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at Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it is time for
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this week's episode of Dragnet. The original air date April sixth, nineteen fifty
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and the title is The Big Book. The story you were about to hear
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is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent Dragnet.
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You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned the Juvenile Bureau. The high schools in
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your city have been flooded with obscene literature. You stamp out one source,
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and a dozen more spring up. Your job stop them. Dragnet the documented
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drama of an actual crime. All the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with
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the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side
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of the law through an actual case, from official police files, from beginning
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to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is the story of your police
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force in action. It was Monday, October twenty first, was cool in
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Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out a juvenile bureau. My
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partner's been Romero. The boss is Inspector Lester, commander of the Juvenile Girl.
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My name's Fridy. Was ten am when we got to the auditorium of
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Canfield High School stage during guess we go right out onto the stay. You
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know a better way to work, called though you know the men from the
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police department. Yes, sir, this is Sergeant Romero. My name is
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Fridy. How do you do. I'm Paul Fisher, the principal here.
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Come right out onto the station and get the meeting started, all right?
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I see it. Just have a chair there. Thank you, is a
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microphone on, Ladies and gentlemen of the co Ordinating Council, members of the
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Parent Teachers Association. As you know, this meeting has been called for the
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purpose of discussing ways and means to bring about a name to the distribution of
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the filthy and obscene books and pamphlets who have been lisiting every high school campus
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in the city of Los Angeles. We've tried every meet at our disposal to
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clean this matter up, and they all seem to fail on the advice of
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the co Ordinating Council. And this is randall to the PTA. We've called
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in the Helidays here to discuss the matter with us this morning, our true
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officers connected with the Junior Bureau of our Police Department, Sergeant Romero and uh
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Sojeant Friday, And now may I turn the meeting over to Sargeant Friday,
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the Los Angeles Police Department. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. The only
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way we're gonna get to the bottom of this thing and put a stop to
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it is to get all the information we can on where this lassivious material is
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coming from. You people, as parents and teachers of the children who are
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buying and reading this stuff might be able to give us some help. So,
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uh, it's all right with you, mister Fisher. I'd like to
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hear from some of the people sitting out there if I mean, thank you
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do. If any of you people have anything to say, or any information,
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any questions, why, we'd be glad to listen to you and do
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our best to answer your question. Yes, the lady out there, go
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right ahead. I'm in the sign. I know of a place in our
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neighborhood, a test dirty books. I feel sure that that's one of the
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places where the children are getting the stretch. The place have been pained to
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the police departure to the man who has the place. That's better than arrested.
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Can you tell me why? Well, ma'am, I think I better
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make it clear now that there's only one way a police officer can arrest anyone
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for possession of lude literature. The officer has to prove that the party who
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possesses this literature does so for the purpose of selling him. Sometimes it's difficult
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to prove. I told you I improve it. You mean you can go
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to this place and buy a book from him? Maybe? Yes, ma
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that's just the point. Now. I don't know offhand about the one in
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your neighborhood, but I can assure you that we've cracked down on hundreds of
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such peddlers in the past few months, and you can see for yourselves that
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this doesn't put a stop to We've got to get you the source. I
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have a question for you, Yes, sir, I ain't Fred Scott.
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I'm director of the Square Shooter's Boys Club. Yes, sir. Why I'm
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trying to make is I know the young boys pretty well. With the exception
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of my boys forty nine in number, I'm a wager just about every boy
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in this high school has one of those books, or at least he's seen
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one. Yes, sir, we're aware of that. Why not trying to
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make is somewhere to you listen for code. There's gotta be a law to
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prevent such things. Yes, sure, there is such a law. Then
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why isn't a man it is? What does the law say? Well,
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how do you mean? Sure? Well, I mean what happens when somebody's
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bound ghetto? You're selling these books? Why inst the penalty? Oh?
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Well, the law states that an offender is liable to find a jail term
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of six months or both. That's not much of a law, is it.
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Why is he there a stronger law? Well, I wouldn't know that,
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sir. Why I'm trying to make is we need laws and some teeth
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in them. We have good laws in the state of California for the most
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part. It's true that we're weak in some cases, but you can say
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that about most states. I think, well, you may satisfy the laws,
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but I'm not I'd say stronger laws, that's the answer. No,
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I don't think it is, mister Scott. Passing a set of new laws
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isn't gonna make this city a cleaner or a safer place for your boys to
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grow up in. Laws don't decide how moral a city's gonna be. People
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do. Laws don't mold character in young boys either for parents and teachers do
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that. I don't think I know what you're getting at. What do you
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mean, justice, mister Scott. It's our job on the police department to
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keep filthy junk like these books from falling into youngster's hands. Yes, Now,
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on the other side of the fence, the youngster has to be taught
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to recognize the obscene material for what it is filth and garbage, and the
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youngsters have to be taught that in the home, in the school, and
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the church. Now, if they can be made to understand if the kind
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of dirt and filter these books represent, well, that'd be worth more than
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any new set of laws, wouldn't it. But what about the shallow?
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How do you reach them through the youngsters? They seem to know the way.
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The next morning, at eight am, after a meeting with Inspector Lester
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of Juvenile Bureau, Ben and I went on stakeout at Canfield High School.
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From past experience, we knew there was little hope of a quick end of
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the case. It was going to be a long haul, chasing the source
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all the way up the line, from the high school kids who bought the
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filthy books, to the small fry pushers, the wholesalers, and finally we
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hoped to the top, the man who printed the books. We had no
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illusions on that score. Generally, with the arrest of his pushers and other
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small timers who worked for him, the top man gets the alarm and clears
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out before the police officer can apprehend them with evidence it'll stand up in court.
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During the first two days at Canfield, I Ben and I found out
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nothing. The obscene literature was being bartered in exchanged between students, but the
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main source of supply was still a mystery. We had one slim lead to
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go on. Mister Fisher, the high school principal, helped run it down.
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We've been watching that boy down in the yard since yesterday. Miss Fisher
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seems to have quite a bit of spending money, spensive clothes, car of
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his own. I don't know that boy's family. That could be well fished.
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But he saw him with a stack of those dirty books in his notebook.
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He must have had a dozen of'em. Were showing him around to
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his crowd. Travis, are you sure go take a look down there?
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Yeah? Yeah, Travers is showing him something. I can't see what it
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is. Come over this side and when Yeah, small books. He's giving
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him to one of the other fellas. They've got their wallets out. They're
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giving Travers money. Come on, Ben, you better come to mister Fisher.
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H this way out to the yard. No to the latter, that's
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it. Let's hurry, huh. This store side of the Travers Travis,
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mister Fisher, they like to talk to Yeah. Well, these men here
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are from the police department. They want to ask you some questioners, so
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we go inside. Here the money. Oh, what's the matter of mister
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Fisher? I haven't done anything, you see? What is it? What's
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it all about? Sergeant? It'll be a lot easier if we have the
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truth, now, son, Did you just sell those boys out there some
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dirty books? No? I well, I mean it's only a gag.
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They're funny books. Have you got any more of'em on you? Yes,
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sir, let me see him please. I didn't steal them, only
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books, funny books here? Thanks almost a dosnet. Do you think these
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are funny books, do you, Travis? Well, some of them are.
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I guess not. It's only a gag, sergeant. Where'd you get
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them? I didn't steal them. I bought them off a guy who why?
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I can't tell you. Do you have any more of these books?
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No, sir? Will do you show us your locker? I can't remember
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the combination. It's a new locker. Could you open the locker for mister
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Fisher? Yes, but I'll have to get the maintenance man. Ah right,
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I'll show you. Come on down here. This one four twelve I've
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only got a couple. All right, we'll see my opening. I haven't
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done anything. Here's a sample. Joe Locker's loaded down the rotten self.
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You can't arrest me. I don't sell the books, only read them.
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Somebody's been briefing you who You're only making good hot on yourself. Boy,
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you can't prove anything. These are my books. I don't sell them.
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Where do you get them? Who sell them? Do you nobody? I
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got them? That's all all right. We'll have to talk to your folks.
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You can't their way, No, no, you can't, don't,
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will have to so oh please please don't tell them, Please don't let them
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know I'll do anything. All right, Let's have the truth. Then who
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are you selling your books for? Name's Barney, that's all I know.
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I meet him a cigar store downtown Fifth and Harrison. Does he sell you
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the books? Gives them to me? I sell him and then give him
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the money. I get ten cents for everyone I sell. How much you
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sell him for twenty five cents? Some are don't? I get thirty cents
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for those. The boys in this school have been paying that kind of money
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for this fill yes, sir, this man who gives you these books?
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You know where he lives? No, sirre I have any idea. When
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are you going to see him? Well? This is Wednesday. I was
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going to meet him downtown this half noon the cigar store. Yes, sir,
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but I don't want to get buy in trouble. He's been okay to
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me. Sure he's done a lot for you. Four pm Wednesday, Ben
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and I drove downtown with sixteen year old Eddie Travers. We parked the car
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near the corner of Fifth and Harrison and kept an eye on the cigar store.
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We waited no sign yet, No, sir, Barnie usually waits by
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the news stand there. I haven't seen him yet. How long you been
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selling for this man? Sin? About three months? Maybe four? And
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the idea where he gets the books? Well, I oh just a minute
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start Yeah, well I think, Yeah, that's Barney, the one going
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up to the cigar counter. The man in the gray suit there, Yeah,
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that's him. He's going into one eat his cafe. Is that where
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you usually go after you meet him? Yes, sir, you better take
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the boy back to the office. Ben, I'll tell this guy and see
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what I can find out. Okay, Well, I'm gonna pick you up
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later. I'll call you at the office. Oh you got any matches,
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mum u, I'll pick some up with the cigar stamp. Alright, say
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it later, yeah, box matches. Oh yeah, and uh pack of
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experiment too. Alright, sir much bliged. Uh got a special typical new
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bourbon today two sixty nine and fifth. No no things, Hi, Rosie
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wrote you another tomorrow when you get time on a U. Let me have
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a chicken tacos uh, side order of five beans and cup of coffee.
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Huh chicken tacos on one night of be another tomori? Anything else, bunny?
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Yeah, some more coffee road the money on one? Hey, go
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slide the cutchup? Done, will you? Yeah? Here you go.
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Thanks. I got good tacos. A go watch your men of it's freshed
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up. Yeah, there's the sugar. Oh thank you? Hey Rosie?
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Yeah there Rosie. Yeah. I got some new ones then yesterday or stack
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them? What are you talking about? You know the picture books? Good
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ones. You can make some money on the side. That's sound good right
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now money? I told you once no, come my head, let come
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over. I said, no, that loady junk. The next time you
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bring that stuff in here, I tell the boss understand, now eat it,
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get out. Well, it's a real funny day. Looks great,
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But what a cope? They don't. Yeah, come on, come on,
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eat and get out and take that junk. Leave it. I don't
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like to show anyway. Coffee is certainly cold. Yeah, yeah, you
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probably get a big boot out of here. M hmm. It's pretty good.
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Yeah, that's good quality stuff. Yeah, made that little book.
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Yah, let me show you on h Wait a minute, yeah, I'm
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gonna kill you man. How about saw me when of'em? Okay?
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Four bits for the small ones, buck for the big ones. Wait a
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minute, let's see I got tim, I got four kin of here,
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dah tree, what I'll do, I'll make you do. Then you have
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the whole works to ten bucks. Okay, you got any more? Were
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you going in business for yourself? You know? I got a news stand
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at the river sign books, and I guess I want to go fast.
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I think I can probably handle another twenty five bucks. An ah, I
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got the rest of'em back at the hotel. Someone right color? You
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know what I mean? Bee? That night around the seven? Where's a
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hotel? Why do you go straight up six three from me. It's just
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one block on your left called the Denver House. I've been room three three
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centing big going up there now, Well, I was supposed to meet some
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guy, but yeah, we can got up well, but a check was
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he h Yeah, hey, you you're probably wanting more of these. I
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can put you on my mailing list, O killing. The prices are right,
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I don't want to pay retail. How we work out a d one.
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Let's go okay, yeah, Rosie, she's really put together. Yeah
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too good, A real cold potato though, summer like that. Yeah,
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no sense of humor. We left one at his cafe and walked up Harrison
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Street to sixth. We turned left and went down one block. It was
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five minutes to five when we got to Barney's room in the Denver House,
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number three thirty seven. He dragged out a steamer trunk from under the bed
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and founted out a stack of books and pamphlets covering the general topic of degenerate
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filth and stories and photographs. Okay, macvi, Yeah, it's twenty five
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bucks worth the money in the bucks, aloys. Okay, there you go,
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it's ten fifteen eighteen. I'll have to give you a check for the
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rest. How do I know it's any good? You could take off,
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I'd never see you again. You'll see me. You're under arrest. Huh.
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Look all right, let's hold it right here. Hey, wait,
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look dinner. We can work this thing out. We'll work it out downtown.
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Wait a minute, I can set this thing right for it or you're
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getting this junk? Who's supplying you? Why not use your head? You
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never get the top man, not in ten years your walk. We got
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lots of time. Come on, you are listening to dragnets. The filthy
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literature racket feeds on the curiosity of youngsters and the stupidity and ignorance of adults.
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It's an all seasoned business, and in its own quiet way, it
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has reached a market which the other heavy rackets never hoped to reach. Your
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home and your children. Six pm, Wednesday, October twenty third, we
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checked the records, and the makesheet showed the book peddler's true name to be
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Barney W. Timpson, thirty eight years old. He had a past record
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at one previous conviction for pedaling lude literature and dodge to the Iowa in March
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nineteen forty eight we had and brought to the interrogation room. See down Thompson.
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Okay, well, I just make it against Barney. Where are you
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getting the books? I told you, serge, if they deliver them to
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me? Who the different guys? I don't remember them all? I send
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different guys every time. How often do they make the delivery studio? Why
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someone? When? Rather the first? Usually? Sometimes maybe the second and
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the third they bring the books to your hotel? Yeah, I'll leave a
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pack up in the lobby addressed to me. They ever use the mails?
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They never do. They're not. That's dumb. So you've never seen the
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men that you do business with? That so I no, no, you
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have no idea where they're operating. I don't know you expect as the squaller
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there. I'm telling you, I don't know. Don't push. It's that
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kind of a story, Barney. I'm giving it to you straight. Now.
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What else do you want? Who's the supply man? And look we
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found this notebook in your hotel room. Barney's a list of names in it.
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It's your customer book. Friends. Okay, okay, they're customers.
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It gives us enough to land on you. I know that I've told you
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everything and you still don't know who you work the call. Look, there's
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a phone number in this note book. No name to go with it.
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Yeah, no, look at it, this one right here. I don't
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know it must be an out of customer. Yeah, does it blown up
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the boss? I don't know the boss. You don't know me. And
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who do you buy the books from? Who says I buy him? You
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must know somebody a lot of money. Don't worry. I don't know him
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nothing. You don't know me nothing he does. Now you're going to jail
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for him. Barney Timpson was booked into Central Jail for violation of the Penal
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Code Section three eleven point three. We contacted the telephone company and they traced
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the extra phone number in Timpson's notebook to a private residence on Wonderview Drive in
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Laurel Canyon. A detail of men was assigned to stake out on the place
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during the next week, mainly from information obtained from Barney Timpson's customers. Seven
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other peddlers of obscene books and pamphlets were taken into custody in question. Five
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of the seven told us they picked up their supply of books from the Laurel
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Canyon address. We moved in on the place and found thousands of lute books
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and pamphlets stored in the garage. Three men on the premises were taken into
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custody. They identified themselves as John Alexander, George kellerher And and Kester.
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We brought them downtown and interrogated them for two hours. They refused to admit
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anything. They were booked in, but by noon their lawyers arrived and they
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were released on ritz of Habeas Corpus. Two pm. Men and I met
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with Inspector Lester of Juvenile Bureau. You just had a call from the minut
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of steak out of the Loyal Canyon place. I've just been over the garage
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with the books the store and they get anythings. Give them a couple of
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things might be fair leads. What's in three stacks of books? They found
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a wrapped and proof letter he has from the Hevenbrook Hotel. Yeah, we
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checked with a hotel. They get all their printing down at Rudolph Brothers placed
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out in West la Name's not familiar to me. It's a big layer out
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there, especially as religious books, Bible things like that. That doesn't it,
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that's for sure. How do you mean be a perfect cover for the
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racket printing them Bible one day and a flock of filthy books the next could
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be the Senate. What kind of a name does this Rudolph's place have around
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town? They've been here long, fifty years, good reputation, Oh,
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you could give it a Word's the place on West Third, just below Athens
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Street. All right, check the place over, but don't make them suspicious.
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Is anything wrong or you're just tipping into al ready to move Rightki,
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They've got to reach the presses turning out this chug and choke off the supply
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where it starts. That one got a beat in just a minute. You
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won't go realistic. Yes happened. I don't where, Okay, they'll be
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right out roast and they spied one of the delivery cars where downtown they followed
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out to West La Yeah, Rudolph's sprinting shop. Four pm, Ben and
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I, together with two other men from Juvenile Bureau, drove out Beverly Boulevard
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du Athens Street, and then down one block to the corner of West Third,
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where we picked up Gross and Pacelli on Steakhout. The Rudolph brothers printing
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company covered almost half a square block on the corner of West third and Athens.
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The front of the plant had display windows featuring expensive leather bound Bibles and
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other religious literature. While the other men remained on steakhout, Ben and I
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crossed the street and entered the plant. We introduced ourselves to the clerk in
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charge as potential wholesale customers, and we asked to be shown around the shop.
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It was more than obliging. I'd be happy to show you our planned,
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gentlemen, the most modern religious publication company in the West. But that's
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our claim. Would you stuff this square please? On your left there those
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are three of our new levelde machines, excellent mechanisms. Needless to say,
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you must employ quite a few men in here, sixty five full time,
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enough to meet any emergency rest yards you might want done. Now. Over
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here are Bush Emerson hand presses. You handle lonely religious books. Then nothing
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else that's right sent. We specialize exclusively in that you don't take in any
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small contract school journals things like that. Know, our steady customers take up
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all of our time. Here on this stone you see the pages of a
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new prayer book we're getting together very over an entirely different kind of type face.
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Is that so? Yes? And back there along the wall are new
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lineotypes, the very latest monotypes. Then the proof presses next to them are
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proof readers, and the flatbed truss load press. Beyond that, it seems
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like lots of activity. Bus This is pretty good, I guess. Huh.
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Oh, yes, we kept pretty busy. Quality printing is always in
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the man. Yeah, well, thanks very much for showing us around and
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out of the all gentlemen, anytime, Yeah, this way out, all
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right, I'll get to one of my cards here there you are, well,
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thank you. And when you're ready to do business where I just give
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me a call, i'd be glad to take care of you. All right,
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two, thanks, we'll do that. Good afternoon, gentlemen. All
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right, what do you think you got me? That's not a place.
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Yeah, whatever system they're using, they got it down. Passed bibles,
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bribe books, church announcement. That's all I say it. Ben looked h
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that man getting out of that cargoing into Rudolph, Sir Alexander, the guy
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we picked up this morning. I don't know, I can't. Yeah,
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what's the engine? I don't know, but it's gotta be somewhere in that
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print shop. Mmm. We went back to the car and waited. A
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stake out on Rudolph's printing plant continued. Six pm. The lights in the
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display windows when out, the shades were drawn. Watch the employees leave.
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Six thirty pm the lights in the plant were still burning. Gross went down
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to the corner and picked up some hot dogs and the coffee for our dinner.
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We eat in the car. Seven thirty pm, a black cat like
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invertible pulled up across the street. Two men got out and let themselves in
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through the front door. We waited between seven thirty and eight pm. We
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kind of twenty one men entering the planet at printing press and starting up.
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Okay, let's move, Yeah, Gross, but Shelley want to go through
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the back and then and I will take the front. Right, Let's go
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on, said Neat set up. I had it all figured. Yeah.
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He didn't spot any site entrances, did you? Oh here we are,
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didn't try the door. Snow gun all right or police officers open up.
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I'd come on, open up. The press is all right, let's hit
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it quick on again. There were there they are Joe we're tryna smak the
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plates. Come on, we shatty? What canny? Play both plates?
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Watch it? Ben? All right? Come on right you all right?
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Holding against the wall. He close, Get those flakes off the press with
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it all right? Hold it you too, Joe? Look all right that
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the light right round up, post menutes, the gorse covered. Get the
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most tables. Come on over for the wall. That's about most of them.
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Joe, come in going out the door. Come on, hit them
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off, whatever, Come on you come on back and wait, get your
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hands off. Hold it up, mister, come on over there with the
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rest. Pay for this. I'll sue you done your last night. Come
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on simmer day, Joe. We got Rudolph going out the back right,
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call the office. Where are we gonna need transportation? Ok? Take those
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two with you, huh? All right, come on, we got enough
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evidence against them, and we're gonna need it. Two old trades of the
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jump right here, Yeah, look right next to it. Yeah, page
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from the Bible. The story you have just heard was true, only the
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names were changed to protect the innocent. On January ninth, trial was held
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in Superior Court, Department ninety four, City and County of Los Angeles,
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State of California in a moment. The results of that trial. Frank Rudolph
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and sixteen of his accomplices were tried and convicted of possessing lewd and lassvious literature
27:45
for the purpose of sale. They received sentences as prescribed by law and are
27:48
now serving their terms in the county jail. Remember this Saturday, because that
27:56
means demension X on NBC Welcome Back. Well, we got to hear Harry
28:15
Morgan on Dragnet for the first time in nineteen fifty as the guy with the
28:19
Boys Club, although he was a bit muffled, although not a fault to
28:23
the audio. It was Jack Webb's dedication to realism. You know, you
28:30
can just imagine Jack web saying I want him to sound like he's at the
28:33
back of the auditorium. I want listeners to have that experience of hearing the
28:40
tendiness of the echo and straining to hear him, and maybe somebody else on
28:45
the production team says, couldn't we just pretend he was closer to the front,
28:48
so there's no echo. No. Friday's comment on new Laws as a
28:52
solution stood out to me in a way that I don't think it has before.
28:57
The last time we played this was in early twenty fifteen, and it
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seems like today there's probably more demand for government to do things to fix our
29:10
morality. And this is from across the political spectrum, so Friday's perspective is
29:18
very different from what we're thinking in the twenty twenties. The team's pushers dodges
29:26
on the books were classic and totally believable for a teenager being caught by the
29:33
cops, including the I forgot my combination nonsense. Stacy Harris also got to
29:41
play that one guy who should never be involved in selling illegal material. Friday
29:48
brought him in, but this was not a tough caller, and really it
29:51
was just a matter of time until he got caught. Compare him to how
29:56
suspicious drug dealers get in the Undercover episodes, and this guy was just way
30:03
too eager, way too obvious, way too pushing, way too public in
30:07
flashing the material around, including to a woman who indicated she had no interest
30:15
in selling it or in having it in the place she worked. This was
30:19
a guy who was way too much of a fan of his own quote unquote
30:26
product to actually be successful in selling it without getting caught by the Police.
30:33
Well, now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we've got a
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couple of comments from Julie on Instagram regarding The Big Gangster Part one. Julie
30:45
rits, this episode was amazing. The whole scene where Friday and Ramaryll are
30:49
questioning the guy playing pinball and the bar fight. Wow, the sound effects.
30:56
Guys deserve an award. Also, I hope Rameri got his showix I
31:00
was crafting up on his longing for that piece of pie. Oh. I
31:04
also want to work Friday's insult into a conversation. Somehow you missed a step
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from the gutter to the sidewalk. Well, Julie, thanks so much for
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the comment. And I have to say that food is one of the ways
31:21
that Dragnet brings home the challenges of being on the force and the sort of
31:29
difficulties policemen have to go through. Probably the thing that gets my sympathy the
31:36
most is when they are on a case and are you know, they're vocally
31:44
indicating like how hungry they are, and they're at the restaurant they place the
31:48
order and they're sitting there talking about the case, and then somebody comes in
31:53
and says, oh, you need to go. There's a break in the
31:56
case, and so they have to leave. The food is done, and
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you're just like, oh, these four guys. And of course sound effects
32:06
on Dragonet are amazing. Even though I poked fun a little bit at the
32:09
auditorium effect, you do have to appreciate the dedication that goes into that,
32:15
and I hope you find the opportunity, Julie. I would recommend being finding
32:21
a conversation partner that you don't much care for that might just be your last
32:25
conversation with them. Oftentimes, folks who grew up on the nineteen sixties television
32:31
show or have seam portrayals of that in the media will tend to associate Joe
32:39
Friday with sort of long speeches or lectures. And while I have an appreciation
32:45
for most of those later speeches, Joe Friday was the absolute master of these
32:52
sort of one liner put downs. Now these might not translate to the Internet
32:59
generation. Well, I wondered about, you know, could you put together
33:02
like a clip real where these were used. But more often than not,
33:08
to really appreciate the context, you have to hear what was said before that,
33:15
and sometimes you'll have a criminal going on for a minute or two minutes,
33:22
and then Friday either ask a brief question and then delivers his line after
33:30
a brief answer, or he just delivers the line and it's five seconds and
33:36
Friday wins, which I guess is proof that it's not always the person who
33:39
talks the longest that wins the argument. Well, now it's time to thank
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