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Dragnet: The Big Trunk (TV Soundtrack) (EP4724) · 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 post Adam Brand. In a moment, we're
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  Speaker 1: are actually doing something a little bit different. For fifty months,
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  Speaker 1: we haven't had any lost episodes on Dragnet, but unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: that streak comes to a close as two episodes The
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  Speaker 1: Big Love are missing. The Big Trunk is one of
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  Speaker 1: those episodes where the TV adaptation circulates and we can
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and listen to the soundtrack of that TV episode.
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  Speaker 1: As usual, this has been Alexander as Frank Smith, but
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  Speaker 1: as otherwise, the same story that would have been heard
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  Speaker 1: on radio. So here based on the radio script that
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  Speaker 1: aired on March twenty second, nineteen fifty one. Is the
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  Speaker 1: soundtrack of the TV episode that aired January seventh, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty four. It's the Big Trunk.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, the story you were of out
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  Speaker 2: to see is true.
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  Speaker 3: The names have been changed to protect the innocent. This
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  Speaker 3: is the city, Los Angeles, California. I work here, I'm
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  Speaker 3: a cop. It was Wednesday, September second, was cloudy in
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  Speaker 3: Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out a
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  Speaker 3: homicide division. My partners Frank Smith, the boss's captain. Woman,
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  Speaker 3: my name is Friday. A man had jumped from a
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  Speaker 3: downtown ten story building. We checked what evidence we had,
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  Speaker 3: but we were still unable to get an identification. Before
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  Speaker 3: we could proceed with the investigation, we had to know
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  Speaker 3: who he was and why. You know, what's doing? Well,
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  Speaker 3: not much got you've seen Frank Ronnie was supposed meet
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  Speaker 3: me here, as passed him in the whole communications said
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  Speaker 3: to be run back playing make you think it busy?
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  Speaker 3: All about the same, but I'll have to go around
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  Speaker 3: the house though it's right. Don't mentioned something about that.
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  Speaker 3: You're getting ready for a wedding right at your house,
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  Speaker 3: aren't you. Yeah, My daughter aroundis he's getting a nice
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  Speaker 3: fellow that's up. Yeah, ambitious boys smart is a part
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  Speaker 3: time accountment, goes to law school at Nowtown in Loyola.
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  Speaker 3: Real nice fellow. That's good when they get made from Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: My wife finally got her way. It's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a big church thing, so that it doesn't have enough.
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  Speaker 3: Why you should have had all boys gots you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: give you got away? I suppose. Yeah, so that's announced me.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to be sure and send my suit of
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  Speaker 3: the cleaner's. You've got a good press job on it.
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  Speaker 3: It is funny, but it seems the wife's been afraid
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  Speaker 3: for years. We never get Alice married off. Now it's
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  Speaker 3: finally the works the wife's doing. I'm happy. Oh how's that?
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  Speaker 3: She goes moping around the house, dabbing a rise with
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  Speaker 3: a handkerchief, keeps muttering something about losing a little girl
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  Speaker 3: or little girl's living. I don't know, how was your
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  Speaker 3: daughter Alice? Pretty true? Well, I guess I better get
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  Speaker 3: started on this. Hi, I think what's going? How'd you
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  Speaker 3: do on that job? Is nothing? Don't make it on
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  Speaker 3: the prince? Huh? A couple of long relax on his
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  Speaker 3: clothes were checking him out? Ye, anything else doing? Well? Say,
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  Speaker 3: they just posted the list inside the annual physical exams. Am,
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  Speaker 3: I honor sure both of us were supposed to report
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  Speaker 3: to Roll nineteen at the Academy Monday ten o'clock. Who's
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  Speaker 3: doing the examinations? Doctor seven? Oh, what's the matter.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he's the one that checked me over last year,
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  Speaker 4: told me to take off some weight.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't lost an ounce, but I thought you were
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  Speaker 3: on a diet, I am Joe.
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  Speaker 4: You even got one of those little calorie gizmos.
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  Speaker 3: You know it tells you how many calories and everything. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I hurt him, doesn't do any John still gam well.
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  Speaker 3: It seems to me if you keep touch you should
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  Speaker 3: lose some weight, you know me. In addition, Joe, I
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  Speaker 3: WoT some lunch, hot shot, I got it y, there's
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  Speaker 3: one to roll out. I'm rich. Fare one is a
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  Speaker 3: fair hotel, Room twelve. Yeah. The slug murder eleven fifty
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  Speaker 3: five AM relocated the Stage Hotel on West Howard Street,
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  Speaker 3: half a dozen blocks from the City Hall, was in
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  Speaker 3: the heart of the skid Row district, a white stuccle
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  Speaker 3: building three stories. Who identified ourselves to the manager of
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  Speaker 3: the hotel and missus Lorraine Washburn. She led the way
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  Speaker 3: up a flight of stairs to the second floor. The
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  Speaker 3: hallway was dingy. Down at the end on the left
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  Speaker 3: was Room twelve. We went in. The room was crowded
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  Speaker 3: with furniture bric a brac, odds and ends. The walls
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  Speaker 3: were covered with pictures of old time board bill stars,
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  Speaker 3: autographed programs, and theatrical posters. In the center of the
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  Speaker 3: room was an open steamer trunk full of costumes and
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  Speaker 3: bundles of news clippings. It looked like it had been ransacked,
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  Speaker 3: tied to a chair with the body of a woman.
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  Speaker 3: She looked to me about thirty years of age, red hair.
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  Speaker 3: She'd been badly beaten about the face and head. Near
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  Speaker 3: the body was an empty wine bottle, a pair of
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  Speaker 3: broken glasses, and I liked the steel pipe about ten
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  Speaker 3: inches long. There were bloodstains on her. Frank put on
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  Speaker 3: a call of the office and then to the crime lamb.
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  Speaker 3: The landlady identified the victim of Telma Porter. We asked
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  Speaker 3: the lamaity what time she discovered the body.
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  Speaker 5: About eleven twenty this morning. That's where it is now.
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  Speaker 6: Sergeant Stuffy's can touched I haven't mentioned it to anyone
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  Speaker 6: in the hotel.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, how long have the victim been staying here
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  Speaker 4: at the hotel, Miss.
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  Speaker 6: Washington or at least two years, maybe a little more
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  Speaker 6: than that.
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  Speaker 5: Easy at the tail, It just doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 6: How do you mean, man, Thelma didn't have any moon?
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  Speaker 5: He was just like most of the people I have
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  Speaker 5: his stage volks.
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  Speaker 3: They're all older people.
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  Speaker 7: Most of them don't work too often, live from hand
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  Speaker 7: them out most of the times.
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  Speaker 3: I say, did former porter live in this room here alone? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's right, this is a thing.
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  Speaker 5: Though farmer used to be married. Her husband died in
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  Speaker 5: east about ten years ago. I think name was Carl.
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  Speaker 7: Thelma and Kyle.
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  Speaker 6: There used to be an old Roadville king, the two
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  Speaker 6: of them laws and behind.
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  Speaker 4: Did the porter woman have many friends here at the hotel?
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  Speaker 8: Man?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, to everybody. All my people are friendly with
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  Speaker 5: each other. Most of them are pinions. They just will
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  Speaker 5: have to tell all of them about.
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  Speaker 3: This, Yes, ma'am, I graid so I must wash them.
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  Speaker 3: Remember the last time you saw him as porter? I
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  Speaker 3: mean before this morning, of course.
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  Speaker 6: Just after midnight last night. I was sitting down in
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  Speaker 6: the lobby of eating, just about to go to bed.
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  Speaker 6: Thelma came home with George Steele. Did the friend of
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  Speaker 6: Falmas lives here in the hotel? Thelma said good night
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  Speaker 6: and came upstairs here till the room. George and I
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  Speaker 6: sat a bed and talked maybe ten fifteen minutes. Then
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  Speaker 6: this money I was taking the fresh linen around to
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  Speaker 6: the rooms, knocked on Thloma's door, but she didn't answer.
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  Speaker 6: Finally opened up with the past key.
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  Speaker 3: There it was, and this George Steele that missus Porter
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  Speaker 3: came in with. Had she'd been out on a date
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  Speaker 3: with him?
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  Speaker 9: Wud you know?
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  Speaker 5: No, not exactly.
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  Speaker 7: You see Thomas Bark quite a bit of time at
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  Speaker 7: the bar down the street, Jack Hamley's place.
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  Speaker 5: She was bare five six nights every week.
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  Speaker 10: I see George.
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  Speaker 7: Dropped in poor a bottle of beer, had one of Elma.
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  Speaker 3: I guess.
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  Speaker 7: Then the two of them came back to the hotel together.
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  Speaker 3: Did she have any visitors last night? You know, no, sir,
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  Speaker 3: I don't. Does she have any enemies that you might
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  Speaker 3: know of? Maybe somebody she didn't get along way? No,
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  Speaker 3: nobody I know her, And you can't think of a
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  Speaker 3: reason why anybody'd want to kill her.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 10: Maybe somebody thought she had money. She didn't, not even
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  Speaker 10: enough to bury her.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Joe's Washington. The manager on the way over here over
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  Speaker 3: he would you need me anymore?
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  Speaker 5: Can I go now?
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  Speaker 11: With?
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  Speaker 3: Got a few more questions you'd like to ask you, ma'am,
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  Speaker 3: if you don't mind.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's quite a shock, you know, terrible thing.
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  Speaker 10: To have happened. That, such a terrible thing, all mixed up.
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  Speaker 10: I'm going to have to explain what's happening. Tell me
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  Speaker 10: she had three weeks behind in her rent. I carried
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  Speaker 10: her on the books. Do you all know the hotel's
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  Speaker 10: going to want the rent for me? Going to have
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  Speaker 10: to come from someplace.
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  Speaker 3: Well, how did missus porter live? Didn't she have anyone
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  Speaker 3: come at all?
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  Speaker 5: She worked occasionally odd jobs, and she'd have the unplumbed insurance.
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  Speaker 7: Even after I'm out on her two or three weeks ago.
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  Speaker 7: There's no reason in the world for its sergeant killing.
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  Speaker 7: Tell she wasn't too young or very pretty.
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  Speaker 5: She wasn't worth anything. She didn't even have a decent
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  Speaker 5: coat to go outing. Yes, ma'am, that's trunk over there
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  Speaker 5: full of papers. That's all she has. What sense does
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  Speaker 5: that make?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, ma'am. I haven't started checking yet. He
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  Speaker 3: a couple of scrap books.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody'd kill her for that pile level?
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  Speaker 3: Amuse cooking? Oh no, it's been done for less. I
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  Speaker 3: continued to interview the landlady, missus Washburn. She told me
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  Speaker 3: that the victim had quite a few male acquaintances that
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  Speaker 3: she'd met at neighborhood bonds. She gave me the names
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  Speaker 3: of all those she knew of. Twelve forty five pm,
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  Speaker 3: Sergeant Jay Allen and the crew from the crime lab arrived.
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  Speaker 3: The body and the murder room were photographed from all angles.
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  Speaker 3: Dean Bergmann processed everything in the room for lat and fingerprints.
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  Speaker 3: The place was gone over thoroughly for further physical evidence.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing that didn't seem to belong in the
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  Speaker 3: room was the apparent murder weapon, the ten inch length
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  Speaker 3: of steel pipe bound beside the body. One o five pm,
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  Speaker 3: after we put in a call to the coroner's office,
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  Speaker 3: we started checking with the residence of the hotel. No
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  Speaker 3: one gave us any direct leads to the killing, but
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  Speaker 3: more than a half a dozen of them told us
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  Speaker 3: that Missus Porter had been in the habit of making
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  Speaker 3: vague remarks, but what she kept in that steamer trunk
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  Speaker 3: in her room. She made a point of never opening
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  Speaker 3: the trunk for anyone, and she hitted constantly, even in public,
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  Speaker 3: that she kept something of value inside. Four forty five pm,
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  Speaker 3: we started checking out the list of the murdered woman's friends,
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  Speaker 3: which Missus Washburn and the tenants had given us. It
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  Speaker 3: went slow. We got little or nothing from the first
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  Speaker 3: dozen names on the list. Nine to fifty pm we
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  Speaker 3: went back to the office. We all, we's had better days,
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  Speaker 3: that's for sure.
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  Speaker 4: A lousy start. Couldn't be going as slower. It must
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  Speaker 4: have logged forty miles of the leg.
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  Speaker 3: Works not in the show for it all I got,
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  Speaker 3: all right, how'd you do? Not much? How about you?
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  Speaker 3: In the creedy? We checked out ten names of her
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  Speaker 3: list the pot woman's friends. The only thing that could
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  Speaker 3: tell us we already knew that business about the steamer
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  Speaker 3: trunk was a porter hitting around. He had something valdyblo,
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  Speaker 3: where's that leaves? We got a fair motive to go on.
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  Speaker 3: The crime lab called just before they come in. Did
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  Speaker 3: they got anything? No leg in prints? I went over
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  Speaker 3: that steamer trunk though found a hundred schairs of some
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  Speaker 3: kind of mining stock selling. The liner of the trunk
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  Speaker 3: wasn't anything. Not the paper it's printed on never was
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  Speaker 3: worth anything. According to the bogo checked it. I got
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  Speaker 3: the blow ups. Yeah, thanks a wine bottle. It's a
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  Speaker 3: wine drinker. It looks like he stepped in their glasses
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  Speaker 3: and brow the Sure brutal in the Sure brown the
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  Speaker 3: trunks in me. It sets up the motor pretty well.
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  Speaker 3: The porter woman spent plenty of time at bars. She
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  Speaker 3: had a lot of men friends. We know she did
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  Speaker 3: a lot of talking about the nest that she was
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  Speaker 3: supposed to have locked up in that trunk.
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  Speaker 4: So one of her boyfriends believed everyone have to have
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  Speaker 4: a look through the trunk.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't know she was in the room. Had to kill her.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good possibility. All we got the word from
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  Speaker 3: the corner's office. By the way, you know what they
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  Speaker 3: had to say because of death is multiple skull factors.
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  Speaker 3: They're sure their links of pipers and moto weapon was
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  Speaker 3: a porter dot. About four am, they figure killer Sure
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  Speaker 3: gave her a vicious beating. Looks like more legworks, which
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  Speaker 3: it was an easier way. Every bar she drank and
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  Speaker 3: everybody she talked to. We'll have to check them off.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's just one thing that's got me stuff show. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's that Thelma Porter. Don't you think she had an
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  Speaker 3: idea that money stuck with with us? But I guess
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  Speaker 3: she did. Why she hung on with it? Why didn't
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  Speaker 3: she even keep a stuck along? I don't know, Gotch well,
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  Speaker 3: I thing she had left with the squab books, a
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  Speaker 3: couple of theater posters she knew they'd never pay off.
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  Speaker 3: Ten fifteen PM. Along with Gotcham McCready, we went back
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  Speaker 3: to the West Howard Street neighborhood and started checking down
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  Speaker 3: the list of people known to the dead woman. One
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  Speaker 3: of them was a Miss Bab Sheldon, a singer in
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  Speaker 3: a small cabaret on the corner of West Howard and Pachico.
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  Speaker 3: We went back to a small dressing room where we
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  Speaker 3: questioned the Sheldon girl. She said she'd known the victim
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  Speaker 3: for about five years.
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  Speaker 12: I kept telling Tommy to get out of that hotel live.
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  Speaker 5: Any of those husbands wasn't any good for us.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know of any study boyfriends she might have
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  Speaker 3: had recently?
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  Speaker 12: Micheldon No Telma. She couldn't get interested in any man
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  Speaker 12: after call Dodd, her husband. That's what she told me. Anyway,
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  Speaker 12: it needs to be a great blood vultein. You know,
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  Speaker 12: she and her husband Rose and benond that's the way
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  Speaker 12: to a build. Do you ever hear of them find
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  Speaker 12: an acrobatic routine?
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  Speaker 3: No, did Miss Poor ever mentioned anything knew about a
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  Speaker 3: steamer trunk that she kept in the room, anything about
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  Speaker 3: what she kept on that trunk.
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  Speaker 12: No, not to me, she didn't. It was a kind
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  Speaker 12: of a standing gag with people in New Filma.
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  Speaker 3: She's kind of funny about it in what way?
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  Speaker 12: No, Delman was a great talker.
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  Speaker 3: You know this Princess Donald Dalma.
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  Speaker 12: Told everybody about her business.
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  Speaker 3: Talk to Blue Street. Uh huh.
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  Speaker 12: She talk about her life, her prisonal affairs, especially when
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  Speaker 12: she had a few drinks. But I don't think I
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  Speaker 12: ever heard her mention to anybody what she had in
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  Speaker 12: that trunk. She'd hand around about it. Call her a
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  Speaker 12: gold mine. She never wants to let anyone see what
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  Speaker 12: was in that trunk.
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  Speaker 3: Not one only knew one of our cards, Miss Sheldon.
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  Speaker 3: Do you happen to hear anything else that might help
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  Speaker 3: us with appreciate it if you give us a.
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  Speaker 12: Call such a terribleness. I don't know why it had
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  Speaker 12: to happen. Now roud knows what I look like at
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  Speaker 12: the funeral. Man, I haven't got a decent ball dress
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  Speaker 12: to my right.
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  Speaker 3: One am we checked back into the office to a
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  Speaker 3: pre arranged meeting. Sat up with gotcha, McCready all right, gotcha?
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  Speaker 3: I think pretty squall. How about you might have something
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  Speaker 3: you can't tell? Where's MCCREDI down on the car pool.
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  Speaker 3: There's a bar down on main Street, the left hand
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  Speaker 3: side for total woman used to go there quite a bit,
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  Speaker 3: according to the bartender. Most of the regular customers noah,
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  Speaker 3: uh huh. The bartender told us he overheard a conversation
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  Speaker 3: in one of the booths four or five nights ago.
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  Speaker 3: Three whinos got their names. What about them? Bartender says
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  Speaker 3: they were talking about film of Porter. He says he
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  Speaker 3: heard one of the men say, she keeps the trunk
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  Speaker 3: in her room. We can break it open. Thursday, September third,
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  Speaker 3: eight am. We round it up and in the custody
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  Speaker 3: the three men who'd been overheard while apparently planning a
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  Speaker 3: burglary of the murder victims hotel room, together with Sergeant
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  Speaker 3: Jack Dotts and Sergeant Jack McCready. Frank and I had
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  Speaker 3: little trouble locating the three men and bringing them in
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  Speaker 3: for questioning. They were fairly well known along skid Row,
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  Speaker 3: and they immediately took the attitude that they had nothing
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  Speaker 3: to hide. We went along with them. We questioned them
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  Speaker 3: individually and together. Meantime, their rooms were being searched no leaves.
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  Speaker 3: Two of the men were brothers John Parkson and Arnold Parkson.
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  Speaker 3: The third man was Harold Young. All three listed their
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  Speaker 3: occupations as part time laborers, unemployed. All three had records vagrancy,
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  Speaker 3: disorderly conduct, petty theft. We questioned Harold Young first, then
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  Speaker 3: Arnold Parkson. They both had alibis. Their stories made sense,
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  Speaker 3: no conflicting statements. We interrogated the other Parks and brother John,
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  Speaker 3: same results.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they could have been yeah, trunk. The Pelmos was
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  Speaker 2: kind of a jag about Tom. You know, you act
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  Speaker 2: about his lot every god it kidded about it. We
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  Speaker 2: even used to read Felma, tell we're going to break
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  Speaker 2: in it some night. Find Old Lush had put away
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  Speaker 2: just a gag.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you something. We told this to the
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: other two. We got an idea, what's more than a gag.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: In the case of you three, we got evidence to
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: back that up. If you want to have anything more
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: to your story, now's the time to do it. Fella.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I don't think I'm getting a pitch rack sag. I
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: told you everything. I don't know what kind of evidence
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: you got, but I'm clean. I know that much. Maybe
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: I booze it up some, but I don't run with heavy.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Murder's way out of my life.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: That's your story. Huh what else can I tell you?
• 17:33
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 17:34
  Speaker 11: Anyway say the other two is nothing. I got it
• 17:37
  Speaker 11: all down pack, got a good idea. What do you think, Oh,
• 17:41
  Speaker 11: it's not a way around for a while, we might
• 17:42
  Speaker 11: get something. Just thinking if we could get a bug
• 17:45
  Speaker 11: in one of the offices something. It's a long way around.
• 17:48
  Speaker 11: Nothing much else we can do because it check it's small.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: We checked with Captain Morman's office and we got permission
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: to have the office bug. We put in a call
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: at the crime I haven't asked them to install listening
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: equipment in the Captain's office as soon as possible. They
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: told us that they'd have the sound crew go to
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: work on it immediately. Under the pretext of further questioning,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: the sergeant Jack, Dodge and Frank took the suspects down
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: the hall to the interrogation room, where they would be
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: held until the Salmon could finish rigging up the equipment. Yeah,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: the listening equipment was installed in such a way that
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: we would be able to hear the conversation in any
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: part of the Captain's office. Recording equipment and two sets
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: of airphones were set up in the locker section off
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: the squad room so that we could monitor the conversation
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: between the two suspects. First, we had the two parks
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: and brothers John and Arnold placed a loan in the
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Captain's office. We listened to them talk between themselves for
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: half an hour. They didn't say so directly, but we
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: caught inferences, but each brother doubted the other's innocence of
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: the film reporter killing. At one thirty that afternoon, we
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: took Arnold Parkson from the Captain's office and had Herald
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Young take his place.
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: Venus again, I think I'll tell them of when they
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: come in here.
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: He was waiting like this.
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah, keep us waiting much longer than I will.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Will you stop using that call, nor lawyer, but get
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: out of here and to hurry with the lawyer.
• 20:00
  Speaker 8: We don't need one.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Let's talk you sure about it?
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: Here? I want it. I'm mixed up.
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: At the killing.
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: What do you mean? I'm I sure of it.
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: I told him, just be sure. That's who I don't
• 20:13
  Speaker 9: want any part of it.
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well you be sure to you and your brother.
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: You always look at me with something.
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: I don't go to say me and my brother, we've
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: never been in any heavy stuff killings, no part of it. Listen,
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna tell you something. We should be talking about
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: killings in here. Why not?
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: Sometimes the cops wire in these rooms. Oh, you're your mind.
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: You've been reading too much fiction.
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: Yes, they do. They can hear everything you say, and.
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: Enough time to wire anything. I've been here all day.
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: I'm gonna looking around.
• 20:38
  Speaker 13: I'm taking no chance that I don't want to get
• 20:39
  Speaker 13: involved in anything. Yeah, sometimes I had the mic and files.
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: Or any place you can't see it. Very crazy. I'm
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: not taking any chance.
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: Then I check everywhere, and sometimes.
• 20:59
  Speaker 13: They put on the chairs.
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: What do they do broadcast? Where's the wire?
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: You had to mic on the edge.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Of the desk, cover in that too, Get in there?
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: What are you doing there? I could hear you cleaning
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: the other office, going through the files. I thought I
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: told you to stay putting in that chair. Why aren't
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: you there?
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: Sit down?
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: If I wanted you to probably office, i'd have told
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: you I both have get stay put in those chairs.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: You understand.
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you got any more peons?
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: Now? You ate most of them?
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: What do you want them? You get them hungry?
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: You know. I think I'll hit the road and get
• 22:12
  Speaker 9: out of here. La is no good this time of year.
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: The valley's bet up around Presno.
• 22:16
  Speaker 13: You know, if you're alone, if you go Pristmas nothing,
• 22:19
  Speaker 13: I'm staying here. Nobody asks you to come. I don't
• 22:22
  Speaker 13: think I like this partner deal anyway.
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: I like to travel alone. Just mean nobody else somebody.
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: I think you got a rod deal. We made out
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: of it, But here's sure we made out.
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: I just want to go to the valley, that's all.
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: I don't like it. Maybe you think I do. They
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: talked me over more than did you. Yeah, well, I
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: don't care. I don't like it. I'm getting out of here.
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: What's the pitch here?
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: You got nothing to cover up for a you mean
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: cover up, of course not. I want to count this town.
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: I saw something wrong in it.
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: You started talking about it in the truck the other night.
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: Water Dames, dun you're crazy.
• 22:57
  Speaker 13: Your brother Arnie did ocause you are remember that you
• 23:00
  Speaker 13: sure about that killing, Harry, You weren't in it.
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: Don't go talking to anything like that.
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: I never started any talk about getting.
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: In the trunk. What are you getting mad about?
• 23:08
  Speaker 12: Her?
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: I didn't say anything by trying to get smart, that's all, asking.
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: Me about the killing.
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: I was in bed.
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: Don't try to getting smart with me, all.
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: Right, Just as sure, what are you getting mad for?
• 23:21
  Speaker 9: I was sleeping in the bed, and you know.
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: It, Johnny smart, I am not so sure.
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: It wasn't You could have been sure.
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: It could have been all of us as we get
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: it all right, all right, all right, I just want
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: to keep it straight, that's all. You gotta smoke. I
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: haven't had anything this morning. Lastly, cops, I got to
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: read them all.
• 23:45
  Speaker 9: Sure.
• 23:46
  Speaker 14: I think they asked something else keeping us cooped up
• 23:49
  Speaker 14: in here. I'm dave, it's knocked up. Why didn't have
• 23:53
  Speaker 14: to check on us?
• 24:01
  Speaker 12: No?
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: Tell her what we needs a lawyer?
• 24:05
  Speaker 13: All this trouble over the day the truck. All she
• 24:10
  Speaker 13: could talk about what she had in the truck. Nothing
• 24:12
  Speaker 13: in it anyway, old papers?
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: Oh pay, but you know what was in it?
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: You're crazy. I didn't say he said old papers. You
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: said it wasn't anything in the truck. You opened a room,
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: you saw it. You're crazy.
• 24:22
  Speaker 9: He shut up.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: That's enough.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Come on, you know, see I'm about the trunky killer.
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: He's lying line.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: He's the See how he's lying. That's left you about
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: the truck. So he was sitting there, he said, old papers,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: old papers in the trunck. Youens to kill her.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: He's lying, trying to cover up.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: That's what he's trying. There's the line. It's addictive. Phone
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: in the road. We heard you, No you didn't. It's recorded.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: We'll play it back for you. Yeah, that's right.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I didn't mean it. I didn't mean any of it.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: She wasn't supposed to be in her room. It wouldn't
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: have happened if she wasn't there, All right, why'd you
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: do it? I don't know. I just wanted to see
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: what was in that trunk. She was going to scream,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: so I hit her with a pipe. She was suffering,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: so I killed her. I didn't want her to suffer.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Just one thing on top of another. When I went there,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I didn't even think about killing it. I just wanted
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: to see what was on the truck. I just wanted
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: to look. I had to find out. I guess you'd know, papers,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: all pieces of newspapers.
• 25:39
  Speaker 15: That's On December seventh, trial was held in Department ninety two,
• 25:59
  Speaker 15: Superior Court of the State of California in and for
• 26:02
  Speaker 15: the County of Los Angeles. In a moment the results
• 26:04
  Speaker 15: of that trial, the suspect was tried and convicted of
• 26:13
  Speaker 15: murder in the first degree. Further investigation proved that Harold
• 26:27
  Speaker 15: Young and Arnold Parkson were not implicated in the crime,
• 26:30
  Speaker 15: and they were released from custody.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back. Like most of the TV episodes that were
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: adapted from radio episodes, this one rot does really adapt
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: well back the other way. There were a few too
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: long for audio pauses, but otherwise fine. The only thing
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: missing was the sense of the killer, which according to
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the screen on the TV program, the killer was senced
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: to death in the lethal gas chamber. You can also
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: tell this was adapted from radio. The main comedy relief
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: bet came from the other police officer who came in
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: before Frank, and honestly the punchline about the daughter being
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: thirty two and the mother's attitude was a good twist.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: It was probably more funny than that weight loss banter
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: between Joe and Frank. The idea of the down on
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: their luck performer who ended up living in a rooming
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: house is a common trope in the Golden Age of radio,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: and it even features in the nineteen sixty TV series
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: in the Bank Examiner Swindle. It's handled with a great
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: degree of sympathy. The entertainment industry in this era was
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: really a rough and changing landscape as you had this
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: movement from various forms and media's vaudeville and burlesque to
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: radio and films and later television. Not everyone was able
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: to make that sort of transition, and even those who could,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: many aged out of the profession based on the type
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: of roles and performances they did, or the type of
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: stuff that they did just became unprofitable, and certainly this
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: happened with many vaudeville performers. The bugging of the Captain's
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: officing was very tense when that guy got suspicious that
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the office was bud and it was very quick thinking
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: by Friday to come in there and stop them. It
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: was also a risk because if they didn't fall for Zacht,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: they'd feel like the police were listening for sure, and
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: then they wouldn't get anything. And I do like unlike
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the more fictional detective programs, the slip about the trunk
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: came with a fellow suspect and associate in the room
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: rather than the police, where people are going to be
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: a lot more cautious if they're talking to a detective.
• 30:19
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• 30:39
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• 30:41
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• 30:41
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• 31:27
  Speaker 16: The wu You don't remember now, it's been a long time.
• 31:32
  Speaker 16: My name is Wearing, Mike Wearing. Oh sure you're that
• 31:36
  Speaker 16: private dick they call a falcon. It comes back to
• 31:39
  Speaker 16: you now. Yeah, but I don't remember inviting you when
• 31:42
  Speaker 16: you just forgot your menas Yeah, what in the world
• 31:45
  Speaker 16: of a possession to move into a dump like this?
• 31:48
  Speaker 9: I like the view?
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 31:49
  Speaker 16: Better on the clear day you can see eight million flies.
• 31:53
  Speaker 16: Lucky it did much better for himself. I hear tell
• 31:55
  Speaker 16: he's got a villa in Italy that's out of this world.
• 31:58
  Speaker 16: How come you're two separated when you deported any your business? No,
• 32:02
  Speaker 16: but it's Uncle Sam's. I'm working for him these days.
• 32:06
  Speaker 16: What are you babbling upon a cigarette? I asked you
• 32:09
  Speaker 16: something worry Well, it's come to Uncle's attention that narcotics
• 32:14
  Speaker 16: are being smuggled into the States by way of Egypt.
• 32:17
  Speaker 16: We've got to hunch the traffic is being directed by
• 32:19
  Speaker 16: Lucky from Italy. What's that got to do with me? Well,
• 32:21
  Speaker 16: isn't it strange?
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: I find you in Cairo and.
• 32:24
  Speaker 16: I'm studying to be a maswan?
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 32:28
  Speaker 16: What's Carol Morgan's reason? Oh, Lucky's old girlfriend?
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Is she here? You mean you didn't know? No, it's funny.
• 32:38
  Speaker 16: I tell the boy to our hotel yesterday looked exactly
• 32:40
  Speaker 16: like you and our luckwise guy, I can't blame you
• 32:43
  Speaker 16: for being suspicious, Vince, with you and Carol and Cairo
• 32:46
  Speaker 16: looks like the gathering of the clan. I teed, I
• 32:48
  Speaker 16: haven't seen her. Isn't that her diamond ring?
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 32:52
  Speaker 16: You shouldn't leave it lying around, Vince. It's much too valuable.
• 32:55
  Speaker 16: How comes she gave it to you?
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: She's crazy for me.
• 33:00
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• 33:02
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