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Dragnet: The Big Donation (EP5064) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: THE END.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio. From Boise, Idaho,
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  Speaker 2: this is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to bring you this week's episode of Dragnet. But first,
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  Speaker 2: month at patreon.greatdetectives.net. But now, from June 12th, 1950, here
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  Speaker 2: is The Big Donation.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, you may now read Dragnet every day
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  Speaker 3: on the comic page of your favorite newspaper. Please consult
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  Speaker 3: your local daily paper. Dragnet The story you are about
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  Speaker 3: to hear is true. The names have been changed to
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  Speaker 3: protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a
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  Speaker 3: bunco detail. A team of confidence men are taking thousands
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  Speaker 3: of dollars from the people of your city.
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  Speaker 4: Their method of operation?
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  Speaker 3: Posing as solicitors for different charitable causes. There's no lead
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  Speaker 3: to their whereabouts. Your job, stop them.
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  Speaker 5: Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime.
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  Speaker 6: For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los
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  Speaker 6: Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on
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  Speaker 6: the side of the law through an actual case transcribed
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  Speaker 6: from official police files. From beginning to end, from crime
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  Speaker 6: to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force
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  Speaker 6: in action.
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  Speaker 4: It was Tuesday, February 16th. It was cold in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 4: We were working the day watch out of bunco detail.
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  Speaker 4: My partner's Bill Lockwood. The boss is Captain Steed. My
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  Speaker 4: name's Friday. We were on the way out from the office,
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  Speaker 4: and it was 2.18 p.m. when we got to 1st
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  Speaker 4: and Valencia, the West Valley Hotel.
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  Speaker 5: Over here to the left, Joe. No, no.
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  Speaker 4: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, we're all filled up. No more room.
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  Speaker 4: No, we don't want to register. Here we are, police officers.
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to check one of your guests.
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  Speaker 5: You have a Raymond Seidel registered? S-C-I-D-E-L-L?
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  Speaker 7: Let's see here.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm.
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  Speaker 8: No, there's no Raymond Seidel registered.
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  Speaker 6: Small man, about 5'6, 130 pounds, tan complexion, between 35
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  Speaker 6: and 40, wears orange-rimmed glasses.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: What's the trouble, anyway? Anyone like that registered here?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I was just about to say, there's no Raymond Seidel.
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  Speaker 8: We got a Raymond Singer, though, a small fella.
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  Speaker 4: He wears glasses.
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  Speaker 8: I'd say he was about 35 or 40 once.
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  Speaker 4: In his room now?
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  Speaker 7: No, matter of fact, he just left a minute ago.
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  Speaker 8: He went out for lunch, and I think just four
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  Speaker 8: of you fellas walked in.
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  Speaker 5: Where does he usually eat, you know?
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  Speaker 8: Our coffee shop right next door. He's got a gray
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  Speaker 8: top coat on, gray hat.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, thanks.
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  Speaker 8: You can use that door right here.
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  Speaker 5: It connects to the coffee shop.
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  Speaker 4: Right, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Spot him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, far under the counter, up to the front door.
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  Speaker 4: See him?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, description check, sir.
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  Speaker 4: All right, come on.
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  Speaker 5: Spotted us, going for the front door.
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  Speaker 4: All right, police officers, hold it up there.
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  Speaker 7: Making a run for it.
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  Speaker 4: All right, come on. This way. Where'd he go?
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  Speaker 5: I lost him. Alley up ahead.
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  Speaker 4: He ducked in there.
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  Speaker 6: Down the ramp, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: Hotel garage.
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  Speaker 2: Ran in there.
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  Speaker 4: All right, come on.
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  Speaker 5: Let's hurry.
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  Speaker 4: You spot him, Bill?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 5: Any other way out beside this ramp?
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute. Yeah, down the far end there. Another exit.
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  Speaker 4: I'll take that. You cover this end. Right.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, watch it, Bill.
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  Speaker 4: He's coming out. The blue sedan.
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  Speaker 7: All right, hold it.
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  Speaker 5: Look out, Joe, coming at us. I'll go for his tire.
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  Speaker 7: All right, come on, Bill.
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  Speaker 4: All right, stay where you are.
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  Speaker 5: All right, don't shoot, don't shoot.
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  Speaker 7: All right, then hold it right there.
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  Speaker 5: What's the pitch, anyway? It wasn't doing anything. It's behind you.
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  Speaker 4: Raymond Seidel, is that right?
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  Speaker 5: That's right. I wasn't doing anything. What's this all about?
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  Speaker 4: You know as well as we do.
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  Speaker 5: Look what you did to my car. Just look at it.
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  Speaker 5: You cracked it up, mister.
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  Speaker 4: We didn't.
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  Speaker 5: Come on. Come on where? I haven't done anything.
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  Speaker 4: We want to talk to you downtown.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not saying anything. You can talk to my lawyer.
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  Speaker 5: Get the story from him.
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  Speaker 4: We already got it. Come on, let's go. 2.35 p.m.
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  Speaker 4: We took the suspect, Raymond Seidel, back to the hotel
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  Speaker 4: with us where we checked his room thoroughly. Bill got
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  Speaker 4: on the phone, made arrangements to have Seidel's car impounded
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  Speaker 4: and a stakeout placed at the hotel. Then we drove
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  Speaker 4: back to the city hall and took the suspect to
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  Speaker 4: the interrogation room. A check through our records and identification
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  Speaker 4: bureau earlier in the day had revealed a fair-sized record
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  Speaker 4: for Seidel. He'd had four previous local arrests. Two for
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  Speaker 4: petty theft, one for second-degree burglary, one for grand theft auto.
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  Speaker 4: He'd been convicted on one of the petty thefts and
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  Speaker 4: also on the burglary charge for which he'd served time
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  Speaker 4: in the state penitentiary at San Quentin. Bill and I
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  Speaker 4: started questioning him. The first half hour, we got nowhere.
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  Speaker 10: I told you, I haven't been doing anything. I've been
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  Speaker 10: clean ever since I got out.
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  Speaker 4: Where were you last night, Ray?
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  Speaker 5: Knocking around town.
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  Speaker 4: What'd you do?
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  Speaker 10: Had a couple of drinks, went to a show, came
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  Speaker 10: out and went to see some bimbo I know.
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  Speaker 5: What's your name?
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  Speaker 10: Helen, lives up on South Custer, and you can ask her.
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  Speaker 10: She'll tell you I was there.
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  Speaker 5: What time did you see her? About ten o'clock. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: just about.
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  Speaker 4: You're a liar, Ray. Hmm? You're a liar.
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  Speaker 5: Who gives you a call to say that?
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  Speaker 4: It's the truth. Then four other people must be lying.
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  Speaker 5: What do you mean, what other people?
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Now, how about it, Ray?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what you mean, so help me, I don't.
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  Speaker 5: Why don't you give it up, Seidel? You ought to
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  Speaker 5: know better. We wouldn't have you down here if we
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  Speaker 5: didn't have you pegged. Pegged for what? I don't even
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  Speaker 5: know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 4: All right, then, I'll tell you, Ray. About 8.30 last night,
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  Speaker 4: you put in a call to a Mr.
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  Speaker 5: And Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Gerald Keyes. They live out in East Hollywood, Gladstone, 3962. Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Keyes answered the phone. You told her you were taking
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  Speaker 4: contributions for European children, war orphans. You knew she was
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  Speaker 4: interested in the cause. You asked her for a donation.
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  Speaker 5: You're crazy. That wasn't me. I don't even know the woman.
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  Speaker 4: You'd done Mrs. Keyes, and she agreed to contribute. She
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  Speaker 4: offered $ 50. You talked her up to $ 150. She asked
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  Speaker 4: you where to send the money, and you said, never mind,
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  Speaker 4: you'd be out to collect it. Forty-five minutes later, you
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  Speaker 4: were out there. You parked your car by a candy
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  Speaker 4: store down the street from the Keyes' home. You walked
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  Speaker 4: up the block to the Keyes' place, collected the money,
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  Speaker 4: and you left.
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  Speaker 5: Now, you prove it was me. You prove it. We
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  Speaker 5: got her cold, Seidel.
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  Speaker 8: Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Keyes' husband got suspicious about the setup. Forty-five minutes after,
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  Speaker 6: you phoned. You were at the front door with your
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  Speaker 6: hand out. You had no credentials, nothing. He noticed you
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  Speaker 6: parked your car down the street instead of in front
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  Speaker 6: of the house. He got the license number of your
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  Speaker 6: car when you pulled away. So did the owner of
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  Speaker 6: the candy store. You parked your car just outside his place.
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  Speaker 6: All three of them can describe you and your car.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Keys, Mrs. Keys, the man at the candy store. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: they're right.
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  Speaker 4: Getting over to you, Ray?
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  Speaker 10: Gonna take more than a couple of people to build
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  Speaker 10: a case.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we got more. You gave Mrs. Keys a
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  Speaker 4: signed receipt for the 150. You signed it Tom Seidel.
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  Speaker 4: Our handwriting man checked the signature with a specimen of
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  Speaker 4: your handwriting we got from your package. Now, they both check,
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  Speaker 4: not a doubt in the world. What do you say?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: What would you say?
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  Speaker 5: It's your jam.
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  Speaker 4: What's the story?
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  Speaker 5: Isn't any. Why should I dig my grave? Any way
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  Speaker 5: you want it.
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  Speaker 6: You're going to stay on the load for the last
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  Speaker 6: two months, including the one you pulled last night. It
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  Speaker 6: makes 14 cases.
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  Speaker 5: It's a lie. It's a lousy lie.
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  Speaker 4: Cigarette, Ray?
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  Speaker 10: What are you trying to do to me, anyway? 14
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  Speaker 10: jobs and never hustled that hard in my life.
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  Speaker 4: That's how many we've had in the last couple of months.
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  Speaker 5: Why load them on me?
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  Speaker 4: Every one of them follow the same general M.O. Same
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  Speaker 4: way you worked it last night. We don't know where
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  Speaker 4: you got your list of names, but you contact people
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  Speaker 4: who are interested in different charities. You pose as an
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  Speaker 4: authorized solicitor. You get their money, and then you take off.
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  Speaker 4: The last two months, you've been collecting for more than
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  Speaker 4: ten different drives. European orphans, a milk fund, summer camp
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  Speaker 4: for underprivileged kids, crippled children's fund. The people give their
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  Speaker 4: money in good faith, and you take.
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  Speaker 5: Off with it. Look, um... Your MO.
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  Speaker 4: Follows all the way through. It's a sour racket, Ray.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to lean hard on you.
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  Speaker 5: I said, will you wait a minute?
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  Speaker 10: No, when I'm done, I'll give you the story.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 10: I'm not taking the whole load on my back. I'll
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  Speaker 10: cop out to the one last night, but that's all.
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  Speaker 5: You look good for all of them. Look, will you
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  Speaker 5: give me a chance?
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  Speaker 10: The one last night was a first try for me.
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  Speaker 10: It's the only one I ever tried. I'm squaring with you.
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  Speaker 10: I was crazy even to make a pass at it.
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  Speaker 10: I should have known better.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not a bunk man.
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  Speaker 4: I already told you, Ray. Last night's a close match
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  Speaker 4: with the other jobs. You say you'll cop out to one.
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  Speaker 4: How do we account for the other 13?
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  Speaker 5: Just among us. Whatever I say, I don't want credit for.
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  Speaker 4: All right. What's the pitch?
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  Speaker 10: Can I have that cigarette now?
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  Speaker 5: Here you are.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, thanks.
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  Speaker 4: Here's a match.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks.
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  Speaker 10: I got out of the thing Sunday night. Doing a
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  Speaker 10: little drinking at this place on Boyle Avenue.
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  Speaker 9: There were a.
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  Speaker 5: Couple of guys at the bar who were talking about it.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know them.
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  Speaker 4: Talking about what?
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  Speaker 5: The racket.
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  Speaker 10: Getting a list of marks and collecting charity money from them.
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  Speaker 10: These two guys weren't working it. They just heard it
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  Speaker 10: was going on. They were yacking the bartender about it.
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  Speaker 10: I figured some out-of-town grifters were doing it.
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  Speaker 4: And you figured you'd get in on the bandwagon, is
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  Speaker 4: that it?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I thought I'd try a couple of jobs, that's all.
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  Speaker 5: Need a few bucks to tide me over. Didn't look
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  Speaker 5: like much of a risk.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I heard about the M.O.
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  Speaker 10: The grifters were using. Pretty simple to copy. I followed
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  Speaker 10: it through just the way I heard they did it.
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  Speaker 10: They had a half dozen jobs under their belly already.
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  Speaker 10: If you knocked them over and they had to stand
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  Speaker 10: the rap, a couple of jobs of mine wouldn't make
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  Speaker 10: any difference.
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  Speaker 5: Free ride, is that what you figured out? What's the difference?
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  Speaker 5: I didn't get it.
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  Speaker 10: Figured you'd catch up with them, and they'd take the
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  Speaker 10: rap for my jobs along with their own. It was
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  Speaker 10: just my luck. You get me instead, and now I'm
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  Speaker 10: up to stand the rap for everything.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's a pretty fair story, Ray. Any way of
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  Speaker 4: proving it?
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  Speaker 5: Sure, easy.
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  Speaker 10: These grifters started working here two months ago, didn't they?
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  Speaker 5: They hit pretty hard the first week or so, didn't they?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I wasn't even in town then. Wasn't here the
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  Speaker 5: whole month. I was up in Monterey.
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  Speaker 4: Any way of proving that? Sure.
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  Speaker 5: Ask the sheriff up there.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm?
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  Speaker 5: Ask the sheriff. He'll tell you.
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  Speaker 4: Why should he know anything about it?
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  Speaker 5: He ought to. He had me in jail the whole month.
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  Speaker 4: 3.40 p.m. While Bill continued questioning the suspect, Raymond Seidel,
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  Speaker 4: I went down the hall to the squad room and
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  Speaker 4: put in a call to the Monterey County Sheriff's Office.
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  Speaker 4: They confirmed Seidel's story. He'd been arrested in the town
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  Speaker 4: of Monterey December 13th, approximately two months before, on charges
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  Speaker 4: of vagrancy and suspicion of robbery. He was confined in
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  Speaker 4: the county jail there from December 13th to January 15th,
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  Speaker 4: the same period of time during which the unidentified Bunko
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  Speaker 4: men had started their campaign of falsely soliciting funds for
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  Speaker 4: various charities. While the information cleared Seidel of any part
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  Speaker 4: in the Bunko charity operations throughout the city that month,
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  Speaker 4: he still had to answer for his actions the night before,
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  Speaker 4: soliciting contributions falsely from the couple out in East Hollywood, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: and Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Keys.
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  Speaker 4: After his statement was taken, Bill Lockwood and I drove
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  Speaker 4: Seidel to the main jail where we booked him in
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  Speaker 4: on suspicion of 48 PC petty theft. Further investigation the
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  Speaker 4: next day and a half seemed to indicate that the
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  Speaker 4: last story we got from Seidel was pretty close to
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  Speaker 4: the facts. It was the case of a small-time thief
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  Speaker 4: imitating the apparently successful formula of a veteran team of
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  Speaker 4: bunco artists, an imitation which in the criminal world is
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  Speaker 4: far from unusual.
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  Speaker 5: A week passed.
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  Speaker 4: Despite the broadcasts, the bulletins, and the special notices we'd
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  Speaker 4: gotten out on the suspects and their operations, there were
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  Speaker 4: three more cases reported. One of them came from a Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Teresa Guilfoyle, the woman in charge of the crippled children's home.
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  Speaker 4: Bill and I drove out to talk to her.
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  Speaker 11: This is the first thing I want to show you, officers.
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  Speaker 5: What's that?
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  Speaker 9: This way, please.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead, Bill. Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 11: Dear sweetheart, there are two gentlemen here I'd like to
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  Speaker 11: have you meet. Stephen, this is Sergeant Friday, and this
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  Speaker 11: is Officer Lockwood, their policeman.
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  Speaker 4: This is Stephen, officers.
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  Speaker 7: He's three years old.
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  Speaker 4: Well, how are you, Stephen?
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Susan.
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  Speaker 11: He'd like to say hello, officers.
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  Speaker 2: But he can't.
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  Speaker 11: His legs aren't his only trouble. He can't hear. He
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  Speaker 11: can't talk either.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's too bad.
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  Speaker 11: You're learning, though, aren't you, sweetheart? You bet you are.
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  Speaker 11: In a little while with us, you'll be talking a
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  Speaker 11: blue streak. All right, honey, you run along and play now.
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  Speaker 5: Real sweetheart, isn't he?
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  Speaker 11: I wanted you to meet him so you could see
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  Speaker 11: what this means to us. When I look at children
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  Speaker 11: like that, this whole mess just makes my blood boil.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am. We see what you mean.
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  Speaker 11: Hard enough getting people to contribute money to keep this
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  Speaker 11: place open. Help those poor kids to walk and talk.
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  Speaker 4: Thieves have to.
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  Speaker 1: Make it even harder.
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  Speaker 11: The way things are, I can't see how we're going
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  Speaker 11: to get through the year.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, how much do you estimate it's cost you, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Guilfoyle?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, how much in donations have these phony solicitors taken?
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  Speaker 11: Well, I know of at least $ 700 they've collected from
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  Speaker 11: different people. Lord knows how much more money they got
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  Speaker 11: that was supposed to go to the homes. I suppose
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  Speaker 11: a lot of people still think they gave their money
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  Speaker 11: to the right person.
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  Speaker 4: Did you receive the notice we sent out about six
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago, ma'am, about how these thieves operated?
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  Speaker 12: Yes, I did.
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  Speaker 11: I made a special note of it. When we sent
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  Speaker 11: out our annual appeal letter to our regular donors, most
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  Speaker 11: of your notice was incorporated right in it. I don't
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  Speaker 11: know what happened. I guess they didn't pay any.
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  Speaker 5: Attention to it. When did you first find out something
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  Speaker 5: was wrong, ma'am? It was yesterday morning.
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  Speaker 11: One of our regular donors, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Baxter, called me.
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  Speaker 11: He wanted to know if we received his contribution all right.
• 13:26
  Speaker 11: He wondered because he didn't receive his regular thank you note.
• 13:29
  Speaker 11: That's when he told me about this man who came
• 13:32
  Speaker 11: to his house and collected the money.
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: I see.
• 13:33
  Speaker 5: As soon as I heard that, two of.
• 13:35
  Speaker 11: The other girls and myself got on the phone and
• 13:37
  Speaker 11: called every one of the regular donors. There were ten
• 13:39
  Speaker 11: of them, just like Mr.
• 13:40
  Speaker 9: Baxter.
• 13:41
  Speaker 11: Gave their good money to help these tots and we
• 13:43
  Speaker 11: never received a penny of it. I've got all their
• 13:46
  Speaker 11: names and addresses here if you'd like them.
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am.
• 13:48
  Speaker 11: Welcome to them if you want them.
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: Yes, I'll be fine. We'd like to check with each
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: one of them. Now, this is the complete list, all
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: the regular donors who contributed and their money wasn't received,
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: is that right?
• 13:57
  Speaker 11: Yes, sir, all those we know of. There's probably a
• 14:00
  Speaker 11: lot more, I suppose. You've been in police work for
• 14:03
  Speaker 11: a few years, haven't you, Sergeant? You must have met
• 14:06
  Speaker 11: all kinds.
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am, I suppose so.
• 14:08
  Speaker 11: What kind would you say.
• 14:09
  Speaker 9: These men are?
• 14:10
  Speaker 11: I mean, going around and stealing the little regular income
• 14:13
  Speaker 11: we have from donations. What kind of persons can they be?
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: Well, there's thousands of them, Ms. Guilfoyle. They walk every
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: city in the world. They want money. They want everything
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: that goes with it. They'll do anything but work for it.
• 14:24
  Speaker 11: But the money these men are stealing, they must know
• 14:26
  Speaker 11: it's for these crippled children. They help them walk again,
• 14:29
  Speaker 11: help them talk, little.
• 14:30
  Speaker 9: Kids like Stephen.
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
• 14:32
  Speaker 11: And these men call themselves human beings. And they take
• 14:35
  Speaker 11: help away from a child like that.
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: Humans.
• 14:39
  Speaker 11: Couldn't be more ashamed of them. Ashamed to live in
• 14:41
  Speaker 11: the same city with them.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
• 14:43
  Speaker 10: You'd think God would punish them.
• 14:45
  Speaker 11: You'd think God would come down and punish them right now.
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: Well, maybe he's even ashamed. Before we left, Mrs. Guilfoyle
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: gave us a complete list of the names and addresses
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: of donors who contributed annually to the upkeep of the
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: crippled children's home. For the next couple of days, Bill
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: and I contacted each one of them personally. Those people
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: who'd already given their contributions to the thieves unknowingly were
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: unable to help us. Their descriptions of the men who
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: solicited money from them in the name of the crippled
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: children's home generally duplicated the descriptions we'd gotten from the
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: previous victims. None of them were very detailed, but they
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: did seem to confirm our theory that there were two
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: or more men involved in the Bunko operation. Receipts for
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: the money they'd given the thieves were signed either by
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: a Fred Wellman or a Norman Archer. The handwriting varied
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: in each case. Those donors on the list who had
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: not yet been contacted were the best hope we had
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: of reaching the suspects. Since the crippled children's home appealed
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: for funds only through the mail, we advised these people
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: to get in touch with us immediately if anyone contacted
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: them by phone and asked for contributions. A few more
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: days passed, Monday, February 27th. We got a call back
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: from one of these donors, a Mr. George Stage of
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: the Consolidated Pool Company out in the valley. We located
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: him supervising work at the site of one of their
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: pool constructions in the Toluca Lake area.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: Glad to see you again, Sergeant. Say, could you hold
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: on just a minute? I want to test that batch
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: of mud and see if the mixture's right. It won't
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: take a minute.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: Go right ahead.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: Andy.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: Andy, come here a minute, will you?
• 16:14
  Speaker 7: How's that mixture look to you?
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: Sure a nice-looking pool, isn't it, Bill?
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, big one. Sure would be nice to have, wouldn't it?
• 16:20
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: Why don't you look into it?
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: That's about all I could afford to do right now,
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: look into it.
• 16:25
  Speaker 7: Okay, Sergeant.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: Six-two and even.
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: Want to go over by the truck and move some
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: of these rackets so we can talk?
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: All right, that's fine.
• 16:31
  Speaker 12: I hope I got something for you. Not sure if
• 16:33
  Speaker 12: it'll be worth anything to you. You said on the
• 16:34
  Speaker 12: phone you got a call last night.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: Well, I didn't.
• 16:36
  Speaker 12: My wife did. They wanted to talk to me, but
• 16:38
  Speaker 12: I wasn't home yet. I'm finishing a pool for some
• 16:40
  Speaker 12: folks in Encino.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: Have a seat there if you want. I'll clean off
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: this running board for you.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's all right.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Fine.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Well, what was the gist of the phone call, Mr.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: Stage?
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: Who was it?
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: Well, as I say, the wife answered. The fellow told
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: her his name was Mr.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: Archer.
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: Said he was collecting for the crippled kid's home. Of course,
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: the wife knew the setup.
• 16:57
  Speaker 12: After you talked to me, I warned her about the
• 16:58
  Speaker 12: pony collectors going around.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: Uh, what'd she tell him, Nancy?
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: Well, she didn't get a chance to tell him anything.
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: He did most of the talking.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: Gave her a big.
• 17:04
  Speaker 12: Spiel about how much the poor crippled kids needed help.
• 17:07
  Speaker 12: Wife asked him if he'd leave a number so I
• 17:09
  Speaker 12: could call him back when I got home.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Well, did he leave a number?
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: No, no.
• 17:12
  Speaker 12: Gave some phony excuse he wouldn't be at the same phone,
• 17:15
  Speaker 12: something like that. Went out to ask her if she
• 17:17
  Speaker 12: couldn't make out a check. Said he could come right
• 17:19
  Speaker 12: out to pick it up. Wife said no, she couldn't.
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: Matter of fact, she couldn't. I've got the checkbook.
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: Excuse me.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Andy?
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: Andy, get one of the boys to help you down
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: the hall. You can't do that all by yourself.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: My partner Andy's a great worker.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. Well, what was the upshot of the phone
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: conversation between Archer and your wife, I mean?
• 17:37
  Speaker 12: Well, she kept asking for a phone number or an address,
• 17:39
  Speaker 12: someplace where I could get back to him when I
• 17:41
  Speaker 12: got home.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: I guess they got it figured, though. He wouldn't give
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: her a thing.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: And that's the way it ended, sir?
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: That's it. Might be I'll have better luck, though.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: How do you mean?
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Well, this fellow Archer told the wife he'd call me
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: back tonight.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: You are listening to Dragnet, authentic stories of your police
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: force in action.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Dragnet Monday, February 27th, 1.30 p.m. As soon as we
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: found out there was a possibility that one of the
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Bunko suspects might contact the potential victim, George Stage, that night,
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Bill and I started making arrangements to be ready for him.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: At 6.45 p.m., we were at the Stage home when
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: the suspect telephoned. He identified himself as Norman Archer. George
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Stage followed our instructions to the letter. He agreed to
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: make a contribution and asked Archer to call at his
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: home to pick.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Up the check.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: He set the date for 9 o'clock that night to
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: allow us enough time for preparations. We got in touch
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: with Lieutenant Lee Jones at the crime lab, and he
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: sent out two of his sound technicians with a microphone
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: set up and a tape recorder. By 8 p.m., the
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: installation was complete. The microphone concealed in the living room
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: of the stage home, and the tape recorder set up
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: in an adjoining room. Bill and I were stationed at
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: the recorder in the bedroom. 8.30, 8.45. We waited. 9 p.m., 9.05.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: Somebody at the front door.
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: You want to give me that headset, Bill?
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: Here you go.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Don't turn on the recorder. Right, John.
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Mr. Stage?
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: That's right. My name's Norman Archer, Mr. Stage. We're glad
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: to know you. Oh, we are, Archer. Glad to meet you.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Come on in.
• 19:30
  Speaker 9: Thank you.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Very nice place you have here. Comfortable. We're pretty happy
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: with it. Now sit down, Archer. Thank you. Well, say,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I hope I'm not interrupting your evening, Mr. Stagg. Oh, no,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: that's all right. Just sitting here watching television.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: I see.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll only take up a moment of your time.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I don't suppose I have to tell you what a
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: worthy cause it is I represent, Crippled Children's Home. I'm
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: glad to make a donation. It's one of my favorite charities.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I'm certainly happy to hear that, sir. Really, you haven't
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: any idea how much good your money does. Those little
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: tots out at the home really need our help, all
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the help we can give them. As good as they do.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Are you one of the officials? Well, yes, I suppose
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: you'd call it that. I'm one of the authorized collectors
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: for the maintenance fund. I have a receipt here for
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: your donation, all made out in your name. Here we are.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I suppose you know that all donations to the home
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: are deductible from your income tax.
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Well, here we are. The receipt's all filled out, your
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: name and address, the space you have left vacant, the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: amount of your contribution. I'll fill it out right now.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: How much would you like me to put you down.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: For, sir? Well, I don't know.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I don't have too much cash on hand. Would a
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: check be all right? Well, actually, we don't like to
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: be fussy, but it does help our book work. The
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: donations are made in cash.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: It still takes the handling of funds. Oh, well, I've
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: only got $ 20 or $ 30 in cash. I'd like to
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: give more than that. You sure a check wouldn't be
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: all right? Well, as I say, it's simple if the
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: donation is cash, but a check is all right. A
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: check's fine.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I'll make it up for you. All I've got here
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: is my company check. How's that? Company checks are all
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I have here. Consolidated pool company. I guess it'll work
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: just as good. Be like a donation from the company.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Oh, fine.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: How should I make that out now payable to the
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: crippled children's home? No, the home doesn't have a commercial
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: banking crowd. It's not incorporated, you know. Oh, isn't it?
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I thought it was. No, I usually handle the check
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: donations through my personal account. So if you just make
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: it out to me, you know, we have to simplify
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: book work. And it takes a lot of work to
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: run a home like that. And we can't afford a
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: bookkeeper either. Same. I'll make it up to... Sorry, what's
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: your first name again?
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Norman.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Norman Archer. A-R-C-H-E-R. How much shall I put you down for? Well,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: let's see. I think I gave $ 200 last year. Yeah,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I think that was it. Yes, we certainly appreciate it, too.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Of course, it's like everything else. Our maintenance costs have
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: gone up. We give those youngsters nothing but the best.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you could see your way clear to
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: make it a little more this year, we'd certainly thank
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: you for it. That goes for those crippled kids, too. Well,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I guess I could make it a little more. We've
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: had a pretty good year. Let's make it $ 250. That'd
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: be fine. That's wonderful. I sure appreciate it, Mr.
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: Tate.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Really, if it wasn't for such a great cause, I'd
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: be embarrassed asking.
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: You for money.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: No, not at all. I'm only glad I can afford it.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Here you are. You better watch the ink. I think
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: it's still wet. Thank you very much. I guess I
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: don't have to tell you again how much we appreciate it.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Let's see. Why don't you put my hat right outside
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: in the hallway? Oh, yes.
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll see that your check gets in the bank
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: first thing in the morning. All right. Thanks for coming out. Pleasure, Mr.
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: Stage.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I don't know how much this check means
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: to us. I think I do. Good night.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: You hear it all right? You hear what he said?
• 22:41
  Speaker 13: Yes, sir.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: We got it.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: How rotten can you get, huh?
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. Bill, do you want to take a look
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: out the window? All right.
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: Mr.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Stage, will you leave that tape recorder right where it is?
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Don't let anyone touch it. We'll be back.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right. He's pulling out, Joe. Head him down
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: the street. Place it in.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: All right. Let's go. We'll call you, Mr.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Stage.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:53
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: You see him, Bill?
• 22:57
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: Down past the next block.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: All right, let's hurry. Go ahead, slide on my side. Now,
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: let's keep the lights off for a couple of blocks.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Don't get him excited.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Can you see him? The one turning left, gray sedan,
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: is that him? Let's see.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Pull up close if you can, huh? See if we
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: can make his license.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: You want to try?
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: How's that? A little closer. Okay, that's fine. 1-Sugar-1-6-6-0-5. All right.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: I'll check it and see if it's hot.
• 23:30
  Speaker 12: 1-K-80 to Control-1.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: 1-K-8-0 to Control-1. Control-1 to 1-K-80. All other cars on
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: frequency 6.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Stand by.
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: 1-K-80 to Control-1. Request rolling make for stolen and DMV
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: on 1-Sugar-1-6-6-0-5. Repeat, 1-S-1-6-6-0-5.
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: KMA-367.
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: Control, one to one, K-80. One, sugar, one, 6-6-0-5, stand by.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: We should have gotten a good look at him, Bill.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Might have recognized him, huh?
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: Couldn't take a chance. Anyway, it's worth more if we
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: get him and his partner together. Wrap it all up
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: in one. Save us a lot of headaches.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, don't lose him. He turned left up at
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: the next corner.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw him.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: He hasn't made it. Yeah, I think we're in the clear.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: All right, you can turn your lights on now. All right.
• 24:11
  Speaker 13: Control 1 to 1K80. Control 1 to 1K80. 1-Sugar-1-6605-No-Want. Car
• 24:18
  Speaker 13: is a 1950 Pontiac, two-door sedan. Registered to Charles A.
• 24:22
  Speaker 9: Sutton. 5840 Octavia Street, Los Angeles. Motor number 1-Adam-6-Paul-3342. Legal
• 24:29
  Speaker 9: the same.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: KMA-367.
• 24:29
  Speaker 9: 1K80 to Control 1.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: Would you check records for Charles A.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Sutton?
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Age and description unknown. Rush request. We have suspect under
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: rolling surveillance.
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: Control one to one, K-80.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Roger.
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: Looks like he's slowing down, Joe.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah. All right, don't press him. Yeah, he's pulling up.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: He stopped there.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: Better cut the lights.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Pull up right here, huh?
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Can you see him?
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Going up to that house. Porch light on.
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Must be where he keeps his pad. Acts like he's
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: been there before.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: There's a man answering the door. He's going in.
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: Control 1 to 1K80, come in.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: 1K80 to Control 1, go ahead.
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: Control 1 to 1K80. We have a Charles A.
• 25:12
  Speaker 13: Sutton, WMA, 42 years, 5'9, 163 pounds, brown hair, blue eyes.
• 25:19
  Speaker 13: He has a long felony record, suspicion of robbery, suspicion
• 25:23
  Speaker 13: of burglary, grand theft, bunco. Also, three outstanding traffic warrants.
• 25:27
  Speaker 13: License number 1-Sugar-1-6605. 1K80 to Control 1.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Roger. KMA-367. What do you think? Let's take.
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: Him.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: All right, you want to take the.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Back, Bill?
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: I'll go in the front.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Okay, give me a second to get around. All right.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Police officer. Want to talk to him?
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: Come on. Open it up.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: I'm carrying the cups.
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Hold it right there against the wall.
• 25:59
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: You back inside. Police officer.
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: Joe, all right?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Did you get him all right?
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: It's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Come on.
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  Speaker 5: I'll front you.
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  Speaker 10: What are you trying to do? What's this all about?
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: We'll talk downtown. You know what it's all about. All right.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: Over next to you, partner.
• 26:10
  Speaker 10: What are you doing anyway?
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: You haven't got anything on us.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: You want to get the cups on him, Bill?
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Stand still, both of you.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: Here's mine.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: What's the pitch here anyway? Harry and I haven't done anything. Yeah.
• 26:19
  Speaker 10: Busting in here like this, private house, you got no
• 26:21
  Speaker 10: business here.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: $ 250 says you're wrong.
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: What?
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: It's a check in your right-hand pocket. All right, come on,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: let's go. The story you have just heard was true.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: The names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: On May 28th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 88,
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. In
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: a moment, the results of that trial. Charles A. Sutton
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: and his accomplice, Harold B. Mather, were tried and convicted
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: on three counts of grand theft money and received sentences
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: as prescribed by law. Grand theft is punishable by imprisonment
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: in the state penitentiary for not less than one nor
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: more than ten years. The initial suspect, Seidel, pled guilty
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: to petty theft and received a sentence of one year
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: in the county jail. You have just heard Dragnet, a
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice comes
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: from the office of Chief of Police W.H. Parker, Los
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: Angeles Police Department. Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn,
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: Sergeant Vance Brasher. Heard tonight were Ken Peters, Virginia Gregg,
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: Vic Rodman.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: Script by Jim Moser. Music by Walter Schumann. Hal Gibney speaking.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Each Thursday night, it's Counterspy on NBC.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Welcome back. Well, as usual, when Dragnet deals with a
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: crime like this, it does show that while the crime
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: may not be.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Violent, the criminals who are.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Perpetrating it are doing something that is very harmful, which
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: helps the audience to be engaged when you're dealing with
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: a case that isn't a typical murder mystery. Kim Peters
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: plays an interesting one-off. There's no real attempt to tie
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: this Bill Lockwood into being the same character Martin Milner played. Apparently,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: they're just trying to avoid coming up with a bunch
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: of extra names. Now, Kim Peters, we hear a few
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: times on the podcast, but there are two episodes that
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: are notable. There's this one where, for one episode, he...
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: plays Joe Friday's partner. And then there is an episode
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: of Let George Do It where Bob Bailey was not
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: well and Ken Peters played George Valentine for that one week.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Probably his most famous ongoing role was on Life with
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Luigi where he played the main character's night school classmate.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: His character of Olsen was a Norwegian immigrant, as everyone
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: in the class was an immigrant from somewhere. The series
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: ran over CBS Radio for four years and also got
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: adapted to television, and most of the radio episodes are
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: in circulation. All right, listener comments and feedback now. And
• 30:02
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• 30:05
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• 30:11
  Speaker 2: fourth that we posted over there. The short clip has
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: me listening to the entire episode. Right, Zekabod? Well, then
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: it did its job. Thanks so much. Appreciate you leaving
• 30:23
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• 30:27
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  Speaker 2: but join us back here tomorrow for yours truly, Johnny Dollarware.
• 31:02
  Speaker 10: You know where those diamonds are out of my sack?
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Well, okay, how much.
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: Do you want this time?
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: You are speaking of money.
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: What else?
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: Oh, sure.
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: How much?
• 31:19
  Speaker 10: Well, one might think that I slave and suffer and
• 31:22
  Speaker 10: risk my life on your behalf only for money.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: How much to my sex?
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Say, $ 10, 000 American.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it was nice to talk to you.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: See you around sometime. No, no, no, no, no. Wait, wait.
• 31:36
  Speaker 10: The only diamonds.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Are worth millions.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: Millions of francs, not dollars.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: But if I could tell you where you may find them?
• 31:43
  Speaker 10: In that case, I might be willing to part with, say,
• 31:46
  Speaker 10: a thousand. Maybe $ 1, 500.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: $ 5, 000.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: If I actually get my hands on them, I'll give
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: you two.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Four?
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: $ 3, 000.
• 31:56
  Speaker 10: That's final.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: $ 3, 500.
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: Goodbye to my sex.
• 31:59
  Speaker 9: No, $ 2, 500.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: I said I'd... Huh?
• 32:03
  Speaker 10: $ 2, 000.
• 32:04
  Speaker 12: Two? Okay, $ 2, 000.
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 32:06
  Speaker 11: Then, oh, then I think I would, what you.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Say, cost myself up.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure you did.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: But do not worry, mon ami. Do not worry. I
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: will do the same.
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm sure you will.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime,
• 32:23
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• 32:35
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• 32:41
  Speaker 2: signing off.