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Dragnet - "Big Border" (Old Time Radio, 1952) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Two armed convicts have escaped San Quentin, and Los Angeles
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  Speaker 1: police believe they may be headed for the city. On
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  Speaker 1: March 20, 1952, NBC brought listeners Dragnet, episode 145, Big Border,
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  Speaker 1: with Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday and Barney Phillips
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  Speaker 1: as Sergeant Ed Jacobs. Assigned to the robbery detail, Friday
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  Speaker 1: and Jacobs follow police records, witness interviews, and leads tied
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  Speaker 1: to one fugitive's former fiancé, while other agencies join the
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  Speaker 1: search toward the California-Mexico border. Jim Moser wrote this case,
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  Speaker 1: dramatized from official police files with the cooperation of the
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles Police Department. And now we return to the
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  Speaker 1: original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: The story you are about to hear is true. The
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  Speaker 2: names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 3: assigned a robbery detail. Two convicts escaped from the state penitentiary.
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  Speaker 3: They're heading for your city.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime.
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  Speaker 3: For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los
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  Speaker 3: Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on
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  Speaker 3: the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from.
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  Speaker 4: Official police files.
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  Speaker 3: From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is
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  Speaker 3: the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 6: It was Wednesday, October 6th. It was cloudy in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 6: We were working the day watch out of robbery detail.
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  Speaker 6: My partner's Ed Jacobs. The boss is Captain Didion. My
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  Speaker 6: name's Friday. We were on the way out from the office,
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  Speaker 6: and it was 2.40 p.m. when we got to Kesterson Boulevard.
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  Speaker 6: Number 1256.
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  Speaker 4: Sounds like she's having a party, huh?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Try it again, huh? Maybe they can't hear it. Mm-hmm. Yes?
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  Speaker 6: Police officers, ma'am. You Ruth Thompson?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, that's right. What is it?
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  Speaker 6: My name's Friday. This is my partner, Sergeant Jacob. Central robbery.
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  Speaker 6: We'd like to talk to you a few minutes if
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  Speaker 6: we could.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I have a party going on right now. A
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  Speaker 5: few of my friends are over. What'd you want, Sergeant?
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  Speaker 4: About an Andy Powell, Miss Thompson. I understand you know him?
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  Speaker 5: I did know him, yes. I haven't seen him for
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  Speaker 5: a long time. Three or four years anyway.
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  Speaker 4: Mind if we ask a few questions about him? It
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  Speaker 4: won't take long.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Come in, please.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you. We're sorry to disturb you, ma'am. It's pretty
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  Speaker 6: important or we wouldn't hold you up.
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  Speaker 5: It's all right. Down the hall here.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 5: We can talk in the kitchen if you don't mind.
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  Speaker 5: It's my girlfriend's birthday today, so I'd be nice to
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  Speaker 5: have a little party for her.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 5: Chair there, if you like. Oh, here, let me wipe
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  Speaker 5: it off. He spilled a drink on her. Probably Danny.
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  Speaker 6: He spilled a drink.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose you know about Andy Powell, Miss Thompson, what
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  Speaker 4: happened this morning?
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  Speaker 6: What's that?
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  Speaker 4: About Andy Powell. You heard what happened this morning?
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  Speaker 5: Just what I read in the morning paper. They said
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  Speaker 5: he broke out of San Quentin. Another man with him. True, then?
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  Speaker 5: He did break out?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 6: That's the information we have. There's an all-points bulletin out
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  Speaker 6: on him.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I don't want to get involved in it. It's
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  Speaker 5: none of my business, and he doesn't mean anything to me.
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  Speaker 6: Well, at the time he was set up, you were
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  Speaker 6: engaged to Powell, is that right?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, but that was before he got into trouble, before
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  Speaker 5: he went to San Quentin. I saw him after the trial.
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  Speaker 5: I told him how I felt about it. I told
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  Speaker 5: him it wasn't any use.
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  Speaker 4: You mean you called it off, that is?
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  Speaker 5: There wasn't much else to do. It was robbery, five
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  Speaker 5: years to life. It wasn't the first time either. Andy
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  Speaker 5: knew it would be a long time, so die. Really,
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  Speaker 5: I had to tell him. I had to call it off.
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  Speaker 6: We understand you were on Powell's correspondence list while he
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  Speaker 6: was up at Quentin. You wrote to him, did you?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, the first couple of months. We haven't written lately, though.
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  Speaker 5: There wasn't any point to it, no point at all.
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  Speaker 6: Well, when was the last time you heard from Powell,
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  Speaker 6: Miss Thompson? The last time you wrote to him?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, eight or ten months, at least that. As I say,
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  Speaker 5: there wasn't much sense in going on. Andy knew he
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  Speaker 5: was in there for a long time. He couldn't expect
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  Speaker 5: me to wait all that time. Matter of fact, he
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  Speaker 5: said he didn't expect it. He told me that.
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  Speaker 4: You been up to visit Powell recently, Miss Thompson?
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  Speaker 5: No, no, I haven't.
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  Speaker 6: Well, then you haven't seen him since he went up
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  Speaker 6: to Quentin. You'll swear to that?
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  Speaker 5: Why do I have to swear to it? I already
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  Speaker 5: told you, Andy, he doesn't mean anything to me. It
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  Speaker 5: didn't make sense. It's all over. I'm not even a relative.
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  Speaker 5: Why do I have to swear to anything?
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  Speaker 4: You haven't seen Powell since he went up to Quentin,
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  Speaker 4: is that right?
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  Speaker 6: Miss Thompson, is that right?
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  Speaker 5: What if I saw him or if I didn't see him?
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  Speaker 5: What difference does it make? It's none of my business.
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  Speaker 4: Well, did you see him, Miss Thompson?
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  Speaker 5: What difference does it make? I don't have anything to
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  Speaker 5: do with him. He doesn't mean anything to me. I
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  Speaker 5: told you.
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  Speaker 6: Did you see him?
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  Speaker 5: This morning.
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  Speaker 6: When?
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  Speaker 5: Late this morning, about 10.30.
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  Speaker 4: Was he alone?
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  Speaker 5: No, another man was with him.
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  Speaker 4: Who was the other man you recognized?
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  Speaker 5: Bert Selby. That's the way he introduced him. He didn't
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  Speaker 5: try to hide it. Some fellow he broke out of
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  Speaker 5: jail with.
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  Speaker 6: What did they want? Why were they here?
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  Speaker 5: Clothes, money. Looked like the devil. Both of them terrible.
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  Speaker 6: What did you give them?
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  Speaker 5: They asked for him. Not that silly. Didn't trust me
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  Speaker 5: anymore and they trust you. And he had a knife.
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  Speaker 5: I tried to tell him I didn't have any money.
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  Speaker 5: He didn't believe me. He came at me with that knife.
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  Speaker 5: I gave him the money.
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  Speaker 6: How much?
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  Speaker 5: About 17, 18 dollars. Some loose change. They emptied my purse.
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  Speaker 5: They took it all.
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  Speaker 6: Anything else?
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  Speaker 5: Clothes. A couple of suits of my father's. He died
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  Speaker 5: last year. They took his gun, too. I never thought
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  Speaker 5: Andy would be that way. It was terrible.
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  Speaker 4: What kind of a gun was it, Miss Thompson?
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  Speaker 5: Colt revolver,. 38, I think. They took that and the
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  Speaker 5: clothes and the money. It was about 10.30 this morning.
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  Speaker 6: Malcolm, you didn't report that. You say you knew about
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  Speaker 6: the escape. You knew they were wanted, didn't you?
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  Speaker 5: Why should I? They warned me about it. They threatened me.
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  Speaker 5: They said they'd come back and get me if I
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  Speaker 5: told the police. Look, I don't want to get mixed
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  Speaker 5: up in this. I'm engaged to a nice fellow now.
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  Speaker 5: We want to get married. I don't want to get
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  Speaker 5: mixed up in this. Andy Powell's nothing to me.
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  Speaker 4: Did you watch the two men when they left the
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  Speaker 4: house here? Did you notice if they drove off in
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  Speaker 4: the car?
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  Speaker 5: No, I didn't. I just shut the door and prayed
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  Speaker 5: I was rid of them. Took my money, food, my
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  Speaker 5: dad's clothes. Don't make it any tougher, huh? Please.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's not a question of that, ma'am. We have
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  Speaker 6: to find them. We're going to need all the cooperation
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  Speaker 6: we can get.
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  Speaker 5: I told you everything I could, honestly. You said they'd
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  Speaker 5: come back and kill me if I even talked to you.
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  Speaker 5: I can't do any more. I sure hope you don't
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  Speaker 5: find him.
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  Speaker 4: How's that?
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  Speaker 5: When Andy went out the door, it's the last thing
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  Speaker 5: he said. He said if the cops ever found him,
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  Speaker 5: there was going to be a fight. Terrible look on
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  Speaker 5: his face.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: He said he'd never take him alive.
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  Speaker 6: The APB had come in a few minutes before 8
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  Speaker 6: o'clock that morning. It was from the warden's office, San Quentin.
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  Speaker 6: The two suspects had been assigned to an early morning
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  Speaker 6: work detail at the penitentiary, and they were first reported
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  Speaker 6: missing at the 7 a.m. count. Number one suspect was
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  Speaker 6: Andrew A. Powell, WMA, 29 years, 5'9, 175 pounds, brown hair,
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  Speaker 6: blue eyes, tan complexion. Suspect number two, Bertram O. Selby, WMA,
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  Speaker 6: 31 years, 5'11, 160 pounds, blonde hair, gray eyes, tan complexion.
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  Speaker 6: Both of them had long criminal records. Both of them
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  Speaker 6: had been serving time for armed robbery. They'd used guns before.
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  Speaker 6: We figured if they had to, they'd use them again.
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  Speaker 6: Before we left Powell's ex-girlfriend, Ruth Thompson, we called the
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  Speaker 6: office and arranged for a 24-hour stakeout on her home
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  Speaker 6: in case the escaped prisoners returned. We also made arrangements
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  Speaker 6: for a stakeout at the downtown restaurant where she was
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  Speaker 6: employed as cashier. We passed along the information which the
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  Speaker 6: Thompson girl had given us, and a broadcast and an
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  Speaker 6: APB was gotten out on the suspects. 4.05 p.m., Ed
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  Speaker 6: and I continued making the rounds of all unknown friends
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  Speaker 6: and associates of the escaped prisoners. We failed to come
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  Speaker 6: up with any more leads. 5.50 p.m., we went back
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  Speaker 6: to the city hall.
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  Speaker 4: Clouding up again, huh? Over there in the east?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, paper says rain tonight and tomorrow. We can sure
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  Speaker 6: use it.
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  Speaker 4: No, we can't.
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  Speaker 6: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 4: Haven't had a chance to get the shoemakers yet. Here,
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  Speaker 4: look at that. hole in my shoe. I've been meaning
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  Speaker 4: to get them half-sold. I keep forgetting.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Don't tell me that's the only pair of shoes you got.
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  Speaker 4: No, I got another pair at home. They're not comfortable, though.
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  Speaker 4: Not broken in. There's trouble with this job. What do
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  Speaker 4: you mean?
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  Speaker 6: Shoes.
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  Speaker 4: You get a new pair, start wearing them around. It
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  Speaker 4: happens every time.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The sooner you get the tops broken in, the soles
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  Speaker 4: wear out. It's a vicious circle.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Hi.
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  Speaker 6: How's it work?
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  Speaker 4: No, hi, Jess.
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  Speaker 6: Anything in the book for us you don't?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't think so. I'll check it.
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  Speaker 4: All right. How'd your two make out?
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  Speaker 6: Any luck? Oh, not too bad, Jess. We know Powell
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  Speaker 6: and Selby were in town this morning. Good chance they're
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  Speaker 6: still here. Any kickback on that last all points we
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  Speaker 6: got out?
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  Speaker 4: Nothing so far.
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  Speaker 7: Gaffney and Ricketts are running down a couple of possibles
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  Speaker 7: right now.
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  Speaker 4: One of them might pan out. Nothing on the bookshelf.
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  Speaker 4: We're clear.
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  Speaker 7: Just saying, Ed, on this Powell and Selby thing, got
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  Speaker 7: a couple of possibles we're checking on. Both calls came
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  Speaker 7: in the last hour. One was a holdup, Olympic near Vermont.
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  Speaker 7: Pawn shop there. Two men pulled it off, slugged the owner,
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  Speaker 7: took clothes, money, 12-gauge shotgun. How about descriptions on them, Ed? Well,
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  Speaker 7: they seem to be fairly close. When I got over
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  Speaker 7: the phone, Gaffney and Ricketts are out talking to the victim.
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  Speaker 7: They took mugs of Powell and Selby along, waiting for
• 9:43
  Speaker 7: their call back now.
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  Speaker 4: You said you had two calls. What was the other one?
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  Speaker 1: 2-11 and slugging out on Hollywood Boulevard just above Western.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of thieves knocked over a dry goods store.
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  Speaker 1: Some take clothes and money. Descriptions are pretty close there, too.
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood division's covering. Waiting for their call back.
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  Speaker 4: Do you want a smoke? No, thanks.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks.
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  Speaker 4: Thompson girl is the only one who had anything, huh?
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  Speaker 4: None of the others could help you out? Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 4: about the size of it. Apparently Powell doesn't have too
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  Speaker 4: many connections in town. Selby has even less. No more
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  Speaker 4: than a dozen names on that list, were there, Joe? Friends, relatives?
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  Speaker 6: An even dozen. A couple of bars Powell was known
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  Speaker 6: to hang out when he was in town. Checked them out, too. Nothing.
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  Speaker 4: They sure made a beeline here after they broke quick.
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  Speaker 4: It's a good 500-mile stretch. If they don't have the
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  Speaker 4: connections here to help them, then what's the big attraction?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They could have some help lined up we don't know about.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody to hide them out, keep them in groceries for
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  Speaker 4: a while.
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  Speaker 6: It's possible they're making a run for one of the
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  Speaker 6: border towns, Tijuana, Mexicali. Maybe Powell figured on more help
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  Speaker 6: from the Thompson girl. Clothes and money. Enough to get
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  Speaker 6: him and Selby over into.
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  Speaker 5: Mexico, huh?
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  Speaker 4: She said all they got was $ 17. Had to cut
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  Speaker 4: corners to make it on that.
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  Speaker 6: Robbery, Gonzalez. Oh, yeah, Jack.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm. You sure? Okay, fine. Thanks. Bye. Jack Ricketts.
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  Speaker 7: Ian Gaffney just finished talking to the owner of the
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  Speaker 7: pawn shop that was held up, the one on Olympic Wall.
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  Speaker 7: They gave him a handful of mug shots to check.
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  Speaker 7: He tabbed two of them, Powell and Selby.
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  Speaker 6: 6.30 p.m. A supplementary broadcast and an APB was gotten
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  Speaker 6: out on the two suspects, and the record bureau's photocopy
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  Speaker 6: room turned out 2,000 copies of Powell's and Selby's mug
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  Speaker 6: shot for distribution. At 9 p.m., a theater on Western
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  Speaker 6: Avenue was robbed of $ 192. Powell and Selby were again
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  Speaker 6: identified as the holdup men. The robbery victim, the manager
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  Speaker 6: of the theater, said that both men were armed, one
• 11:42
  Speaker 6: with a. 38 revolver, the other with a sawed-off shotgun.
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  Speaker 6: Neither the manager nor the two witnesses were able to
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  Speaker 6: tell us how the thieves got away from the scene
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  Speaker 6: of the crime, if they were on foot or if
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  Speaker 6: they had a car. 11.20 p.m., a hot shot call
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  Speaker 6: came through on a holdup at a liquor store in
• 11:58
  Speaker 6: Delicatessen down on South Central Avenue. For the third time
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  Speaker 6: that night, Powell and Selby were identified from their mug
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  Speaker 6: shots as the holdup men.
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  Speaker 5: They'd used the.
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  Speaker 6: Same weapons, the revolver that they'd taken from the Thompson
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  Speaker 6: girls' home, and the shotgun that they picked up in
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  Speaker 6: the robbery of the Olympic Boulevard pawn shop. Again, the
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  Speaker 6: victims were unable to tell us how the suspects got away,
• 12:17
  Speaker 6: whether on foot or by car. Midnight, 1 a.m., there
• 12:22
  Speaker 6: were still no replies to supplementary broadcasts and bulletins which
• 12:25
  Speaker 6: had been gotten out. 1.25 a.m., another hotshot call came through,
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  Speaker 6: this time on a holdup on a slugging at the
• 12:32
  Speaker 6: 2050 room, a small nightclub on West 9th Street. Ed
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  Speaker 6: and I handled the call. For the fourth time, the
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  Speaker 6: bandits were identified as Powell and Selby, and for the
• 12:41
  Speaker 6: fourth time, they'd made good their escape. We interviewed the
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  Speaker 6: manager of the 2050 room, a Herman Saunders.
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  Speaker 4: Quite a few people in here at the time of
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  Speaker 4: the holdup, Mr. Saunders?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, good for a Thursday night. 30 or 40 anyway.
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  Speaker 7: They sure left in a hurry. This is the second
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  Speaker 7: time this year we've been knocked over. Insurance company isn't
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  Speaker 7: going to like it too much.
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  Speaker 6: Well, how much money did they take altogether, do you know?
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  Speaker 4: A little less than 600 from the cash register.
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  Speaker 7: Mostly currency. Some rolls of dimes and quarters. Got another
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  Speaker 7: hundred and a half from my wallet.
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  Speaker 4: That's about it. They didn't take any from the customers.
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  Speaker 6: You're sure about that identification, are you? There's no chance
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  Speaker 6: of a mistake there? I'm positive.
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  Speaker 7: I'd know Andy Paul anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: I should know him. Like I told you, he worked
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  Speaker 4: for me a year and a half. I was here
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  Speaker 4: at 2050? Yeah, he worked behind the bar.
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  Speaker 2: Good man, too.
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  Speaker 6: I don't get it at all. You mean why he
• 13:20
  Speaker 6: went bad? Well, yeah, that, too.
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  Speaker 7: What I mean is if you're going to hold up
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  Speaker 7: a place, you don't pick a joint where everybody knows you.
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  Speaker 7: I spotted Annie as soon as I saw him at
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  Speaker 7: the bar. So did a couple of the waiters.
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  Speaker 6: He wasn't wearing any kind of a mask. He didn't
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  Speaker 6: make any attempt to disguise himself?
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  Speaker 7: No, stood there big as life, him and this other fella.
• 13:34
  Speaker 7: Didn't waste any time either. They pulled the guns, lined
• 13:36
  Speaker 7: up everybody in the place and stood them against that
• 13:38
  Speaker 7: wall over there.
• 13:39
  Speaker 6: Real Wild West style. Took over the whole place.
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: It acted real wild, Andy and.
• 13:43
  Speaker 6: This other fella. Must be crazy.
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: Nobody was hurt? Didn't slug anyone?
• 13:46
  Speaker 7: I slapped a few of the customers around. I thought
• 13:48
  Speaker 7: for a while they were really going to get rough.
• 13:50
  Speaker 7: They had us lined up against the wall. Andy was
• 13:51
  Speaker 7: acting tough. Had this knife with him, good four-inch blade.
• 13:55
  Speaker 7: Went right down the line jabbing people with it, threatening them.
• 13:57
  Speaker 6: Must be out of his mind. You say he didn't
• 13:59
  Speaker 6: take any money from the customers. Yeah, that's right. They
• 14:01
  Speaker 6: worked it pretty fast.
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: Emptied the cash register, then my wallet. Then they beat it.
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: Never so glad to see anybody go in my life.
• 14:07
  Speaker 6: Well, how'd they get away? Do you have any idea
• 14:08
  Speaker 6: on that?
• 14:09
  Speaker 7: Old guy who sells papers down the corner. He says
• 14:11
  Speaker 7: he thinks he saw a car pull away right after
• 14:12
  Speaker 7: the stick-up. Said it was a blue sedan. Don't know
• 14:15
  Speaker 7: how much stock you can put in it. The old
• 14:17
  Speaker 7: man's eyes aren't what they used to be.
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: Did you know Paul pretty well when he was working here, Mr. Saunders?
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: I mean, did you know any of his friends, people
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: he used to run with?
• 14:23
  Speaker 7: No, I didn't know him that well. He worked for me,
• 14:25
  Speaker 7: that's all. I still have his old address, the place
• 14:27
  Speaker 7: he was living.
• 14:28
  Speaker 6: When he worked for me.
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: I can get it if you want.
• 14:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, if you would, please. Sure, no trouble. I just
• 14:33
  Speaker 6: don't get it.
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: Don't get it at all.
• 14:35
  Speaker 7: Of all the joints in town he could have held up,
• 14:37
  Speaker 7: he had to pick mine, the one place he'd be recognized.
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: You think he'd have better sense, wouldn't you? You'd think so, yeah.
• 14:42
  Speaker 7: How'd they ever hire a guy as dumb as that Paul,
• 14:43
  Speaker 7: holding up the place he worked for? Biggest mistake he
• 14:46
  Speaker 7: ever made. No, he made a bigger one yesterday.
• 14:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, what was that? When he broke prison. 2.05 a.m.
• 14:55
  Speaker 6: Further investigation at the scene of the latest holdup failed
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: to turn up any new leads. While Ed and I
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: checked on Powell's former address, which we'd gotten from the
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: owner of the 2050 room, Gonzalez, Ricketts, and Gaffney continued
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: checking the immediate neighborhood. In addition, a special detail from
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: Metro Division was sent in to cover the entire area.
• 15:13
  Speaker 6: The suspect's former address turned out to be a rooming
• 15:15
  Speaker 6: house up on West Temple Street. The landlady remembered Andy Powell,
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: but she had no forwarding address on him, and she
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: could tell us nothing about his former friends and associates.
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: We checked back with Gonzales, Ricketts, and Gaffney, and they
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: told us that besides the old newspaper vendor, the counterman
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: at the coffee shop near the 2050 room had also
• 15:32
  Speaker 6: spotted a blue sedan leaving the vicinity of the nightclub
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: shortly after the holdup. He was able to give them
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: the make, the model, and a partial license number. A
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: supplementary all points had been gotten out on it immediately,
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: and the information relayed to DMV and auto theft detail. 3.10 a.m.
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: Ed and I completed our assignment in the investigation and
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: went back to the office to check for instructions from
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: Captain Didion.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: Can't see how we'd be much use out on the
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: street the way things stand now, can you?
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: No, I don't.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: Everything's covered, I can think of. Supplementary oil points is out.
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: Detail from Metro's working and everything.
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: Right. It's funny, isn't it?
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: What's that?
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: Unless Andy Powell, going back to that place he used
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: to work and holding it up, that doesn't make any
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: sense at all, does it?
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: That's for sure. Must have known somebody was going to
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: recognize him. Couldn't have been a coincidence.
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: There was only one way I can figure it. They
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: don't care, either one of them. They got their money now,
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: a car. They both got guns. They're out to go
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: as far as they can.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Oh, hi, Jess. Hi. You just get back in? Yeah.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Hi, Joe.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: Hi.
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: You as tired as you sound?
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: Worse. Fair piece of news, though.
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, what's that?
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: Powell and Selby, they just found their hideout.
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: After three hours of canvassing the general downtown area, particularly
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: in the vicinity of the last holdup, a team of
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: men working with the Special Detail for Metropolitan Division interviewed
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: a desk clerk in a small hotel on South Broadway
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: who recognized the suspect's mugshots. The two of them had
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: registered early the morning before under the names J.E. Dennis
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: and Harold Thompson, both from Fresno, California. The hotel room
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: was searched and two San Quentin inmate uniforms were found
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: stuffed under the mattress of the bed. After the room
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: was processed for fingerprints, there was no doubt that the
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: recent occupants were Powell and Selby. The clerk had no
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: idea when they were supposed to return. The hotel was
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: staked out immediately, and the citywide search for the escaped
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: prisoners went on. The following day, Thursday, October 7th, 11.30 a.m.,
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: still no sign of the suspects, no further reports or
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: leads as to their whereabouts. The search went on. Ed
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: and I signed back in at the office. Ten minutes later,
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: a long-distance phone call came in for us.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: When was that, Morton?
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: What's that? Yeah, close enough, right? We'll let you know, yeah.
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: Bye.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: Mark Geer, down in San Diego.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, what do you want?
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: One of the traffic officers was checking a car about
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: 8 o'clock this morning, 586 parking. Mm-hmm. Blue sedan, fits
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: close to the description of the escape car.
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: Well, it's a pretty common model, isn't it? Did he
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: say anything else?
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: Traffic man checked the inside of the car, glove compartment,
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: found half a dozen rolls of dimes and quarters, same
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: name stamped on all of them.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: 2050 room.
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• 19:51
  Speaker 6: After we got the report from Lieutenant Mortgeer that the
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: escape car, along with a few dollars of the stolen money,
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: had been located in San Diego that morning, Ed and
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: I had a meeting with Captain Didion. It was beginning
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: to look like our first hunch was right. Powell and
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: Selby's 24-hour campaign of holdups in the Los Angeles area
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: had netted them a fresh change of clothes and more
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: than enough money to live on for a while. With
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: the locating of the escape car in San Diego, it
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: looked like the suspects were apparently taking the next logical step,
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: a fast move over the international border into Mexico, a
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: distance of less than 20 miles from San Diego. Probably
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: they figured once over the line they had a good
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: chance of losing themselves. 1.40 p.m. On Captain Didion's orders,
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: Jess Gonzalez, Ed, and I got in the car and
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: headed south for San Diego with a supply of mug
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: shots of the escaped prisoners. We got there a few
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: minutes after 4 p.m. We went directly to the San
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: Diego PD where we contacted Sergeant Tony McGuire, robbery detail.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: Tough week, huh?
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: I hear they've been driving you.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: Crazy up there.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Just about, Tony. Four robberies in 24 hours have given
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: us a run. How about Mort Gere?
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: You around?
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he just went down the hall, Jess.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Ought to be back in a minute.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: Why don't you fellas sit down? Thanks very much. What's
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: the latest, Tony? Anything since you picked up that blue sedan?
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: No, not much. Got the car in the impound.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Had to dust it for prints. We made them all right,
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: both sets. Powell and Selby.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: No sign of them around town?
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: No, got it pretty well covered, too.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Another trace.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: We're in a good spot to make it over into Mexico.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: Hate to disappoint you. What do you mean? We think
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: they already made it.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: At 6 o'clock that.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: Night, Gonzales, Ed, and I, together with Lieutenant Gere, Tony McGuire,
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: and Sergeants Gaten and Schultz, drove south from San Diego
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: to the International Line. We left mugshots of Powell and
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: Selby with the immigration officers at the entry gate. Then
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: we drove into the town of Tijuana, contacted the local
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: commandant of police, and he promised us full cooperation. He
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: assigned a special detail of his men to work with
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: us in covering the town. At 8 p.m., the block-by-block
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: canvas of the city began. Every back alley, every bar,
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: every restaurant, every hotel, they were all checked. The tourist attractions,
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: the souvenir stands, the nightclubs, the High Life Pavilion. We
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: went straight through on it, 8 o'clock that night until
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: 5 o'clock the next morning. All it got us was
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: sore feet and a mediocre lead from a native taxi driver.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: After being shown the mug shots, he told one of
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: the Mexican officers in the detail that about noon that day,
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: he'd picked up two Americans resembling Powell and Selby and
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: driven them to the town of Tecate, another Mexican tourist
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: spot about 25 miles to the east. 10.30 a.m., we
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: drove over and checked with the police at Tecate, and
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: they told us that two Americans had arrived in the
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: town that morning. He invited Jess Gonzalez to go along
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: with the three of his men to the hotel where
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: the men were supposed to be staying. Ed and I
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: waited in the office.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: All right. Hi, Jess.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: What do you got?
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Not much. Went over to the hotel. The two men
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: weren't there. Desk clerk says they told.
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: Him they were driving out to a little village about
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: a mile from here. Police come and done asked me
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: to come back here and wait. Said he and his
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: men would drive out.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: To the village and check the men out.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: That seems a little funny, doesn't it?
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: Well, he didn't invite me to come along. It's not
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: a good idea to push him. I mean, after all,
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: it's his jurisdiction.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: We're supposed to wait here till they get back?
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: I'm up to him now. See, police here? Uh-huh, yeah.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: Uh, see, see. About half an hour, yes, sir. All right, gracias.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Goodbye, C. The commandant, he and his men found the
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: two Americans.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: No go. They're not Powell and Selby.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: Half an hour later, the police commandant of Tecate returned
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: to the station along with his men and the two
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: American tourists in question. One look at them and we
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: knew we'd made the trip from Tijuana for nothing. Except
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: for their build and the color of their hair, the
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: two Americans bore little or no resemblance to Powell and Selby. 2.30 p.m.,
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: we headed back for Tijuana and we checked in with
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: Mort Gere and the rest of the men. While we'd
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: been gone, they'd chased down half a dozen leads, but
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: none of them had panned out. The rest of the afternoon,
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: we covered the racetrack at Agua Caliente and distributed mugshots
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: of the suspects to all track police officers. The mutual
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: windows were covered and also the foreign book. No luck.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: The six of us took time out for a bite
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: of supper and we talked it over. Logically, the next
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: place in line to cover was either the fishing town
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: of Ensenada on the coast or the city of Mexicali
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: further inland. We decided to try Ensenada first. 7.30 that night,
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: we checked in at the Ensenada police station where we
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: met with a local sub-commandant, Pedro Martinez. Like the other
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: commandants in Tijuana and Tecate, he offered full cooperation and
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: gave us a special detail of men to aid in
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: the search. We gave him a supply of mugshots of
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: the two convicts to distribute among his men.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Here you are, sir. These are pictures of one of them,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Andrew Powell. This one here is the other man, Bert Selby.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: All right, thank you.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Juan?
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: Juan!
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Si.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Si.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: Que es? These pictures, Juan. Criminals.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: They're for distribution to the men, one each. Si, si.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Estos son los hombres? Si, si, porque? Un momento, un momento.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: Si. Excuse me, officers.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Yes, all right.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: Go ahead. Sure, what is it? It's got me, I
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: don't know.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: See the look on his face when the chief showed
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: him the mug shots?
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: He's got something on his mind. Let's wait a minute.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Officers, I hope you will excuse me. Yes, sir.
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: Anything wrong?
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: My assistant, Teniente Sanfilippo, he says he knows the pictures
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: of these men.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, how's that?
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: He says he saw these men this morning here in Ensenada. Yeah,
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: he's sure about that, is he?
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: He says he's sure.
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: He says the two men were here last night right
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: here in the station.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: You mean your men booked them in? They committed some
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: kind of crime?
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, sir.
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: They came in to report a crime. 8.20 p.m. On
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: further questioning, the assistant to the Ensenada Commandant of Police
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: told us that the night before, two men answering Powell
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: and Selby's description had come in to file a complaint
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: at the Central Police Station. They charged that they'd had
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: their pockets picked at a local bar while they were
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: under the influence of alcohol. The two complainants, who matched
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: Powell's and Selby's descriptions perfectly, signed themselves J.E. Dennis and
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: Harold Thompson, both from Fresno, California, the same names and
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: addresses that had been used by the occupants of the
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: Southside Los Angeles hotel room where the discarded prison uniforms
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: had been found a day and a half before. After
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: a brief talk with the police commandant, he dispatched a
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: special detail to go out and pick up the two
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: men registered as Dennis and Thompson at a motel near
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: the south end of the city. At the commandant's request,
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: we remained at the office. 9 p.m., 9.30. The detail
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: assigned to the job returned, but was only one of
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: the suspects with him, Andrew Powell. While resisting arrest, the
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: other suspect identified as Selby received a cut forehead and
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: was being taken to a local clinic for treatment. The
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: commandant briefed us on what had happened. The rooms were searched,
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: Officer Friday. Some money was found, also two guns, a
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: revolver and a shotgun.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Here they are.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: All right, thanks very much, sir. Well, Paul, how about it?
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: You ready to cop out?
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: What are you talking about, cop out? What did you
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: guys come all the way down here for anyway? You
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: can't touch us. What makes you think we can't? You can't,
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: that's all. You know better. You can't arrest us down here.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: No jurisdiction. We didn't arrest you, Paul. The Mexican officers did. Okay, fine. Now,
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: how do you expect to get us out of Mexico? Yes, again, copper.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: You know you can't do it. You haven't got the
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: right to.
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: Maybe. You want to tell us where you have the loot?
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: The money you took in those holdups?
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Why should I? Look, why don't you admit it? We
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: got you beat. We got over the line. You can't
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: touch us down here.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: Now, don't bet on that, mister. Commandant? Yes, sir? You
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: want to tell them how it stands?
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: I will see that the general in charge of the
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: Northern District is notified in the morning of your case.
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: He will see that you and your partner are deported.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: What are you trying to pull? You can't do that.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: You know it. It's illegal. So is robbery, Powell. Come
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: off it. It doesn't make any difference. You can't touch
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: us in Mexico. It's against the law. You can't touch us.
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: A popular misconception, Mr. Powell. I'm afraid you have made
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: a mistake. If you like, you can pass the word.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: How long would it be for us to receive the
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: prisoners at the line, sir? I don't know. A long time,
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: I think. Maybe as long as 1 o'clock tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: You know you can't do this. You'll never get away
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: with it. I know a lawyer in Tijuana. I'll get
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: him to straighten that out.
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  Speaker 8: You understand, Sergeant. We can't hand this man over to
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: you now. But if you will be at the international
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: border at 1 o'clock tomorrow, I'm sure they'll.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: Be crossing over.
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  Speaker 4: You can't do this. It's illegal. You know you can't.
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: We're going to try. Wasting your time.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't you admit it? You can't arrest us. We
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: got over the line. We got your beat. You can't
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: arrest us, and you know it. You know that, don't you?
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: There's only one thing I know for sure, Powell.
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: San Quentin. You got out, and you're going back.
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  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true The names
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  Speaker 2: were changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 3: On December 9th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
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  Speaker 3: In a moment, the results of that.
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Powell and Bertram Selby were deported from Mexico as
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: undesirable aliens and turned over to U.S. authorities at the
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: international border. They were immediately arrested by police officers on
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: the American side and returned to Los Angeles for trial.
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  Speaker 3: They pled guilty to four counts of first degree robbery
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: and received sentences.
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  Speaker 4: As prescribed by law. First degree robbery.
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  Speaker 3: Is punishable by a prison term of from five years
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: to life. After being returned to San Quentin, Powell and
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Selby were filed on, tried, and convicted of escape. Both
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: of them are now serving life terms in Folsom State Penitentiary.
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  Speaker 6: Repressa, California.
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  Speaker 2: For their cooperation in preparing tonight's broadcast, Dragnet wishes to
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: thank Chief of Police Adam E.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: Jansen. and the San Diego Police Department.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office of
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. Technical advisors,
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher. Heard
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: tonight were Barney Phillips, Whit Connor, Herb Ellis. Script by
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Jim Moser. Music by Walter Schumann. Hal Gibney speaking.
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  Speaker 1: The LAPD robbery detail signs off for this broadcast of Dragnet.
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