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

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  Speaker 1: A man tells Los Angeles homicide detectives that his former
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  Speaker 1: employer is looking for someone to murder his wife. Sergeant
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  Speaker 1: Joe Friday takes the assignment under cover, posing as the
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  Speaker 1: prospective killer, while the homicide detail works to prevent the
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  Speaker 1: planned crime. From NBC with Jack Webb as Friday and
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  Speaker 1: Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero, This is Dragnet episode
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  Speaker 1: sixty eight, Big Death, originally broadcast September twenty eighth, nineteen fifty.
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  Speaker 1: The case moves from a report brought to police into
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  Speaker 1: Friday's direct contact with the man at its center. We
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  Speaker 1: now take you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: The story you are about to hear is true, only
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  Speaker 2: the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 2: A socially prominent citizen is plotting to kill his wife.
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  Speaker 2: He tells you his plans for a murder.
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  Speaker 5: He hire you to do the killing.
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  Speaker 3: the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 7: It was Monday, February seventeenth, was raining in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: We're working a day watch out.
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  Speaker 7: Of homicide until Miss Ben Romero. The boss is bad Brown,
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  Speaker 7: Chief Detectives. My name is Friday.
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  Speaker 6: It was four eighteen pm when we got to Room
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  Speaker 6: twenty six TV detective's office.
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  Speaker 5: Hed on me, man, you have a seat.
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  Speaker 4: Did you close the door of Friday?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Sure, Captain Seed, Sergeant RAMERI Sergeant Friday like that. You
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  Speaker 4: meet the special Agent Rate Kimball, Public Utilities Commissioner, his
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  Speaker 4: friend mister trudeau' how.
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  Speaker 5: Do you do Trudeau?
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  Speaker 4: Always gentlemen, mister Kimball and mister Trudeau here has some
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  Speaker 4: important information to give us to Trudeau, would you like
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  Speaker 4: to repeat for these officers, which he told us a
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  Speaker 4: few moments ago, Yes, sir, Well, a friend of mine
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  Speaker 4: wants me to kill his wife, Faureen.
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  Speaker 8: I am convinced he means to go through with the thing.
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  Speaker 4: Naturally, it goes without saying that. Kimball hero back at
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  Speaker 4: the veracity of the story. Well, mister Trudeau, who is
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  Speaker 4: your friend?
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  Speaker 8: How long you know him?
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  Speaker 9: His name's Charles Stone. Just maybe you heard of them
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  Speaker 9: on the string of warehouses around town. I used to
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  Speaker 9: worked for him, I asked, Well, the other day he
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  Speaker 9: called me and asked me if I was working. I
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  Speaker 9: told him no, and then he asked me to meet
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  Speaker 9: him in front of the public library.
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  Speaker 8: That was last Saturday afternoon. What did you mean him? Yes,
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  Speaker 8: I did, and he took.
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  Speaker 9: Me to a bar and the neighborhood started telling me
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  Speaker 9: all about his troubles at home. He said his wife
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  Speaker 9: was stepping out at him, running around with other men. Well,
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  Speaker 9: we had quite a few drinks, and I guess I
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  Speaker 9: thought that's what I counted for it once that institute
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  Speaker 9: of well he lean told me and he said, here's
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  Speaker 9: the dough. The wife and I hadn't getting along well
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  Speaker 9: at all for about a year. She's stepping out with
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  Speaker 9: some other guy on me and say, to make a
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  Speaker 9: long story short, Well, that's when he told me.
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  Speaker 8: He said, I want to lose it. What do you say? Well,
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  Speaker 8: I told him I didn't quite get the drift of
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  Speaker 8: the thing. And then he said, I want my wife killed.
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  Speaker 8: I'll pay you a thousand dollars for the job. And
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  Speaker 8: that's trude.
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  Speaker 4: Don't have you any idea why he contacted you or
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  Speaker 4: his thing.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I don't know other than the fact that I
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  Speaker 9: hadn't been able to work for some time. He knew
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  Speaker 9: my name the money pretty badly.
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  Speaker 8: As soon as I was sure he wasn't kidding about
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  Speaker 8: the murder.
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  Speaker 9: I told mister Kimball here, he's an old friend of mine,
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  Speaker 9: you know. He said the only thing to do was
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  Speaker 9: to take it to the police.
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  Speaker 4: Did this, mister Stone, make this proposition to you more
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  Speaker 4: than once?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, he did. Kept reminding me how much I could
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  Speaker 8: use one thousand dollars. You know. All I could say
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  Speaker 8: was that I knew his wife too well. I couldn't
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  Speaker 8: do it.
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  Speaker 4: He would at Stone say to answer, so I had
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  Speaker 4: cold feet, told me I was just like another man
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  Speaker 4: he'd lined up to kill his wife.
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  Speaker 8: Told me if I didn't want the job, he'd got
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  Speaker 8: someone else to do it.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think he might go for a substitute, mister Trudeau,
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  Speaker 4: one of them men.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know, Chief, only one thing I'm sure of, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 9: he wants his wife dead.
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  Speaker 7: Four forty two pm. The meeting in the tv DE
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  Speaker 7: take his office went on. A man with the name
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  Speaker 7: of Charles Stone wanted.
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  Speaker 5: His wife murdered. He'd offered one thousand dollars for a death.
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  Speaker 7: He'd approached two men.
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  Speaker 4: To do the job.
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  Speaker 8: Both had refused.
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  Speaker 7: From the information we'd received, we knew he wouldn't stay
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  Speaker 7: up there. There are a lot of people who'd killed
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  Speaker 7: for one thousand dollars. It was only a matter of
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  Speaker 7: time that he found one.
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  Speaker 6: The plan was formulated and Ben and I were assigned
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  Speaker 6: to the case. Five pm, together with Captain Steve and
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  Speaker 6: mister Trudeau, we left bad Brown's.
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  Speaker 7: Office and went down the hall to homicide.
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  Speaker 4: In your last meeting with Stone, mister Trudeau, you refused
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  Speaker 4: outright to have anything to do with this plan to
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  Speaker 4: have his wife murdered?
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  Speaker 8: Is that right? That's right?
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  Speaker 4: Did you leave any opening and all?
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  Speaker 8: Well?
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  Speaker 9: Just to get away from the guy. I told him
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  Speaker 9: if I heard of anybody either to do the job,
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  Speaker 9: I'd let him know.
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  Speaker 6: You think that maybe you'd listen to you if you
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  Speaker 6: went back and suggested somebody.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know he'd listened to me. But he's not dumb,
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  Speaker 8: and you've got to understand that he's going to be
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  Speaker 8: careful which one he was going to play the killer.
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  Speaker 8: I'd not to try it to give her. He's going
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  Speaker 8: to fit the part best. Trudeaer just told you that
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  Speaker 8: Charles Stone snow pushovers. I hid to know. Captain this
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  Speaker 8: is the officer here me? Yeah, I no offense, but
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  Speaker 8: I'd surely peg you for a cop?
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  Speaker 4: You wouldwise that.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know, you just look like one.
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  Speaker 4: I guess, well, Joey's a little closer to average high.
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  Speaker 8: Wait, yeah, that's what I mean. The Captain, he doesn't
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  Speaker 8: look like a cop.
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  Speaker 4: All right now, mister Trudell, you're willing to go along
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  Speaker 4: with his n this thing?
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  Speaker 8: Certainly? Captain, anything I can do, you'll just tell me
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  Speaker 8: what you want.
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  Speaker 4: Well, just as soon as possible, we'd like to have
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  Speaker 4: you contact mister Stone. You'll know how to approach him,
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  Speaker 4: so it's not to make them suspicious.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I think I can do that.
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  Speaker 5: Joe, how do you want to go about this?
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  Speaker 6: I better use some kind of an alias. Let's see Matson,
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  Speaker 6: Joe Manton. How about Kelly just playing Kenner?
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  Speaker 7: It's fine with me, it's good.
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  Speaker 4: How about your background? I better get that straight with
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  Speaker 4: mister Trudeau here.
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  Speaker 7: I suppose I tell him I'm from Phoenix. Huh might
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  Speaker 7: know that town pretty well. He might ask me some
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  Speaker 7: questions about it.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, And now do you have to know true to
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  Speaker 8: the army? Did you ever serve in the army? Was true?
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  Speaker 7: Yes?
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  Speaker 8: Forty two to forty five CBI? Did it all right?
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  Speaker 6: We serve together in the army. You know, let's make
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  Speaker 6: it China water Master Carli.
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  Speaker 4: All right, and now mister Trudeau, this is all you
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  Speaker 4: will have to do. Set up a meeting with Stone
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  Speaker 4: as soon as possible, you know, Douce Friday.
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  Speaker 7: As the man who's willing to do the.
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  Speaker 4: Job for him, an old Army friend, and step out.
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  Speaker 5: Of the pack as quickly as you can.
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  Speaker 8: All right, Captain, I understand.
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  Speaker 4: It goes without saying we certainly appreciate your cooperation.
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  Speaker 8: And not at all say only glad I'm in a
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  Speaker 8: position to help out.
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  Speaker 4: I'm probably say that woman's last.
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  Speaker 9: I wish I could be sure what he means true though,
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  Speaker 9: last time I saw Charlie Stone was three days ago.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe he's hired somebody else.
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  Speaker 6: Five thirty pm Captain Steed ordered two teams of men
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  Speaker 6: from Homicide to watch Charles Stone's wife Mildred until further
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  Speaker 6: notice for her own protection. She'd be kept under twenty
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  Speaker 6: four hour surveillance without her knowledge. We checked the Eye
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  Speaker 6: Bureau to see what we could find on Charles Stone.
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  Speaker 6: He owned a gun, the thirty two Smith and Western Revolver.
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  Speaker 7: That's all we found. He had no criminal record, we.
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  Speaker 6: Know him only as a social figure from a prominent family,
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  Speaker 6: and supposedly he was happily married. He owned and operated
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  Speaker 6: a chain of six warehouses throughout Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 7: His business reputation was good.
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  Speaker 4: Captain Steed ordered that Charles Stone also be placed under
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  Speaker 4: twenty four hour surveillance.
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  Speaker 7: Immediately. He would be kept under watch.
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  Speaker 5: Without his knowledge.
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  Speaker 6: Ben ra Merrow and Gillencinas, where one of the teams
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  Speaker 6: assigned the tailor.
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  Speaker 7: The next morning, I checked in for work at the
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  Speaker 7: usual time.
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  Speaker 4: At ten to fifteen am. I left Captain Steed's office
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  Speaker 4: and went into the squad room.
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  Speaker 7: Pomis I Faddy, this is mister Trudeau, sageant.
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  Speaker 8: I saw Charlie Stone a few minutes ago.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, how to go?
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  Speaker 8: We talked about twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 10: I told him you might be willing to do the job.
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  Speaker 7: What do you say he wants to meet you.
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  Speaker 6: Before he hung up, Trudeau told me that Charles Stone
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  Speaker 6: would meet us that night in Section B and the
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  Speaker 6: grand stands at the Midget Auto Races out near Santa Monica.
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  Speaker 6: I informed Captain Steed to the development, and then I
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  Speaker 6: left the office, went home, put away my gun and
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  Speaker 6: all my identification changed in some old clothes. I boarded
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  Speaker 6: a bus and rode back downtown to the skid Row area,
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  Speaker 6: where I rented a single room in the Chief Hotel.
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  Speaker 4: I signed the register. J. Kelly, Phoenix, Arizona. Five point
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  Speaker 4: thirty pm, I went to Cochin's Cafe in the corner of.
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  Speaker 7: South Maine and Stella Street.
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  Speaker 6: Captain Steed was waiting for me in one of the
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  Speaker 6: rare booths.
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  Speaker 4: Hi.
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  Speaker 8: Hi, you look like you're all set.
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  Speaker 7: Outfits strike you.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, you're fine.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, leather jacket's a good touch. Oh better let your.
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  Speaker 5: Beard grow a little. You know.
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  Speaker 7: I righted a room in one of the hotels down here.
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  Speaker 7: I could use a little expense mine, but I just
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  Speaker 7: said a little.
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  Speaker 5: All right, I'll fix it up for you.
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  Speaker 6: Here's the phone number of the hotel in case you
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  Speaker 6: want to contact me.
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  Speaker 8: Good.
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  Speaker 7: One thing that's got me a little worried, stripper. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: the legal angle. You know, you can get pretty close
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  Speaker 7: to entrapment in cases like this.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing to worry about it, just play it straight down
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  Speaker 4: the line.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 4: The idea for the crime has to originate in the
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  Speaker 4: mind of the criminal.
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  Speaker 7: It's got to be all his idea.
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  Speaker 5: I mean you just go along with it, Okay, sure
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  Speaker 5: and keep his posted.
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  Speaker 4: You so well murdered his wife means a lot of Stone.
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  Speaker 5: He wouldn't want anybody getting his way, you know, be careful.
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  Speaker 6: That night I had dinner with Trudea at a cafeteria
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  Speaker 6: on South Gray, and then we caught a.
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  Speaker 4: Bus and rode out to the stadium where they help
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  Speaker 4: to midget auto races.
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  Speaker 7: We found the seats.
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  Speaker 6: Where Charles Stone was to meet his numbers four and
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  Speaker 6: five Rough twenty seven, Section B nin Grandstand. The auto
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  Speaker 6: races started at ten minutes pant eight pm. Charlestone arrived
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  Speaker 6: and looked like an average prosperous businessman, well dressed, medium build,
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  Speaker 6: dark hair which showed a.
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  Speaker 7: Two streets of gray. Trudeau introduced us and then he left.
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  Speaker 4: If I'm killing Phinnix like midget auto raises, that's.
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  Speaker 7: Not why I came out here. Kudo says something about
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  Speaker 7: a job.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, you have to tell you what it's about. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you want to handle anything like this before I'd be
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  Speaker 4: a stucker to answer that one one night.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just want to know if you're cann handle it.
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  Speaker 7: Kudo told me about it. I wouldn't be here if
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  Speaker 7: I couldn't handle it. Got a good job.
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  Speaker 5: Gotta be sure it's done right.
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  Speaker 7: What are you looking for references?
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  Speaker 4: Got a bit careful, that's all.
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  Speaker 7: What about me? I don't know you from Adam? How
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  Speaker 7: do I know it won't be a double cross?
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  Speaker 4: I don't worry about double cross. Let's go well with grandstand,
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  Speaker 4: get away from this crowd fight with me.
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  Speaker 7: You haven't said anything about money yet.
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  Speaker 4: Many times talk money.
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  Speaker 5: Like to know how what you want?
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  Speaker 4: Trudeau said one thousand, Yeah, when could you get it?
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  Speaker 5: When would you want it before?
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  Speaker 4: I'd be a dope to do the job with I'd
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  Speaker 4: getting paid first.
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  Speaker 5: I've been justice stupid to giving you first.
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  Speaker 4: Say I can buy you a hot dog colding okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: one hot dog comp a real beer, one dog, two beers?
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  Speaker 8: You like real beer? Sure?
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  Speaker 7: How about selling them the dough?
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  Speaker 5: H you'll do the job, You'll get paid.
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  Speaker 7: You can ask Trudeau if you like.
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  Speaker 4: Let me tell you I keep my word.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it's got to go fast, that's all.
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  Speaker 6: I may have a job lined up with Phoenix. I
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  Speaker 6: got to get that dough and some new clothes. Gonna
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  Speaker 6: put up some kind of a front.
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  Speaker 7: Why I need the dough fast?
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  Speaker 4: No, waiting get your money. We can work out something.
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  Speaker 10: That's dog.
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  Speaker 4: Mus is all pat.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, uh.
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  Speaker 4: Smo over there, out of the way.
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  Speaker 7: But you haven't told me yet. What how do you
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  Speaker 7: want it done?
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  Speaker 4: I'll depend I haven't got my gun.
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  Speaker 7: I'm on the lamb. Have you got one?
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't know one. Couldn't use a gun anywhere.
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  Speaker 5: Too much noise.
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  Speaker 7: I'll make up your mind.
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  Speaker 5: I'll meet tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 4: We can talk about it then.
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  Speaker 7: But mister, you expect me to sit on this thing
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  Speaker 7: for a week. I'm not making a career out of
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  Speaker 7: just this one job.
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  Speaker 4: What are you worrying about. Let's set everything up tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 7: But how about ten bucks on the cuff? I gotta
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  Speaker 7: live in flat m.
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  Speaker 4: That's fine, see.
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  Speaker 7: That I'll do. How about that payoff the thousand? How
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  Speaker 7: do we set that up?
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  Speaker 5: We can talk about that later.
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  Speaker 7: I can't we talk now.
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  Speaker 6: Look Stone, I don't think I like your attitudes. You
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  Speaker 6: haven't told me how you want the job done. You
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  Speaker 6: talk cute every time. The payoffs mentioned figure is take
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  Speaker 6: it easy enough, and I'm taking the chances.
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  Speaker 7: How do I know I'm going to get paid?
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  Speaker 5: How do I know you're killing?
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  Speaker 4: Before I left Charles Stone, who set up a meeting
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  Speaker 4: for the following night.
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  Speaker 5: At eight o'clock, I caught.
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  Speaker 7: A bus and went back to the hotel room.
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  Speaker 6: So far I'd been unable to get any other corroborative
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  Speaker 6: evidence on Stone, evidence that to represented in court. The
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  Speaker 6: next morning, I called the office and kept them posted
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  Speaker 6: on developments. I had my meals at a lunch cotter
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  Speaker 6: next door to the hotel, and I stuck pretty close
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  Speaker 6: to my room.
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  Speaker 4: At two thirty that afternoon, Ben called.
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  Speaker 10: Retailed Stone to the Midge Dollar Races. Last night, you're
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  Speaker 10: do any good?
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  Speaker 7: Well, not bad, going a little slow though.
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  Speaker 10: He killed him. After he left kill he drove to
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  Speaker 10: a Beverly Hills address.
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  Speaker 7: But body looked in Glendale.
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  Speaker 10: There his apartment. He went too, ready to Jean Howard
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  Speaker 10: stayed before this morning. Checked the Doward girl out. She's
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  Speaker 10: a secretary when of Stone's.
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  Speaker 6: Well, maybe that explains why Stone wants to get rid
• 14:59
  Speaker 6: of his wife.
• 15:00
  Speaker 10: He's one more thing. We dealed him to a gun
• 15:01
  Speaker 10: ship this morning. Bought a couple of things, and after
• 15:04
  Speaker 10: he Stone, we checked with the store clerk told the
• 15:06
  Speaker 10: Stone bought a buck the shells thirty two camera, same.
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: Kind of gun he had registered and then thirty two
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: and w Yeah that's funny.
• 15:12
  Speaker 7: Stone told me he doesn't want again.
• 15:14
  Speaker 10: Doesn't look too good in my book.
• 15:16
  Speaker 7: All right, now, let's don't start worrying.
• 15:18
  Speaker 10: Don't trust him in dimes with Joe.
• 15:20
  Speaker 7: So all right, if you want to check me later on,
• 15:22
  Speaker 7: I got to keep this line open.
• 15:24
  Speaker 10: Yeah see there, right.
• 15:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah, there's a Stone.
• 15:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah, job's also that ready to go. When four night.
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• 17:09
  Speaker 6: February nineteenth, eight fifty five pm. Charles Stone picked me
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: up in his car at the corner of Alameda in
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: sixth Streets.
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: He turned on the South Broadway and he had it
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: down for the beach. He hunched over the wheel as
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: he drove. I kept wondering how I was going to
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: pin him down.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: We were less than twenty four hours away from the
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: scheduled murder of his wife, and I still didn't have
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: a case against him that did stand up in court
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: if he failed to produce sufficient evidence. Tonight, Stone had
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: a good chance of going free, whether he succeeded in having.
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: His wife killed or not.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: I also had no idea what plans the suspect had
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: made before he hired me.
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: To do the killing.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: There was a definite possibility that he might have arranged
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: for somebody else to commit the actual murder.
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: And then set up a double cross with me as
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: the victim.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: We knew he had a thirty.
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: Two S and W revolver he registered in his name,
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: but he denied to me that he even owned Again.
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: Nine oh three pm, he pulled up in front of
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: Stone's Beach House.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Most of the other homes around here a vacant summer places.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: People don't stop moving into the first of May.
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: But you said you're afraid of the neighbors seior here.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: Some living up the next block, or I can't afford
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: not to be careful.
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: It's just from here.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: There's front door key. You see. If you can work
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: to right or hard works, you go ahead and open
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: uh huh.
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: The living room.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Huh yeah, I have bedrooms over here, see this, doy.
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: H alright, what's the story? Where do I start?
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Well, I should be here about six o'clock tomorrow night.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: She'll be coming down alone to get the house ready
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: for a weekend. Fuddy, what do you want me here?
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: About four in the afternoon here and he keeps it
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: from doing what I pick up and hand it kill her. Okay,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: the first thing you do when you get here is
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: pull out all the drawers in the bedroom, bureau scattered
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: things around, make it look as much like a brilliary
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: as you can. Yeah, say, I'm here in the living room.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: That's drawer, table, cupboards.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Put them inside. I'll throw things around.
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: Wave my finger, pilts Ali rebel, I'm not taking.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Care of that.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: A prayer of gloves of mine in front of hearing
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: this drawer, I remember that. Let's see now. Oh yeah,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: cinish cord. I'm sure this ought to serve the purpose.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Shouldn't have any trouble. Yeah, piece of rope's pretty new,
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: it's a little slippery, won't be with the gloves on.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: She's not very strong. She shouldn't have any trouble. I
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: leave the rope here in the closet.
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: Be sure she's gonna be all positive. Where am I
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: supposed to hide?
• 20:00
  Speaker 8: I'll show you.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: Here.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: I've got the front door in this closet. Yeah, my
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: wife comes in closing the door. I should probably go
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: right to the bedroom and take off a coke, follow
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: it in and do it fast where the back's turn.
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: No screams.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Neighbors might hear all right, I want to clean and quiet.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Do it as quickly as you can. Now when it finished.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Here's what I want you to do with her.
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: What's it?
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Take the body and bring it this way. Come right,
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: all right, once you see us a living room to
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: these French doors, open this one. You won't have any trouble.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Take the body out here on the porch. Come with
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: me now, once you get this carrying on, Yeah, I look,
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: I've got it. Take it down to this end of
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: the porch, regular rating.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: Hey, we're here.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: It's very important you understand all the way down to
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: the end of the porch here. I don't get it.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: I guess it's all right. All right, let's go back in.
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: Uh so, I may forget the layout of this house
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: here if you draw a floor plan for me. I
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: don't want to get mixed up here.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: I'll just pay her on a desk there. You can
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: drop yourself before you leave tonight. Letter if you trust me,
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: can't afford to taking the chances.
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: What was it?
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, after you finished using the rope from me. Deal,
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: you'll find some rings in my wife's fingers. Take them
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: all off a big setting, especially if you a bracelet
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: on the left wrist. Take that too, well, I do
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: is put them in a s white vase.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: In the motel.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Here the rings on the bracelet. Don't miss any of
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: the rings are expensive.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: Well, how about little bring them to you. I will
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: pick up my doll at the same time.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: I'll put them in the day. Since that's done, I'll
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: leave you and go back downtown. I'll pick you up
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: before we met to night six and then a meter
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: seven to thirty sharp.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: Have the money for you then, But you're going to.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: Be at six o'clock.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: I have to cover myself. I'll stay on at the
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: office special conference.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: There I go. I don't think I like this. What
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: do you mean you don't like it?
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: I suppose something should happen.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: I got no protection. I feel a lot better with
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: a gun. I told you I don't have a gun
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: to give him. Why would you need one?
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Anyway?
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: I just feel a lot better, So by I one.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: If you want, that's your problem.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: I'm paying you for the job.
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: I haven't seen your money.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: I told you when the job's done, you get your money.
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: Then it's just one thing I want to make sure of.
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: No mistakes here.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Don't worry. You catch your pay that's trude, or if
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: you like, I'll tell you can trust me. You can
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: ask anybody how about You're right.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: Before I left Charles Stone, I got one more valuable
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: piece of evidence out of him, a special phone number
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: written in his handwriting on the back of one of
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: his business cards. In case anything went wrong, I was
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: to call him at this number in his own handwriting.
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: I also got a list of times that I was
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: supposed to remember, when to come to the house, when
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: to leave, when to meet him for the payoff. The
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: next afternoon, at three point thirty, I left the hotel
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: and drove my car to.
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: Manage the Stone's Beach house.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Captain Steed and another officer from Homicide followed me out.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: I waited in the house to get Shortly before six pm,
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Missus Mildred's.
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: Stone arrived with the van and Gillen sing this she refused.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: To believe the story of her husband's plot to have
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: her murdered.
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: Captain Steve laid out the evidence for this.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Kay, Missus Stone, you recognize it, but.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: Yes, it's the one for the front door. Must be Charles.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: He gave it to this officer, mister Stone, the man
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: who was supposed to murder him.
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: No, I don't believe it.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: You have any idea?
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: What's in that closet? Man at well?
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Over there, there's nothing in there.
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: I cleaned it out the last time we were here.
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: I cleaned out all the closet. I like show it
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: to you, ma'am, Pieter's room. I never saw that there
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: before mister Stone gave it to me. Was supposed to
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: be the murder weapon.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Just one more point, ma'am, all over here for these
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: you know what's in this floorer here?
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: It's empty.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: It has to be.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: We never keep anything in there. Were only going to
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: move down to the summer months.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Sure, pre of your husband's old bloods that right now?
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Why would they be there for four I was supposed
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: to wear him while I was in the house, so
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't leave fingerprints.
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: Do you do you mind if I sit down here?
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: You are?
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, missus Stone. You know it's a terrible shock
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: for you. I think you realized what you had to
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: tell you. It's all right.
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: He's been very kind. You saved my life. I'm sorry
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: now that happened.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: It would have been better if he'd succeeded, much better.
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: Take it easy, missus Stone.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Shame, terrible, terrible shame.
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: Is there anything I can do for him? He wanted
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: to have you murdered, ma'am. I know that he wanted.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: He did es ma'am, only one thing.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: He's my husband, sergeant.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: I love him.
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: Six forty five pm I telephoned Charles Stone and told
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: him the job was done.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: His wife was murdered.
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: He said he'd meet me at sixth and Alume the
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: streets for the payoff ass scheduled. I waited. He failed
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: to show up. At seven thirty pm. Stone was placed
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: under arrest as he parked his car one of their
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: Venice Beach house.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: A loaded thirty two caliber revolver was found in his pocket.
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: He was taken back to the city Hall and Chi
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: would he kicked his office?
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Ben and I waited outside the open door. We could
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: hear Thad Brown start the interrogation inside. Do you know
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: how we have you down here for mister Stone? I
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: haven't a fast idea. What would you say if I
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: killed you? Your wife have been murdered. I think you're crazy?
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: What would you say if I told you that you're
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: accused of her murder?
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Still, it's ridiculous.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: I've been at work all day. I can prove it
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: all right, Friday, come in as you ever meet this
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: man before? I seen him on skied Row.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: I don't know him.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: You recognize the man you're hired to kill your wife.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: I didn't know them, man, I didn't kill my wife.
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: I don't understand all that.
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: For me. It was Kelly, mister Stone.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: He's some fake officers skid Row bum.
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: I don't know an.
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: I don't think that's going to make it Stone.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: Both few and my wife have been tailed constantly for
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: the last couple of days. Photographs taken midget daughter races
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: sixth and Alimeter, Beverly Hills Apartment.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Crazy. You don't know what you're talking about. You send
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: the lighting in the place.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: No, d you don't believe all these things you're saying
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: about me. Dream here the rings, Charles, the bacelet too.
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: I didn't realize how much she wanted them.
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: I hadn't mean, I don't know what I was thinking of.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Hm there, Charles there, it's all right now, he'll feel
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: better with your minutes. Yes me, that's all Friday. But
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: looks it look like Joe starting to talk. God mean,
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: he tries to have her murder. She goes to bath
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: for him. What you prove he sure must know him?
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: What do you think?
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: How about a cup of coffee?
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: On May second trial was held in Superior Court, Department
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: eighty nine, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: In a moment the results of that trial and now
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: here is our star.
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: Jack Webb, thank you for the working detective.
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: The difference between guilt and innocence is proof in the
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: form of physical evidence and the form of testimony gathered
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: from reliable witnesses.
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: In determining any.
• 27:29
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• 27:33
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• 27:36
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• 27:39
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• 27:43
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• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Charles Farnsworth Stone was tried and convicted on soliciting the
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: commission of a felon two counts.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: He received the sentences prescribed by law.
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: You have just heard.
• 28:08
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• 28:12
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  Speaker 1: You've just heard Dragnet episode sixty eight, Big Death. Thank
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: you for joining us for this September nineteen fifty broadcast