon was staying at.
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  Speaker 4: He checked out of there.
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  Speaker 6: They haven't seen him since well, I mean it's probably
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  Speaker 6: back here in town, well for years.
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  Speaker 4: We should start hearing about him again. But he said,
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  Speaker 4: I'll get a funk o Friday. Whop.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yes, ma'am. Yes that's Terrence. I remember. Yes, Now
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  Speaker 6: where was that? Would you give me that again?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am? Or eight fine? Uh huh, Yes, that's right man.
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  Speaker 6: We'll get in touch with you. Bye, Thank you very much, bye, Grace.
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  Speaker 4: Terrence. Yeah, she just saw benfon Park went into an
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  Speaker 4: apartment out.
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  Speaker 6: On Vine Street. Ten forty one am. Frank and I
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  Speaker 6: got to the apartment house on Vine Street. We talked
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  Speaker 6: to the landlord and he told us that a man
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  Speaker 6: answering the suspects description was registered in apartment four B.
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  Speaker 6: He was registered under the name Jonathan Benson. He told
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  Speaker 6: us that this Benson had just moved in and paid
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  Speaker 6: his first month's.
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  Speaker 4: Rent in the him.
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  Speaker 6: He said that he was just going to be in
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  Speaker 6: town for a short time, and then in the event
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  Speaker 6: that he moved out before his month was up, he
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  Speaker 6: expected no refund. Frank and I went up to the
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  Speaker 6: fourth floor and knocked on the door. Yeah you're Jonathan Benson.
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  Speaker 4: Who are you? Police officers want to talk to you.
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  Speaker 4: What about why? It'd be better if we talked inside.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe I don't want it all right?
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  Speaker 4: How mutter? You get your hat? We want to talk
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  Speaker 4: to you downtown. What for long? Gets your hat?
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  Speaker 9: Just a minute? I think maybe there's been some kind
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  Speaker 9: of mistake here. Just tell me exactly what it is
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  Speaker 9: you're looking for. I'm sure we can work.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, mister quit stalin, get your hat with you.
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  Speaker 9: Come on in, I'll get my hat.
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  Speaker 4: I'll get it for you. And there's father. Yeah, they're gravely.
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  Speaker 9: Are you sure you got the right man.
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  Speaker 4: Looks that way. No way to work this out? What
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  Speaker 4: do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 9: I don't even know why you want me to go
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  Speaker 9: with you. It seems you could fill me in on that.
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  Speaker 4: It's got some people we'd like to have you meet.
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  Speaker 4: Oh you'll see when we get there. Here's your hat.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, let's go, guy.
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  Speaker 9: Sure, thank you have the good stop though, coming in
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  Speaker 9: here dragging a private citizen out of his house.
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  Speaker 4: You haven't known anything wrung, You got nothing worry about that.
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  Speaker 9: That's not the point. I don't like it. Coming in
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  Speaker 9: here and take me downtown so a lot of stupid
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  Speaker 9: old broads can look at me.
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  Speaker 4: Who said we wanted women to look at you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Did no? We said we want you to meet some people.
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  Speaker 9: Listen, misunderstood?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess you didn't.
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  Speaker 9: No way we can work this out.
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  Speaker 4: There's no way.
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  Speaker 9: And then come on, oh just a minute. I want
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  Speaker 9: to be sure I got my key. I don't want
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  Speaker 9: to be locked out.
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  Speaker 6: Don't worry about it. What do you mean you might
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  Speaker 6: not be coming back? Frank and I took Jonathan Benson downtown.
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  Speaker 6: We ran him through R and I, but we got
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  Speaker 6: no identification. His fingerprints were rolled and checked, but they
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  Speaker 6: didn't make it. MS Terrence was called and asked to
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  Speaker 6: come down to the city Hall to try to identify
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  Speaker 6: the suspect.
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  Speaker 4: Two point thirty pm. We took him to the interrogation room.
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  Speaker 4: You ever use the name Benton?
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 4: You sure? Yeah? Have you ever used the other alias?
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  Speaker 9: Why shout it?
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  Speaker 4: You tell us? Now?
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  Speaker 9: Look, why don't you come off there? Tell me what
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  Speaker 9: this is all about.
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  Speaker 4: You told us he just got into town. Is that right? Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: I've been here about a week.
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  Speaker 4: Where'd you come from?
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  Speaker 9: Up Nor?
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  Speaker 4: Where?
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  Speaker 10: Up Nor?
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  Speaker 4: San Francisco? To live up there?
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  Speaker 9: Do you most of the time? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Most of the time? What does that mean?
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  Speaker 9: Just that most of the time I live in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 9: That hard for you guys to understand.
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  Speaker 4: I'm want to work you in the salesman? Then what
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  Speaker 4: do you sell? Whatever?
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  Speaker 9: People want to buy?
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  Speaker 4: What do you sell them now?
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  Speaker 9: Nothing?
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  Speaker 4: Right now?
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  Speaker 9: That's why I'm here.
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: I'm looking for a deal. You know a woman named
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: Terrence Grace? Terrence?
• 15:06
  Speaker 9: I don't think so.
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: My why we'd like to know?
• 15:10
  Speaker 9: Hey, maybe I'm wrong about all of this, but it
• 15:12
  Speaker 9: seems to me that I had to be booked, that
• 15:13
  Speaker 9: you had to let me go. They changed that law.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: Now that law is still good, and let's.
• 15:16
  Speaker 9: Stop hoisting around. I've got a lot of things I
• 15:18
  Speaker 9: want to do. Fill me in on this, and then
• 15:20
  Speaker 9: let me out of here.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: It's been a confidence man working in the LA area,
• 15:23
  Speaker 6: been taking money from women. Gives him a big pitch
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: about wanting to marry him. Then he hits him up
• 15:26
  Speaker 6: one hundred bucks and leaves him.
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: Sounds like a good wreck. He's taking a lot of
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: money from people who haven't got it to spare. And
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: I say, I said, tough one off. We'd say you're road.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: Where you look at it?
• 15:35
  Speaker 9: Where do I fit into this little fantasy?
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: You look good for the guy who's been pulling the
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: deal me. That's right.
• 15:41
  Speaker 9: You guys have flipping description matches, so I look like
• 15:44
  Speaker 9: another guy.
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: Everything else about your checks out, so you figure you've
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: made for the jobs.
• 15:48
  Speaker 9: That's what we figure. Which way is a gas chamber?
• 15:51
  Speaker 9: Come off it, fellas. You guys know you're trying to
• 15:54
  Speaker 9: hang a bad rap on me. You know it, and
• 15:55
  Speaker 9: so do I. Now let's call a whole thing off.
• 15:57
  Speaker 9: I can get out of here and you can get
• 15:58
  Speaker 9: to the peanut.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: I'll get it.
• 16:03
  Speaker 8: Heads.
• 16:04
  Speaker 11: They kill me if you can, kid, I know, Jonathan,
• 16:14
  Speaker 11: what why'd you do it? Jonas?
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: Why if you wanted the money, you could have asked
• 16:21
  Speaker 8: for it. I'd have given it to you. Didn't have
• 16:24
  Speaker 8: to lie about what you saw.
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: Place is full of amilone's.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: Is this the man? Miss Terrence?
• 16:29
  Speaker 11: Yes?
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: All right, how about it? Benson?
• 16:32
  Speaker 9: I don't know what she's talking about?
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: What just bit?
• 16:34
  Speaker 10: Where?
• 16:34
  Speaker 9: That's him? Liney's jumping all right down?
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: Benson might have had enough of that, and now come
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: off with You've just been identified. We've got a lot
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: more of them that we can have here. I think
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: they'll identify you too.
• 16:43
  Speaker 9: Why I'll get her out of here. One thing I
• 16:46
  Speaker 9: can't stand as a woman balling. Something comes along. I
• 16:49
  Speaker 9: can't figure out right away they got a ball? Anything
• 16:51
  Speaker 9: comes along. They got to cry and sick of it?
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: All right, man, maybe it'd be better if you waited
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: in our office.
• 16:58
  Speaker 11: Yes, sir, you know why he did it.
• 17:01
  Speaker 8: Why he took this way.
• 17:02
  Speaker 11: To get some money.
• 17:03
  Speaker 9: I took this way because it was the easy way.
• 17:05
  Speaker 9: Your broad's are all alike, every last one of you.
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: Let me get a few things straight.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: First.
• 17:09
  Speaker 9: You say I took a hundred dollars from you?
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Is that right?
• 17:11
  Speaker 10: Yeah?
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 17:13
  Speaker 9: I want you to think about this and think real careful.
• 17:15
  Speaker 9: Didn't I say that I wanted to borrow the money?
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: Isn't that what I said?
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Borrow?
• 17:19
  Speaker 11: Yes, that's what you say.
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: Did I say that i'd pay the money back in
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: any certain time?
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: Well, you think real good, you'll remember that I didn't.
• 17:25
  Speaker 9: I just said that i'd pay you back. That's all
• 17:27
  Speaker 9: I didn't say.
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: When I don't, I don't care.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: There you are and.
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: Any trying to borrow money from a friend. I borrow
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: the money from her. I'll pay it back.
• 17:35
  Speaker 11: You said you wanted to marry me. You said you loved.
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: Oh, come off it, Sarah. You got no beat, you
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: got the soft light in the romantic music, you got
• 17:42
  Speaker 9: it all. Look at you. Take a good luck. Who'd
• 17:46
  Speaker 9: want to marry you?
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Heard?
• 17:48
  Speaker 9: Just a minute? Here, here's a hundred bucks I borrowed.
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: I want to pay you back. I got one hundred
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: dollars worth of last from you. That much easy, here's
• 17:56
  Speaker 9: your dough. I go home and have a good cry.
• 17:58
  Speaker 9: I wouldn't marry you if you were the last woman
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: on her. That's enough of that Benson, you're not just kidding.
• 18:02
  Speaker 9: It's old harpy with romantic ideas.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Put a laugh.
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: She thinks anybody want to marry her, and she's a
• 18:07
  Speaker 9: looney too.
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: I didn't think anybody could be this meme. I didn't
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: think anyone could be this crewe.
• 18:15
  Speaker 9: I don't believe you got no choice. You know it
• 18:18
  Speaker 9: all along? Thanks for the laughs.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Come on, miss tered, you.
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: Imagine that that old bag really thinking that marry.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, real laugh.
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: Well, anyway, she got a go back. I said i'd
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: pay her back. I did you check with the rest
• 18:35
  Speaker 9: of them. I'll tell you the same thing. I borrowed
• 18:37
  Speaker 9: the money. It's all. I can't help it. If I
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: thought something out, I can't help it. Count Come on,
• 18:42
  Speaker 9: let's get this over with. I want to get out
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: of here.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: You know you look upset.
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: Kuh oh. It won't prove anything.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: It's a way they got something for you.
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: Benson is right.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, someplace sometimes you're gonna make a mistake, that's right. Yeah,
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: And when you do, we're gonna lean on you, and
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: we're gonna lean hard.
• 19:06
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• 19:09
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• 20:02
  Speaker 6: We had twelve of the victims of the confidence Man
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: look at Benson. All of them gave a positive identification,
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: but verified his story that he borrowed the money from them.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: Four to twenty five PM, Frank and I got in
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: touch with the District Attorney's office and talked with them.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: What Benson had said was true. In borrowing the money
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: or in saying he was borrowing it, he'd committed no violation.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Of the law. We had to release him from custody.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: A month passed.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: During that time, we'd heard nothing more from the suspect.
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: He'd stopped working the dodge in the Los Angeles area.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: We contacted the San Francisco authorities and informed them of
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: what had happened, and they said that they'd be on
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: the lookout for Benson. During the next two weeks, Frank
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: and I worked on a ring of bunko waters that
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: were working in the obituary columns.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: On June sixteenth, we.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: Got a call from Burgery Division that they'd gotten a
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: report of a theft and talking to the victim, they'd
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: gotten the name Jack Bentley. They checked the files on
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: him and found that it could be Jonathan Benson. The
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: victim of Miss Betty Lindsay came to our office to
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: talk to us.
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: I don't know why they thought that I should see you.
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: It's just a plain theft.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: The officers in Burgery said that they thought we might
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: be interested in the thief. Miss Lindsay tell us about him.
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: Lousy crumb.
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: This guy's a real schnook, schnuck of the first water.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: That's man. What's his name for?
• 21:06
  Speaker 8: He called himself Bentley?
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: Jack Bentley?
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Bumm? What do you look like? Miss Lindsey?
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: Tall blonde, had a nice looking guy who went for
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: the tide.
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: I did. Now I got troubles.
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: Oh, I'm no good.
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: Bum What if you take a look at some of
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: the pictures we've got here, see if he's in these.
• 21:21
  Speaker 11: Sure, I'd like to see you again him.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Where the picture, Frank, did you get him? Please? Yeah?
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Where'd you meet this ben Lea? Do you remember?
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: Well, I'm sort of the hostess of the place downtown
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: was about fifth Anyway, about two or three weeks ago
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: that Schnuck comes in, orders a couple of drinks and leave.
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: Next night he's back again. Oh, he was a cagey one.
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: Didn't work too fast, like about a week to make
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: the pitch. Then he asked me out to dinner.
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: Well, always seemed kind nice, so I told him I'd go.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Here are the pictures, ma'am. If you just take a
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: look through him and see if there's one of Bentley
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: in there?
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I see, No, m kid.
• 22:00
  Speaker 11: What he wanted for?
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: Oh?
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: He works the casualty racket.
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: What's this?
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: Gets the names of people that the diet tells their
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: families if they ordered some stuff, what kind of stuff, old.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Pen and pencil sets, watches, cheap things, charges a lot
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: of money for him.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: Most of the people figure that it's one of the
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: last things I loved ones wanted, so they pay the prices.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: The stuff's worthless. Well, I'll be a racket.
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: It's a nice looking guy too, so honest.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Man, that's why it works.
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I suppose so.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Well, let me see.
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: No, this was not hemn't say.
• 22:28
  Speaker 10: Wait a minute, yeah that's him.
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: Ooh, what are mudnicks?
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Ma'am?
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: A mudnick, a real bum. But that's him.
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: I'm sure of its.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you mean you know this guy, yes, ma'am. What
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: if he tells exactly what happened?
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: Sure like I was telling you this guy Benson, Yes, ma'am,
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: that's right, Jonathan Benson.
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: Well, anyway, he asked me out to dinner. I told
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: him i'd go. It looked like it was pretty well fixed.
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: I think it wouldn't do no harm. Oh see, I
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: don't get out till twelve thirty, and there ain't many
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: places nice places open at the back. But I said, yeah,
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: told me picked me up. He got the club about
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: ten o'clock, said that he'd gotten through with whatever it
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: was he was doing that. He came back to see
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: if he could use my apartment to freshen up a bit.
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: Freshen up a bit, boy, I went away to heist
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: the place.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Oh what go ahead, and then well, I gave.
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: Him the key of the place.
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: He said that he'd stop at a drug store and
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: pick up a razor and shave and wash his face,
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: and he'd be back to pick me up. The lafe
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: iver saw them walked off with a fur coat. I
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: had say for three years for that coat cost me
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: nine hundred bucks.
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: And he took a ring.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: Word about one hundred and fifty diamonds belong to my mother.
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: Sure could get him, nail him good?
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Yes, oh, Nick.
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: We continued to question Betty Lindsey. She gave us the
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: name of one of Benson's friends. We checked on him
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: and he gave us the name of a girl who
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: knew the suspect. We talked to her and she was
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: able to give us Benson's address. It was a rooming
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: house on Franklin Avenue in the Hollywood area. Six forty
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: seven pm. Frank and I went up to his room.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, come on in.
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: Should have kept my mouth shut. What do you guys want?
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: We want to talk you downtown Benson.
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: We are not going to get on that merry go
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: round again. We are getting tired of this whole deal.
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: What are you guys trying to tire me this time.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: We didn't have to do it, Benson. You took care
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: of that yourself. Right, You made a mistake.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: What is it this time?
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: You figure I took some candy away from a blind night?
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Kill on Benson, let's go.
• 24:21
  Speaker 9: You're gonna arrest me this time? Or am I going
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: as a favorite this time?
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: It's on us?
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: You mean we're playing for keeps now?
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah? What's the charge? Grand fest? Your kid? No? I
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: really believe you're serious. That's right, you call it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: This is going to be interesting. If you can't prove it,
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: I'm going to own city Hall and the first thing
• 24:38
  Speaker 9: I'm going to do is fire you too. You know that,
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: don't you. Well we'll take that chance, all right, But
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: don't say I didn't warn you. You know, someday I'm
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: going to write a book, call it some of my
• 24:46
  Speaker 9: best friends at cop Yeah, you do that, I will.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: You'll have the time. We took the suspect downtown. We
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: talked over over an hour, but he did admitt nothing.
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: Without being able to produce the stolen articles, case should
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: be difficult to prosecute. We had Benson take everything out
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: of his pockets. Among these personal effects, we found a
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: key to a locker in the subway terminal. Two men
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: from Bunco Division took the key and went down to
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: the terminal. They recovered a locked suitcase and brought it
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: back to the squad room where we were questioning Benson.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: How about it, Benson, that's yours.
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: I never saw it before in my life.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: It's locked. You got a key to dispenser.
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: I told you it wasn't mine. What more can I say?
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: I see those keys there, I don't think yeah here.
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: I don't know what this is all going to prove.
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: I told you the suitcase isn't mine.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that figures. That's how come the keys fit? Huh?
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Cheap suitcase? A lot of the keys double, is that right?
• 25:34
  Speaker 9: Sure are lots of times I lost the key for
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: one suitcase, used the key from another one.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: Dolment they ever find one of these in the case.
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: I never saw that for a coat in my life.
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: I haven't got the slightest idea how it got there.
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: I want to talk to a lawyer.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: You getting kind of jumping at you, Benson.
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: Sure, I don't mind him many. I told you I
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: got no idea where that code came from. But I
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: know you guys aren't going to believe it. You're about
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: to get me, you said, so, you're going to.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Try everything you can do with it. You want to
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: tell us about it?
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: Now, nothing to tell I don't know nothing about it.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: You don't ever give up to you.
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: I don't know what you're talking about.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: I want to see a lawyer. All right, we'll fix it.
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: So you can put that call in. We got the
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: owner of this coat on the way down here. She's
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: going to identify him and that's all we need. Now
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: you just sit there and keep your mouth shut with you.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Okay, Bucko Smith? What's that?
• 26:18
  Speaker 10: Oh?
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, sure, I remember you did. Huh h, Well
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: that's wow. Glad to hear it. I wouldn't know. I'm
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: not much of an authority. I guess.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: Her name's what, Yeah, it's a nice name. Well, I'll
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: be glad to tell him. I'm sure he'll be pleased.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Thanks very much for calling. When are you leaving? I see? Okay?
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: Thanks a lot by anything. Yes, that kid from Texas?
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: You know that's Thomas Conant. Oh yeah, I mean the
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: cattle man.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, got an answer to his ad? Is that right? Yeah?
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Somebody call him up and he said that he made.
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: A real good deal for himself, and he's shipping her
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: back to Texas.
• 27:04
  Speaker 10: Well.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: You mean he found a girl, no, bought himself another Holstein.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: The story you have just heard was true. The names
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: were changed to protect the innocence.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: On October seventeenth, trial was held in Department eighty seven,
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: Superior Court of the State of California in and for
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: the County of Los Angeles.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: In a moment, the results of.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: That trial now here is our star, Jack Webb.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: Thank you, George Fenneman.
• 27:33
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• 27:34
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• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Chesterfield Jonathan Arthur Benson, alias Jack Bentley, was tried and
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: convicted of grand theft. He received sentence as prescribed by law.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: Grand theft is punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: for not less than one nor more than ten years.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: You have just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases
• 28:22
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