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The Big Cowboy [episode 250], Broadcast 6/1/1954 · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. The story you were about to hear
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: is true. The names have been changed to protect the
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: innocent drag nets. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: homicide detail. You get a call to investigate unknown trouble.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: The caller gives no indication of what's wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Your job. Check it out.
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: It was Saturday, July eighteenth, was warm in Los Angeles.
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: We were working a day watch at a homicide detail.
• 0:45
  Speaker 3: My partner's Frank Smith. The boss's Captain Mormon. My name
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: is Fridays.
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  Speaker 2: We're on our way back from questioning a suspect. And
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  Speaker 2: it was ten fifty six am when I got back
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  Speaker 2: to our car. Yeared one key. Did you get me
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: a pactor?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Here, thanks, say Joel book.
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: Wonder if you do me a favor? I just did?
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: I bought your pack cigarettes? No? Something else?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I've been thinking about taking a sergeant's exam. See
• 1:13
  Speaker 5: if I can crack at this time. Now, I figure
• 1:16
  Speaker 5: I got about six months before they're gonna hold him again.
• 1:19
  Speaker 5: Gives me plenty of time to get ready a lot
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  Speaker 5: of work. I'm gonna have to really hustle the books,
• 1:23
  Speaker 5: you know, Yeah, I know. I talked to say about
• 1:25
  Speaker 5: it last night. Got it all squared away. I and
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  Speaker 5: laws ain't gonna come out this year. That's what lost
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  Speaker 5: me up last year. It is suh Joe. You know
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  Speaker 5: our house, we had army cops all over the place,
• 1:37
  Speaker 5: kids running au on scream and nobody can.
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  Speaker 2: Study like that. You know you're gonna be able to
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: work out the classes, Well, I'm gonna have to.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure he was the extra money playing Me'd like
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  Speaker 5: to do some work on the house.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the only way we could do is to try
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  Speaker 2: and make Sergeant there what we want me to do.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I don't wonder if he kind of helped me
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  Speaker 5: out along the way. You made it and tell me
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  Speaker 5: what to do, what what's out for?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I do what I can, But there's anybody who
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: can make it for it besides yourself. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know raft what this is all. Here in my corner, albody,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be in your corner.
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  Speaker 4: Attention to all units.
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  Speaker 2: You better get the help.
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  Speaker 6: All units at fifty two ninety one Lama around the street.
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  Speaker 6: Investigate on known trouble. That's at five two nine one
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  Speaker 6: Loma around the Street. Investigate on known trouble car eleven
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  Speaker 6: f nine three. Take the call code three KMA three
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  Speaker 6: sixty seven Miss Miranda.
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  Speaker 2: Now isn't here, Yeah, sixty one hundred block. We must
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  Speaker 2: just pass the place.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see any injury me either, was code three.
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  Speaker 3: It's important making you and we'll go back and check
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  Speaker 3: it out.
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  Speaker 2: Right, you should be up here on the right fifty
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  Speaker 2: eight hundred. Couple blocks up there and they take it easy.
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  Speaker 2: You should be in here. Yeah. You does look like
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  Speaker 2: there's any trouble and this is it. You won't pull up? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: at the back of the court. Fifty two ninety one.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing going on.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, well, maybe i'd better verify that address. Huh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: one cade or to control one.
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  Speaker 6: Control one to one cade.
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  Speaker 3: Don't go ahead? Would you repeat the address on the
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  Speaker 3: call to La Miranda Street and buy one cady?
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  Speaker 2: You mean no, there's probably some kids having.
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  Speaker 6: A time, Uh, control one to one kde Oh that address,
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  Speaker 6: it's fifty two ninety one Lamaranda five two nine one
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  Speaker 6: La Miranda.
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  Speaker 3: Roger control one one cad oh code six of that
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  Speaker 3: address CAMA three six.
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  Speaker 2: Sym U, this is it and I better check it out. Uh. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know there's nothing wrong here. Doesn't look like it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't m there's somebody back there, Joe, see him at
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  Speaker 2: the window, get out, thank him? How about it?
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  Speaker 3: And I know one thing, sure, Yeah, they didn't send
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  Speaker 3: for us. The five units of the court were arranged
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  Speaker 3: in the shape of the U.
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  Speaker 2: Fifteen ninety one was the building at the far end.
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  Speaker 3: In the center, running between the two wings was a
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  Speaker 3: grass area. Large palm trees were growing at either end,
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  Speaker 3: and there was a wrought iron table and.
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  Speaker 2: Four chairs in the center of the area.
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  Speaker 3: And what we could see of the building the shot
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  Speaker 3: had come from. The only door was the one facing us.
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  Speaker 3: Frank and I dipped over to the left side of
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  Speaker 3: the court to the unit occupied by the manager. We
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  Speaker 3: waited on the porch until the Pellamy tide that had
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: been assigned to the call arrived. While the officers from
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  Speaker 3: the unit covered the house. Frank and I went to
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  Speaker 3: the manager's place.
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  Speaker 2: And talked to him. He identified himself as Marshall Rice.
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  Speaker 2: He appeared to be nervous and upset, and.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know why it should be so tough. You
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  Speaker 4: get him out of there, that's all I care about.
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  Speaker 4: Just get him out of what'd you say?
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  Speaker 2: The man's name was Sedley Gray.
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  Speaker 4: He's the one who called the police, and I called
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  Speaker 4: him right after he took a I wasn't gonna wait
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  Speaker 4: around for no repeat performance.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you have any idea why he's.
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  Speaker 4: Doing this, only one that makes any sense. What's that
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  Speaker 4: he's wigged? Sir Flipville, he's gone straight up?
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  Speaker 2: Did you talk to him this morning?
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  Speaker 4: You know, went back there about eight thirty one to
• 5:12
  Speaker 4: get some things straightened out, said, and they had a
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  Speaker 4: cup of coffee with him. Charlotte Who Charlotte his wife
• 5:17
  Speaker 4: real dials. She sure don't deserve to come up with
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  Speaker 4: a flip like him out he's seen live? You mean
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  Speaker 4: when I talked to Simple show all right, I didn't
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  Speaker 4: notice anything. If I had, I had called you instead
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  Speaker 4: of waiting for this happen for what'd you talk about?
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  Speaker 4: Different things? We've been planning on doing a little remodeling,
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  Speaker 4: you know, paint and paper. H Dudley's been helping me.
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  Speaker 4: Lost his job a couple of months ago. Since then,
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  Speaker 4: he's just been sitting around watching the TV. I'm doing
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  Speaker 4: a liquor work, so I asked him to give me
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  Speaker 4: a hand with a redecorating. Guy's already six weeks behind.
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  Speaker 4: His rent just goes to show. Uh huh, So you
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  Speaker 4: try to be nice there a guy, try to give
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  Speaker 4: me a hand. What happened to kick? He's no good.
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  Speaker 4: He's no good at all. You find out when he
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  Speaker 4: comes out. You'll see them all where they lived here
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  Speaker 4: m in a couple of years. You need the exact
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  Speaker 4: date they moved in.
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  Speaker 2: Well, shit out right? Uh he are had any trouble
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  Speaker 2: with him before?
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  Speaker 4: This wasn't like this, that's for sure.
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: But you have had trouble?
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  Speaker 4: Well, sure, I just try to live together and not
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  Speaker 4: have a little beef now and then?
• 6:07
  Speaker 2: What were the disagreements about?
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  Speaker 4: Mm? Different things? Sounds kind of silly when you talk
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  Speaker 4: about him.
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  Speaker 2: All that help us get him out of We know
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  Speaker 2: what caused this?
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  Speaker 4: Well? Like he likes one baseball team, I like another.
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  Speaker 4: He don't like the fish, I don't like the haunts.
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  Speaker 4: Things like that lay him out in the sun. They
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  Speaker 4: just dry right up. Silly little thing.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else?
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  Speaker 4: Well, because you might as well tell you you'll find out anyway.
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  Speaker 4: What's that? Well, Dudley thought there was something between Charlotte
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  Speaker 4: and me. Of course there wasn't. But you just couldn't
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  Speaker 4: convince him.
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  Speaker 2: He was off base.
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  Speaker 4: Wasn't anything could convince him.
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  Speaker 2: He said something about that this morning to day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we were just sitting there talking about how he
• 6:39
  Speaker 4: ought to help me out with a paint, and Charlotte
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  Speaker 4: said he should. All of a sudden, he got this
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  Speaker 4: kind of wild look in his eye, told me he
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  Speaker 4: knew all about me and his wife, that I wasn't
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  Speaker 4: fooling anybody. Well, we just sat there. He didn't know
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  Speaker 4: what this thing. Uh huh, picked up his coffee cup
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  Speaker 4: and flung it across the room, smacked against the wall,
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  Speaker 4: Coffee all over the place, streaming down the walls, ruined
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  Speaker 4: the paint.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 4: Told me to get out of the house and leave
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  Speaker 4: Charlotte alone, said he every time me talking to her again,
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  Speaker 4: he'd make me sorry I did.
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  Speaker 2: What about his family law they in.
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  Speaker 4: The house, I'm pretty sure they ain't trying to pick
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  Speaker 4: the kids and the left right after I did, and
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  Speaker 4: some walk on.
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  Speaker 2: You know where they were, And I can't help you there.
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  Speaker 2: She have any people of friends when they were there?
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  Speaker 4: Nothing I ever heard. Gotta sit you down National City,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't think she went there and White say
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  Speaker 4: that I didn't have no grips she'd go on there.
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  Speaker 4: She did takeing clothes for the kids, didn't have no
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  Speaker 4: grips once she left. Pretty sure she didn't go to National.
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  Speaker 2: City, which lit where we will fight her.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, that's the least. Might have gone to a show
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  Speaker 4: the deadly calms down. How do you figure the gain
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  Speaker 4: to come out?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we try to talk to her.
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  Speaker 4: First read with him, and ainy't gonna do her. He
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  Speaker 4: hasn't got any reason to left to do a thing
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  Speaker 4: like this. Oh, we gotta try. You're gonna have to
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  Speaker 4: kill him. You just wait and see. That's the only
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  Speaker 4: way you're gonna get him out. Shoot the house full
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  Speaker 4: of holes and hope he gets in the middle. That's
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  Speaker 4: the only way. We hope you'll see something else you
• 7:47
  Speaker 4: ought don't know? Well, what's that had gunn he's got
• 7:49
  Speaker 4: the twenty two rifle or he's got a real thing
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  Speaker 4: about guns, big collection rifles, pistols, automatics, a whole bunch
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  Speaker 4: up there, and they all work.
• 8:00
  Speaker 3: We got a description of Dudley Gray and we called
• 8:02
  Speaker 3: it him the R and I. We found that he
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  Speaker 3: had no record in our files. We got in touch
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  Speaker 3: with Captain Luhman and filled him in. We requested the
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  Speaker 3: additional teams of men.
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  Speaker 2: Be dispatched with tear gas, e clipping and shot down.
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  Speaker 2: The men from the fellowing unit covered the back of
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  Speaker 2: the house, while Frank and I covered the front.
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  Speaker 3: All of the other tenants of the court were instructed
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  Speaker 3: to stay indoors. Right eleven fourteen am, so Frank standing by,
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  Speaker 3: I went up.
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  Speaker 2: To the porch to try and talk to Gray. Gray, Gray,
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk to you.
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  Speaker 4: I got nothing to say to you.
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  Speaker 2: Want you put the gun down. Come on out here.
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  Speaker 2: You'll try to take this place. I'll kill you all
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  Speaker 2: no reason for that.
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  Speaker 1: I know who you are.
• 8:38
  Speaker 2: You don't have to try to kid me.
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  Speaker 1: I know you.
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  Speaker 2: The police officers. Gray, we want to help you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to lie.
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  Speaker 7: You just want me to open the gates to let
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  Speaker 7: you and the rest of men here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you go back and tell the chief I won't
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  Speaker 2: do it. All right, Come on out here, Gray, put
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: the gun down. Let's talk it over.
• 8:51
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, I got nothing.
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  Speaker 7: Let's say, come sneaking around here, trying to get me
• 8:55
  Speaker 7: to let you in.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds you're inside. You bring the place down, run off.
• 8:57
  Speaker 2: All the horses went off. What Yeah, I chewed a cage.
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: You want one, I won't work. Told Jo I know
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  Speaker 2: who you are. You go tell the chief, and it
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  Speaker 2: didn't work.
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  Speaker 7: Now one Indian is getting in here, not once. I'm
• 9:10
  Speaker 7: gonna defend this sport till the cavalry gets here. Oh
• 9:12
  Speaker 7: so you're thebasion on the way.
• 9:13
  Speaker 3: Right now, Gray, come on out here. We're on your side.
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: We wanna help you.
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: That's a lie. You got different clothes on, but I still.
• 9:23
  Speaker 4: Recognize you well. Scott on here last week. I remember.
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  Speaker 2: Now you get out of here. Come on, Gray, give
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: us a break. Let's talk it over, go right with it?
• 9:36
  Speaker 2: What about it? I don't know.
• 9:37
  Speaker 3: He thinks he's in a fort. Told me he thought
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  Speaker 3: I was an Indian. You heard him, Yeah, I heard
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: from what the landlord says.
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: He can hold out there as long as he wants.
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe we can find his wife who might be
• 9:46
  Speaker 3: able to come up with the answer.
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: Right. I'll check with the rest of the neighbors, see
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: if they can tell us anything. Yay. I'll go on
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: back and try to talk to him. Away him and
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: to take it easy, Joe. He sounds pretty sick.
• 9:55
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 9:55
  Speaker 3: Check the boys in the back when you don't see
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  Speaker 3: if there's any way getting to him from there, right?
• 10:06
  Speaker 7: I see you out, I see and I don't try anything.
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: I'm ready for you. Sure you are, Gray. We couldn't
• 10:11
  Speaker 2: put anything over on you. You'll best you can. I'm
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: too smart for you. How long you think it'll be
• 10:16
  Speaker 2: before the cavalry gets here, Gray? Right?
• 10:18
  Speaker 7: In a couple of days, last tu time, day before yesterday,
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  Speaker 7: should be here day after tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna pick up the Indians, then, won't you? Gray?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna make them sorry.
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: I ever tried this?
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: Gray, how about letting let's fight on your side? Would
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: sure like to be with you?
• 10:32
  Speaker 4: You mean? Not?
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: Sure? We'd like to be with a smart fellow like you.
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: I cann't no.
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: I gonna know if I can trust you when you can.
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: I couldn't do anything that to hurt you, I suppose not. Okay,
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: come on in, I you somebody to watch.
• 10:46
  Speaker 7: If the Indians got us some fire arrows, Come on, okay,
• 10:57
  Speaker 7: I'll keep it, cover it. As soon as you get here,
• 10:59
  Speaker 7: I'll take the while off the gates, all right, And
• 11:03
  Speaker 7: I hurry up.
• 11:03
  Speaker 4: That man didn't see you help you all in here?
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: Went opened the gate. Wait till you got a little closer.
• 11:09
  Speaker 4: You can't take any chances.
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: Almost there, Gray, you better open the dark got us
• 11:15
  Speaker 3: a little closer?
• 11:18
  Speaker 5: Why you go fool me?
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: Well, it didn't work, did it didn't work? You fawn out?
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: Didn't work.
• 11:24
  Speaker 3: When Gray fired at me, I dropped to the ground
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: while Frank and the other officers returned the fire, driving.
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: A man away from the window.
• 11:31
  Speaker 3: Eleven forty seven am, the additional men arrived from the
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: office with tear gas equipment.
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: It was distributed and we worked out a plan.
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: To take Gray, which decided that two men would cover
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: the right side of the house while another team covered
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: the back.
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: Frank and I would go around to the.
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: Left side and fire tear gas shells into the building
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  Speaker 3: until Gray had to leave.
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: Eleven fifty eight am, all of.
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: The officers were in position, and Frank and I started
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: to move in to use the tear gas gun.
• 11:56
  Speaker 8: Ah all that that's it up that get get out
• 11:59
  Speaker 8: of it.
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: Are the buildings too, you know? I see her?
• 12:02
  Speaker 9: You dip get out of that guard belong now out once.
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: You get back on my house. Please, we don't know
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: want to get hurt here.
• 12:07
  Speaker 9: Then you just better get right out of my idea.
• 12:09
  Speaker 9: If you knock down one more of us.
• 12:10
  Speaker 4: Than you're in trouble.
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: You don't understand, ma'am. There's a man in that house
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: and he's got a gun.
• 12:13
  Speaker 9: I don't care about mister Gray what he does in
• 12:16
  Speaker 9: his own business. I'm just telling you to get out
• 12:18
  Speaker 9: of my flowers. All the year, have been worrying over
• 12:20
  Speaker 9: trying to coach the block 'em out of 'em. Now
• 12:22
  Speaker 9: you come around here with your big beet and moon
• 12:24
  Speaker 9: it all.
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: Sorry about that, but we have to get Gray out
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: of that house.
• 12:27
  Speaker 9: Then do it without stepping all over my flowers.
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: You're a cop, You're supposed.
• 12:31
  Speaker 9: To know how to handle things like that. Look what
• 12:32
  Speaker 9: you've done with what's Begonias? Who you months have been
• 12:35
  Speaker 9: working with him? Just put 'em out last week and
• 12:37
  Speaker 9: now look they're all booking.
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: You just want to be ashamed of yourself.
• 12:41
  Speaker 9: Big men like you doing anything like this to my flowers.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: Just show 'em, ma'am.
• 12:44
  Speaker 3: If we hurt your flowers were so you did, think
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: you better get inside of the lady.
• 12:48
  Speaker 9: Are you telling me what to do?
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am, that's a direct order, yes, ma'am.
• 12:54
  Speaker 9: All right, I don't go, but you just remember you
• 12:57
  Speaker 9: ordered me to go.
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: You'll reven hear about this young man? What number? Thinking?
• 13:01
  Speaker 9: What's the number on your badge?
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: And tend to report you for this?
• 13:04
  Speaker 9: If you'll find out for a twopith begoon.
• 13:07
  Speaker 4: If you'll find out now, what's your number?
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: Thank? You wanna handle it? Yeah? Come on, ma'am, we
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: can talk right over here.
• 13:12
  Speaker 8: You don't think you can hope me out of it.
• 13:15
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna cause a lot of It's all a lot
• 13:16
  Speaker 8: of it not you can.
• 13:17
  Speaker 9: Do to stop me.
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: If you'll just go on inside, Well, I'll talk to
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: you later.
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: All right, I'll be watching you.
• 13:22
  Speaker 9: I'll be right here watching you.
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: Well, there's one for you. Uh, I'll let's get on this, right.
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: I think we'll need the.
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: Mask or we shouldn't out here, I said, look out front,
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: said alright, gondo a little moniker out there.
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, whenever you're ready, I should bring 'em up.
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: I'll get another one ready, better hold.
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: It up here, it comes from Creedy, right, Hey, hold
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: it up, Joe, what do you got? Jack?
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: Just find out how Gray's wife and kids are in
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: there with him.
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: Sergeant Jack McCready was standing by in the manager's office
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: when Missus Gray had telephoned from the house, with the
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: possibility that innocent people might be hit. We were unable
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: to fire into the home. M We met with Captain
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: Morman and discussed the methods we could used to get
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: the women and children.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: Out of the place.
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: We worked out a plan m It would depend entirely
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: on being able to talk to missus Gray and explain
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: what we were trying to do. Frank and I went
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: to the manager's place and put in a call to
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: the house. How about it just studying the ring figure
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: it'll work.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Only way we can make it goes
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: to talk to the woman. Explain the set up to her.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: Did you get in touch with the office while the
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: doctor's cap they're sending a psychiatrist out. You might be
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: able to talk to dray Well hope so.
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: Any you know, looks like we're in trouble now. She
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: won't answer the phone.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: police force selection.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: Without being able to talk to the woman, who was
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: a little chance that the plan for getting her and
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: the children out of the house would work.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: One fourteen PM, a large crowd of.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: People had gathered on the street in front of the court,
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: additional policeman from Metro Division had to be called in
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: the control room. From time to time, Dudley Gray would
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: scream something at the bystanders and fire into the crowd.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: So far, we'd been able to keep the curious citizens
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: back far enough so that none of them were hurt,
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: but it was only a matter of time before our
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: luck ran out. Meanwhile, we were still faced with the
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: problem of first getting a wife and children out of
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: the house before we could attempt to take the man himself.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: M One twenty nine pm.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: While Frank and Sergeant Jack McCready went around to the
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: back of the house to ascertain the possibility of removing
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: the family from that side, I again attempted.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: To talk to Gray.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: Gray, Gray, Come on, Gray, we want to talk to you.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: I know I killed you and and Andrey. We're police officers.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: We're trying to help you. If you'll give us a chance,
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: you expect me to believe that the truth I want
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: to talk to you say, I'll give you something. What's
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: that You better get out of head take your friends
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: with you. Soon as the cavalry gets here. You all
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: come be in trouble. Come on, Grey, there isn't any cavalry.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: You're in Los Angeles. You're sick. Gray. We want to
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: help you, if you'll give us a chance. I don't
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: need nothing from you. What about your wife and kids?
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: You're gonna have them hurt.
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: They're all right, nothing's gonna get to them.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: They're all right.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: They are gonna stay that way with you shooting that gun. Well,
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: you're me worry about it.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: They're my family.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: I ain't enough concerning yours their.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Mind, and you're gonna have them killed? Are you w
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: an lie?
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: Why do you think of doing all this?
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: It's for them so they get out of here.
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: I want to watch the Indians swarming all over the
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: places for them.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: I'm doing that.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Then I'm hard to buy Gray. It's hard to see
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: what you're trying to protect them from.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: What do you think you want to tell me that?
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Don't you think I know what's going on?
• 17:05
  Speaker 8: All the time sitting in here looking at.
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: You people trying to take things away from me, You'll
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: think I know what's going on.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: Huh, Well, you just save your breath, save everything.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: I know what's right. I know it's enough doing it.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: So what we'll make a deal with you? Greg?
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: What kind of deal, and you may let your wife
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: and kids come up. Let us take care of them,
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: give us a chance to prove that we're on your side.
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: You can't catch me with that one again.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: You tried once before and it didn't work. Remember you
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: tried once before. We didn't cauge you any trouble.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: I don't believe anything you'd say.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: I want save your breath. All you Indians just tricky.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: You're not fullll of me.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: What about all the people out there in the street
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: A waa hoata you want to hurt them too?
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: Be real honest with you what you got coming up without?
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Be honest?
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: I don't much.
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: Care, and I'm enough to get caught in the middle
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: of an Indian war.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: It's a tough luck. You've come close to shooting a
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: couple of them, you know, and tell them to go
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: back to their homes. Leave the biting of the man.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Come on, Greg, let's get together and talk things over
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: out here. What he said off then doing? You'll get
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: me out of the park. Your pride something monopha on
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: for that?
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: What and what are you trying to do?
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about. Greg, I'm trying
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: that what be You're trying to break it out of
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: the back and I'm like, well, won't work. I'll take
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: care of y'all. Don't get out of the lot. How
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: about it. We're getting the gas equipment ready. Now you
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: know we got his family out.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Well, i'd kept Gray busy in front of the house.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Frank and Jack McCready.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Had gone around to the rear.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: They found the room where Missus Gray and the children
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: were hiding. By breaking a window, they'd been able to
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: remove them from the house. The children were taken to
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: one of the neighbors, and Missus Gray was waiting for
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: me in the manager's place outside the members of homicide detail.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: We're making preparations to get Dudley Gray out of the house.
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: Thank god, you got this out of the.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: It's all right now. Miss Gray the next door, don't
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: worry about it.
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: What are you gonna doing?
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: We're trying to get 'em to come out of the
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: house cause I have to cheat him. Well, that depends
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: on how he wants it.
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: Oh, he's six hundred. He No, he doesn't know what
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: he's doing.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Sure we know it.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: But your husband's in there taking pot shots and anybody
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: who comes near him. Only a matter of time before
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: somebody gets so close he can't miss.
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: Some way to get him to give up. You know
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: the police enough and things like this before it seems
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: I gonna be your job to get him out without
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: hurting them.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: And we're trying what caused this to happen?
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: A lot of things huge on this gray.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: If we know what's wrong with him, it might help.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Could you give us some kind of an angle on it.
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: I don't know how long it's been building. Maybe a year,
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: maybe longer time to take.
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: You try to take care of the family, keep it together.
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: They don't see Besides, yes, it might be my fault.
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: I guess it is just all of a sudden, thing's
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: got too heavy for him to carry. He wants this job.
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: We couldn't play the bills got so I wouldn't mess
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: the phone because I knew it was somebody wanting their money.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: I try to take it easy to grass.
• 19:56
  Speaker 10: He didn't have any way to get the pressure off,
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: No way at all. Why didn't they gone?
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I go ahead.
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: You sure that the children are all right? They're being
• 20:05
  Speaker 10: taken care of him.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: That's n no fine.
• 20:07
  Speaker 10: Are they having lunch? I couldn't anything. They haven't eat
• 20:10
  Speaker 10: since this morning.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I'm sure they'll be sad.
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: All this is kind of picky with her food and
• 20:15
  Speaker 10: eats coaxing to eat.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: They'll be all right, it's ray. How would you go on?
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Please?
• 20:19
  Speaker 10: Well, it finally broke this morning. Once it started, there
• 20:23
  Speaker 10: wasn't anything.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: We could do.
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: When Marshall came over once the manager, Yes, he came
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: over to ask Dudley if he'd help with the painting,
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: mentioned that it'd be a way to pay some of
• 20:31
  Speaker 10: the back rent. Didn't mean anything. Dudley just took it
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: the wrong way. What's that Marshall told him about the rent?
• 20:37
  Speaker 10: I said it was nice of him to give Dudley
• 20:38
  Speaker 10: the chance to make it up. I didn't mean anything
• 20:40
  Speaker 10: by it. Yeah, and had They got up from the
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: table and went into the living room and turned on
• 20:44
  Speaker 10: the television. Didn't say a word to me, just.
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: Got up and walked out.
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: Uh huh, sat there watching a picture, one of those
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: cowboy things. Just sat there and watched it.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: Kids went in and tried to talk to him, so
• 20:54
  Speaker 10: by tried to bring him out of it. He didn't
• 20:56
  Speaker 10: even know we were in the room, just sat there
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: and looked at the.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Picture as your husband been under the care of a doctor.
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: You mean for his mind?
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 21:03
  Speaker 10: No, I was afraid to ask him. I should have,
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: but it just seemed that it didn't mean another bill
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: that was causing all the trouble. Anyway, I told you,
• 21:09
  Speaker 10: I was trying to believe that it wasn't anything serious,
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: that he'd go away. Yeah, better to tell them Bill.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: And what.
• 21:22
  Speaker 10: He sat there for a while, and he just got
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: up and walked to the closet, picked up the rifle,
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: and told me and the kids to get into the
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: back bedroom, said that they weren't gonna.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Take the place.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Did you know what he meant?
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Well? No, not.
• 21:31
  Speaker 10: At first. I knew there was something wrong, but I
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: didn't know what to be as bad as this.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Is there anybody your husband's particularly fond of.
• 21:39
  Speaker 10: We've been married for eight years, Sergeant, I guess I
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: could call a fighter.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Don't know what I mean? Then? Is there anyone that
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: he'd listened to? A friend, maybe a minister or a priest.
• 21:47
  Speaker 10: No, any friends he had or gone, They didn't understand
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: his moods. There There isn't anybody.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: It was great out seeing her, Yeah.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Excuse yeah, yeah, we ran out of time.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: He grag just shot a cop.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: The officer was not seriously wounded. He was removed to
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Georgia Street Receiving Hospital for treatment. People in the adjoining
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: units were evacuated. The streets were cleared as much as possible,
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: and the men were in position to move in. Frank,
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Jack McReady and I were opposite the front door of
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: the house from missus Gray. We learned that her husband
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: had several hundred rounds of ammunition for the rifle that
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: he was using.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: In addition to this, he.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Had several handguns and ample shells for them. She told
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: us that the other guns were located in the closet
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: in the rear.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Of the place.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: It was decided to pour tear gas into the back
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: windows and try to keep Gray away from.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: The other guns.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Frank was armed with a sawt off shotgunloaded with double arts,
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: but mccreedy had a forty five caliber machine guns. The
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: officers were in position and the signal was given, there.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Go the gas gun.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and she'd be coming out pretty quick.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Hope, because Meggan was not killing him. We'll try gases
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: in the counter to the front windows. You are I
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: quite alright. Saw they got out. Greg thaw. They got
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: out a long joy. Come on, saw that gun out?
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: Well he's down.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Come on, he show got the gun. He dead. No,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: he better get an ambulance. I'll take care of him.
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: Did he Dad need to kill him?
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: No, ma'am.
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: Oh, he didn't know what I shouldn't see.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: He's gonna be alright, missus.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Ray. The doctor's on the way.
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: He he didn't know what he was doing, that's all.
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: He didn't know what he was doing.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am.
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: He knew we loved him, that's all it counts. When
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: the other 'em wanted to take kids of him. He
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: didn't think anybody cares for him.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: That's what was wrong. He just didn't wrong, Yes, ma'am.
• 23:45
  Speaker 10: Think he wouldn't get well, you know everybody wasn't getting still,
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: no people cared.
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: Don't you think that's all it's wrong.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't know, ma'am. But he took the hard way
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: to find out.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Uh uh uh.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: The story you've just heard is true. The names were
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: changed to protect the innocent. On August twenty sixth, the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: preliminary hearing was held in the prison ward of the
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: County Hospital in and for the County of Los Angeles.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: State of California.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Dudley Peter Gray was held to answer charges of assault
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: with intent to commit murder. He was examined by three
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: psychiatrists appointed by the court and found to be insane.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: He was confined to the State Mental Hospital at Camarillo
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: for treatment.
• 24:37
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• 24:40
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• 24:44
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