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  Speaker 1: March 20th, 1952, NBC aired episode 145 of Dragnet, The
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  Speaker 1: Big Border. Sergeant Joe Friday and Sergeant Ed Jacobs, played
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  Speaker 1: by Jack Webb and Barney Phillips, are assigned to locate
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  Speaker 1: two armed convicts who have escaped from San Quentin and
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  Speaker 1: are believed headed for Los Angeles. Their first lead lies
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  Speaker 1: with Ruth Thompson, the former fiancé of Andrew Powell.
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  Speaker 2: From there, interviews, police.
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  Speaker 1: Bulletins, and robbery reports carry the investigation south as Friday
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  Speaker 1: and Jacobs coordinate with other agencies toward the Mexican border.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Moser wrote this case from the series that drew
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  Speaker 1: its stories from official police files with technical advice from
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  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Police Department. And now, we return to
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  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 4: heading for your city.
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  Speaker 6: It was Wednesday, October 6th. It was cloudy in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: We were working the day watch out of robbery detail.
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  Speaker 5: My partner's Ed Jacobs. The boss is Captain Didion. My
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  Speaker 5: name's Friday. We were on the way out from the
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  Speaker 5: office and it was 2.40 p.m. when we got to
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  Speaker 5: Kesterson Boulevard. Number 1256.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like she's having a party, huh? Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Try it again, huh? Maybe they can't hear it.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 6: Police officers, ma'am. You Ruth Thompson?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, that's right.
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  Speaker 8: What is it?
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  Speaker 5: My name's Friday. This is my partner, Sergeant Jacobs. Central robbery.
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  Speaker 5: We'd like to talk to you a few minutes if
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  Speaker 5: we could.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I have a party going on right now. A
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  Speaker 7: few of my friends are over. What'd you want, Sergeant?
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  Speaker 3: It's about an Andy Powell, Miss Thompson. I understand you
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  Speaker 3: know him?
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  Speaker 7: I did know him, yes. I haven't seen him for
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  Speaker 7: a long time. Three or four years anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Mind if we ask a few questions about him? It
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  Speaker 3: won't take long.
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  Speaker 7: All right. Come in, please.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: We're sorry to disturb you, ma'am. It's pretty important or
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  Speaker 5: we wouldn't hold you up.
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  Speaker 7: It's all right. Down the hall here.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 7: We can talk in the kitchen if you don't mind.
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  Speaker 7: It's my girlfriend's birthday today, so I'd be nice to
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  Speaker 7: have a little party for her.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 7: Chair there, if you like. Oh, here, let me wipe
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  Speaker 7: it off. He spilled a drink on her. Probably Danny.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose you know about Andy Powell, Miss Thompson, what
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  Speaker 3: happened this morning?
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  Speaker 7: What's that?
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  Speaker 3: About Andy Powell. You heard what happened this morning?
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  Speaker 7: Just what I read in the morning paper. They said
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  Speaker 7: he broke out of San Quentin, another man with him. True, then?
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  Speaker 7: He did break out?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am. That's the information we have. There's an all-points
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  Speaker 6: bulletin out on him.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I don't want to get involved in it. It's
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  Speaker 7: 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.
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  Speaker 3: Is that right?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, but that was before he got into trouble, before
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  Speaker 7: he went to San Quentin. I saw him after the trial.
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  Speaker 7: I told him how I felt about it. I told
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  Speaker 7: him it wasn't any use.
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  Speaker 3: And you called it off, that is?
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  Speaker 7: Wasn't much else to do. It was robbery, five years
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  Speaker 7: to life. It wasn't the first time, either. Andy knew
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  Speaker 7: it'd be a long time, so die. Really, I had
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  Speaker 7: to tell him. I had to call it off.
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  Speaker 5: We understand you were on Powell's correspondence list while he
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  Speaker 5: was up at Quentin.
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  Speaker 3: You wrote to him, did you?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, the first couple of months. We haven't written lately, though.
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  Speaker 7: 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 7: Oh, eight or ten months. At least that. As I say,
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  Speaker 7: there wasn't much sense in going on. Andy knew he
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  Speaker 7: was in there for a long time. He couldn't expect
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  Speaker 7: me to wait all that time. Matter of fact, he
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  Speaker 7: said he didn't expect it. He told me that.
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  Speaker 3: You been up to visit Powell recently, Miss Thompson?
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  Speaker 7: 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 7: Why do I have to swear to it? I already
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  Speaker 7: told you, Andy doesn't mean anything to me. It didn't
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  Speaker 7: make sense.
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  Speaker 6: It's all over.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not even a relative. Why do I have to
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  Speaker 7: swear to anything?
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  Speaker 3: You haven't seen Powell since he went up to Quentin,
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  Speaker 3: is that right?
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  Speaker 6: Miss Thompson, is that right?
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  Speaker 7: What if I saw him or if I didn't see him?
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  Speaker 7: What difference does it make? It's none of my business.
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  Speaker 3: Well, did you see him, Miss Thompson?
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  Speaker 7: What difference does it make? I don't have anything to
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  Speaker 7: do with him. He doesn't mean anything to me. I
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  Speaker 7: told you.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see him?
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  Speaker 7: This morning.
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  Speaker 3: When?
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  Speaker 7: Late this morning, about 10.30.
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  Speaker 3: Was he alone?
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  Speaker 7: No, another man was with him.
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  Speaker 3: Who was the other man? You recognize him?
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  Speaker 7: Bert Selby. That's the way he introduced him. He didn't
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  Speaker 7: try to hide it. Some fellow he broke out of
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  Speaker 7: jail with.
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  Speaker 6: What'd they want? Why were they here?
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  Speaker 7: Clothes, money. Looked like the devil. Both of them terrible.
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  Speaker 6: What'd you give them?
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  Speaker 7: They asked for him, not that silly. He didn't trust
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  Speaker 7: me anymore and they trust you. And he had a knife.
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  Speaker 7: I tried to tell him I didn't have any money.
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  Speaker 7: He didn't believe me. He came at me with that knife.
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  Speaker 7: I gave him the money.
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  Speaker 3: How much?
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  Speaker 7: About $ 17, $ 18, some loose change. They emptied my purse.
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  Speaker 7: They took it all.
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  Speaker 6: Anything else?
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  Speaker 7: Clothes, a couple of suits of my father's. He died
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  Speaker 7: last year. They took his gun, too. I never thought
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  Speaker 7: Andy would be that way. It was terrible.
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  Speaker 3: What kind of a gun was it, Ms. Thompson?
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  Speaker 7: Colt revolver, 38, I think. They took that and the
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  Speaker 7: clothes and the money. It was about 10.30 this morning.
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  Speaker 5: Malcolm, you didn't report that. You say you knew about
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  Speaker 5: the escape. You knew they were wanted, didn't you?
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  Speaker 8: Why should I?
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  Speaker 7: They warned me about it. They threatened me. They said
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  Speaker 7: they'd come back and get me if I told the police. Look,
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  Speaker 7: I don't want to get mixed up in this. I'm
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  Speaker 7: engaged to a nice fella now. We want to get married.
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  Speaker 7: I don't want to get mixed up in this. Andy
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  Speaker 7: Powell's nothing to me.
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  Speaker 3: Did you watch the two men when they left the
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  Speaker 3: house here? You notice if they drove off in a car?
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  Speaker 7: No, I didn't. I just shut the door and prayed
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  Speaker 7: I was rid of them. Took my money, food, my
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  Speaker 7: dad's clothes. Don't make it any tougher, huh?
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  Speaker 5: Please. Well, it's not a question of that, ma'am. We
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  Speaker 5: have to find him. We're going to need all the
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  Speaker 5: cooperation we can get.
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  Speaker 7: I told you everything I could, honestly. I said they'd
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  Speaker 7: come back and kill me if I even talked to you.
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  Speaker 7: I can't do any more. I sure hope you don't
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  Speaker 7: find him.
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  Speaker 3: How's that?
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  Speaker 7: When Andy went out the door, it's the last thing
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  Speaker 7: he said. He said if the cops ever found him,
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  Speaker 7: there was going to be a fight. Terrible look on
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  Speaker 7: his face. 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 5: The two suspects had been assigned to an early morning
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  Speaker 5: work detail at the penitentiary, and they were first reported
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  Speaker 5: missing at the 7 a.m.
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  Speaker 3: Count.
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  Speaker 6: Number one suspect was Andrew A.
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  Speaker 5: Powell, WMA, 29 years, 5'9, 175 pounds, brown hair, blue eyes,
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  Speaker 5: tan complexion. Suspect number two, Bertram O. Selby, WMA, 31 years, 5'11,
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  Speaker 5: 160 pounds, blonde hair, gray eyes, tan complexion. Both of
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  Speaker 5: them had long criminal records. Both of them had been
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  Speaker 5: serving time for armed robbery. They'd used guns before. We
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  Speaker 5: figured if they had to, they'd use them again. Before
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  Speaker 5: we left Powell's ex-girlfriend, Ruth Thompson, we called the office
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  Speaker 5: and arranged for a 24-hour stakeout on her home in
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  Speaker 5: case the escaped prisoners returned. We also made arrangements for
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  Speaker 5: a stakeout at the downtown restaurant where she was employed
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  Speaker 5: as cashier. We passed along the information which the Thompson
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  Speaker 5: girl had given us, and a broadcast and an APB
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  Speaker 5: was gotten out on the suspects. 4.05 p.m. Ed and
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  Speaker 5: I continued making the rounds of all unknown friends and
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  Speaker 5: associates of the escaped prisoners. We failed to come up
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  Speaker 5: with any more leads. 5.50 p.m. We went back to
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  Speaker 5: the city hall.
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  Speaker 3: Clouding up again, huh? Over there in the east?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the paper says rain tonight and tomorrow. We can
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  Speaker 6: sure use it.
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  Speaker 3: No, I can't.
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  Speaker 6: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 3: I haven't had a chance to get the shoemakers yet.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Look at that. Hole in my shoe. Been meaning to
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  Speaker 3: get them half sold. I keep forgetting.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Don't tell me that's the only pair of shoes
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  Speaker 6: you got.
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  Speaker 3: No, I got another pair at home. They're not comfortable, though.
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  Speaker 3: Not broken in. It's trouble with this job.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: Shoes. You get a new pair, start wearing them around.
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  Speaker 3: It happens every time. Well. No sooner get the tops
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  Speaker 3: broken in than the soles wear out. It's a vicious circle.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Hi.
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  Speaker 3: Nice to work.
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  Speaker 6: No, hi, Jess. Anything in the book for us you don't?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't think so. I'll check it.
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  Speaker 3: All right. How'd you two make out? Any luck?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, not too bad, Jess. We know Powell and Selby
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  Speaker 5: were in town this morning. Good chance they're still here.
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  Speaker 5: Any kickback on that last all points we got out?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing so far.
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  Speaker 1: Gaffney and Ricketts are running down a couple of possibles
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 3: One of them might pan out. Nothing on the book, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: We're clear.
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  Speaker 1: Just saying, Ed, on this Powell and Selby thing, got
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  Speaker 1: a couple of possibles we're checking on. Both calls came
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  Speaker 1: in the last hour. One was a holdup, Olympic near Vermont.
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  Speaker 1: Pawn shop there. Two men pulled it off, slugged the owner,
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  Speaker 1: took clothes, money.
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  Speaker 3: 12-gauge shotgun.
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  Speaker 6: How about descriptions on them, Ed?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they seem to be fairly close. When I got
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  Speaker 3: over the phone, Gaffney.
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  Speaker 1: And Ricketts are out talking to the victim. They took
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  Speaker 1: mugs of Powell and Selby along, waiting for their call
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  Speaker 1: back now.
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  Speaker 3: You said you had two calls. What was the other one?
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  Speaker 1: 211 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 8: Do you want a smoke?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks. Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Thompson girl's the only one who had anything, huh? None
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  Speaker 1: of the others could help you out? Yeah, that's about
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  Speaker 1: the size of it. Apparently Powell doesn't have too many
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  Speaker 1: connections in town. Selby has even less. No more than
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  Speaker 1: a dozen names on that list, were there, Joe?
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  Speaker 3: 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.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they sure made a beeline here after they broke Quentin.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good 500-mile stretch. They don't have the connections
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  Speaker 1: here to help them, then what's the big attraction?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They could have some help lined up we don't know about.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody to hide them out, keep them in groceries for
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  Speaker 3: a while.
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  Speaker 5: It's possible they're making a run for one of the
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  Speaker 5: border towns, Tijuana, Mexicali. Maybe Powell figured on more help
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  Speaker 5: from the Thompson girl.
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  Speaker 6: Clothes and money. Enough to get him and Selby over
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  Speaker 6: into Mexico, huh?
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  Speaker 3: She said all they got was $ 17. Had to cut
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  Speaker 3: corners to make it on that. Robbery, Gonzalez. Oh, yeah, Jack. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: You sure? Sure. Okay, fine. Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Bye.
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  Speaker 3: You got it. Jack Ricketts.
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  Speaker 1: He and Gaffney just finished talking to the owner of
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  Speaker 1: the pawn shop that was held up, the one on Olympic.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They gave him a handful of mug shots to check.
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  Speaker 1: He tabbed two of them, Powell and Selby.
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  Speaker 6: 6.30 p.m.
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  Speaker 5: A supplementary broadcast and an APB was gotten out on
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  Speaker 5: the two suspects, and the record bureau's photocopy room turned
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  Speaker 5: out 2,000 copies of Powell's and Selby's mug shot for distribution.
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  Speaker 5: At 9 p.m., a theater on Western Avenue was robbed
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  Speaker 5: of $ 192. Powell and Selby were again identified as the
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  Speaker 5: holdup men. The robbery victim, the manager of the theater,
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  Speaker 5: said that both men were armed, one with a. 38 revolver,
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  Speaker 5: the other with a sawed-off shotgun. Neither the manager nor
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  Speaker 5: the two witnesses were able to tell us how the
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  Speaker 5: thieves got away from the scene of the crime, if
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  Speaker 5: they were on foot or if they had a car.
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  Speaker 7: 11.20 p.m.
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  Speaker 5: A hot shot call came through on a holdup at
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  Speaker 5: a liquor store in Delicatessen down on South Central Avenue.
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  Speaker 5: For the third time that night, Powell and Selby were
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  Speaker 5: identified from their mug shots as the holdup men. They'd
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  Speaker 5: used the same weapons, the revolver that they'd taken from
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  Speaker 5: the Thompson girls' home, and the shotgun that they picked
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  Speaker 5: up in the robbery of the Olympic Boulevard pawn shop. Again,
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  Speaker 5: the victims were unable to tell us how the suspects
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  Speaker 5: got away, whether on foot or by car. Midnight, 1 a.m.,
• 12:19
  Speaker 5: there were still no replies to supplementary broadcasts and bulletins
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  Speaker 5: which had been gotten out. 1.25 a.m., another hotshot call
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  Speaker 5: came through, this time on a holdup in a slugging
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  Speaker 5: at the 2050 room, a small nightclub on West 9th Street.
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  Speaker 6: Ed and I handled the call.
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  Speaker 5: For the fourth time, the bandits were identified as Powell
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  Speaker 5: and Selby, and for the fourth time, they'd made good
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  Speaker 5: their escape. We interviewed the manager of the 2050 room,
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  Speaker 5: a Herman Saunders.
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  Speaker 3: Quite a few people in here at the time of
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  Speaker 3: the holdup, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Saunders?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good for Thursday night. 30 or 40 anyway. They
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  Speaker 1: sure left in a hurry. This is the second time
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  Speaker 1: this year we've been knocked over. Insurance company isn't going
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  Speaker 1: to like it too much.
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  Speaker 6: How much money did they take altogether, do you know?
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  Speaker 1: A little less than 600 from the cash register. Mostly currency.
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  Speaker 1: Some rolls, a dime, some quarters. Got another hundred and
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: a half from my wallet. That's about it. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: take anything 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?
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  Speaker 8: I'm positive.
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  Speaker 1: I'd know Andy Paul anywhere. I should know him. Like
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  Speaker 1: I told you, he worked for me a year and
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  Speaker 1: a half.
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  Speaker 3: I was here at 2050? Yeah, he worked behind the bar.
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  Speaker 8: Good man, too.
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  Speaker 3: I don't get it at all.
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  Speaker 6: You mean why it went bad?
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  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, that too.
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: What I mean is if you're going to hold up
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: a place, you don't pick a joint where everybody knows you.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: I spotted Andy as soon as I saw him at
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: the bar. Sawed a couple of the waiters. He wasn't
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: wearing any kind of a mask. He didn't make any
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: attempt to disguise himself?
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: No.
• 13:28
  Speaker 8: Stood there big as life, him and this other fella.
• 13:30
  Speaker 8: Didn't waste any time either.
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: I pulled the guns, lined up everybody in the place
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: and stood him against that wall over there. Real Wild
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: West style. Took over the whole place. Acted real wild,
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: Andy and.
• 13:39
  Speaker 8: This other fella. Must be crazy.
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: Nobody was hurt? Didn't slug anyone?
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: I slapped a few of the customers around. I thought
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: for a while they were really going to get rough.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: They had us lined up against the wall. Andy was
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: acting tough. Had this knife with him, good four-inch blade.
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: Went right down the line jabbing people with it, threatening them.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: Must be out of his mind. You say he didn't
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: take any money from the customers. Yeah, that's right. They
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: worked it pretty fast. Emptied the cash register, then my wallet,
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: then they beat it. Never so glad to see anybody.
• 14:01
  Speaker 8: Go in my life.
• 14:02
  Speaker 6: Well, how'd they get away? Do you have any idea
• 14:04
  Speaker 6: on that?
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: Old guy who sells papers down the corner, he says
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: he thinks he saw a car pull away right after
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: the stick-up. Said it was a blue sedan. Don't know
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: how much stock you can put in it. The old
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: man's eyes aren't what they used to be.
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: Do you know Paul pretty well when he was working here, Mr. Saunders?
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, do you know any of his friends, people
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: he used to run with?
• 14:18
  Speaker 8: No, I didn't know him that well. He worked for me,
• 14:20
  Speaker 8: that's all.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: I still have his old address, the place he was
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: living when he worked for me.
• 14:24
  Speaker 8: I can get it if you want.
• 14:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, if you would, please.
• 14:26
  Speaker 8: Sure, no trouble. I just don't get it. Don't get
• 14:29
  Speaker 8: it at all.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Of all the joints in town he could have held up,
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: he had to pick mine, the one place he'd be recognized.
• 14:34
  Speaker 8: You think he'd have better sense.
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: Wouldn't you? You'd think so, yeah.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: How'd he ever hire a guy as dumb as that
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: Paul holding up the place he worked for?
• 14:40
  Speaker 8: Biggest mistake he ever made.
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: No, he made a bigger one yesterday.
• 14:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah, what was that?
• 14:44
  Speaker 6: When he broke prison.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: 2.05 a.m.
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: Further investigation at the scene of the latest holdup failed
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: to turn up any new leads. While Ed and I
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: checked on Powell's former address, which we'd gotten from the
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: owner of the 2050 room, Gonzalez, Ricketts, and Gaffney continued
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: checking the immediate neighborhood. In addition, a special detail from
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: Metro Division was sent in to cover the entire area.
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: The suspect's former address turned out to be a rooming
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: house up on West Temple Street. The landlady remembered Andy Powell,
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: but she had no forwarding address on him, and she
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: could tell us nothing about his former friends and associates.
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: We checked back with Gonzales, Ricketts, and Gaffney, and they
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: told us that besides the old newspaper vendor, the counterman
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: at the coffee shop near the 2050 room had also
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: spotted a blue sedan leaving the vicinity of the nightclub
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: shortly after the holdup.
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: He was able to give them the make, the model,
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: and a partial license number.
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: A supplementary all points had been gotten out on it immediately,
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: and the information relayed to DMV in auto theft detail.
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: 3.10 a.m.
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: Ed and I completed our assignment in the investigation and
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: went back to the office to check for instructions from
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: Captain Didion.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: Can't see how we'd be much use out on the
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: street the way things stand now, can you?
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: No, I don't.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: Everything's covered, I can think of. Supplementary oil points is out.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: Detail from Metro's working in the neighborhood.
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: It's funny, isn't it?
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: Ellis Andy Powell going back to that place he used
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: to work and holding it up. That doesn't make any
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: sense at all, does it?
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: That's for sure. Must have known somebody was going to
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: recognize him. Couldn't have been a coincidence.
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: There's only one way I can figure it. They don't care,
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: either one of them. They got their money now, a car.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: They both got guns. They're out to go as far
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: as they can.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, hi, Jess.
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: Hi.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: You just get back in? Yeah.
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: Hi, Joe.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: Hi.
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: You as tired as you sound? Worse.
• 16:21
  Speaker 8: Fair piece of news, though.
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, what's that?
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Powell and Selby, they just found their hideout.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: After three hours of canvassing the general downtown area, particularly
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: in the vicinity of the last holdup, a team of
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: men working with a special detail from Metropolitan Division interviewed
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: a desk clerk in a small hotel on South Broadway
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: who recognized the suspect's mugshots. The two of them had
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: registered early the morning before under the names J.E. Dennis
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: and Harold Thompson, both from Fresno, California. The hotel room
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: was searched and two San Quentin inmate uniforms were found
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: stuffed under the mattress of the bed. After the room
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: was processed for fingerprints, there was no doubt that the
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: recent occupants were Powell and Selby. The clerk had no
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: idea when they were supposed to return. The hotel was
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: staked out immediately, and the citywide search for the escaped
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: prisoners went on. The following day, Thursday, October 7th, 11.30 a.m.,
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: still no sign of the suspects, no further reports or
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: leads as to their whereabouts. The search went on. Ed
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: and I signed back in at the office. Ten minutes later,
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: a long-distance phone call came in for us.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: When was that, Morton?
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: What's that? Yeah, close enough, right? We'll let you know, yeah.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: Bye.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Mark Geer, down to San Diego.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, what do you want?
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: One of the traffic officers was checking a car about
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: 8 o'clock this morning, 586 parking. Mm-hmm. Blue sedan, fits
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: close to the description of the escape car.
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: Well, it's a pretty common model, isn't it? Did he
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: say anything else?
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Traffic man checked the inside of the car, glove compartment,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: found half a dozen rolls of dimes and quarters, same
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: name stamped on all of them. Yeah.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: 2050 room.
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  Speaker 5: October 7th, Thursday, 1 p.m. After we got the report
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: from Lieutenant Mort Gere that the escape car, along with
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: a few dollars of the stolen money, had been located
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: in San Diego that morning, Ed and I had a
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: meeting with Captain didion it was beginning to look like
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: our first hunch was right powell and selby's 24-hour campaign
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: of holdups in the los angeles area had netted them
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: a fresh change of clothes and more than enough money
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: to live on for a while With the locating of
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: the escape car in San Diego, it looked like the
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: suspects were apparently taking the next logical step. A fast
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: move over the international border into Mexico. A distance of
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: less than 20 miles from San Diego. Probably, they figured
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: once over the line, they had a good chance of
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: losing themselves. 1.40 p.m. On Captain Didion's orders, Jess Gonzalez, Ed,
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: and I got in the car and headed south for
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: San Diego with a supply of mug shots of the
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: escaped prisoners. We got there a few minutes after 4 p.m.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: We went directly to the San Diego PD where we
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: contacted Sergeant Tony McGuire, robbery detail.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Tough week, huh?
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: I hear they've been driving you crazy up there.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Just about, Tony. Four robberies in 24 hours, giving us
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: a run. How about Mort Gere?
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: You around?
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he just went down the hall, Jess.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: Ought to be back in a minute.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Why don't you fellas sit down?
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks very much. What's the latest, Tony? Anything since
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: you picked up that blue sedan? No, not much.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Got the car in the impound.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: Had it dusted for prints.
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: We made them all right, both sets.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Powell and Selby. No sign of them around town?
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: No, got it pretty well covered, too.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Not a trace.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: Well, we're in a good spot to make it over
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: into Mexico. Hate to disappoint you. What do you mean?
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: We think they already made it.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: At six o'clock that night, Gonzales, Ed, and I, together
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: with Lieutenant Gere, Tony McGuire, and Sergeants Gaten and Schultz,
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: drove south from San Diego to the International Line. We
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: left mug shots of Powell and Selby with the immigration
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: officers at the entry gate. Then we drove into the
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: town of Tijuana, contacted the local commandant of police, and
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: he promised us full cooperation. He assigned a special detail
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: of his men to work with us in covering the town.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: At 8 p.m., the block-by-block canvas of the city began.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Every back alley, every bar, every restaurant, every hotel, they
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: were all checked. The tourist attractions, the souvenir stands, the nightclubs,
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: the highlight pavilion. We went straight through on it, 8
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: o'clock that night until 5 o'clock the next morning. All
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: it got us was sore feet and a mediocre lead
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: from a native taxi driver. After being shown the mug shots,
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: he told one of the Mexican officers in the detail
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: that about noon that day, he'd picked up two Americans
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: resembling Powell and Selby and driven them to the town
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: of Tecate, another Mexican tourist spot about 25 miles to
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: the east.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: 10.30 a.m.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: We drove over and checked with the police at Tecate,
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: and they told us the two Americans had arrived in
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: the town that morning. He invited Jess Gonzalez to go
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: along with the three of his men to the hotel
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: where the men were supposed to be staying.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: Ed and I waited in the office.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Hi. Hi, Jess.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: What do you got?
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Not much. Went over to the hotel. The two men
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: weren't there.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Desk clerk says they told him they were driving out
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: to a little village about a mile from here. Police
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: commandant asked me to come back here and wait. Said
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: he and his men would drive out to the village
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: and check the men out.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: That seems a little funny.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Doesn't it?
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Well, he didn't invite me to come along. It's not
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: a good idea to push him. I mean, after all,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: it's his jurisdiction.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah. We're supposed to wait here till they get back?
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: I'm out to him now.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Si, policia?
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Uh-huh, yeah. Si, si. About half an hour, yes, sir.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: All right, gracias. Goodbye, si. The commandant, he and his
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: men found the two Americans.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: No go. They're not Powell and Selby.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: Half an hour later, the police commandant of Tecate returned
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: to the station along with his men and the two
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: American tourists in question. One look at them and we
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: knew we'd made the trip from Tijuana for nothing. Except
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: for their build and the color of their hair, the
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: two Americans bore little or no resemblance to Powell and Selby.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: 2.30 p.m.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: We headed back for Tijuana and we checked in with
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Mort Gere and the rest of the men. While we'd
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: been gone, they'd chased down half a dozen leads, but
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: none of them had panned out. The rest of the afternoon,
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: we covered the racetrack at Agua Caliente and distributed mugshots
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: of the suspects to all track police officers. The mutual
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: windows were covered and also the foreign book.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: No luck.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: The six of us took time out for a bite
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: of supper and we talked it over. Logically, the next
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: place in line to cover was either the fishing town
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: of Ensenada on the coast or the city of Mexicali
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: further inland.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: We decided to try Ensenada first.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: 7.30 that night, we checked in at the Ensenada police
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: station where we met with a local sub-commandant, Pedro Martinez.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Like the other commandants in Tijuana and Tecate, he offered
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: full cooperation and gave us a special detail of men
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: to aid in the search. We gave him a supply
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: of mug shots of the two convicts to distribute.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: Among his men.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Here you are, sir. These are pictures of one of them,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Andrew Powell. This one here is the other man, Bert Selby.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: All right, thank you.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: What? What?
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: See?
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: See.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: Okay, I see.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: These pictures, Juan.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Criminals. They're for distribution to the men. One each.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Excuse me, officers. Yes, all right.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: Go ahead.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Joe, what is it?
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: It's got me.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know. See the look on his face when
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: the chief showed him the mug shots?
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: He's got something on his mind. Let's wait a minute.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Officers, I hope you'll excuse me.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: Anything wrong?
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: My assistant, Teniente Sanfilippo, he says he knows the pictures
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: of these men.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, how's that?
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: He says he saw these men this morning here in Ensenada.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's sure about that, is he?
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: He says he's sure.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: He says the two men were here last night right
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: here in the station.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: You mean your men booked them in? They committed some
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: kind of crime?
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, sir. They came in to report a crime.
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: 8.20 p.m.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: On further questioning, the assistant to the Ensenada Commandant of
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: Police told us that the night before, two men answering
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: Powell and Selby's description had come in to file a
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: complaint at the Central Police Station. They charged that they'd
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: had their pockets picked at a local bar while they.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: Were under the influence of alcohol.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: The two complainants, who matched Powell's and Selby's descriptions perfectly,
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: signed themselves J.E. Dennis and Harold Thompson, both from Fresno, California,
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: the same names and addresses that had been used by
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: the occupants of the Southside Los Angeles hotel room where
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: the discarded prison uniforms had been found a day and
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: a half before. After a brief talk with the police commandant,
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: he dispatched a special detail to go out and pick
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: up the two men registered as Dennis and Thompson at
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: a motel near the south end of the city.
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: At the commandant's request, we remained at the office. 9 p.m., 9.30.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: The detail assigned to the job returned, but was only
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: one of the suspects with him, Andrew Powell. While resisting arrest,
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: the other suspect, identified as Selby, received a cut forehead
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: and was being taken to a local clinic for treatment.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: The commandant briefed us on what had happened. The rooms
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: were searched, Officer Friday.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Some money was found, also two guns, a revolver and
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: a shotgun.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Here they are.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: All right, thanks very much, sir. Well, Paul, how about it?
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: You ready to cop out?
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: What are you talking about, cop out? What did you
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: guys come all the way down here for anyway? You
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: can't touch us.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: What makes you think we can't? You can't, that's all.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: You know better. You can't arrest us down here. No jurisdiction.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: We didn't arrest you, Paul. The Mexican officers did. Okay, fine.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Now, how do you expect to get us out of Mexico?
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Guess again, copper. You know you can't do it. You
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: haven't got the right to.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: Maybe. You want to tell us where you have the loot?
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: The money you took in those holdups?
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Why should I? Look, why don't you admit it? We
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: got you beat. We got over the line. You can't
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: touch us down here. I don't bet on that, mister.
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  Speaker 6: Commandant?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir?
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: You want to tell them how it stands?
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: I will see that the general in charge of the
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Northern District is notified in the morning of your case.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: He will see that you and your partner are deported.
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  Speaker 3: What are you trying to pull? You can't do that.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: You know it. It's illegal. So is robbery, Powell. Come
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: off it. Doesn't make any difference. You can't touch us
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: in Mexico. It's against the law. You can't touch us.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: A popular misconception, Mr. Powell.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid you have made a mistake.
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: If you like, you can pass the word.
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: How long would it be for us to receive the
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: prisoners at the line, sir?
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: A long time, I think. Maybe as long as 1
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: o'clock tomorrow.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: You know you can't do this. You'll never get away
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: with it. I know a lawyer in Tijuana. I'll get
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: him to straighten that out.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: You understand, Sergeant. We can't hand this man over to
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: you now. But if you will be at the international
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: border at 1 o'clock tomorrow, I'm sure they'll be crossing over.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: You can't do this. It's illegal. You know you can't.
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: We're going to try.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Wasting your time? Why don't you admit it? You can't
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: arrest us. We got over the line, we got your beat.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: You can't arrest us and you know it. You know that,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: don't you?
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: There's only one thing I know for sure, pal.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: San Quentin. You got out and you're going back.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: The story you have just heard was true. The names
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: were changed to protect the innocent. On December 9th, trial
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: was held in Superior Court, Department 87, City and County
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: In a moment, the results of that trial. Now, here
• 28:05
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• 28:41
  Speaker 4: Andrew Powell and Bertram Selby were deported from Mexico as
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: undesirable aliens and turned over to U.S. authorities at the
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: international border. They were immediately arrested by police officers on
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: the American side and returned to Los Angeles for trial.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: They pled guilty to four counts of first-degree robbery and
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: received sentences.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: As prescribed by law.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: First-degree robbery is punishable by a prison term of from
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: five years to life. After being returned to San Quentin,
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Powell and Selby were filed on, tried, and convicted of escape.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Both of them are now serving life terms in Folsom
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: State Penitentiary.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Represa, California.
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  Speaker 4: For their cooperation in preparing tonight's broadcast, Dragnet wishes to
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: thank Chief of Police Adam E. Jansen and the San
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: Diego Police Department. You have just heard Dragnet, a series
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: of authentic cases from official files, technical advice comes from
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Police Department. Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn,
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Sergeant Vance Brasher. Heard tonight were Barney Phillips, Whit Connor,
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Herb Ellis. Script by Jim Moser. Music by Walter Schumann.
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  Speaker 4: Has brought you Dragnet, transcribed from Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 8: Now, it's Counterspy on NBC.
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