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Dragnet - "Big Little Mother" (Old Time Radio, 1953) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: At a Los Angeles department store, a pattern of small
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  Speaker 1: charges for children's clothing and shoes brings the LAPD forgery
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  Speaker 1: detail into a long-running case. From NBC, this is Dragnet,
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  Speaker 1: episode 216, Big Little Mother, first heard October 6th, 1953.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Webb is Sergeant Joe Friday, with Ben Alexander as
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  Speaker 1: Officer Frank Smith. following leads that begin at the Beckworth
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  Speaker 1: Department Store and its credit office. It is a day
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  Speaker 1: watch assignment in the forgery detail where store personnel and
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  Speaker 1: account paperwork may point the way forward. And now we
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  Speaker 1: return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Sound off for Chesterfield.
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  Speaker 3: Chesterfield.
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  Speaker 2: brings you Dragnet.
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  Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear
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  Speaker 4: is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 4: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to forgery detail. For
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  Speaker 4: the past six years, a forger has been working in
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  Speaker 4: your city. The victims describe the suspect as a woman.
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  Speaker 5: Her M.O.
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  Speaker 4: Is simple, but it continues to work. Your job, stop her.
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  Speaker 4: Smokers by the thousands are now changing to Chesterfield.
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  Speaker 3: No wonder. More and more smokers are.
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  Speaker 4: Learning this fact for themselves. Chesterfield, low in nicotine, highest
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  Speaker 4: in quality. A published fact proved by chemical analyses of
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  Speaker 4: the country's six leading cigarette brands. Chesterfield, the only cigarette
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  Speaker 4: ever with a record like this. Regular or king-size, Chesterfield
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  Speaker 4: is best for you.
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  Speaker 2: Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 2: next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 2: you will travel step-by-step on the side of the law
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  Speaker 2: through an actual case transcribed from official police files. From
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  Speaker 2: beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the
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  Speaker 2: story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 3: It was Friday, September 18th. It was warm in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: We were working the day watch out of forgery detail.
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  Speaker 3: My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Welsh. My
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  Speaker 3: name's Friday. We were on our way out from the office,
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  Speaker 3: and it was 10.42 a.m. when we got to the
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  Speaker 3: ninth floor of the Beckworth Department Store, the credit manager's office.
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: We'd like to see Mr. Donaldson, please.
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  Speaker 6: May I see who's calling?
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  Speaker 3: Sergeant Friday, Los Angeles Police Department.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, he's expecting you. Just a moment.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 6: The gentlemen from the police department are here, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Donaldson.
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  Speaker 7: Send them in, please.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: You want to go right in? That's the door.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 7: Come on in, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Mr. Donaldson?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: I'm Sergeant Friday. This is my partner, Frank Smith.
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  Speaker 7: How do you do?
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  Speaker 4: How do you do, sir?
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  Speaker 7: Sit down.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much, sir. Now, do you want to
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  Speaker 3: tell us what this is all about?
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  Speaker 7: Well, it's the little mother again. I've got the receipts
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  Speaker 7: here on the desk. Is Sergeant Ferguson still.
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  Speaker 1: Working on this case?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: I talked to him the last time we were stuck.
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  Speaker 3: Usual type of things, Charlie?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, children's shoes, dresses, sweaters, same as always.
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  Speaker 3: I see. Now, I wonder if I can have those slips, Mr. Donaldson. Sure.
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  Speaker 7: Here you are.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: All made out the same day.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: August 22nd. Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Our experience is that she usually comes in on a Saturday.
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  Speaker 7: Seems that the store is more crowded then, and the
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  Speaker 7: girls don't take any more time to verify the accounts
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  Speaker 7: than they have to.
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  Speaker 3: Can I see those, Joe? Yeah, here you are. All right.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if we could talk to the salesgirl who
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  Speaker 3: waited on her. Sure.
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  Speaker 7: I'll have her set up.
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  Speaker 3: Fine.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. Ms.
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  Speaker 7: Firestone, would you please have Mrs. Allen set up?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 9: I notice here the only items you charge not for
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  Speaker 9: children is a woman's slip.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, we've had a couple of them in the past,
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  Speaker 7: pieces of women's clothing... I talked to Sergeant Ferguson about
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  Speaker 7: it when he was here.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm. Did you get the bulletin we sent out this month?
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  Speaker 3: Beg pardon? The bulletin giving the woman's description, samples of
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  Speaker 3: her handwriting. Did you get it? Yes, sir, we did.
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  Speaker 7: You've got to understand, Sergeant, this is one of the
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  Speaker 7: biggest stores in the city. We do a lot of business.
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  Speaker 7: It'll be almost impossible to alert all the salesgirls to
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  Speaker 7: watch for the woman.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, we understand that. But was the description sent
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  Speaker 3: to the children's department? It was.
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  Speaker 7: It didn't do any good, though. If a woman charged
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  Speaker 7: large amounts, it might be easier, but... Look at the
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  Speaker 7: sales slips yourself. $ 4 shoes, $ 3 dresses. Nothing to make
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  Speaker 7: a charge like that stand out. We make sure that
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  Speaker 7: there's an account in the name and then let it go.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you use the charge-at-plate system?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, we do. But if a customer wants to charge
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  Speaker 7: an item and hasn't got the plate, we usually just
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  Speaker 7: verify the account and let them sign the sales slip.
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  Speaker 10: Well, how about identification?
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  Speaker 7: Well, normally we do ask for it. But as I said,
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  Speaker 7: these sales are such small amounts and the woman comes
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  Speaker 7: in when the store is crowded... The girl just called
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  Speaker 7: the credit department and let her sign the receipt.
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  Speaker 3: I see.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, excuse me.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Mrs. Allen's here.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Just a moment. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: The woman who waited on her is out in the office.
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  Speaker 7: Do you want to talk to her in here?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we don't want to take up any more of
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  Speaker 3: your time, sir. We can see her out there. All right.
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  Speaker 7: If there's anything else you need, I'll be here.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, officer.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I feel a little funny about this thing.
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  Speaker 9: Why is that, sir?
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  Speaker 7: Well, the things she's charged.
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  Speaker 9: What's that?
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  Speaker 7: The things she's taken. They're almost all kids' clothes. Doesn't
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  Speaker 7: seem to be interested in anything else. Total amounts of
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  Speaker 7: the articles she's taken don't add up to much. It's
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  Speaker 7: the principle of the thing more than the value. It
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  Speaker 7: just seems that the only thing she's interested in is
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  Speaker 7: the children. It feels a little funny to call the
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  Speaker 7: police about a person like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, we understand.
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  Speaker 7: We've got a lot of this going on, but the others, they...
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  Speaker 7: They take things for themselves, luxuries, you know, expensive items.
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  Speaker 7: But she doesn't, just for the kids. She doesn't seem
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  Speaker 7: to be at all interested in herself.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we are.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, well, I suppose so. Well, I'll be here if
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  Speaker 7: you need anything more.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Donaldson. Thanks very much. We'll be in touch with you.
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  Speaker 7: You'll bring the sales slips back, won't you?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, as soon as we've had the chance to
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  Speaker 3: photograph them.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I hope you can do something about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, so do we. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 7: Anything you need, you let me know.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Just a moment Mrs.
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  Speaker 7: Allen Yes These are the police.
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  Speaker 10: Officers How you doing, ma'am?
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  Speaker 3: I'm Sergeant Friday This is my partner, Frank Smith.
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  Speaker 9: Hello How you doing, Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Allen?
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  Speaker 9: You want to sit down over here, please?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, all right.
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  Speaker 11: I feel just terrible about this Ma'am All this forgery thing.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you waited on the woman, didn't you?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, at least in the little girl's department What if
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  Speaker 11: you could describe her for us?
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  Speaker 3: Well, she was a.
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  Speaker 11: Little woman I'd say a ten How's that again, ma'am?
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  Speaker 6: A size 10.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: 5'1, about 105 pounds. Cute as a button.
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  Speaker 3: Did she have the children with her?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 6: No, she didn't.
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  Speaker 11: I thought it was a little funny at the time,
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  Speaker 11: but as I say, we were so busy with the
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  Speaker 11: school rush that afternoon that none of us girls had
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  Speaker 11: a chance to really think about anything.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am. What color hair did she have?
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  Speaker 6: Kind of sandy color. Guess you'd call it a blonde.
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  Speaker 5: Wore it up in a bun.
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  Speaker 6: You know, back here, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 6: The other girls noticed it.
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  Speaker 5: Long.
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  Speaker 6: Looked nice.
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  Speaker 11: Different than all the other short-haired customers. Kind of old-fashioned
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  Speaker 11: and homey.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am. How was she dressed?
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  Speaker 6: Not very well. Had a little blue hat, dark coat,
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  Speaker 6: cloth coat. Collar came up like this, you know? Slash pockets. Nice,
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  Speaker 6: but not expensive.
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  Speaker 3: I see, ma'am. Now, would you know her if you
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  Speaker 3: saw her again? Oh, my, yes. Sure would. Well, we'd
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  Speaker 3: like you to come over to our office and look
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  Speaker 3: at some pictures, if you would. All right.
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  Speaker 6: I'll have to talk to the floor manager.
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  Speaker 3: We'll take care of that, Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Allen.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Do you think that you might have a picture of her?
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  Speaker 3: We don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I kind of hope not.
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  Speaker 4: Ma'am?
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  Speaker 11: I hope you don't have a picture.
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  Speaker 6: I guess it's a little sinful to even think of it,
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  Speaker 6: but she had a reason for what she did. I'm
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  Speaker 6: sure of it.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you say that, Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Allen?
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  Speaker 6: Officer, I've been.
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  Speaker 11: Selling for a long time. I met a lot of
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  Speaker 11: people in that time. Nice ones and nasty ones. And
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  Speaker 11: believe me, this is one of the sweetest people I've
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  Speaker 11: ever served.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 5: I understand that you call her the little mother.
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  Speaker 6: Isn't that right?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we don't, ma'am. That's what the newspapers call her.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it fits her to a tee. Right to a tee.
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  Speaker 6: The way she bustled around those dresses, looking, testing. She
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  Speaker 6: was just like a mother hen trying to find something
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  Speaker 6: for her brood. Little doll, cute as a button. She's
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  Speaker 6: just got to have a reason for what she's doing.
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  Speaker 7: Sergeant Friday?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Donaldson?
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  Speaker 7: I'm glad I caught you. I think we've got it.
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  Speaker 3: Sir?
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  Speaker 7: The little mother is downstairs now.
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  Speaker 4: The Little Mother.
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  Speaker 3: For the last six years, the same woman had been
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  Speaker 3: operating in the downtown department stores. During that period, she'd
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  Speaker 3: forged a total of $ 1, 300 worth of merchandise that we
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  Speaker 3: knew of. Because of her M.O., there was no way
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  Speaker 3: of telling how much more had gone undetected. The operation
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  Speaker 3: was a simple one. She'd enter a store, go to
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  Speaker 3: one of the departments. There, she'd pick up articles of apparel,
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  Speaker 3: mostly for children, and then ask to charge them. She'd
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  Speaker 3: explain that she'd forgotten her charger plate, and after the
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  Speaker 3: account had been verified, she'd sign the charge slip. These
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  Speaker 3: slips would be put in the mail to the people
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  Speaker 3: who maintained the account, and it wouldn't be until they
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  Speaker 3: noticed a discrepancy that we'd be notified. Usually a month
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  Speaker 3: would pass between the time the clothing was taken and
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  Speaker 3: we were told of it. In the six years that
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  Speaker 3: the little mother, as the newspapers had dubbed her, had
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  Speaker 3: been operating, almost every team of detectives in the forgery
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  Speaker 3: detail had worked on the case. Statements from salesgirls who'd
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  Speaker 3: waited on her were taken. Photostats of the sales slips
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  Speaker 3: were made, witnesses were interrogated, and then when the sum
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  Speaker 3: total of actual physical evidence was weighed and sifted, there
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  Speaker 3: was no lead to the identity of the forger. The
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  Speaker 3: police department had gotten out printed bulletins and copies of
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  Speaker 3: composite drawings of the suspect, and these had been distributed
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  Speaker 3: to all department stores in the area. But because of
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  Speaker 3: the suspect's appearance and the way she operated, none of
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  Speaker 3: the victims became suspicious in time to notify us. The
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  Speaker 3: department store's protective lead was working with us, but they
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  Speaker 3: met with the same dead ends that we'd found. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 3: the evidence continued to pile up. The operation continued to work.
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  Speaker 3: When the manager of Beckworth's department store told us that
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  Speaker 3: the suspect was in the store, Frank and I were
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  Speaker 3: able to come up with the first concrete lead we'd
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  Speaker 3: had since we'd been working on the case. In the
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  Speaker 3: company of the manager and the saleswoman, Mrs. Myra Allen,
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  Speaker 3: Frank and I went down to the boys' department where
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  Speaker 3: the suspect was reported to be. Down this way.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: The girl said she was over by boys' suits. I
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  Speaker 7: hope they were able to hold her.
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  Speaker 10: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 7: Just a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: I know I don't have to tell you gentlemen about
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  Speaker 7: the store's liability in a situation like this.
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  Speaker 3: No, sir.
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  Speaker 7: Now, I'm sure it's her, but it could be very
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  Speaker 7: embarrassing and expensive to the store if we made a mistake.
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  Speaker 3: All right, sir. We understand.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 3: Over here.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Mr. Donaldson? Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Donaldson? Yes, Miss Franklin.
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  Speaker 1: Where is she?
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  Speaker 6: It's not my fault. You've got to believe that.
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  Speaker 3: What's the matter, miss?
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  Speaker 7: Don't tell me you stopped the wrong person. You caused
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  Speaker 7: trouble with an innocent party and she could sue the store.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Donaldson.
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  Speaker 3: Where is the woman, miss?
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  Speaker 6: That's what I'm trying to tell you.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 6: She wouldn't wait.
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  Speaker 3: A quick search of the immediate vicinity in the store
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  Speaker 3: failed to turn up the suspect. The department store security
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  Speaker 3: staff was notified and a watch was put on all
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  Speaker 3: of the doors. The credit department was notified and they
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  Speaker 3: took action. We checked with the elevator operators. We found
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  Speaker 3: one that told us she'd seen a woman who answered
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  Speaker 3: the description get in her car. She explained that the
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  Speaker 3: woman seemed to be in a hurry and had left
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  Speaker 3: the elevator as soon as it had reached the main floor.
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  Speaker 3: A further check of the store netted us nothing. The
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  Speaker 3: suspect had escaped. In the downtown crowds, it would have
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: been almost impossible to try to find her on the street. However,
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: an additional broadcast carrying a complete description of the clothing
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  Speaker 3: she was wearing was gotten out to all cars in
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  Speaker 3: the area. The first good chance we'd had for apprehending
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  Speaker 3: her was gone. We had to go back to the
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: legwork and the waiting. Three months passed. During that time,
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: Frank and I cleaned up a series of counterfeit payroll
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: check cashings. Another 30 days went by without activity for
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  Speaker 3: the little mother. There were four new sales slips added
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  Speaker 3: to the file, but when the leads resulting from these
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  Speaker 3: were checked out, we were no closer to her than
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  Speaker 3: we'd been six years before. Thursday, December 17th, 1255 p.m.
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  Speaker 3: I checked into the office.
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  Speaker 9: Joe, that you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What do you got? I'll just talk to Skipper. Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: Got a couple of more beefs about the little mother.
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  Speaker 3: When did they come in? This morning. Where are they?
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  Speaker 3: Don Myers got them. He's checking the handwriting. Well, how
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: about the name she used? Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 9: I got them here in my book. There they are.
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  Speaker 3: Mrs.
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  Speaker 9: Norris Farrell, Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: James Slagle, I guess it is, and Mrs. Ross Neiman.
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  Speaker 9: I called the stores and got the information on these people.
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  Speaker 3: Did you talk to them?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Asked all the routine stuff.
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  Speaker 9: None of them can think of any friends who match
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  Speaker 9: the description.
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  Speaker 3: How about the things she charged? Anything there?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: Usual items. Let's see.
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  Speaker 9: A pair of Levi's for kids. One child's cotton dress.
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  Speaker 3: There is one thing different. What's that?
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  Speaker 9: I checked the sizes of the clothes. Last bunch of
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  Speaker 9: sales slips we had, the dresses were for a 10-year-old.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: This time she bought them for a 12-year-old.
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  Speaker 3: Kids are getting bigger, Joe. You know, that's a big help.
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  Speaker 3: All we got to do is look for a couple
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  Speaker 3: of kids that are growing. Well, I was just trying
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  Speaker 3: to help, Joe. No, I mean, it just doesn't seem
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  Speaker 3: to be anywhere to go. All the time we've put in,
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: all the people we've talked to, all we got for
• 13:25
  Speaker 3: it is a file drawer all to ourself on the thing. Again. Forgery, Friday.
• 13:32
  Speaker 4: Who?
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am. Mm-hmm.
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: I remember. Where is she now? I see.
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: We can be right over. Yes, ma'am. Bye.
• 13:43
  Speaker 7: Bye.
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: Well, we got it.
• 13:45
  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: That was Mrs.
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: Allen.
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: Remember the sales lady over at Beckworth's?
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: I think I do. What'd she have to say? Told
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: me she's having lunch in the restaurant at the corner
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: of Jackson and Hill.
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: Our suspect's sitting next to her. 1.02 p.m. We checked
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: out of the office and drove over to the restaurant.
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: It was located at the rear of a large drugstore.
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: When we came into the place, Mrs. Allen met us
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: at the entrance. She took us back down the counter
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: and pointed out a small woman sitting on the last stool.
• 14:12
  Speaker 6: That's her.
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: You sure, ma'am?
• 14:14
  Speaker 6: I'm positive. That's her.
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: All right. Let's go. Yes. You want to wait here, Ms.
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: Allen?
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: Certainly.
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: Something you gentlemen want?
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: We're police officers, ma'am. We'd like to talk to you.
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: Police?
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am. You want to step over there to talk?
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: Might be better.
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: Well, if you want to say anything to me, you
• 14:31
  Speaker 5: can say it right here. I haven't done anything wrong.
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: I wonder if we could see your identification. Why? Your identification, ma'am.
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: Could we see it?
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: Just a minute.
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: I've got it in my purse. Getting terrible. I don't
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: know what you officers are trying to find out, but
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: I'm going to tell you right now, if you can't
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: prove you've got a reason for making me do this,
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: you're in trouble.
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: We're not making you do anything, ma'am. We don't want
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: to cause you any embarrassment.
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: Funny way of showing it. I want to tell you
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: that my husband knows people in this town. When he
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: hears about this, he.
• 14:59
  Speaker 6: Oh, here you are.
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: Here's my driver's license.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: Would you take it out of your wallet, please?
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: Here.
• 15:05
  Speaker 8: Mrs.
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: Evelyn Nelson?
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: That's who I am.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: Is this your present address?
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: No, it isn't. We moved a few months ago, but
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: I haven't had a chance to have it changed. Is
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: that all you want?
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: No, Ms. Nelson, it isn't. I wonder if we could
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: talk to you in our office.
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: I always thought you had to arrest people before you
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: could order them around.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: We're asking you to come over to the city hall
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: with us, if you will, ma'am, and a few things
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: we'd like to check out.
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: What things?
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: I wonder if I can see what you've got in
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: the bags here.
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: What are you looking for?
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: Do you mind if we took a look?
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: Well, they're just some clothes for my children. Nothing in
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: there to interest you.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Well, then it wouldn't hurt if we looked, would it?
• 15:36
  Speaker 10: Go ahead.
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: You won't find anything.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: You want to take a couple of these, Frank? Yeah,
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: I bet. Well?
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: What about it? Did you find anything wrong? Maybe a gun?
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: No, ma'am, but I wonder if you could explain this.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: What's that?
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: This charge slip here. Signed by Mrs. Ross Neiman.
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: Well, certainly that was probably in the bag when I
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: bought the things. I don't know anything about it.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: All right, Mrs. Nelson. I'm afraid we're going to have
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: to ask you to come with us.
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: On what charge?
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Suspicion of forgery.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: police force in action. At cigarette dealers. In vending machines.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: At supermarkets and stores.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Coast to coast.
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: Chesterfield, please.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: Smokers by the thousands. Yes, smokers by the thousands are
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: now changing to Chesterfield.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: The only cigarette ever to give you, one, proof of
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: low nicotine, highest quality. Chemical analyses of the country's six
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: leading brands confirm that.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: Two, the only cigarette ever to give you this proven
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: record with smokers. Again and again, over a full year
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: and one half, a group of Chesterfield smokers have been
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: given thorough medical examinations. The doctor's reports are a matter
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: of record.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: No adverse effects. to the nose, throat, and sinuses from
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: smoking Chesterfield.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: A responsible independent research laboratory supervises this continuing program. Chesterfield,
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: the only cigarette ever with a record like this. Chesterfield,
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: best for you.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: We returned the suspect to the city hall for questioning.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: While Frank checked her name through the files, I tried
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: to get her to talk. For 20 minutes, her attitude
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: was one of surprise, and she answered the questions I
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: put to her with indignance. Finally, she lapsed into silence
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: and wouldn't reply at all to further interrogation. Frank came
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: back from R & I with the information that there
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: was no arrest record for Mrs.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: Nelson.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: We put out calls to the salesgirls who had waited
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: on the little mother in the past and asked them
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: to come down to the office to see if they
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: could identify the suspect.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Room 29.
• 18:01
  Speaker 9: Yeah, come right in the first street entrance, turn left
• 18:04
  Speaker 9: into the police department. That's right, ma'am.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: There's an arch there. Go right through it.
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: Straight down the hall to the right. Well, it's the
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: only way you can go. It's on the left as
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: you go down the hall.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: That's right, 29.
• 18:15
  Speaker 9: If you ask for Sergeant Friday or Officer Smith... No, ma'am.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Smith. That's all right, ma'am. We'll expect you. Goodbye. I'll
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: call the next one. Yeah. You know, you'd save yourself
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: and us a lot of trouble if you'd tell us
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: the truth, Mrs. Nelson.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Mrs.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Nelson?
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: Hello, may I speak with Miss Brundage, please?
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: In children's wear?
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: Yes, ma'am, I will.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Hang up the phone.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Beg your pardon?
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: You don't have to go through this anymore.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: All right, ma'am. You want to tell us about it?
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Mrs.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Nelson?
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: I only did it for them, the kids. I didn't
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: want to. How do you think I felt when I
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: knew I was stealing? How do you think I felt?
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: You want to go ahead?
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: My husband, Paul, is a good man. What he's done,
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: he thinks is right. I can't quarrel with him. But
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: he doesn't know. He doesn't understand. It isn't that he
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: doesn't love the kids.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: He does.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: He really does. It's just that he doesn't understand. You
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: can see that, can't you? He doesn't understand about them.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Either of you have a handkerchief? I came away this
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: morning without one.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Here you are.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Thanks.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Want to go ahead, please?
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: All his life, he's worked. Put in long hours without
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: a thought of what he was doing to himself.
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: Every nickel.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Every nickel he made was put away so he'd be
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: able to feel secure. so he wouldn't have to worry
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: about anything. It was all right when we first got married.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: I could understand it then. I went along with what
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: he thought. But the last few years, it's gotten to
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: be an obsession with him. The almighty dollar, that's all
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: that seems important to him.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: And what kind of work does your husband do, Mrs.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Nelson?
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: He owns a grocery store.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Small place, but it does good, makes a good living.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Only we aren't living, we're existing. He gives me $ 10
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: a week to run the house and buy clothes for
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: the kids. I've tried, Lord knows I've tried, budget meals,
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: cheap cuts of meat, day-old bread. Any way you spend it,
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: no matter how you figure, $ 10 just doesn't go very far.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Well, now, Mrs.
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: Nelson, didn't you talk to your husband about it? Didn't
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: you ask him for additional money for the expenses?
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: Yes, I'd ask him, and he'd tell me that I
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: had to make do all the time, make do just
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: a little longer until he had the money in the bank.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Then we'd be all right. Only the more it went on,
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: the worse it got. It didn't seem to make any
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: difference how much money we had, how the total in
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: the past book went up. He wasn't satisfied. Had to
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: be a little more, a little more. I guess I'm
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: feeling sorry for myself, but you see, he could afford
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: to buy the kid decent clothes, at least that. You
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: agree with me, don't you?
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Well, that's hard to say, ma'am.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Not for me. I'll never forget the day when my
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: boy came home crying. Been fighting. One of the other
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: boys at school had said something about the patches on
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: his clothes. Just a little kid, that's all he was,
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: ridiculed by his friends. That's when I made up my
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: mind to do something about it.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Does your husband know anything about your activities?
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: No, nothing.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: How'd you explain the new clothes for the youngster to him?
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: I didn't have to. Last year, he's been working so
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: hard at the store, I hardly ever see him. Kids
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: don't hardly know him. He even spends Sunday at the
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: store dressing the windows.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: You mean he spends all his time there?
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: Every minute he's not asleep. He let one clerk he
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: had go so he could save the money. Always save
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: the money. It doesn't make any difference who gets hurt.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: Get that dollar and put it away. That's what counts.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Put the dollar away. You know something, officer?
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: What's that, Ms. Nelson?
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: I haven't been able to sit down and talk to
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: my husband for six weeks. Six weeks. He gets home
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: at 12.30, 1 o'clock in the morning. He's up and
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: gone at 6.30. Kids are always asking when Daddy's coming home.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: How do you answer him? How do you make him understand?
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: I can't.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: I've tried the only way I know how. And I
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: did it so wrong.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: All right, Miss Nelson. We'll try to work it out.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Can I use your phone?
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: I've got to tell the children what to do about dinner.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I'll call for you if you like, ma'am. What's the number?
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: Hollywood 98844.
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: Where's your husband now, Ms.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Nelson?
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: At the store, I guess. You going to call him?
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: I think we should, ma'am. Let him know what's happened.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: I guess so.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Somebody's got to take care of the kids.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Hello, I'm calling for Mrs. Nelson. I wonder if I
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: could speak to her son. This is Sergeant Friday, Los
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Angeles Police Department. Who? Yes, no, she's down here now.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Room 29. All right.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Fine.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Was that my boy? I wanted to talk to him.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: No, ma'am, that was your husband. He's on his way
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: down here. Hello? 2.14 p.m., Paul Nelson walked into the office.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Frank and I took him and his wife to the
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: interrogation room. She'd asked us while we waited for him
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: if we'd let her talk to him for a few
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: minutes alone. We stayed out in the hall, and after
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: a brief wait, Paul Nelson opened the door and asked
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: us to come into the room. His wife had evidently
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: told him the full story because he was visibly shaken.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: He walked over to his wife and sat down beside her.
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: Well, I guess I've really done it, haven't I?
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: What do you mean, sir?
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: I've really ruined everything. My home, my kids, everything. All
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: the time it was happening, I never knew it, never
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: had an idea.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: Don't blame yourself too much, Paul.
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: But I should have known.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: I should have seen it myself.
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: Even when you tried to tell me, I was too
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: busy to see it.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Too wrapped up with the business.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: It wasn't for me, Paul. It was for the children.
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: It doesn't make any difference who it was for. I'm
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: the one who caused it. I'm the one. It's my fault.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Evelyn.
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: How can I ever make it up to you?
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: Don't think about that now, Paul. It won't do any good.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: What's been done can't be changed.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: How about it, officer? Sir?
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: What happens now?
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Well, your wife is going to be given a preliminary hearing.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: She'll have the chance to plead guilty. If she does,
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: the court will decide what to do.
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: What's the punishment for what she's done?
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Well, according to Section 473 of the Penal Code, it's
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: imprisonment in the state penitentiary for one to 14 years
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: or for not more than a year in the county jail.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Is there any way out of it? What do you mean?
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: Any way of getting Evelyn out of it? If I
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: went to the judge and told him why she did it,
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: if I told him it was my fault, would that.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Make a difference?
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'd be up to the court.
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: But I could try.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: If I paid the money back for all the things
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: she's taken, I can afford it. I could go to
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: the stores and pay them. Maybe they'd feel different then, huh?
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: I could make it up to them.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Everything would be all right. Well, it's been going on
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: for six years, you know.
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: But if I did pay the stores back, it'd make
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: it up to them, wouldn't it?
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Maybe, but how about your wife?
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: What?
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: How are you going to make it up to her? 4.30 p.m.,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: the suspect was released on a writ. The next afternoon,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Frank and I met with Mr. and Mrs. Nelson and
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: their attorney. We talked over the case. It seemed that
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: the husband's change of heart was permanent. He swore that
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: he'd never give his wife cause for unhappiness again. Two
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: weeks later, in Department 89 of the Superior Court, Mrs.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Nelson entered a plea of guilty to 14 counts of forgery.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: When the court reviewed the circumstances and was informed that Mr.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Nelson intended to make full restitution, the probation board recommended
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: that Mrs. Nelson be placed on probation for three years.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: After the hearing, Frank and I had a brief talk
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: with the couple. They thanked us for our consideration and understanding. Apparently,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: the cause of trouble between the Nelsons had been erased.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Another two weeks went by. January 22nd. Frank and I
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: got back from lunch and we checked into the office.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Here they are, dear.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: Friday, Mr.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Smith.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Ms. Nelson, Mr. Nelson, how are you?
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: Just fine, Sergeant. How are you two?
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Fine, thank you very much, ma'am.
• 26:05
  Speaker 9: What can we do for you?
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: That's what we want to do for you.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Sir?
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: You got the boxes, honey?
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, here they are.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: It's not much, but we thought that you'd like them.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: Made them ourselves to say thanks.
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: Look at that, Joe.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: That's not necessary, ma'am. You didn't have to do that. No, no,
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: we wanted to. Tollhouse cookies. He made a box for
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: each of you. Real good. Lots of chocolate. Well, that's
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: very nice of you.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: We just hope you'll enjoy them.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am. I'm sure we will. Yes, ma'am. How are
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: things going with you?
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: Oh, just fine. Paul and I have gotten everything straightened out.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: I help him out at the store now. That way
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: he's got more time to spend with the kids. Things
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: just couldn't be much better.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Well, we're glad to hear that.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: It's a funny thing to say, Mr. Friday, but it's true.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: The best thing that ever happened to us.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: What's that, Mrs. Nelson?
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: My getting arrested.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: The story you have just heard is true. The names
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: On January 8th, a meeting was held in the county
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: probationer's office in and for the county of Los Angeles,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: state of California.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: In a moment, the results of that meeting. Now, here
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: is our star, Jack Webb. Thank you, George Fenneman. Friends,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: we've been getting letters from people all over the country
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: telling us that they've switched to Chesterfield. Just as I've
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  Speaker 3: because only Chesterfield gives proof of low nicotine, highest quality.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I recommend you try them today. Regular or
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  Speaker 2: At the end of three years, Mrs. Evelyn Margaret Nelson
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  Speaker 2: had fulfilled the requirements of her probation, and the case
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  Speaker 2: was officially marked closed. You have just heard Dragnet, a
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  Speaker 2: series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice comes
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  Speaker 2: from the office of Chief of Police W.H. Parker, Los
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  Speaker 2: Angeles Police Department. Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn,
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  Speaker 2: Sergeant Vance Brasher. Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Vic Rodman,
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  Speaker 2: Joyce McCluskey. Script by John Robinson. Music by Walter Schumann.
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  Speaker 2: Hal Gibney speaking.
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  Speaker 4: Watch an entirely new Dragnet case history each week on
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  Speaker 4: your local NBC television station. Please check your newspaper for
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  Speaker 4: the day and time. Chesterfield has brought you Dragnet, transcribed
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  Speaker 4: for your lips. Try new Fatima. See how smooth it is.
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  Speaker 4: Fatima is made by the makers of Chesterfield, Liggett & Myers,
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  Speaker 4: one of tobacco's most respected names.
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  Speaker 3: This is the NBC Radio Network.
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  Speaker 1: That concludes Dragnet, episode 216, Big Little Mother, from October 6th, 1953.
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  Speaker 1: Follow Dragnet for more classic broadcasts.