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Dragnet - "Big Bindle" (Old Time Radio, 1951) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: May 31, 1951, brought NBC Radio Network listeners Dragnet, episode 103,
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  Speaker 1: Big Bindle, sponsored by Fatima Cigarettes. Jack Webb is Sergeant
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  Speaker 1: Joe Friday, with Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero, as
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  Speaker 1: the pair are assigned to a Los Angeles narcotics case.
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  Speaker 1: High-grade heroin traffickers are believed to be working through an
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  Speaker 1: upscale hotel, and Friday adopts a Phoenix identity, posing as
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  Speaker 1: a prospective buyer with a fake bindle to make contact.
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  Speaker 1: Stacey Harris and Ralph Moody are also heard, with George
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  Speaker 1: Fenneman announcing this early Friday and Romero broadcast. Here is
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  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 3: The story you're about to hear is true.
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  Speaker 4: Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 3: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to narcotics details. You
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  Speaker 3: receive information that one of your city's most fashionable hotels
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  Speaker 3: is being used as the clearinghouse for high-grade heroin. Evidence
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  Speaker 3: points to a narcotics ring, the center of distribution.
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  Speaker 5: Your job, break it.
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  Speaker 4: Best of all long cigarettes. Dragnet, the documented drama of
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  Speaker 4: an actual crime. For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation
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  Speaker 4: with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step
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  Speaker 4: by step on the side of the law through an
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  Speaker 4: actual case transcribed from official police files. From beginning to end,
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  Speaker 4: from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your
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  Speaker 4: police force in action.
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  Speaker 2: Dragnet.
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  Speaker 7: It was Tuesday, October 5th. It was foggy and rainy
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  Speaker 7: in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out
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  Speaker 7: of narcotics division. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is
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  Speaker 7: Captain Kearney. My name's Friday. It was 8.47 a.m. when
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  Speaker 7: we got to 401 North Avenue 19, the main jail.
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  Speaker 8: Felony section.
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  Speaker 5: Morning, fellas. How are you today, Pete?
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  Speaker 8: Morning.
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  Speaker 5: What brings you up here so early?
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  Speaker 7: We want to see Monty Wilkins booked in last night
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  Speaker 7: on narcotics.
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  Speaker 8: Booking number is 906351.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, let me look.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Here it is. He's in 103. Thank you, Pete.
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  Speaker 2: I'll put it in the book here, Joe. Here's my gun.
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  Speaker 2: You want to check if we're yours?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 5: I'll put them away.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, Pete. Here's your.
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  Speaker 5: Check. Thank you, Pete. All set, then?
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  Speaker 8: 906351.
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  Speaker 5: That's it. Okay, let's go. All right.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: We want to talk to Monty Wilkins, he's in 103.
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  Speaker 9: All right, we'll get him.
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  Speaker 2: Monty Wilkins, 103, for interview.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Friday. Ben.
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  Speaker 8: Hi, Monty. Better move out of the way there. He
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  Speaker 8: wants to lock that door, Monty.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Let's go around the corner to the interview room, Monty.
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  Speaker 5: All right. Man, this is awful.
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  Speaker 8: What's the matter? Don't you feel good?
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  Speaker 5: I feel awful. Pretty sick.
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  Speaker 2: You look bad.
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  Speaker 8: I'll get the light.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Ben.
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  Speaker 8: Sit down, Marty. Okay. Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's been about a year and a half, hasn't.
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  Speaker 8: It, Marty?
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  Speaker 2: About that long, yeah. We got you for possession that time, too,
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  Speaker 2: didn't we? Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 8: How long you been on the stuff this time?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess I've been hooked bad about a month.
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  Speaker 8: How much you shooting?
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  Speaker 2: Well, about two caps a day. And you were picked
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  Speaker 2: up down in Slauson last night. You had seven caps
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  Speaker 2: on you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 8: Well, we checked with the crime lab. They've run the stuff.
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  Speaker 8: It's not the usual Mexican, is it?
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 8: Do you want to tell us about it?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It's not Mexican.
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  Speaker 5: We know that, Monty.
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  Speaker 2: Where'd you get it? Haven't had anything like that for
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  Speaker 2: a long time. Real good. Hasn't been cut. Real fine.
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  Speaker 11: Maybe it's coming in from the East Coast. Can't get
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  Speaker 11: nothing like that from Mexico.
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  Speaker 8: Now look, Monty, we ran the stuff through the lab.
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  Speaker 8: We know it's high-grade heroin. We know all about it.
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  Speaker 8: Now I want you to tell us where you've.
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  Speaker 5: Been getting it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know how it is. You want to ask
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  Speaker 2: the impossible of me? My life wouldn't be worth a penny.
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  Speaker 5: You know how it is.
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  Speaker 2: We handled you a year and a half ago, didn't we, Marty?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You're still around, aren't you? Yeah, I did time, though. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you knew that going in. You're going to do time
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  Speaker 2: this trip, too.
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  Speaker 8: So don't shoot us that line, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you guys know how it is with us guys.
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell you anything.
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  Speaker 8: No, it isn't that you can't. You just don't want to.
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  Speaker 7: Now, look, we didn't come up here to spend the
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  Speaker 7: time of day with you, Wilkins.
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  Speaker 8: This is the only time around. If you want to
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  Speaker 8: help us, you can help yourself at the same time.
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  Speaker 5: It's up to you.
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  Speaker 2: You mean you can clear me on this? You can
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  Speaker 2: give me a break? We didn't say that. We can't
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  Speaker 2: make any promises to you or give you any kind.
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  Speaker 5: Of a break.
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  Speaker 2: It's entirely up to you how you want us to
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  Speaker 2: put it down in our reports, cooperative or uncooperative.
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  Speaker 5: Well, okay.
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  Speaker 2: You squared with me last time.
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  Speaker 8: You helped us last time we made a case.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not going to be able to help you
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  Speaker 2: very much.
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  Speaker 8: Where have you been getting it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've only made.
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  Speaker 11: A couple of buys on that good stuff. I just
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  Speaker 11: got it from some old mule I just happened to
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  Speaker 11: meet down there. Seemed to be pretty well loaded with
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  Speaker 11: this stuff. Where'd you meet him?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, down near Fifth and Spring somewhere. What's his name?
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  Speaker 2: I never did know his name. I just knew that
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  Speaker 2: he was pushing the stuff. Some old mule, that's all.
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  Speaker 8: Who's he pushing it for?
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  Speaker 2: You know they never tell us guys where they're getting it.
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  Speaker 2: You know how they do.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I never did talk to him very much.
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  Speaker 11: I did hear him say once he was getting his
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  Speaker 11: stuff from a new bunch of guys from the East.
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  Speaker 2: Said they were really going to open up this town.
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  Speaker 5: The way he talked, there are.
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  Speaker 2: No small-time operators.
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  Speaker 11: I got enough out of it to know they're working
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  Speaker 11: out of the Plaza Royal Hotel.
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  Speaker 2: Never figured that, would you?
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  Speaker 8: Anything else?
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  Speaker 2: Any names mentioned? Yeah, I remember this old mule mentioned
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  Speaker 2: a couple names.
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  Speaker 11: I think he talked about somebody named Kirk and another
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  Speaker 11: guy called Smith.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you understand, this guy was just talking. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how they fit in or what the connections are.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, we understand. Where can we get a hold of
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  Speaker 8: this old mule?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where he's at.
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  Speaker 8: How do you get a hold of him when you
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  Speaker 8: want to make a buy?
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  Speaker 2: I just run into him, that's all.
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  Speaker 11: Down around Spring Street. You know, just around. Last time
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  Speaker 11: I was down, I couldn't find it.
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  Speaker 8: Is that all of it, Marty?
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  Speaker 2: Is that all you can tell us? Well, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know too much anyway.
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  Speaker 8: You know how it is.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't tell you any more.
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  Speaker 5: It's all I know.
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  Speaker 8: All right, let's get out of this 510 if that's
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  Speaker 8: all you got.
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  Speaker 2: That's everything I got.
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  Speaker 11: Hope you fellas will write me up okay.
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  Speaker 2: I think I helped you quite a bit.
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  Speaker 9: Haven't I?
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  Speaker 2: One of the best hotels in town, Plaza Royal.
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  Speaker 11: Never would have figured that, would you?
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  Speaker 5: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: I've told you quite a lot. The rest ought to
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  Speaker 2: be easy.
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  Speaker 8: No, you're wrong there, Monty. Why? You haven't told us
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  Speaker 8: the name of your mule. You haven't told us where
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  Speaker 8: we could find him. You haven't made it so easy.
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  Speaker 11: That's all I have.
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  Speaker 8: I've told you a lot. Yeah, there's a lot you
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  Speaker 8: didn't tell.
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  Speaker 7: We continued our interrogation of Monty Wilkins. He refused to
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  Speaker 7: divulge any further information. What he had told us, together with.
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  Speaker 8: Information already compiled, seemed to check out.
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  Speaker 7: For the past seven months, we've been trying to localize
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  Speaker 7: the operations of what had come to be regarded as
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  Speaker 7: a well-running distribution center for high-grade heroin. We knew of
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  Speaker 7: the existence of this distribution point through the various users
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  Speaker 7: that had been picked up almost daily. These users would
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  Speaker 7: have in their possession quantities of high-grade narcotics. Unlike the cheaper,
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  Speaker 7: lower-grade quality common in the southwest part of the country,
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  Speaker 7: this type of heroin was more common to the eastern
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  Speaker 7: section of the United States. We had believed the local
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  Speaker 7: distribution point to be somewhere in our metropolitan downtown area.
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  Speaker 7: The information gained from Marty Wilkins had strengthened this thing. 10.25 a.m.,
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  Speaker 7: we met with Francis Kearney, captain of the narcotics division.
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  Speaker 8: Liza Royal Hotel.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think?
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  Speaker 10: Well, we figured what we were looking for could be
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  Speaker 10: in that area, but we've never put our finger on
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  Speaker 10: that hotel.
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  Speaker 5: How do you figure on working it?
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  Speaker 7: We're driving back from the jail. Ben and I were
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  Speaker 7: just kicking it around. Skipper, what do you think about
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  Speaker 7: putting a man in that hotel?
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  Speaker 3: Anything's a great deal better than we're doing now, but
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'd like to give it a try.
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  Speaker 10: I'd sure like a crack at it, Skipper.
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  Speaker 3: You know how I feel about these kind of assignments.
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  Speaker 3: One man working inside, one outside. Brings the element of
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  Speaker 3: danger up kind of high.
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  Speaker 8: Well, we know it's not going to be easy, but
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  Speaker 8: it looks like a good bet.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes these things are, sometimes they're not. You know what
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  Speaker 3: kind of a bunch they got to be. Been running
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  Speaker 3: their racket just about as smooth as it can be run.
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  Speaker 5: You know, the kind of a.
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  Speaker 3: Risk a man would have to take if he tried
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  Speaker 3: to make contact with any of them.
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  Speaker 8: Well, we think it's about the quickest way to get
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  Speaker 8: to them.
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  Speaker 3: Well, maybe it might be worth it.
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  Speaker 5: You got any ideas how you'd like.
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  Speaker 8: To work it?
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  Speaker 10: It's just one thing. We haven't come to any decision
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  Speaker 10: who's going in and who isn't.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I think I ought to be the one to
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  Speaker 7: work it from the inside of the hotel with Ben
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  Speaker 7: working outside as a contact.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know why we can't just turn that around.
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  Speaker 10: Last time you had the rough end.
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  Speaker 3: Joe, you just got back from your vacation about three
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  Speaker 3: weeks ago, didn't you?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right. Didn't you stay down in Arizona?
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  Speaker 5: Phoenix, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You know the town very well?
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  Speaker 8: We've got some relatives down there, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: If they started.
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  Speaker 3: Asking you any questions about Phoenix, you could fill them in, huh?
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  Speaker 8: I think so.
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  Speaker 5: That's probably the.
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  Speaker 3: Best way to settle it, Romero. Friday here will be
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  Speaker 3: in a better position knowing a little about Phoenix.
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  Speaker 10: I don't see how you figure it that way. I
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  Speaker 10: went on my vacation, too.
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  Speaker 5: Columbus, Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: Well, because of the type of stuff that's been coming in,
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  Speaker 3: don't you think it'd be a little safer bet to
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  Speaker 3: have our men come from somewhere out this way rather
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  Speaker 3: than from the east?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it makes sense. Well.
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  Speaker 10: You did it again, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: You beat me out.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's figure it this way. You're a local
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  Speaker 3: Phoenix hoodlum. Things got too hot for you down there,
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  Speaker 3: and you came up to L.A.
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  Speaker 5: To cool off. Yeah. How about Joe Edwards?
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  Speaker 3: How's that sound?
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  Speaker 8: That sounds right to me.
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  Speaker 3: You'll get all the necessary cards, identification papers, and a
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  Speaker 3: few letters to carry around with you, all under the
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  Speaker 3: name Joe Edwards.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 3: I think the best way to work it is for
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  Speaker 3: you to hop right down to Phoenix. When you get
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  Speaker 3: in town, check with Roberts. He's in narcotics down there.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I know him.
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  Speaker 5: Have Roberts fill you in on what's been going on
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  Speaker 5: down there.
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  Speaker 3: Any of their current characters they've handled recently. Any that
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  Speaker 3: have been known to pass through. You know, so you
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  Speaker 3: can talk about it freely.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I understand.
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  Speaker 10: Joe, when you check into the hotel down there, why
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  Speaker 10: don't you wire ahead up here to the Plaza Royal
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  Speaker 10: for reservation?
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  Speaker 2: Might be a good cover.
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  Speaker 5: Good thought.
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  Speaker 3: That's the way to handle it. You two have worked
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  Speaker 3: these things before. You know what to do. All the
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  Speaker 3: necessary precautions. Well, how long do you figure I'll lay
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  Speaker 3: over in Phoenix?
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  Speaker 5: Couple days, maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Think that's long enough for you to get filled in,
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  Speaker 3: what you'll need?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, that's fine. Well, I'll go home and get packed.
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  Speaker 8: I'll start on it first thing in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Romero will stand by at all times, day
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  Speaker 3: and night, while you're on this thing.
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  Speaker 5: You know enough to call if things get tight.
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  Speaker 8: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: As soon as you get in from Phoenix and get
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  Speaker 3: located at the Plaza Royal, get in touch so.
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  Speaker 5: We'll know which way to move. Right. Anything else?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we want to break this thing, but we don't
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  Speaker 3: want to do it at the risk of a life.
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  Speaker 5: So if it starts getting warm, check out.
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  Speaker 8: Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I still don't like sending anybody on something like this,
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  Speaker 3: but it's.
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  Speaker 5: Got to be done. We don't know enough about it.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know how many.
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  Speaker 5: Are in the gang.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know what kind of a bunch they are,
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  Speaker 3: so be careful.
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  Speaker 8: I will.
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  Speaker 3: If you're not and I hear about it, this will
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  Speaker 3: be your last assignment like this.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: If I don't hear about it, well, you figure it.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. Either way, I lose.
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  Speaker 7: I went over to the photo room at the crime
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  Speaker 7: lab and picked up the identification papers that had been made.
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  Speaker 8: Out in the name of Joe Edwards.
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  Speaker 7: I went home and removed all Los Angeles labels from
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  Speaker 7: the clothing that I was to take with me.
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  Speaker 8: To Phoenix, Arizona.
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  Speaker 7: I removed all my personal identification and Los Angeles Police
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  Speaker 7: Department credentials. I left my service revolver home and borrowed a.
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  Speaker 8: 38 automatic from Ben. I packed it in my suitcase.
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  Speaker 7: The crime lab also furnished me with a package or
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  Speaker 7: a bindle made to resemble the usual form in which
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  Speaker 7: a person would carry heroin.
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  Speaker 8: I packed this in my suitcase.
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  Speaker 7: Before my departure, Ben and I went over the proposed
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  Speaker 7: plan as best we could. I was to arrive from
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  Speaker 7: Phoenix under the assumed name of Joe Edwards. I would
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  Speaker 7: register at the Plaza Royal Hotel in downtown Los Angeles
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  Speaker 7: and attempt to make arrangements to participate in a narcotics
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  Speaker 7: buy for the purpose of gaining sufficient evidence to apprehend
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  Speaker 7: the narcotics ring. I was to keep Ben informed as
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  Speaker 7: best I could of my progress. As outlined by Captain Kearney,
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  Speaker 7: I arrived in Phoenix and contacted Sergeant.
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  Speaker 8: Roberts at the detective bureau down there.
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  Speaker 7: He furnished me with all the necessary information and assisted
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  Speaker 7: me in acquiring local Phoenix clothing store labels to have
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  Speaker 7: sewn in my clothing. I obtained everything possible to make
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  Speaker 7: it appear that I was a longtime resident of Phoenix, Arizona.
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  Speaker 7: Several dummy hotel bills were made up for me to make.
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  Speaker 8: It look as if I'd lived there for a period
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  Speaker 8: of time.
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  Speaker 7: I was furnished with an Arizona driver's license, a membership
• 14:53
  Speaker 7: in the local social club, and a voter's registration stub.
• 14:56
  Speaker 7: These were all packed in my suitcase. October 9th, 10 a.m.,
• 15:00
  Speaker 7: I arrived at the Plaza Royal Hotel, the front desk.
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir?
• 15:05
  Speaker 8: My name's Edwards. I'm in from Phoenix. Did you get
• 15:07
  Speaker 8: my wire?
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: One moment, sir.
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: Joe Edwards? Yeah, that's right.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: Would you sign the register, please?
• 15:14
  Speaker 8: Yeah, all right.
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: What?
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir. Would you show this gentleman room 211, please? Yes, sir.
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: This way, please.
• 15:29
  Speaker 8: All right. Thank you.
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: Go ahead, sir.
• 15:35
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: Two, please. Not very nice weather to arrive in Los Angeles,
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: is it, sir?
• 15:49
  Speaker 8: No, not too good.
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: I see by the stickers on your bag you've been
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: through Arizona. Yeah, that's right. Must be nice weather down there, huh?
• 15:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's all right.
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: This way, sir.
• 16:01
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: Let me open the window for you, sir. A little
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: fresh air in here.
• 16:14
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: Okay. Thanks.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: Here you go. Thank you very much, sir. Help you
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: with your bags? Yeah, all.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. Something dropped out on the floor here.
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: You better let me have that.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: Sorry. Very sorry that happened.
• 16:36
  Speaker 8: That's all right.
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 16:44
  Speaker 12: Edwards, while you're in town here, if there's anything I
• 16:46
  Speaker 12: can do for you, don't hesitate to let me know.
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: Yeah, okay.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: I couldn't help but notice that little package there that
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: I dropped. Yeah. Well, like I say, I know my
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: way around here in this town. If you need anything,
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: you know anything at all, sir. I'll tell you what.
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: Now, here's five bucks.
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: You never saw anything fall out of my bag there, right?
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: Anything you say, sir. Okay. Thanks a lot. See you later, huh? Yes, sir.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: Anything else, sir?
• 17:12
  Speaker 8: No, no.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: That'll be all. You remember what I told you, sir?
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I was just going to say the same thing
• 17:20
  Speaker 8: to you.
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: I couldn't be sure, but it looked like I'd been
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: lucky right from the start. The bellboy at the Plaza
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: Royal Hotel. I didn't know if I could consider this
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: an opening contact or not, but he seemed to show
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: more than a passing interest in the bindle of narcotics
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: that he had seen fall from my suitcase. I didn't
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: feel it was the right time to press the issue
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: any further.
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: With a bellhop, but I figured I'd wait and.
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: Leave the next move up to whoever he might have
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: been working for. During the next three days, nothing happened.
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: I tried, without appearing to be too bold, to arouse
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: some interest, but without success. October 13th, my fifth day
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: at the Plaza Royal Hotel, 6 p.m.
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: I went in the bar off the main lobby.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: I beg your pardon?
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 18:05
  Speaker 12: Kirk Harding is my name. I noticed you here in
• 18:07
  Speaker 12: the bar the last couple of nights. You up here
• 18:08
  Speaker 12: to buy a little, or are you selling?
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: I don't believe I follow you, Harding.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Look, boy, we've had.
• 18:12
  Speaker 12: You tabbed since that first day you hit town, October 9th.
• 18:15
  Speaker 12: We haven't been out here too long ourselves. We're in business, too,
• 18:18
  Speaker 12: the same business you're in.
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: Well, I don't know what kind of business you think
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: I'm in, but you've got.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: It figured wrong, mister.
• 18:23
  Speaker 12: You know, this entire matter would work out much better
• 18:24
  Speaker 12: for you in the long run if you'd level with me.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: You're just going to make it tough on yourself this way, Mitch.
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: Well, I'm sorry. You lost me way back somewhere.
• 18:31
  Speaker 12: All right, let's do it the hard way. You're up
• 18:33
  Speaker 12: here from Phoenix. We know you've got some stuff with you.
• 18:36
  Speaker 12: We know you're not a user. You're a member of
• 18:38
  Speaker 12: the social club down there. You're a registered voter.
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: Oh, you've been working real hard, haven't you?
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: Well, there's more. You've got two pieces of luggage. You're
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: carrying a. 38 automatic. Any more? Yeah. There's a telegram
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: from a friend of mine down in Phoenix.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: We know all about you, mister.
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: The End.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: You are listening to Dragnet. Authentic cases from official police files. Now,
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: let's look at our Fatima files. Listed under L.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Lovett. Vice Admiral Leland P. Lovett. United States Navy retired.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: He says.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I smoked Fatimas when I was a midshipman.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: I still do.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Because they have a better flavor and aroma.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Fatima is easily the best of all long cigarettes. Fatima.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Friends, more smokers now insist on king-size Fatimas than ever before.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Because in Fatima, the difference is quality.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: Quality of tobaccos.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: The finest domestic and Turkish varieties, extra mild.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Superbly blended.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: To give you a much different, much better flavor and aroma.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Quality of manufacture. Smooth, round, perfect cigarettes. Rolled in the
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: finest paper money can buy. Manufactured in the newest and
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: most modern of all cigarette factories.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: Quality.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: Even to the appearance of the bright, clean, golden-yellow package,
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: carefully wrapped and sealed to bring you Fatima's rich, fresh,
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: extra-mild flavor. So, if you smoke a king-size cigarette, compare Fatima.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: You'll find they now cost the same. But your first
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: puff will.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Tell you, Ah, that's different. Yes, in Fatima, the difference
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: is quality. By Fatima. Smoke the quality king-size cigarette.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Fatima. Best of all long cigarettes.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: It was a tight moment as Kirk Harding fingered the
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: telegram in the bar of the Plaza Royal Hotel. I'd
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: spent many hours in consultation with Sergeant Roberts in Phoenix,
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: Arizona before undertaking this assignment. I felt sure that we
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: hadn't overlooked anything that might lead to.
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: My true identity.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: Kirk Harding read the wire to me. It was from
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: a man by the name of George Ferguson. He'd done
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: some legwork for Harding and had not been able to
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: furnish him with anything other than what had been found
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: out in going over my room. I knew I'd found
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: the contact that I was looking for. I told him
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: that I was in the business of buying narcotics, that
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: I was in Los Angeles for the purpose of making
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: a prearranged narcotics buy with agents dealing in Mexican stuff.
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: Harding immediately gave me a strong sales pitch, saying that
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: he could furnish me with high-grade heroin fresh from the
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: European market in quantity. At the end of the first week,
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: I was introduced to Kirk Harding's two associates, another man
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: called Smith, full name Horace L. Smith, and a woman
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: by the name of Lucille Cosgrove. Ben had been unable
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: to find records on any of the three. For the
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: next three weeks, we became more friendly. We went places together,
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: spent a great deal of time together.
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: Monday, November 15th.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: Well, we've had a lot of fun the last few weeks,
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: haven't we?
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah, there's no doubt about that, but I've got to
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: be getting back to Phoenix.
• 22:04
  Speaker 12: Well, now, don't get eager, Joe. You know how cagey
• 22:06
  Speaker 12: you were. You made us wait. Preliminaries are over. This
• 22:09
  Speaker 12: is the big buy for you or anybody else.
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I know all that, but who am I?
• 22:12
  Speaker 12: Just be patient. You'll have something to really set yourself
• 22:15
  Speaker 12: up with down there.
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: Now, excuse me, Joe. Yeah, go ahead.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, hi, Lucille.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Hi. Nice to meet you. Hello, Justin. Hi, Lucille.
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: Hello. What's the matter, Smith?
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Don't you feel good? I don't know. It's hotel food,
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: I guess. I think I got an ulcer. My stomach's
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: sore all the time.
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: Oh, that's too bad.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: I don't know what it could be. Baking soda don't
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: do any good anymore. How about a drink?
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: Joe?
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah, fine with me.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Well, sir, do you want to get some ice out
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: of the kitchen, please? Skip me. Smith, you ought to
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: go see a doctor. You don't know for sure what's
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: wrong with you. It might make it worse.
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: If I don't know what it is, how could a doctor?
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: I don't know. It works for everybody else. Might for you.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Hey, I can't get this ice tray out.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Joe, would you give me a.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Hand, please?
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah, sure. Okay, which one here? I got the ice.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: Keep working on that other tray there. It's something to
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: tell you. Okay. Listen, Joe, big buys tonight. You sure?
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: How about it, you two?
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: You need any help?
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: No, it's all right, Kirk. Come along fine.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Joe, as soon as you show your money tonight, they're
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: going to kill you. How do you know? Look, we
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: don't have time to go into it.
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: I know.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: You won't have a chance. They're going to kill you.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: What are you doing?
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Waiting for it to freeze?
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: How about the ice cream? Oh, they're right here, Kirk.
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Let's go.
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: Okay, what do you want? Lucille?
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: Joe?
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Coke, hi, sir.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: Joe? I'll make my own bourbon with a little water.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Smith, you sure you don't want one?
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: No, can't do it. Joe, before I mix them, I
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: got something for you.
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Smith tells me tonight's the night.
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: Well, that's good, but.
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: Why don't you tell me a little ahead of time?
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: I got a date for tonight.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: I think you better break that one and keep this one,
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: don't you?
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I do, but just wish you'd have told
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: me a little sooner.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: There's the phone. You can take care of it.
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: Is it all right with you?
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: You know as much about this business as we do.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Go ahead and use it as long as we can
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: hear you. Okay, fine.
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: Just take a minute.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: I'll sit here, Joe.
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: Oh, thanks, man.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: See, I wonder if you'd get my drink for me
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: over there. Sure. She's probably going to be upset. I
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: may need it, huh? Merrill talking.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Hi, honey.
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: This is Joe.
• 24:45
  Speaker 10: Oh, yeah, Joe.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: I won't be able to make it tonight, dear.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: You can't talk, huh?
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: That's right, dear.
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: No, I just can't get out of it.
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: I'll do the talking.
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: Joe is a-by tonight.
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, it just came up all of a sudden.
• 24:57
  Speaker 11: Where do you know?
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: No, darling, I can't tell you where I'm going.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: You couldn't go along anyway.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, we'll be with you five minutes from now all
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: the way.
• 25:04
  Speaker 11: Where are you now, at the hotel?
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: Well, that's the way it is, and I can't help it,
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: that's all. Maybe we can get together later, huh? We'll
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: use one car, Joe.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: We'll stick as close as we can to you.
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: One car ought to be safe, huh?
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Well, that's better, honey.
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: That's the way I like to hear you talk.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry. I'll see you later, huh?
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: We'll be with you.
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: Okay, dear.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Well, does she still love you?
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: Yeah, she loves me.
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: Fifteen minutes after I hung up, we went downstairs and
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: got into a green Chrysler sedan.
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: It was parked out in front of the hotel.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: I looked around.
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: I didn't see Ben or any of our cars in sight.
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: Smith drove, and Kirk and I got in the back seat.
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: The woman, Lucille Cosgrove, remained at the hotel. I didn't
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: know which of the two men was planning to kill me,
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: but I felt sure Lucille Cosgrove told me the truth.
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: Her information on the buy was right, and maybe this
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: other was correct as well. We drove out Figueroa Street.
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: For about 16 miles.
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: At this point, it became evident we were heading for
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: the Los Angeles Harbor area.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: You ever see a fog as thick as this, Jim?
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: No, never have.
• 26:09
  Speaker 9: Can't see 50 feet in front of me.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, just take it easy.
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: Nobody's in a hurry.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: That's right. Don't want to pile up anywhere.
• 26:19
  Speaker 8: Where are we going?
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: We're almost there.
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: Is this your car here? I've never seen this one before.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: No, we rented it. Isn't that the way you operate?
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: I just wondered if you played it as safe as
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: I do.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: We do.
• 26:31
  Speaker 9: I'm going to swing in this next alley up here, Kirk.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: Somebody tailing us? Keep your lights.
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: See anything out the back window?
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute. There they go. How'd it look? Two
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: guys in the front seat. Could have been somebody. What
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: do you think, Joe? How'd it look to you?
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: Well, whoever it was, we lost them anyway. Yeah.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: Okay, let's go.
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: Look at that. Clear spot here in the fog. Don't
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: see a soul anywhere.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: No, it's fine.
• 27:31
  Speaker 12: We almost there now? Yeah, just around the corner. This
• 27:35
  Speaker 12: is a break, isn't it? Fog's clear right in here.
• 27:38
  Speaker 12: All socked in back up there. Well, we're as safe
• 27:41
  Speaker 12: as you'd want to be, huh?
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: This is it.
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: Over by the storage building?
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right. Come on, let's go. Over this way, Joe.
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: What's over there in that building?
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: We're not going inside. Just over there in that alcove.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: All right, this is it, Joe. Let's see the money.
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: Well, wait till I see the stuff, huh?
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: You don't trust anybody, do you?
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: Joe!
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: What are you trying to prove?
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: Well, I didn't like what he said.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: You're not going to like what I got to say either.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: Freeze, mister. Drop it, you! Watch it, Ben!
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: He ducked in this alcove.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: Oh!
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: Take care of that one there.
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: Hard easy, huh?
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you see him?
• 28:34
  Speaker 8: No, it's too dark.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: There he is. Come on out.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: All right, throw your gun out ahead of you.
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: He's not going to throw that gun out, Joe.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Watch it.
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: Come on.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: There's his gun. Yeah, I got it. You want to
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: shake him down? Yeah.
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: Come on.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: On your feet. Where'd you get hit? High shore.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Let me see.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: You're all right. Just grazed you. You're a cop, aren't you?
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right. Now, come on, let's go.
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: Where's this stuff?
• 29:12
  Speaker 12: On the back seat in my car. Now, you tell
• 29:14
  Speaker 12: me something. Why'd you slug Smith?
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: I just wanted something I knew you'd never give me.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: What's that?
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: An even chance.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: The story you have just heard was true. Only the
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: names were changed to protect the innocents.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: On January 4th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 81,
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. In
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: a moment, the results of that trial. And now here
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: is our star, Jack Webb.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: Friends, let's compare Fatima with any other long cigarette. Now,
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: Fatimas are the same length, 85 millimeters. Fatima has the
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: same circumference, 1 1 64 inches around. And Fatima filters
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: the smoke exactly the same long distance as other king-size cigarettes.
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: But in Fatima, the difference is quality. You get extra.
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: Mildness, a different, much better flavor and aroma. That's right.
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: Fatima gives you all the advantages of extra length plus
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: Fatima quality, which no other king-size cigarette has.
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: Tomorrow, buy Fatima.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: All three suspects, Kirk Arthur Harding, Horace L.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: Smith, and Lucille Marie Cosgrove, were convicted for violation of
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: the State Narcotics Act, a felony. Harding and Smith were
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: convicted on one count of attempt to commit murder. They
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: are now serving their terms as prescribed by law in
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: the state penitentiaries. You have just heard Dragnet, a series
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  Speaker 4: of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice comes from
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  Speaker 4: the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles
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  Speaker 4: Police Department.
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  Speaker 3: Fatima Cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet,
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  Speaker 3: portions transcribed from Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 6: Stay tuned for Counterspy next over most NBC stations.
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  Speaker 1: We have heard Dragnet, episode 103, Big Bindle. This is
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  Speaker 1: Victor Sterling. Until next time, good night.