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Well, now it's time for this week's episode of Dragnet. The original air
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date September the seventeenth of nineteen forty nine, and the title is James Vickers.
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Here's another an NBC's great parade of new shows, Ladies and Chapmen.
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The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been
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changed to protect the innocent. NBC brings you Dragnet. You're a detective sergeant.
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You're assigned a homicide bureau. A police officer has been shot mortally wounded.
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One of the suspects has been apprehended. The other is still at large.
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Your job will find him. Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime,
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investigated and solved by the men who unrelentingly stand watch on the security of
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your home, your family, and your life. For the next thirty minutes.
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In cooperational in the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by
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step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police files,
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run beginning to end, run crime to punishment. Drag Met is the
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story of your police force in action. It was Thursday, November sixteenth,
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was foggy in Los Angeles. We were working a day watch out of homicide.
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My partner's Ben Romero, the boss is at backstrand super Detectives. My
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name is Friday. It was eleven fifty eight a m. When we got
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to the Georgia Street Receiving Hospital, second floor, Room five treatment room.
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Alright, very good time. How's famous Gordon the lung's been three times going
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fast? His wife with him. They bring him down now, can we
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talk to him? They'll make it fast? Col Way easy, John,
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John is Friday and Romero to talk to you a minute, doctor, Doc.
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It burns my chest burning up? Nurse, yes, doctor the hypodemic,
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yes, doctor h all right, Foes, don't take too long.
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John. It's Joe Friday. Can you tell us how it happened? Joe,
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Joe? How it happened? Boy? Can you tell me? You
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can't figure it? Joe? Why do you do it? We gotta find
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out now how it happened? I don't know. I was directing traffic.
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He's Broadway in the first street. Great coop pulled up for the stop,
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Great coop? How many men in the car? How many? John?
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Two? Great coop pulled up for the stop, and the pedestrian pedestrian lane
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went over. I'm gonna ask him to back up, back up by a
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lane, just gonna ask him, Yeah, John, And then what driver?
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Dark hair? Eyes, yes, dark were over. We're gonna gonna
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ask him back up? Pointed a gun? No reason the gun? I
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al right, easy, John, take it easy. No reason, Joe,
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no reason you fired? Yeah? What about the other man in the
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car? Did you see him? Can he describe him? Yo? Joe?
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Did you get him? Great coop driver? Guy with him? We
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got the driver, Johnny's upstairs. The other one got away. We gotta
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find him. You gotta help us my wife. Somebody Send for Dora.
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She's on her way. She'll be here in a minute. Can you tell
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us the other man in the car? What did he look like? What
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did he look like? Joel? Great coop? The driver, part of
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the gun, dark hair? Yeah, I old the other man, John,
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We got the driver. What did the other man look like? Send
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for Dora? Come on, Ben, thanks, don okay, I'm going
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fly? Yeah? John? Got any kids to always pick up? Family?
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Man, this thing's got a phony ring to it. Ben. You
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don't just pull a gun and shoo him. Man, not if you're saying
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you don't. Here's the stairs. The guy we got as a sin as
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they come, And how do we explain it? All I know is that
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hood shot John Beamis, and I want to know why. Might be a
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lead in that car he was driving. Maybe come on here we are phone
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message for you. Friday came in a few moments ago. Thanks Davis,
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Famar and I I gotta make take a look. No make or warrants on
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James. Vicker's great, let's talk to him. Come on, yeah,
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minor wound, Joe. The bullet penetrated the fleshy part of his hands,
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didn't touch the bone. But this guy had an arm wound too. Just
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a nick man. That officer you shot Vickers? He's dying? Is he
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the family? Guy's got a wife, two kids? Has he Why did
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you shoot him? Vickers? Ask? Kid? We did? Then you
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know the reasons. There wasn't any reason. That's right. Look, we're
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gonna make you on this Vickers. You know that, don't You don't know
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why you showed him? Shut up? Why I showed him? Joe?
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Yeah, Davis, stay with him. Doc gets an empty slip on this
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guy. What you would be back in a minute. Come on, man,
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all right, Joe, I have it right too, big punk easy,
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Joe, always nothing. I've seen so many good cops like Beamus cut
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down by punks like that. Vickers, you get mad, won't hail?
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Come on down the stairs back to see Bamous. Why just for the record.
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I want to see if the doc thinks it's okay for it to bring
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Vickers down. I like to have Famous definitely identify him as the guy who
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shot him. We've got three good witnesses. An identification for Bemis will clinch
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it. I want to see Vickers get everything. He's aaring when he goes
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to court here. Yeah he went fast, Joe. Yeah that his wife,
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Yeah, she make it in time. No did he say anything that
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did help mine? He said a prayer City Hall two six Auto Records Growley,
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Joe Friday, Vince, what about to make on that car using the
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Beama shooting this morning? Dad, Joven trying to get a hold of it.
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Where are you now? Georgia Street, second floor? What about to
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make? Car was reported stolen yesterday afternoon, registered to Harold Sippers seven one
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six Everett Street. The board said the car was taken from a parking a
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lot of Grand and Wabash. Okay, Vince, thanks, what about the
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guns they found in the car? Lee Jones still has him over the crime.
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Lby's running him through no words? Yeah, no, you make up
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the MCN report on the card jo Yeah, recovery report too. They're still
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besting for Prince empty slip, ready dog? Yeah right here Ben, ready
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for card history mt slip you're ready, Vickers? All right, put out
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your wrists, put the cuffs on him, then watch his hands. You're
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saving me for the hot lights. All right, let's go. I'm not
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going to jail. You're in jail now, looks like a hospital. Bars
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on the windows on? All right, come on, give me a smoke
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here, okay, lie, what do I get if I open up?
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No deal? My talk? Make it attractive? Who was the other guy
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in the car? Good track? I always give ride? And why do
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you run when we chase you? Maybe he was scared you're part of a
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gang. Maybe who was the other guy? What's your word? Oh?
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Come on, victors, you're wasting our time. Where are we going?
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All right? My hand hurts. I want to call my own doctor.
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You hear me? Yeah, that cop pulled his gun first. I can
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prove it. Yeah, down the stairs? Huh? Where we're going?
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I said, where we're going? All right? What's it worth if I
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talk? I can tell you all about it. Let's make a deal.
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You'll tell us anyhow I think so, I'll write you out the door.
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Uh wait a minute, huh cigarettes out all right, Ben, light it,
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Yeah, I see you guys. Thanks. He's prossing the streets,
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fire over his head, blocked the drop Ficker, Joe, he's running for
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that car. I didn't pull it. Picker calling up. He stopped.
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Come on, Joe, right, come on, get back. Wait,
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let us throw here, let us throw so. I call a doctor Joe,
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No, he wouldn't be interested. The guy's dead. James Vickers murder
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suspect address unknown died almost instantly at one thirteen pm November sixteenth, while attempting
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to escape. His body was taken to the County Morgue, where it was
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posted. All the personal effects found on the body were listed by the corner
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had a receipt for them given to our office. At eight thirty five the
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next morning, Ben and I met with Chief detectives at Backstrand. Those four
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guns they found in the car Vickers was driving, they're all US Army property.
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Where were they stolen from? Okaver? I don't know. Each one
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of the guns is stamped US army. That's all that makes it easy the
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corner. Never find anything on the body. Nothing to tell us why Vickers
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decided to kill a traffic coo. What did be Mis say before he died?
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He was on traffic due yesterday morning down at East Broadway in the first
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ten thirty five of a great coup pulled up for a stop sign. Vickers
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was driving. Beamus started over to tell him to back up out of the
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pedestrian zone. Vickers pulled a gun and shot him. How'd they catch Vickers
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chased him three miles before he powered into a lumber truck. The guy with
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him got away fine, checked or and I no maker warrants on Vickers kickbacks
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not in on his fingerprint? All right, what's your guess? Friday?
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I don't have one. Ed Vickers could have been hopped up. Doug Stanley
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over Georgia Street said no he checking. Wait a minute, Banks, Randy
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hold on for you, Friday say thanks, Friday talking yeah, yeah,
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good, be right over Lee. We're in business. Ed Crime Lab just
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found Vickers address That is Joe. Thanks Lee, Let's see you now.
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Silver Dollar Hotel received a mister James Vickers six dollars and fifty cents, Room
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three forty five. Where'd you find it? Out of the front seat?
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Didn't with the tools anything else? Not a thing? How about prints too
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kind of smudged. Hope we can run a make with him. No prints
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on a four gunsy smeared, not enough to classify. Yeah, this is
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it, Ben, It's all we got. Come on, let's see if
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we can make it payoff. We located the Silver Dollar Hotel on East Grand
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between sixteenth Street and Pico. Was an old type frame building with a brightly
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colored neon sign jutting out over the sidewalk just above the dark entrance. The
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manager's name was Luther Gage. We showed him a picture of James Vickers.
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He definitely identified him as one of his former tenants. He told us that
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Vickers had stayed at the hotel one week in room three forty five, and
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that he had checked out two days ago. Was Vickerstein here alone, miss
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Gay? Yes? Alone? Quiet man? Did he have any visitors?
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Maybe, wouldn't know, paid his bills, spend most of his time away
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from the hotel, good tenant. Did Vickers have any friends here in the
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hotel? Maybe on the room next to mister Victors he still lives here.
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Two of them used to be kind of thick. Can we look at that
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room Vickers stayed in, mister Gage, let's see, yes, it's still
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vacant, all right. This way. This man Vickers was friendly with what's
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his name, gay Night, Raymond Knight, room three four three. It's
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in his room now. No, went out about eight this morning. Here's
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the elevator. How well would you say Knight and Vicers knew each other?
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Couldn't say good tenants. Both of them pay their bills, they go out
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together. Seem to know each other well, wouldn't No, I don't pry,
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but this case involves murder, mister Gage. We told you that we'd
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appreciate your cooperation. Cooperation, don't pay the RAMT sergeant, third floor.
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This way here three four five, open it up? Nothing. Yeah,
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oh, here looks pretty clean. Jo, All my rooms are clean.
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He didn't mean it that way, mister Gage. I wonder if you'd chow
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us Night's room now, that's next door in the hmm. I don't know
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about this poking into other people's rooms. Not regular. Neither's murder. Come
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on, let's go. Does mister Knight have this room to himself. Sure,
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ask questions, don't you No, Knight has a friend staying with him
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about two weeks now, not in much see in No, I don't think
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so, boy, Ben, watch it drop at you? That shot?
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Mister Kate for got cak it up, Ben, He's out cold. Look
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what you've done to the room. I thought you said Knight wasn't in.
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He isn't. This is his friend, great friends. Forty five automatic in
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his hand, thirty eight snub nose in the bureau, another forty five look
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in his bag. I don't pry. He pays his bills, good tenant?
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Yeah? Can I get outside on his phone? Mm? Yes,
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all outside calls are ten cents. Yeah. Here, have to keep the
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book straight. Sure you do. Who's going to pay for the dammage?
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Ask mister Knight's friend here? Well, say, why worry? He pays
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his bills. Good tenant. I called ed Backstrand and he set out a
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special detail to stake out the hotel and bring in Raymond Knight. If and
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when he returned, Ben and I drove to the Georgia Street Receiving Hospital,
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where Doc Stanley patched up the cut on Ben's scalp and treated Raymond Knight's friend
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for simple cuts and bruises from paper was found in his wallet and in the
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hotel room. He was identified as Frank Gannon ninety eight ninety six Wassat Street,
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Kansas City, Missouri. When we got the headquarters, we had Gannon
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taken to the interrogation room, where we questioned him briefly. He told us
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that he was a self employed watch salesman, that he was in the city
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on a business trip. He admitted friendship with Knight, but not with Vickers.
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We booked him at the Cotty Jail for assault with intent to commit murder.
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The three guns found in the hotel room were turned over the crime lab.
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We reported back to the office. Joe and I head pounding like my
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Gannon's a mean yeah, it's a nasty crack. I got some assprin in
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my desk. Nighthaps all right, boys, rough days. I don't get
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much rough or any message toy on the desk. I'm gonna eat starting right,
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Trason, What is jo Jones got to make on those prints he lifted
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off the car. Let's see, yeah, something else and now and James
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Baker wanted ten fourteen forty three desertion US Army. That could account for those
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stolen army guns. Yeah, what about the make on those Prince Lee found.
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Let's take a look, Vance Taylor a good solid record. Four burderies,
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two armed robberies, two assaults. Here's the mama sheet, morn so
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and so THEE thirty six I alias John Field's herold Grant, Tom Bissel jip
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Hey. Yeah, alias Raymond Knight, the other man who rode in the
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car with James Vickers the morning he shot down traffic officer Beamus finally had been
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identified Vance Taylor alias Raymond Knight. Well, that still didn't explain the unprovoked
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murder. He didn't explain the four guns found in the car or the three
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guns found in the hotel room. An assortment of arms like that could mean
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something big, but we didn't know what. Gannon's sudden willingness to shoot it
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out in the hotel room meant something too. We didn't know what we had.
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Gannon brought back the interrogation room, Higanon, have a see everything,
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all right? I'll bet you're worried. No, we're not worried, Ganon,
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you want to be. Don't make me laugh. You're tied in with
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Raymond Knight. That's enough for us. You send me up for it.
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We're gonna try big talk. How long did you know Vickers? I didn't,
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funny. He's prints were all over one of those guns we found in
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your room. I'm not worrying. Then you better start Gannon vicars a Knight
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kill the man if you run with him. Your hands are dirty too.
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Our room with Night, that's all. Night didn't come back the hotel worries.
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We're not that close to share your guns and your friends. That's close
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enough for us. I don't know Vicars. You mean you didn't know it?
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I said, I don't know. We got Vicars, Gannon, he's
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dead. Good story, Okay, come on, Agannon. Let's been out
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on the morning this way. Joe cold, isn't that? Yeah? It's
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damn ye? What is all this? Never seen the corpse before? No,
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I'm not in this. Take me back. I don't want to look.
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You're gonna close your eye, take me back. I don't want to
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look. Hear me. I fellas say twenty five this way again, and
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I get sick. I don't want to look. Throw back the sheet,
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Fred, huh, take a numb look again. No, he's Night's friend.
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I'm not in it. Who is in it? I don't know it?
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Take me out. I'm sick, all right, friend? Thanks okay,
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Budds interrogation room Friday, Joe on steak out at the Silver Daughter Hotel.
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I was signing a Raymond Night. Keep you posting, okay, Dave?
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Thanks? How long does this go on? I can call a lawyer,
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you know, and you better call one right away again. And they
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just picked up Night at the hotel. He's incriminated you. You're a liar.
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Sure like we worry about victory. We'll prove it you again. The
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officers are on their way in now. They're gonna put Night in the next
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room. You can listen to them. Well, I came here to sell
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watches. I ain't in this jan and you and Vickers a night. We're
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planning a job, a big one. We know that if you want a
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way to get on the witness stand to tell your story, it's all right
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with us. We didn't take too long to break this smoke. Gil.
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Yeah, thanks, yan H. What are you gonna do nothing? Just
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kill a little time? They bring in Knight. You haven't got Night.
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I haven't un wrapped him yet, Joe, you wanna check me out?
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Okay, open them up, give him a good shuffle. Huh, you're
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gonna have some time on your hands again. Want to learn a new card
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game? Nah, suit yourself. It's a good game for two better with
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three a lot of coins. Yeah, we got two decks there the first
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off. This game is quite a bit like Jen Rummy. Yeah, there
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are eight of every suit four jokers. Jokers count fifty points, Red threes
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kind one hundred points each. If you get a black three, you can
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freeze the deck. Oh, I see, I shouldn't say deck. In
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this game, they call it the pack pack. What's a pack? Well,
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it's the discard pile, same as in Gin. You get a red
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three, you can freeze. No, it's a black three. Well,
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what happened when you freeze? Nobody can pick it up? Oh? I
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see? All right, let's steal a lot of dummy hand here. Fine
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Gamegan, I'm sure you won't change your mind. You don't want to play
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though, All right? Now I'm two handed. You do a lot fifteen
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cards? See how many? Can play? As many as six? I
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think I've only played up to four. You play partners with four. Yeah,
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that's right. Okay, count your cards. I think it's fifteen.
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There's fifteen right now. Now what I do? Well, I guess you
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better let your hand open. That'll be the easiest way to show you.
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Okay, I'll spread them all out over there. Well, you don't have
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a great hand there. You've got a couple of black threes. You can
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use those. Yeah, it's fine. They kind of hundred a peg.
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No, no, no, those are red threes. Black threes don't count
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anything. Oh, red three, that's right. Do you remember what black
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threes are for? You can use them to freeze the pile. Pack.
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That's right, the pack. Well, you know what I mean? All
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right? Now, look you see I got a joker here. Jokers are
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wild. Do you remember how much they count? And they're wild? One
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hundred points? Now, red threes are worth a hunter jokers count fifty.
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You don't explain it very good. I don't understand. How simple can it
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be? Again, it's not even playing. You get it, don't you
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get him? Okay, Red three's kind of hunter. Jokers count fifty.
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Black threes you can fire, you can freeze the pack. Yeah good,
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now hold on of that with you now, Black threes freeze the pack.
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But that's not the only card that can do it. No, no deuces
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can do the same thing. But you see, the only difference is if
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you use a deuce, which is also wild, you have to have a
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natural pair in order to pick up the pack. Now with a black three,
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it's I knew it good until I knew it wouldn't work well. South
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A right from the start, packers killed the cop. I'm not I'm taking
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old wraps Johnny thistenographer, right fast, all right, Kennon, too late,
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you haven't got time. Twenty after one they're gonna do it. What
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payroll Brazier company messenger leaves one twenty? He's got the payroll thirty grand.
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They're gonna get him. Where does the messenger leave one twenty? You're too
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late, I'm not in Where does he leave? One leaves the bank?
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I think no, maybe the company. Where's the company? Third and Spring.
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They're gonna get him. Where's the bank? The messenger goes to up
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the block second National, third and Hill. Where they're gonna get the messenger
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for the alley Clay Street. I'm not in it, and check it.
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Get out of communications. Haven't put out a call to block off the area.
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Give him the details, Johnny, stay with this guy, Okay,
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Davis. Davis's going Brazier, Brazier Manufacturing Olympic. Good afternoon, raise your
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manufacturing company. Give me your payroll division. There's a police department emergency,
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your payroll division. It's an emergency one moment, sir, Come on,
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payroll Hopkins, mister Hopkins, this is Sergeant Friday, Police Department. We've
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had to tip your payroll messengers going to be held up today. Has he
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left your building yet? The messenger? Yeah, oh my, he left
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early today, went out the door about ten minutes ago. Thanks, Second
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Nation, Second National, Second National. What's the real Friday? What's all
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the accessions to break this guy playing in a minute at no time? Good
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afternoon, Second National. Give me the manager on duty. Please, emergency
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one moment, please, one moment, Come on, come on. I'm
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sorry, sir, the line is busy. Would you care away? Give
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me the chief teller? Thank you, Jeef teller Waters. This is Sergeant
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Friday, Police Department, emergency call. Has the payroll messenger from the Brazier
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company left the bank yet? Well? I wouldn't know, sergeant. Just
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a moment I'll have your call switched. Yeah, Operator Beatrice, would you
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give this call to Ms Chalmers? Uh, it's important. Thank you,
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mister waters As Chalmers, Good afternoon, Ms Chalmers. What's the matter?
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Fred? Are you sick? Yeah? I'm sick of Chalmers? After Ms
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Chalmers is a sergeant Friday Police Department. As a payroll messenger from the Brazier
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company left the bank yet? Why yes, three minutes ago and he had
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the payroll with him. Of course. Thanks. You gotta keep on a
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payroll. Sick of bank? You coming? Then, let's go Ben down
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this way. He's coming. Let's tussle it down the stairs. Communication,
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different stories, you got it on there? Now? Where's this brazier coming
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in third and the spring about five blocks from here? Come on, here's
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the garage, all right, come on here it let's take time. Get
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the radio. One a woman up? Oh, units catching all units on
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third Street, Flay Alley to a business. That's fix your headed west on
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Clay Alley. That's fix a R coat three leven R. Take the cat
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bars are closing in first fourth Street, up my head. Ben might meet
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him at this end of play alley. Hold on, Oh, it's pretty
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quiet at this end. Not much you can do without. Hey, hey,
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look coming out of the alley. Now, guy with a release round
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coach, the guy with a plumping let's go all right to hold it the
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running for it? Come on better, what that f Let's go. Come
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on there looking. I see him on my head and we're turning on a
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hill street Romero. Come on, will you skipper? You see him?
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Joe? He put the subway turning him. Yeah, they're going into the
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trod. Go lohm, Why I'll take him right to the left, then
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go with him. I they go on to the right. Damn, go
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no, I don't wait a minute. Now they are over the turnstile.
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Come on, no, go, they're off the platform. And runs the
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crock. That's not what I'm know the other gun. Don't run into the
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puddle. He's crazy. Come on after him. Hunt the side he trap
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bend this tin hum the cl dumb back. You'll try best that out.
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Hunt the side. You are all right, Joe? Yeah? Yeah,
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you mm hmm. You want to check. No, I don't think it's
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any use. Yeah, well let's go. I wonder why he tried so
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hard, Joe. I don't know, Benny. Some people are like that
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you can blow the whistle all you want, they never know when to stop.
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The story you have just heard is true, only the names were changed
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to protect the innocent. Frank Gannon, the only surviving member of the hold
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up gang, was tried and convicted of the crime of assault with intent to
29:18
commit murder. He is now serving out his sentence at the State Penitentiary.
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You have just heard the sixteenth in a new series of authentic cases from official
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files. Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Acting Chief of Police
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W. A. Wharton, Los Angeles Police Department. Tonight's program is dedicated
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to Private Richard H. Taylor of the Washington D C. Police Department,
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who, on the evening of December thirteenth, nineteen forty six, gave his
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life so that yours might be more secure. Dragnet came to you from Los
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Angeles. Phil Harris likes a great deal about the South. We like a
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great deal about Phil Harris. For instance, we like his beautiful blonde wife,
30:22
Alice Fay. In fact, we like the Phil Harris Alice Fay Show.
30:26
And it just happens that it returns to the NBC air tomorrow. Why
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don't you take our advice and listen to one of the funniest shows around anywhere.
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That's The Phil Harris Alice Fay Show tomorrow on most of these same NBC
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stations. You're tune for the Stars on end Welcome back. You know.
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I've been discovering the joy of second listenings, and this episode is a great
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case in point. I had not thought of this episode in so many years,
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but listening to again, I'm struck by just how good it was.
31:30
You had, first of all, kind of a different reaction by Friday,
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a lot more emotional than we'd see him, particularly in the original nineteen fifties
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radio series, and it was just really well done, because usually Friday is
31:52
very much in control and not at all emotional, but here you definitely see
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a different side here. I think the first six minutes in particular, just
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does a great job. The whole thing portrays his real anger at this seemingly
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senseless act, and I also love the climax. I thought that it was
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very exciting and extremely extremely entertaining the way that they wrapped it up. So
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overall, this was just a wonderfully solid case and it's so nice to rediscover
32:40
these stories once again. Six years after the initial listening on too listener comments
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and feedback now and I have this off of Twitter. Carl says, just
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got into Dragnet after a long binge on Johnny Dollar. Really enjoying it.
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Thanks Adam, well, thanks so much, Carl. I do want to
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let you know that coming up this weekend we have on Sunday another Sherlock Holmes
33:08
film, The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes starring Arthur Wantner, which is probably my
33:15
favorite of the Wantner films, and it's definitely entertaining with a story based on
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the Valley of Fear, so I do encourage you to check that out.
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We will be back on the audio on Monday with the Saint and then join
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us back here next Saturday for another episode of Dragnet. In the meantime,
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