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Dragnet: The Big Sorrow (EP4934) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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  Speaker 1: Now from December twenty seventh, nineteen fifty one, here is
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  Speaker 1: the big sorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, The makers of Fatima Cigarettes and the
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  Speaker 2: entire cast and crew and technicians of Dragnet respectfully dedicate
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  Speaker 2: tonight's program to the memory of Barton Yarborough, who created
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  Speaker 2: and portrayed the role of Sergeant Ben Romero.
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  Speaker 3: The story you were about to hear is true. The
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  Speaker 3: names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
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  Speaker 3: detective sergeant. They're assigned a robbery details. Two convicts escape
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  Speaker 3: from a nearby state penitentiary in the early morning. According
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  Speaker 3: to reports, they're heading for your city. They're both armed,
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  Speaker 3: they're both dangerous. Your jobs get them.
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  Speaker 4: Drag Man the documented drama of an actual crime. While
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  Speaker 4: the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 4: Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
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  Speaker 4: side of the law through an actual case. Transcribed from
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  Speaker 4: official police violence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment,
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 2: It was Saturday, April twenty fourth. It was hot in
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles. We are working the day watch out of
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  Speaker 2: robbery detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Didion.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Friday.
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  Speaker 5: It was five minutes past eight am when I got
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  Speaker 5: the room, twenty seven.
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  Speaker 6: A robbery detail worn Joe, Hi.
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  Speaker 2: Crowley, how's it working out?
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  Speaker 5: Any more?
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  Speaker 7: Word in the escape for isn't it nothing this morning?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 6: Captain likes seeing Joe.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, Ben check in yet?
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  Speaker 5: No get a little late? Yes, he was held up.
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  Speaker 6: Huh Captain want to see it right away?
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  Speaker 9: Some bad minutes?
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  Speaker 5: Joe, Oh, what's matter?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe it'd be better if.
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  Speaker 5: You don't do all right?
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  Speaker 7: Oh morning Joe, Hi, do you want to see me? Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Good money, it's good.
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  Speaker 6: N Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Got some bad news, Joe, real bad for what's a mina?
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  Speaker 10: I know how much it means. I wish I didn't
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  Speaker 10: have to be the one.
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  Speaker 7: To tell you.
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  Speaker 5: But tell me what.
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  Speaker 7: Sorry, Joe, it's about the Ben. Something's happening Ben.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what do you mean?
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  Speaker 10: We were going to find him out it early this morning.
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  Speaker 10: I thought about calling him.
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  Speaker 7: Figure it'd be better if I told you in person.
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  Speaker 5: But what's the matter of Ben?
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  Speaker 8: Sir?
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  Speaker 7: He's dead Joe been dead early this morning?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah? Sorry?
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  Speaker 10: Heart attack happened a little after six o'clock this morning.
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  Speaker 10: No got out of bed, started dressing and go to work.
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  Speaker 10: Went downstairs to put a pot of coffee on make
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  Speaker 10: some toast. Wife heard him fall. She went downstairs and
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  Speaker 10: found him already dead.
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  Speaker 7: Went fast.
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  Speaker 5: Ook. I don't get this.
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  Speaker 7: It couldn't be sorry, Joe means a lot to all
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  Speaker 7: of us.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well I still don't yet it. Ben didn't have
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  Speaker 5: any trouble with his heart. He never mentioned anything about it.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, maybe that was the trouble? Was his heart all right?
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  Speaker 10: When his wife found him. She called the doctor in
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  Speaker 10: the fire department rescue squad. They worked over him for
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  Speaker 10: an hour, no years, and his wife called me not
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  Speaker 10: to tear your heart out.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't believe it what you say.
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  Speaker 10: Actually didn't break up, too shocked to realize that, I guess,
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  Speaker 10: sounded apologetic that I'm sorry, captain, this is missus Romero.
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  Speaker 10: Ben died this morning. I thought you ought to know
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  Speaker 10: Ben's dead.
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  Speaker 5: That's terrible. It's a lousy shame.
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  Speaker 10: Kept saying the same thing over again, I'm sorry, Ben's dead.
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  Speaker 10: I thought you ought to know Ben's dead. Yeah, Joe
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  Speaker 10: White had and I went out there right away, tried
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  Speaker 10: to talk to her. It wasn't much.
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  Speaker 5: You excuse me, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you were with him a long time.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, eleven years day I came on the job. They
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  Speaker 11: assigned me as his partner. You know, this is a
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  Speaker 11: tough one. It's hard to believe. It's tougher on his wife.
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  Speaker 11: That's all right with you. I'd like to go see her,
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  Speaker 11: all right. I wish I could give you the day off, Joe.
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  Speaker 11: I know what it means to you. You just get
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  Speaker 11: convict thing. I just can't spare you. Yeah, that's all right,
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  Speaker 11: I just soon worked.
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  Speaker 12: I figured out to talk to Amy though, might help
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  Speaker 12: to take the edge off as the four video.
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  Speaker 10: Sure man, Joe, Yeah, I know what it is. I've
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  Speaker 10: been on the job nineteen years, lost two partners, good cops.
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  Speaker 10: One of them was killed in the line of duty.
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  Speaker 10: The other one worked at his job until he dropped.
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  Speaker 10: It's the same thing, Joe. In my book, they both
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  Speaker 10: rate medals.
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  Speaker 2: I left the office and went down on the elevator alone.
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  Speaker 2: I got in the car, and I started over for
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  Speaker 2: Ben's place. I thought about what I was going to
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  Speaker 2: say to his wife.
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  Speaker 5: I thought about his little boy. I thought about Ben.
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  Speaker 2: Eleven years I'd been working as a cop, and all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, it wasn't the same anymore. I thought
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  Speaker 2: about the first day I met Ben I was a rookie.
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  Speaker 2: I remembered what he taught me about being a cop.
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  Speaker 5: I thought about how much I owed him.
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  Speaker 2: I thought about the thousands of cops just like him
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  Speaker 2: all over the country, the ones that came before us,
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  Speaker 2: the ones that'll take our place.
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  Speaker 5: I thought about their.
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  Speaker 2: Lives, and their homes and their families, what they meant,
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  Speaker 2: what their jobs meant.
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  Speaker 5: I thought about Ben eleven years.
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  Speaker 2: Stakouts, the early morning watch, interrogations, office duty. You could
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  Speaker 2: cover it in volumes, or you could write on the
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  Speaker 2: back of an envelope. He was a good cop and
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  Speaker 2: he was a good friend. There wasn't much else to say.
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  Speaker 2: It was a big loss.
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  Speaker 5: I stayed at Ben's house for about an hour talking
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  Speaker 5: to his wife.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Whitehead from the medical detail was there. All things considered,
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  Speaker 2: she seemed to be taking it fairly well. I told
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  Speaker 2: her I'd drop around later in the day, and then
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  Speaker 2: I checked back in at the office for work. Temporarily,
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  Speaker 2: Sergeant Ed Jacobs was assigned to work with me. The
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  Speaker 2: big problem at the moment was a pair of escaped convicts.
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  Speaker 2: Jacobs and I drove out to run down on a
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  Speaker 2: possible lead eleven o five am. We got to the
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  Speaker 2: address listed the Cathedral of Saint Augustine.
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  Speaker 5: We checked in at the rectory and then we went
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  Speaker 5: around to the church.
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  Speaker 13: Go ahead, Okay, I'm sure a beautiful church, isn't it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a nice choir, isn't it.
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  Speaker 8: What if they're holding services?
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  Speaker 5: No, whole choir is probably just practice. You'll see the
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  Speaker 5: priest on anywhere. Ed.
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  Speaker 14: Well, yeah, someone over by the side all today looks
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  Speaker 14: like the padre.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, easter Hamles sure pretty hard the yeah, sure, it
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  Speaker 12: really takes me back.
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  Speaker 8: You never believe it to what's that?
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  Speaker 5: He used to be a boy?
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  Speaker 8: Tendor?
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  Speaker 5: Or excuse me?
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  Speaker 8: Please?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Are you father? Newman's right?
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  Speaker 9: Can I help him?
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  Speaker 2: Police officer's father? I see, this is my partner, Sergeant Jacob's.
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  Speaker 2: Mine name was Friday.
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  Speaker 14: I'll foll housekeeper over directly told us we could find
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  Speaker 14: you here. I'd like to talk to you for a
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  Speaker 14: few minutes if you got the time.
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  Speaker 10: Father, Let's see, I have confessions starting at three o'clock.
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  Speaker 10: Leave me about ten minutes. What was it about Sagan?
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  Speaker 5: Well, we're inquiring about a Stanley Blair. Father. We understand
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  Speaker 5: that you knew him fairly well, oh.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, if I knew. Matter of fact, I read about
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  Speaker 10: him in the paper this morning. Trouble he's in. Is
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  Speaker 10: that what you wanted to talk about?
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  Speaker 14: Yes, that's right. We're making a check of all his
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  Speaker 14: known friends as relatives.
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  Speaker 10: Very unfortunate, isn't it. Did the newspapers have the story correct?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I'm afraid so. Yeah.
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  Speaker 14: I wonder if we could step outside of father, we
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  Speaker 14: could talk out there without disturbing anyone in church.
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  Speaker 5: Truly sorry, please kill.
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  Speaker 10: Certainly a tragedy, I mean happening at Easter time. I'll
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  Speaker 10: remember the boy in my mask tomorrow. Lord knows he can.
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  Speaker 5: Use some prayers, yes, sir, I guess he can.
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  Speaker 9: Here we are bench there could carried us down, sir.
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  Speaker 5: That's all right.
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  Speaker 10: The newspapers weren't too specific. How did he manage to
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  Speaker 10: escape the way he did? I always thought state penitentiaries
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  Speaker 10: were well guarded.
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  Speaker 14: Apparently Blair was one of the trusted prisoners. It's a
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  Speaker 14: minimum security prisoner to begin with, Father.
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  Speaker 10: I see, I suppose Blair and the man he escaped
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  Speaker 10: with thought about it. A good deal, according to the paper,
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  Speaker 10: and as well planned. When did they get away last night?
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  Speaker 14: It was this morning, prison official figure about two am
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  Speaker 14: slugged the guard and went over the wall.
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  Speaker 8: Some other.
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  Speaker 14: Two of them got hold of a gun, held up
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  Speaker 14: a motorist on the highway store his car. As last
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  Speaker 14: reportment hand terrible?
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  Speaker 9: Did the police considered them dangerous?
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  Speaker 5: Their arm? Father?
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  Speaker 2: Both of them were doing time for robbery. They both
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  Speaker 2: used guns before. How about possible contacts he might have outthound?
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  Speaker 5: Father? Can you help us there at all?
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  Speaker 10: I'm I prayed, not, Sergeant. I think stan knew some
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  Speaker 10: people in San Francisco. I don't know their names or addresses, though,
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  Speaker 10: I haven't any idea, And.
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  Speaker 2: There's no special person or place that you know of
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  Speaker 2: that he'd be likely to go if he heads back
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  Speaker 2: for Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 10: No, no, I can think of. You imagine he'd be
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  Speaker 10: likely to come back here.
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  Speaker 8: We're not sure.
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  Speaker 14: Last report we had seemed to indicate Blairin's partner. We're
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  Speaker 14: heading this way. Prison's only about forty miles away. Could
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  Speaker 14: be there in the city.
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  Speaker 9: Now, I don't understand.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, with all the police looking for them, why
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  Speaker 10: would they come back here.
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  Speaker 2: They probably figured they can find cover a lot easier
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  Speaker 2: than they could in some of the small towns.
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  Speaker 10: H Sergeant, Yeah, father, do you think they'll have trouble
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  Speaker 10: taking stand?
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  Speaker 9: I mean, can they take him alive?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll try our best to make it that way.
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  Speaker 2: It's like I told you, father, he's got a gun.
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  Speaker 2: If he's cornered, there's a good chance he might try
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  Speaker 2: to shoot his way out.
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  Speaker 10: Discouraging sometimes I try to help them. I pray for them,
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  Speaker 10: young thieves. I only hope they're all as lucky as
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  Speaker 10: as he was.
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  Speaker 8: How's that it?
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  Speaker 7: The grotto back there in the garden figure of a
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  Speaker 7: man in it.
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, the statue of Disma's one of the luckiest men
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  Speaker 10: who ever lived. I like to tell fellows like Stan
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  Speaker 10: about him.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think I understand. Father.
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  Speaker 10: You know the story of the crucifixion. The two men
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  Speaker 10: who were crucified with Christ.
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  Speaker 8: They were both thieves.
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  Speaker 10: A few minutes before he died, one of the thieves
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  Speaker 10: turned to Christ on the cross, confessed his crimes, asked
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  Speaker 10: our Lord to remember him. Christ told him this day
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  Speaker 10: he'll be with me in Paradise. The man's name was Disma.
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  Speaker 10: We like to call him the good Thief. I told
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  Speaker 10: Stan about it right here in his courtyard. He should
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  Speaker 10: have remembered it. Yeah, I guess so. I told him,
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  Speaker 10: you never give up hope. He can make the grade
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  Speaker 10: in the last five minutes of your life. Stand out
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  Speaker 10: of no better or to remember, sir, the good Thief.
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  Speaker 10: He made it with a prayer, not to the gun
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  Speaker 10: in his hand.
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  Speaker 2: Before we left, Father Newman, we gave him our card,
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  Speaker 2: and he gave us a list of eight names and
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  Speaker 2: addresses people in the neighborhood who'd known the escaped convict
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  Speaker 2: Stanley Blair before he was sentenced to the State penitentiary
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  Speaker 2: to serve time on his robbery conviction. Three point fifteen
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  Speaker 2: pm we met with Sergeants Max Herman and J. E.
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  Speaker 2: Crowley from robbery Detail. We divided the list of names
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  Speaker 2: in half and we began checking him out. Ed and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have much luck on our and most of
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  Speaker 2: the people we talked to told us that they knew
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  Speaker 2: Stanley Blair, but none of them had seen heard from
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  Speaker 2: him or knew anything about his activities or his family
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  Speaker 2: since Blair had gone to prison two and a half
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  Speaker 2: years before. Steakhouts were set up at two of the
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  Speaker 2: hottest places. Five twenty pm. ED and I went back
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  Speaker 2: to the office. Crowley was waiting for us.
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  Speaker 15: No no luck on our Indeed, the same thing I
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  Speaker 15: say heard Edvan was when he was set up.
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  Speaker 8: Just finishers at any lately, pats.
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  Speaker 6: It all yees teletype from the Sheriff's office.
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  Speaker 15: It was waiting here When Max and I got back,
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  Speaker 15: I guess Sir Hunt was right.
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  Speaker 6: Looks like they headed this way.
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  Speaker 5: Well, how do you mean somebody spot them?
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  Speaker 15: This is side of West COVENA hell up a grocery
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  Speaker 15: store slugged. The owner got twenty three dollars and forty cents.
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  Speaker 15: Not going to take them far.
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  Speaker 5: Descriptions match out, yeah, perfectly.
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  Speaker 15: Suspects believed to be two prisoners who escaped this day
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  Speaker 15: from the California Institution from Manchino, Stanley AR Blair, Wesley A.
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  Speaker 6: Russell something else.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: At grocery store they knocked over.
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  Speaker 15: They picked up another gun. The owners description serial numbers
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  Speaker 15: on it. Here has twenty rounds of ammunition too supplementary
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  Speaker 15: apb's already.
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  Speaker 9: Out on it.
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  Speaker 15: How about a car they switch over? Y, Yeah, we
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  Speaker 15: don't know about it. Apparently they're still using the Buick coop.
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  Speaker 15: They took them at motors this morning. No reports on it,
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  Speaker 15: though it's.
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  Speaker 5: A queer one. You think somebody'd spot it.
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  Speaker 15: They got the highway patrol working, this highway patrol, Sheriff's office,
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  Speaker 15: our department, everybody you can name.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, you had R and I Puller mug jest.
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  Speaker 14: Said, yeah, both of them. Blair and Russell are running out.
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  Speaker 14: The duplicates now five hundred of them should be about ready.
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  Speaker 14: Pretty good chet mm hmm, stand up mugs. Fairly recent
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  Speaker 14: I made the last time we had the two of
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  Speaker 14: them through here.
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  Speaker 2: How about that other list of their friends and relatives
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  Speaker 2: we pulled from their packages. The michaeleb were checking them out,
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  Speaker 2: weren't They.
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  Speaker 6: Probably still are.
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  Speaker 7: No word from him yet.
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  Speaker 6: How do you size it to them, Joe Blair and Russell.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's a tough combination. Russell's older, He's got the experience.
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  Speaker 2: Blair is younger, he's got the nerve. Anyway, you figure
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  Speaker 2: it's not going.
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  Speaker 6: To be easy.
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  Speaker 8: Guns in the ammunition they grabbed me and gonna help
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  Speaker 8: much either.
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  Speaker 5: Just the roadblocks are up, highway patrol take care of the.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, all said, working now.
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  Speaker 15: All our special details have been alert at airports, bus depots,
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  Speaker 15: train terminals, just about everything covered. Robbery Crowley, Yeah, my collage.
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  Speaker 15: You'll stay on it right see La mclem He and
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  Speaker 15: young are still checking on friends of Russell. It's on
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  Speaker 15: the places he hung out, any lots. Not from the
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  Speaker 15: end either, one of you see the captain on the way.
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  Speaker 8: No, I say he'd be over with the Sheriff's office,
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  Speaker 8: didn't he? Hotcha?
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  Speaker 2: I'll get it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: What as a.
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  Speaker 2: Clothing store out of North Thig two eleven and slugging.
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  Speaker 2: They're sure moving fast, Sam, you got it Blair and
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  Speaker 2: Russell five point fifty five pm. A supplementary broadcast and.
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  Speaker 5: An all points bulletin were gotten out.
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  Speaker 2: Immediately on the two escaped convicts. While Crowley and Hermann
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  Speaker 2: stood by at the office, Ed Jacobs and I picked
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  Speaker 2: up duplicate mug shots of the suspects and drove out
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  Speaker 2: to the scene of the robbery, a men's clothing store
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  Speaker 2: near the intersection of North Figueroa and merced We showed
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  Speaker 2: a group of mugshots to the victim and two witnesses,
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  Speaker 2: and they definitely identified Blair and Russell as the hold
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  Speaker 2: up men. The robbery had netted them less than twenty dollars.
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  Speaker 2: We relayed all the information we got back to communications
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  Speaker 2: immediately and another supplementary.
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  Speaker 5: Broadcast was gotten out on the two fugitives.
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  Speaker 2: An hour later, at seven o five pm, Blair and
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  Speaker 2: Russell hit again, this time at a sporting goods store
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  Speaker 2: in the San Fernando Valley. It netted them ninety four dollars,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: a thirty thirty hunting rifle and two hundred rounds of ammunition.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: According to the broadcast, they were last seen heading north.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Through the valley in the Buick Coup the original escape car.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Seven thirty eight pm Ed Jacobs and I got a
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: call to return to our station. We went back to
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: the city hall.
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: Got a hunch show. It's going to be a long
• 17:05
  Speaker 8: night and it's a rough one.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: Guns and ammunition. They want to make a stand. They're
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: all ready for it.
• 17:10
  Speaker 14: Can't see how they can go too fu at hot
• 17:12
  Speaker 14: car or roadblocks set up. Somebody's bond to stopping what
• 17:14
  Speaker 14: we're doing. All right, So go ahead, you know, Friday Jacobs, Yeah,
• 17:19
  Speaker 14: Cappan you want to send here.
• 17:21
  Speaker 8: Not for long. Keep your coats on.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: The rest of the men have already left.
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: What's the latest.
• 17:24
  Speaker 10: Yes, communication from the Ventura Sheriff's office. Blur and Russell
• 17:28
  Speaker 10: were spotted just across the county line. Sheriff figures they
• 17:30
  Speaker 10: got them boxed in. How close a lot of territory?
• 17:33
  Speaker 10: Twenty square mile circle? You say they got Blurr and
• 17:35
  Speaker 10: Russell tied down inside and they're on foot. We're sending
• 17:38
  Speaker 10: up men to help out her.
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: Two of them. Twenty square mile's gonna take a lot
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: of men.
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: If we need more, we'll get them. It's no easy touch.
• 17:44
  Speaker 10: They're desperate. You heard the latest? O. What's that last
• 17:47
  Speaker 10: place they hit in the valley? They serve Notice they're
• 17:49
  Speaker 10: not going to be taken alive, either one of them.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: That's good sales talk. What do they got to back
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: it up?
• 17:52
  Speaker 10: Three guns and a load of ammunition. If we want
• 17:55
  Speaker 10: to take them alive, they swear it'll cost us ten men.
• 17:57
  Speaker 10: They'll kill five cops apiece.
• 17:59
  Speaker 16: You any ideas, Yeah, let's make liars out of them.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: force and action.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Saturday, April twenty fourth, nine pm, along with Captain Dideon
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: and a dozen other men from Robbery Detail, Ed Jacobs
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: and I left the office and headed north up through
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: the San Fernando Valley.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: The area where the two escape.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Convicts were reportedly surrounded was just on the outskirts of
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Ventura County Line. On the way out, we stopped for
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: a minute and iPhone Ben's house. His wife had been
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: given a sedative and she was resting. Her folks were
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: with it. Ten fifteen pm we arrived at the meeting
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: point on the edge of the blockaded area from which
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: the search was being directed. Communication facilities had been set
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: up along with a field kitchen to feed the men
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: taking part in the hunt, over five hundred of them,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: from our office, the La Sheriff's Department, the State Highway Patrol,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: the Ventura Sheriff's Department, and a couple of dozen private
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: citizens who lived in the area. Together with Max Herman
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: and Crowley, Ed Jacobs and I took up our position
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: in the line of men that stretched north and east,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: then north again, circling the entire area, twenty square miles
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: of it. The line drew slowly inward twelve midnight, one am.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: No sign of the suspects. We stayed at it.
• 19:32
  Speaker 14: You get no idea the size of these hayfields till
• 19:35
  Speaker 14: you start hiking them.
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: Yeh.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Throw the light over there? What you add irrigation ditch
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: there right there at it? Yeah, it's okay.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: It's a long hike. I would you like to see
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: some of that hot coffee pretty soon?
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah? Same here? Nice setup they got.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I had a field kitchen, yeah, joy, Yeah, Hey.
• 20:00
  Speaker 12: You got the light.
• 20:03
  Speaker 17: Yeah we got it.
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: I want to stand up with flare worth.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: A clump of tree over this light It up good, okay, Crawley.
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: About a forty five degree angle. Joe had ought to
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: do it.
• 20:18
  Speaker 14: Huh yeah, okay, had ought to do it.
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: Really lights it up, doesn't it.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: You got any extra magnesium shells?
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Are right?
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah? One fight here? Here you are?
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Thanks?
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: There we go Friday at you?
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, cap over here?
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: I know he was beating the brush here anymore.
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: We're moving up three miles north.
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: How come Blarin Russell? They hit again, kidnapped an old
• 20:48
  Speaker 10: couple from a farmhouse.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: They're still on foot.
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: Yeah, as far as we know, they're hemmed in a
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: two square mile area. They may try to break out,
• 20:54
  Speaker 10: use the old couple for a shield, but where's that
• 20:56
  Speaker 10: leave us?
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: You think they'd harm the old couple.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: They kidnapped him their desk?
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: You figure it, am.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: All of the men in the search party were shifted
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: north to the area where the two escaped convicts and
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: their kidnap victims were last seen. Two officers were sent
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: to each farmhouse in the immediate neighborhood to make sure
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: that the suspects and their victims were not hit out
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: or that they were.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: Being held as hostages.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: The officers were ordered to remain at the homes in
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: the event that Blair and Russell might try to find
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: cover the searching party moved in slowly over the affected area.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: We knew for certain the suspects were still somewhere inside.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: Two point fifteen am, still no sign of them.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: The lines drew in closer two thirty am.
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: Can't be much longer, that's sure.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I can't understand it. We should have jumped
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: them by now.
• 21:48
  Speaker 14: It's only a few hundred feet to ago. As the
• 21:49
  Speaker 14: other line closing in toward us wander, they could have
• 21:52
  Speaker 14: slipped through beach me ed. Who's that coming?
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Can you see?
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah? It looked like Crowley. Yeah, Joe, Yeah, over here?
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: You got any word?
• 22:03
  Speaker 15: They found the old couple tied up in an irrigation
• 22:05
  Speaker 15: to a chaf a mile south of here. Say all right,
• 22:07
  Speaker 15: yeah they're okay, old ladies for a bad headlong she
• 22:10
  Speaker 15: got slugged.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: She and her husband have been taking the hospital.
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: How about blurring Russell?
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: No word?
• 22:15
  Speaker 15: She's heard the captain ask for the car with a
• 22:17
  Speaker 15: loud speaker. He's over there now with sheriff early and
• 22:19
  Speaker 15: they couldn't have gotten through the lines. They gotta be
• 22:21
  Speaker 15: around here somewhere.
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: Doesn't figure. We combed every foot of this neighborhood.
• 22:24
  Speaker 18: Attention all officers. Attention all officers, this is Captain Didion.
• 22:32
  Speaker 18: Returned to your posts immediately. The search has been canceled.
• 22:38
  Speaker 18: The search has been canceled.
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: How about that?
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: I don't know. Come on, let's find out.
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: Area is just getting out of the car.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Capt'n Yeah, what's the matter are we're giving it up?
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: No?
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: Maybe we've been going at it backwards. We've been trying
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: all night to jump in. Got a new idea, Yeah,
• 22:57
  Speaker 10: maybe we can make them jump us.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Two forty eight am, Captain Dideon and Sheriff Durley ordered
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: the men to return to the Sheriff's office, with the
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: exception of two deputy sheriffs, Captain Dideon, Sheriff Durley and
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Ed Jacobs, and myself. The rest of the searching party
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: vacated the area. The plan was to give the general
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: impression that the search had been called off in the
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: hope that it might bring the suspects out in the open.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Because of the darkness and the early morning fog settling
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: over the terrain, we knew that the odds were all
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: against us. Captain Didion and Sheriff Durley decided instead to
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: try and lure Blair on Russell from wherever they were
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: hiding out Each of the small farmhouses in the immediate neighborhood,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: eight of them in all, were already under surveillance. Each
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: of the occupants were requested to park their cars in
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: a conspicuous place outside their homes with the distributor heads removed.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: They were asked to turn all the lights off in
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: their houses. In the event they heard anyone trying to
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: start their cars, they would remain indoors. Ed Jacobs and
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Eyes were assigned to cover two of the houses. The
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: other men cover the rest of them. The two houses
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: that Ed and I were assigned to cover were separated
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: by about five hundred yards.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: We staked out in between the two of them. We
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: waited four am. Four thirty.
• 24:17
  Speaker 14: Sure cool. Uh yeah, bug goes right through you. You're
• 24:23
  Speaker 14: gonna be getting light pretty soon. Joe just remembered, Yeah,
• 24:27
  Speaker 14: what's that Easter morning? I wonder how long this is
• 24:31
  Speaker 14: gonna go. I promised to hide Easter eggs for the
• 24:33
  Speaker 14: kids today.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Now, if it's gonna break, it has to break soon
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: be daylight and a half hour or so. They won
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: have a chance and wait a minute.
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: Bomb house down on the left.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, sounds like it come on, couldn't you see the car?
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Yeah, you'll cover the passenger side. I'll
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: come up on the driver's site and watch it.
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: Hustle or getting out of the car.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: All right, hold it up, police officers, watch you, Joe
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Blair Russell.
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: You haven't got a chance.
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: Throw it on the gun, all.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Right, ed, let's give it back.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Shoo show, throw.
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: Off the guns.
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: Come to it with your hands open.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Go shoot.
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: Do what they say.
• 25:22
  Speaker 17: Come on up, go shoot that.
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: All right? Come on, keep coming.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: That's fine enough, right, cover them and I'll shake them down.
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we'll break up Joe.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: All right, you want to throw the cuffs on him?
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, I'll go get the car.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: You want to keep it covered? Ben, excuse me?
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: I mean sorry, too bad. He wasn't here tonight.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: How can you tell for sure.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: The story you have just heard was true? The names
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: On July sixteenth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: eighty eighth, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: In a moment, the results of that trial, now here
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: is our star, Jack Webb.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Thank you, George Venaman. Friends, We all hope that you
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: enjoyed listening to Dragnet in nineteen fifty one. We all
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: like to think that you'll be with us during the
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: new year. On our part, we hope to bring you
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: the kind of entertainment you want.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Stanley Blair and Wesley Russell were tried and convicted on
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: three counts of first degree robbery and one count of kidnapping.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: They received sentences as prescribed by law. First degree robbery
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: is punishable by imprisonment from five years to life. Kidnapping
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: is punishable by imprisonment for not less than one nor
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: more than twenty years. One count of escape is still pending.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office of
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Heard Tonight where Barney Phillips and Vic Perrin. Script by
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Jim Mosy, music by Walter Schumann. Hell give Me.
• 27:34
  Speaker 19: Speaking, Counterspy Fights International Intrigue. Next on NBC.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back. The dedication to Yarborough at the beginning and
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the plot addressing the death of Ben Romero is the
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: type of thing that you would expect from a modern drama,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: but these were not at all typical in nineteen fifty one.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: In fact, Wally Mayer, who had played the role of
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Sergeant Matt Grabb on the lineup, passed away eight days later,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: and the death was not even acknowledged of either Mayor
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: or his character. You just had Jack Moyles playing Sergeant
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Pete Harger and presiding over the lineup, so that Web
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: decided to do this does speak to the nature of
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: his friendship with Barton Yarborough and the importance of Yarborough
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: to the series. Yarborough had been part of multiple series,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: including a couple of major hits, both for Carlton Morse.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: He'd play a doc in I Love a Mystery and
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: actually played the role in three films that brought the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: series from radio to the big screen. He'd also been
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: part of the cast of one of America's most famous
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: soap operas, as Clifford Barber in One Man's Family, also
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: produced by Morse. Now there is no record of any
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: particular acknowledgement of his passing on One Man's Family, although
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: that and the character not being mentioned again are not
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: unheard of for the soap opera genre, and he actually
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: had been replaced on I Love A mystery back in
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: nineteen forty eight with Jim Bowles, our broad had a
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: lot of character work passed away right after filming the
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: second episode of Dragon. He was fifty one years old,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: and his passing would change Dragnet and would definitely be
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: a creative challenge for Jack Webb. Now, I don't want
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: to oversell this because so much of this series comes
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: down to the storytelling style and the way that the
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: investigation unfolds and shows real procedures. This was not primarily
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: a character driven drama. It didn't have the impact that
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: it would have had if, say, Martin Milner or Kent
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: McCord died while filming Adam twelve about a decade and
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: a half later. But there was a place, in a
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: position for Ben Romero that no other partner of Joe
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Friday would ever have, and we heard somewhat why during
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the reflective part of the episode in which Friday stated
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: that Romero had been his partner from his first day
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: joining the force and it taught him to be a cop.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: They were totally equals in terms of their even though
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Friday was the main character. Both subsequent permanent partners for
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Joe Friday would be outranked by him, even though they
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: were both older than he was. Ben Romero was also
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: the most effortlessly believable police officer of any of Friday's partners,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: with a lot of complaining and no nonsense attitude, and
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: any humor being somewhat wry or deadpan. The two work
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: and the show had been built around them, and while
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: it wasn't as bad part of the show as it
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: would be more modern programs, Web would need to find
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: a new dynamic now. Some might see this episode as
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: slightly contradicting The Big Escape, where Friday stated he went
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: off to service in World War Two, so therefore couldn't
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: have been working all that time continuously. I would probably
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: not read it that way, though. It could have either
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: been a situation where Friday was counting back to the
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: time that he started and not thinking about his war service,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: or had subtracted it out. But regardless, there are many
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: instances of larger backstory issues and numbers slipping within Dragnets,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: so those things tend not to be terribly consistent. Friday's
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: reflection on Ben are believable and work for the character,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: while also reflecting the water appeal and message of Dragnet
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: and it's the idea that as a police officer, Ben
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Romero was part of something bigger than himself, that he
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: had this broader mission to protect and serve the people
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: of Los Angeles, and that everything he did was a
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: part of that mission, no matter how unimportant or tedious
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: the task was, or how much he complained about it,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: done his part to protect and bring justice to Los Angeles.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Cask had been passed on to him by those who'd
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: come before, and now that would be passed onto others.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: And this is where Dragnet differed from a lot of
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: programs that pushed people towards various careers. Oftentimes the excitement,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: the adrenaline, and the cool toys are what drew people in. However,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Dragnet and I think other Jack Web shows were pretty
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: straightforward about the tediousness of these jobs and how monotonous
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: and retain and difficult they could be at times. But
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: what it presented viewers and those who would be inspired
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: by them was an opportunity to be part of something bigger,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: something important, that transcended excitement or money and had a
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: real sense of purpose. So, again, very consistent with the
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: tone and message of Dragnet. Also I don't know what
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: it is, but of all the roles we've heard her
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Butterfield in, I am having trouble buying him as a
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Catholic priest. Listener comments and feedback now we go over
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: to Spotify were Harrison comments regarding the Big Canarityies. I
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: agree with you about programs dialing it to eleven. I'm
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: looking at you, mister chameleon. One of the best things
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Dragnet does is when they let the villain just talk
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: themselves into a confession. Stacy Harris is really good at
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the slow breakdown. Joyce McCluskey's performance is another one of those.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I remember listening to this once before and I had
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: to stop what I was doing because I was just
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: so surprised by one scene after another. The only odd
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: part was having the journalists tag along like that.
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: Well.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: I appreciate the comment Harrison. Now, of course, another series
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: we're playing, The Big Story, makes it clear that there
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: is something to be said about journalists hanging around and
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: being part of the scenery with police investigations, but it
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: does seem to vary from case to case. Rarely does
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: happen in Dragnet, and I agree, not certainly what the
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: point was in this particular story. Well, now it's time
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I
• 36:31
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• 37:05
  Speaker 1: at All or.
• 37:05
  Speaker 20: Where Larkin has the combination to your wall? Say?
• 37:09
  Speaker 13: Why not?
• 37:10
  Speaker 17: What would he ever do with the junk I keep
• 37:11
  Speaker 17: stashed away in it?
• 37:13
  Speaker 20: What kind of shock?
• 37:15
  Speaker 17: Some odds and names and necklaces and roaches and rings,
• 37:19
  Speaker 17: mostly a couple of bracelets.
• 37:20
  Speaker 20: And what's the ring?
• 37:22
  Speaker 17: Shenka diamond?
• 37:23
  Speaker 20: What isn't that the one I've read about? Probably the
• 37:27
  Speaker 20: one supposed to be the opposite of the Hope diamond
• 37:29
  Speaker 20: that's supposed to have good luck. Charm about it?
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: No nether?
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  Speaker 20: Why the thing's worth close to a million, isn't it?
• 37:34
  Speaker 20: That's what the insurance company says. And you plan to
• 37:37
  Speaker 20: wear it when your son Edgar gets married. Oh well,
• 37:40
  Speaker 20: it's silly superstition, I.
• 37:41
  Speaker 17: Suppose, but maybe it'll bring him and marry Luanne good
• 37:45
  Speaker 17: luck in their marriage. Mary Luanne Melanie Beaufort exement culpepper.
• 37:50
  Speaker 20: Sounds like something out of Gone.
• 37:52
  Speaker 17: With a Wind, the most gorgeous viol in Greensboro, North Carolina?
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: Sir?
• 37:56
  Speaker 20: Is that where the wedding is going to be?
• 37:57
  Speaker 17: That the old family plantation right outside of town. You're
• 38:00
  Speaker 17: going to escort me to the wedding and the bang
• 38:02
  Speaker 17: up reception afterward. I understand those seven folks really know
• 38:06
  Speaker 17: how to throw a wingding.
• 38:07
  Speaker 20: He tell me, Martha, do you expect somebody to make
• 38:10
  Speaker 20: a try for that time?
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: Well?
• 38:11
  Speaker 20: Sure, I always do.
• 38:12
  Speaker 17: Some of the top jewel thieves in the country I
• 38:14
  Speaker 17: have tried to snatch that ruck.
• 38:15
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• 38:34
  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.