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week's episode of Dragnet. The original aired eight April thirteenth, nineteen fifty and
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the title is the Big Watch. The story you're about to hear is true,
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only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a detective
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sergeant. You're assigned to Robbery Detail. Vicious gunmen have committed assaults, robberies,
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attempted murders. They're victims. Army officers station in your city, your
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job. Get them. Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For
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the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you
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will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case,
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from official police files, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Wednesday,
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February third. It was cold in Los Angeles. We're working the Night
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Watch out of Robbery Detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Thad
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Brown, Chief of Detectives. My name is Friday. It was one forty
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five am when we got to Highland Park Division Booking Desk. Hi Shepherd,
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Hi Friday, Ben, Hi brings you out here. We've got one of
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the books. Ye if you want to do the owner. Okay, just
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a minute, Oh I sharpen this pezzle right all right, Jackson, take
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it easy, yeah, I lax. Huh jerks, okay, yeah,
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let me get a new form in the machine. All right. What's your
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name? Roy Jackson? DRIs four to fourteen, Alabama Street age twenty three.
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Location of r S seventeen thirty West hill an Old Ranger taverner Uh.
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Time of rest uh eleven twenty five pm. I chared your suspicion to eleven
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pc PC. Come on, come on, let's get yourself away here.
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You got lots of time. Let's check your property. Alright, Jackson,
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everything out of your pockets. I'm on the desk. What about my kids?
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You won't need him for a while. Put'em on the desk.
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Uh, you forgot your watch? Take it off, all right? Yeah?
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That ring too, Yeah? That everything. I'll shake him down.
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Yeah, that's everything. Okay, let me list it here. One brown
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man's wallet contents, I'll call him off. Yeah, huh okay, one
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black pocket, comb, a comb at that, one key chain and ring
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with two five keys. Good luck, chime on it, five keys,
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good luck for Yeah, let's see, there's ten. Let'em eleven dollars
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and sixty three cents in cash, eleven six three one man's wristwatch, uh
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Waltham. One man's ring you got there? Yeah, yellow metal, a
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ring ring on a white stone. It's a diamond ring. That's god.
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One man's fountain pen. Fountain pen, that's it. Yeah, okay,
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Uh, just put all stuff now, Hope, Okay, Uh get me
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a bookie number one. You're Jimmy. There's a receipt for your stuff,
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Jackson itemized. Yeah, here's your coffee fellas, thanks yap, murd icks.
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How a god one for you? You gotta slip on? Yeah,
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here him, let's go. It's a minute. You've got nothing else to
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say. Hunt Jackson been yapping at me for two hours. I told you
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all. I'm gonna tell you. Six robberies, six assaults, three attempted
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murders. It's a tough, rapid standalone. What about your palace? You've
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got my story? Okay, take him? Oh m Stummer. Yeah,
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we better get the arrest on a teletaph. Alright, h what two a
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m. And it's a long day when it's fat brown coming in the door.
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Yeah, alright, gee, Ahi, what are you doing out here
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this time of the morning. I'm my way home, but I'll drop by
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and call the office forgot something about Jackson do any good? Not much,
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He's got a story. He's take him to it. Where'd you pick him
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up? Bar on Hill Street? When he booked him here? It's out
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of the way. Jackson finger into the game, Yeah, questioned him two
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hours. Hm you either you gotta smoke? No? Yeah, there you
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go. Well, let's uh, let's go in this office. Sit lemn
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it's a good idea. I feeder kin and it'll be hard to figure this
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thing, all right? Yeah? Thanks, gang are chief hoods armed with
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the teeth, slugging and shooting their way around town, coming from all directions.
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We got it fairly well narrowed down. And nine out of the ten
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jobs they pulled they operated either in San Pedro, the central area, or
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hollingback. Still haven't any idea where they pick army officers for their victims.
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If Jackson wouldn't tell us, why are they're most still the same? You
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haven't switched. I had a bit the hold up men and still dress his
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arm army enlisted men. They steal a car off a right to officers,
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slug'em, rob'em, and shoot'em. Same thing ten times over.
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If the army check their personnel out at the fort. Keep them tabs
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on as close as possible. I don't think it's a work when they BONAFI
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and listed then though, uh, we'll haul out Jackson. Talk to him
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again in the morning. Maybe be ready to tell us something by then.
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Stay out'em. If you need any more men from Metropolitan to help out
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'em the same limit, know, okay Ski put them in good claw and
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at home late. Yeah, vacation at what was it cold? Three Chef
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thirty first of stabforged two eleven and shooting Chief Brown, Ben and I got
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to the scene at two twenty am. An ambulance was already there, along
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with two cruiser cars and a half a dozen curious onlookers. Lying face down
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on the dirt road about fifteen feet off Stanford Avenue was a man dressed in
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an army officer's uniform. He wore first lieutenant bars. His blouse had been
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half ripped off, and the side of his face was bruised and swollen.
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The back of his head showed the results of a vicious beating. There were
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two bullet wounds in his left shoulder. A few feet away. Sprawled out
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on his back as a major he'd been brutally beaten, but he was still
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conscious. While the ambulance attendants gave first aid, we questioned him briefly.
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Both bodies were lying thirty feet from the interurban railway tracks. We love for
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telling you saw it happened. Hit me on the off the gun can't talk
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you well, no, don't pryly good at me. How was Lieutenant Kelly?
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He was with me. They were okay, they're getting him in the
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ambulance. We were a hitch hiking down town, Kelly and me, two
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men and the Gray Sadan kicked us up. He said we were going back
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to Fort. All of the men dressed to remember. Too much noise when
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you say, always that with ping e train going by? Now, can
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you tell us about it? Mister man? When is it? Tech?
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Sergeant and on a private he said, They drive us back to Fort had
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a Gray Sadan pony. Excuse me, no, sure, I'll have to
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take care of those face wounds. Get him go ahead. Okay, did
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you see the license number on their car? Too dark? Now? Gray
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Sadan pull gun stop the car here? Good gun money everything that's so sting
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a little? Yeah, that's good. You think you'd reckon there's the men.
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If you sewe him again? One was tall six two I guess think
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I know. They shot Kelly, tried around, they shut him. How
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is he he's okay? Is there anything else you can tell us about the
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man? Ambulance is ready? Or take him? We can talk to him
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later. Ali rah, yeah, easy, okay, okay, back,
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it's not getting any better. I sure like to cut him up. Don't
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they go to good set of footprints over there, tire impressions. Better call
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the crime run. Yeah, two men and a good shitan. How does
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that mess up? The sink them all army officers. But on the gunman?
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Was tall? Anything tell you? But most of the other victims games
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that description. Either the same tall guy works most of the jobs or he's
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got a twin brother. He stat's office. Make a run on the description
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for you for a different times. Nothing. I better get this new information
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on the air out of way. Yeah. We steal a different car for
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every job. In the morning after we find the car usually clean, no
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prints. This thing doesn't d up in my book. Army officers aren't loaded
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with them, I said, Army officers aren'tloaded with doe. These punks are
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after something else beside your money. What do you mean for every dollar of
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the steal, they break a bone? How does that ship up to you?
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Do you think they like to draw bled? I think so. I
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think they're pointing for murder. What's the motive? Chief forgot the motives.
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I don't care what their reason is. Somebody's robbing and shooting. It's our
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job to stop them. It's in trouble with motives. How I mean they
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always show up. After the murder, two forty am crime lab crew arrived
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and went to work searching the area for evidence and taking casts of the footprints
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and tyrant presses. The Chief of Detectives, Ben and I drove back to
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Georgia Street Receiving Hospital in time to watch the doctor remove two thirty eight caliber
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slugs from the shoulder of one of the victims from his ID bracelet. He
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was identified as Harold Kelly, first Lieutenant Signal Corps, US Army. The
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other victim was Major Richard Farmer, Signal Corps. I intiled the slugs for
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evidence, and then we drove back to the crime lab and dropped them off
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the next morning before they were transferred to a military hospital for further treatment.
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We talked with Lieutenant Kellyan Major Farmer builled out a robbery report and won for
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a crime against person. Five minutes past ten, we checked back into robbery
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details. Better see if we can get us to noog If wen yus a
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out of paperwork to get you up for Yeah, I'm gonna have to learn
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short now, Joe, Yeah, yeah, mana a minute, will you
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ry picked up the gray sedan using that job last night? Where out on
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Laguna about a block for Maco Park. They find any nothing. The boys
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from Layton Fingerprints called just before you came in. They dusted the car inside
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out. No, look that Roy Jackson we picked up last night as almice.
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I've got the stake out on his boardment Yeah, Freemont and ta trick.
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Nothing yet. What do you find out at the hospital this morning?
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Well, we talked to Lieutenant Kelly and that major Farmer again still in bad
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shape. You have anything to add now? We got their crime reports and
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a list of the property take and gave it to pawn shop Detail to put
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on the stolen property list. What are the hold up men doing with all
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the stuff they grabbed? Watches, cigarette cases, men's jewelry, so all
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on the stolen property list on shots have been a letter. It's not showing
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up robbery. Walker. Yeah, just a minute you Joe, thank you
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right, Jelly m m Yeah, we'll need it. Bye. Lee Jones
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just ran a make on the two slugs they took out of a lieutenant's shoulder.
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Yeah, they came from the same gun that wounded four of the other
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victims. Figures. How about the footprint cast they took out there last night?
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Now, it didn't work out, Lee said. He tried matching him
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up with that set of prints we came across on that job Sunday. There's
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no match. All right, Gee, iad sit down. Thanks filled them
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in yet, Walker, Ya just getting over last night's case. What do
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you got? Welcome and we're talking over this morningful You two checked in about
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these hitchhike banded jobs. Yeah, tried everything short of a blockade. You
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grab the hold up men, obvious is not working. About the army brands,
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They're doing all I can already, it's up to us. I'm gonna
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need more men and better coverage. What are you figuring on? System decoys
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planeted around the city in nearby area, these hitchhike band it's been operating again.
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Take a lot of men, isn't it be worthed? It pays off.
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About fifty or sixty men should do it. They'll be dressed as second
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lieutenants all the way up to colonels. They'll travel in pairs. They're going
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to bunk out at the fort. If we're going to arrange it, you
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know it'll be instructed to hitchhike your way around town. Bulkham will operate between
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eight pm and six am. What kind of support the guy have you?
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Men and robbery homicide. I'll have a special detail of cars Metropolitan Unit to
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help cover the unprotected spots. When it is it stuck tonight? No use
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waiting you fellas. Might as well pass the word down the line. No
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time off till the gang's locked up. Okay, we got to get those
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funks and get them fast. We got the men in the machine race.
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If there's no reason for not stopping them, No excuses understood, Yes,
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excuse me, robbery walker, Hello to you. Yeah, I know,
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but I can't make its coach now? What will happened? You just go
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out ahead and you'll have to explain here? What's that a nickel call?
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Yours? Eight pm Thursday, with ourmission of the Commanding General sixth Army,
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a total of fifty five men addressed as army officers spread out over the city
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to serve as decoys for the hitchhiked bandits. They were well armed and they
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traveled in pairs. For the first night, it was the plan to concentrate
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in the central area Holland Beck and San Pedro. We started cruising in the
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central area at eight o'clock along with the rest of the detail. The time
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went slow, midnight came still no sign. We waited out the rest of
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the night. In the early morning, nothing happened. We figured on some
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action on the weekend Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Nothing happened, seemed like
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to hold up. Men somehow had since the decoys and we're staying undercover.
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Monday night, February eighth, the same thing all over again. Three am
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came and went, no sign. I'm kind of hungry. You want a
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hot dog? We can need them in the car. No, you go
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ahead, may have you a bag of potato chips. You want to see
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if they got them? Okay, I'm right back. Yes, we're one
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hot dog, one and give me a bag of those potato chips here too.
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But okay, do you want everything on that hot dogs? Everything but
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relishes? No, you don't like rather, No, okay, no,
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come on, let's skip that hot dog man whatever just came in. Catch
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a repeat. I called you ainy of horse, and figure out a shilling
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from Okay, hit the siren, let's move. When we got to the
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scene, neither of the two victims were identified as police decoys. One of
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them had already been placed in the ambulance, then went over to talk to
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him. The second victim was still lying in the street, his chest riddled
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with bullet wounds. Two figures bent over him, an ambulance attendant and a
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priest. I haven't leaved Jerusalem. Why God shall wipe away with tears from
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your eyes? Why I shall be no more sorrow, no more sickness,
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no more death, Or you will live forever in possession of that happiness which
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the eye has not seen, nor the ear hath heard. Neither hath it
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entered into the heart of men. But things God hath prepared for them that
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love him. Same sad episode, Hey Jack names a victim can't help as
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women in the name of the fatherland of the Son and of the Holy ghost
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men. Here's your answer. You are listening to dragnets. Wednesday, February
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tenth At the inquest, the murder victim was identified as Marine Corps Lieutenant Robert
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Paul Lawrence, aged twenty four. The bullets removed from the body at autopsy
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were taken to the crime lab where the ballistics men ran them through. They
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were fired from the same gun used in the previous hold up shootings by the
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Hitchhike Bandits. The companion of the victim at the time his murder, could
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add a little to what we already knew as far as the descriptions of the
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gun were concerned. The following morning, Ben and I drove out to the
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home of the murdered man to interview his father, a colonel Marine Corps retired
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black wreath on the door. Yeah, the bait house in it. Yes,
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police off so I can try. I'm sorying to maryl Oh. Yes,
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I saw you the other day at the Yes. See we hate the
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body again. But we'd like to ask you a few questions. Yes,
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all right, will you step ahead? Thank you? In this way.
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It was a small man, well built with thick snow white hair, combed
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straight back and unneath white mustache well trimmed. He walked deliberately with his shoulders
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thrown back as he showed us into a large living room richly furnished. The
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picture of the Battle of Bellow Woods hung over the large fireplace. The rest
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of the pictures in the room were famous Marine Corps officers. Now, gentlemen,
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how can I help him? It's about your son, Robert. Uh.
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We didn't want to bother you at the inquest. Yes, I guess
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I don't have to tell you. Bob's death was a blow. Yes,
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he's been staying here with me from time to time since my wife died last
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year. How's this big needs people? Just myself? The wife gone,
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yes, sir, we'll only take a minute. You see, everything had
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been taken from your son, and we'd like to find out if you know
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what personal property was carrying at the time he was well, I don't know.
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I guess he had the usual things. A few dollars, it's wallet,
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Saint Christopher medal, silver and as wild was the same Christopher as a
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valuable? Oh not too much, No, not monetarily in that watch?
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Well, yes, that was worth something. A pocket was I gave it
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to Robert when he was commissioned at Quantico. That's his uh graduation picture on
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the mantle here this is Robert, Yes, sir, h huh hind boy
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saw it. Robert was a good marine. Do you think you could describe
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the watch for us? Gold pocket watch? Caught quite a bit when I
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bought it for him. There's some engraving on the inside of the cupboard.
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What is it? Says from an old marine to a young one, signed
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Dad? Anything else about it? Said? Very fine, you're a friend
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of mine. Made to watch and has small chimes inside, and when you
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push the lever on a side at chimes the hour or nearest quarter or very
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clara. Yes, I see, and as far as you know, then
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those are on the value because he had with him. Yes, all right,
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Colonel Lawrence, thanks very much. You don't have to rush our Can
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I fix a couple of college Stay a while, don't you? I'm signed,
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Colonel. We have to get back to the office. Oh well,
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let me show you to the door. I hope I have been of some
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help to you. Not feeling so helped a lot? Say thank you,
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thank you, goodbye? Can nice? Huh oh beautiful FRENCHU everything a man
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can will except the sun. For the next six days, we got no
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where. Both robbery and homicide details stayed at work on the case. The
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city wide decoy plan continued, along with the extra night patrol of Cruiser cars
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from the Metropolitan Division. Dozens of leads were received and tracked down. None
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of them paid off. We stayed on it. But despite all our work
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and one week pitch hike, bandits were credited with sixteen car thefts, eight
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actual hold ups, and three more assaults with intent to commit murder. February
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eighteenth, two pm. Then and I were called the Captain Walker's office.
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What was the door, was he ben? Oh? Yeah, what is
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it that both of you know? Berdick here? Theft detailed? Oh sure
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you want to tell him what you just told me, buddy, Yeah,
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just telling the Captain. I was on night Watch last night with Resnick and
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we picked up this guy for grand theft. Auto got him out in a
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bowling alley on Vermont. Yeah. Well, Resnick and I didn't think too
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much about it. We took him into Central and had him booked. Gave
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his name as Clyde Black. As I say, I didn't think too much
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about it. But on the way into work, I got to thinking,
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this fella comes pretty close to the descript of one of your hitchhike bandits man.
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Yeah. He's pretty tall, six two, dark haired, dark eyes,
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pretty tough. He's still in jail, he's still there. Anybody else
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talked to him besides you, resident me, that's all. Here's the lugshot
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we got on him last night. Take a love, let me see it
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seems pretty close. He got a home address on him. Yeah, our
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place on on the South Flower. Here's a number. Thanks. Oh yeah,
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there was something else, certainly kind of funny. What's that when we
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booked a guy in last night. Yeah, and in his back pocket he
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had a Saint Christopher metal. Ben ed Berdick and I drove out to the
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address on south Flower Street, which the prisoner clied Black had listed. His
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home address was a rooming house, and the landlord remembered Black, but he
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hadn't lived there for two months. He gave us Black's forwarding address, an
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apartment on MacArthur Drive. There, the manager told us he hadn't lived in
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the building for at least a month. He had moved and left no forwarding
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address. We put tracers through on him with DMV our business office, and
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with local merchants in the neighborhoods where he had lived. By six thirty pm,
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we had an answer an apartment on Pico Boulevard, just east of Alplorado.
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At seven o'clock, we were on our way up in the elevator to
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the third floor of the apartment house. It's number three oh seven. Must
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be down this way. We run down place, musty yall, this is
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it? Three oh seven. Somebody's in there. The apartments have backdoors.
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Joey want me to cover? Yeah, you better hustle, right, I
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don't care. Oh yeah, stop talking? Yeah? What is mail man?
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Registered letter? Okay? Give me police officers? Oh you guys popped
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up. They're going out the back ben watching where they got him stopped down
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back All right, you not cut it? I mean, I mean that's
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one of them. One more joe here, there were three. Alright,
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let's go insights, come on, Yeah, that's all I'm watch them with
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you, Bertie. Yeah, all right, let's look around. Huh.
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I take a look and a few uniforms for an army. Before we left
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the apartment, we searched it thoroughly and found dozens of personal valuables, watches,
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rings, and wallets. There was also a thirty eight caliber colt.
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We took the three men downtown and booked them at Central Jail, and we
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dropped off the gun if we found at the crime lab for a ballistics cha
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eight thirty five pm, we brought suspect Clyde Black to the interrogation room Captain
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Walker Ben and I confronted him with the evidence. Here you are, Black,
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take a look at these well and I mind, we know that I
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saw him before. Watch his jewelry, wallets, say were found in your
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apartment, all of them they were. Take a close look auto suft.
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That's all you got me on. I want them. I want this stuff
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in the crap game. You must be lucky. Crap game. I tell
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you, that's how I got it in the crap game. I want to
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do it easy, Black. Let's call a stenographer and get it over with.
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How much evidence you won? I didn't do it. I get it.
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Deerogate you on Friday. Yeah, all of them? Fine, thank
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you your gun, Black, They checked it. I didn't do it.
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Your gun killed that marine and your prints are all over It was one of
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the other guys, Max, Max was him, him and Johnny? You
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ready to dictate this date? Put them on the fire. Why me you
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talk to Max? Talk to Johnny? Ed you know? Yeah? Yeah,
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nice? We got this watch out of your apartment, too black.
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How'd you get this? Which? This one right here in the pocket watch?
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I don't know. I don't tell us. You want it in the
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crap games? Not mine? I never saw it before. Beautiful watch is
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engraving on the inside cover. Yeah, look here from an old marine to
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a young one. It's not mine. Let me show you how it works.
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Push this lever here, see on the side, now, how about
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it? I hate it. I hated all of them, everything about them.
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That lieutenant I had to kill him. He was gonna get away.
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I had to kill him. I had Why did you pick out office that
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day? Had a common pushing guys around? I hated them. I hated
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it very long as they bombing their bodies. I'll get the stenographer, yeah,
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and then knock off and go home. YouTube. Then I had that
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chill them. I hated them. I'll tell them that. I'll tell them
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like I told you, just like I told you. Yeah, they'll believe
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you. Mister. The story you have just heard was true, only the
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names were changed to protect the innocent. On June seventeenth, trial was held
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in Superior Court, Department eighty seven, City and County of Los Angeles,
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State of California. In a moment the results of that trial, Clyde Black
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and the other four members of the Hitchhike Bandit gang were tried and convicted in
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Superior Court on one count of murder and several counts of robbery and assault with
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intent to commit murder. All five are now serving life terms in the state
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penitentiary. You have just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files
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Technical Advice Board. Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police W.
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A. Wharton, Los Angeles Police Departments, cartooned for the Stars on NBC
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Welcome Back. One thing that has stood out to me this time listening to
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the program is how absolutely central her Butterfield was an early Dragnet. Since I've
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really learned and just have been recognizing his voice all the time, I'm just
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hearing to what degree he was utilized on this series because he played Lee Jones,
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but on radio he was far more than that. He's played so many
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characters from police captains, a taxi driver. Of course, he was the
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titular big grifter, and in this episode he played the agreed father of the
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marine lieutenant and did such a good job conveying that motion. Coupled with Jack
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Webb's narration, he does all these parts so well, and I think that
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being able to use him in all of these character roles maybe part of the
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reason why Lee Jones hasn't appeared in as many episodes in recent weeks. I
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also thought Thad Brown's little statement on motives was interesting. I don't care what
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their reason is. Somebody's robbing and shooting. It's our job to stop them.
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That's the trouble with motives. They show up after the murder, and
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that's turned out to be the case. Also, the streak of Friday and
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Romero being denied food due to crime that was observed a few weeks ago continues.
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Well, now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
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and I want to go ahead and thank Bruce. Bruce has been one of
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we will be back next Saturday on this podcast with another episode of Dragnet.
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But join us back here tomorrow as we celebrate four thousand, four hundred episodes
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with a very special episode of the Watch Radio Theater where they're giving us petrol.
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We'll be in a knowledge in an hour. I'm afraid you can't.
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Oh why not, ma'am is The dyke has been abandoned very another They expected
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to collapse at any moment. Than if I may use your phone, I'll
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have knowledge tenders along. I'm afraid you can't do that either, So whire
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is it down. There's no way to communicate with the outside. But we
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must be a knowledge before tomorrow. That's impossible, Sergeant. Even at the
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rain stops, it will be at least two or three days before three days.
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I couldn't stand it. Set. You'd better put the entire stuff on
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emergency duty. They're bringing in more casual systems. Why Valery Good, Evening,
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doctor Jeff, how do you get here? Valerie Good? Sister Lari
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cons the mids Y Coons was on the way to prison to be hanged in
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the money. But now they'll just have to wait. Oh, can't you
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see it in the newspapers postpone because of rain, just like a. I
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