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Dragnet: The Big Watch (EP1556) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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each post automatically delivered to your kindle. Well, now it's time for today's
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episode of Dragnet. The original air date is April thirteenth of nineteen fifty and
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the title is The Big Watch. The story you are about to hear is
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true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent drag men.
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You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery detail. Vicious gunmen have committed
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assaults, robberies, attempted murders. They're victims Army officers stationed in your city.
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Your job. Get them. Drag met the documented drama of an actual
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crime. For the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police
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Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law through
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an actual case from official police files. I'm beginning to end from crime to
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punishment. Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was
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Wednesday, February third. It was cold in Los Angeles. We were working
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the night Watch out of Robbery Detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss
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is Thad Brown, Chief of Detectives. My name is Friday. It was
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one forty five am when we got to Hreland Park Division Booking desk. Hi
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Shepherd, Hi Friday, Ben, Hi brings you out here. We've got
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one of the books. Jeff, you want to do the honor? Okay,
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just a minute. I want to sharpen this pestle, right, all
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right, Jackson, take it easy, Yeah, relax, huh jerks.
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Okay, let me get a new form of the machine. All right.
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What's your name? Roy Jackson? Address four fourteen Alabama Street, Edge twenty
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three. Location of arrest seventeen thirty West Hill, the Old Ranger tavern.
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Uh. Time of rest eleven twenty five pm. A charge suspicion to eleven
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pc PC. Come on, come on, let's get this self away here.
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You got lots of time. Let's check your propperty. All right,
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Jackson, everything out of your pockets. Put him on the desk. What
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about my kids? You won't need him for a while. Put them on
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the desk. Oh, you forgot your watch? Take it off? All
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right? That ring too? Yeah? Everything, I'll shake him down.
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Yeah, that's everything. Okay, still here. One brown man's wallet contents,
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I'll call him off. Yeah, huh okay. One black pocket comb
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comb you got that? One key chain and ring with two five keys,
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good luck charm on it, five keys, good luck trim. Yeah,
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let's see there's ten let them eleven dollars and sixty three cents in cash eleven
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three. One man's wristwatch Waltham. One man's ring you got there? Yeah,
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yellow metal the ring ring on a white stone. It's a diamond ring.
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That's God. One man's fountain pen. Fountain pen, that's it.
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Yeah, okay, just put all stuff now, hope, okay, get
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me a bookie number one. You're Jimmy. Here's a receipt for your stuff,
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Jackson item ice. Yeah, here's your coffee fellas, thank yous yep,
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Murdoch, guys, I got one for you. You gotta slip on.
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Yeah from here, h let's go, he Smitte, you've got nothing
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else to say on Jackson been yapping at me for two hours. I told
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you all. I'm gonna tell you. Six robberies, six assaults, three
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attempted murders. It's a tough raft to stand alone. What about your palace?
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You've got my story? O. Can you take him? Oh Stummer?
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Yeah, we better get the arrest on the teletap all right at two
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am. It's a long day. It's that brown coming in the door.
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Yeah alright, gee, alright, what are you doing out here this time
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of the morning. I'm my way home, but I'll drop by and call
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the office forgot something about Jackson? Do any good? Not much? He's
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got a story. He's take him to it. Where'd you pick him up
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bar on Hill Street when we booked him here, it's out of the way.
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Jackson finger into the game. No questioned him two hours either you've got
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to smoke. No, Yeah, there you go. Well let's uh,
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let's go in this office. Said, it's a good idea feed killing me.
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Hard to figure this thing, I don't like. Yeah, thanks,
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going your cheap hoods armed with the teeth, slugging and shooting their way around
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town, coming from all directions. We got it fairly well narrowed down,
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and nine out of the ten jobs they pulled they operated either in San Pedro,
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the central area, or hollingback. Still having any idea where they pick
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Army officers for their victims. Jackson wouldn't tell us why they're most still the
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same. I haven't switched. I had a bit to hold up men and
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still dress his arm Army enlisted men. They steal a car off, a
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right to officer, slug them, rob them, and shoot them. Same
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thing ten times over. The Army checked their personnel out at the fort and
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keeping tabs on as close as possible. I don't think it's a were going.
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They bona fide and listed men though we'll haul out Jackson and talked to
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him again in the morning. Maybe'd be ready to tell us something by then.
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We'll stay off him. If you need any more men from Metropolitan to
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help out on the same limit. One okay, skim put me good co
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on the hoole. Late, yeah, pation all your coach. What was
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it cold? Three? Chef thirty first of Stabford two eleven and shooting Chief
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Brown. Ben and I got to the scene at two twenty am. An
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ambulance was already there, along with the two cruiser cars and a half a
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dozen curious onlookers. Lying face down on the dirt road about fifteen feet off
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Stanford Avenue was a man dressed in an army officer's uniform. He wore first
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lieutenant bars. His blouse had been half ripped off, and the side of
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his face was bruised and swollen. The back of his head showed the results
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of a vicious beating. There were two bullet wounds in his left shoulder a
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few feet away, sprawled out of his back as a major. He'd been
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brutally beaten, but he was still conscious. While the ambulance attendants came first
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aid, we questioned him briefly. Both bodies were lying thirty feet from the
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inter urban railway tracks. Can you love for telling you how it happened?
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Hit me on the off the gun. Can't talk too well? No,
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don't fight good at me? How was Lieutenant Kelly? He was with me.
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But they'll be okay. They're getting him in the ambulance. We were
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a hitchhiking downtown, Kelly and me, two men and the Gray Sadan kicked
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this up. He said they were going back to Fort and all of the
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men dressed to remember. Too much noise. When you say, miss a
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minute, what was that the pingey train going by? Can you tell us
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about it? Missed it? Men? When is it? Tech? Sergeant?
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And on a private he said? The drivers back to Fort Gray Sadan,
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pony, I'll have to take care of those space wounds. Get him
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go ahead, okay, did you see the license number on their car?
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Too dark? Now? Gray Sadan? Pull a gun? Stop the car
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here, get run money everything, and so'll sting a little. Yeah,
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it's good. You think you'd recognize the men if you see him again.
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The one was tall six or two. I guess think I know. They
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shot Kelly tried around, they shot him. How is he he's okay.
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Is there anything else you can tell us about the man? Ambulance is ready
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or take him? We can talk to him later. Alright rah yeah,
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easy, okay, let's go. Okay, it's not getting any better.
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I sure like to cut him up. Don't they go to a good set
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of footprints over there? Tire Impressions put it called the crime light. Yeah,
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two men in a great sadan. How does that match up? I
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said, I'm all army officers. So one on the gun, one was
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tall? Anything to you, but most of the other victims game? It
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is that description. Either the same tall guy works most of the jobs or
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he's got a twin brother. Stats office make a run on the description for
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you for a different times. Nothing yet, I better get this new information
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on the air out of way now. We steal a different car for every
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job. In the morning after we find the car, usually clean, no
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prints. This thing doesn't that up in my book? Army officers aren't loaded
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with Is that Army officers aren't loaded with doll These punks are after something else
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beside the money. What do you mean? Whatever dollar there steal? They
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break a bone? How does that ship up to you? Do you think
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they like to draw bled I think so. I think they're pointing for murder.
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What's the motive? Chief, I forgot the motives. I don't care
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what their reason is. Somebody's robbing and shooting. It's our job to stop
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them. It's a trouble with motives, how I mean, they always show
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up. After the murder, two am, crime lab crew arrived and went
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to work searching the area for evidence and taking casts of the footprints and tyrant
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prices. The Chief of Detectives, Ben and I drew back to Georgia Street
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Receiving Hospital in time to watch the doctor remove two thirty eight caliber slugs from
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the shoulder of one of the victims from his ID bracelet. He was identified
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as Harold Kelly, first Lieutenant Signal Corps, US Army. The other victim
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was Major Richard Farmer, Signal Corps. I instiled the slugs for evidence,
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and then we drove back to the crime lab and dropped him off. The
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next morning, before they were transferred to a military hospital for further treatment,
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we talked with Lieutenant Kelly and Major Farmer and filled out a robbery report and
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won for a crime against person. Five minutes past ten, we checked back
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into robbery detaimp. I'm better see if we can get a genographer. And
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here's a lot of paperwork to get you up on. Yeah, I'm gonna
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have to learn short Joe. Yeah, yes, man, a minute,
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will you bry He picked up a gray Sedan using that job last night where
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on Laguna about a block for Maco Park. They find any nothing. The
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boys from Layton Fingerprints called just before you came in. They dusted the car
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inside out. No, look that Roy Jackson we picked up last night as
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Helmiceegon got the stake out on his apartment. Yeah, Fremont and t Trick.
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Nothing yet. What'd you find out at the hospital this morning? Well,
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we talked to Lieutenant Kelly and that major farmer again. They're still in
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bad shape. You have anything to add now? We got their crime reports
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and a list of the property take and gave it to pawn shop Detailed to
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put on the stolen property list. What are the hold up men doing with
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all the stuff they grabbed? Watches, cigarette cases, men's jewelry. It's
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all on the stolen property list. Pawn shops have been alerted. It's not
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showing up robbery walker. Yeah, just a minute you Joe, Thank you,
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Bidy Kelly m Yeah, we'll meet it bye. Lee Jones just ran
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a make on the two slugs they took out of a lieutenant's shoulder. Yeah,
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they came from the same gun that wounded four of the other victims.
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Figures. How about the footprint cast they took out there last night? Now
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it didn't work out, Lee said. He tried matching him up with that
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set of prints we came across on that job Sunday. There's no match all
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right, gee, bad, sit down, not yet, just getting over
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last night's case. What do you got walking? And we're talking over this
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morning for you two checked in about these hitchhike bended giants. Yeah, I
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tried everything short of a blockade to grab a hold of men. It's obvious
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it's not working. About the army brands, they're doing all they can already,
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it's up to us. We're gonna need more men and better coverage.
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What are you figuring out? System decoys planet around the city and near the
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area these hitchhike bend it's been operating again. I can't take a lot of
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men In't it be worth it if it pays off? About fifty or sixty
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men should do it. It'll be dressed as second lieutenants all the way up
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to colonels. They'll travel in pairs. They're going to bunk out at the
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fort if we're can arrange it. Yeah, it'll be instructed to hitchhike away
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around town. Welcome and operate between eight pm and six am. What kind
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of support the guy? Am you? Men? And robbery homicide? I'll
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have a special detailed cars metropolitan unit to help cover the unprotected spots. When
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did it stuck tonight? No use waiting you fellas. Might as well pass
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the word down the line. No time off till the gang's locked up.
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Okay, we've got to get those punks and get them fast. We got
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the men in the machinery, so if there's no reason for not stopping them,
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no excuses understood. Yes, excuse me, robbery walker? Hello,
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dear, Yeah, I know, but I can't make that coach now a
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little happy? I just go right ahead here? What's that? A nickel
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called yours? Eight pm Thursday, Where the permission of the Commanding General,
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sixth Army, a total of fifty five men dressed as army officers spread out
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over the city to serve as decoys for the hitchhiked bandits. They were well
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armed and they traveled in pairs. For the first night, it was the
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plan to concentrate in the central area. Holland Beck and San Pedro. We
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started cruising the central area at eight o'clock along with the rest of the detail.
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The time went slow, midnight came still no sign. We waited out
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the rest of the night. In the early morning, nothing happened. We
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figured on some action on the weekend Friday, Saturday, Sunday, nothing happened.
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Seemed like the hold up men somehow had sensed the decoys and we're staying
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undercovered. Monday night, February the eighth, the same thing all over again.
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Three am came and went, I was signed. I'm kind of hungry.
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You want a hot dog? We need him in the car. No,
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you go ahead, may have you a bag of potato chips. You
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want to see if I got him? Okay, I'm right back, yes,
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or one hot dog? One and uh, give me a bag of
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those potato chips here too. But were okay? You want everything on that
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hot dogs, everything but relish. But no, you don't like rather No,
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okay, no, come on, you can skip that hot dog man
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whatever it just came in catch a repeat intention call you and the vicinity of
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Washington figure over a shoot you couldn't. Okay, hit the siren. Let's
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move. When we got to the scene, neither of the two victims were
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identified as police decoys. One of them had already been placed in the ambulance
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men went over to talk to him. The second victim was still lying in
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the streets, chest riddled with bulletbuos. Two figures bent over him, an
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ambulance attendant and a priest. I'd heavenly Jerusalem, where God shall wipe away
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with tears from your eyes. Whether shall be no more sorrow, no more
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sickness, no more death, or you will live forever in possession of that
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happiness which the eye hath not seen, nor the ear hath heard. Neither
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has it entered into the heart of man, but things God hath prepared for
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them that love him. Is a victim Man in the name of the Father,
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and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Man, here's your
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answer. You are listening to dragnets. The case history of a police and
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investigation presented in the Public Interest Wednesday, February tenth. At the inquest,
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the murder victim was identified as Marine Corps Lieutenant Robert Paul Lawrence, aged twenty
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four. The bullets removed from the body at autopsy were taken to the crime
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lab, where the ballistics men ran them through. They were fired from the
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same gun used in the previous hold up shootings by the Hitchhike Bandits. The
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companion of the victim at the time, his murder could add little to what
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we already knew as far as the descriptions of the gunmen were concerned. The
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following morning, Ben and I drove out to the home of the murdered man.
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They interview his father, a colonel Marine Corps retired. Black wreath on
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the door. Yeah, it's the big house, isn't it. Yes,
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please, Sergeant Fry, I'm sorry to maryl Oh. Yes, I saw
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you the other day at the Yes, sir, we hate the body again,
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but we'd like to ask you a few questions. Yes, all right,
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we'll just step ahead, thank you. In this way. It was
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a small man, well built, with thick snow white hair combed straight back
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and unneath white mustache well trimmed. He walked deliberately with his shoulders thrown back
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as he showed us into a large living room richly furnished. The picture of
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the Battle of Bellow Woods hung over the large fireplace. The rest of the
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pictures in the room were famous Marine Corps officers. Now, gentlemen, how
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can I help them? It's about your son, Robert. We didn't want
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to embody at the end. Quest. Yes, I guess I don't have
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to tell you. Bob's death was a blow. Yes, he's been staying
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here with me from time to time since my wife died last year. How's
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this big needs people? Just myself? The wife gone, Yes, sir,
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we'll only take a minute. You see, everything had been taken from
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your son, and we'd like to find out if you know what personal property
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was carrying at the time he was well, I don't know. I guess
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he had the usual things. A few dollars. It's wallet, Saint Christopher,
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middle silver as wide, it's the same Christopher might the valuable not too
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much, no, not monetarily. In that watch, well, yes,
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that was worth something, a pocket watch. I gave it to Robert when
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he was commissioned at Quantico. That's his uh graduation picture on the mantle.
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Here this is Robert. Yes see fine boy side. Robert was a good
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marine. Do you think you could describe the watch for uce? Gold pocket
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watch? Caught quite a bit when I bought it for him. There's some
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engraving on the inside of the cover. What is it? Says? From
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an old marine to a young one, signed Dad? Anything else about it?
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Say? Very fine jewel a friend of mine, made to watch and
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has small chimes inside. And when you push the lever on the side at
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chimes the hor and nearest quarter hour, very clover, Yes, and I
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seek and as far as you know, then those are on the value because
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he had with him. Yes, all right, Colonel Lawrence, thanks very
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much. You don't have to rush our Can I fix a couple of calley
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Stay a while, don't you? I'm sorry, colonel, we have to
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get back the office. Oh well, let me show you to the door.
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I hope I have been of some help to you, not a feeling
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too helped a lot, sir, Thank you, Thank you, goodbye?
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Can I so beautiful French? Everything a man can will accept the sun.
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For the next six days we got no where. Both robbery and homicide details
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stayed at work on the case. The city ye decoy plan continued, along
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with the extra night patrol of cruiser cars from the Metropolitan Division. Dozens of
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leads were received and tracked down. None of them paid off. We stayed
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on it. But despite all our work, in one week, the Hitchhiked
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bandits were credited with sixteen car thefts, eight actual hold ups, and three
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more assaults with intent to commit murder. February eighteenth, two pm and I
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were called the Captain Walker's office. What was the door was you, Ben?
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Oh? Yeah, what is it that both of you know? Berdick
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here a theft detail? Oh? Sure you want to tell him what you
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just told me, Buddick? Yeah, just telling the Captain. I was
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on night Watch last night with Resnick and we picked up this guy for grand
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theft. Auto got him out in a bowling alley on Vermont. You know.
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Well, Resnick and I didn't think too much about it. We took
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him into Central and had him booked. Gave his name as Clyde Black.
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As I say, I didn't think too much about it, But on the
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way into work, I got to thinking, this fella comes pretty close to
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the description of one of your hitchhike bandits. You know. Yeah, he's
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pretty tall, six two, dark haired, dark eyes, pretty tough.
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He's telling in jail. Still there anybody else talked to him besides you?
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Resnick me. That's all. Here's the mugshot we got on him last night.
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I take a lot. It seems pretty close. You got a home
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address on him, Yeah, a place on on the South Flower. Here's
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a number. Thanks. Oh yeah, there was something else. It's certain
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me kind of funny. What's that When we booked the guy in last night.
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Yeah, in his back pocket he had a Saint Christopher Metal. Ben
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ed Berdie and I drove out to the address on South Flower Street which the
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prisoner Cliented Black had listed. His home address was a rooming house, and
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the landlord remembered Black, but he hadn't lived there for two months. He
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gave us Black's forwarding address, an apartment on MacArthur Drive. There, the
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manager told us he hadn't lived in the building for at least a month.
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He had moved and left no forwarding address. We put tracers through on him
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with DMV our business office, and with local merchants in the neighborhoods where he
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had lived. By six thirty pm, we had an answer an apartment on
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Pico Boulevard, just east of Alparado. At seven o'clock, we were on
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our way up in the elevator to the third floor of the apartment house number
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three oh seven. Must be done this way. Come on, we run
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down place. Musty Yeah, Mississippi three oh seven. Somebody's in there.
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The apartments have back. No worry, Joey, woman to covered. Yeah,
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you better hustle, right, I don't care. Oh, stop talking?
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Yeah, what is mail man? Registered letter? Okay? Give me
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police officers. Oh you guys popped up, Joey. They're going on the
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back ben watching where they got him stopped down? Back? All right,
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you not cut it? Let mean, let me that's one of them.
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One more joe here there were three. Alright, let's go insights. Come
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on, yeah, that's all of them. Watch him with you, Bertie.
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All right, let's look around. Huh take a look. And a
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few uniforms for an army. Before we left the apartment, we searched it
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thoroughly and found dozens of personal valuables, watches, rings, and wallets.
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There was also a thirty eight caliber cult We took the three men downtown and
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booked them at Central Jail, and then we dropped off the gun we found
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at the crime lab for a ballistics chair. Eight thirty five pm, we
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brought suspect Clyde Black to the interrogation room Captain Walker Ben and I confronted him
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with the evidence. Here you are, Black, take a look at these
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well and not mind we know that I never saw him before. Watch his
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jewelry wallets. They were found in your apartment, all of them. They
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were. Take a close look auto stuff. That's all you got me on
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Now I want them. I want this stuff in the crap game. You
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must be lucky. Crap game. I tell you, that's how I got
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it, in a crap game. Why I do it? Easy, Black,
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Let's call a stenographer and get it over with. How much evidence you
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want? I didn't do it. I get it. Deterrogation room. Yeah,
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all of them? Fine, thank you? The gun Black, They
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checked it. I didn't do it. Your gun killed that marine. Your
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prints are all over it was one of the other guys, Max, Max
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was him, Him and Johnny. You ready to dictate to date? Put
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them on the fire. Why me you talk to Max? Talk to Johnny?
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Ed him yeah, yeah, thanks. We got this watch out of
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your apartment, too black. Where'd you get this? Which? This one
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right here in the pocket watch? I don't know. Don't tell us you
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won it in the crap game. It's not mine. I never saw it
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before. Beautiful watch's engraving on the inside cover. Yeah, look here from
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an old marine to a young one. It's not mine. Let me show
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you how it works. Push this lever here, see on the side.
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Oh, how about it? I hate it. I hated all of them,
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everything about them. That look tenant. I had to kill him.
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He was gonna get away. I had to kill him. I had slid
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you pick on office had a common pushing guys around. I hated them.
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I hated every lousy bulling air byes. I'll get the stenographer. Yeah,
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they're not go off and go home YouTube. Then I had that chill him.
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I hated him. I'll tell them that. Uh, I'll tell them
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like I told you, just like I told you. Yeah, I'll believe
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you, mister. The story you've just heard was true. Only the names
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were changed to protect the innocent. On June seventeenth, trial was held in
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Superior Court, Department eighty seven, City and County of Los Angeles, State
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of California. In a moment the results of that trial. It's amazing how
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many long cigarette smokers are changing to Fatima. Here is the actual report from
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coast to coast, King size Fatima has more than doubled its smokers. Yes,
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more and more smokers every day are discovering that Fatima is the best of
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all long cigarettes. Long sigarette smokers find Fatima has a much different, much
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better flavor and aroma. Long cigarette smokers find that Fatima is extra mild because
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it's the long cigarette which contains the finest turkishan domestic tobaccos, superbly blended to
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make it extra miles. So enjoy extra mile Fatima, best of all long
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cigarettes. It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. It's wise to smoke extra
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mild Fatima. Clyde Black and the other four members of the Hitchhike Bandit gang
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were tried and convicted in superior court on one count of murder and several counts
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of robbery and assault with intent to commit murder. All five are now serving
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life terms in the state penitentiary. You have just heard Dragnet, a series
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of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office
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of Chief of Police W. A. Wharton, Los Angeles Police Department.
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Your tune for the Stars on NBC Welcome Back. Well, we learn something
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about Joe Friday. He doesn't care for Relish and thus did any hope of
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a partnership between Dragnet and the Hans Company. On a more serious note,
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I love the way they did the scene with the father of the lieutenant,
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and I think Dragnet one thing it really does well is just sort of the
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level of emotional subtlety that they work in. There's sometimes a misnomer with Dragnet
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that the characters don't express emotion, but I think sometimes they do it in
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more realistic and varied ways that's sane. With the colonel, I thought was
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just a prime example of that, where just in very subtle ways showed his
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grief and how much he was in a bad shape with the death of a
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son, particularly when he asked, you know, really strongly hinted for Friday
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and Romero to stay clearly felt alone, did not like being alone. So
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I thought that was a very good scene for showing the effect of this death,
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and just overall another solid episode. All right. Well, now we
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turned to some listener comments and feedback. Berry said out, thanks for keeping
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these programs alive. I remember listening to Johnny Dollar as a kid, so
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I'm glad to hear them again. I'm impressed with your intros and additional knowledge
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about the shows. Please keep it up. Well, thanks so much,
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Barry. And then we do have another comment on the man from Homicide.
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This one comes from Lewis, who says the detective sounds grumpy and grouching this
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episode. This is the first episode with this lead character, and I'm not
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too happy with him. Well, thanks so much for your comment, and
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I think other there have been others who have expressed similar reactions, and this
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is definitely one of those characters where we don't quite get unanimous support. I
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hope you're enjoying the line, and if not, I hope you enjoy ellery
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Queen coming up shortly. All right, well, that will actually do it
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for today. We will be back tomorrow actually with a special We'll be honoring
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the late great Stan Freiburg and in the meantime, send your comment on to
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