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Dragnet - "Big Girl" (Old Time Radio, 1950) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A series of robberies leaves male victims beaten, robbed, and,
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  Speaker 1: in some cases, shot. On February 9th, 1950, NBC brought
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  Speaker 1: listeners Dragnet, episode 36, Big Girl, with Jack Webb as
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Joe Friday and Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero.
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  Speaker 1: Witnesses describe a tall, attractive blonde woman who hitches rides
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  Speaker 1: with men, and the detectives must weigh conflicting accounts. The
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  Speaker 1: investigation takes place in Los Angeles, California. Herb Butterfield is
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, we now take you back to the
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  Speaker 1: original broadcast. The story you are about to hear is true.
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  Speaker 2: Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 1: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery detail. Sixteen
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  Speaker 1: persons have been robbed and beaten senseless. The victims describe
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  Speaker 1: the assailant as a tall, beautiful woman... Your job.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, next week marks the beginning.
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  Speaker 4: Of National Crime Prevention Week, sponsored by your local police department.
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  Speaker 4: These seven days are set aside to call your attention
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  Speaker 4: to the fact that your police officer, to better ensure
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  Speaker 4: the safety of your community, relies on the cooperation of
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  Speaker 4: the individual citizen. We feel that crime prevention should be
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  Speaker 4: observed not seven, but 365 days a year.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 3: next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 3: you will travel step by step on the side of
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  Speaker 3: the law through an actual case from 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 3rd. It was warm in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 6: We were working the night watch out of robbery detail.
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  Speaker 6: My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Thad Brown, chief
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  Speaker 6: of detectives.
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  Speaker 2: My name's Friday.
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  Speaker 6: We were on the way over from the city hall
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  Speaker 6: and it was 6.55 p.m. when we got to the
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  Speaker 6: county hospital. Ward 9800, room 12.
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  Speaker 7: This way, gentlemen. Your food, Ben.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Here we are. Please try not to excite him, Sergeant.
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  Speaker 7: He's had a pretty hard time.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am. Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Make your visit as brief as possible.
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  Speaker 2: We will. Thank you. Mr. Maloney, how are you feeling?
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  Speaker 2: Not so good. You fellas doctors? No, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Police officers. This is Sergeant Romero. My name's Friday. Robbery detail.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. Find out anything yet? Still checking, Mr. Maloney.
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  Speaker 1: We'd like to have you tell us exactly what happened
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  Speaker 1: the night before that.
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  Speaker 6: No, she sure had me fooled. That's all I can say.
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  Speaker 6: You're not the first one. Fifteen others ahead of you.
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  Speaker 6: Would you tell us what happened?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I.
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  Speaker 8: Left the shop a little after midnight, and I started
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  Speaker 8: to drive home.
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  Speaker 2: Out Central Avenue.
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  Speaker 6: You work at Maloney's Steakhouse down on South Commercial, isn't
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  Speaker 6: that right?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, and my uncle owns the place. His name's Jay
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  Speaker 8: Brown Maloney. He knows a lot of cops.
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  Speaker 2: You know him? We met him this afternoon. Could you
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  Speaker 2: tell us what happened after you left work? Well, uh.
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  Speaker 8: I started to drive home out Central Avenue. I guess
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  Speaker 8: it must have been around 18th Street.
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  Speaker 2: I put... Uh... Could you push it? Pull up a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. Yes, sir. I'll get it.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 2: How's that? Thanks.
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  Speaker 8: I pulled up for the arterial. I saw this gal
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  Speaker 8: standing on the corner.
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  Speaker 2: She was hitchhiking. Do you remember what she looked like,
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  Speaker 2: how she was dressed? Well, you know, kind of flashy,
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  Speaker 2: but nice clothes.
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  Speaker 8: Good-looking dame. Tall, long blonde hair. Beautiful eyes.
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  Speaker 2: You're sure about the color of her hair? Yeah. It
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  Speaker 2: was blonde. And you offered her a ride?
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  Speaker 8: I didn't think there was anything wrong in it. I'm
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  Speaker 8: a married man, you know. I didn't think there was
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  Speaker 8: anything wrong.
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  Speaker 2: What happened then?
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  Speaker 8: Well, she got in the car and we drove off.
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  Speaker 8: We talked a while and she pulled a gun on me.
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  Speaker 8: Told me to drive up an alley.
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  Speaker 2: Where was that? Do you remember? Around... 32nd Street, 32nd
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  Speaker 2: and Central. Then what? She took my wallet, watch, car keys,
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  Speaker 2: everything I had. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 8: Then she made me get out of the car, lay
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  Speaker 8: down on the street. I felt her shove that gun against.
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  Speaker 2: Can you fix that pillow? Yeah, you bet. Just lie still.
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  Speaker 2: There you are.
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  Speaker 8: I felt her shove that gun against me, and then
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  Speaker 8: she pulled the trigger, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I remember. You don't recall her slugging you?
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  Speaker 8: It must have happened after she shot me. Her face
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  Speaker 8: looks pretty bad, huh?
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  Speaker 2: You'll be all right, Mr. Maloney. You think you'd recognize
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  Speaker 2: the girl if you saw her again? I sure would.
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  Speaker 6: Nice looking, you know. Tall, blonde, beautiful shape. Doesn't figure,
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  Speaker 6: does it? What's that? She's made more money on the
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  Speaker 6: stage than she would rowing guys like me.
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  Speaker 2: Must be crazy. Maybe. Would you look at these mug shots, Mr. Maloney,
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  Speaker 2: and see if any of these look like her? Let's see. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: This one? No. How about this one here?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see. No. How about this one? She was better looking.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the last one. I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: This might be her. The hair was fixed right. Maybe
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  Speaker 8: a little more makeup.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure. All right, Mr. Maloney. Thank you. We'll
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  Speaker 2: be back to seeing you in a day or so
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  Speaker 2: when you're feeling better. Okay. Say, my name won't be
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  Speaker 2: in the papers, will it? No, sir. Not unless you
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  Speaker 2: give it to him. I was just wondering. A wife
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  Speaker 2: might not understand giving a girl a ride, you know? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: We know. Well, thank you, Mr. Maloney. We'll be checking
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  Speaker 2: back with you later on. Okay, officer. I hope you
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  Speaker 2: get a line on that dame. We're going to try. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: Sure messed up, didn't you? Yeah. That dame's got some
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  Speaker 2: other motive besides money. Psycho. Some kind of a sadist, maybe.
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  Speaker 7: Find out what you wanted, Sergeant.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we did. Thanks, nurse. What did the doctor say
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  Speaker 2: about Maloney? Is he going to be all right?
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  Speaker 7: Well, he had a severe beating, but he'll get over
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  Speaker 7: that all right. It's the bullet wound in the back.
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  Speaker 2: He'll recover, won't he?
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  Speaker 7: The bullet shattered part of the spinal cord. There was
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  Speaker 7: nothing the doctor could do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Paraplegia. He'll never walk again.
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  Speaker 6: We left the county hospital, went back to the office,
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  Speaker 6: and got out a local broadcast for the woman whose
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  Speaker 6: mugshot Maloney had partially identified.
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  Speaker 2: Her name was Beverly Allen. She had a record of
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  Speaker 2: three arrests.
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  Speaker 6: And one conviction of 240 PC, assault and battery. After
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  Speaker 6: we checked in the office, we went across the.
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  Speaker 2: Street to the crime lab.
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  Speaker 6: Lee Jones had already examined the bullet taken from Maloney's
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  Speaker 6: spine and the cartridge casing found at the scene of
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  Speaker 6: the shooting. Both of them bore the same markings as
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  Speaker 6: those which had wounded the.
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  Speaker 2: Two previous victims. From the striations, the gun had been
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  Speaker 2: previously identified as a. 45 Colt. Maloney's car was examined.
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  Speaker 2: We found nothing. We went back to the city hall
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  Speaker 2: and checked in at the stats office. It was 8.35 p.m. Hi, Ethel.
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  Speaker 2: Make that run for us here? Just a minute, Sergeant.
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  Speaker 2: How you coming, Ethel?
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  Speaker 3: Fine, here.
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  Speaker 7: Same old run. Back seven years on this one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Did you get any more names? Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Let me check the list for you.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 7: Why, the names and D.R. numbers on Caucasian women.
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  Speaker 9: Five feet to five feet eight, 115 to 130 pounds,
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  Speaker 9: 20 to 30 years, blonde or brunette, assault and battery, M.O.,
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  Speaker 9: He tracks rides and robs drivers, uses his gun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 7: Here's what the machine turned out, 19 of them.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 7: Here are the names. The DR numbers opposite each one.
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  Speaker 2: Fine. Very new names?
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  Speaker 7: A few more than the last time. Anything else for tonight?
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  Speaker 2: No, that's it for now. Thanks a lot, Ethel. Let's go.
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  Speaker 6: Bad start. How's that? 17 of these names we checked
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  Speaker 6: and cleared already. And the other two? Well, one's Catherine Collins.
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  Speaker 2: The other one's Beverly Allen. She might tie him. We've
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  Speaker 2: got nothing else to go on. You want to get
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  Speaker 2: to the record bureau and pull the packages on these
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  Speaker 2: two names? Yeah, okay. I'll check robbery and see if
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  Speaker 2: we have any calls. All right, Joe. Hi, Captain. Any
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  Speaker 2: calls for us? Just one. Thad Brown wants to see you. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: bad mood? Kind of. Wants me too. Let's go. Did
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  Speaker 2: that fellow Maloney tell you anything?
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  Speaker 6: Nothing that helped much. Same old story. No reports on
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  Speaker 6: that broadcast we put out for that Beverly Allen?
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  Speaker 2: Not yet.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Are you banking on it? It's first lead in 16 nights.
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  Speaker 2: Here we are.
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  Speaker 5: Walker, Friday, come in.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, boss?
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  Speaker 5: Sit down.
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  Speaker 2: Take a look.
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  Speaker 6: Woman bandit gets 16th victim. Beautiful hold-up queen robs, shoots
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  Speaker 6: restaurant worker.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It's on the editorial page, too. Something else.
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  Speaker 2: Mail from the chief.
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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 10: Letter from the downtown citizens committee. Another one, civic club.
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  Speaker 10: They all want answers.
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  Speaker 1: Men are doing all they can, Chief. We got two
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  Speaker 1: other teams besides Friday and Romero working the case. Special
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  Speaker 1: squad from Metropolitan Division.
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  Speaker 2: They're on it, too.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care what we've done.
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  Speaker 10: We got to do more. 16 nights, 16 robberies, and
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  Speaker 10: three shootings. Three victims still in the hospital. When did
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  Speaker 10: we blow the whistle on her? We checked out every
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  Speaker 10: possible lead, Chief. We got a want out on one suspect.
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  Speaker 10: We're checking out another one. Talk to that man Maloney,
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  Speaker 10: the one she got last night.
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  Speaker 2: What did he tell you? Not much more than.
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  Speaker 6: The other 15 that she took. Descriptions still don't match
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  Speaker 6: in one respect.
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  Speaker 5: How do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: Well, in 10 of.
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  Speaker 6: The 16 cases we've had reported, the victims tagged the
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  Speaker 6: girl hitchhiker as a blonde, long hair. Four of them
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  Speaker 6: say she was a brunette with a short hairdo. Two
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  Speaker 6: of them tell us the girl had red hair, long.
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  Speaker 1: She's using wigs. That's what we figured. Checked every place
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  Speaker 1: in town where she could have rented or bought them.
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  Speaker 2: No leads.
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  Speaker 10: What about some of the bigger supply houses out of town?
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  Speaker 1: We've started in checking them. It'll take a little time.
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  Speaker 1: And you've got practically nothing on the woman?
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  Speaker 2: Same gun.
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  Speaker 1: 45 Colt. Lee Jones examined the bullet they took out
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  Speaker 1: of Maloney's spine.
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  Speaker 5: How's he doing?
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  Speaker 2: Not good. The bullet smashed his spinal cord. His legs
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  Speaker 2: are paralyzed. When do we stop her? Yeah? Romero?
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Chief.
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  Speaker 5: Captain.
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  Speaker 2: What have you got? Well, the package is on two
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  Speaker 2: possibles in this woman hold-up thing. It's no good, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Why not? What about that Allen thing? Joe in Kansas City?
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  Speaker 2: I called him. Been in for a month. And the
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  Speaker 2: other one?
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  Speaker 1: Catherine Collins. I checked Seattle. Been in the hospital up
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  Speaker 1: there for the past three months in TB war.
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  Speaker 6: Where does that leave you, Friday? Right back where we started.
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  Speaker 6: No leads and no suspects.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Walker.
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  Speaker 10: Starting tonight, we cover every street and alley in the
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  Speaker 10: central area until we get that woman.
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  Speaker 5: We'll order up more men and.
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  Speaker 2: More detectives from the Metropolitan Division. Right, Chief. Get out
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  Speaker 2: more decoy cars.
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  Speaker 10: Have the area covered from sundown till sunrise until further notice.
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  Speaker 5: Get that woman.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Come on, Joe. Hot shot. I'll get it.
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  Speaker 5: A 211 shooting at Gatewood and Cameron.
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  Speaker 2: A 211 shooting at Gatewood and Cameron. Let's go.
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  Speaker 6: The name on his driver's license said William Gillespie. We
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  Speaker 6: found him 50 feet from the corner of Gatewood Alley
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  Speaker 6: and Cameron Street. His face and head bore the marks
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  Speaker 6: of a vicious beating. There was a single bullet wound in.
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  Speaker 2: His left shoulder.
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  Speaker 6: He was conscious when we arrived. Chief of Detectives Brown,
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  Speaker 6: Captain Walker, and Ben checked the area for physical evidence.
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  Speaker 6: I spoke briefly with the victim before he was placed
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  Speaker 6: on a stretcher.
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  Speaker 2: And carried to the ambulance. On the way, he lapsed
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  Speaker 2: into unconsciousness.
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  Speaker 6: I went over to where Ben was standing with Chief
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  Speaker 6: Brown and Captain Walker.
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  Speaker 2: Take a look, Joe. Captain found over there near the lamppost. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Forty-five shell casings, same as the others.
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  Speaker 5: How's Gillespie, Friday?
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  Speaker 6: Doc says he'll be all right. Badly beaten.
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  Speaker 2: Fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: She really works him over. Wonder what makes a woman
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  Speaker 1: do things like this. What makes a man do it.
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  Speaker 6: William Gillespie was taken to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. The
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  Speaker 6: shell casing, which we had found at the scene, was
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  Speaker 6: taken to Lee Jones at the crime lab for examination.
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  Speaker 2: It compared with the others.
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  Speaker 6: Jones confirmed that the markings on the bullet which had
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  Speaker 6: wounded Gillespie matched those on the bullet which had been
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  Speaker 6: taken from Maloney's bag.
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  Speaker 2: Both bullets had been fired from the same gun.
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  Speaker 6: The dragnet operation for the woman bandit went on. The
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  Speaker 6: men in the special detail covered every street and alley
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  Speaker 6: in the central area from 8 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: To 6 a.m. the following morning.
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  Speaker 6: During the next five days, 11 suspects were picked up
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  Speaker 6: and brought in for questioning and then released after the
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  Speaker 6: victims failed to identify any of them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, at least we got her stopped temporarily. She hasn't
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  Speaker 2: pulled a caper for almost a week. Yeah, that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: bring us any closer to her. I don't know about you,
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  Speaker 2: but it's got me beat. 17 jobs, and she's as
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  Speaker 2: free today as she was before she started. Joe, Ben,
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  Speaker 2: what'd you find? Nothing. The last four women we questioned
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  Speaker 2: were clear. What about the other men on the case, Ed?
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  Speaker 2: Did they get anything?
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  Speaker 1: Baxter and Olsen are down at the record bureau being
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  Speaker 1: in a minute. They've been out talking to some of
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  Speaker 1: the victims again.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: Tough one. I've been thinking. How about a composite picture?
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  Speaker 2: Are we going to have to work with... The artist
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  Speaker 2: in the crime lab is working up a couple of
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  Speaker 2: sketches now. A lot of guesswork. What about the descriptions
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  Speaker 2: of the clothes the girl wears? Anything there we could
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  Speaker 2: start on? No, other than the fact that she wears
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  Speaker 2: flashy clothes. Hi, Olsen.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: Any luck?
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  Speaker 5: Not much.
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  Speaker 11: None of the victims have a very good idea what
• 15:28
  Speaker 11: the dame looked like. Tall, good-looking, nice figure, that's all.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing out of the ordinary, huh? Well, some of them
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: said she had kind of an unusual voice. Soft, low.
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  Speaker 5: That's about all I can remember.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Not much, yeah. She's been describing three different outfits, is
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  Speaker 2: that right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, green dress with a pink coat, white dress, dark
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: blue jacket, bright red sweater and a brown skirt. Who
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: carries a dark brown alligator handbag?
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Shoes to match. No hand. Not much of a wardrobe,
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: is it? Maybe that's why she took up robbery. Now, look,
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  Speaker 2: let's get on this thing.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: We've been chasing this woman for almost a month now,
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  Speaker 1: and she's still got the run.
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  Speaker 2: Of the town. How long is it going to take us?
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  Speaker 2: If we only had a lead that was worse, I'll
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  Speaker 2: find it.
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  Speaker 1: It's there someplace. I've never reached a thief yet without
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  Speaker 1: digging for him.
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  Speaker 5: I'll get it.
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  Speaker 2: Robbery, Olsen.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Andy. I'll tell him.
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: Anderson in Burglar, Joe, wants to see.
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  Speaker 2: You and Ben. Thanks. Captain? That's all. Come on, Ben.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like a day off, wouldn't you? We'll get one
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  Speaker 2: when we get this dame. Right, Ed. This thing isn't
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: doing much for the skipper. It's not doing much for
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: our time off either, is it? That fire department's got
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: the racket. 24 hours on, 24 off. Mm-hmm. Sometimes I
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: get three days off in a row. That's what you
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: keep telling me. Here we are.
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: Joe?
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Ben? Andy? What do you got? Checking back on a
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: job out in Hollywood. Heard you were having troubles. Came
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: across this thing. Thought it might help you out. What's that, Ann?
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: One of the picture studios had a burglary about a
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: month ago. Thief got in the wardrobe department, then next
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: door into makeup.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Yeah, let's see. Here's some of the stuff taken. Dress, coat. Oh, here,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: you can read it. Okay. Thanks. Thanks. Mm-hmm. Red sweater,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: brown skirt. Hey, look down here, Joe. Where? Right here.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Took two makeup kits and four wigs. Two blondes,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: one redhead, one brunette.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: That's it. Any leads on this job? Not so far, no.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: We got one thing to go on a single footprint
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: size nine. Hmm. Pretty large size for a woman. I
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: didn't say it was a woman. Print was made by
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: a man's shoe. Hmm.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: You are listening to Dragnet, authentic stories of your police
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: force in action.
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima.
• 17:57
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• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Yes, Fatima has more than doubled its sales because Fatima
• 18:03
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• 18:08
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• 18:14
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• 18:17
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• 18:23
  Speaker 6: Fatima One of the most popular misconceptions of the working
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: detective as offered by the fiction writers is the picture
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: of a man with amazing talents for detecting evidence, analyzing.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Human behavior and motives, and then.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: Almost as if by magic, fitting all the pieces together
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: to form the solution of the crime. The real-life picture
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: is a little different. The working detective has a job.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: In a sense, it's a... Practical and down-to-earth job is
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: baking bread and practicing law.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: It's his job to protect citizens and apprehend criminals, and
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: it's a job he doesn't do alone. To assist him
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: in collecting and analyzing evidence, he has the aid of
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: the crime laboratory. To help him identify oddities and suspects
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: or possible suspects, he has the record bureau, latent fingerprints,
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: the statistician's office, the ballistics department, a battery of men
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: and machines to aid him in reaching conclusions based on fact. Tuesday,
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: October 9th, 9 p.m., For the past eight hours, Thaxter
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: and Olsen from robbery and Ben and I had been
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: requesting all of the 16 victims.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Of the woman bandit. We asked them one question.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: Could their assailant possibly have been a man dressed as
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: a woman? The majority didn't think so. Those that did
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: weren't very sure. We followed the lead through. At 9.25 p.m.,
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: we checked in and headed down the hall for the
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: stats office.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Do you think it was a man dressed as a woman?
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: One male footprint. It's pretty slim odds. Maybe the machines
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: here can tell us.
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: Hello, Sergeant.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Back again, Ethel. Can you make a run for us tonight? 9.25.
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: Sure, I think so.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Here's a dope right here.
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: I'm going to try another angle.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see.
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: Male preclusions.
• 20:08
  Speaker 9: About 5 feet 8 or 9, 130, 235 pounds, feminine features,
• 20:13
  Speaker 9: size 9 shoe, impersonating a woman, robbery and assault.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: That's it? Mm-hmm.
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: Armed, 45 automatic, M.O. Hitchhikes, rides, and robs drivers.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: How soon do you think he can have force?
• 20:25
  Speaker 9: Well, make the rum on the collator, have to punch
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: up the master first with all this information, and... With
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: the machine with the cards, I don't think they'll have
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: it pretty much before 11, is.
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: That all right?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Fine. We'll check back a little before 11, then. They'll
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: be ready. Good. Come on, Ben. Did you call your
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: wife after dinner? Yeah. Wish I hadn't. She's mad as
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: a horny. What's the matter?
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: The kid's having a birthday party tomorrow, and I forgot
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: to order the cake.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: What's she going to do for the party? Bake one?
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: She'll have to.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: And she pulled this gun on me and told me
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: to stop the car. Well, I'm telling you, Captain, I
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: just grabbed that gun.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: And slapped that kid just as hard as I could.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Hold it just a minute, will you please, Collins? This
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: man's name is Emil Collins. Mr. Collins is Sergeant Friday,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Sergeant Romero. How do you do?
• 21:07
  Speaker 11: I was just telling the Captain here, I'm down here
• 21:09
  Speaker 11: on a vacation.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I'm from Sacramento, South Sacramento.
• 21:13
  Speaker 11: I was driving down your Figueroa Street about half an
• 21:16
  Speaker 11: hour ago and Picked up this girl hitching a ride
• 21:18
  Speaker 11: and she tried to rob me.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Collins took the gun away from her, subdued the girl
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: and brought her in. Where is she now?
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Interrogation room. Thaxter and Olsen are with her. The description match?
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Not too close. Sounds like you didn't have too much
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: trouble with her, Mr. Collins.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Well, now that I come to think of it, maybe
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I didn't. When she pointed that gun, I just grabbed
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: for it and slapped her as hard as I could.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Sure took the starch out of her. Who is the girl?
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Any identification? None. Thaxter and Olsen haven't been able to
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: get anything out of her. You want to try? Sure.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: What do you think, Skipper? You tell me. See if
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: you can make her talk. I'll have a stenographer take Mr.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Collins' report. Okay. Glad to have met you, Mr.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Collins.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: It's a pleasure.
• 21:55
  Speaker 11: I'm only down here for a vacation, but if you
• 21:57
  Speaker 11: need me, just call.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: You bet we will. Thanks. How do you figure them?
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Let's see what the girl has to say. Olsen?
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Joe, I want to talk to you before you go in.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Sure. Did you finally get her to talk?
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: The faxer did. Pretty sure she's not the one we're after.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: What's her story? Said she read about this wounded bandit
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: in the paper. Decided to try her hand at it.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: Needed money.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Claims her husband left her. She's pregnant. Needs the
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: dope for a hospital. She live here? Up the coast, Monterey.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Got in town four days ago, staying at the YWCA.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: We checked there. She's not lying. You called Monterey? Yeah,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: they confirmed it. She left there last Wednesday night. She's
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: not the one. Where do we go from here? You'll
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: take care of having her bucked, Howelson? Yeah, as soon
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: as we get a statement.
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: I can't find her.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Friday, band this way. Hustle it. You too, Olsen. What
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: do you got, Ed? Fourth and Lucas, 211 shooting. Let's go.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Any details? Yeah. A tall blonde with a gun. Come on.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: The woman bandit's 18th victim was a truck driver.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: His name, Harry Reese. His story differed a little from
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: that of the first victim. The woman was hitchhiking near
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: Alvarado and 3rd Street. He gave her a ride. She
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: robbed him at gunpoint, slugged him, and then shot him
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: through the left shoulder. He described her as tall, blonde, attractive,
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: and well-dressed.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, I sure have known better. I remember reading about
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: the dame in the papers. You're sure that the person
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: who held you up was a woman? Hmm? I don't
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: get you. What he means is you don't think it
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: could have been a man dressed like a woman. Oh, no,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I'm sure of that.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: No guy ever looked.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: That good to me. All right, Mr. Reese. We'll check
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: with you later at the hospital. Okay. We keeping that
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: truck safe? Yeah, Olsen's got a couple of men watching it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: He's going over it. Same old story. Just another version.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Don't you think she's spreading it pretty thin? Her luck
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: can't last forever.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: It's got me beat how she always manages to disappear
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: without a trace.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Now, Ben, this way, over here. Yeah, okay.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: What do you got? Better hustle it. Four blocks down
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: on Colfax. They're shooting. Just came in on the car radio.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Let's go. Slide over, Jim. Yeah. Get the sign, Ben.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: The crowd watching. All right, Skipper. Is that all that came.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Over, Ben?
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: The shooting? All they said, see the cab driver. I
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: haven't been shooting. He's working real fast. What's the address
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: from now? 3rd and East Flower Hotel. Hold on. This
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: is it coming up. Should be to the right here. Yeah,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: take a right. That must be it up ahead. I
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: can't see. What's that sign say?
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Edgemar Hotel for young women.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: There's a cab driver. The office is right over here.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Looks like bloodstains to me here all over the sidewalk.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it couldn't have happened any more than
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: five or ten minutes ago. I had this fair saved,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: picked her up at 4th and Bixle, and I drove
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: her here. She paid the fare and got out.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, go on.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I was about halfway down the block when I heard
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: a shot.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: At least it sounded like one.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: When I looked back, this dame was down on one
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: knee near the door to the hotel here, and.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: By the time I backed up, she was gone. And
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: you noticed the blood, huh?
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: That's right, yeah. I.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Figured I'd better call somebody.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Can you tell us what the girl looked like? Not
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: bad at all. Blonde, tall, pretty girl, nervous. But you
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: didn't see where she went?
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: No, I didn't.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I'll get the driver's name and address. Joe, you and Ben,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: see if you can follow that trail. Stuff's all over
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the place.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Right. Over this way, Ben.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: It's not hard to follow. Down this alley between the buildings.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: How does this figure? I don't know. Let's find out.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Here we go. All the way back here. You got
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: your flashlight? Oh, yeah. Here it is. Yeah, this way.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: This must be the rear of the hotel. Look, the
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: stains lead over this way to the back door here.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Let me try. Okay, inside. Still following? Yeah. Careful. Up
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: these stairs.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Second floor. What's the matter? Did you lose them?
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: No.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Just a minute. See anything? Yeah. Stains lead on up
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: the stairs here. Let's go.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I just happened to think this is a woman's hotel.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Then they ought to keep the back door closed.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Come on. Third floor. Let's hold it. What is it?
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I thought I saw a door open down the hall.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: See anybody? No? Let's go. This way. It's an easy
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: trail to follow. This is it. They stop here at
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: this door. That doesn't sound like a woman. Yeah. You ready?
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Try the door first. Easy. It's locked. All right. Come on.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Together now. Let's hit it. All right. Watch it, Joe.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: All right, you.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: I got the gun.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Well, we found what we came for. Look. Still got
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: the clothes on. Lawn wig, makeup, everything. Please help me.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: My legs.
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: Call an ambulance.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: It's on the way. Take it easy. Have a look, Joe. Wigs,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: full makeup, kit, clothes. Living in a woman's hotel. The worst.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: It was an accident. You never would have got me.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: I dropped the gun. It went on. You never would
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: have got me. Yeah, that's right, mister. It was an accident.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: You better get the boss in here. I'll stay with
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Glamour Boy. Yeah, okay. And Ben.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Leave the door open, will you? House rules.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: The story you have just heard was true. Only the
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: On January 14th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 79,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: In a moment, the results of that trial.
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• 29:19
  Speaker 3: James Harold Sutter, alias the Bandit Queen, was tried and
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• 29:25
  Speaker 3: murder and robbery of the first degree. He was sentenced
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  Speaker 3: to the term prescribed by law. While serving his time
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• 29:34
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  Speaker 2: Hear Morton Downey tonight on NBC.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: The police files close for the night on Dragnet, Big Girl.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Good night, and thank you for joining us.