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The Big Sisters AFRS [episode 302], Broadcast 5/31/1955 · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Drag ladies and gentlemen. The story you were about to
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  Speaker 1: hear is true.
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  Speaker 2: The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
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  Speaker 2: a detective sergeant. You're assigned the burglary detail.
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  Speaker 1: An elderly woman reports that a man has stolen.
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  Speaker 3: Three hundred dollars from an apartment. She says she saw it.
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  Speaker 3: Your job, check it out.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. While the
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  Speaker 4: next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 4: you will travel step by step on the side of
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  Speaker 4: the law through an actual case. Transcribed from official police violence,
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  Speaker 4: from beginning to end, from.
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  Speaker 3: Crime to punishment. Dragnet is the story of your police
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  Speaker 3: force in action. It was Thursday, May nineteenth, the sunning
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  Speaker 3: in Los Angeles. We were working today Watch out of
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  Speaker 3: burgery detail. My partners Frank Smith, The boss is Captain Bernard.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Friday. Run our way out from the office.
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  Speaker 3: That was three forty seven pm when they got to
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  Speaker 3: a small apartment house in the corner of Olympic and
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  Speaker 3: Sixth with the peak arms.
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  Speaker 5: What's that lady's name again?
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  Speaker 3: Joe done better? It might have done better. See, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's your mail box. Number eight must be upstairs. Well,
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  Speaker 3: how do you figure that only eight male slots means
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  Speaker 3: eight apartments? Yeah, stands to reason number eight will be
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  Speaker 3: on the second floor. I'm supposed Joe wonder who comes
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  Speaker 3: from Kansas? But why didn't you notice the black out
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  Speaker 3: in front of the Peak of Arms. Yeah, at the
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  Speaker 3: city in Kansas, to the Peak of Kansas. Yeah, sure
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  Speaker 3: somebody might have come from there. The owner of the builder,
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  Speaker 3: why else would they give the place? And they like that? M.
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  Speaker 3: Well stands the reason, doesn't it. I guess? So see,
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  Speaker 3: you're not the only one that do it. M do
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  Speaker 3: what deuce? That's what they call it. The way you
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  Speaker 3: figured out number eight the second floor deduction. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I was just giving you an example when I proved
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  Speaker 3: that somebody connected with the building probably lived in Kansas
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  Speaker 3: right down there eight. Just like you said, deduction never failed. Job.
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  Speaker 3: Police officers, Oh, come.
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  Speaker 6: Back or maybe you have the same one.
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  Speaker 3: No, man, Frank Smith, my name is Frank.
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  Speaker 6: There were two other policemen here just a while ago.
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  Speaker 6: Shame you didn't know to say your chair.
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  Speaker 3: That's all right, man, we knew they'd be here. They're
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  Speaker 3: patrol car officers. They were in the neighborhood. So they
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  Speaker 3: answered your call. Right, all right, if we come in,
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  Speaker 3: you're missus Martha done Better? Is that right?
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  Speaker 6: No, not exactly. Oh, it's miss John Better. I'm still single.
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  Speaker 3: I see, man. Would you mind telling us just what
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  Speaker 3: happened this afternoon?
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  Speaker 6: Oh no, no, I don't mind the doll. It's still
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  Speaker 6: quite clear.
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  Speaker 3: Alrighthere'd you go ahead?
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  Speaker 6: What does that gen?
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  Speaker 3: Does he go ahead about this afternoon?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Well, fixed myself's lunch, and then I read up the dishes.
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  Speaker 6: Been about one o'clock by the time, I think. M
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  Speaker 6: after once, I put on my hat and I went.
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  Speaker 5: Down to the library.
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  Speaker 6: It's only a couple of blocks. Yeah, but go to
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  Speaker 6: Cleveland Ranch. I took back my books and checked out
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  Speaker 6: two fresh ones.
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  Speaker 3: Alright, what happened next? When I come home? There was
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  Speaker 3: what's it?
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  Speaker 6: I come home and there he was? Who was that
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  Speaker 6: old man?
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  Speaker 3: Well? Just where was it here?
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  Speaker 6: In my apartment?
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  Speaker 3: No? I mean which room over there?
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  Speaker 5: Bedroom?
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  Speaker 3: I see?
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  Speaker 6: As soon as I come in, I heard him least,
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  Speaker 6: I heard some good moving around.
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  Speaker 7: First I thought it was.
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  Speaker 6: Missus Parker's manager. I know she sneaks into my apartment
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  Speaker 6: and noses around. Well, she says she doesn't I know better? Well,
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  Speaker 6: I said to myself, I got a red handed this time.
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  Speaker 6: So I marched into the bedroom, all ready to give
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  Speaker 6: her a piece of my mind. Well, I was never
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  Speaker 6: so flabbergast of my whole life. He was standing in
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  Speaker 6: front of the dresser going through the pocket book. I
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  Speaker 6: see my black bag and a letter.
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  Speaker 3: So when I was holding m h ma'am, how much
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  Speaker 3: money was in the bank?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'm not positive, not to the penny, about three
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  Speaker 6: hundred dollars and can yes, sir, you see I've been
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  Speaker 6: saving dimes for the last fifteen years.
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  Speaker 3: You mean that's three hundred dollars was in dimes?
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  Speaker 6: Oh goodness, gracious.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 6: What I do is go through my change every night,
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  Speaker 6: but all the dimes and my dime bank, and when
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  Speaker 6: it's fled, I take it down to a river bank
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  Speaker 6: and change the coins and the bills. A dime bank
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  Speaker 6: hold twenty five dollars, I see. Will you'd be surprised
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  Speaker 6: how much Christen can save? That way it mounts up.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 6: You know the denominations of the bell, I guess they
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  Speaker 6: was most of the hands, maybe one or two bigger ones.
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  Speaker 3: What did this man do next? Was not better.
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  Speaker 6: Well, he found money, must three hundred dollars, stuffed it
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  Speaker 6: into his pockets, and he just strolled out of the department.
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  Speaker 6: Biggest life. I was too dumbfounded to do anything about it.
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  Speaker 6: I see it even cramped down the stairs, and then.
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  Speaker 5: I heard the front door slay.
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  Speaker 6: When I was shoot, he was out of the business,
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  Speaker 6: and I managed to get my wits together in a dark,
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  Speaker 6: central central starpretor. He put me in touch with police diation.
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  Speaker 3: Had you ever seen this man before I was done better?
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  Speaker 6: No, I'm sure I never did.
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  Speaker 3: Could you tell us what he looked like?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's a tall man.
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  Speaker 3: How tall?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe as you I'd say.
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  Speaker 3: What color?
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  Speaker 5: Hairy dog, very dark, all right?
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  Speaker 6: Dark eyes too ut inflected, like he'd uh spend a
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  Speaker 6: lot of time outdoors.
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  Speaker 3: How was he dressed?
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  Speaker 1: Shut and pants and.
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  Speaker 6: Jacket A light colored jacket, I think it was green.
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  Speaker 3: Did you notice any scars?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, comforting I did across his forehead. Then, little ziggaby.
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  Speaker 3: How old? What you say was?
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  Speaker 6: Oh? Is your thirty five made to forty?
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  Speaker 3: You know if anybody else saw him, the other tenants not.
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  Speaker 6: I haven't talked to you know, haven't left apartments.
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  Speaker 3: Since it happened you live alone here to you?
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  Speaker 6: Oh mind no, no, my sister message face where is
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  Speaker 6: she this afternoon? But she went out of town for
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  Speaker 6: a few days.
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  Speaker 5: This is the grandson and his family.
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  Speaker 6: They don't auks nod to get her. This morning. I
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  Speaker 6: see Mary's her birthday. It's beatty be they gonna have
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  Speaker 6: quiet celebration, that's ma'am. They're all carrying on.
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  Speaker 3: You think it was such an accomplishment, my other there's
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  Speaker 3: a pretty ripe old edge, ma'am.
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  Speaker 6: I don't see what's ripe about it. Oh, I'm near
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  Speaker 6: the seventy nine myself. Oh, I know, I don't look it.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody thinks there's at least ten years between, and Bessie
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  Speaker 6: is failing.
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  Speaker 3: It's me. There's a couple more questions, But then the
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  Speaker 3: second man chatty, what time was it when you got home.
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  Speaker 1: From the library?
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  Speaker 6: Two forty five? Maybe a few minutes after, No later
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  Speaker 6: than three, though, let me see.
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  Speaker 3: I just fell to get into the apartment. Was the
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  Speaker 3: door lock?
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  Speaker 6: I thought it was. Oh, it's tried to flock it
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  Speaker 6: whenever I go out, but sometimes I do forget. Guess
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  Speaker 6: it dead today?
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  Speaker 3: You think he'd recognize the burger if you saw him again.
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  Speaker 6: I'm boast assured the wood. Nothing the matter with my eyesight.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's fine, And I take you down to the
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  Speaker 3: office with us and show you some pictures. Oh, just
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  Speaker 3: to see if you can identify 'em.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Nicol, like this, I have to change for dress first. Well,
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  Speaker 6: I'm all right for walking around in the neighborhood, but
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  Speaker 6: not for going down.
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  Speaker 3: That's a few men. I'll say it has done better
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  Speaker 3: while I think of it. Who came from Kansas, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: I'll say it.
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  Speaker 6: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the name of this apartment you see, is that
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  Speaker 3: the Peak of Arms. So I figured somebody connected with
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  Speaker 3: it must have come from Kansas. Oh you don't know
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  Speaker 3: who it was?
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  Speaker 6: Then I didn't.
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  Speaker 5: Think, Oh, yes, yes, I remember that.
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  Speaker 6: Was old mister Henderson's diety.
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  Speaker 5: Well you don't say, yes, yes, he.
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  Speaker 6: Was the man who built this building. Well now that
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  Speaker 6: was uh, ohn't see that was almost thirty five years ago.
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  Speaker 6: Learn how term flies?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am, how do you like that? Joe, This mister
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  Speaker 3: Hendrickson came from Kansas.
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  Speaker 6: M oh Ude, Minnesota, Minneapolis, z I reckless? Uh, But
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  Speaker 6: it was his iety just the same, calling it the
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  Speaker 6: Peak of Arms what kind of anautical he read in
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  Speaker 6: the newspaper while the building was growing up. Man said
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  Speaker 6: there was more people in southern California come from Kansas
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  Speaker 6: and then the other state. So Miss Henderson figured it's
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  Speaker 6: the name Topeka would affect a lot of tenants. It's
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  Speaker 6: ridiculous nonsense, said so at the time, there hasn't been
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  Speaker 6: a single solitary one a thirty five years, not so
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  Speaker 6: from Kansas as ever lived here.
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  Speaker 3: Four oh five pm, Frank and I put in a
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  Speaker 3: call at the crime lab while Miss Dunbetter changed her dress.
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  Speaker 3: We checked the other apartments to see if anybody else
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  Speaker 3: had seen the burger. Only one tenant was in missus J. T.
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  Speaker 3: Blade Apartment six, and formeds that she'd been out marketing
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  Speaker 3: at the time of the crime and had just returned home.
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  Speaker 3: Four sixteen pm, Lee Jones and the crew from the
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  Speaker 3: crime lab arrived. They began their investigation and we drove
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  Speaker 3: Missdunebetter down in the city hall. We checked the out
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  Speaker 3: to be file and ran the suspects of description and
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  Speaker 3: m through the Stat's office, and they came up with
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  Speaker 3: seventeen possible. We pulled mugshots and showed them to Miss Dunebetter.
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  Speaker 3: She was unable to make an identification. Six thirteen pm.
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  Speaker 3: Lee Jones reported no useful fingerprints or other physical evidence
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  Speaker 3: in the apartment. Six forty six pm. We drove Miss
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  Speaker 3: Dunbetter home and we went off duty the next day.
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  Speaker 3: May twentieth, eleven seventeen. I am, I'll get it burg
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  Speaker 3: Gary Friday. Who's that? Oh sure, yeah, Wendy come in.
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  Speaker 3: I see, Oh well, I wouldn't know what you look like.
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  Speaker 3: H yeah, we'd like to right, thanks a lot. I
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  Speaker 3: was Chubb Stark. Who you know? Stark the bartender over
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  Speaker 3: the Yellow Camp. Oh yeah, the guy came into his
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  Speaker 3: place last night. He was carrying a pretty big roll.
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  Speaker 3: He threw it around, brought drinks for the house, got
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  Speaker 3: kind of loaded, and did some talk about how easy
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  Speaker 3: he picked up the dough. Just walked in again this morning. Hu,
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  Speaker 3: I like any think to you? Chubb says, he's about
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  Speaker 3: six foot, black hair, Yeah, scar on his forehead. And
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  Speaker 3: I drove out to the Yellow Cat Bar and figure off.
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  Speaker 3: Chubb Stark the bartender pointed out a husky man sitting
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  Speaker 3: in a corner booth. He went over to talk to him.
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  Speaker 3: Your hands on the table and stand up Hi, have
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  Speaker 3: police officers on your feet? Okay, okay, all right, you
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  Speaker 3: need to sit out something meat you guys? What's your name?
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  Speaker 3: What come on? What is it? Port Long, Ralph, Portland?
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  Speaker 3: Where do you live? Oh? Tone, around the corner? How
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  Speaker 3: long you have been staying there? Since last night? How
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  Speaker 3: about before that? Back east? They just got ton yesterday? Whereabouts?
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  Speaker 3: Back east? What kind of a rost is this? Where?
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  Speaker 3: Back east? All over? Chicago, Cleveland? All over? What kind
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  Speaker 3: of business here?
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  Speaker 5: Unemployed?
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  Speaker 3: You got any money? Some? How much? Look? I ain't
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  Speaker 3: no vague if that's what you're getting. How much money
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  Speaker 3: you got? One hundred bucks? Maybe hundred and fifty? Where'd
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  Speaker 3: you get it? I borrow it? Who from Pyle in
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: La Chicago? What's his name? Johnson? Cliff Johnson? You got
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: his address? He moves around same as I do. How
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  Speaker 3: are you gonna pay him back? If you don't know
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  Speaker 3: where he lives? We'll bump into each other. What'd you
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  Speaker 3: say you got in town? Portland?
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  Speaker 5: I told you yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: What time? Six o'clock somewhere in there yesterday morning? Last night?
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  Speaker 3: You sure? Then? Yeah? How'd you come? Train? Car? You
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: ow in the car? I hitched a ride just where
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: were yesterday afternoon, riding into La all afternoon? Yep? What
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  Speaker 3: was the driver's name? Look?
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  Speaker 1: How should I I've been hitching for the last week.
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  Speaker 3: I must throw with twenty different guys. You don't remember
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  Speaker 3: the one you were with yesterday? Nope? Ever been arrested Portland?
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  Speaker 3: Oh the serious. We'll tell us about it. Oh drunk,
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  Speaker 3: that's all? Where was that Ohio?
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  Speaker 1: When I was a kid?
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  Speaker 3: Anything else? Ye? I guess I'm speeding tickets. You ever
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  Speaker 3: been arrested in California? Never been in California? First trip? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Yeahn't exactly make me feel at home either.
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 3: An apartment house called out the peak arms? We're about
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  Speaker 3: six an Olympic? Was that in La? Look? Can't you
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  Speaker 3: get nothing straight? I'd never been here before. How about
• 12:40
  Speaker 3: giving me an answer? Why the rest? Come on, let's
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  Speaker 3: go before we'll show you the science. For instance, city
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  Speaker 3: hall Probably and I took the suspect into custody for
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  Speaker 3: further questioning twelve sixteen pm. We ran the name Ralph
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  Speaker 3: port Long through R and I. They had nothing on him.
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  Speaker 3: We put out an APB with his descriptions, stating that
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  Speaker 3: he was in our custody. The bulletin requested any information
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  Speaker 3: about the suspect and was marked attention Chicago PD and
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  Speaker 3: Cleveland Police Department. Two eighteen pm, we again interviewed port
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  Speaker 3: Long he incestany had not arrived in Los Angeles until
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  Speaker 3: six o'clock the previous evening and refused to say it anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Four rough six pm we received replies to our app
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  Speaker 3: on Portland. Chicago reported two convictions for grand theft auto
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  Speaker 3: and Cleveland reported one conviction for burglary second degree. We
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  Speaker 3: telephone this donebetter and arranged for her to attend a
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  Speaker 3: special show up at the main jail. Six seventeen pm.
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: The show up was completed and Frank and I took
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  Speaker 3: the victim back to our office. Ma'am, you're sure it
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  Speaker 3: isn't the same man?
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  Speaker 6: How good he's gracious out to know. Yes, see how
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  Speaker 6: you would have made.
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: To stick well, it fits your description even to the scar.
• 13:45
  Speaker 6: I told you that this man, Scar is entirely different man.
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: This is wrong too, all right.
• 13:52
  Speaker 6: The other man had some gray in it, right because.
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  Speaker 3: Here well, as you said, he was fairly young.
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  Speaker 5: But he doesn't have to build to get gray and grave.
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  Speaker 6: Since I had my appendix out, I was only thirty four.
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  Speaker 3: Well have you taken home though?
• 14:07
  Speaker 6: Ma'am rested that pool better and he hasn't done anything.
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  Speaker 3: Burglery Friday, Yep, yeah, that's right. When'd you get it? No?
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  Speaker 3: Not yet? Were you notified? Right? Well, I guess we
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: don't need to feel too sorry for port Long me
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: another answer on her APV. Eah, you're right, miss done better.
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: He couldn't have been your burger. It was in Needles
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  Speaker 3: yesterday afternoon. He hits to ride, Yeah, slugged the driver.
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: Ralph port Long was held pending a rival of authorities
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: from Needles. The investigation of the apartment house burgery continued.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: Two more suspects were brought in for questioning. Both men
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  Speaker 3: succeeded in establishing alibis for the time of the crime. Monday,
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: May twenty third, eight pm, Frank and I were on
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: our way back to the office from lunch. How was
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: your pie all right? Just okay? Huh? I said it
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: was all right? Lemon meringue, wasn't it? Yeah? I don't know, Joe.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: You should have had apple. I told you stick with apple,
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: you can't go wrong. The lemon was good. He didn't
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: finish it. I was full. Yeah, Well, someday you'll learn
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: learn what apple pie is always safe. You can't lose
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: it up. Even a bad cook can probably get a
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: little tired of it once in a while. That's all
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: no reason you should switch it around so many different ways. Cheese,
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: olivemos hot sauce. No reason to get tired.
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  Speaker 1: Of apple Sure, hey Joe.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, I just want you to call back. Here's
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: the number today, Sure, Bessie makes it. Who's that, missus Maxon?
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: It's the police department, Sergeant Friday. Yes, that's right, we
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: were the ones. I guess we can there was something wrong.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Be sure that all right? Right away? Thank you for PAULI, goodbye,
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: This done better. Sister, she just got back from Oxnarn. Yeah,
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: she says it never happened. What do you mean the burglary,
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: says her sister made it up. Frank and I drove
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: out to the Tepeka Arms and we went up to
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  Speaker 3: apartment number eight. There was two seventeen when we got there.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Somebody's coming again.
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  Speaker 6: Well, what is it?
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Ms Maxon?
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: That's right, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: Well my name is Friday. I just spoke to you
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  Speaker 3: over the telephone.
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  Speaker 7: No, yes, yes, of course, this is Frank Smith, How
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: do you do?
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  Speaker 6: Come by along inside?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you?
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  Speaker 7: I just don't know what to say. I suppose it's
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: all my fault for going out of town. She never
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: left Mark alone. Might a known she'd be up to something?
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Are you positively sure about this? Miss Maxim? But what?
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: But what if there wasn't any burglary? Huh?
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: Never in a million years?
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: Well, your sister gave us all the details, play acting,
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: that's all it was clay acting.
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: She's done it all alive.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: I see you mean, miss done better?
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: Isn't My sister is as sane as you are.
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: If that's what you're driving at.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Well, why did you tell us that story? You know?
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: Haven't got the biggest notion? She simply won't give me
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: any explanation. Oh, I said the story was true. Why
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: won't she fase me? Why is she hightened?
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Heidi?
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: Minute I told her I was going to call you,
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: She locked herself.
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: In the bathroom, been in there for two hours now.
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: She simply refuses to come out.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Well, we'd like to talk to her if we can.
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll try again.
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: That's the jurity. I may have some influence.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: You think we're getting run around, Joe.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: It's sound good way to it?
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Martha, Martha, you've come out there this instant Martha
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: dumb bettter?
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Do you hear me?
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: The police done wants to talk to you.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Now come out.
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: The police are here.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: I won't. I will never come up.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: I never heard. It's such childishness, you see.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: I'm not able to do a thing with her.
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: Maybe if you speak to us, you'll come to us senses,
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: sister care, I'm like this. I don't know how I'll
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: ever be able to hold my head up again.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: It's scantless, Miss done better? This is a Sergeant Friday,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Miss done better. Will you come out so we can
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: talk to you? It's done better?
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: Where it's about time? Whatever were you're thinking of?
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Martha?
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: What got into you? I'm speaking to you, Betty.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Let's going to the other little easier to talk there?
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: Not speaking to me?
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: Well, two can play at that game, and I assure
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: you I won't be the one who suffers.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: So down Now I'm done better? Can we clear this
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: thing up? Now? Your sister says there wasn't any murder.
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: What she knows? She wasn't here?
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Was she?
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: I know because I know you and I know you
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: never had three hundred dollars to your name.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: I did too. Where'd you get it? Where'd you get it?
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: None of your business?
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: All right now? How about it was done better? Did
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: you have three hundred dollars?
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: Well, I said it was that the three hundred penny
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: three dollars would be more like it. There happens to
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: be a few things you don't know about, including my
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: savings a likely story.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: You never saved a penny and you're not.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: What about Madame? I shook it the other day? I
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: thank you to keep your hands off my property savings.
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: Indeed, if I didn't pay most of the expenses around here,
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: you'd start today.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: I mean, he's quite little before you moved in on me, Bessy,
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: and I was perfectly happy living alone. Matter that's I
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: preferred that arrange. But maybe you'd like to try it again.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: Maybe I would sure be money ahead. Don't do you
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: hark me? Betsy maxism not to see the way she
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: eats covered apple gobbles and shovels it down. Stuffing not fens.
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: I don't have any more after taking the bird.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: Bud, don't nip the cooking sher and box it's done better?
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: How can you say such a thing because I know
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: it's true. I'm off the bottle.
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: Well, whatever I do, I don't fit to the police
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: like some people.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: I could name. Well, Miss Dumby, I made exaggerated respect.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: You need to do no harm.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I wonder if you know it's against the latifier, false
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: police report.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: It'st the long dere you see, you're going to jail.
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: I knew what had happened. I knew that sooner or later.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: You disgrace all of us.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Why did you do it? You must have had a reason, ma'am.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: I won't tell you from her, I won't.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Let's see if you mind waiting in the other room
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: for a couple of minutes in its.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: Maxim, I most certainly.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Would would appreciate it if you would.
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: Oh, very well, very well, you think I was the
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: criminal around here?
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: All right, let's start better.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: Tell us now it's very difficult to explain.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: I'll give it a try, and see.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: It was all on kind of her. Bessie started from
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: those little girls. Because she's older, she's always lord and
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: it open when Daddy always gave her everything first. And madam,
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: it's all about basis hand me down. When I grew up,
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: I couldn't push myself very much.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: She's just the opposite.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: There the ball. She had a pick of all the
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: young gentlemen in town. The only time they take me
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: out was when Bessie is busy and think. She didn't
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: let me know that I had second choice on the
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: reason she married a horace, Because it took a fancy
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: to me. I had my pride too, wouldn't settle to
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: her left overs. That's why I stayed single. I see,
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: at least she could have done. Name one of the
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: little girls after me. After all, I'm my oldest sister.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: IMS have done better. You still haven't told us why
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: you reported the burdenary.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: I am telling you, yes, no, the kind of her birthday.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: No, that was the last job. She hasn't talked about
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: anything else for months and months.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: I suppose she's.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: Eighty years old. You'd think she's the queen of Romania.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: A picture and the paper of people making a fuss
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: about her, and I made up my mind that for
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: once in my life someone was going to make a
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: fuss about me. Tell you the truth, I'm not a
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: bit sy I did it.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: I mean, yes, I shouldn't be sorry, but I'm not.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: I really enjoyed myself all those questions you asked me
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: like I was somebody. My name was in the papers too,
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: the first time it had happened stream when you come
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: to think about it, to live seventy nine years without
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: ever seen your name in frihim. Oh but that wasn't
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: the best part, ma'am. The best part was Basy not
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: being able to horn in and take all the credits.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: I needn't sign me out sooner or later, but I
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: didn't care. I sure had to laugh on her all
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: the time. She's a oxnow being poulted.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: I was having little parties. Mona.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Well, you know you didn't need to put us through
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: all as Miss done Better. You're almost eighty, yourself over.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: A year away when your my age can't be sure
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: of anything. Even when I, Lady vest will still be ahead,
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: should be going on ninety.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: The story you've just heard is true. The names have
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: been changed to protect the innocent.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Due to the advanced age of Miss Martha done Better
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: and because of her assurances that she would never repeat
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: her actions. No charge as we're filed against it.
• 24:01
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