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Dragnet: The Big Juvenile Division (EP4949) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: for today's echoed the Big Juvenile Division from January seventeenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty two.
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  Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true. The
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  Speaker 2: names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
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  Speaker 2: detective sergeant. You're assigned to Homicide Special Detail. There are
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  Speaker 2: rumors of an impending war between juvenile gangs in your city. Reportedly,
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  Speaker 2: members of both gangs are well supplied with homemade weapons.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know when the fighting will break out.
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  Speaker 3: You don't know where your job stop it.
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  Speaker 5: It was Tuesday, October fourteenth, was cloudy in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: We were working a special detail out a homicide division.
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  Speaker 5: My partners said, Jacob, it's the boss is Captain Lorman.
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  Speaker 6: My name is Friday.
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  Speaker 5: It was one eighteen pm when I got to twenty
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  Speaker 5: fifteen East First Street, the second floor, Holland beg Juvenile Division.
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  Speaker 6: Joe, Hi, let you find out nothing?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Gardner had to go next door. He'll be back
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  Speaker 7: a minute. Give us rundown on a thing.
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  Speaker 3: FRIDAYA Hi, Hi.
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  Speaker 6: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: My good to see? How are things going downtown?
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  Speaker 6: Why not? Bad? Little slow here?
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  Speaker 3: You got problems, lots of them. Captain Brief you on
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  Speaker 3: any of it.
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  Speaker 5: No, he told us a check with you, you'd fill us in,
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  Speaker 5: said maybe you could use some help.
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  Speaker 3: All we can get. We're sitting on top of a
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  Speaker 3: bomb out here. We don't know what it's going to
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  Speaker 3: go off. What's the pitch Gardener? Juvenile gangs? Five of
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  Speaker 3: them this time. The way we get it, they're ready
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  Speaker 3: for trouble. All of them high school kid most of them.
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  Speaker 3: Some of them are in junior high.
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  Speaker 6: Well, how come five gangs? What are they planning? A
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  Speaker 6: free for all?
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  Speaker 3: It's a long story. They've been building up to this
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  Speaker 3: thing for months. All east Side kids, we're here. It's
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  Speaker 3: supposed to be an open war. Here's a list of
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  Speaker 3: the different gangs involved. Thanks you see, they're same crowds
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  Speaker 3: we've been riding hurt On for the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 7: M h.
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  Speaker 5: You've got the Purple Heart Gang, the Blue Devils, the Apaches,
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  Speaker 5: Happy Valley, rose Hill.
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  Speaker 3: Here's a breakdown on each one of them. Hard to
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  Speaker 3: get exact figures, but we think it's fairly accurate. Purple
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  Speaker 3: Heart Gang twenty six members leader Harold Fry seventeen. Blue
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  Speaker 3: Devil's eighteen members, leaders Jack Holland, age seventeen and BUTCHERM.
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  Speaker 3: Willis sixteen. The Apache's twenty two members leader Robert Lawson seventeen.
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  Speaker 3: They're supposed to be the strongest bins.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Valley Gang twenty members leaders Roy Martin sixteen and
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  Speaker 3: Josephilmers sixteen. Rose Hill Gang sixteen members, leader Thomas Resony eighteen.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Well what's behind it, Gardner? I mean the gang
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  Speaker 6: or that they're supposed to be planning.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of factors enter into it. I guess it's
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  Speaker 3: my own idea. The Apache Gang is doing most of
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  Speaker 3: the promoting.
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  Speaker 7: What's the object anyway, the.
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  Speaker 3: Usual big shot idea. Some high school kids get the
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  Speaker 3: Apaches figure they're going to run the whole east side.
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  Speaker 3: They've already scared the Happy Valley Gang and the Blue
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  Speaker 3: Devils into joining.
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  Speaker 6: Up with them.
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  Speaker 3: Well how they Mana's that I'd like to find out myself.
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  Speaker 6: Well, how about the other two crowds there, Rose Hill
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  Speaker 6: and the Purple Heart Bunch.
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  Speaker 3: The story I get is they won't come in with
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  Speaker 3: the Apaches. Spposed to be the reason for the war.
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  Speaker 3: Either they joined up with the Apaches or they fight them.
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  Speaker 3: It's a warning they got who'll be playing in big
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  Speaker 3: time all the way. Sixteen seventeen year olds. They got
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  Speaker 3: gang lieutenants, They got their own cards, their own hideouts.
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  Speaker 3: Some of them even have their girlfriends running with them,
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  Speaker 3: same age, none of them over seventeen.
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  Speaker 6: What'd you get your information? Bill?
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  Speaker 3: Half a dozen kids, most of them from the Blue
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  Speaker 3: Devils in the Happy Valley Gang. They were mixed up
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  Speaker 3: in a couple of after school fights in Hollandbeck Park.
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  Speaker 3: The stories they gave us are enough. The curlier heir, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: what I mean about the big war they're going to have.
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  Speaker 3: One of the girls we picked up gave us most
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  Speaker 3: of a fifteen year old, says their boyfriends. One of
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  Speaker 3: the big shots for the Blue Devils. What she had
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  Speaker 3: to say, talked about it like it was some kind
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  Speaker 3: of a game they were playing. I say, the Rose
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  Speaker 3: Hill and the Purple Heart gangs were teaming up so
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  Speaker 3: they could stand up against the other three. They've been
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  Speaker 3: getting ready for the war for six weeks. Really organized.
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  Speaker 7: I don't get it. Who's doing the organizing, who's promoting them?
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  Speaker 3: I got an idea about that, and get to it
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  Speaker 3: in a minute. Take a look at these over here, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: samples of the different weapons the gangs are getting together
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  Speaker 3: for the big fight. Crazy kids, brass knuckles, homemade SAPs,
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  Speaker 3: all kinds.
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  Speaker 6: What's this here, garder my look.
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  Speaker 3: Homemade stiletto, good six inch blade? Kids are supposed to
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  Speaker 3: have dozens of them. Another one here? Look at this
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  Speaker 3: ice pick. Anything you can think of, you name it.
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  Speaker 6: We got it.
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  Speaker 7: It's gonna be wholesale murder if we can't find a
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  Speaker 7: way to stop it.
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  Speaker 6: You've been able to finger what the real trouble is.
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  Speaker 3: Bill, I got an idea. Yeah, he asked about the
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  Speaker 3: gangs teaming up. A minute ago. We figured we got
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  Speaker 3: a young hitler on our hands. Kid by the name
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  Speaker 3: of Robert Lawson. He's supposed to be the ring leader
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  Speaker 3: of the Apache gang. Moved in about a year ago
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  Speaker 3: from the Middle West.
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  Speaker 7: I want you to know about him, wrote a letter to.
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  Speaker 3: We talked to the boy a couple of times. His
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  Speaker 3: parents too, didn't do much good. Never had enough to
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  Speaker 3: file a petition on him and bring him to the
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  Speaker 3: attention of juvenile court. We know he's responsible for a
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  Speaker 3: lot of the trouble we got, but he always has
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  Speaker 3: some other kid do it for him. He never does
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  Speaker 3: it himself.
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  Speaker 8: You think he's responsible for working up the game where
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  Speaker 8: either we figure he's our biggest problem.
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  Speaker 3: We tried everything to reach the loss in kid, settle
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  Speaker 3: him down. Check for the teachers at his school, the principal,
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  Speaker 3: vice principal. They can't handle him. They figure on expelling
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  Speaker 3: him if he doesn't straighten him.
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  Speaker 6: How about the other youngsters in these games? I mean,
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  Speaker 6: besides this lossome.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, We've got notifications out for them and their parents.
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  Speaker 3: We're supposed to be in here tomorrow night at seven thirty.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we can break laws in his hold on these kids.
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  Speaker 7: Sure, got me.
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  Speaker 9: It's a matter of this loss In boy's parents. Don't
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  Speaker 9: they know what's going on? Can't they control him?
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  Speaker 3: He tried to talk to the parents. They think we're wrong.
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  Speaker 3: They're proud of the kid. It's been a high IQ.
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  Speaker 3: They think he's a natural born leader. Yeah sure, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the mother says, people just don't understand the boy.
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  Speaker 5: Well, maybe you should have told him, huh, Sam Quentin
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  Speaker 5: is full of people we don't understand. The following night,
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  Speaker 5: when the October fifteenth, the members and ringleaders of the
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  Speaker 5: various juvenile gangs, along with their parents, showed up at
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  Speaker 5: Hollenbeck Juvenile Division as requested in questioning each of the youngsters.
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  Speaker 5: We definitely confirmed the reports we had of the impending
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  Speaker 5: gang war. The interviews also revealed that if and when
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  Speaker 5: the fighting did start, it would be more serious than
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  Speaker 5: we had first figured. For one thing, there were more
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  Speaker 5: youngsters involved than we thought. The gangs had been recruiting
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  Speaker 5: new members, but a dozen in preparation for the street fights.
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  Speaker 5: For another thing, we found out the teenagers weren't carrying
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  Speaker 5: around eight inch knives and brass knuckles just for show.
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  Speaker 5: If fighting started, they were ready and willing to use them.
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  Speaker 5: We weren't sure how much we could count on it,
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  Speaker 5: but after interviewing the parents and advising them how serious
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  Speaker 5: the situation was, they promised their full cooperation. Most of
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  Speaker 5: them agreed they'd maintained strict check on their youngsters and
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  Speaker 5: keep them out of all neighborhood gang activities. Some of
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  Speaker 5: the parents took a resentful latitude. They insisted the gangs
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  Speaker 5: were harmless. They accused us of picking on the youngsters.
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  Speaker 5: A few of the parents didn't even show up at
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  Speaker 5: the meeting. Among these were the parents of seventeen year
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  Speaker 5: old Robert Loss and the boy who seemed to be
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  Speaker 5: promoting most of the trouble. The following morning, my partner
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  Speaker 5: ed Jacobs and I drove out to his home and
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  Speaker 5: we talked with his mother. She was friendly, but not
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  Speaker 5: too cooperative.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know why you say that, Sergeant. I appreciate
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  Speaker 10: your worrying about my boy, but I'm sure it's not
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  Speaker 10: as bad as you think.
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  Speaker 9: I'm into contradict you, missus Lawson, but I'm afraid it
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  Speaker 9: is a lot worse than you think.
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  Speaker 10: That's what the other officers said too. But you really
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  Speaker 10: don't have any proof, do you. I mean, a few
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  Speaker 10: idle rumors. You certainly kind of accuse Robert on that basis.
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  Speaker 5: We're not accusing Robert of anything, ma'am, it's not the point.
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  Speaker 5: What we're trying to do is to head off the
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  Speaker 5: trouble before it starts.
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  Speaker 7: You were living in the Middle West before you came
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  Speaker 7: to Los Angeles, that right, ma'am.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, that's all right. Nebraska.
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  Speaker 7: It wasn't your boy in some kind of trouble back there, Yes,
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  Speaker 7: but it.
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  Speaker 10: Didn't amount to anything. Could have been avoided so easily.
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  Speaker 10: They just didn't understand Robert. That was the whole trouble.
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  Speaker 6: Is he an only child man?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, just Robert but he's not spoiled. I know it's
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  Speaker 10: a great temptation with an only child, but we didn't
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  Speaker 10: spoil him. Robert just doesn't like it. U.
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  Speaker 7: I'm quite a bit of freedom, do you, ma'am? I mean,
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  Speaker 7: does he go out night very often?
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  Speaker 10: Well? He is seventeen years old going on eighteen. Yes,
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  Speaker 10: my husband and I allow him to go out as
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  Speaker 10: often as he likes, as long as he keeps up
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  Speaker 10: with his studies. Robert's always done very well, always tops
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  Speaker 10: in his class.
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  Speaker 6: You know where he spends his time when he goes
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  Speaker 6: at night.
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  Speaker 10: He's usually down at the gym or at the library.
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  Speaker 6: You know that for a fact? Do you?
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  Speaker 10: I trust Robert if that's what you mean. He tells
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  Speaker 10: me that's where he's going. I believe him. The mother
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  Speaker 10: can't believe her own son. Who can she believe?
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  Speaker 7: I'm about the company your boy keeps. You know any
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  Speaker 7: of his friends, missus lawsman.
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  Speaker 10: Few, Yes, there's the Miller boy and Jack Holland. They
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  Speaker 10: seem to be fine boys.
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  Speaker 7: Miller in Holland.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, it doesn't seem to be anything wrong with him.
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  Speaker 6: Well there is, ma'am. Well, both of them have juvenile records.
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  Speaker 6: Both of them belong to your son's game.
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  Speaker 10: Really, sergeant, how can you say that it isn't fair?
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  Speaker 10: Wouldn't it be better to try and understand these boys
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  Speaker 10: instead of picking on persecuting.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know how we're going to make you understand
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  Speaker 5: as laws and we're not picking on them. We're not
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  Speaker 5: persecuting him. We know there's a gang problem. We know
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  Speaker 5: your boys one of those at the bottom of it.
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  Speaker 5: If something isn't done, there's going to be trouble. We're
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  Speaker 5: going to stop it before it begins. We're going to
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  Speaker 5: have to have your help.
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  Speaker 10: I'm perfectly willing to cooperate.
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  Speaker 6: You know that.
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  Speaker 10: It must be Robert. Now excuse me, Robert. Bob is
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  Speaker 10: that you?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 10: Would you come in here a minute, Bob, we're in
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  Speaker 10: the living room.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, what do you want?
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  Speaker 10: These are police officers, Bobby. This is Sergeant Friday, Sergeant Jacobs.
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  Speaker 10: Is that right?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 11: How about something to eat? Haven't you anything ready?
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  Speaker 10: I wasn't expecting you, Bob. Won't take me a minute though.
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  Speaker 10: You sit down there. I'll go out and get a
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  Speaker 10: snack together for you.
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  Speaker 12: Did that picture with Sandwich officers?
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  Speaker 6: No, thank you? Oh thanks very much.
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  Speaker 13: I'll be a minute Bob, we're just talking about you
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  Speaker 13: when you came in.
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  Speaker 11: What's it about, sergeant? Do you want to see me?
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  Speaker 11: Or do you just want to talk to my mother?
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  Speaker 6: As long as you here, we'd like to talk to
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  Speaker 6: both of you. Bob, we got to take off pretty fast.
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  Speaker 11: Just came home and get some eat. What's it about?
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  Speaker 5: It's about Geronimo. That's the gang's code word for the
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  Speaker 5: warrior setting up.
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  Speaker 6: Isn't he?
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  Speaker 11: I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 9: Your gang, bomby apatches. We talked to half a dozen
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  Speaker 9: of them last night down to the juvenile division.
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  Speaker 5: All right, now, look, we've got the names of everybody
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  Speaker 5: in your gang. We know the whole setup. You go
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  Speaker 5: ahead with your idea and you're gonna buy a lot
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  Speaker 5: of trouble.
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  Speaker 11: A couple of cops were here last week and said
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  Speaker 11: the same thing. I don't know anymore about it now,
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  Speaker 11: and I did then? Honest, what's the pitch anyway?
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  Speaker 7: You know what the pitch is, youngster?
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  Speaker 11: I don't honest. You're trying to say, I'm in a gang?
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  Speaker 6: Is that it? And you're unning up to your next son?
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  Speaker 6: I why don't you come off?
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  Speaker 5: And we bet you pegged and everybody that runs with you,
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  Speaker 5: That includes the girlfriends you got in the gang.
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  Speaker 6: You're not fooling anybody.
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  Speaker 11: You must be a little crazy. I'm not in any gang.
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  Speaker 11: They never even heard of one around here.
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  Speaker 5: And you listen to me. Boy, You can take this
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  Speaker 5: as a warning or a piece of advice. Either way,
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  Speaker 5: you and your friends keep on playing punk gangs because
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  Speaker 5: we're going to lean on you.
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  Speaker 6: You understand.
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  Speaker 11: What is this trying to scare me?
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  Speaker 5: If it'll make you change your mind? Yeah, if the
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  Speaker 5: street war comes, there's going to be big trouble. But
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  Speaker 5: he think is going to happen when two hundred kids
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  Speaker 5: tangle in a fight with knives and brass knuckles.
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  Speaker 10: And I use your head, Bob a nice rowl of
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  Speaker 10: hot soup baking and tomato sandwiches.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, you always make the soup too hot.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I didn't mean to let it cool off for
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  Speaker 10: a minute. Then Bob has to eat and hurry along.
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  Speaker 10: Off says, is there anything else you wanted to talk
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  Speaker 10: to him about?
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  Speaker 5: No, I think you've heard everything we have to say.
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  Speaker 5: I wish you'd think it over, missus Lawson, you too.
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  Speaker 11: Bob, nothing to think over. They're trying to say I'm
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  Speaker 11: in a gang. They think I'm the leader.
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  Speaker 10: You told them, didn't she?
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  Speaker 6: Not sure?
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  Speaker 11: They don't believe me.
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  Speaker 10: I wish I could make you understand, Sergeant, He's not
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  Speaker 10: a gang leader. Robert's telling the truth, pretty is, ma'am?
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  Speaker 10: Well he is. I know he is. I mean, after all,
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  Speaker 10: he's my son. I'm in a position to know him
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  Speaker 10: better than you do. If he was lying, I know it.
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  Speaker 10: I wish I could make you understand. Mother is the
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  Speaker 10: only one who really knows her. I know Robert's telling
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  Speaker 10: the truth, aren't you, Robert? Robert, that's so, isn't it?
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  Speaker 10: You're telling the truth?
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  Speaker 11: Aren't you sure? How about some more soup?
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  Speaker 5: Before we left the house, we tried again to talk
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  Speaker 5: to Robert lawson and his mother, but it was no use.
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  Speaker 5: She believed every word he said, and he apparently refused
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  Speaker 5: to believe the possible consequences of the war he was
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  Speaker 5: planning for his gang of juveniles. We drove downtown and
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  Speaker 5: had an interview with the boy's father at his work.
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  Speaker 5: He was even less cooperative. He took on a belligerent
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  Speaker 5: attitude and accused us of persecuting his son and ordered
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  Speaker 5: us out of the office along with Sergeant Bill Gardner
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  Speaker 5: and Frank Kerber.
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  Speaker 6: We spent the rest of the afternoon and most of.
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  Speaker 5: The following day checking with parents of youngsters who had
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  Speaker 5: been recently recruited into one of the various East Side gangs.
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  Speaker 5: Most of them were cooperative. Late that afternoon, Bill Gardner
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  Speaker 5: hadn't myself met with Captain Stein back at Hollenbeck.
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  Speaker 8: Juvenile strict curfew all over the area. We can start
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  Speaker 8: tonight and what do you figure? Just on the weekends,
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  Speaker 8: every night Sunday to Sunday. I'll get some more men
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  Speaker 8: in to help out. Every youngster out in the street
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  Speaker 8: after ten o'clock get stopped.
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  Speaker 6: Everyone.
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  Speaker 7: I'm caught with knives, SAPs, brass knuckles or.
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  Speaker 8: Anything like them, They're going to be pulled in and
• 15:19
  Speaker 8: filed on no exceptions. Be a lot safer in custody
• 15:22
  Speaker 8: than mixing in the gang fight.
• 15:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot of help. Might teach some of the
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: parents a lesson anyway.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, excuse me, joven on division Stein.
• 15:31
  Speaker 8: Where was that when h Yeah right away, let's hustle
• 15:36
  Speaker 8: it Evergreen Avenue out near the cemetery.
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: Now, what is it? Curfew is a good idea?
• 15:40
  Speaker 7: We got it too late. Gang war.
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: It's already started. Before we left the office.
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: We had communications notify all J cars on the special
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: detail to proceed at once to the scene of the
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: major four point fifteen call. Ten cars were ordered to
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: cruise the area surrounding the actual scene of the fight
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: and to pick up any and all members of the
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: Juvenile gangs who showed any evidence of having been in
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: the fight or had in their possession any deadly weapon.
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: Captain Stein Bill Gardner ed and myself left the office
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: on a Code three and drove out to the scene
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: of the gang fight. When we got there, all the
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: J cars and three radio crews had the area blocked off.
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: An ambulance crew was treating more than a dozen youngsters
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: who had been injured during the fight. One of the
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: youngsters had a lacerated eye he'd been blinded. Most of
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: the other victims would carry scars for the rest of
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: their lives.
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: The juveniles wh'd.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: Taken part in the battle and who'd been lucky enough
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: to escape without serious injury. Were being loaded into the
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: J cars and the radio cars. They were to be
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: removed to Juvenile headquarters at thirteen thirty five Georgia Street
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: for further investigation. Together with Bill Gardner and Frank Kerber,
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: Ed and I began covering the area, collecting dozens of
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: homemade weapons used in the gang fight. They'd be turned
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: over to Pete Brown Hollenbeck juvenal.
• 16:54
  Speaker 9: To be booked as evidence. Joe, Yeah, come on minute
• 16:59
  Speaker 9: over here. Yeah, have a look. He's a chained bloodstains
• 17:06
  Speaker 9: on it.
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: Lousy. Help, he's just gonna gather. Come on across the
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: street there the car in the driveway.
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, helping.
• 17:20
  Speaker 13: He's hurt.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Somebody help him.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Bobby.
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: What's trouble, Bobby?
• 17:24
  Speaker 13: He was in the fight where the gang they stabbed him.
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: He's in the car. What is it?
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: Joe?
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: Take a look the lost and boyer. Yeah, knife in
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: his chest.
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: Want me to get the doctor.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, call a coroner too.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: You are listening to drag net authentic stories of your
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: police force and action.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: Thursday October sixteenth, five point thirty five pm, after the
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: discovery of Robert Lawson's body in the car parked in
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: the driveway adjoining the cemetery grounds, Ed brought the doctor
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: over from the ambulance. The seventeen year old Losson boy
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: was pronounced dead. The doctor made out the prescribed form
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: and marked Ada. While we waited for the crime lab
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: crew and the coroner to get there, Ed and I
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: questioned the girl who'd led us to the body. She
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: identified herself as Anne Porter, aged sixteen. She told us
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: she was Bob Lawson's girlfriend. She readily admitted accompanying him
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: to the scene of the gang fight that afternoon.
• 18:37
  Speaker 13: I knew what it was going to be like. I
• 18:39
  Speaker 13: knew right then came closer. Bob told the kids to
• 18:41
  Speaker 13: get ready. There were little ways from us. When they
• 18:44
  Speaker 13: stopped the other King of Purple hearts.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, go ahead.
• 18:47
  Speaker 13: There's a kid by the name of Jumpy.
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: He's the leader.
• 18:50
  Speaker 13: He stepped out in front of him and called the
• 18:52
  Speaker 13: Bob called him a bad names at bad things.
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: I suppoy you called Jumpy he knows real name.
• 18:57
  Speaker 13: N No, Jumpy's only his nickname. I know HI when
• 18:59
  Speaker 13: I see him the one point him out.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: What happened after he called Bob. I don't know what.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 19:04
  Speaker 13: I'm not sure. Everything seemed to happen at once. Bob
• 19:07
  Speaker 13: swore at me, pushed me back, told me to get
• 19:09
  Speaker 13: out of the way. Then he walked up to this
• 19:11
  Speaker 13: kid jumping right in front of their whole gang. I
• 19:13
  Speaker 13: screamed at Bob. I screamed at him, not too.
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: Why had to scream? What'd he do?
• 19:16
  Speaker 13: He had a chain under his coat. It was kind
• 19:19
  Speaker 13: of a short whip like Bob had it doubled up.
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:23
  Speaker 13: When he went up to Jumpy, Bob had a cigarette
• 19:25
  Speaker 13: in his mouth. He told Jumpy to light it for him.
• 19:27
  Speaker 13: He's supposed to mean his chicken if he does it. Jump,
• 19:30
  Speaker 13: He laughed at him. Bob took out the chain and
• 19:32
  Speaker 13: hit him across the face with it, hit him with
• 19:34
  Speaker 13: all his might, not jumping down. Was laying on the sidewalk.
• 19:38
  Speaker 13: His face was cut bad. Bob had the chain, kept
• 19:41
  Speaker 13: hitting him with it, and somebody gave a yell and
• 19:43
  Speaker 13: both the gangs started fighting.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: Were you close to Bob lost? And most of the
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: time no.
• 19:48
  Speaker 13: Not first there's a lot of yelling and kicking and
• 19:50
  Speaker 13: fighting going on. I ran around and was looking and
• 19:53
  Speaker 13: finally saw Bob. I'm not sure it happened so fast.
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: What happened then?
• 19:58
  Speaker 13: I'm not sure. I thought I saw be pull a
• 20:00
  Speaker 13: knife on Bob, long and thin, maybe an ice pick.
• 20:05
  Speaker 13: Bobby was still hitting with a chain. It looked like
• 20:09
  Speaker 13: Jumpy hit Bob in the chest. Was something right over
• 20:11
  Speaker 13: the heart?
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: Bobby stopped.
• 20:13
  Speaker 13: Jumpy did it again.
• 20:14
  Speaker 12: Bobby got Fightey looked sick.
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: He turned around run What happened? Then?
• 20:21
  Speaker 13: Bobby kept running. I knew he was hurt. I went
• 20:24
  Speaker 13: after him. I saw him fall, but he got up.
• 20:27
  Speaker 13: He kept running. Then when the other gang grabbed me,
• 20:29
  Speaker 13: they hit me.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: I understand.
• 20:32
  Speaker 12: I didn't find.
• 20:33
  Speaker 13: Bob until a fight was over heard, the cops, cars coming,
• 20:36
  Speaker 13: sirens coming around from everywhere.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I felt sick.
• 20:40
  Speaker 13: I finally found Bob though he was laying in the
• 20:42
  Speaker 13: back seat of the car, just laying there.
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: That's when you called out, Yes, I guess.
• 20:48
  Speaker 12: I knew it as soon as I looked at him, dead,
• 20:52
  Speaker 12: white as a sheet. Amy. Not when you find somebody dead,
• 20:56
  Speaker 12: not somebody loved it all right lyne.
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: You know that it won't be all right.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: I love Bob.
• 21:04
  Speaker 12: Didn't you know that when he graduated, the first thing
• 21:08
  Speaker 12: we were going to get married, so miss hat to school,
• 21:11
  Speaker 12: we'd be married, be married.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: Yea, yeah, how old are you?
• 21:21
  Speaker 12: I'm sixteen?
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Why nothing? It happens to practically everybody. What people seem
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: to make a lot of mistakes when they're sixteen, six.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: Thirty, PM.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: The crime lab crew arrived, took pictures of the entire
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: scene along with all physical evidence, and dusted the murder
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: weapon an eight inch.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: Knife for fingerprints.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: The coroner arrived and after we'd completed our investigation, he
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: removed the body to the County Morde. Along with a policewoman.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: We took Robert Lawson's girlfriend, sixteen year old Anne Porter,
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: down at Georgia Street Juvenile Division to the assembly room. There,
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: a special show up was held of all the boys
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: involved in the afternoon's fight. The Porter girl identified a
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: seventeen year old with the name of Warren's Stone, nicknamed Jumpy,
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: as the boy who'd stabbed Robert Lawson to death. At
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: least a dozen other subjects in the case identified the
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: boy by his nickname Jumpy. Three members of either gang
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: involved in the fight declared and sworn statements that Warren
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: Stone was the boy who'd attacked the Lowson boy with
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: a homemade Knight. Statements were taken from all concerned, and
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: the ring leaders of the gangs were detained. The other
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: subjects were released to their parents' custody after being notified
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: that they would be filed on, and a hearing held
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: in juvenile court. Anne Porter was returned home by a policewoman.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Seven fifty five pm. Ed Jacob's and I took the
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: subject Warren Stone to the Captain's office, where we tried
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: to question him about the murder.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: He refused to say anything. I told you the truth.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: I told you the whole story. I don't have to
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: tell you again. We're pretty sure you didn't tell us
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: the truth. One. We know you tangled with Bob Lawson
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: in that fight this afternoon. No I didn't.
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: We've got statements from a dozen kids.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: Son.
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: They say last had a piece of chaine. He kept
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: slugging you with it. They say you pulled a knife
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: and stabbed him.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Now they know a lot of kids are knives.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: Anybody could have stabbed him. Why are you picking on me?
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: It was your knife? Was your knife that killed him?
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Your initials on it.
• 23:11
  Speaker 14: I lost a knife in the fight. Somebody could have
• 23:13
  Speaker 14: picked it up, he used it. No, they won't do
• 23:15
  Speaker 14: youngster in the handle of a knife spin processed. Your
• 23:17
  Speaker 14: fingerprints are all over it. I'm about it, son, Warren,
• 23:26
  Speaker 14: Come on, now, what do you.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: Get to say.
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: Nothing?
• 23:31
  Speaker 11: I killed him?
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Eight forty pm Warren Stone was booked in at Georgia
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: Street Jail on suspicion of one to eighty seven PC
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: murdered ed and I got in the car and drove
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: out to the home of the murder victim to notify
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: his parents, mister and Missus Robert Lawson. Mister Lawson wasn't
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: home from work yet. We broke the news of her
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: son's death to Missus Lawson as gently as we could.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: She became hysterical and we called the family doctor, who
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: gave her saidatives. Later, when she recovered herself a bit,
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: she asked for the full story.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: We told her, how could it happened?
• 24:06
  Speaker 15: Bobby?
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: How could it happen?
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: Sorry, man, there's not much we can say. We tried
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: everything we could to stop it.
• 24:12
  Speaker 10: You didn't stop it. You let them kill Bobby. You
• 24:16
  Speaker 10: let them kill him.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: No, ma'am, we tried to warn him. We tried to
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: warn all of them. We're sorry.
• 24:23
  Speaker 10: You're not sorry. You didn't try. Bob's dead. Everything I had,
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: He's seventeen years old and he's dead. I can thank
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: you for that, my only baby.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry you feel that way? Was it losson?
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: Why shouldn't I feel that way? You call yourselves policeman.
• 24:45
  Speaker 10: That boy who killed Bobby. You should have had him
• 24:48
  Speaker 10: in jail in the first place. Young killer nodding around
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: Lewis he is guilty.
• 24:53
  Speaker 12: As he is.
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: I'm not defending him, man, but he wasn't a young killer,
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: didn't even have a juvenile record.
• 24:58
  Speaker 10: I don't care anything about records.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: Killer.
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: He took a knife and he killed Bob, and you
• 25:01
  Speaker 10: let him do it. You let him.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: Well, I think we better be going in.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you or your husband will have to identify the bodyman.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Tomorrow morning will be all right, the County Morgue, your God,
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: You'll have to be at the corner's inquest too. You'll
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: be notified about the time of the day.
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: I hope you have to live with this. I hope
• 25:24
  Speaker 10: you live with it like I have to live with it.
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: I hope it drives you crazy.
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: I know how you feel, ma'am, but you're wrong. I
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: think you'll realize.
• 25:31
  Speaker 10: That they murdered Bob. You let them kill him. I'll
• 25:34
  Speaker 10: always remember.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: That, all right, And you remember something else. The last
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: time we came here to your house, he tried to
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: make you understand.
• 25:43
  Speaker 10: You didn't know Bobby. You didn't understand him. I was
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: the only one. I always knew what he was thinking,
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: what he wanted, what he was going to do. I
• 25:51
  Speaker 10: was the only one.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: No, ma'am, there was somebody else. What the boy who
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: killed him.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true. The names
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: On November seventh, the hearing was held in Juvenile Court
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Department thirty eighth, City and County of Los Angeles, State
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: of California. In a moment the results of that hearing and.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: Now here is our star, Jack Webb, Thank you, George Fentaman. Friends.
• 26:22
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• 26:29
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• 26:31
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• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Seventeen year old Warren Ernest Stone was filed on alleging
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: violation of one eighty seven PC murder. The rest of
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: the juvenile gang ring leaders were filed on alleging two
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: forty two PC battery. They were all made wards of
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: the Juvenile Court and placed in detention homes under the
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: supervision of the state Uthathae. They are still confined in
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: state institutions for juveniles. You have just heard Dragnett, a
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice comes
• 27:19
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• 27:21
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  Speaker 6: Next.
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  Speaker 11: It's David Harding and Counterspy on NBC.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back. I should note that while most of the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: TV adaptations of radio shows have the same episode title,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: the TV version of this is generally known as The
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Big War, and it's one of the only season seven
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: episodes of the TV series in circulation. It's a different
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: sort of dragnet. I think the typical dragnet episode tends
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: to highlight the methods and the tools that police have
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: at solving crime. This episode instead emphasizes the limits on
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the police in preventing crime without the necessary cooperation. Because
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: what happened at The War was a very preventable, slow
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  Speaker 1: motion tragedy, and it had to be very frustrating for
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the officers who actually experience this because they had parents
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: who just would not cooperate, would not deal with reality
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and in particular the ringleader who made the whole thing
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: come off. And once again you have a revisiting of
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: a recurring theme of Dragnet, of a lack of parental
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: responsibility leading to tragedy. And again I do think it's
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: a bit of a misnomer that Dragnet was very very
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: hard on kids or very critical of kids. Much more
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: critical of absent or clueless parents. All right, listener comments
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  Speaker 1: and feedback now, and we start on Spotify with a
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• 29:48
  Speaker 1: It wrote, I heard the teas there on Broadways my beat,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: so I knew Joe was going to go undercover, and
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I thought, poor Romero, he never gets to do it.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: won't hear him again. I'm missing a guy who's been
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: dead seventy five years. Well, thank you so much. Appreciate
• 30:07
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• 30:23
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• 30:35
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• 30:40
  Speaker 1: but he also mentions you tease us, Adam by only
• 30:42
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  Speaker 16: Mister Bugstein and his party were just cruising. They would
• 31:48
  Speaker 16: just take a knife.
• 31:49
  Speaker 15: Year Walston is the owner of the us HB.
• 31:52
  Speaker 17: Bullston always a big stock booker. He lives in Beverly Hills, Roxbury.
• 31:58
  Speaker 17: And what's the name of his job zero, It is
• 32:01
  Speaker 17: a tremendous job.
• 32:02
  Speaker 15: It's trumb met over one hundred feet from steamster wow
• 32:06
  Speaker 15: and feet long, Arthur, where does he keep it?
• 32:09
  Speaker 12: Now?
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: We're just all what his.
• 32:10
  Speaker 15: Dark down there in Barbo?
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: Oh? You know Balbo?
• 32:13
  Speaker 16: Yes, Yes, one of the nicest places by the ocean
• 32:17
  Speaker 16: in all of California.
• 32:18
  Speaker 15: Y Johnny, if I ever worked retire? Were the guests
• 32:21
  Speaker 15: on board, well let me see his wife of course,
• 32:24
  Speaker 15: and mister and missus Gerald Hooper and young Richard Spider
• 32:27
  Speaker 15: and Lee Woolway just cruising around, Yes, but they'd planned
• 32:32
  Speaker 15: to say, line up to San Francisco for that big
• 32:33
  Speaker 15: charity ball up there on the thirty off.
• 32:35
  Speaker 16: That's why they all had their finest clothes, the most
• 32:38
  Speaker 16: expensive jewelry with him. Three hundred and ninety four thousand
• 32:44
  Speaker 16: dollars worth of jewelry stolen, plus a few other things too,
• 32:48
  Speaker 16: mostly silverware. Things like that Actually was reported to me
• 32:52
  Speaker 16: by one of the guests on the yachts.
• 32:53
  Speaker 15: These these pirates simply pulled alongside in the middle of
• 32:57
  Speaker 15: the night, held them at gunpoint, took the.
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: Stuff and left.
• 33:00
  Speaker 16: Jack, I got it.
• 33:00
  Speaker 15: There were two of them.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: My, they must have been a horror.
• 33:03
  Speaker 15: Tell us just where off the coast of Mexico did
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  Speaker 15: this happen?
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  Speaker 16: Well, I'm not quite sure. Mister Baltiston Mozilla, well he
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  Speaker 16: was kind of vague about where it happened.
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  Speaker 6: He's kind of vague.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe I better talk to him.
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