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Dragnet: The Big Speech (EP4742) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to bring in this week's episode of Dragnet. But first,
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  Speaker 1: to nineteenth, nineteen fifty one, here is the big speech.
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  Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true, only
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 5: It was Monday, August seventh. It was warm in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: We were working a day watch out of robbery detail.
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  Speaker 5: My partner's Ben Romero, the boss's Thad Brown, cheap of detectives.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Friday. It was one fifteen PM when
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  Speaker 5: I got to forty six fifty six Collis Avenue the
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  Speaker 5: front door.
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  Speaker 4: Is that your jersey?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's me.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't expect you so soon.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm off for lunch, and Ben and I were
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  Speaker 5: in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 6: So oh well, I'll.
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  Speaker 7: Get the telegram. Thank you, say, I'm glad you could
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  Speaker 7: get home. Telegrams always make me nervous. Nobody ever sends
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  Speaker 7: a telegram that's it's important here, So thank.
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  Speaker 5: You, yes, said you, Maa. Some people send wires invite
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  Speaker 5: you to lunch or do a reception or something like that.
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  Speaker 5: Or is that so sure you've just forgotten? Haven't sure?
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  Speaker 5: I've gotten them before like that?
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  Speaker 6: There's no way to do anyhow.
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  Speaker 5: Why not?
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  Speaker 7: I'm always associaped frightening things with telegrams. Well aren't you
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  Speaker 7: going to open?
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, sure, Well if you were worried, you could
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  Speaker 5: open it.
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  Speaker 7: I've been all right, you know, I never opened anything
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  Speaker 7: addressed to you, Joseph, anything important.
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  Speaker 5: It's from Belmont, my old high school. Oh yeah, they
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  Speaker 5: want me to come up next week. They're having some
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  Speaker 5: sort of assembly up there, want me to talk to
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  Speaker 5: the student body.
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  Speaker 6: That's nice, you're going to go?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I better, don't you. I have to
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  Speaker 5: clear through Captain Sheldon.
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  Speaker 7: Though I think it's awfully nice for them to remember you.
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  Speaker 6: But are you going to talk on.
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  Speaker 5: To say, uh, police work? It says, yeah, I'll have
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  Speaker 5: to think of something to base.
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  Speaker 7: It on, though, wat I you don't have to memorize it.
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  Speaker 7: Joseph doesn't look well for men to stand up on
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  Speaker 7: a platform ready prepare to talk?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. Oh that's Ben. I gotta go on my.
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  Speaker 7: Would you I've been like some lunchhop and picture something
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  Speaker 7: about a minute.
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  Speaker 5: No, we haven't got time, girl. I'll see you later.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know why they couldn't have written a letter
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  Speaker 7: instead that I said. They could have written you a letter. Besides,
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  Speaker 7: it's much cheaper than a telegram.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I'll see you later.
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  Speaker 8: By Jersey.
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  Speaker 5: Right, she's gotta call Joe. They want us to call
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  Speaker 5: the office, so well I might as well do it
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  Speaker 5: from the house. Yeah all right, I'll be right back. Right,
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  Speaker 5: it's just me again.
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  Speaker 9: Ma came back and used the phone.
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  Speaker 5: Please, it's Friday. Glenn got one for you, Joe. I
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  Speaker 5: can't hear you. Glenn got one for you. Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 5: I can't hear you. Hey, Ma, would you hold that
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  Speaker 5: vacuum for a minute please? I can't hear. Thank you,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Glenn. What did you say again?
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  Speaker 10: That young kid hit again Doctor's office.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's that same kid, only.
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  Speaker 3: This time you get a little rough.
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  Speaker 8: Victims at Georgia Street. He's still carrying that gun.
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  Speaker 5: Did he use the gun to beat the man with victims?
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  Speaker 5: A fifty five year old doctor? No reason for it, Joe,
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  Speaker 5: All right, we'll get right on it, right, yeah, bye, okay,
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  Speaker 5: I'm all through anything. Yeah. That young high pit again
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  Speaker 5: Doctor's office. Beat him up pretty bad. He's down at
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  Speaker 5: Georgia Great combination, isn't it. You know? What's that? Armful
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  Speaker 5: of narcotics and a loaded gun? Monday, August seventh. Since
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  Speaker 5: June twenty seventh, Ben and I had been assigned to
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  Speaker 5: a case involving a young narcotics thief. For seven weeks now,
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  Speaker 5: he'd been robbing every possible source available to him of narcotics.
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  Speaker 5: Since the inception of the investigation, we'd seen this young
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  Speaker 5: criminal develop from a small time sneak thief to a
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  Speaker 5: full fledged, armed and vicious thug. The descriptions of the
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  Speaker 5: young thief taken from his various victims tallied almost to
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  Speaker 5: the letter, blonde like, complex and small stature five seven
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  Speaker 5: to five ten, nervous, and unusually juvenile in appearance. Everything
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  Speaker 5: possible was being done for his quick apprehension. Hundreds of
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  Speaker 5: mugshots were screened and shown to victims no identification. Three
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  Speaker 5: point thirty pm. We checked back in at the office,
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  Speaker 5: went to see Sergeant ed Hall, Narcotics Division.
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  Speaker 10: Chandler said, you went over to Georgia Street to see
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  Speaker 10: that doctor. Yeah, try ed Short visit poor guy.
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  Speaker 5: Pretty bad. The guy's really a mess. Kid must have
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  Speaker 5: worked overtime on him and wants his condition still critical.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, they wouldn't let us stay alone. We got a description.
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  Speaker 10: It's the same kid. Doctor's name was Gannon, fifty five
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  Speaker 10: years old.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, pistol whipped him, knocked out seven of his teeth,
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  Speaker 5: fractured his jaw.
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  Speaker 10: Doctor was wearing glasses. They don't know if he'll see
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  Speaker 10: out of his right eye anymore. This puts junior in
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  Speaker 10: the big leaves now, Yeah, it sure it does.
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  Speaker 5: We got out of supplementary all points on him. Here's
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  Speaker 5: a list of the joke that he got quite a
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  Speaker 5: haul here.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, m morphine, quarter grain thirty miles five dollars half
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  Speaker 11: grain cordine dolphine quarter grains six miles. Yeah, he did
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  Speaker 11: all right, long list here. We got that from the nurse.
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  Speaker 11: She was out to lunch when it happened. To the
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  Speaker 11: small office out there, and the doctor closes up at noon.
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  Speaker 11: Nurse goes out to lunch and he eats in the office.
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  Speaker 11: That's when the kid got to him.
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  Speaker 10: He knew when they hit, didn't he. Yeah, boys have
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  Speaker 10: been able to.
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  Speaker 5: Turn up a thing for you. Nobody seems to know
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  Speaker 5: the kid well. The amount of stuff he haul out
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  Speaker 5: of that doctor's office something on a show. Should Yeah
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  Speaker 5: all like that. You got anything at all to work on?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, that car that was used on the job still
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  Speaker 10: got a stake down. We'll just picked this up for
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  Speaker 10: the report counting when out the car was reported stolen
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  Speaker 10: two hours after the robber. It's a little bit of
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  Speaker 10: a breakout. The fort was taken on at the Wilchire station.
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  Speaker 10: Miss Irving Adams states to her husband had notified her
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  Speaker 10: that the car was stolen from him while he was
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  Speaker 10: at work today, so he always parks it out in
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  Speaker 10: front on the street.
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  Speaker 5: We haven't checked it out yet. We figured it was
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  Speaker 5: a good place to start. Maybe, wait a minute, would
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  Speaker 5: you say that name was Irving Adams. Let me see
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  Speaker 5: that before. Wells, Adams is a user. He's up in
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  Speaker 5: county now waiting crown. Are you sure about that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: Walker and I picked him up. I just talked to
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  Speaker 5: Adams up in the county jail this morning. How long
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  Speaker 5: has he been in Let's see, it was last Tuesday,
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  Speaker 5: July thirtieth. The car couldn't have been stolen from Adams
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  Speaker 5: today if he's been in jail for a week. There's
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  Speaker 5: one guy can figure it out for you, Adams. Four
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  Speaker 5: h five pm we went up to the tenth flour
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  Speaker 5: of the county Jail, the interview room. We talked to
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  Speaker 5: Irving Adams for an hour. He said he wanted to cooperate,
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  Speaker 5: but he couldn't explain his wife's action in reporting the
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  Speaker 5: car stolen from him. He kept repeating that he knew
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  Speaker 5: his wife was not involved in anything, that she was
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  Speaker 5: innocent of any complicity in the case of the youthful gunman.
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  Speaker 5: He could give us no information on anyone fitting the
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  Speaker 5: gunman's description. He insisted that the entire matter was a
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  Speaker 5: mistake and that his wife could clear everything up if
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  Speaker 5: we just talked to her. Five twenty pm, Ben and
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  Speaker 5: I drove out to two thirty nine West ninety second Street.
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  Speaker 5: The Adam's residence was a small white bungalow, trimmed and red.
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  Speaker 5: The front lawn needed cutting in care. There were four
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  Speaker 5: bottles of soured milk on the front porch, along with
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  Speaker 5: several old newspapers. The front blinds were down, although it
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  Speaker 5: was still early. The front porch light was burning. The
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  Speaker 5: other homes in the neighborhood appeared to be neat and
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  Speaker 5: well kept. The screen door was ajar and supported by
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  Speaker 5: one rusty hinge. Five twenty one pm. It's like nobody's home. Yea,
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  Speaker 5: let's give it a try.
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  Speaker 10: Give me a minute, I'll cover the back right, Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Police officer, my name is Friday, or missus Irving Adams.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's right.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I like talk to you about your stolen car.
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  Speaker 4: Have we found it?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: We have?
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  Speaker 5: Can I come in place?
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  Speaker 4: Is in such a mess? Can't we talk here?
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  Speaker 5: Well, if you don't mind, I'd rather come inside.
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  Speaker 12: Oh right, don't look at the house. I've been kind
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  Speaker 12: of sick. I haven't felt much like cleaning up.
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  Speaker 5: All right, you alone here?
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  Speaker 4: Are you right now? My husband's at work.
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  Speaker 5: Mind if I go through the.
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  Speaker 4: House, I mean, searcher, you've got a warrant.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I just want to go to the back door.
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  Speaker 13: What for?
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  Speaker 5: Well, my partners around back there. This is the way
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  Speaker 5: to the back door.
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  Speaker 4: Hair, that's right, This is it's locked. Key's in the door,
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  Speaker 4: hey Ben?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, everything will right? Yeah? Fine?
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  Speaker 4: Is he a police officer too?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right. This all that is to the house here?
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: Well, just these three rooms here?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's all.
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  Speaker 5: I thought you said you were alone here I am.
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  Speaker 5: Who's that woman lying down in the other room.
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  Speaker 12: That's Catherine. I didn't want you bothering you. She's been
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  Speaker 12: sick too, she sleeps most of the time. I just
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  Speaker 12: forgot about it. Anybody else around, no nobody.
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  Speaker 5: No, I mean anybody's sick or otherwise, anyone besides you
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  Speaker 5: and this girl in there.
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  Speaker 12: Well, you've been in every room in the house except
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  Speaker 12: the bathroom. Miss it here? Yes, okay, I don't understand
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  Speaker 12: all this. I reported my car's tolen, and you come
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  Speaker 12: out here and search my house. If I did steal
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  Speaker 12: my car, I wouldn't hide it in here.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, man, want to come in yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Could you tell me something?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Why are you here?
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  Speaker 14: Well?
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  Speaker 5: I told you we find your car. This is sigent Romeo.
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  Speaker 5: How do you do?
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  Speaker 4: What's the trouble? Anything wrong?
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  Speaker 5: Who'd you say your car was stolen from me?
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  Speaker 4: It was my car?
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  Speaker 5: Is that the way you made the report? Miss Adams,
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  Speaker 5: was stolen from you?
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  Speaker 4: I think, sir?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it was Adams. According to the report that you
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  Speaker 5: made out this morning, you stated that the car was
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  Speaker 5: stolen from your husband. Isn't it right?
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  Speaker 4: Is that what I said?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: I don't remember we both used the car so much
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  Speaker 4: for God?
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  Speaker 5: Well, no, which is it you or your husband?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure. You've been drinking heavy a little bit,
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  Speaker 4: just to ease my nerves.
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  Speaker 5: I have been feeling. Well, it's obvious you're not drunk.
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  Speaker 5: Missus Adams. Why don't you keep your story straight?
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  Speaker 4: We love users. I am telling the truth.
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  Speaker 5: Your husband's in the county jail. He's been there for
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  Speaker 5: a week. The car couldn't have been stolen from him,
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  Speaker 5: I could it.
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  Speaker 12: I didn't say it was stolen from him.
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  Speaker 5: This year's signa tore Miss Adam.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, sir, this is a copy of the Auto Theft
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  Speaker 10: report that you made at the WILSR Division.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, well, as this report a true one or a
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  Speaker 5: false one, is a penalty for making a false report,
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  Speaker 5: Miss Adams, I'm sure you're aware of that.
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  Speaker 4: I only want my car back.
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  Speaker 5: Who was it stolen from?
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  Speaker 4: Whatever it says there? My husband?
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  Speaker 5: Well, we just told you that he's in jail. He's
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  Speaker 5: still in there. We just talked to him. The car
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  Speaker 5: couldn't have been stolen from him. Have you got anything
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  Speaker 5: to say to that? No? Well, I think we better
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  Speaker 5: go downtown where you can sit and straighten yourself out
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  Speaker 5: and give us some right answers.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to go to jail.
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  Speaker 5: That's just where you're going if you don't snap out
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  Speaker 5: of it and come up with the truth.
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  Speaker 4: I know who you want. It's Rex Burley, isn't it.
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  Speaker 5: Who's Rex Burley?
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  Speaker 12: Young kid going small? He told me he was in
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  Speaker 12: some kind of trouble with the car. Said, if I
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  Speaker 12: tell the police it was told him to be all
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  Speaker 12: right that way.
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  Speaker 5: Do you know where he is now?
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  Speaker 4: No? I don't you sure about that? That's the truth.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: Catherine's awful sick. She always sleep is heavy only when
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  Speaker 12: she's sick.
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  Speaker 5: She's really out, isn't she? Yeah, look at her leg. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: she's a user. Say this girl's on Narcoticsmith's Adams. Are
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  Speaker 5: you a user?
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm not. I don't know where Catherine gets it.
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  Speaker 5: How about rex Burley?
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  Speaker 12: He's on it too. Maybe she gets it from him.
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  Speaker 12: Is there any stuff in the house now, not that
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  Speaker 12: I know.
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  Speaker 5: You want to tell us where rex Burley is?
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  Speaker 12: I don't know. He called her about an hour ago.
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  Speaker 12: Catherine talked to him. Did he tell her where he what?
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  Speaker 4: Yes? He did. She wrote it down on a piece
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  Speaker 4: of paper.
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  Speaker 14: Where's that paper under a pillow?
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  Speaker 5: Monday, August seventh, six thirty pm, the young girl who
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  Speaker 5: has identified as Katherine Dorrance was awakened and she produced
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  Speaker 5: rex Burley's address. He stated that she'd known him for
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  Speaker 5: the past year, she had just graduated from high school
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  Speaker 5: and gave her ages eighteen. And Talking further with both
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  Speaker 5: Iris Adams and Katherine Dorrance, we found that the description
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  Speaker 5: of rex Burley checked out with that given us from
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  Speaker 5: the suspects victims. They both stated that as far as
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  Speaker 5: they knew it was his true name, that he had
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  Speaker 5: no friends or associates known to them. A check with
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  Speaker 5: R and I showed no record on the name Rex Burley.
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  Speaker 5: At six thirty seven pm, Sergeant's Hall and Walker from
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  Speaker 5: Narcotics Division arrived and continued the investigation of the two
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  Speaker 5: female suspects. A stakeout was placed on the house at
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: two thirty nine West ninety second Street. The address we
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: got from Catherine Dorrance was a hotel on Washington Boulevard.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: We drove out and checked with the clerk. We asked
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: if he had anyone registered under the name of Rex Burley,
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: and he told us no. We gave him Burley's description.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: He said that a young man similar to that had
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: registered and was in room two ten. We got a
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: pass key from the clerk. We walked up to the
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: second floor. It mhmm, lights on under the door? Yeah, carefully,
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: where is it? Open up? We want to talk to you.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: What about what's the key in the door? Yeah, thats
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: key's no good? All right, come on, open up, police officers.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: All right, let's hit it again once more.
• 19:26
  Speaker 10: Yeah, winner's open up the fire escape joe, police officers,
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: hold it up?
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Watch you all right?
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, right, come on, let's go.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: Hold it up there.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: He doesn't want to stop.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: He's over the side under the roof.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: Al right, come on alright, easy seem No, it's pretty dark,
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: all right, Come on easy now, easy Over there on
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: that side, can you see him? No, it's too dark.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: What's that skyline? He's over there in that corner. You
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: see him? Yeah, Now he's going muster duck back down. Well,
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: he's in that corner. All right, let's take him. I
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: keep down. You circle around from that side. I'll go
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: around this way, all right, careful, keep down, don't please
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: don't t get your hands in the air.
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: Walk toward the middle of the rock.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: There.
• 20:42
  Speaker 10: I see him, Joe, I got him covered you all right, Yeah,
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: all right.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Keep those hands up right, standstill, so all right, get
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: your hands behind you, man.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Let's go.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: Burlie.
• 21:03
  Speaker 15: I didn't mean to do it.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I was wrong.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: I know I was wrong.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: You should have thought about that a long time ago.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: How old are you, Burleie? Twenty? You're living pretty high,
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: aren't you. I had to have this stuff.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: I needed it. How olse could I get it?
• 21:21
  Speaker 15: I didn't buddy to buy it.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: He didn't have to get started on it. Come on,
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: let's go.
• 21:26
  Speaker 15: I didn't want to get started. All of a sudden,
• 21:30
  Speaker 15: I just done it. I couldn't do anything about it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 15: You don't understand. It's just somebody else to explain it to.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: There is, but they won't understand it either. Monday, August seventh,
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: eight rex Burley was taking downtown to the Robbery Division
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: for further interrogation. He told us that he was in
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: his senior year in high school when he got started
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: on narcotics. He kept repeating this, he didn't mean to
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: get started. He readily admitted his participation in six narcotics robberies.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: He told us that he got Katherine Dorrance, his eighteen
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: year old girlfriend, started on dope. Jean Bechdel took his
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: statement and a complete report was made. A partial recovery
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: of the stolen narcotics was made from his hotel room,
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: and the remainder had been found at Irving Adams residence
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: on ninety second Street. Both female suspects, Iris Adams and
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Katherine Dorrance were filed on for violation of the State
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: Narcotics Act. A show up was scheduled for August eighth
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: to allow positive identification from rex Burley's victims. We received
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: word from Georgia Street that doctor Gannon's condition was improved.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: The suspect was transported to the main jail where he
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: was booked. It was ten thirty eight pm when I
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: got to fourteen fifty six Collis Avenue. The front door
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: is that you? No, I'm not hungry.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: I don't have to eat fixture something.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: I'm kind of tired. I just like to sit down
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: for a minute.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: All right, there's evening paper.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Oh thank you.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: What don't you do to the sleep of your coat?
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: It's so Messa ripped it?
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: Uh you slip it off. I'm mended after it fixtures
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: some dinner.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Why don't you sit down and work on it now
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: if you want to. I've got something I'm kind of
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: like to go over with you. You remember that telegram
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: from Belmont this morning high school? Well, I think I
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: got an idea for a speech. Maybe I just made
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: a few notes here, wrote down sound of it. You
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: think you feel like listening to it? See if it's okay?
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: You're at the speech today?
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Well, just parts of it. I hadn't written a clara yet.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: I just got a few. I want to see what
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: you thought of.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: It, and let me have your coat?
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Then, yeah, there you go. Thank you.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: Now it's here you talk.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Well, I remember it's not written down yet. It's just
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: kind of hit and miss as I going wrong, But
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: I think I can get the thought across and then
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: I'll put it all down on papers. Mister Fisher, that's
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: the principal up there, mister Fisher. Members of the faculty
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: in students, I like to tell you about a young
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: boy who started out in high school and ended up
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: on the roof of a downtown hotel, dodging police bullets.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: I like to tell you about his girlfriend, eighteen years
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: old and a dope addict. This young fellow started out
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: on narcotics in search of a new thrill, something new
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: that he hadn't experienced in his young life. He was
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: still in high school when a group of the more
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: high living youngsters used to congregate at the local malt shop.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Well that's not so good, is it. Well, maybe sound
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: better this way. There was a malt shop on the
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: corner where some of the youngsters used to get together
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: after school. Kind of a place where if you had
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: the right connections, and our young boy and girl did,
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: you could get a drink of liquor in the back room. Well,
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: the high school faculty knows all about this local malt shop,
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: and they inform the authorities and pressure is brought to bear.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: But the man who operates the place is clever. If
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: you can call the operations of a man like this clever.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: He knows how to cover up, how to keep the
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: front room legitimate, in the back room a spawning place
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: for a juvenile delinquency, and the students don't help much.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: There seems to be something during the formation of a
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: juvenile mind that when his teachers or his parents catch
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: him doing wrong or they try to tell him it's bad,
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: he prides himself and seeing how long he can get
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: away with it under covers seems to be the stylish
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: thing to do to outwit your parents and teachers. As
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: the youngsters grow older, they invariably find out how infantil
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: and stupid this is. But sometimes it's too late. That
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: sounds kind of stuffy, Ma, What do you think.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: It sounds like the truth? Let me hear the rest
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: of it.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: Well, you know how kids are. Sometimes they resent it
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: if they think you're lecturing them. Maybe they could have
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: been with Ben and I and I might make a difference. Well,
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: I want to make this too long, man, I think
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: maybe I ought to finish up something like this from
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: this malt shop on the corner. In that back room,
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: our young boy gets a good shoved down the road
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: of self degradation. He has the right connections and isn't
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: too long before he graduates the liquor in the back
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: room for something. He thinks it's far better narcotics. He's
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: heard that, unlike liquor, you can't smell it on his breath.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: And he's a real veteran now he has hangovers. He's
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: heard that narcotics doesn't leave you with a hangover, so
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: it doesn't take too long before in our well, in
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: police parlance, he's hooked. Living in this day and age,
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: he thought that they taught him well in his economics
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: and civics classes. He thought he knew what post war
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: inflation was all about. He didn't have the vaguus notion
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: of the cost of his daily supply of narcotics. Once
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: he was hooked on it, he found that before long
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: he had to have his daily dosage and no time
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: at all. He found that it was all he could
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: do to get buy on thirty dollars a day, So
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: that costs monk thirty dollars each and every day. Or
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: he became violently ill, so sick that he couldn't seem
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: to function properly well in order to maintain his daily needs.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: He got a gun and he robbed and he beat
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: people in He stole. He shared with his girlfriend, and
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: he dragged her down with him. He ended up on
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: the roof of a hotel trying to shoot his way out.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: The boy was twenty years old, his girlfriend was eighteen.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: Two years ago, they both sat out there in a
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: high school auditorium during an assembly. He went a long way,
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: didn't he? In his two years out of high school.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: Taken into custody on the night of August seventh. Who
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: was crying when we put the handcuffs on him? He
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: was crying when we left him in his cell at
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: the county jail. I guess he's still crying. I only think, man,
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: that's just rough. I haven't.
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: Good. I believe it. You think it'll do any good?
• 28:20
  Speaker 16: Well, I don't know, man, it's up to them.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: On November ninth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: eighty three, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: In a moment, the results of that trial, and now.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Here is our star Jack Webb.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: Thank you friends. There are many cases on record of
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: two people not related looking so much alike it's hard
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: to tell them apart. A quick check of fingerprints, however,
• 28:55
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  Speaker 3: Tomorrow, Rex Martin Burley was found guilty of three counts
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: of robbery in the first degree and was sentenced to
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: the State penitentiary, where he is now serving his term.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: First degree robbery is punishable by imprisonment from five years
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: to life.
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• 30:04
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• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Welcome back a solid narcotics episode. In terms of life decisions,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: taking legal advice from a twenty year old narcotics addict
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: about how to file a police report might be one
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: of the most foolish decisions you can make without even
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: getting details as to what he advised. Also, we have
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: another use of the last name Ginning. It just stands
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: out how much they reuse that name along with Carver
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: throughout the run of Dragnet. I did really like the
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: ending segment where Joe Friday was crafting this speech. It's
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: interesting in many ways because so many people are familiar
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: with the nineteen sixties series where Joe Friday is associated
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: with having a thorough three point lecture ready to deliver
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: at an instant. I mean, some of the Joe Friday
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: speeches from the sixties were so impressive that they were
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: put into the Congressional record, and essentially it's assumed that, yeah,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: he's just got that on the top of his head.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: So having the scene where he's thinking through what he
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: wants to say and how it's going to be received
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: by his audience reflects the way the character was originally conceived.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: And he's having to put some real thought into how
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: he's going to speak to these high schoolers. And it's
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: a realistic, kind of first outline of how the speech
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: might worked out, rather than a finished product. And certainly
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: there's some thought as to how he's going to craft
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: the message, but there is actually with that closing line,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: an important idea that reflects something different than the way
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: we often view things in the twenty first century. Friday
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: said whether the speech would do any good would be
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: up to the kids, And I think in our information age,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: in so many contexts, you'll hear people emphasize the role
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: of the speaker, the role of the presentation, and suggests
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: that if you have the right speakers and the most
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: effective methods and the right in influencers, then that will work.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: And if people make bad decisions, the speaker has failed
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: in their function. Now Certainly speakers should try to be engaging.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: They shouldn't be overtly offensive to their audience unnecessarily. They
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: should do the best job to present the information in
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: the best way possible. And certainly, if you're using new
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: technology and social media, you should you do all the
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: fundamentals of presenting in that format. But at the end
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: of the day, we're all fundamentally responsible for our own
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: lives and the decisions we make, whether the decisions more legal, financial, spiritual, health,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: or anything else. We always say that the idea is
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: that people need to communicate ideas better, we can ignore
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: that responsibility element, and I think that's an interesting point
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: from this episode. All right, well, now it's time to
• 34:03
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• 34:42
  Speaker 1: for the Adventures of the Falcon.
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: Where am I Anna talking to that distinguished gentleman known
• 34:47
  Speaker 8: faw and white as a falcon?
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: I'll hand exad How the world did you know it
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: was me?
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: I recognize you buy a white suit. How we going?
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: I'm not so hot Mike. Maria spotted me this morning
• 34:59
  Speaker 8: in al fam I'm sorry, pal, but it couldn't be helped,
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: though I managed to tell her to the Cafe europah
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: Wessia heightst of the couple with Steve Butler.
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: Always Steve Butler, isn't it uh huh?
• 35:10
  Speaker 16: You let anything else?
• 35:11
  Speaker 8: No, not a single blessed thing if you ask me, friend,
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: we got a bum steir that Gal's no spy.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: And what about those confidential reports and the embassy.
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: We found in her apartment?
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: I'm beginning to think they were planted by home by
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: the same little lady who gave us the original tip?
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Are you able to laugh?
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: Jound to her again?
• 35:28
  Speaker 8: Nope, had names she used was a phony. Don't get
• 35:31
  Speaker 8: it me and Nina by I, Lady six too, and
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: even somebody's trying to frame Maria. What gets me is
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: why I hope.
• 35:38
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