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Dragnet - "Big Gamble" (Old Time Radio, 1952) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A professional gambling operation is moving from place to place
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  Speaker 1: across Los Angeles, leaving dozens of residents victimized and the
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  Speaker 1: LAPD vice detail searching for an opening. From NBC Radio,
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  Speaker 1: this is Dragnet, episode 152, Big Gamble, first broadcast May 8th, 1952.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Webb is Sergeant Joe Friday, with Martin Milner as
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  Speaker 1: Officer Bill Lockwood, in Milner's last regular appearance as Friday's partner.
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  Speaker 1: A tip puts Friday and Lockwood on the trail, but
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  Speaker 1: the inquiry soon reaches beyond an ordinary vice assignment. Jim
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Moser wrote the broadcast. Now, back to the golden age
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  Speaker 1: of radio.
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  Speaker 2: ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 3: The story you're about to hear is true. The names
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  Speaker 3: have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 4: on both radio and television. You're a detective sergeant. You're
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  Speaker 4: assigned a vice detail. A professional gambling ring has set
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  Speaker 4: up operations in your city... Dozens of citizens are being victimized.
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  Speaker 4: The gamblers keep.
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  Speaker 3: On the move, changing their locations day to day.
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  Speaker 5: Your job? Get them.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 4: next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 4: you will travel step-by-step on the side of the law
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  Speaker 4: through an actual case transcribed from official police files. From
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  Speaker 4: beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the
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  Speaker 4: story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 5: It was Monday, February 9th. It was foggy in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: We were working the day watch out of Vice Detail.
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  Speaker 5: My partner's Bill Lockwood. The boss is Lieutenant Bingham. My
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  Speaker 5: name's Friday. It was 4.20 p.m. when I got to
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  Speaker 5: the second floor of the old Central Jail building. Vice Detail. Hi, Joe. Hi, Bill.
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  Speaker 2: Did he show up yet?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, waiting in the next room.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, fine.
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  Speaker 5: Did you talk to him yet?
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  Speaker 7: No, he just came in a couple of minutes ago.
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  Speaker 7: Figured I'd wait for you.
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  Speaker 5: How's he seem? Sober? Does he look like he's off
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  Speaker 5: the lush? Yeah, he looks pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Shaved, cleaned up a little.
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  Speaker 2: Fine.
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  Speaker 5: Dave, how are you? Oh, hiya, Franny. Thought I'd drop
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  Speaker 5: by and see you.
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  Speaker 6: Remember you were talking to.
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  Speaker 8: Me last week about that thing.
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  Speaker 5: You hear anything, Dave?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I might have something for you. I
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  Speaker 8: think it's what you're looking for. Tried to get you
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  Speaker 8: on the phone last night, you weren't in.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you should have left a message.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't want to do that.
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  Speaker 5: You know how it is.
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  Speaker 8: Guess I shouldn't even be coming up here like this.
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  Speaker 7: You got some kind of a permanent address, Dave?
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  Speaker 5: Phone number?
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  Speaker 2: Some place we can contact you?
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm still floating around a little. Now, about this
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  Speaker 5: thing we were talking about, what'd you hear? I picked
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  Speaker 5: up a little chatter.
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  Speaker 9: I think it's what you want.
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  Speaker 5: Say, you fellas had your coffee.
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  Speaker 9: I haven't had mine.
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  Speaker 5: What do you say? Okay.
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  Speaker 9: How about the place down at the corner?
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  Speaker 1: Fine with me.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Do you want to check us out, Bill? Tell them
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  Speaker 5: we'll be back in about ten minutes. Yeah, fine.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Dave. We'll walk this way.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: You're looking pretty good, Friday.
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  Speaker 6: World treating you okay?
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  Speaker 5: I can't complain, I guess. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Guess we better wait for your partner, huh?
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  Speaker 6: What's his name?
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  Speaker 5: Lockwood.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 5: Skipper's got something for us when we get back, Joe.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 8: You're looking pretty good yourself, Lockwood.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, real good.
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  Speaker 6: You seem to be in pretty fair shape.
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  Speaker 5: That park is full of change.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds healthy.
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  Speaker 6: It's not too good.
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  Speaker 7: Still got a few dimes to rattle. Hasn't been coming
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  Speaker 7: too fast.
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  Speaker 5: Let me know. You still setting pins down there at
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  Speaker 5: that bowling alley? Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of help hanging around, though.
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  Speaker 8: They really got a hustle for it.
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  Speaker 5: That so?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah. A lot of the alleys changing over to
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  Speaker 8: those automatic machines, you know? Quite a few guys out.
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  Speaker 8: A lot of these machines can set pins better than
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  Speaker 8: a man can.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, Matthews.
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
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  Speaker 5: Hi, Joe. Hi, Bill.
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  Speaker 6: What do you say, Jack? Not too much.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, who's that guy?
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  Speaker 5: He works out of the office. Why? Nothing.
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  Speaker 9: I thought I'd seen him around.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: No, down this way, Dave.
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  Speaker 5: Just a couple of doors.
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  Speaker 8: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, did you hear anything about Tony? You
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  Speaker 5: know if he's in town? No, I've been working on it.
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  Speaker 8: Dirty Tony.
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  Speaker 6: He's not going to show.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, Dave. Yeah, well, thanks. Now, why don't you
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  Speaker 5: two grab the back table?
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  Speaker 6: I'll order up.
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  Speaker 3: All right, fine. Black with sugar, huh?
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 7: Cream and sugar for you, Joe.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right. Fine. Bring a couple of those jelly donuts,
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  Speaker 5: could you? Okay.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 5: What's the story, Dave? What do you hear?
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  Speaker 7: I heard about it last night, right after I left
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  Speaker 7: the alley. You told me to keep my ears open,
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  Speaker 7: you know?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. Said you figured there might be something on that
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  Speaker 8: new bunch hanging around the bar down from the alleys.
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  Speaker 8: Figured they might tie in with a new bunch of
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  Speaker 8: high rollers in town.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: What'd you pick up?
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  Speaker 2: I think you figured right, from what I heard, anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Here you go. Have a donut, Dave?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, thanks.
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  Speaker 9: You make a fine waiter, Lockwood.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks. We don't get a lead pretty soon.
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  Speaker 2: I may have to take it up.
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  Speaker 5: Dave was just telling me that he figures he might
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  Speaker 5: have something for us. He picked it up at the
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  Speaker 5: spot down from the alleys last night.
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  Speaker 8: Well, like I said, after I was through with the alleys,
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  Speaker 8: I stopped by the place and had a couple of beers.
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  Speaker 2: Can't afford anything else. A few nickels, they'd pay me.
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  Speaker 5: Lucky to get enough to eat the way things are going. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it's pretty rough, I know.
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  Speaker 6: Well, what's the pitch you got, Dave?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I was sitting there having a beer and a
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  Speaker 8: couple of those new faces were sitting next to me.
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  Speaker 5: So I put my.
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  Speaker 8: Ear out and tried to pick up some of the talk.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I couldn't get all of it, but I did get
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  Speaker 8: enough to make out there's going to be a big
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  Speaker 8: game tonight. From what I could get, there's going to
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  Speaker 8: be a lot of scratch floating around.
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  Speaker 7: You hear what it's going to be, Dave? I had
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  Speaker 7: to play it careful, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't be too nosy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, true.
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  Speaker 8: I sat and had another beer in one of these
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  Speaker 8: new monks. Heard the other guy call him Mike, I think.
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  Speaker 8: He asked the bartender for change to make a phone call.
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  Speaker 8: He got the change, went over the wall phone. I
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  Speaker 8: got up and drifted over that way. It made out
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  Speaker 8: like I was watching a shuffleboard.
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  Speaker 6: I caught some of his talk.
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  Speaker 5: Now, what was that?
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  Speaker 9: Well, he was talking about some.
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  Speaker 5: Big game tonight.
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  Speaker 8: I heard him say to the guy on the other
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  Speaker 8: end not to show up before 11.30.
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  Speaker 5: To get an address? Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: He said he'd be back of an empty store building
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  Speaker 8: down on Gibbons Avenue.
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  Speaker 6: You get the number?
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 8: 9-1-2-2.
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  Speaker 5: What was that again? 9-1-2-2, is that right? Yeah. Gibbons, huh? Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure.
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  Speaker 7: As soon as I got out of the place, I
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  Speaker 7: wrote it down.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 5: I got it.
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  Speaker 7: Let's see.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: 9-1-2-2, Gibbons. Yeah, that's it. Now, this fellow that made
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  Speaker 5: the phone call, did you say his name was Mike?
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  Speaker 6: Is that right?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's what I heard his partner call him. He's
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  Speaker 9: kind of a short guy, like.
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  Speaker 5: 35, 36, on the fat side, black hair.
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  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm. Mike Filmer.
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  Speaker 3: You know him?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, we've had an eye on him.
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  Speaker 6: Thought he might figure in.
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  Speaker 5: Not about the size of a day? That all you heard?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's about it, Franny.
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  Speaker 8: As soon as he finished the phone call and his
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  Speaker 8: partner left, I finished my beer and left, too. I
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  Speaker 8: had to. Couldn't afford another one.
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  Speaker 5: Real tough these days.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, thanks a lot, Dave.
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  Speaker 6: Really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 7: Well, don't mention it.
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  Speaker 5: You've always done all right by me.
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  Speaker 8: Donut sure tasted great.
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  Speaker 6: Still hungry.
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  Speaker 7: I feel like I could take on a three-inch steak.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry things aren't better for you, Dave. How about
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  Speaker 5: a ten spot?
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  Speaker 6: Will that help you?
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  Speaker 5: It sure will, Franny.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, huh?
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  Speaker 9: Really can use it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, glad to help you. You're always helping us.
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  Speaker 8: You sure make it nice.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you make it nice and easy on a guy.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's always there first. I never have to come
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  Speaker 5: right out and ask. What's that? The dough.
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  Speaker 2: You always get the pitch, don't you?
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  Speaker 5: Almost a month before, we had begun receiving complaints about
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  Speaker 5: a newly established gambling ring which had set up operations
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  Speaker 5: in the city. After the first few complaints, we succeeded
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  Speaker 5: in identifying some of the men involved in the ring
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  Speaker 5: and also some of the places they frequented. The nature
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  Speaker 5: of most of the complaints against them was such that
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  Speaker 5: we knew we were dealing with a well-organized criminal element.
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  Speaker 5: Even if a player happened to win at one of
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  Speaker 5: the games, after he left the location, he was beaten
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  Speaker 5: and robbed. Despite the fact that we had some of
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  Speaker 5: the suspects identified, we still lacked sufficient evidence to prosecute
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  Speaker 5: them successfully. The various victims either would not or could
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  Speaker 5: not identify the suspect. We knew the gang was running
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  Speaker 5: three or four games a week, each one of them
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  Speaker 5: at a different location, each one of them at a
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  Speaker 5: different time. in the trade that's known as a floating game.
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  Speaker 5: After we left our informant, Dave Carter, we headed back
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  Speaker 5: to the office and briefed Lieutenant Bingham. That afternoon, we
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  Speaker 5: checked the address on Gibbons Avenue and found it to
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  Speaker 5: be a vacant store building with a For Rent sign
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  Speaker 5: in the window. There was an entrance in front and
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  Speaker 5: one in the rear, windows along both sides of the building,
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  Speaker 5: and a plasterboard partition dividing the inside of the store
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  Speaker 5: into two parts.
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  Speaker 3: The place was deserted. At 10 o'clock that night, Bill.
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  Speaker 5: Lockwood and I staked out in our car down the
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  Speaker 5: street from the store. Sergeant Fred Taylor and Jack Matthews
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  Speaker 5: were staked out in their car from another point of observation.
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  Speaker 5: We were in constant touch with each other by three-way radio. 10.30.
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  Speaker 5: 11 p.m.
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  Speaker 8: 11.30.
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  Speaker 5: 1K87 to 1K80, come in. 1K80 to 1K87, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Joe, did you notice the lights come on in the back.
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  Speaker 5: Of the store a minute ago? Yeah, two men. They
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  Speaker 5: went in the back way, parked their car just down
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  Speaker 5: the street from us here. Did you see anything else?
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  Speaker 3: Car just pulled up down the street from us.
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  Speaker 6: Two men getting out, heading for the store.
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  Speaker 5: Joe, just a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going that way.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I see.
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  Speaker 3: They're going around the back, Joe.
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  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 7: Looks like it's going to pay off.
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  Speaker 6: Let's sit on it a while.
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  Speaker 2: KMA 367.
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  Speaker 3: We waited.
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  Speaker 5: 11.45. A blue pickup truck pulled up and stopped a
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  Speaker 5: short way from the front entrance to the store... We
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  Speaker 5: saw two men get out and go around to the
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  Speaker 5: back of the truck and unload half a dozen large boxes,
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  Speaker 5: which they carried around to the rear entrance of the place.
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  Speaker 5: One of the men came back, got in the cab
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  Speaker 5: of the truck, and sat there. Midnight, 12.15 a.m. Over
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  Speaker 5: a period of half an hour, we watched 18 persons
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  Speaker 5: arrive from different directions and enter the store from the rear. 12.30,
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  Speaker 5: 1 a.m. There were no new arrivals. We waited.
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  Speaker 2: 1K87 to 1K80, come in. 1K80 to 1K87, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Not much activity down here, Joe.
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  Speaker 5: Looks like it's pretty well set.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we might as well hit it. Same
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  Speaker 5: way we laid it out, huh, Fred? We'll wait until
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  Speaker 5: Matthews picks up the lookout, the man sitting in the truck.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Joe. Jack, you want to go ahead and grab him?
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  Speaker 5: Go away.
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  Speaker 7: He's on his way, Joe.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, as soon as he picks him up, we meet
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  Speaker 5: in front of the place. Bill and I will take
• 10:41
  Speaker 5: the front. You cover the back.
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  Speaker 2: You got that?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, hold on a minute, will you?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Jack, got him. Bringing him back to the car.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, let's go. KMA 367. You got the car, Kingsville?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, let's go. You figure that's the best way Joe
• 11:01
  Speaker 7: 2 is going in the front?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's probably where the rush is going to be.
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  Speaker 5: When Fred goes through the back, they're sure to start
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  Speaker 5: for the front.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Joe?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Jack's got the lookout in our car.
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  Speaker 6: He'll wait for us.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Now, what do you think about this, Fred? You go
• 11:12
  Speaker 5: around and hit the back door. As soon as they
• 11:13
  Speaker 5: hear you inside, they'll probably start for the front. We'll
• 11:16
  Speaker 5: take care of them there. That's a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: Give me half a minute to get back there.
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  Speaker 5: Right. Watch yourself.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Joe.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go.
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  Speaker 7: They're still going.
• 11:29
  Speaker 6: You're wise to us.
• 11:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, let's hold it right now. Police officer, we got
• 11:33
  Speaker 5: an arrest.
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  Speaker 9: Now, hold it right there.
• 11:34
  Speaker 5: Come on, Bill. Let's hit it.
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  Speaker 7: All right, get back there.
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  Speaker 5: Get back.
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  Speaker 3: Police officers.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, back against the wall. They went out the window, Joe. Fred, Fred.
• 11:46
  Speaker 5: I said get back against the wall, all of you.
• 11:48
  Speaker 5: All right, I'll cover him. You get back and see
• 11:49
  Speaker 5: what happened to Fred. Right. All right, mister. With the
• 11:52
  Speaker 5: rest of them there, back against the wall.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'm going.
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  Speaker 6: What's the beef about anyway?
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  Speaker 4: All right, all of you, turn around.
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  Speaker 5: Face the wall. Put your hands against the wall.
• 11:58
  Speaker 9: What's the pitch anyway? Treat this like a bunch of thieves.
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  Speaker 2: You're just having a little fun.
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  Speaker 8: No harm done.
• 12:02
  Speaker 5: Joe. Yeah, did you find Fred?
• 12:03
  Speaker 4: What happened?
• 12:04
  Speaker 7: He's been shot, hurt bad. Matthew's in with him now.
• 12:06
  Speaker 5: I'll call the ambulance.
• 12:06
  Speaker 7: Get some help.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 5: All right, you two, in with the others. Back against
• 12:09
  Speaker 5: the wall.
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: What's the beef?
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  Speaker 9: Sure, big noise about nothing. We're here to play a
• 12:13
  Speaker 9: little cards, friendly game. Just a dollar limit. Nobody ever
• 12:15
  Speaker 9: gets hurt.
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  Speaker 3: We're all friends.
• 12:16
  Speaker 5: Is that why you carry guns?
• 12:17
  Speaker 3: 1.20 a.m.
• 12:23
  Speaker 5: The ambulance arrived and Sergeant Fred Taylor was taken immediately
• 12:26
  Speaker 5: to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital in a critical condition. He'd
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: been shot twice through the upper portion of the chest.
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: He'd been unconscious from the time.
• 12:34
  Speaker 6: Of the shooting.
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: Who the assailant was, we had no idea. The crime
• 12:38
  Speaker 5: lab arrived at the scene and began their preliminary investigation. Meantime,
• 12:42
  Speaker 5: homicide officers had arrived and all units in the area
• 12:44
  Speaker 5: were assisting in the investigation, making a house-to-house canvas and
• 12:48
  Speaker 5: checking all backyards, alleys, and unoccupied buildings for possible suspects
• 12:52
  Speaker 5: in hiding. Out of the total number of men present
• 12:55
  Speaker 5: in the store at the time of the shooting, Bill
• 12:57
  Speaker 5: and I had been able to detain nine of them.
• 12:59
  Speaker 5: The remainder had either scrambled outside windows or the rear
• 13:02
  Speaker 5: door and then apparently made their way over back fences.
• 13:05
  Speaker 5: The nine we did get were taken downtown for interrogation.
• 13:09
  Speaker 5: All of them had been searched, but no weapons had
• 13:11
  Speaker 5: been found. Bill Lockwood and I remained at the scene
• 13:13
  Speaker 5: assisting the homicide officers. 2.05 a.m. An additional four men
• 13:18
  Speaker 5: who'd been present at the gambling game that night were
• 13:20
  Speaker 5: picked up in the area, transported downtown, and held along
• 13:23
  Speaker 5: with the other nine at homicide detail. 2.20 a.m. Bill
• 13:27
  Speaker 5: and I were called downtown to assist in the questioning.
• 13:30
  Speaker 5: We got nowhere with the first three suspects. It was
• 13:32
  Speaker 5: the same with the fourth.
• 13:34
  Speaker 7: You expect us to believe that, Mike?
• 13:35
  Speaker 9: Well, it's the truth.
• 13:36
  Speaker 6: I don't know anything about it.
• 13:37
  Speaker 5: Now, look, Mike, let's put it on the table, huh?
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: We listened to your line of chatter down at the
• 13:40
  Speaker 5: store when we made the pinch. We heard it all.
• 13:41
  Speaker 5: Now let's get on to facts.
• 13:42
  Speaker 7: I told you everything I know, no different than the
• 13:44
  Speaker 7: other guys you picked up.
• 13:45
  Speaker 9: I heard there was going to be a game tonight,
• 13:46
  Speaker 9: so I came down.
• 13:46
  Speaker 5: Who'd you come down with? How'd you get there?
• 13:48
  Speaker 9: I drove.
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: Came by myself.
• 13:49
  Speaker 5: Where'd you park your car?
• 13:50
  Speaker 9: About two blocks away, a little alley there. By a
• 13:52
  Speaker 9: gas station.
• 13:52
  Speaker 5: You're a liar, mister, and you know it.
• 13:54
  Speaker 9: Well, it's the truth, so help me.
• 13:55
  Speaker 7: If I knew there was going to be trouble, I
• 13:56
  Speaker 7: wouldn't even have showed up.
• 13:57
  Speaker 9: I'd play a few cards, sure.
• 13:58
  Speaker 7: I don't go in for heavy stuff, though.
• 14:00
  Speaker 9: I haven't got anything to do with the gang.
• 14:01
  Speaker 5: You're a liar.
• 14:02
  Speaker 9: You can't say that.
• 14:03
  Speaker 5: Now, you show me where I've lied to you.
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: You tell me.
• 14:04
  Speaker 7: We were staked out on that place tonight, Mike. It
• 14:06
  Speaker 7: was a little past 11.45. You drove up in a
• 14:08
  Speaker 7: blue pickup truck. Another man was with you.
• 14:10
  Speaker 5: You were driving.
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, you got it wrong.
• 14:11
  Speaker 5: No, we haven't got it wrong. You parked that truck
• 14:13
  Speaker 5: about 10 yards down the street from the front of
• 14:14
  Speaker 5: the store. You got out first. The other man followed you.
• 14:17
  Speaker 5: You unloaded six large cartons from the truck. Some of
• 14:19
  Speaker 5: the equipment we found in the store. You took it
• 14:21
  Speaker 5: around back and into the rear door, didn't you? You
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: got it wrong.
• 14:23
  Speaker 9: It wasn't me.
• 14:23
  Speaker 6: It couldn't have been me.
• 14:24
  Speaker 7: Come off it, Mike. The man you were with, we've
• 14:25
  Speaker 7: got him down the hall. The other officers have talked
• 14:27
  Speaker 7: to him. He gave him the straight story.
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: I didn't come with any other guy.
• 14:30
  Speaker 7: Now, will you listen to me?
• 14:31
  Speaker 9: I knew some of them there.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: I'll admit that.
• 14:32
  Speaker 9: I came by myself.
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: Now, you listen to me, mister. You get this through
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: your head. Get it once and for all. This isn't
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: a gambling beef anymore. Somebody's been shot. He's been hurt bad.
• 14:38
  Speaker 9: Well, that's not my fault.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: I didn't shoot him.
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: I don't know anything about it.
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: You know more than you're telling. You lied about coming
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: there in that truck. We saw you. Something else. The
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: truck's been checked out. It's registered in your name. Now,
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: you come up with an answer for that one fast.
• 14:47
  Speaker 9: Well, I don't get it. Maybe my truck is down there.
• 14:49
  Speaker 9: If it is, I don't know how it got there.
• 14:50
  Speaker 7: You're in a jam, Mike. This isn't any misdemeanor rap.
• 14:52
  Speaker 7: I think the sooner you realize that, the better it's
• 14:53
  Speaker 7: going to.
• 14:54
  Speaker 9: Be for you. Look, you don't have to tell me
• 14:55
  Speaker 9: it's serious. I know that. Now, what do you want
• 14:57
  Speaker 9: from me anyway?
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: You know what we want. You know the answers and
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: we want them. You're part of that gambling setup. We
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: know that. We know who was there tonight.
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: Everybody.
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: We want the names of every one of them. Now,
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: either you got the answer to that shooting or somebody
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: in that crowd has. We're going to get the answer, Mike.
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: Don't make any mistake about it. We're going to get it.
• 15:08
  Speaker 9: Now, what do I have to say to convince you
• 15:10
  Speaker 9: you're talking to the wrong guy?
• 15:11
  Speaker 7: Not according to the man they got down the hall,
• 15:13
  Speaker 7: the one in the pickup truck with you.
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: He gave us the whole story.
• 15:15
  Speaker 7: You hired him to help you tonight. You were going
• 15:16
  Speaker 7: to pay him 20 bucks. He helped you haul the
• 15:18
  Speaker 7: equipment to the store and he was supposed to be
• 15:19
  Speaker 7: the lookout at the front door.
• 15:20
  Speaker 9: It ties in all the way.
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: How about it? All right.
• 15:23
  Speaker 9: Now, you've been calling people liars, huh?
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: Well, he's the liar.
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: The whole lousy story is nothing but a lie. All right,
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: keep quiet. Friday talking.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, sir.
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 15:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: Now, you listen, Mike. Here's a piece of advice. You
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: make up your mind.
• 15:41
  Speaker 9: How do you mean make up my mind? I'm trying
• 15:43
  Speaker 9: to cooperate. You don't believe me. I'm trying to help
• 15:46
  Speaker 9: you out every way I can. I'm only too glad
• 15:47
  Speaker 9: to give you a hand. I know you got a
• 15:49
  Speaker 9: tough job.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: You got my.
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: Now, don't you worry about us, man. From here on,
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: start worrying about yourself. You're going to do a lot
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: of it.
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: I don't know what you're talking about.
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: That policeman, he just died.
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• 17:26
  Speaker 5: Tuesday, February 10th, 5.30 a.m. Sergeant Fred Taylor had died
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: at approximately 5.22 a.m. Cause of death was listed as
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: hemorrhage and shock due to the two gunshot wounds in
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: the chest. Officers from the medical detail had rushed Taylor's
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: wife from his home to the receiving hospital. She was
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: with him at the time of his death. Unfortunately, he
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: never regained consciousness. 5.45 a.m. While the investigation went on
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: at the scene of the murder, Bill Lockwood and I
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: continued our interrogation of the suspect, Mike Filmer. Another hour
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: of questioning, and he still refused to tell us anything.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: We finally confronted him with the man we'd seen him
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: arrive with at the location of the gambling game earlier
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: that morning. Another ten minutes of questioning, and he finally
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: broke down.
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: Why didn't you tell us that to begin with?
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: Believe me, I wanted to.
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: I was scared.
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: I was scared to death.
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: I never had anything like this happen to me before.
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: to say.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: All right, this is a complete list of everybody you
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: saw there last night. Everybody who was in that game.
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it covers it. Let me see it.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: All right, here you are.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, just about everybody.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: These are the only addresses you've got.
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: Just these three here.
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not lying.
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: Now, believe me, those are the only ones I know of.
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: So you had a hand in the game. You brought
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: in the equipment. You were working for the house.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: Then who's the boss, Mike? Who's running the game? What
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: about it?
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: Who's running it?
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: Look, I've told you, everybody that was there, everybody. He
• 18:45
  Speaker 9: wasn't there that night.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: He couldn't have had anything to do with it. Mike,
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: we didn't ask you that. We asked you who the
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: boss is. What's his name? Now, how about if we
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: want his name?
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: But I told you he wasn't there last night. If
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: he wasn't there, he couldn't have anything to do with it.
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: Look, he's a nice guy.
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: He doesn't want trouble any more than I do.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: He couldn't tell you anything.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: You let us figure that out, will you? Now, who's
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: the boss, Mike?
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Does it have to be?
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: Is that important?
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: We wouldn't be asking you. Who is he?
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: George Delano.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Now, that's all I know about him, his name. How
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: does he spell his last name?
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: What's he look like?
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: Well, I guess it's D-E-L-A-N-O. I never saw him write
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: it down, though. I've only known him about a month,
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: maybe five weeks.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: What's his description?
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: Well, he's taller than I am, about 5 feet 10,
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: 11 maybe.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Dark hair.
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: A little bit on the heavy side. You know, like me,
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: I guess. Man about 45, 50. Where does he live?
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Where do we find him?
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: I don't know where he lives.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Some hotel downtown, I think.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: The only times I ever met him was at a bar.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Which bar? Where about?
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: South end of town. Down on Vermont.
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: I don't know the address, but I can point it
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: out to you. It's a couple doors down from Big
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: Bowling Alley.
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: Right across from a theater. Woman's dress shop next door.
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: That's the place.
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: The only place I've ever seen him. He always calls
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: me at home and.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: Tells me where to meet him.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: You mean to say you've been working for him? this
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Delano and you don't even know where he lives?
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: Well, I don't know what else to tell you. I'm
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: squaring with you.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: I really don't know.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Friday, talk to you, man?
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll be right back.
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: What do you got, Sam?
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: Charlie Hart and I just got back from a place
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: down on Gibbons Avenue.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: The store? Yeah.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: Thought you'd like to know. We found a gun in
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: the back of the place hidden under a lumber pile.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Did you check it out?
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I ran through gun records. It's registered.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: What's the name?
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: George Delano.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: 7.38 a.m. With the new lead on the alleged boss
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: of the gambling ring, George Delano, we interrupted our questioning
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: of the suspect, Mike Filmer. We took him down the
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: hall back to the homicide squadron to be held for
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: further interrogation. We checked Delano through R & I, but
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: we had no record on him. Then, along with Sergeant
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: Sam Flowers and Charlie Hart of Homicide, we drove out
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: to the address of George Delano as listed in the
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: gun registration files. There was a small cottage in the
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: Wilshire area. The woman who answered the door identified herself
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: as Mrs. George Delano, the suspect's wife. She called her
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: husband to the door. We identified ourselves, briefed him on
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: the reason for our visit, and told him we wanted
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: to talk to him downtown. He appeared cooperative, more than
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: willing to come along. He got dressed. We drove him
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: back to the city hall and took him to the
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: interrogation room. He was well-dressed and in his own way, well-mannered.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: After being told of the situation, he admitted freely that
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: he'd been operating games at different locations throughout the city
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: for the past month and a half. He told us
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: that he'd employed Mike Filmer to assist him in his operations,
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: and he also admitted ownership of the gun found near
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: the murder scene. The gun had since been checked by
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Russ Camp and Ballistics and found to be the murder weapon.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Well, yes, it's my gun, but I'd like to explain
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: a little bit about it.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: What's that, Delano?
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Number one, I admit I'm a gambler. That's my racket.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I'm new to Los Angeles. I have to admit, I've
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: been working a few games. When I'm no murderer, I
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: wouldn't have any part of it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: You said you were going to explain about the gun. Now,
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: what about it?
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Now, look, I'd like to fill you in on everything, officers.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: I got nothing to hide from you. I'll tell you everything. Now,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: when I first came to this town, as I say,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: it's been about five, six weeks. I made a few connections,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: and I started running these games. For the first couple
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: of weeks, everything went fine.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: No beefs.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Everything was fine. All I had to do was dodge
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: you fellas, and then the trouble started.
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: How do you mean?
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: You mind if I have a smoke?
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: A little upset.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: No, go ahead.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: You care for one?
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: No, nothing.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I want to fill you in from the start. I
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: want to clear this whole thing up.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what you said. Yeah.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Well, as I told you, the first few weeks, everything
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: was fine. Then one night when the game was just
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: about ready to break, a couple of punks came in,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: held us up. They cleaned everybody in the place, made
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: a big hole.
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: When was this?
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: Where did it happen?
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Down on the east side. Punks took us for everything.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: You know how it is. Couldn't make a report to you.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I just had to take it, cover the losses myself.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, now how about that gun?
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: I'm coming to it. This thing happens, and I figure
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: that's the end of it. But no, a couple nights later,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: they hit again. I still can't squat. I have to
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: stand the losses. Another couple nights, they knock us over again.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Couldn't do a thing about it. All right, we've.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Heard all that.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: That's your racket. You can expect it. All we want
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: to know is about that gun. Now, what's your story?
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: I told you I was coming to it. After the
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: third time they reached us, I hired a guard. Somebody
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: stand watch outside in case of another stick-up. The only
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: thing I could do.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Well, so I hired some guy to stand guard on
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: the games. I loaned him my gun in case there
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: was any trouble.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: And you told him to use it in case there
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: was trouble.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: How about a raid from the police? You tell him
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: to use it for that?
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: No, no.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Matter of fact, I made a point of telling him
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: about that. All he was supposed to use the gun
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: for was just to fire it up in the air,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: maybe scare those punks off and warn the guys inside
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: at the same time.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: We'll talk about that later, Delano. We want to know
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: who had the gun last night.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: Well, the guard did.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I told you, I loaned him the gun.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Who was the guard?
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: What's his name? Where do we find him?
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: His name's Jake. A friend of mine got him for me.
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: He's Jake Gleason.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: That's it, Gleason.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Where does he live?
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Couldn't tell you that. I don't know. I always contacted
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: him at a bar in South Vermont, a place I
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: go quite a bit. A little too early to catch
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: him there now. What do you know about this Gleason?
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: What's he look like?
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen him much. I guess you'd say he's
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: about 32, 33. Kind of like brown hair, tall. Ex-con,
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  Speaker 2: I think. Either he told me or somebody told me
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: at the time.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: You knew he was an ex-con and you gave him
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: your gun?
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I didn't tell him to shoot anybody. I
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: made a point of telling him that.
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  Speaker 6: Dumb jerk.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Especially shooting a cop. All he was supposed to do
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: was fire up in the air if those punks came around,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: scare him away. To help me, that's the only time
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: he was supposed to use the gun.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: I told him that.
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: How much of a story do I know?
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Can you prove it? Sure, I can prove it.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: You can ask Mike, Mike Thelmer. He'll tell you the
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: same thing. You can ask Gleason himself, a dumb jerk.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: Mike said he.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Wasn't too sharp, a little punchy, wasn't quite right in
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: the head.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: What's that?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I said he was a little punchy, wasn't quite right
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: in the head, Gleason.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: You mean you met him in a bar. You didn't
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: know anything about his background. You knew he was an ex-con.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: You had an idea he wasn't too sharp. Maybe he
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: wasn't all there. Is that right?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's about it.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: And you put this man in a spot where you
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: knew he'd be in trouble, and then you gave him
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: a gun. Is that right? How about it, Delano?
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: What are you looking at me for? I told the
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: dumb jerk what to do. I didn't tell him to
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: shoot anybody. Punch drunk, booze down. Truth, I didn't have
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: a thing to do with it. I hired the guy,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: that's all. It's not my fault.
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: What are you looking at?
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I wasn't even there. I didn't even know about it.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I didn't kill that cop.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Didn't you? 9.23 a.m., we continued questioning George Delano. He
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: told us that he'd instructed Jake Gleason, the ex-convict, to
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: stand guard at the rear of the store where the
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: gambling games were held. He insisted that his instructions to
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: Gleason were that if he had to fire the gun
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: at all, it was to fire it in the air,
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: and then only as a warning signal in case of
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: robbery attempt. Delano was detained by homicide officers pending further investigation.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: We checked the name and description of Jake Gleason through
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: R & I and found his record and mugshot. We
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: showed the mug to Delano and he identified it. Gleason's
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: record showed him to be on active parole. 10.30 a.m.,
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: we contacted the parole office. They gave us his address,
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: and Bill and I checked it out. Second-rate hotel on
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: South Flower Street. The manager told us Gleason had left
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: the hotel about 7.45 that morning and that he was
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: not expected back until after 6 o'clock that night. He
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: also told us there was a chance we might locate
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: him in one of the bars around the neighborhood. 10.45,
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: we started making the rounds of the bars in the
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: immediate vicinity. The third place we stopped at was practically deserted.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: The jukebox at the back of the place was turned
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: up to full volume. There was a smell of disinfectant, whiskey,
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: and stale perfume. There was one customer drinking at the
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: far end of the bar. It was Gleason.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Stand up, Gleason.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: Police officers.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: Shake them down, Bill.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Clean, Joe.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: All right. Hands in the back of you.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: You want to kill that jukebox, Bill? Yeah.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: All right, you know why we want you.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know. I knew there wasn't any sense running.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: I knew you'd be around.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: All right, let's go.
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: Could you do me a favor? I mean, wait a minute,
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: just a minute.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: I'd just like to tell you I didn't mean it.
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: I guess it's my own fault. I shot him. I
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: shouldn't have had the gun. Shouldn't have taken the job.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: I shot him. I didn't mean it.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: All right, come on.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: There ought to be a way, don't you think? I mean,
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: there really ought to be a way. What's that? I
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: didn't mean it. No reason to kill him. I didn't
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: even know him. I just keep thinking... There's only a
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: way if I could take it back again, you know?
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we know.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: I mean, if I could go back and change it,
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: make it all different. I mean, right from the beginning,
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't even look at a gun. I'd change everything.
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: I bet I would.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't even look at a gun. Only had the chance,
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: you know? Second chance. There ought to be a way.
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: Second chance.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: You started with a gun, Jake. Yeah. You never had
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: a first one.
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: The story.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: You have just heard was true.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: The names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: On May 22nd, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 88,
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. In
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: a moment, the results of that trial.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: And now, here is our star, Jack Webb.
• 27:14
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• 27:17
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• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Jacob Allen Gleason was tried and convicted of murder in
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: the first degree and was sentenced to a life term
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: in the state penitentiary. George Delano, Mike Filmer, and all
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: other principals were found guilty of violating the Municipal Code 43.01, Gambling,
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: and received sentences as prescribed by law. George Delano and
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Mike Filmer were sentenced to six-month terms in the county jail.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: Others received proportionate sentences.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. James Fox, Director on the Executive
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Board of the Mystery Writers of America. Tonight it is
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: with a great deal of pleasure that I, speaking for
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: the entire membership of the Mystery Writers of America in
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: all fields... Present the Edgar Allan Poe Award for the
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: second consecutive year for the finest radio presentation in its class, Dragnet.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: To you, Jack Webb, and your fine group of technicians
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: responsible for the overall production of Dragnet, we present this
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: statuette of one of the immortals in the field of mystery,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Edgar Allan Poe.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: Thank you very much, Mr. Fox, and thanks also to
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: the membership of the Mystery Writers of America.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: And standing by to receive his award, also for the
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: second consecutive year, as the outstanding radio writer in his field,
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: and for the consistent job he does on Dragnet, Jim Moser.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Here is your statuette.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: Thank you very much, Mr.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: Fox. Ladies and gentlemen, it's seldom indeed when the writer
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: of any radio show receives his just and due acclaim.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: It's with the greatest of pleasure that we accept the
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: Edgar Allan Poe Awards, as it is primarily a writer's award.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: All of us who have had a hand in bringing
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: Dragnet into your homes each week are proud of our writer,
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: Jim Moser. For as anyone in radio will readily go
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: on record by saying and knowing that you're only as
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: good as the script you read. So it's with deep
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: gratitude that we receive the MWA Award, which best illustrates
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: and confirms the high opinion which we all hold of
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: our writer, Jim Moser.
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: Thank you, Jack, and I'd like to express my special
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: appreciation to our technical advisors from the Los Angeles Police Department,
• 29:32
  Speaker 8: without whom none of this would be possible.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: from official files. Technical advice comes from the office of
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Chief of Police W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. Technical advisors,
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. Heard
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: tonight were Martin Milner, Eddie Firestone, Whit Connor. Script by
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Jim Moser. Music by Walter Schumann. Hal Gibney speaking.
• 30:08
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• 30:13
  Speaker 3: transcribed from Los Angeles.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: Now, it's Counterspy on NBC.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: That was Dragnet, episode 152, Big Gamble. Good night, and
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: thank you for keeping classic radio company.