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Dragnet: The Big Shakedown (EP5049) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to bring you this week's episode of Dragnet. But
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  Speaker 1: first I want to go ahead and dedicate this episode
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  Speaker 1: to the memory of Peggy Weber. Miss Weber passed away
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  Speaker 1: on August fifteenth, at the age of one hundred. She
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  Speaker 1: was strongly associated with Dragnant and Jack Webb, appearing in
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  Speaker 1: numerous episodes of the radio series, the nineteen fifties TV series,
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  Speaker 1: and the nineteen sixties TV series. And I don't think
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  Speaker 1: we know the half of her work on these programs
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  Speaker 1: because cast lists were often not used on episodes of
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  Speaker 1: Dragnet for radio announcements, and there are around two hundred
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  Speaker 1: TV episodes from the nineteen fifties that are missing. But
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  Speaker 1: her work went far beyond drag Ma. And we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more about Peggy Eber after today's program.
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  Speaker 1: But now, from May the twenty second, nineteen fifty two,
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  Speaker 1: here is the Big Shakedown.
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  Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true. The
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  Speaker 2: names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
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  Speaker 2: detective sergeant. You're assigned the Wilshire Division Vice Detail. An
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  Speaker 2: informant sends you a word about an extortion racket going
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  Speaker 2: on in your area.
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  Speaker 3: The victim a bookmaker, the suspect a police officer. Your job.
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  Speaker 2: Check it out.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 4: next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 4: you will travel step by step on the side of
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  Speaker 4: the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files.
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  Speaker 4: From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is
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  Speaker 4: the story of your police force and action.
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  Speaker 5: It was Tuesday, October eighteenth, was hot in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: We're working day watch out of Wilshire Division Vice Detail.
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  Speaker 5: My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Hayes.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Friday. We're on our way downtown from
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  Speaker 3: the office.
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  Speaker 5: And it was nine thirty five am when we got
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  Speaker 5: to the Felony section of the main jail.
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  Speaker 3: The interview room sat down, starts. Got your message when
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  Speaker 3: we checked in this morning. What's it about?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I finally made up my mind.
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  Speaker 3: I've had enough of this.
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  Speaker 7: Say either one of you guys a cigarette. I left
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  Speaker 7: mine back in the cell. Yeah, sure, you're your once Oh. Thanks,
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  Speaker 7: there's a match for you.
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  Speaker 3: Now, what's the story? What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I've been thinking about it most of the night.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't get very much sleep.
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  Speaker 6: So you remember yesterday, I mean, I mean when you
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  Speaker 6: arrested me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's just like I told you then. I'm not
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  Speaker 6: trying to kid anybody.
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  Speaker 3: I admit it.
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  Speaker 7: I've been taking a few bets. It wasn't any big
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  Speaker 7: operation though, you know, they just laying off.
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  Speaker 6: A few bets. My friends and all people in the.
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  Speaker 3: Neighborhood we know all that once we went through that yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 7: I just wanted to make sure we got it straight.
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  Speaker 7: We weren't any big operators. We just ran the book
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  Speaker 7: making as a sideline.
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  Speaker 6: Business hasn't been too good lately. Had to make it
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  Speaker 6: up somehow.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, Lawrence, we can't feel bad about it. If you
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  Speaker 3: were attacked for making book before, you should have learned
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  Speaker 3: your lesson.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I know, I know. I'm not seeing the blues.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not trying an alabam. I didn't call it down
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  Speaker 7: here for that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what's it's all about.
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  Speaker 7: Well, like I told you, I didn't thinking about a lot.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't sleep hardly at all. Last night I finally
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  Speaker 7: made up my mind though I'm gonna get off my
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  Speaker 7: chest and it kills me. All right, what's that? I know, Stuie.
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  Speaker 7: I don't want to get in about in trouble because
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  Speaker 7: one thing I believe in, and that's playing a square matter.
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  Speaker 6: What you do, just like now, I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I ain't beaven about the rest. You know, man, what
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  Speaker 3: do you get mat what do you want to tell us? Oh?
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  Speaker 6: All right, here it is.
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  Speaker 3: You know what the record is.
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  Speaker 7: I stood a pinch for book making a year and
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  Speaker 7: a half ago. I got the thing all squared away
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  Speaker 7: and it came back from my business. I learned my lesson.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't want any more trouble, so I I laid
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  Speaker 7: off the books. All right, tell us in what about
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  Speaker 7: this policeman. I'm getting to it just a minute. Say
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  Speaker 7: I'm sorry you've been a.
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  Speaker 6: Cigarette please, I'm I'm gonna jump it this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks, Oh thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 7: Well, like I was saying, you know, when I kid
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  Speaker 7: up the last beef, I forgot all about the horses.
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  Speaker 6: I was offul for good. My wife made me promise
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't have anything more to do.
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  Speaker 3: With him. We just run the business, you know, live
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  Speaker 3: on what they made and.
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  Speaker 6: We'd get along fine.
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  Speaker 7: All right, go ahead, Everything was going fine. Two business
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  Speaker 7: wasn't too good, but we made out. Then the trouble started.
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  Speaker 7: You know, my oldest boy, that's Harry Jr. He had
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  Speaker 7: an accident on the job and he broke his hip.
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  Speaker 7: I had to help his family off while he was
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  Speaker 7: in the hospital. Like I say, the business wasn't making
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  Speaker 7: too much money, but we.
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  Speaker 3: Made out though. Then go ahead.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Well, then just as soon as Harry got well, the
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  Speaker 7: wife came know, gol Blader. She had to have an operation,
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  Speaker 7: but it costs money, you know. Well, my wife was
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  Speaker 7: resting at home. She didn't come down to the store.
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  Speaker 7: I started with the books again, you know, just taking
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  Speaker 7: a few bets on the side, just a few. I
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  Speaker 7: didn't really want to do it, just one of those things,
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  Speaker 7: you know.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't have anybody to go to. The bills had
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  Speaker 6: to be paid.
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  Speaker 3: Where is this policeman fit in with this? Ray?
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  Speaker 2: Wod you?
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  Speaker 6: I'm just coming to it.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, he came to the story. He said he
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  Speaker 7: wanted to make a bet. I didn't know him from Adam,
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  Speaker 7: so I played capitul. You know, I told him I
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  Speaker 7: wasn't making book And then he said he was a
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  Speaker 7: good friend of Myra's.
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  Speaker 3: Myra.
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  Speaker 7: That's a that's a guy runs with you to Pollo
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  Speaker 7: on Crenshaw. She used to make books, but she hasn't.
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  Speaker 6: Now we know the spot. Well, when he said that
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  Speaker 6: he knew Myra, I think he was all right.
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  Speaker 3: So I took the bet. That's that's when it started.
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  Speaker 6: As soon as he makes the bet, he comes out
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  Speaker 6: and says he's a couple working for Vice.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he was just kidding.
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  Speaker 1: And he he.
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  Speaker 6: Flashes this identification what.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of identification bag? What kind of a badge? Well,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know it. The badge looked all right, and
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  Speaker 3: I'd have a look at this one. Here was it
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  Speaker 3: like this one?
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  Speaker 6: M I don't know. I didn't get too good a
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  Speaker 6: look at. It might have been something like that.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You ask for any other identification he volunteered to show
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  Speaker 3: you any? No, No, I didn't ask many. I was scared.
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  Speaker 7: I just figured I was arrested again. That's all he
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  Speaker 7: seemed to know. All about the first page I stood
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  Speaker 7: for making books. He told me that I'd been operating
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  Speaker 7: for about a month and a half. He said he
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  Speaker 7: had his eye on.
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  Speaker 3: What did he do after he told he was a policeman.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I started to explain to him how the things
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  Speaker 7: shaped up while I was making books again, how I
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  Speaker 7: had to pay up those doctors bills. I tried the
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  Speaker 7: bag off. I told him that I put right now.
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  Speaker 7: Then he turns on and tells me, I don't have
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  Speaker 7: to What do you mean, Well, that's just what he said.
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  Speaker 8: He didn't.
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  Speaker 7: He didn't make sense to me either, and he went
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  Speaker 7: all he told me I was operating in his destiny.
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  Speaker 7: He said, be okay, if I went right along the
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  Speaker 7: way I was. He see there that I didn't stand
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  Speaker 7: any pinches, Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: What else he said?
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  Speaker 7: Well, he said he wasn't the only one who'd have
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  Speaker 7: to be taken care of. He said there was his partner,
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  Speaker 7: and then a couple of guys over him. Me, he'd
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  Speaker 7: have to be taken care of too. He said the
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  Speaker 7: juice would cost me one hundred bucks a week. I
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  Speaker 7: tried to explain to him that that well, I told him,
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  Speaker 7: and I wasn't operating big, I was just on the side.
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  Speaker 7: I said, I wasn't making that much a week or
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  Speaker 7: but all I was doing is about fifty. That's all
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  Speaker 7: just fifty. Then he said, well, he says, all right,
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  Speaker 7: if that's if that's the way you feel about it,
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  Speaker 7: I'll just take you down book you now. Well I
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  Speaker 7: told him I didn't want to stand the pinch again,
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  Speaker 7: and I'd do the best I could. So he finally said,
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  Speaker 7: I'll give you two weeks to go ahead and open
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  Speaker 7: this thing up. He said, I'd have to do more
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  Speaker 7: business because the jewe was just going to cost me
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  Speaker 7: a hundred a week.
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  Speaker 6: He didn't care how I got it.
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  Speaker 3: This policeman told you to go ahead and open up
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  Speaker 3: for a hundred a week. He could go ahead and
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  Speaker 3: make book and nobody. Boy, Yeah, did your wife ever
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  Speaker 3: see this policeman in the speller? Williams.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Yes, she saw him.
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  Speaker 3: She saw him a couple of times.
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  Speaker 7: She saw me show me give him the money the
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  Speaker 7: windows start hmm about the first of July.
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  Speaker 6: Paid one hundred dollars every week in stand. See, I'm
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  Speaker 6: I'm all.
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  Speaker 7: The stratchy fellaws picked me up on the stand.
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  Speaker 6: He's he was running into the ground.
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  Speaker 3: He had me in the buying. He said. The man's
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  Speaker 3: name is Ray Williams. Yeah, that's that's he said he
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  Speaker 3: had a partner. Did you ever see him?
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  Speaker 6: No, No, I never did.
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  Speaker 3: Did Williams ever come in with anybody? Did you ever
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  Speaker 3: see him with anybody?
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  Speaker 6: Well?
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  Speaker 3: Was it?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 7: No, matter of fact, I never did. One time I
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  Speaker 7: asked him whose partner was? He says, none of my business.
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  Speaker 6: What kind of a car does he drive? I never
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  Speaker 6: came to my place in the car. He always walked.
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  Speaker 3: He came on foot. You know anything else about him?
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  Speaker 3: Where's he lived? I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: He never told me.
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  Speaker 7: He never told me anything. You see nothing. Once I
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  Speaker 7: asked him what station he was working out of, who
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  Speaker 7: his boss was. He got a little hard with me.
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  Speaker 7: He told me not to get nosy, not to ask
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  Speaker 7: so many questions or anything else.
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  Speaker 5: You can tell us about Williams. Maybe where he hangs
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  Speaker 5: out people. He knows anything you figure.
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  Speaker 7: Will help us well, works South Wilshire. You are going
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  Speaker 7: Ray Williams. Yeah, Williams the policeman, not in my book.
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  Speaker 5: Frank and I continued questioning the prisoner Harold Lawrence, and
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  Speaker 5: he gave us a complete description of the extortionist.
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  Speaker 3: The man he knew his.
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  Speaker 5: Officer, Ray Williams. Frank got on the phone notified the
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  Speaker 5: commander of Internal Affairs Division of the latest development, and
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  Speaker 5: he advised us to bring the prisoner to his office immediately.
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  Speaker 5: We signed Lawrence out of the main jail for investigation
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  Speaker 5: and took him to the City Hall Room thirty seven.
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  Speaker 5: With the help of Sergeants Lloyd Reiner and Floyd Phillips,
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  Speaker 5: we started checking through the personnel files for the suspect.
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  Speaker 3: Neither Frank nor myself recognized.
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  Speaker 5: The name or the description of Williams has given us
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  Speaker 5: by Lawrence. The first step was to show the prisoner
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  Speaker 5: photographs of every police officer in the department, regardless of
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  Speaker 5: rank or detail.
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  Speaker 3: He was unable to make an identification.
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  Speaker 5: Then showed him photographs of all police officers retired or otherwise.
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  Speaker 5: He failed to identify any of them as Williams. We
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  Speaker 5: showed him photographs of all civilian employees of the department,
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  Speaker 5: again no identification. He wasn't able to find anyone who
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  Speaker 5: even closely resembled the extortionist. Not satisfied with this, the
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  Speaker 5: prisoner was shown photographs of all law enforcement agencies personnel
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  Speaker 5: in the area. The same results, no identification. Four eighteen PM.
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  Speaker 5: While Ryner and Phillips continued checking on their end. We
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  Speaker 5: returned the prisoner to the main jail, and then Frank
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  Speaker 5: and I drove out to see his wife, missus Mildred Lawrence.
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  Speaker 5: We located her at Lawrence's place of business, a small
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  Speaker 5: pet shop just off Wiltshire Boulevard.
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  Speaker 6: What is it this time?
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  Speaker 8: Haven't we got enough trouble? What do you want now?
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  Speaker 3: We just got through talking your husband, ma'am. A few
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  Speaker 3: things we'd like to clear up. I'd like to talk
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  Speaker 3: to you a few minutes if we could.
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  Speaker 8: We talked to Harry.
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  Speaker 1: How is he?
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  Speaker 3: He's all right, ma'am. We've been with him all day.
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  Speaker 3: We're still looking into the case.
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  Speaker 8: Why can't you let him alone? He admitted what he
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  Speaker 8: was doing.
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  Speaker 6: He wasn't lying.
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  Speaker 10: He told you everything.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, man, we appreciate that.
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  Speaker 8: We wanted to let him alone. Let me alone. Trouble,
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  Speaker 8: that's all we've had, sickness and trouble, no end of it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we realize that, Miss Lawrence. We don't like to
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  Speaker 5: body you, but there's something we have to straighten out.
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  Speaker 8: I haven't anything to tell you.
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  Speaker 6: I'm busy.
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  Speaker 10: I have to alone here to run the store. No help,
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  Speaker 10: I'm sick. Shouldn't even be down here, let us.
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  Speaker 8: Alone, Let me alone. Harry was wrong, You'll pay for it.
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  Speaker 8: We're not asking you for anything.
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  Speaker 3: We're asking you for something, ma'am. We'd like you to
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  Speaker 3: help us, help you.
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  Speaker 10: Why policemen all alike? But as I'm concerned, you're nothing
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  Speaker 10: but trouble. Reason for all our trouble.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's what we'd like to talk to you about, ma'am.
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  Speaker 8: I haven't anything to say. I told you I'm a
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  Speaker 8: sick woman. Got a lot of work to do.
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  Speaker 10: You mind stepping aside. There got this whole ben of
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  Speaker 10: dog through the package up. Can't just stand around and talk.
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  Speaker 8: Poor little pups have to be fair. Haven't even cleaned
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  Speaker 8: the litter yet.
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  Speaker 5: We appreciate how you feel, is Lawrence. We won't take
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  Speaker 5: up too much of your time. Can't you give us
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  Speaker 5: just a few minutes now?
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  Speaker 8: You listen to me. I've tried to be nice to you.
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  Speaker 8: I've got no reason to either.
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  Speaker 10: I could tell you a lot of things about policemen,
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  Speaker 10: things you wouldn't want to listen to.
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  Speaker 8: I think you're so smart. Maybe Harry was doing.
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  Speaker 6: Wrong, but he's not the only one. I could tell
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  Speaker 6: you plenty if I wanted, well, that's.
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  Speaker 3: What we're here for, ma'am. We told you we were
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  Speaker 3: with your husband all day, and.
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  Speaker 8: Why don't you let me alone?
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  Speaker 10: Talked to one cop already today. I told him to
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  Speaker 10: stay away, and you do the same. I told him
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  Speaker 10: just what I thought of him, low down thief.
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  Speaker 3: Who was this policeman you talked to today?
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  Speaker 8: You know who he is.
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  Speaker 10: It's the same place with you, big honest policeman. You'll
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  Speaker 10: never do anything wrong.
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  Speaker 8: That Ray Williams out.
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  Speaker 3: To be in jail, just like Harry. Is Ray Williams.
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  Speaker 3: That the man who was here today.
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  Speaker 6: It's what I said, wasn't it. No, you get out
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  Speaker 6: of here now.
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  Speaker 5: Look, m miss Lawrence, just a minute please. We talked
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  Speaker 5: to your husband and he told us all about this
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  Speaker 5: man Williams.
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  Speaker 8: Why don't you do something about it. We'll get him
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  Speaker 8: and put him in jail, just like you did Harry.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we're trying to do, if you'll just help us.
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  Speaker 3: Williams isn't the policeman?
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am, that's what we've been trying to tell you.
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  Speaker 3: We talked to your husband. He told us the whole story.
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  Speaker 8: How can you tell how do you know he's not
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  Speaker 8: a policeman.
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  Speaker 3: He's not, ma'am. We're sure of that.
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  Speaker 8: Harry said he was showed Harry is badge.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it doesn't make him a policeman, ma'am. We had
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  Speaker 5: your husband look at pictures of every officer in this area.
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  Speaker 5: He convinced himself Williams isn't a policeman.
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  Speaker 9: If he isn't a policeman, who is he?
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  Speaker 3: That's so we wanna find out why he help us.
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  Speaker 3: This is Larnce.
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  Speaker 10: You'll have to excuse me. I didn't mean to be nasty,
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  Speaker 10: just that I've been sick. He's trouble.
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  Speaker 8: Harry in jail.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am, we understand that. And you say Williams was
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  Speaker 3: here today about what time was that?
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  Speaker 8: It was before lunch, about eleven thirty quarter to twelve.
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  Speaker 8: I think he came here to get money.
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  Speaker 6: That's what he always came for.
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  Speaker 3: Did he save me back?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 10: I told him never to come back. Told him Harry
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  Speaker 10: was in jail. All the money we gave him, what
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  Speaker 10: good did it do?
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  Speaker 9: That?
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  Speaker 8: I'd go to the city Hall if he ever came back.
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  Speaker 3: What he say to that.
• 14:35
  Speaker 8: Said, Harry had to expect an arrest now. And then
• 14:38
  Speaker 8: I told him. Harry wasn't gonna get arrested anymore.
• 14:40
  Speaker 10: He was through with all that junk. People like him too,
• 14:42
  Speaker 10: uh huh. Then he swore at me, trought me some
• 14:45
  Speaker 10: real nasty names, told me I'd better keep my mouth shutter.
• 14:48
  Speaker 10: I'd get worse than Harry did. Then he went out
• 14:50
  Speaker 10: and slammed the door.
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: Was he driving a car? Did you notice?
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: No?
• 14:53
  Speaker 8: I never saw him in one.
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: There anything you know about Williams at all? I mean,
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: anything that would help us locate him? Maybe?
• 14:58
  Speaker 10: No, I don't think so. All I know is he
• 15:02
  Speaker 10: said he was a policeman. His name was Ray Williams.
• 15:05
  Speaker 10: Couldn't Harry tell you anything? Maybe he knews?
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: No, ma'am, he couldn't tell us much. Excuse me, please,
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: that's weird.
• 15:12
  Speaker 8: All it's his pet shop?
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, but that.
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: What Hello?
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: She hung up, ma'am.
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: It was Ray Williams.
• 15:26
  Speaker 8: Said he just drove by here, he saw us.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: What do you want?
• 15:29
  Speaker 9: Said?
• 15:29
  Speaker 10: He saw me talking to you. He knows your policeman.
• 15:32
  Speaker 10: Told me to keep my mouth shut. Said if I don't,
• 15:33
  Speaker 10: he's coming back.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:35
  Speaker 9: He said he'd kill me.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Before we left.
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: We called in and arranged for a twenty four hour
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: stakeout on Lawrence's pet shop and also on the Lawrence
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: home until the suspect was apprehended. She would be given
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: a twenty four hour protection The next day, we picked
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: up Missus Lawrence and brought her downtown to the City
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: Hall Room twenty three, and she was unable to identify
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: any of the photographs of police officers in the area.
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: In addition of the personnel photographs, Missus Lawrence also went
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: through a group of pictures which Sergeants Reiner and Phillips.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Came up with.
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: They'd had a run made through the Stat's office on
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: all known extortionists using the same m O.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Williams used.
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: Posing as a police officer from this group, Both mister
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: and Missus Lawrence gave us two partial identifications.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Both men were picked up, questioned, and eliminated.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: Meantime, we'd gotten not a local broadcast and the teletype
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: was sent to George Barton's CII Sacramento asking for assistance
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: and identifying the extortion suspect. The investigation went on two days,
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: passed no leads in the suspect. In checking on other
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: possible victims of the extortionist Ray Williams, we drove to
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: interview Mayra Thomas, operator of a beauty shop out on Crenshaw.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: She was a tall, good looking brunette in her early thirties.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: This man were looking for miss Thomas, Ray Williams. We
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: understand he's a friend of yours.
• 16:49
  Speaker 9: Well, please, sergeant, you've described the man to me. You
• 16:51
  Speaker 9: told me his name. It doesn't mean a thing to me.
• 16:53
  Speaker 9: I don't know him.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Woman, how to get your names?
• 16:55
  Speaker 9: I'm sure I don't know. Sorry, I can't help you.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Well, no, apparently the man knows you, or he knows it.
• 17:00
  Speaker 9: I don't think I understand you. It makes you think
• 17:02
  Speaker 9: this man Williams knows me.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: We've already told you, ma'am.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: Mister Lawrence says that when Ray Williams first approached him,
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: he used your name as a means of introduction. Now
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: it's not a coincidence, and you'll admit that.
• 17:11
  Speaker 9: I just don't understand what it has to do with me.
• 17:14
  Speaker 9: I know how you feel. I have an idea what
• 17:16
  Speaker 9: you're thinking. I was in trouble once that book making thing.
• 17:19
  Speaker 9: I learned my lesson, though I I'm through with that business.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Why not here about that older rest, ma'am. We don't
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: wanna bother. You just thought you might be able to
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: help us locate Williams.
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, I don't think I can.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: Possibly he might've been using another name.
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: Man, I still wouldn't know him. Description doesn't sound like
• 17:33
  Speaker 9: anybody I ever knew.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: You know the Lawrence is pretty well?
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: Do you?
• 17:36
  Speaker 9: Yes? I wouldn't say pretty well, but I do know them.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Have you seen him lately, either one of 'em?
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: No, I haven't.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: You haven't talked with missus Lawrence the last couple of days. No,
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: Why we thought Missus Lawrence might have told you what
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: kind of a man this Ray Williams is?
• 17:48
  Speaker 9: What do you mean what's so bad about posing as
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: a police.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Well, it's more than that, ma'am.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: He telephoned Missus Lawrence threatened her if she talked to
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: the police about why.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am, he said he'd kill her. Yes, ma'am, that's right.
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: Couldn't be. He wouldn't do a thing like that.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: You know him that well.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: force and action.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: The idea of an extortionist posing as a policeman to
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: obtain money certainly was nothing new.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: The idea is as old as crime itself.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: It's one of the most vicious types of extortion in
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: the eyes of law enforcement agencies because so many such
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: cases go unreported to proper authorities by the victims. Usually
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: the victim is a person of circumstances with something to hide.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: The extortionist discovers the person's secret by one means or another,
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: and he begins the never ending process of draining the
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: victim of his last dollar, all under the guise of
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: being a police officer. If the victim's intelligent enough at
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: the first approach by at the extortionist, he takes the
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: matter to the proper authorities. If he isn't and he's
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: lucky enough eventually to escape the extortion trap, he goes
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: on for the rest of his life believing that a
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: man who was hired to protect him was the source
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: of all his trouble, And for the rest of his
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: life he hangs on to his idea and he passes
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: it on to others a complete disrespect for law and
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: law enforcement officers. Saturday October twenty second, two fifteen pm,
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: Frank Smith and I continued questioning the beauty shop operator
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Mayra Thomas.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: The more we talk with her, the more we were.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Convinced that she was acquainted with the suspect, Ray Williams.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: In order to convince her of the suspect's viciousness, we
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: drove her over to see Missus Lawrence at the pet shop.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: After their talk, we drove Mayra Thomas back to the
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: beauty shop and she told us the story.
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: Ges. I have to admit it. He certainly hadn't food.
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: I thought he was a policeman.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: You say he showed you his identification, ma'am. I mean
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: when he first approached you.
• 19:52
  Speaker 9: Yes, he showed you a badge. It looked authentic to me.
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: And the way he talked, the things he said. Thought
• 19:56
  Speaker 9: he was a policeman. I really did.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: Now you've heard our end of the story, Miss Thomas,
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: you've talked to Missus Lawrence, and you're willing.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: To help us.
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: Now you won't get around, really won't be in the newspapers.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: They won't get it from us. Now.
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: He won't tell my husband, will he? He doesn't have
• 20:08
  Speaker 9: to know.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: All about this, no, ma'am, not bless you want him to?
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: Well, I don't. Wasn't getting along too well as it is.
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: Williams is the trouble too, I guess I should've told
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: you when you first ask me, what's that? Miss? Just
• 20:19
  Speaker 9: like the Lawrences. I was paying him off too, a
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: lot longer than the Lawrences. Every week I paid him
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: and I couldn't tell anyone, couldn't even tell my husband
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: what's that?
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Man?
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: I guess I thought I was smart, the book making thing,
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: I mean. Started taking a few bets from the girls
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: in the shop, just small ones. I didn't mean anything
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: by it. And this wood News came in one day,
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: said his girlfriend made a beth with me and he
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: wanted to place one too.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Did you take it?
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: Yes, like I told her, I thought I was smart.
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: As soon as I took the bet, he showed me
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: the badge, told me he was a police officer. That's
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: when it started. Same thing, just like the Lawrences.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: How about after you arrested miss Thomas. What happened with Williams? Then?
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: Well, after I got it settled, Williams came back to
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: the shop again. I told him then I was through
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: with the horses. Doesn't have anything to do with it again.
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: After that, I didn't see him for a while.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Sure was glad you've seen him since you know where
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: we can look at him now?
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: No, I don't, but I have seen him since though.
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: You promise me my husband won't know about this.
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: You give me your word.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: Ms Thomas. If you don't want your husband to know
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: about this, it's your business. You'll never hear it from us.
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: Got to be that way, believe me. I love my husband.
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: Ray Williams has caused there's nothing but trouble. Can't tell
• 21:23
  Speaker 9: you the word he's caused me. I mean, besides all
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: the money I paid him too.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: You mean you're still paying him?
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: Yes, that's right every week. I don't know how low
• 21:30
  Speaker 9: that man is. I can't begin to tell you. And
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: I thought he was a policeman.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Why are you still paying him off? Man? Don't mind
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: telling him that?
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: No, I guess I don't mind. I've gone this far alright,
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: cause while my husband and I were separated, we had
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: a fight, and we were separated. I started going out
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: on dates, nothing serious. One night I was out with
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: a fella from out of town. Nice fella. This Ray
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: Williams saw me and fellas sitting in the car parking
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: lot right in back of the bar. Even Nicky Williams
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: come by and you, I saw him. I see, wasn't
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: anything wrong?
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: I love my husband. He wouldn't understand about the fella
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: that night though. I mean, if William's ever.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Told him that's what he's been holding over your head,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: has he?
• 22:10
  Speaker 9: Yes, it's more than a year now. I've paid him
• 22:12
  Speaker 9: every week. I'll tell you the truth, Sergeant. I can't
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: go on much longer. I can't.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Well, you don't have to worry about it anymore. Just
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: help us locate the man. That's all you have to
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: do now.
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: Oh, I don't know where he lives, but I'm Alwa's
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: gonna contact me. He always does.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: That's what we'd like to know. How does he contact you?
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: He phones usually once a week, maybe every other week,
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: calls me and talks me to meet him someplace and
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: bring the money.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Fifty dollars every week, and you have a regular time
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: that he calls.
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: You, No, almost any time. It's never the same day,
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: never the same place I meet him. I haven't heard
• 22:39
  Speaker 9: from him in over a week now. He should be
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: calling pretty soon, I guess MM.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: He usually call here? Does he phone you at home?
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: Both places? He seems to know where to reach me.
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: I don't know what I'm gonna do this time. I
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: just don't know.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Ma'am, I haven't got the money for him.
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: I broke four or five dollars. That's all I have.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Well, don't worry about it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: But he's gonna warn his payoff, you know that. What
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: am I gonna do this time?
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: It's on us.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: Before we left Mara Thomas at the beauty shop, we
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: had a definite understanding that as soon as she heard
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: from the extortionist Ray Williams, she was to call us immediately,
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: anytime of the day or night. Then we called the
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: office and made arrangements for stakeouts to be placed both
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: at the beauty shop and at Myra Thomas's home in
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: case Williams decided to contact her in person. The Thomas
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: woman was given a point envelope containing fifty dollars in
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: mark bills, which he was to hand over to the
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: suspect the next time he demanded his regular payoff. Two
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: days went by Tuesday, October twenty fifth, no word on
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: the suspect. Thursday the twenty seventh, still no word. Saturday morning,
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: October twenty ninth.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: I got it all right, nice detail Smith. How's eh?
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, uh huh? I see hold on off pencil, Joe, Yeah,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: here you go. How was that place again? Okay, good time?
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Surely about half an hour? Yes, man, we'll be there. Goodbye.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: When he got Frank anyy? Yeah, Mayra Thomas finn. He
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: wants to see us. I told her we'd be over
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: about half an hour. What's the deal, Williams cauler, he
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: wants his money.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Eleven fifteen am, Frank and I got in the car
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: and drove out to see Mara Thomas at her apartment.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: She told us that the suspect, Ray Williams.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Had telephoned her shortly before eleven o'clock that morning and
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: set up a date to meet her for his regular
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: payoff at ten o'clock that night. The designated meeting place
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: was a small nightclub out on Santa Monica Boulevard. The
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: Thomas woman was to meet Williams at the bar. We
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: told her to get there a few minutes ahead of time,
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: and if she happened to spot Frank and I in
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: the nightclub, she was to give no sign of recognition
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: as far as the actual payoff was concerned. We instructed
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: her to hand over the envelope containing the money to
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: the suspect when he demanded it without any argument.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Shortly after nine o'clock that night, Frank and I entered
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: the nightclub and got a table.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Directly adjoining the bar was a modernistic affair lighted from
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: below with a blue fluorescent lamp.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: A four piece orchestra was playing at the rear of
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: the place.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: Nobody was dancing, only a few of the tables were occupied,
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: but the bar was doing a good business.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: We waited nine nine forty five.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: We spotted Mayra Thomas as she entered the club. She
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: went to the far end of the bar, sat down
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: on one of the stools in ordered a high ball.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: Nine fifty ten pm. We kept waiting, ten fifteen, ten thirty,
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: still no.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Sign of the suspect. We watched Mayra Thomas order another
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: high ball getting laid to you. You know what time
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: he got twenty five to eleven. Joe just came in
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: coming this way, Gray sue, Yeah, huh. What do you
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: think the description fits, doesn't it? That must be going
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: up to miss Thomas talking to her. All right, he's
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: got the envelope a right, just a minute, let's give
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: him room. He's leaving, going for the front door. What
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: are you saying? Let's go not wasting any time? Come on,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: let's hurry down the street. Come on, hold it. What's
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: the matter? What do you want? Police officers like to
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: talk to you me?
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: What about?
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: What's the matter? You got your identification? Oh?
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Sure, right here?
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: What do you want?
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: We'd like to look at it?
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Oh sure, hear you?
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Oh excuse me. That's your badge? Oh no, it's nothing.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: What'd you get that phony badge? Friend of mine? Why?
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: What's the matter? What do you got in your right
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: hand pocket? Nothing? Just an envelope? Why the money in
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: that envelope? Which I said? Is there any money in
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: an envelope? Currency?
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: I think so? On what's the difference?
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: You know the serial numbers on the bills in that envelope,
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: But I.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Don't know what you mean, serial numbers on their money?
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: What are you getting at? You got seven pieces of
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: paper money in that envelope, three ten dollars bills and
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: four fives?
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: What about an extortion? Mister? You know the pitch? Now,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: come on, let's go now, hold it. Wait a minute,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: let's get this straight. Huh So I got an envel
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: in my pocket, ordinary envelope that's supposed to make me
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: a criminal?
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: No, No more than that badge makes you a cop.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: Come on, the story you have just heard was true.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: The names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: On January eighth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: eighty six, City in County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: In a moment the results of that trial, Raymond Edward
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Williams was tried and convicted of extortion one count and
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: impersonating an officer one count. He received sentences as prescribed
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: by law and is now serving his term in the
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: state penitentiary. Extortion is punishable by imprisonment for not less
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: than one nor more than ten years. Impersonation of an
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: officer is punishable by a fine if not more than
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Friends, sometime during the next two weeks, you'll be asked
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: to buy a poppy in memory of those who fought
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: to keep freedom alive. Give generously when you're asked, and
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: where your poppy?
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Proudly, you have just heard Dragnet a series of authentic
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: cases from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: of Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Department Technical Advisors. Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Vans Bracer Heard Tonight where herb Ellis Bick Rodman, June Whitley,
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: Script by Jim Mosic, music by Walter Schumann, Hell give
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: Me Speaking.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Stay tuned for Counterspy next on MBZ.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back. This is a good story, but it's kind
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: of one of those where the basic tale has been
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: told better elsewhere, in this case, in episodes like The
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Bake Fraud. Nevertheless, I think that this episode does a
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: good job telling an interesting a case file and also
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: throwing in information with which a listener could protect himself
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: from this sort of skin. Well, now let's talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more about the career of Peggy Weber. Weber
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  Speaker 1: was not just a great radio voice actress like many others.
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  Speaker 1: Her work extended into television and film. I talked about
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  Speaker 1: all of the appearances she did on the Dragnet TV show,
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  Speaker 1: but it went beyond that. She was also a quite
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  Speaker 1: skilled creator and director. She worked in early television, and
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  Speaker 1: she remained dedicated to audio drama as an art form.
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  Speaker 1: She was part of radio revival programs like the Sears
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  Speaker 1: Radio Theater as that radio revival was kind of losing steam.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty four, she established the California Artist Radio
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  Speaker 1: Theater and directed and produced a large number of audio dramas.
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  Speaker 1: The figures that I see for the number of works
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  Speaker 1: she did seems to vary a little bit. I've seen
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  Speaker 1: some estimates at one point fifty or at three hundred. Regardless,
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  Speaker 1: it was a remarkable accomplishment, and I think she was
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  Speaker 1: very good at networking and putting together some amazing cast.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at the website of the theater at
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  Speaker 1: courtradio dot com, there's just an impressive array of actors
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  Speaker 1: who are not in the golden age of radio, who
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't have think would have any audio drama acting experience,
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  Speaker 1: but nevertheless who she was able to get cast again.
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  Speaker 1: Peggy Weber passed away at the age of one hundred
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  Speaker 1: on August fifteenth, and leaves behind a very rich legacy
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  Speaker 1: that spans the decades. Now we will be featuring additional
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  Speaker 1: programs in her honor. Our Sunday Special, which I had
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  Speaker 1: something else planned for, but we will modify our plans
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  Speaker 1: to bring you an episode that features a fine example
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  Speaker 1: of miss Weber's work and you'll also get to hear
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  Speaker 1: her on the amazing world of radio at Amazing Greatdetectives
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  Speaker 1: at all or where it's.
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  Speaker 5: Roger Bert you've seen probably around the place, yes, Johnny,
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  Speaker 5: and only at night.
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  Speaker 8: And he's supposed to me Dannis Thrums, who's gone out.
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  Speaker 9: West to something. And don't you see what that means
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  Speaker 9: he's going to carry out. He's set betil captain names.
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  Speaker 8: He's got to stop him somehow.
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  Speaker 3: You're right about all that stay.
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  Speaker 8: You knew what a terrible Christon he is.
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  Speaker 3: Yet you were engaged to be married to That was.
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  Speaker 8: Before the captain showed him up.
• 32:43
  Speaker 9: But what he really is a wife of him.
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  Speaker 3: Will you admit yourself, it's never been.
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  Speaker 9: Pinned on because he's probably that's why he boasted that
• 32:50
  Speaker 9: he could kill my uncle and got away with it.
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  Speaker 7: Now that I've seen here, Johnny, he hasn't made his
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  Speaker 7: presence around here known to anyone else.
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  Speaker 9: I'm sure he doesn't know that I've seen.
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  Speaker 3: But no, just what has he done?
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  Speaker 9: All I know is that I've seen or his shadow
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  Speaker 9: poking around outside in the yard between here.
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  Speaker 2: And the cells and last shows that.
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  Speaker 3: Look, you can see it there, that concrete building, whatever.
• 33:21
  Speaker 9: It is at it used to be a kind of
• 33:23
  Speaker 9: jail back in the days of the failing ships. Not
• 33:26
  Speaker 9: a power company uses it for transformers is.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever you call?
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I see the power cables leading down to the four.
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