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Dragnet - "Twenty-Two Rifle for Christmas" (Old Time Radio, 1952) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: December twenty first, nineteen fifty two brought Dragnet episode number
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  Speaker 1: one hundred eighty three to NBC. In twenty two, Rifle
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  Speaker 1: for Christmas, Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith of
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  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Police Department's Homicide Detail investigate the disappearance
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  Speaker 1: of a nine year old boy from his home. Their
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  Speaker 1: inquiry gains urgency when they learn that a twenty two
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  Speaker 1: caliber rifle intended as a Christmas present has vanished as well.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Webb stars as Friday with Ben Alexander as Smith.
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  Speaker 1: In a script by James Moser, we now take you
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  Speaker 1: back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, the story you were about to hear
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  Speaker 2: is cool.
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  Speaker 3: The names I've been changed to protect the innocent. You're
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  Speaker 3: a detective sergeant. You're assigned to homicide details. A small
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  Speaker 3: boy is reported missing from his home. His age nine
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  Speaker 3: years I'll play is suspected. Your job find.
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  Speaker 4: Him Dragment the documented drum of an actual crime.
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  Speaker 5: While the next.
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  Speaker 4: Thirty minutes, in cooperation of the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 4: you will travel, step.
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  Speaker 2: By a step on the side of the laws to
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  Speaker 2: an actual case.
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  Speaker 4: Save from official police files from beginning to end, from
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  Speaker 4: crime to punishment. Drag Net is the story of your
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  Speaker 4: police force and actions.
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  Speaker 2: With third you. December twenty seconds with cold Walls.
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  Speaker 3: Let's we're working with watch out a habitide divitis. My
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  Speaker 3: favate folk left the box, bad Brad with he got
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  Speaker 3: his fri fid. I've gone the way into work and
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  Speaker 3: it was three fifty five pm when I got to them.
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  Speaker 2: Forty two homicide. Hi, don't thanks, but still it?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, nothing's pretty quiss.
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  Speaker 3: I come out of like Cole still hanging on a
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  Speaker 3: bad cough, got says not serious.
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  Speaker 2: So my kid's got the same thing. Let's see some
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  Speaker 2: kind of a virus going around, you know.
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  Speaker 6: What I mean?
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  Speaker 2: So you got all the reports to that websit take you?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't tak care of I get it.
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  Speaker 5: Homicide fighting for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? What's doing? Darny and I are here on.
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  Speaker 5: Mam Sam your four six fights? They can join a
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  Speaker 5: track down and not your own boy?
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  Speaker 2: What's the story? Yeah, how long have you been going? About?
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  Speaker 5: Two hours? Looks like a jos for homicide. How do
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  Speaker 5: you figure back out of his home?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: He checked over the yard.
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  Speaker 2: If anything Monday, let's do.
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  Speaker 3: Frank and I left the message for chief. Did he
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  Speaker 3: take your sad Brown? Then we went over to the
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  Speaker 3: crime lab, picked up Rade Thinker and drove out the
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  Speaker 3: earlier Seaco free away to Holland Avenue. It was a
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  Speaker 3: Laverage neighborhood number forty six fifty six was a one
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  Speaker 3: story green stucco residence situated on the corner of Hollow Family.
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  Speaker 2: They went to Harris and Drive beyond.
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  Speaker 3: The backyard was attractive undeveloped lands covered with scrubbles. Harry
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  Speaker 3: Levinson from Holland Park Huvenal was waiting for us in
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  Speaker 3: front of the house.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that where I tell it, Kevin Ray the
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  Speaker 2: gout in my bag? Who the tied you?
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  Speaker 4: The boy was lifting hearing the mother said she went
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  Speaker 4: down to some Christmas shopping about eleven this morning, left
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  Speaker 4: the boy home, came back about to staff and on
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  Speaker 4: he was young.
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  Speaker 5: What's the name of Johnstone? The kid name is family
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  Speaker 5: nine years old.
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  Speaker 2: The guy don't like this when you got.
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  Speaker 4: Here, Yeah, we haven't got the things they have the
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  Speaker 4: things over here, and you think along the edge of
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  Speaker 4: the walk there you say, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Honest, see.
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  Speaker 2: It's quite a few things.
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  Speaker 5: It's like a mnd me blood Trent some benziting on. Hell,
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  Speaker 5: h see what happened?
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  Speaker 2: What was the kid's mother? And now I see him
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  Speaker 2: in the house. Thought he's talking to she talked to
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  Speaker 2: and he was other people next door, the ones on
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  Speaker 2: the sheet. They couldn't tell us something.
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  Speaker 4: I just tell us Leary, he supposed that couple of
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  Speaker 4: bends the indertending blue websains are can't say definitely on
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  Speaker 4: its human.
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  Speaker 2: Animals back a labor through WILF Pacifisen test.
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  Speaker 5: Anyone who's plays my off in a.
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  Speaker 2: Bag with you?
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  Speaker 5: Well lest yeah, thanks, said some of these flakes off
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  Speaker 5: the tests?
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  Speaker 2: You know, how soon can you?
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  Speaker 4: Type of blood patray Pacific tests won't run one twenty minutes,
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  Speaker 4: take three four hours to learn the blood grouping them.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, that's it. Anything else you want to say, let
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  Speaker 5: me just see? Yeah, right here under the tin can
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  Speaker 5: empty shell.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty two.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I might die and might now markets and government
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  Speaker 4: then won't you? Hey, you go you gotta looking back?
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  Speaker 4: Yes for the boy here, yeah, thought he.
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  Speaker 2: Did about half an hour ago.
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  Speaker 5: Here the description idea.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, I want to know about the blood stains. No,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't tell her. She's worried enough already. She has
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  Speaker 2: no idea, what might have happened. We're going her no
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  Speaker 2: more than we do. Check to all the friends or
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  Speaker 2: otors recovering the neighborhood. No trace so far, not much
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  Speaker 2: to go on. Bloodstains, empty cartridge could mean a hundred things,
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  Speaker 2: and the ideas study just one and I don't like it.
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  Speaker 3: Four point thirty pm, Thursday, December twenty second the neighborhood
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  Speaker 3: search for nine year old family Johnstone continued. Ray Tinker
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  Speaker 3: went back to the crime lab to start the precipitate
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  Speaker 3: test in the blood grouping eleven. Sim and his partners
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  Speaker 3: Doughty from Highland.
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  Speaker 2: Juvenile stood by.
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  Speaker 5: We called keep it.
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  Speaker 3: He take his bad brown and he ordered up a
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  Speaker 3: special detail to aid in the search for the missing boy.
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  Speaker 3: Frank and I questioned the boy's mother, missus Ruth Johnstone,
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  Speaker 3: a woman in her early forties.
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  Speaker 7: She seems fairly calm under the circumstances.
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  Speaker 4: As john Stone as your boys, Familey, and the habit
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  Speaker 4: of wandering off without telling you where he's going.
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  Speaker 8: You know he's not in the habit of wandering uh,
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  Speaker 8: but he has done it before.
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  Speaker 5: That was the last time, so you don't have any children.
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  Speaker 8: James Tyson Friday no, Well, it comes that time in
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  Speaker 8: every young boy's life when he feels that it's time
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  Speaker 8: to leave home go out on his own. Usually happened
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  Speaker 8: somewhere around eight to ten.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely, I know what you mean, private boy.
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  Speaker 9: And then you know how it is.
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  Speaker 8: My husband and my school would have stne the one
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  Speaker 8: afternoon after school, and he was quite put out about it.
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  Speaker 8: But George and I were unfair tack to feel these
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  Speaker 8: things and left all hours gone now, no time at all,
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  Speaker 8: about two hours. I was worried about him, but my
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  Speaker 8: husband said to leave him alone, said, every boy had
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  Speaker 8: to go through that stage.
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  Speaker 7: Well, then you think he's going away from home again
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  Speaker 7: this time?
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  Speaker 9: Believe yes, I think so.
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  Speaker 8: He's been gone about four hours now.
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  Speaker 2: No, I have a funny feeling about it.
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  Speaker 3: But Joan's father happened to have some misunderstanding with a
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  Speaker 3: boy who well, that's just.
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  Speaker 8: It we happened.
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  Speaker 9: I don't mind telling you.
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  Speaker 8: Not that we're talking about it.
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  Speaker 10: I'm getting worried.
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  Speaker 3: Any place around that you might like to visit, a
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  Speaker 3: hobby shop or a playground.
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  Speaker 7: Something like that where he might be.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, it's Jacly model shop that will have in neods.
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  Speaker 8: But I've already called there, and he hasn't see how
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  Speaker 8: days I've called.
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  Speaker 7: All of his friends.
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  Speaker 2: You may have no life. They either way like a
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  Speaker 2: list of all of his friends in the places he
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  Speaker 2: was not a frequent man.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, all right, I'll give them to you. What do
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  Speaker 8: you suppose he is?
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  Speaker 2: Why is your husband? No, missus downstow at work?
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  Speaker 5: George works for the city. He's a fireman.
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  Speaker 8: What house does the station at Mginy Company twelve? He's
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  Speaker 8: working at eight or twenty? To him tomorrow morning. I
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  Speaker 8: haven't told him that Stanley's gone.
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  Speaker 2: Was there any chance that the boy might be down
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  Speaker 2: to fire off with his finest? No, he's telling him
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  Speaker 2: goes down there anymore.
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  Speaker 9: No, I don't think he's there.
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  Speaker 8: I must be worried. Now I call my husband when you're.
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  Speaker 9: I know George will be worried. Jammy's been gone too long. Hello,
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  Speaker 9: May I speak with George Johnstone? This is missus Johnstone?
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  Speaker 7: Thank you?
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  Speaker 2: I hate to call.
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  Speaker 9: George of his work.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I sure have money done? Then?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, what child? Would you know?
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  Speaker 9: It's forty five automatic? Bab You've got me George, Well,
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  Speaker 9: this is Ruth. George is standing down there with you.
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  Speaker 9: By any chance. Oh, no, I can't find him anywhere.
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  Speaker 9: He wasn't here when I came home from during my sapping.
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  Speaker 9: There are two policemen here, No, I said, there are
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  Speaker 9: two policemen here. No, dear, I'll call you if we
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  Speaker 9: don't find him soon. Oh all right, yes, you too. Bye.
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  Speaker 7: What did you think you'd do with George?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's forty five.
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  Speaker 7: That's the only gun in the household.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, Why are you asking about guns? If anything happen,
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  Speaker 9: you're not telling me about.
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  Speaker 2: No, man, that's routine. Seconds. We'll have to take a
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  Speaker 2: look at that forty five If you don't.
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  Speaker 8: Mind, maybe I should tell you we do have another
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  Speaker 8: gun in the house, but it's all wrapped up. George
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  Speaker 8: got its Downy's Christmas press.
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  Speaker 5: You look at the police.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, but you have to unwrap itself. I think that
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  Speaker 9: can recent you had hid. Let me see.
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  Speaker 6: Well, he's the pace that was rapping.
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  Speaker 8: Trying to Rapasim isn because he's a gift card and
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  Speaker 8: the box of time came in rifle.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh at the box man, Thank you about it?
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  Speaker 7: Job twenty two calibers.
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  Speaker 3: Thursday December twenty second, five fifteen pm was getting dark.
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  Speaker 3: The search for the missing boy continued. We checked the
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  Speaker 3: list of Stanley Johnstone's friends. None of them or their
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  Speaker 3: parents had any idea of us whereabouts. We talked with
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  Speaker 3: Levinthon again he's.
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  Speaker 7: Been in touch with the detail cambing the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 3: So they found nothing. We went down to Hollop Avenue.
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  Speaker 7: And tenth Street service station on the.
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  Speaker 2: Corner why don John No, I got one. We watched
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  Speaker 2: the two simis death.
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  Speaker 7: Just seven place.
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  Speaker 5: I have figured Yeah, yo, don't kidding.
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  Speaker 2: No, not get how are you coming?
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  Speaker 5: Rights of human blood?
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  Speaker 6: Uh?
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  Speaker 7: Where't other blood moved down?
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  Speaker 5: You know what type of gains? Don't pay?
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  Speaker 6: Well?
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  Speaker 2: We didn't want to upset his money.
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  Speaker 5: I thought I was the last thing in.
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  Speaker 6: The neighborhood of the family.
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  Speaker 5: Position that way you want to disturb it?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we figured out there people in that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I think the Boston called.
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  Speaker 2: Lay fad bound out here that caeculated, right.
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  Speaker 8: Me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a gonn just check the great thinkers.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know it's human blood. When do you think
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  Speaker 4: we talked for the boy's mother, mister john still sound
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  Speaker 4: of the gunman?
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  Speaker 6: Think?
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  Speaker 5: Yep, calibut is the same as the empty cation.
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  Speaker 2: Revenson found twenty two because.
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  Speaker 5: The gun was missing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the jobs dolls are going to give it to
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  Speaker 4: the boy's Christmas crazy. I had to give him, but
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  Speaker 4: it's gone now any idea who took it? Whatever it was,
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  Speaker 4: they left the Christmas rapping the night I relieved it
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  Speaker 4: with the kid.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty two yaphones and then your old boy, when are
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  Speaker 2: we going to learn? Past the sky?
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  Speaker 4: By pans on the fourth of July. They said he
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  Speaker 4: should ordinance after ordinance, but a few thousand kids around
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  Speaker 4: the country had to lose their eyes sing his hands
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  Speaker 4: for the parents to give.
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  Speaker 2: Us the foll cooperation and autolous. I know it to
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  Speaker 2: me here you do?
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  Speaker 4: You and every other cop in the country became the
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  Speaker 4: heavy kind of clamp down on him.
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  Speaker 2: It was the same story. This time it's gun for
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  Speaker 2: Christophon on.
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  Speaker 7: Which she's eating people.
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  Speaker 2: We're not sure yet.
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  Speaker 7: Listened Friday.
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  Speaker 2: There's the city ordinance against giving a gun to a.
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  Speaker 5: Kid, now you know that. Yeah, I know there's a
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  Speaker 5: missing boy and a missing.
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  Speaker 4: Gun's but on the ground on an empty shell.
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  Speaker 2: That's enough for me. I was going to stay with it.
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  Speaker 2: Toothing's got to break. Yeah, I hope it's not the
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  Speaker 2: House of that kid's parents.
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  Speaker 5: To look at fort.
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  Speaker 2: Price you what he got here? I saw on the
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  Speaker 2: gun on the twenty two right, so I said, in
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  Speaker 2: fired recently when you find it back up?
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  Speaker 4: Then at struggle behind the Johnstone house, Missus Johnstone identified it,
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  Speaker 4: but they took it down.
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  Speaker 7: The crime left the snay theory.
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  Speaker 4: Miss Johnson us Pott's sick now to be dinner with
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  Speaker 4: something else, he said. As another one missing, an eight
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  Speaker 4: year old boy.
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  Speaker 3: Six point thirty pm, we talked with Alice Tilloughby about
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  Speaker 3: the other missing boy. He told us that his name
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  Speaker 3: was Stephen Martin, eight years old. His family had just
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  Speaker 3: moved into the neighborhood. It seemed that no one besides
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  Speaker 3: the Martin family knew that the boys played together. Missus
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  Speaker 3: Martin told us that Stephen told her that he was
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  Speaker 3: going out to play and be home by six o'clock
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  Speaker 3: for dinner. She told us that he was an unusually
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  Speaker 3: pomp boy and almost never overstated his playtimes.
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  Speaker 2: We got a description of the Martin boy.
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  Speaker 3: And put on a missing broadcast. We called the Johnstone
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  Speaker 3: family doctor. He told us that family's blood was type old.
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  Speaker 3: At seven PM, we talked again with Missus john Martin.
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  Speaker 8: Are you sure, missus Johnson doesn't know where the boys are.
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  Speaker 7: There's no ideam, Missus Martin.
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  Speaker 10: That's awful.
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  Speaker 9: Appears more to this thing something you're not telling you.
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  Speaker 7: There's many stuff sections til we know a few more
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  Speaker 7: things for sureman.
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  Speaker 9: And you're all hurting something back.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's kind of have to way, miss Martin. There's
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  Speaker 3: certain questions we have to ask, routine questions.
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  Speaker 7: And any kind of investigation.
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  Speaker 9: Is there anything else you want to know?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am. What's your boy's blood?
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  Speaker 9: Type funny question? Do you think anything's happened to him?
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  Speaker 11: Have you thought?
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  Speaker 9: I mean, you're not telling him.
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  Speaker 7: No, ma'am. We haven't found him and we don't think anything's.
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  Speaker 5: Happened to him.
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  Speaker 6: He's blood death.
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  Speaker 9: Well I think I haven't written down to Davie's baby book.
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  Speaker 9: M yes, yes, here it is. The type is old.
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  Speaker 2: I O, thank you?
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  Speaker 7: What if I use your phone?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, of course it's in the hall.
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  Speaker 7: You're right back, Frank, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: To six seven Yeah, both TYPEO.
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  Speaker 3: Still no sign up either of the missing boys. See that,
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  Speaker 3: Detective Dad Brown went back to headquarters.
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  Speaker 7: To direct the search. From there, he dispatched.
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  Speaker 3: Another detail of fifty men to aid in the hunts
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  Speaker 3: for the missing youngsters. Eight thirty pm was getting cold.
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  Speaker 3: The sister scrollers were warned to expect the freeze. We
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  Speaker 3: went back up the block to see Missus Johnstone. Her
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  Speaker 3: husband had quit work early and returned home.
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  Speaker 7: We talked with him.
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  Speaker 3: He could tell us nothing more than we already knew.
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  Speaker 3: We still had not informed either of the families about
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  Speaker 3: the bloodstains and the empty Countrege casing which had been
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  Speaker 3: discovered in the backyard of the Johnstone home. It was
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  Speaker 3: more than possible if they had a right to know
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  Speaker 3: about our findings, but Frank and I felt there was
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  Speaker 3: no cause to add to their distress at this particular time.
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  Speaker 3: The two Manything boys were found alive and well, then
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  Speaker 3: the bloodstains in the.
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  Speaker 7: Country would be of no concern to the relief panet.
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  Speaker 3: At eight forty pm, Frank and I left the Johnstone
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  Speaker 3: house and went to the home of mister and missus
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  Speaker 3: John Martin.
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  Speaker 5: Missus Martin, you said your husband worked in the market.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, he telephoned about fifteen minutes ago and said he
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  Speaker 9: was closing up right away, to be here any minutes.
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  Speaker 9: I do wish Stevie would call or come home. So
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  Speaker 9: cold out to night. All he had on was a
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  Speaker 9: Sam cotton jacket.
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  Speaker 7: I was trying to story, we're doing anything again. He'll
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: be all right.
• 16:29
  Speaker 9: Stevie saw that such a sensitive man, and the boy
• 16:32
  Speaker 9: was so close. I know he's terribly up fifth.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, Sam, and you're sure there's no place. You might
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: have forgotten some place.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: For the boy might be no no place.
• 16:42
  Speaker 9: Oh, if anything, patten the boy was to kill John.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: Missus Martin, John g thank you.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Sire. Yeah, here Johnstone chased and find.
• 17:10
  Speaker 9: He's home, Sis, and he's come home.
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: Thank God, he's all right.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: The word no. No.
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: His clothes are all day the exactly a strange I never.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Seen anything after all the name of his answer.
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: He just came in the front door and he said hello, Mom,
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: and then he sat down on a chair and stared
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: at the floor. He talked to his father in the
• 17:30
  Speaker 8: mount office.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Auco No, go ahead.
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: I asked him about the little Martin boy.
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: He wouldn't tell me a thing for worthy.
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: Now right over there in the living Laforna looks all right, yeah, son, Son,
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: this is a police officer.
• 17:48
  Speaker 9: He wants to talk to you.
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: Don't go pray, Gary, and he wants to ask you
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: some questions.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: Son.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: You see stay Stanley, come on, boy, look at me.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Yes, you guess you had him.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Start. He has your mother pretty worried.
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: You know that.
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: Want to tell for event, So we should try to
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: get into eating it or something.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: You hear. That's hut want something? Stanleys?
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: Another little boy up the street who has him?
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Come home?
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: You know where he is?
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: His father and mother are worried about him too, just
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: like your folks were.
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: Got to help us find him.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: Son.
• 18:28
  Speaker 9: I killed him.
• 18:30
  Speaker 10: I killed he with between two wait on, tim, but
• 18:35
  Speaker 10: I killed him oh you know.
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: You're killed a lady.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: He's only heard.
• 18:40
  Speaker 9: Good.
• 18:41
  Speaker 10: I'm really good. The gun and up we forgot me
• 18:46
  Speaker 10: parts in it.
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: Where is he Stanley?
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: I didn't I was good. I didn't want anybody to
• 18:53
  Speaker 10: find him.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Where did you hide him?
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: Son?
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: I didn't look. We love out.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Do you want to show us where his Stanley?
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: I s please don't see me? Care up.
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: Nine fifteen pm, thirty December twenty second.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Nine year old family Johnstone led the way up the
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: hill behind the backyard of his home. He showed us
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: the wagon he moved the body in. His father came
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: along with us. About fifty feet from the crest of
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: the hill, the boy pointed to a thick of a scrubble.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: There we found a small cave holding the body of
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Stephen Martin.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: It was a single bullet wound in his chest, just
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: below his heart.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: He was dead.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: He covered the body.
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: Fly. How did it happened?
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: M I want the folks had been the Christmas? He
• 19:48
  Speaker 10: knew that lugman. God really that box.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Of books with it when you're bunning Stephens.
• 19:56
  Speaker 10: Messa, I was taken it he ming, He said, God
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: hadn't been a smoth right now?
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Well, why do you think you killed him?
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: As you're telling the truth. I'm a inst truth.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I believe your son. Why do you think you killed him?
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: I done?
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: He stood a love of sing good?
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: Did it?
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: I stood a live good prismas?
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: And my fault?
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: Will? Have you been all this time?
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: The pen, the students?
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: What were you doing in this?
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: Sir?
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: I was pran every friends and god'lable.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: After a thorough investigation, Frank and I were convinced that
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: the shooting.
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: Of Stephen Martin was accidental.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Raye Painter's finding substantiated a job Stone boy's story, even.
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: To the small detail.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: We get an a call to the coroner's office and
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: acquinted him with the facts.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: He designated a local wants.
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: A way to handle a body pending on topsy and wether.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Dispermission to remove the body to the Martin home. Missus
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Michael collapsed. The family doctor was called. Frank and I
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: sat in the living room to wait for John Martin,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: the dead boy's father. He mister, yes, you're the police.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Yes, where is Peter withere's my wife? That's my boy?
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Come home? Where have you found him?
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: Yes? Where is he?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Steve?
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: See me? Well? Steve hurts me. Yes, where is he?
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: I want to see him?
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: It hurt pretty bad?
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Where is he?
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: I want to see him?
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Hold back pretty bad?
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: He stay.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: If I a week, that's six?
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: You want to.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: Will a week?
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: Don't make him higher on the stuff this morn.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: I want to see my boy. You don't want a
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: nice things for Christmas? The new modes be.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Could give a train, new tie for the train, the one.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: With the groomy Wson, because it's wanted the expect.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: What things go on?
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: Christiness?
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: I got it? Books, it's good.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: What's the matter?
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: What happened? There was Maxidon?
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: He was playing with a Johnstone boy up the street,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: playing with a gun and went off.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: But what was the other boys? His family?
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: Johnstone with maximum.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Where you're going? I'd rather see that boy? He had
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: no idea what the dead boy's father had in mind.
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: We didn't feel that we could try to restrain him.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: We went along without the street to the.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: Gunstone Hall.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Had to steepe his father, where's your boy? Where's your boy?
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: In fact?
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: Here?
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: Want to come in.
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: All right, miss Johnstone?
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah you would have bought it was with Stevie.
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: Yes, what's your name? Damn?
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry to learn.
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: I know it wasn't your fault, then.
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: I will.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: I wonder if you'd do something for me. Yes, I've
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: got a lot of nice presents for Stevie. I know
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: he wants you to have them. I want to give
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: him to you Christmas eve.
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: I think i'd be a fine idea of Tim.
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: Come on, right, well, what's it going to prove, Josh?
• 26:03
  Speaker 11: You don't give a kidding gun for Christmas?
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: The story you have just heard was true.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: The names were changed to protect the elephants.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: On December twenty fourth, the coroner's inquest was held in
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: the County Morgue, County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: In a moment the results of that inquest.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: At the coroner's inquest, it was officially recorded that Stephen
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Martin's death was the result of an accident. Stanley Johnstone
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: was absolved of any legal responsibility for his friend's death.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: from official files.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Technical advice comes from.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: The Office Chief of Police W. H.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: Potter, Los Angeles Police Department Technical Advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe,
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Fans Bracers hurt. Tonight were Ben Alexander,
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: William Johnstone, Sammy.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: Ard, script by Jim Mozy, music by Walter Schumann hel
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: give Me Speaking.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: This concludes Dragnet twenty two Rifle for Christmas. Follow Dragnet
• 27:25
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