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Dragnet - "Big Gangster - Part 1" (Old Time Radio, 1950) · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Attempts on notorious hoodlum Gus Valentine have brought Detective Sergeants
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  Speaker 1: Joe Friday and Ben Romero of Los Angeles Homicide to
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: a case with the prospect of a gangland war. In
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  Speaker 1: Big Gangster Part 1, Dragnet Episode 41, the detectives investigate
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  Speaker 1: attempts on Valentine's life and seek the person directing them
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  Speaker 1: while Valentine refuses to cooperate.
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  Speaker 2: Jack Webb stars as.
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Friday and Barton Yarbrough as Sergeant Romero in this
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  Speaker 1: first half of a two-part story originally broadcast by NBC
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  Speaker 1: on March 23, 1950, with Fatima as sponsor. From Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles Homicide, Dragnet takes up the case. And now, our
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  Speaker 1: story begins.
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  Speaker 4: You're assigned to homicide detail. Attempts have been made on
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  Speaker 4: the life of a notorious hoodlum in your city. His
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  Speaker 4: death could mean an open gang war. Your job?
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  Speaker 9: An actual crime.
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  Speaker 6: For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los
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  Speaker 6: Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on
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  Speaker 6: the side of the law through an actual case from
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  Speaker 6: Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 5: It was Tuesday, July 18th. It was hot in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: We were working the night watch out of homicide detail.
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  Speaker 5: My partner's Ben Romero, the boss is Thad Brown, chief
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  Speaker 5: of detectives. My name's Friday. It was 5.35 p.m. when
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  Speaker 5: we got out of the car at Sunset Boulevard and
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  Speaker 5: Paris Avenue and walked down the street to the scene
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  Speaker 5: of the machine gunning, Lupo's Cafe.
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  Speaker 10: Hmm.
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  Speaker 11: Look at that, Joe.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Lift up the whole front of the plane.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Hi.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Romero and Friday, homicide? Oh, I'm Sheldon from Hollywood Division.
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  Speaker 5: Taylor and I picked up the.
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  Speaker 9: Call in our car. Nobody heard.
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  Speaker 5: What's the story? Just a second. It's Captain Elliott. Hold
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  Speaker 5: it a minute, will you, Sheldon? Hi. Hi, Captain. Hmm.
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  Speaker 5: Not much of it left. Sheldon here was in the
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  Speaker 5: cruiser car. He'll fill us in. All right. The intended
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  Speaker 5: victim was Gus Valentine. He's over there with Taylor, my partner. Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: According to Valentine, he stopped in the restaurant here for
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  Speaker 12: a drink. He was in there about 15 minutes, came
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  Speaker 12: out to hail a cab, and this car came around
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  Speaker 12: the corner. Down there is Sunset and Clayton. They ripped
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  Speaker 12: by close to the curb and opened up.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm. There's laundry there on one side of the place
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  Speaker 5: and a dry cleaning joint on the other side. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 9: Miracle, but nobody was hit.
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  Speaker 5: Did you get anything on the car?
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  Speaker 9: Nothing so far happened so fast nobody got a good
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  Speaker 9: look at it. How about Valentine?
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  Speaker 11: Does he have any idea?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. Taylor's getting the information. Nobody saw anything?
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  Speaker 5: Any witnesses? Yes, sir. A couple.
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  Speaker 12: Newsboy Tim Benson, the lady in the dry cleaning place,
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  Speaker 12: Agnes Rebard. Neither of them got a license number.
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  Speaker 5: Okay. Okay. Like talk to Valentine? Sheldon, keep the area clear,
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  Speaker 5: will you? Lab men are on their way out. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Come on.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I told you I had many ideas.
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  Speaker 11: Green Fort Sedan, is that it?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Elliott Central Homicide. Yes, sir. This is Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Valentine, the intended victim.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. This is Sergeant Friday, Sergeant Romero. Sergeant Friday, how
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  Speaker 5: are you? Fine. It's been a long time. Finally got
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  Speaker 5: out of the uniform, huh? Seven years ago.
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  Speaker 9: Who was it, Gus?
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  Speaker 5: If I knew, I'd tell you. I don't like being
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  Speaker 5: shot at. Let's go sit in the car. This way, Valentine.
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  Speaker 5: You want to get him back? All right.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 5: What's the story, Valentine? How do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: Let's not play it cozy.
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  Speaker 5: Who's after you?
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  Speaker 9: I suppose that's what would have happened if I knew.
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  Speaker 5: Who's carrying the beef? Somebody's unhappy with you. You must
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  Speaker 5: know who. I don't.
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  Speaker 11: You know what kind of a car it was?
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  Speaker 9: I told the other cop over there. A sedan, green Ford.
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  Speaker 5: We're not going to impress you, Valentine. You might as
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  Speaker 5: well know how we peg this kind of thing. Yeah?
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  Speaker 13: We got your number, had it for a long time.
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  Speaker 13: You're all up and down the blotter from Lincoln Heights
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  Speaker 13: to the county jail. You got a record everybody in
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  Speaker 13: this town knows about.
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  Speaker 5: Aren't you a little mixed up? I'm the guy that
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  Speaker 5: got shot at. We know that.
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  Speaker 9: I pay my taxes for protection, not a lecture on
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  Speaker 9: my past.
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  Speaker 5: Let me give you the word, Valentine. I've known you
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  Speaker 5: for a long time, and I've read about you in
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  Speaker 5: the newspapers. I've watched your so-called climb from two-bit penny
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  Speaker 5: anti-rackets all the way up. Now, you've been told more
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  Speaker 5: than once about keeping your nose clean. This is a switch,
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  Speaker 5: isn't it? Man gets shot at, cops read riot act,
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  Speaker 5: innocent victim. Look, we know you, and we know that
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  Speaker 5: crowd you run with. If you want to start a
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  Speaker 5: war around a battlefield, don't pick the streets of Los
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  Speaker 5: Angeles to fight it out.
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  Speaker 14: I don't think I asked for it the way you
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  Speaker 14: meant to.
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  Speaker 5: You did somewhere up and down the line. We know
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  Speaker 5: your operation. You walk the sideline marker all the way.
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  Speaker 5: Always got one foot inside the law.
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  Speaker 15: When you make yourself a target for some punk's machine gun,
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  Speaker 15: that's where you step outside.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what are you going to do, eat me out
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  Speaker 5: and let the man with the machine gun get away?
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  Speaker 5: We'll get him, whether you want to help us or not.
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  Speaker 5: We just don't have the time to run around jamming
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  Speaker 5: a cork in the barrel of every gun in town.
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  Speaker 5: Before you get out of this car, let this sink in.
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  Speaker 13: There's not going to be any innocent people cut down
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  Speaker 13: by bullets that were meant for you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I get it.
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  Speaker 9: My tax money's no good, huh?
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  Speaker 5: A pair bigger chunk than most of the clods in
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  Speaker 5: this town. You haven't got a clear title to the
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  Speaker 5: city yet, and until you do, don't set up a
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  Speaker 5: shooting gun.
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  Speaker 2: What do I do, dig a foxhole till you get
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  Speaker 2: ready to tap whoever's taking pot shots at me?
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  Speaker 5: You can tell us who it is.
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  Speaker 9: You got all I know.
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  Speaker 5: Don't you think I'd want him picked up?
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  Speaker 13: I think you're a liar. I think you better square
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  Speaker 13: your beef and knock off this gangster stuff. There's not
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  Speaker 13: going to be any more of this kind of thing, understand?
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  Speaker 5: That's the trouble with civil service.
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  Speaker 9: It makes a big man out of you at 200
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  Speaker 9: bucks a month. I've never passed an.
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  Speaker 5: Exam, but I keep in step. You missed the first
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  Speaker 5: one from the gutter to the sidewalk. All right. Almost
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  Speaker 5: without exception, every city in the United States says it's
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  Speaker 5: Gus Valentine. These men remain out of custody not because
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  Speaker 5: of any lack of law enforcement, but because of their
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  Speaker 5: ability to hide behind the laws which are designed to
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  Speaker 5: protect the innocent and use them to their own advantage.
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  Speaker 5: They operate allowing only the thinnest margin possible between themselves
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  Speaker 5: and the state penitentiary. We drove back to Central Division.
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  Speaker 5: At 6.18 p.m., we were called to the Chief of
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  Speaker 5: Detectives' office.
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  Speaker 9: He wouldn't give you anything, huh?
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  Speaker 5: Not a thing. Usual line of smart talk. It was
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  Speaker 5: ever after I meant business. Our storefronts were a mess.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, they won't quit now. Just a minute. What's that
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  Speaker 9: intelligence number?
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  Speaker 5: 2821. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 12: This is Brown. Captain White gone home? No, I asked
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  Speaker 12: him to come up to the office, would you please?
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  Speaker 5: Thanks. If you do manage to tag Valentine, it could
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  Speaker 5: cause a pretty sour mess.
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  Speaker 12: He's got enough flunkies around to parlay it into a
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  Speaker 12: fair-sized shooting war. See them started on less.
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  Speaker 5: Was there any chance of pulling Valentine in until things
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  Speaker 5: simmered down?
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  Speaker 9: No chance. We've got nothing on him. Nothing we can prove.
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  Speaker 5: He's got a.
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  Speaker 11: Few boys close to him. Maybe one of them could
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  Speaker 11: tell us.
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  Speaker 5: Same two lawyers work for all of them. If we'd
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  Speaker 5: pull him in, they'd be out in an hour on
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  Speaker 5: the wrist. You want to see me?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, why?
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  Speaker 5: Sit down. I'm at Valentine's shooting this afternoon. Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: What's your guess?
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  Speaker 5: There's been some talk. We heard he was hot.
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  Speaker 6: You knew that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: The way we figured, he's getting too big for his pants.
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  Speaker 9: He's coming up fast. Stepped on a lot of toes
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  Speaker 9: on the way. Shouldn't be too tough to find out why.
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  Speaker 5: That's half of it. If we get that much, maybe
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  Speaker 5: we can find out who. You got a big field
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  Speaker 5: to pick from. I can find you a dozen possibles.
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  Speaker 9: We don't need a dozen. All we want are the
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  Speaker 9: ones in that car this afternoon.
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  Speaker 11: Who do you figure, Captain Hoy?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I kind of go along with Joe. Like I said,
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  Speaker 9: I think maybe we'll be able to peg the fly
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  Speaker 9: a little faster. And we can go from there.
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  Speaker 5: All right. Well, let's take what we know about the guy.
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  Speaker 9: Let's just take this past year. We know he's got
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  Speaker 9: more than a good share of the Mexican narcotics traffic.
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  Speaker 9: That means he's taking business from the Eastern Syndicate.
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  Speaker 5: That makes one of those boys a candidate. That's right.
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  Speaker 9: Then there's the pinball machines. He's giving Big Ernie Jacobs
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  Speaker 9: and Monk Watson a big push on those. And puts
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  Speaker 9: them in the running. That's a long list. The horses,
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  Speaker 9: fancy poker games, prostitution, the works. He's squeezing them all.
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  Speaker 9: A lot of guys could be shooting at him with
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  Speaker 9: a machine gun.
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  Speaker 5: Where do we start?
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  Speaker 9: Leg work.
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  Speaker 5: Lots of it. Fast.
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  Speaker 9: We'll start nosing around. See what we can pick up. Friday,
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  Speaker 9: you and Romero can give us a hand there.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir. All right with you, William? Fine.
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  Speaker 12: I don't have to tell you. We've got to move
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  Speaker 12: as quick as we can. We've got a lot of
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  Speaker 12: places to hit, and we haven't got too much time.
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  Speaker 9: We'll keep Valentine under surveillance to make sure he doesn't
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  Speaker 9: try to square things with a gun.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: This is one the taxpayers wouldn't understand. Yeah. Trying to
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  Speaker 5: keep a guy alive that'd be more dangerous dead. Wednesday,
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  Speaker 5: July 19th. Ben and I started making the rounds to
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  Speaker 5: find out why someone was out to get Gus Valentine.
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  Speaker 5: Captain was right. The list of his enemies was long.
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  Speaker 5: For two days, we talked to gamblers and bartenders at
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  Speaker 5: the usual hangouts. The few slim leads we picked up
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  Speaker 5: led nowhere. Saturday, July 22nd, we met with one of
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  Speaker 5: Ben's informants, a bar boy at a cafe out on
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  Speaker 5: Santa Monica Boulevard. Here we go.
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  Speaker 11: That's him over there. At that table.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Jerry? How are you?
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  Speaker 9: Hiya, Ben.
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  Speaker 5: Grab a chair.
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  Speaker 11: You know my partner, don't you? Sure.
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  Speaker 9: Sit down, Joe.
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  Speaker 11: Hi.
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  Speaker 9: Want a beer?
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  Speaker 5: No, no thanks. We're working. Coke? Okay. One's enough. Here
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  Speaker 5: you go.
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  Speaker 9: Good and cold. Doctor cut me down one beer a day.
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  Speaker 5: It's a spot.
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  Speaker 9: On a hot day, don't it?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: What about Valentine?
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  Speaker 5: What about him?
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  Speaker 11: You hear anything since I phoned you?
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  Speaker 5: A couple of things.
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  Speaker 9: Word's getting around he's a welcher. Horses?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. Big money. Hasn't paid off yet.
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  Speaker 11: What does he owe?
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  Speaker 9: I can give you the name of one of them.
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  Speaker 9: Sal Tapper.
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  Speaker 11: I don't know him.
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  Speaker 14: Meat packing business, wholesaler. Got a big plant down at
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  Speaker 14: 54th and Commercial. Owns a little neighborhood bar.
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  Speaker 9: That's where he spends most of his time.
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  Speaker 5: Where's that? Gardena.
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  Speaker 9: Calls it the Mile High.
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  Speaker 11: What about this salt trapper?
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  Speaker 9: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 11: How close is he to Valentine?
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  Speaker 5: You mean one of his boys? No.
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  Speaker 9: Valentine's his book, that's all.
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  Speaker 5: Supposing Valentine owed him a wad of dough, would he
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  Speaker 5: push his point?
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  Speaker 12: How do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: Would he use pressure to collect?
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  Speaker 12: Maybe a meat cleaver, not a machine gun. I don't
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  Speaker 12: figure him in on that Tuesday caper.
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  Speaker 14: Sure you don't want this set of coke?
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  Speaker 5: No, thank you.
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  Speaker 11: What time you go to work? Plenty of time.
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  Speaker 9: One bottle of beer ain't hardly enough.
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  Speaker 5: Anything rumbles about the shooting? How do you mean? Anything
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  Speaker 5: worth repeating?
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  Speaker 9: Everybody says the same thing.
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  Speaker 5: He's got it coming.
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  Speaker 11: Who is everybody?
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  Speaker 9: Homeowners, neighborhood Joes.
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  Speaker 11: They got it all take. What's the popular guest?
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  Speaker 9: A dame.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's about it, huh, Jerry?
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  Speaker 9: That's about it.
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  Speaker 5: What's your guest?
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  Speaker 14: Fresh out, I don't know. How come you guys are
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  Speaker 14: so worried about Gus Valentine? I didn't think you cared
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  Speaker 14: whether he lived or died.
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  Speaker 5: Either way, we're in trouble. We left the cafe on
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  Speaker 5: Santa Monica Boulevard and drove out to Gardena to the
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  Speaker 5: Mile High Bar. It was a typical neighborhood tavern with
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  Speaker 5: the windows painted in black except for two small ovals
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  Speaker 5: in the center of each window. They were filled with
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  Speaker 5: beer signs and red neon. The cloth sign advertised shuffleboard
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  Speaker 5: and life-size television. Inside, the walls were covered with alpine
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  Speaker 5: mountain climbers trying to fight their way up a mountain
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  Speaker 5: that looked twice as steep as the Matterhorn.
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  Speaker 9: Will you send nickels, will you, Leonard?
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  Speaker 11: Can you tell us where we can find Sal Tapper?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm here.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Len.
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  Speaker 9: What do you want?
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  Speaker 5: Police officers. I'd like to talk to you.
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  Speaker 9: Sure, what about?
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  Speaker 5: Gus Valentine. Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: He owes me money.
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  Speaker 11: Is that all you've got against him?
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  Speaker 9: As much as he owes me, that's enough.
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  Speaker 5: How much money does he owe you? Enough. How long
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  Speaker 5: has he been booking for you?
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  Speaker 9: I didn't say he was booking for me.
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  Speaker 5: No, we did.
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  Speaker 11: About two years.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 7: Come on. Get it.
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  Speaker 5: 4,000 on the first ball. I got to do better
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  Speaker 5: than that.
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  Speaker 11: Where were you Tuesday afternoon? At the packing house.
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  Speaker 5: Can you prove it?
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  Speaker 9: Would I say it if I couldn't prove it?
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  Speaker 15: When that little gate up there turns green and you
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  Speaker 15: go through it, you get an extra ball.
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  Speaker 5: It's red, it doubles your score, but it's real tough
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  Speaker 5: to get in there. How long has Valentine owed you money?
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  Speaker 5: All a little over a week. When did he say
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  Speaker 5: he'd pay you?
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  Speaker 11: He didn't say.
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  Speaker 5: He said he was trying to raise the dog.
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  Speaker 11: You're the only one he owes?
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  Speaker 5: No. All right.
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  Speaker 15: There's a couple of more guys in town.
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  Speaker 9: You know who they are?
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  Speaker 5: No. How do you know he owes somebody besides you?
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  Speaker 9: I heard.
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  Speaker 5: Do you say why he hasn't paid up?
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 5: What'd you say? Did he say why he hasn't paid up?
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  Speaker 5: I told you.
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  Speaker 15: He said he was trying to raise the money.
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  Speaker 5: You sure you haven't tried to put the bite on him?
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  Speaker 5: Sure I have. Sure I have. I want the dog.
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  Speaker 5: But I didn't gun him.
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  Speaker 11: Somebody did.
• 15:37
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I know. No, it wasn't me. You had a reason.
• 15:39
  Speaker 12: It's a lot of people.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. We're looking for the one with the machine gun.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I can't help you there.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, come on.
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: Get in there.
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  Speaker 14: Hey!
• 15:55
  Speaker 11: Hey, look at that. Free ball.
• 15:57
  Speaker 9: 26,000.
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: That's a real tough machine to beat.
• 16:02
  Speaker 11: And where did you say you were choosing?
• 16:03
  Speaker 15: At my packing plant, 54th and Commercial.
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: Okay. How long have you known Gus Valentine? About four years.
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: I met him at a party out in Hollywood.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: It's the first time I've ever known him to Welch. Mm-hmm. 27,000.
• 16:30
  Speaker 15: I'm not doing so good, am I?
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: I don't know. It depends on where you were Tuesday.
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: 12.30 p.m.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: We talked with the superintendent of Tapper's Meatpacking House. He
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: told us that Saul Tapper had been there all day
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: when Gus Valentine was shot at. We talked to several
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: employees of the plant. They corroborated his story. We checked
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: Tapper out and found him to be a fairly respectable
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: businessman who gambled a great deal on the side, but
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: we felt reasonably sure that he had no part in
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: the shooting. We knew that if we could run down
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: the others to whom Valentine owed money, we'd be closer
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: to finding out why he was being shot at and
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: eventually get to the right man. 1.45 p.m. Ben and
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: I went upstairs to the eighth floor of the city hall,
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: the lunchroom. We had a sandwich and coffee.
• 17:19
  Speaker 11: Too close to dinner to have a piece of that pie,
• 17:21
  Speaker 11: isn't it?
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd say so. Hand me another napkin, will you?
• 17:25
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Here.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 17:28
  Speaker 11: Think you'd do any good to talk to Valentine again?
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: Maybe, I doubt it. He's not going to tell us anything.
• 17:33
  Speaker 11: I figure we're on the right track. A lot of
• 17:35
  Speaker 11: reasons why he might be a target, but this welching business,
• 17:38
  Speaker 11: that's new to him.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Could be.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Are you Sergeant Friday?
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 17:44
  Speaker 8: Telephone.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute. Go away, DeAnthony. No, you got the check.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: I'll get the tip.
• 17:48
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: Slide that phone over, will you? Oh, yeah. Thank you. Friday.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Tell it. Come down to Chief Brown's office right away.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: Let's go.
• 18:09
  Speaker 11: Pie sure did look good.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Let's get that elevator. Yeah.
• 18:14
  Speaker 11: Hey, who called?
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: The skipper. He wants us to go to Chief Brown's house.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: Campbell Street floor, please.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: What's up?
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: I don't know. You make the rounds again tonight?
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: A couple places we can hit in the south end
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: of town. I called Charlie Flint's place this afternoon. Maybe
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: he'll have something for us.
• 18:28
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I hope so.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: Come on.
• 18:35
  Speaker 11: I wish now I'd had that pie. I'm still hungry.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: I got a candy bar in my desk. You can
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: have that.
• 18:40
  Speaker 11: I can't eat those chewy bars in late.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's some kind of a fudge bar.
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: Oh, huh.
• 18:48
  Speaker 9: Come in.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir. Get over to Georgia Street right away. Why?
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: Gosh, Valentine, they did it again.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: This time they didn't miss.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 19:06
  Speaker 11: You are listening to Dragnet.
• 19:08
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• 19:13
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• 19:17
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• 19:20
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• 19:21
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• 19:25
  Speaker 2: cigarette quality.
• 19:26
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• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Long cigarette smokers discover.
• 19:29
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• 19:31
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• 19:33
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• 19:34
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• 19:40
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• 19:45
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• 19:49
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• 19:50
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• 19:55
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• 19:58
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• 20:02
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• 20:06
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• 20:09
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• 20:16
  Speaker 7: Saturday, July 22nd, 5.30 p.m., We drove to the Georgia
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: Street Receiving Hospital and went up to the third floor.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: We talked to the doctor in charge who told us
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: that two slugs had been taken from Gus Valentine's right
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: leg and one from his right shoulder. They had been
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: marked for identification. He was in fair condition. We talked
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: with the patrolman who made the ambulance follow-up. They told
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: us Valentine had been shot as he entered his apartment
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: house garage. There were no eyewitnesses. We went in and
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: talked to Valentine.
• 20:52
  Speaker 11: You told the officers that the guy who shot you
• 20:54
  Speaker 11: was on foot.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Who was it?
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: Couldn't tell.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: You haven't any idea who it could have been?
• 21:00
  Speaker 13: No.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: You don't expect us to swallow that again, do you?
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: I don't care either way.
• 21:04
  Speaker 11: Why don't you pay up what you owe?
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
• 21:07
  Speaker 11: You owe some big money you haven't paid off.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Where'd you get that? That's the word going around. Looks
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: to us like either pay up or get shot up.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Did I ask for advice? No, and here's something else
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: you didn't ask for. Twice in one week you've been
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: mixed up in shooting scrapes. We told you this city
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: doesn't belong to you. I don't claim ownership.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: Now listen.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: We've been over this before and this is the last time.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Don't push us any courage. We know you talk big
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: and you haven't got the guts to go along with it. Yeah, sure. Now,
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: come on. Who's shooting at you?
• 21:30
  Speaker 11: I know your phone number.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: I'll call you if I need help. I'll take care
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: of this myself. Valentine, the first time you pull a
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: cap gun, we're going to sit on you. If there's
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: any retaliating, we'll do it. I'm tired of sitting like
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: a duck on a pond. Then tell us who's gunning
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: for you.
• 21:41
  Speaker 11: That's between me and them.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: I'll meet them when I'm ready.
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: We're through talking. When we get to the bottom of
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: this and find out who's been doing all the shooting,
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: we'll have an answer. And if we find out you've
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: been withholding evidence, it's going to go hard for you, understand? Yeah, sure.
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: Now, leave me alone.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Come on. Yeah. I better call the office.
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: Homicide, Graham.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: Captain Elliott there. I'll see.
• 22:15
  Speaker 11: Captain, will you take two?
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: Elliott.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: This is Friday. Checking in on the Valentine thing. What's
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: his story? Couldn't get anything out of him. He isn't
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: hurt bad. Right leg and shoulder. All right. Here's something
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: you run down. Yeah?
• 22:28
  Speaker 10: Got a tip from White and Intelligence. He's got a
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: man out at Freddy's Fish and Chips on Slauson. Says
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: a couple of guys in there blowing off about Valentine.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Who are they? Billy Keel and Tony Farrar. They're not
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: on Valentine's team. That's right.
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: White's man says the party's getting rough out there. You
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: or Romero better follow up on it. Right. Another thing,
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: if it looks like anything, you better bring him in
• 22:48
  Speaker 10: for questioning.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Okay. Check on me when you get in. Right. Let's go.
• 22:53
  Speaker 11: What is it?
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Keelan Farrar. Skipper wants us to pick him up and
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: bring him in for questioning.
• 22:57
  Speaker 11: What do they know about the shooter?
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: They know enough to talk about it.
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: 7 p.m.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: We located Freddy's Fish and Chips place on Slauson near
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Montgomery Street. A dozen or so tables at the back
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: of the restaurant were already taken to the overflow lined
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: up too deep at the bar. The man from intelligence
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: detail was down at the far end of the steam
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: table nursing a cheese sandwich. He motioned us over and
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: pointed out Billy Keel and Tony Farrar. They were sitting
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: at one of the tables along with four other men
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: drinking Boilermakers and eating French fried potatoes. Ben and I
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: made our way through the crowd toward the back tables. Sorry.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: Pardon me. Can I get through here, please? All right.
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: So it figures.
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: Donut?
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: You, Billy Keel?
• 23:46
  Speaker 11: That's right. Which one is Tony Farrar? He's getting a beer.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: What do you want? Police officers want to talk to
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: you in Farrar downtown.
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: What's the matter?
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: I'd like to ask you a few questions. I want
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: to get your hat.
• 24:00
  Speaker 15: You got any questions, you can ask them here.
• 24:02
  Speaker 11: Hey, Vic, how about buying a round? Come on, Gio,
• 24:04
  Speaker 11: let's go.
• 24:05
  Speaker 15: I got nothing to tell you now.
• 24:06
  Speaker 9: Let me alone.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: There's two ways to go downtown, the hard way and
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: the easy way. Let's take the easy way.
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: This way.
• 24:14
  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Dr. Hope! Hello? Joe, I got Ferraro. You go in
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: that back way.
• 25:15
  Speaker 9: I'll get him.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute, Joe. Let go of me. All right. Stop.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Come on, Ferraro. Come on. You all right, Joe? Yeah.
• 25:28
  Speaker 11: You're bleeding pretty bad.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. Let's get him to the car. Look
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: at your suit. It's ripped to pieces.
• 25:41
  Speaker 11: My wife's going to.
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: Kill me.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: One of the officers in the ambulance follow-up drove our
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: car back to the city hall. Tony Farrar and Billy
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: Keel were taken to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital for emergency treatment.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: We went in the same ambulance. Ben had a broken
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: index finger, a two-inch cut in his scalp, and a
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: deep gax in his right thigh. I had five stitches
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: taken in my upper right arm and three above.
• 26:08
  Speaker 9: My left eye.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: My right eye was swollen shut. A man from intelligence
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: detail was taken to the PNF ward to be treated
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: for a minor concussion. It was 9.15 p.m. when we
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: got back to the city hall, the interrogation room. How
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: about it, Shield? What? What do you know about the
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: Valentine shooting?
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: I don't know anything about it.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: You're worried?
• 26:30
  Speaker 11: About what?
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: You tell us. You started that fight out there.
• 26:34
  Speaker 11: I didn't see any reason to go downtown. Does Valentine
• 26:36
  Speaker 11: owe you any money?
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: No. You've been talking a lot.
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: Any law against that?
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: Why'd you shoot Gus Valentine?
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: I didn't shoot him. And you account for your time
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: Tuesday afternoon? I don't have to answer that. Where were
• 26:48
  Speaker 11: you this afternoon? My lawyer's coming in.
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: Ask him.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: How much money does Valentine owe you? You ever see
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: this before?
• 27:01
  Speaker 11: I don't even know what it is.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: You found that machine gun in your apartment.
• 27:05
  Speaker 11: Doesn't belong to me.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: We got your car downstairs. Green Ford sedan.
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: Doesn't belong to me.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: White slip's got your name on it. Here's something else
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: with your name on it.
• 27:14
  Speaker 10: Two chits for $ 750 signed by Gus Valentine.
• 27:17
  Speaker 11: Money he owes you and the horses.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: You shot him, didn't you?
• 27:20
  Speaker 11: I don't see how you can prove it.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you how. We ran this Tommy gun through
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: the crime lab.
• 27:25
  Speaker 10: We dug the same slugs out of the front of
• 27:26
  Speaker 10: those stores where you.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Tried to kill Valentine.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: Your prints are all over the gun. How much more
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: do you want? It's not my gun. All we got
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: to do is find the. 45 you used this afternoon
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: and match it up with the slugs we dug out
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: of Valentine's leg and, mister, you'll be away for a
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: long time.
• 27:41
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 27:43
  Speaker 11: We used the Tommy gun.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: We didn't hit him.
• 27:45
  Speaker 15: Didn't try. Only wanted to scare him. I got tired
• 27:48
  Speaker 15: of waiting for my dough. I got no use for it, Welch.
• 27:51
  Speaker 15: What about this afternoon?
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: No, sir.
• 27:53
  Speaker 15: Me and Farad didn't have nothing to do with that.
• 27:55
  Speaker 15: I'll take the machine gun, Rapp, but it wasn't us
• 27:56
  Speaker 15: this afternoon.
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: Elliot, Roddy, step outside a minute.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Valentine. Yeah. Somebody just blew his hospital room full
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: of holes. It took us 17 minutes with red light
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: and siren to get to the Ferndale Sanitarium where Gus
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Valentine was recovering from his gunshot wounds. Three cruiser cars
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: were out front when we pulled up. We went to
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: room 12 in the west wing. There's the doctor, Joe. Yeah.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: How is he, doctor?
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: He was dead when we got in here.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: He had a private nurse.
• 28:34
  Speaker 9: Shot her, too.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: Dead. Anyone else hurt? It was visiting hours. Some woman
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: was in there talking to him. She got hit. We're
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: treating her down in the emergency room.
• 28:43
  Speaker 10: Appreciate it, doctor, if you keep your staff out of
• 28:45
  Speaker 10: the room here until we finish our investigation.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir. Thank you. Some working sign.
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: Mm-hmm. He didn't fool this time.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: Too bad he wouldn't give us more help.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: We're no worse off than we were. We still have
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: to find out who it was without him.
• 29:06
  Speaker 11: I hope we can get to him before Valentine's crowd
• 29:09
  Speaker 11: starts shooting back.
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: We got to. Anyway, this cancels out his debts. You
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: know his record? Yeah. He owed a lot more than
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: he could ever pay.
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: The story you have just heard was true.
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: Only the names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: On October 26th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 97,
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 29:41
  Speaker 9: In a moment, the results of that trial.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: It's amazing how many long cigarette smokers are changing to Fatima.
• 29:48
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• 29:50
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• 29:54
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• 29:55
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• 29:58
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• 30:02
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  Speaker 6: Billy Keel and Tony Farrar were tried and convicted of
• 30:49
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• 30:52
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• 30:55
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• 30:58
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• 31:01
  Speaker 6: custody at the time of Gus Valentine's murder, they were
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: cleared of any complicity of the crime. Valentine's killer was
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: still at large.
• 31:08
  Speaker 14: Next week, The Big Gangster, Part 2.
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