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Dragnet: The Big Fake (EP1598) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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right, well, now it's time for today's episode of Dragnet. The original
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air date June the first of nineteen fifty and the toll is the bake.
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Fake. Ladies and gentlemen, we suggest that you pay particular attention to an
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important announcement which will be given at the end of tonight's program. The story
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you're about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect
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the innocent Dragnet. You're a detective sergeant signed to Personnel Division, a resident
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of your city, files a report of robbery and assault. The suspect or
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rookie police officer. Your job arresting drag meet the documented drama of an actual
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crime for the next thirty minutes transcribed in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department.
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You will travel step by step on the side of the law through an
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actual case from official police folence, from beginning to end, from crime to
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punishment. Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was
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Wednesday, April night was foggy in Los Angeles. We were working a day
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watch out of personnel. My partner's Ben Romero, the boss's deputy Chief Homan
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Commander Bia by names Fray. We're on the way over from the City Hall
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and it was five twenty five. Pee him when we got the Central Division
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the Assembly room. Why I see him? Joe, Yeah, it looks
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like him over there. I let you hig you Russell Clark, Yeah,
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that's right, Friday Ramero personnel. All right, he's doin a Drummond over
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to I'd like to talk to you, all right, when'd you want to
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see me? Right now? Okay, we're looking at the captain. You
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saw about that. Okay, let's go. What do they want to see
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me? By? You know? Drummond will tell you. Okay, how
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long you've been on the job. Buh about two and a half months.
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How do you like it? Oh? I like it fine? Wife doesn't
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mean much of it. She wanted me to stay at my own job.
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What was that selling insurance? I like st had me home nights. Doesn't
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like to be alone, especially now. Yeah, she's expecting a couple of
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months, you know. Yeah that's cross. Hey, I put in a
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request for day work. You think that's why personnel wants to see me.
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I don't know. I don't think so why I should like to get that
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day watch? Yeah? Not the way you full of started I did.
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Yeah he started trapping, didn't you, Ben? Yeah? Huh? I
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had nine months Alan, go ahead, No thanks, I feeling the job
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at six think just gonn take right long? I don't know. Hi Friday,
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Hi Friday. And let's waiting list now Coleman Lieten, Yeah, commit,
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this is offic the Clark Lieutenan Drummond. How did you do? Oh?
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Clark? Sit down? Thanks? A couple of questions for you,
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sir. You were on special duty at the Olympic. Go to taurium last
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night there, right, yesser for the fights. Anything unusual happened out there
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last night? It wasn't very important with Tim. After the fights, drunk
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fell down the stairs from my way out of the outitorium. Brookies arm.
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I took him to Georgia Street and he took care of the arm and I
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drove him home. He's pretty drunk. Why didn't you book the man?
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I didn't think it was necessary. How long you've been with the department,
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Clark, two and a half months there? Did you know he should have
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been booked for violation of forty one to twenty seven a lamc oh man.
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It was a pretty bad shape, Lieutenant broke an armor. I guess I
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didn't think the law was that straight. Well, I was there for a
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purpose. He decided to forget it. Now you're in a mess right up
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to your neck. I don't understand. You remember the name of that drunk
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he took care of last night. Yes, her name of Stacy lays out
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in West LA. What's the matter to that drunk? Mister Stacey wants to
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find a complaint against you or four. He claims you took him back to
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the auditorium, beat him up, broke his arm, and robbed him of
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one hundred and twenty eight dollars. Crazy, he's lying. I didn't do
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that, got his word against yours. Clark, in fact, seemed to
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favor him. But I can prove it whether there was at least a couple
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of dozen people around it, there was a doctor, he continued, maybe
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you better take it from the beginning, Clark, exactly how did it happen?
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I was right after the fight, so I was undoting in the lobby
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and I saw a bunch of people crowding around the foot of the stairs.
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Yeah. I went over to see what the trouble was, and they were
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looking at this man lying on the pavement, Stacy. A doctor was examining
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his doctor. Did he identify him yet? Yeah? I asked her his
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identification. He showed it to me, gave me carry he's doctor, all
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right, yeah, go ahead. Well he told me that he had seen
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Stacy fall down the stairs coming out of the auditorium, said that Stacy had
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broken his left arm. What'd you do then, Well, the doc said'd
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be okay to move him. So I helped him into my car and take
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him down to Georgia Street. He's so drunkeyard to stand up. The attendant's
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at Georgia Street took care of his arm. Well, they can tell you
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all about this maybe, but they can't help you. On his witnesses,
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you could have beaten up Stacy robbed him, then take him in to the
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Georgia Street. But I didn't, Lieutenant Attendant, is Stacy's lying? What'd
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you do when you left Georgia Street? Well, I drove into Central and
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told him what happened. I told the watch commander I was going to drive
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this Stacy home, and he warned me about it. Yes, I should
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have known him better. But well, I swear to you that Stacy's lying.
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You should have known him better. Where'd you go? Out to your
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left center? I drove him home. On the way, he said he
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was hungry, so I stopped. I bought him a sandwich and some black
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coffee. Kept telling me what I nag his wife was. I said he
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was afraid to go home. Go on. Well, when I got him
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to his place, his whiy, I started chewing me out. I just
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said, good night. That's it, that's it, so help me.
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That's exactly what happened. How about the doctor at the auditorium, the one
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who saw Stacy full Did you get his name in the dress? Well?
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No, no, Lieutenant, I didn't. I think it was necessary.
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How about the crowd that was standing around just bout anybody you know? No,
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no, No, I didn't. There just a bunch of people coming
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out of the fights. And you haven't got anyone to corroborate your story.
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But all those people saw it. There must have been a couple of dozen
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of me. What are their names? I don't know. All I know
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is I didn't beat him up and I didn't take his money. I tell
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you the Stacey's lying. You could be lying. We got no proof either
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way. I'm not lying, Lieutenant, I didn't do it. We might
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believe you, Clark, and that doesn't make any do it is if this
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man files at two eleven against just got to be settled in the court.
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But I didn't do it. I tell you, I swear I did it.
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In just a minute, Mike, send him, mister stay, you
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can hear the story the way we get it from station and his wife.
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I'd like to hear it. I don't know why he's doing this. Tell
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me I helped him all I could. Look Gary Barriers, that's the one.
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Yeah, that's Wait a minute, mister Stacy. What's this all about?
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Mister Stacey? Would you repeat the same story I told us this morning?
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Please? You know what I told you. Chief? You had the
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stenographer take it all down. It's the same thing, like to have you
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repeat it in front office, flower cares and title. I know what you're
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charging with, man like that's entitled nothing. You want to be a lady.
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Your husband's lying. Don't call my husband a liar. You're not a
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policeman. You're a hold of them all right. Wait a minute, I
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don't know what the city's coming to. COT's going around beating up private citizens.
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Who do we trust if we can't trust the policeman? Just a minute?
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Please, No, captain. You should have seen my husband when that
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officer brought him home last night. I'm all banded, face, all cut
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up. He was so bad he could hardly stand up. He was too
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drunk to stand up. All right, that's enough. This cop got hold
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to me as I was coming out of the fights, took me in back
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of the auditorium, told me if I didn't hand over my wallet, he'd
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booked me on a drunk charge. Were you drunk, Stacy? I was
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not. I had a couple of beers, that's all, and I wouldn't
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give my money, and he beat me up, broke my arm and took
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my wallet. Had a man like you ever get on the police force.
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He figured he'd cover up, so he took me and had my arm fixed
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at the emergency hospital and he drove me home, threatened me all away.
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He said, you tell anybody about this and I'll get you. That's just
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what he said. I don't get it, Stacy. You know that story's
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a pack of lies. Why are you doing this to me? It's the
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truth and I'm gonna press charges and get my money back one hundred and twenty
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eight Nos, what have you done with it? We can take care of
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the question, missus Stacy. Don't see you're doing it. Make him tell
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what money? I haven't got it. Don't talk back to me, mister
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Stacy. You and your wife want to file a crime report at this time?
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You want to press charges? Lame? Yeah, take mister missus Stacy's
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down. The record Bureau have to make out a report for two eleven and
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so all right away. Please now listen. We're going to get action if
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we have to take this to the district attorney. We're not afraid of the
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publicity. We'll go to the newspaper. If we don't get action. Yes,
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ma'am, what's it, Clark? They're lying? I can't prove it.
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They're lying. You can see the position that puts us in. If
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you're innocent, will do all we can. If you're guilty, we'll see
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you get everything that's coming to you. But they're lying. You know that
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not up to us. The court's going to have to decide that's it.
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Well, there's no other way, Clive. We got forty five hundred men
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in the department. We don't claim they're Royle saints. Once in a while
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the bad cop comes along and pulls the caper and all of us get a
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black eye. This book of rules is the only protection we got against that.
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By failing to enforce the law, you violated your duty as a police
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officer. Make yourself in a real mess, Clark, like anybody else would
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get a fair trial. I mean, I'm dropped from the force. Those
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people have filed the crime report. You're a suspension pending the outcome in the
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case after that. If you're cleared and be hearing before the Book to rights
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right for right now, he'll be booked for robbery and assault in Hilton Town
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of jail. Case will be presented the district attorney tomorrow. What kin I
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do? I'll have to have your badge on the desk, good gun id
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card, Yeah on the desk. Yeah, all right, Joe, that's
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it. H take them. Six pm. Ben returned to the office and
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together we took rookie police officer Russell Clark across the street to the Hall of
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Justice at the County Jail booking desk on the twelfth floor. He was booked
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on suspicion of two eleven PC and assault with intempt to do a great bodily
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harm. Was lodged in the cell black. Investigating charges against a police officer
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involves exactly the same procedures cases where private citizens are concerned. Proved the suspect
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innocent or guilty, that's the job. If Clark was innocent, looked like
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there was only one way of proving that was somehow to find the unnamed doctor
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who was supposed to have seen Stacy fall down the auditorium stairs and then examined
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him afterwards. If Clark was guilty, we had to find proof that his
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story about Stacy falling downstairs was a lie. Besides that, we had to
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find evidence that he beat up Stacy at the rear of the auditorium that night
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and then he robbed him of one hundred and twenty eight dollars. Thursday,
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April tenth, Ben and I checked in for work at seven forty five am
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and found a message from the jailer on the phone board. Clark wanted to
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see us right away. We met with him in the county jail interview room.
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How you doing, not too bad? Oh? Let that sour you?
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Huh, sergeant? You really think I rolled that character too? In
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the truth we checked you out, good family, got a fine army record.
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No, we don't think he did it. I just can't understand why
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he picked me. I tried to help him all I could. Then he
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walks in the next day with a frame story like that. You got any
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idea why Stacey would pull something like this on it? I don't know.
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I'm worried, sergeant, Believe me. I can't afford to sit here missing
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my pay. We lived pretty close to the budget with a baby coming.
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I'm worried about the wife. I just don't know what to do. Are
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you sure you told us everything about this that you remember? Well, that's
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the one reason I wanted to see. I didn't sleep much last night.
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I kept trying to remember the name of that doctor. Yeah, well,
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I remember once he did mention his name, and then when I asked for
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his identification, he showed me one of his cards. Any idea what his
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name was? Well, I'm not sure of it. As I remembered,
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it was some kind of a Swedish or Norwegian name, or something like Johnson
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Tollison, you know, something with a son on the end of it.
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It's on that card that doesn't errate down too much. What is it card?
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Well, I think I put his card in one of the pockets of
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my other uniform shirt. That's why I caught it. I wonder if you
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could check that for me. It's at home. Sure, Where do you
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live out of Norwich Road four eleven. It's right near the coliseum or eleven.
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Yeah, all right, we'll check it out for just ask the wife.
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Cards should be in one of the pockets, Yeah, if you put
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it there. Ben and I left the interview a room at the county jail
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and drove out to the home of Officer Clark on Norwich Road. We introduced
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ourselves to his wife and told her what we were after her eyes were red
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and looked like she'd been crying. She asked about her husband. We told
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her. He was all right, they're making a terrible mistake. Sergeant Russ
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never did anything crooked in his life. He didn't do it. I know
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he didn't. We'll do everything. Began to spreading it out missus law court.
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He'll have the final say. I knew Russ shouldn't have left his insurance
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job. I just knew it all this trouble. How about that shirt that
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your husband told us about the when he wore that night at the auditorium.
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Oh, yes, he's other uniform shirt. Can we see it please?
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Yes, certainly it's right this way back in ed. What's so important about
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the shirt? Sergeant your husband told us that there might be a card in
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one of the pockets. Might help clear up things. Should be hanging up
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here in the closet. I always like to keep Russ's shirts on hangers.
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She keeps a much nice for looking. What's ma This morning? I sent
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it to the cleaners. Clark's wife, Ben and I drove down to a
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dry cleaning shop a few blocks away where Missus Clark had left the shirt.
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The counter girl there told us that the truck had already been by that morning
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and picked up The day's cleaning was a store rule to check all garments for
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contents. She had found nothing. We got the address of the main plant,
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the Great Northern Dry Cleaners, a place down on Factory Street. Ten
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fifteen am. We checked in at the main plant and explained to the manager
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what we were after we gave him the tag number of her cleaning, and
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missus Clark gave him the description of the shirt. We waited in the manager's
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office while he made a search for the dark blue wool blease shirt. How
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about this one, lady, it's the only blue wolf shirt picked up at
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your fingers this morning. Yes, that's Russ's that pockets out there, and
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I'll check the pockets for you. I had to pull it out of the
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tank, So wit in this pocket by the other one. Yeah, look
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for yourself. Nothing. You are listening to drag Net The case history of
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a police investigation presented in the Public Interest Thursday, April tenth. Shortly after
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noon, the daily newspapers were on the streets and the head on one of
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the top front page stories read Rookie cop slugs rob citizen. Ben and I
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went back to the County jail and told Park that we'd failed to find the
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card he could give us no other lead that might help in clearing the case.
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During the next two days that followed, Ben and I ran down every
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possible no matter how remote it was. I made a thorough check on mister
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and missus Stacy. We double checked back on Clark's record. For one full
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day, we did nothing but phone doctors in and around the city of Los
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Angeles. From a list of hundreds, we came across three doctors who had
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been present at the Fights and Olympic Auditorium on the night Stacey claimed he was
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beaten up and robbed by Officer Clark. None of the three had seen a
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man tumble down the stairway leading from the balcony to the lobby. None of
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them had seen any accident or had been called on to help anyone professionally.
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Monday, April fourteenth, we met with Lieutenant Ralph Rummond. Oh go,
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thanks good us, Ralph. We can't figure it. It's almost to fact.
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Stacy's nine. Clark, what about him, Well, there's still nothing
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to show that he didn't do it. He had the opportunity, maybe he
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had a motive. He needs money, You know whom did How much you
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get on Stacy? Me and his wife run a second hand furniture store in
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South Flower. It's a small business. Stacy's quite a gamber. He bets
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on the fight. Yeah, we checked around with some of the gang down
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at the auditorium. Stacey's well known down there. He laid some pretty heavy
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bets the night he claims Clark rolled him. How much you got the dope
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there? Ben? Does it figure out? He lost over seventy five dollars
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in small amounts. Add to that the fact that he was doing some partying
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that might have count for the one hundred and twenty eighties mans. Stacy blew
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the role, was afraid to tell his wife, so he cooked up the
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story against Clark. Sure, maybe that could have been the way it happened.
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What do he got on the other side? Not much? Well,
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couldn't dig up anything against Clark. I don't know. He doesn't seem like
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the type to pull something like that. Maybe not. He still can't prove
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he didn't do it. How about the papers you're plugging for witnesses. Yeah,
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here's the ad. Had it running in personals for four days now.
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Well, it's some man full stairway Toorium. Please call Michigan five two,
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one seventy five. No his Ownso you know all the possible doctors in town
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have been checked out too. How about the local medical magazines? Got an
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add in there, Raff, nothing's happened. Well, one thing is sure.
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If something's gonna happen, his papers are scorching. The kid in the
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department along with him. Victim without a trial makes good reading in the tabloids.
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Here's one thing that can and understand the Clark's leveling. There was a
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doctor the fights that might have looked at Stacy. Then where's the doctor?
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We've had this thing noised all around down Let's give it a little more time.
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He might turn up. I kind of like the Stacy angle. What
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do you mean we suppose we get him in here. I think we could
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break him down into question. I doubt that we can't even get close to
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him. That wife or his and not a lawyer there with him all the
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time. He's afraid to talk to us. Maybe if we passed the word
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to his wife had been gambling. How far can we go on that,
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Well, she might believe us, she might not. You've seen what she's
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like. Yeah, I got an idea. He sold her on a story
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and she's tagging along to get one hundred and twenty eight dollars back. And
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it gives me an idea, jo one thing we might have missed. Yeah,
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what's that? We found out that Stacey did a little partying before he
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went to the fights at the auditorium, and I didn't we Yeah, go
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ahead. We checked out a couple of the bars he was drinking at,
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but we figured he must have parted away at least fifty out of one hundred
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and twenty eight dollars. He didn't spend that much at the bar. Oh
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well, sure, he probably hit a few other places too. That's what
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I mean. There's still a lot of money to drink up alone. You
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figure a woman, You got any reason to think Stacy plays around? There's
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one? Yeah, there's what Monday one pm? Then and I started the
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canvas of bars and small nightclubs in the general area around the Olympic Auditorium.
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We started with those where Stacy was a regular customer. We failed to turn
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up any leads. Either of the bartenders refused to tell us that they had
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no knowledge of Stacy's running around with other women. We kept at him.
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Another day passed, two days, nothing one of the newspapers started a campaign
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against the brutality of police officers. On Thursday, we got a tip from
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a bartender to place out on Washington Street, the Brown Cow. He told
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us that he thought he saw a man answering Stacy's description in his bar a
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few nights before, with a flashy blonde in their late twenties. He said
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he didn't know Stacy too well, but he knew the girl and he knew
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the hotel where she stayed. Her name was Sandra Gay, an acrobatic specialty
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dancer of the Cheap nightclub. Checked out her hotel, but she wasn't in
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what f word for to get in touch with us. And then we picked
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up a hammurger and some potato salad for lunch and checked back in at the
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office. How are you doing, Calmon? Not as good as you tube?
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What you mean? Can't you smell of perfume? Selfa blonde named Sandra
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Gate. She's waiting in the next room. Won't talk to anybody but you,
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Thanksmando. Didn't waste much time, did she? Very few? Sure
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strong? Your name Sandrad Gay? Yeah? You the seller's been looking for
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me. Drop by your hotel. We'd like to ask you a few questions.
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Yes, sorry, this is my partner SARTs with Mary. My name
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is Friday hell Mare? Can you prick? What can I help you with?
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Do you know anybody with the name of Gerald Stacy Miss Game Gerald?
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Yeah, I hate that name. Do you know any man who calls himself
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man? No? I think that's a terrible name for man Joe. The
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man we have in mind is pretty short, stocky bill, dark hair,
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and he wears steel rimmed glasses. Where'dy hang on? Place out in Washington?
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The Brown Cow? Supposed to have been seen with you, Gerald Stacy?
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Oh yeah, I think I know. We have mean furniture business and
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runs a place near the Brown Cow? You know? Oh, Pop,
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sure, I know it. I got together once a while. He's a
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kick, pretty big spender. Yeah, last time we went out he was
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fine. He can kick it around when he wants to. Oh, Pops,
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when's the last time you were out with a Miss Game? Maybe a
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week two weeks ago? The Tuesday night, I think, yeah, Tuesday
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the eighth. Is that about right? I must have been it. Why
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was it all about? Did you spend most of the evening wedding? No?
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I had to get back to the club, do my act? He
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went onto the fights over to lunch. I got it, person, they're
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all Friday? Is this Friday? Yes, that's right. This is doctor
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Samuelson talking Sergeant. I've been out of town. I just got back this
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morning. I saw the ad in the paper. Yes, sir, I
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was at the fights at night's size And what does Joanna know? Would you
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mind telling us? Doctor? Did you see a man fall down one of
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the stairways to the lobby. Certainly I was the one who examined him.
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Five pm, Brister and missus Stacey were called to Lieutenant Drummond's office. Arrangements
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were made to have Officer Russell Clark brought over from his cell in County Jail.
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At five point fifteen, Ben and I checked into the Lieutenant's office.
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Stacey and his wife were already there. Certainly proud of our police department.
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Chief, no whitewashing this time. You gave that fellow exactly what he had
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coming. Thanks you sure you didn't make a mistake. I'm sure, Chief,
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that's the right man. You got him, Jerry, don't make mistakes
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on things like this, Inspector, how about our money? One hundred and
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twenty eighty. Tell you where he hit it. No, he hasn't.
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We'll bring Officer Clark in from County jail. Figure we try to crack it.
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That's right. Make him tell what he did with our money, Joe,
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Will you have officer Clark brought in by the way? All right?
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Why about money? What have you done with it? Just a minute,
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please, Stacy, you sure off, Sir Clark. Here is the man
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who beat you up and robbed you. Of course he is. Dragged me
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behind the auditorium and almost beat me to death, broke my arm, took
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all my money. I'm twenty eight dollars. Worries it. I haven't got
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your money, Joe, bring the doctor in here. That all right,
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mister Stacy, you're a liar. This officer didn't break your arm. I
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saw you fall down a flight of stairs at that auditorium, break your own
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arm. I examined that. Who is this man? What about it?
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Stacy? He doesn't know what he's talking about. I never saw him before
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in my life. No, but I've seen you, Stacy. You were
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drunk. I saw you fall down those stairs. You're crazy. Joe said
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this gay and he was gone. Perfume. You recognize any of these people.
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Miss Gay. Hello, Pops, I don't know you. Don't you
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remember the perfume you give it to? Who is this woman? Honey?
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All right, Stacy, Now let's have it straight. It was all a
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mistake. I don't want to make trouble for anybody. It wasn't this copsport.
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I don't want to make any trouble about this woman. It was all
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a mistake. Believe you took that money, Gerald, you spend it on
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her. Now, wait a minute, cutting all this trouble, squandering our
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money after all I did for you. You're no good this time. I'm
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through, all right, Clark, let's go Okay, Well that's it.
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I don't know how to thank you, fellas and doctors. The best friend
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you've got. Yeah, I better call a wife. You want to know
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Friday phone message for you here? Oh, thank you from your wife,
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Clark. Yeah, she found that doctor's card. The story you have just
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heard was true, only the names were changed to protect the innocent. On
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September, second trial was held in Municipal Court Division seven, City and County
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of Los Angeles, State of California. In a moment the results of that
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trial, Gerald Stacey was tried on charges of filing a false crime report.
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He was convicted under Section fifty two fifty LAMC and served his term as prescribed
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by law. Officer Russell Clark was returned to duty with full back pay,
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