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Dragnet: The Big Make (EP4538) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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  Speaker 1: September fourteenth, nineteen fifty here is the big make.
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  Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true, only
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  Speaker 2: the names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
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  Speaker 2: a detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery detail. The small
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  Speaker 2: bakery shop in your city is held up. A man
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  Speaker 2: and his daughter are shot down without reason. Your job getting.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For the
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  Speaker 3: next thirty minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department.
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  Speaker 3: You will travel step by step on the side of
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  Speaker 3: the law through an actual case from official police files,
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  Speaker 3: from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is
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  Speaker 3: the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 4: It was Tuesday, November third, was Chiley in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 4: We're working the night watch out of robbery detail. My
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  Speaker 4: partner's Ben Ramero. The boss is Captain ed Walker. My
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  Speaker 4: name is Friday. It was five minutes to midnight and
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  Speaker 4: we got to three eighteen Silver Avenue, Stendal's bakery shop,
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  Speaker 4: maryl and Friday central robber Jacobsen at sixteen.
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  Speaker 5: Are my partner Olsen's back there in the shop talking
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  Speaker 5: to the owner.
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  Speaker 4: You answered the call, did you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I must have been a crazy man. Shot to of
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  Speaker 6: them down cold blood? Are they going the ambulance now?
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  Speaker 4: Shot up pretty bad?
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  Speaker 7: Who runs the place?
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  Speaker 6: Swedish family named Stendall, father, mother, two daughters.
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  Speaker 5: All four of them work in the bakery here.
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  Speaker 4: They all here at the time of the robbery. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: The hold up man shot the father and the oldest daughter.
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  Speaker 6: The mother and the younger girl are in the back
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  Speaker 6: straight through that door. Okay, thanks James, quite sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Yo.
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  Speaker 7: On the side of the door here looks like a
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  Speaker 7: bullet hole.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, hey Jacob, yes, Sergy, you want to call into
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  Speaker 4: the crime lab, ask who send somebody out? All right?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you?
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  Speaker 7: Hi you Olson. That's right, romere on Friday, sent for robbery.
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  Speaker 7: Oh how are you?
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  Speaker 8: These are two of the victims, missus Sidney Stendall, girls
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  Speaker 8: her daughter names Jennifer. Any other witnesses not so far?
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  Speaker 8: Maybe around here is pretty deserted this time of night.
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  Speaker 8: Hold up, man made a fast getaway.
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  Speaker 7: And two people who were shot. What kind of shape
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  Speaker 7: is they in?
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  Speaker 8: Father and mister Stendall. He's got a bullet wound on
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  Speaker 8: the right shoulder. Older daughter's a lot worse. Her name's June,
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  Speaker 8: nineteen years old, shot four or five times to the stomach.
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  Speaker 4: Or do you want to stand by? Right? Yeah? Okay,
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  Speaker 4: missus standell. We're from robbery detail.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, how do you do?
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  Speaker 10: How do you do?
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  Speaker 11: Jennie was alexii's Plato tool.
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  Speaker 9: You will excuse me for not getting up, officer. I
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  Speaker 9: don't feel so bad.
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  Speaker 4: That's perfectly all right, ma'am.
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  Speaker 7: It's chair for your Thank you, okay, thank.
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  Speaker 4: You very much. You and your daughter here were in
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  Speaker 4: the front of the bakery shop at the time of
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  Speaker 4: the robbery, Is that right? Missus standel No.
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  Speaker 11: Yannie was back here with her father. That's Lars, my husband,
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  Speaker 11: Uni and I were in the shopping front.
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  Speaker 7: Who were you with, ma Uni?
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  Speaker 9: Uni?
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  Speaker 4: And I?
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  Speaker 12: Your MoMA means June, my older sister.
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  Speaker 7: She calls it ju Yeah, y oh, do you mind
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  Speaker 7: telling us what happened?
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  Speaker 5: Then?
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  Speaker 11: You and and I was scrubbing the floor of the shop,
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  Speaker 11: if you choose the nightly scrubbed the floor of the shop.
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  Speaker 11: Then this man came in and pointed a gun. He
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  Speaker 11: wanted our money.
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  Speaker 4: By what time did he come in?
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  Speaker 11: Eleven fifteen, eleven twenty, I don't remember, For sir, he
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  Speaker 11: wanted our money and I gave it to him.
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  Speaker 7: How much was that man?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I do that okaang.
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  Speaker 12: Twenty four dollars?
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  Speaker 11: Ye had twenty four dollars used the paper money, He
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  Speaker 11: took it and put it in his pocket.
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  Speaker 9: Un my daughter, she started to cry. The man hit her.
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  Speaker 11: She cried some more. Then Lars and yeen he came
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  Speaker 11: around and from the bag. Yes, the man pointed the gun.
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  Speaker 11: He made Lars and me and Yan stand against that war,
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  Speaker 11: but not un He took hold of her. Yeah, Jenny,
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  Speaker 11: who held today? Then Vegan didn't mane and.
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  Speaker 12: But uh you was getting fresh with her mom. The
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  Speaker 12: man tried to get fresh with June. Officers, June. He
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  Speaker 12: tried to drag out.
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  Speaker 11: The door with yeah you hit him, hit him good
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  Speaker 11: and even like that true her against the counter and
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  Speaker 11: pushed June down. Crazy man criss he look he kicked her.
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  Speaker 11: M then Lars, my husband. He ran at the man.
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  Speaker 11: He heard the gun loud and Lars fell and I screamed, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 11: and I screamed. He turned and I saw the man
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  Speaker 11: standing over you. He pull wanted have gone down at her,
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  Speaker 11: see a look on him. He kept shooting her four
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  Speaker 11: maybe five times, Ye miscreamed, She kept screaming. The man
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  Speaker 11: ran out the door.
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  Speaker 7: It's all right now, let's see and either one of
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  Speaker 7: you ever seen this man before?
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  Speaker 12: No, no, but you know him if you saw him again, yeah,
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  Speaker 12: I think so, I would afser I got a good
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  Speaker 12: look at him. He's wearing a blue cat like a
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  Speaker 12: baseball player wears.
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  Speaker 4: Howd he get away? Was he on foot or did
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  Speaker 4: he have a car?
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  Speaker 12: Nobody followed him, but after he left I heard a
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  Speaker 12: car start up down the block and then it drove away.
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  Speaker 7: Do you have anything else to add, Missus Daniel.
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  Speaker 9: I hope you catch the man. He's bad.
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  Speaker 4: Please catch yes, ma'am, We're gonna try ye.
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  Speaker 11: Nicholas, Yes here, Mom, your officer. Didn't you find the man?
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  Speaker 11: Please call me.
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  Speaker 4: You keep the nickels, we'll call you. Before we left
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  Speaker 4: the scene of the robbery and shooting, Missus Stendall and
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  Speaker 4: her daughter gave us their description of the hold up man,
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  Speaker 4: together with the clothing he wore. The suspect had no
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  Speaker 4: outstanding physical characteristics that they'd noticed. The only thing unusual
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  Speaker 4: about his clothing was that he wore what appeared to
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  Speaker 4: be a baseball cap at the time of the hold up.
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  Speaker 4: She described the cap as light blue. With a visor,
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  Speaker 4: Together with officer Spectel and Lopez from Central Robbery, we
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  Speaker 4: canvassed the immediate neighborhood for other possible witnesses. We found none.
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  Speaker 4: The next morning we went out to the hospital. The
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  Speaker 4: condition of the older daughter, June, was critical. We interviewed
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  Speaker 4: the father. He could tell us nothing. At ten am,
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  Speaker 4: Missus Stendall and her younger girl, Jenny were brought to
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  Speaker 4: the office and we started them looking through mugg books
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  Speaker 4: of parolies previously convicted of armed robbery. Within two hours,
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  Speaker 4: both of them positively identified the picture of a recent
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  Speaker 4: San Quentin release as that of the hold up man.
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  Speaker 4: His name was Harold Best. We started a quick rundown.
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  Speaker 7: You pulled the packag, Johnny.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the dope, Harold Best. Uh, Harold Norris alias Harold
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  Speaker 4: Thomps alias Tom Norris one term for armed robbery and
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  Speaker 4: Q got out four months ago. Mm ow in description
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  Speaker 4: both maps.
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  Speaker 13: How about the ex con file? You check it, he's registered.
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  Speaker 13: You get ahold of his parlops.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, twenty four to Fort Excelsior Avenue is rooming. Huh.
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  Speaker 4: I'll let checks with the x con files.
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  Speaker 13: Cruel officer says Best went to work two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 13: to filling station over on from n Yeah, doesn't seem
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  Speaker 13: to be able to hold a job. Quarrelsome run himself
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  Speaker 13: into dat.
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  Speaker 10: I got.
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  Speaker 13: Robbery romel here, right, that's all? Huh yeah right, But
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  Speaker 13: Ray Pinkert the crime lab. They checked the slugs taken
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  Speaker 13: from the two victims. Yeah, they came from a thirty
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  Speaker 13: two caliber revolver, probably a cold anything else, that's it.
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  Speaker 13: I'm too bad at dark, We've had worse. Yeah, maybe
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  Speaker 13: we can make that phone call pretty quick.
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  Speaker 4: Two pm Wednesday, Ben and I drove out to his
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  Speaker 4: rooming house at twenty four or forty Excelsior Avenue, and
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  Speaker 4: we found that Herbert Best was still living there. We
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  Speaker 4: had the landity show us his room. Besides the usual
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  Speaker 4: personal belongings, we came across nothing of consequence. After questioning
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  Speaker 4: the landlady, we drove to the service station on Vermont
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  Speaker 4: Avenue where Best was supposed to be employed.
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  Speaker 7: I don't seen him. Went around. There's a fellow over
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  Speaker 7: there greasing your car in the right Oh oh yeah,
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  Speaker 7: and looks like Best.
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  Speaker 14: Hey fella, you well, can you tell us if there's
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  Speaker 14: a Herbert Best working here?
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  Speaker 15: I'm vin why.
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  Speaker 13: Police officers like to talk to you, no matter routine investigation.
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  Speaker 13: Got a few questions for you supposed.
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  Speaker 7: To have this car greased up a quarter to four?
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  Speaker 7: What am I supposed to do?
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  Speaker 4: Please?
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  Speaker 7: Your boss?
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  Speaker 13: I'll find him.
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  Speaker 7: Your got any heat on you? Oh, it's all about
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  Speaker 7: how long is it's gonna be a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 7: I wanna take more on a grease job with this
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  Speaker 7: singing shape.
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  Speaker 4: I will wait for you.
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  Speaker 7: How'd you find me mosey Line, lady of mine.
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  Speaker 16: No routine, Genters, you're a vetana on. His trap is FROs,
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  Speaker 16: he's a junk. Well, what's it all about?
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  Speaker 7: Got a few things are straightened out?
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  Speaker 4: Best?
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  Speaker 7: How long you been working here? You didn't drive out
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  Speaker 7: here for that? That's not your game. What's to pitch?
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  Speaker 4: Routine investigation? We'd like to know where you've been spending
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  Speaker 4: your nights. For instance, Sunday night, where were you?
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  Speaker 7: Well? I don't know. I went to show. Yes, I
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  Speaker 7: saw him micke yourn a pitcher where downtown?
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  Speaker 5: I had a beer after the show?
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  Speaker 7: Come home? How about Monday night? Oh? My home after work?
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  Speaker 7: I was booked, went to bed early.
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  Speaker 4: Can you prove it?
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  Speaker 7: Land lady saw me come in while always snooping around.
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  Speaker 7: She ought to know if I was there or not?
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  Speaker 4: How about last night Tuesday?
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  Speaker 7: Placed some cards a friend of mine, him and his
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  Speaker 7: wife Penny Annie Booker. Where the place? It's down on
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  Speaker 7: Pico near the park. You can ask him what time
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  Speaker 7: did you get there? I'm not sure about eight o'clock.
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  Speaker 7: I guess what time did you leave? What was it
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  Speaker 7: all about?
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  Speaker 4: What time did you leave?
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  Speaker 7: Around midnight?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Must have been around midnight.
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  Speaker 4: What'd you play with your friend his wife?
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  Speaker 9: Poker?
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  Speaker 7: Ooker a loss as usual? Took a street car home, went,
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  Speaker 7: I'm sure you didn't leave earlier? Of course, I'm sure
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  Speaker 7: it was.
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  Speaker 10: Rum that night.
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  Speaker 4: I remember, how do you remember?
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  Speaker 7: I looked at my watch, but enough for you.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes you get home.
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  Speaker 7: I'm on it, take spot A half hour on trolley.
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  Speaker 7: Must have been about twelve thirty. The land lady see
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  Speaker 7: you coming. I don't know if she saw me or not.
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  Speaker 7: Always snooping around. Probably did, You're not sure? No, of course,
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  Speaker 7: I'm not sure she looks for me. I don't know
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  Speaker 7: for her.
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  Speaker 4: You want a gun? Best?
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  Speaker 7: You know better not copper ex cons Can I have
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  Speaker 7: a gun?
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  Speaker 4: Your friend and his wife and now they're going to
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  Speaker 4: back you up? If you were playing cards with him
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  Speaker 4: till midnight? Why not?
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  Speaker 7: I was say that there's a boss looking from here.
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  Speaker 7: I better let him know I'm here. Yeah, what's that
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  Speaker 7: you got in your back pocket?
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  Speaker 9: There?
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  Speaker 4: In your back pocket? The right one? There?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: This?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Baseball cap?
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  Speaker 4: Why four p m. Ben and I checked the suspect's
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  Speaker 4: locker at the service station and then drove him back
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  Speaker 4: to the office of the interrogation room, but continued questioning him.
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  Speaker 4: He denied any knowledge of the hold up and shooting
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  Speaker 4: at Stendall's bakery shop the night before. We asked him
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  Speaker 4: again about the friends he was supposed to be playing
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  Speaker 4: cards with at the time of the robbery. He told
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  Speaker 4: us that they lived over on Peico, but he couldn't
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  Speaker 4: remember the address. He volunteered to direct this there, but
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  Speaker 4: he said they wouldn't be home. He told us their
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  Speaker 4: names were mister and missus Clyde Mitchell. They were in
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  Speaker 4: charge of the food concessions at one of the football
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  Speaker 4: stadiums in town. Best was held for suspicion of robbery.
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  Speaker 4: That night. We drove out and interviewed the landlady at
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  Speaker 4: his boarding house. She knew nothing of Best whereabouts the
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  Speaker 4: previous night. She didn't know what time he left or
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  Speaker 4: what time he returned. Ben and I went over his
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  Speaker 4: room again. There was no sign of a gun. Friday,
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  Speaker 4: two pm, Officers Bechtel and Lopez went out to the
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  Speaker 4: hospital to see if mister Stendall and his daughter June
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  Speaker 4: could identify Best mug shops. Ben and I drove out
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  Speaker 4: to the stadium to locate mister and missus Clyde Mitchell
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  Speaker 4: was a high school football game going on.
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  Speaker 13: High scho Sure, I have a lot of fun nowadays.
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  Speaker 13: Best years of your life, Joe, You sund like you're
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  Speaker 13: eighty five. Some nights I feel like it. Way those
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  Speaker 13: kids turned out for these things. You'd think USC and
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  Speaker 13: Notre Dame were playing. You see the number on that
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  Speaker 13: gate over there, Yeah it's twenty three, not the number
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  Speaker 13: of the gatekeeper giving.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, must be the Mitchell stand over there.
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  Speaker 14: Come on, oh mess, and you'll tell us where to
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  Speaker 14: find mess for missus Mitchell.
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  Speaker 17: You'll run back to fan.
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  Speaker 14: You're knocking the door.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you?
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, come on in to miss Mitchell.
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  Speaker 17: That's right, what is it?
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  Speaker 4: Police officers like talk to you a few minutes.
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  Speaker 17: All right, I'm having a body lunch. But come on in.
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  Speaker 4: Hut the door, yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 17: Lousy food business. You never get a chance to feed yourself.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 17: Hey care for some of these new kind of potato chips? Revolutionary,
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  Speaker 17: it says o mother Thompson's puff chips.
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  Speaker 9: Flavored get all kind.
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  Speaker 17: See he's here a combination see grout an egg plants.
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  Speaker 17: Sure tastes different.
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  Speaker 11: Have come.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: See we're inquiring about a friend of yours, Miss Mitchell,
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  Speaker 4: Maybe you can tell us something about him.
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  Speaker 10: Oh that.
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  Speaker 14: Man with the name of Herbert West herbio.
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  Speaker 17: Time friend of my husband's. Are you want to know?
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  Speaker 4: You see him quite often, do you, Miss Mitchell? Once?
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  Speaker 17: Twice a month, Clyde and I played cards or glout
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  Speaker 17: bowling with him.
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  Speaker 4: Her pretty got me, when's the last time he saw him?
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  Speaker 17: Early this week? Tuesday?
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  Speaker 7: I think was sure it was Tuesday? Mmm, see, yeah
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  Speaker 7: it was.
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  Speaker 17: We played cry twice.
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  Speaker 7: That's cheerfully, that's right.
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  Speaker 17: I a little poker Clyde and herbing me.
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  Speaker 4: What time did Best get to your place, Miss Mitchell?
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  Speaker 17: Right after I finished up with the dinner dishes, around
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  Speaker 17: seven forty five, I'd.
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  Speaker 4: Say, how long did you stay?
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  Speaker 17: A couple of hours? We sat around, had a few drinks,
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  Speaker 17: played poker.
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  Speaker 4: Nicol limmet what time we leave?
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  Speaker 10: Do you remember that?
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  Speaker 17: A little before ten?
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  Speaker 11: I think?
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  Speaker 7: Sure that man is important, sure as I can be.
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  Speaker 17: Must have left before ten because Clyde and I listened
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  Speaker 17: to the ten o'clock news alone, and then we went
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  Speaker 17: to bad.
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  Speaker 13: Rye after your friend Best tells us he didn't leave
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  Speaker 13: your place until midnight.
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  Speaker 9: Oh that's not right. Her must be mixed up.
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  Speaker 17: He left before time.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sure that all right, miss Mitchell, thank you say.
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  Speaker 17: I hope I haven't say anything I shouldn't have. I
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  Speaker 17: know Herb's next gun. Yeah, he likes to gamble. I'm
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  Speaker 17: not checking up on hy for Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, you're playing too much poker for not playing enough.
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  Speaker 4: Three point thirty pm, we located mister Mitchell, corroborated his
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  Speaker 4: wife's story, and then we went back to the city hall.
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  Speaker 4: Officers Bechdel and Lopez were waiting for us. They told
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  Speaker 4: us that they had seen mister Stendall and his daughter
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  Speaker 4: June at the hospital. Both of them had identified Herbert
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  Speaker 4: best mugshot as that of the hold up man had
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  Speaker 4: a show up Missus. Stendall and her daughter identified Best.
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  Speaker 4: We checked auto records for all stolen cars that might
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  Speaker 4: tie in. There were none. We then started to work
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: on the theory that he had taken a bus from
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: his friend's place where he had been playing cards at
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: the Stendall bakery where the shooting took place. Lopez and
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Bechdel rode the bus over the same route. It took
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: forty three minutes, plenty of time for Best, who have
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: gotten from one place to the other, even on a
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: slow run. We interviewed the bus driver who'd been on
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: duty that particular line Tuesday night between ten pm and midnight.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: He identified Best as one of his passengers, but he
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: didn't remember where he got off. The next morning, Ben
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: and I met with Ed Walker, captain of robbery.
• 18:16
  Speaker 13: How do they got just sell the debut? DA light
• 18:18
  Speaker 13: out the case for him? Yeah, we got to complain.
• 18:21
  Speaker 13: He'll be arranged this afternoon. How's doing a case he got?
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Well, it's one of the Stendall family identified Best. His
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: alibi didn't stand up for Tuesday night, and we got
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: that bus driver. He tapped Best too in that blue
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: baseball camp. All we need? Now's the hold up again?
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: I hate to spoil it for you.
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: This letter just came through the mail. Have a look. Thanks.
• 18:42
  Speaker 13: What do you think I read in the paper this
• 18:45
  Speaker 13: morning about Herbert Best? You've got the wrong guy. I'm
• 18:49
  Speaker 13: the one who held up that bait. Every detail about
• 18:52
  Speaker 13: that robbery's written down in that letter. The information wasn't
• 18:54
  Speaker 13: in the newspaper story. Ain't nobody else put the hold
• 18:56
  Speaker 13: up man at no all those details?
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah, wait a minute, isn't this Yeah.
• 19:00
  Speaker 13: If you don't believe I'm the right man, I'll shoot
• 19:02
  Speaker 13: up a couple of more jerks. Next time I'll kill him.
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: It's no crank liddy, Oh it Isn't You got the
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: wrong man?
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: You are listening to Dragnett The case history of a
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: police investigation presented in the public interest.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: After we received the anonymous letter in the mail confessing
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: to the stend Doll Bakery hold up, we met with
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: the Deputy District Attorney. We acquainted him with the new
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: facts in the case. That afternoon, the charges against Herbert
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Best were dropped. We started again. At the beginning ten
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: am Monday, November ninth, the members of the Stendall family
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: were again shown mug books of x cons with robbery records.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: This time they picked out eight mug shots of known
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: robbery men, each with a marked resemblance to the original
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: suspect Herbert Best. Together with officers Spectacle and Lopez, we
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: started checking them out. The first two days we tracked
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: down four of the eight. All of the four were
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: in the clear. Five point fifteen pm we got back
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: in the City Hall the carpool seen any empty spots, yo, No,
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: but don't park it in any one of the city
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: council in's stalls. Yeah, it might get so, well, why
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: don't you pull up here, Boid'll take care of it. Okay,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: that's just good right here?
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: Oh God, and I knew there's something I forgot to do.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: What's that? Oh?
• 20:36
  Speaker 13: They had an underwear sale today, had place down in
• 20:38
  Speaker 13: the south fake shorts, T shirts. I have to feel
• 20:41
  Speaker 13: me to be shureing you get down there.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: That'll be another one. That place has sales all the time,
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: don't they.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: I mean twice a year on underwear stuff. I've got
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: nothing to last the next time. Right, Wait a minute,
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: jeaned back to high back.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: All right, yeah, how'd you make out?
• 20:57
  Speaker 15: Two men we checked with clean picked up something up
• 21:00
  Speaker 15: to the seventh Street station.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Now go ahead, and.
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: Well, what's that elevator door?
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry? Well, what's was seventy seventh Street?
• 21:10
  Speaker 18: A couple of minute in traffic out there covered an
• 21:12
  Speaker 18: accidents afternoon ninety first in central hit and run. One
• 21:15
  Speaker 18: of our traffic cars saw the collision, took out after
• 21:18
  Speaker 18: the guy chased him ten blocks. While they were chasing him,
• 21:21
  Speaker 18: they thought they saw the driver throw something out of
• 21:23
  Speaker 18: the car window. What I'm coming to that When they
• 21:26
  Speaker 18: finally pulled the car over a great coop. The driver
• 21:29
  Speaker 18: told him his shoulder was wrenching the accident.
• 21:31
  Speaker 15: He was on his way to his own doctor. Our
• 21:33
  Speaker 15: men took him the seventy seventh Street, had the doc
• 21:35
  Speaker 15: there look at him well. The doctor was treating the guy.
• 21:38
  Speaker 15: Only one of the.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Officers was in the room.
• 21:39
  Speaker 15: When he turned to get a drink of water. The
• 21:41
  Speaker 15: suspect slugged him, and then the doctor jumped out of
• 21:44
  Speaker 15: the window, got away teletypes out on him.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: He went to an awful lot of trouble to beat
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: the traffic.
• 21:49
  Speaker 15: Wrap yeah's wait impressed the boys out there. They got
• 21:53
  Speaker 15: out of broadcast and the guy went back to the
• 21:54
  Speaker 15: spot where they thought they saw. The guy tossed this
• 21:56
  Speaker 15: thing out of his car when they were chasing him.
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: Did they playoff?
• 22:00
  Speaker 15: He found a thirty two coat revolver A rust Camp's
• 22:03
  Speaker 15: checking it now in the crime lab. What they see
• 22:05
  Speaker 15: the man looked like description measures pretty close to our
• 22:07
  Speaker 15: hold up gun.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: I'll get it robbery Friday. Yeah, just a minute you back.
• 22:14
  Speaker 15: Thanks, yeah, oh yeah, uh yeah, okay, fine right, rush
• 22:24
  Speaker 15: Camp checked. Thirty two revolved with the slugs and the
• 22:26
  Speaker 15: stend All case.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, positive. Make The gray coup which the unidentified suspect
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: had been driving, had been checked out by traffic officers
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: at seventy seven Street Division. They had found that the
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: owner and driver of the car was a man named
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Bruno Stock, a two time loser with a page full
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: of major and minor crimes to his credit. We checked
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: his Mama sheet and we got out a broadcast on
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: him in an apb A stakeout had been placed at
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: his last known address. We picked up a sandwich and
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: a cup of coffee for dinner, and then we started
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: checking out Bruno Stock's relatives and friends. By six o'clock
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: the fight, we still had no idea where he was.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: A little after nine pm, we got a call from
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: an informant who told us that Tommy Josephson, a small
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: time thief and reputedly a friend of Bruno Stocks, wanted
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: to talk to us. We found him in a small
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: apartment over on West sixth.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: One thing I want to set you straight on. Bruno's
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: no friend of mine. He's in on the heavy rackets.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: No heavy racket man's a friend of mine.
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: All right, We've got it.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: Now's Bruno He came here to night quarter after six,
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: moved right in on me, didn't even ask me.
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: What do you want with you?
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: You remember Bruno's no friend of mine?
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah we got that. Now, what do you want?
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: A gun? He knew I had one. I keep it
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: for self protection. You can't trust these heavy men.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: Did you give him a gun?
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Give it to him? He took it, shook me down
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: like a rat, made me go out and bite dinner
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: for him. My own dough have to bring it back
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: here from Yeah, Bruno's no friend of mine. What he
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: does with that gun?
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: That is his griep?
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: It's out of my hands.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: When do you leave here?
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: An hour ago? I think maybe a little less? Shook
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: me downe like a rat, real heavy guy.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Where was Bruno going?
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: I don't know. He's crazy. All them heavy guys are crazy.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: He talked like somebody with a paper head. Can he
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: tell you where he was going? See a friend of his?
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Oven dogtown guy runs a bowling alley. Bruno's gonna borrow
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: his car?
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: What for?
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: He's heavy? I tell you, I said he was going
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: out on a heist tonight. Did he ever write you
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: guys a letter?
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: Why? Well?
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: He told me he was going to prove what he
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: woke to?
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: You crazy?
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: I didn't get it tall. Yeah, he said he was
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: going out to kill a couple at jokes.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Nine thirty pm, we got the address of the bowling
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: alley run by Bruno Stock's friend, and we called the office.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: An alert for the suspect was broadcast immediately. Together with Geen,
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Bechdel and Lopez, we drove to the bowling alley. Ben
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: and I went in. Bechdel Lopez covered the outside.
• 24:43
  Speaker 13: It was a good crowd, and went to where they
• 24:45
  Speaker 13: do business. I don't see any connor, no need to
• 24:47
  Speaker 13: do that. Oh yeah, yeah, there it is way. Oh yeah,
• 24:50
  Speaker 13: there's nobody behind the cash.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: I sure. How about that full on the white T
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: shirt staying with a cigarette machine.
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it looks like he works here. That's comfortable. Joe
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: guy with him. He just turned towards you.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: No, come on, he sees this.
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: He's going for the back.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: All right, you let's hold it up. Come on.
• 25:05
  Speaker 14: He ducked in there to the ride.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Joe down behind the alleys.
• 25:08
  Speaker 14: Hold it up, Stock, come into Joe went right through it.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Come on here.
• 25:16
  Speaker 14: There he is forget out. He's in there. Back cover
• 25:20
  Speaker 14: the front, over the fence. Show there he is, I'll
• 25:24
  Speaker 14: give it back.
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah, come on, you see, Yeah, you got to be
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: in the yard somewhere. Yeah, where did it come from?
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: I can't see?
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: Keep down backstairs of that house there, he is.
• 25:48
  Speaker 14: Give it up Stock, All right, mister, you've tag him?
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: Come on, what's it look like?
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: It's a shoulder wound him? You want to shake him down? Then?
• 26:10
  Speaker 15: All right?
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, get an ambuus wit you back right. I'll throw
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: the cuffs on her.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I said, Joe, Yeah, where you're going?
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I got a phone call to make the story you
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: have just heard was true. Only the names were changed
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: or protect the innocent.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: On February eighteenth, trial was held in Superior Court Department
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: eighty four, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: In a moment the results of that trial.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: And now here is our star, Jack Webb, thank you.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: In the record Bureau of all metropolitan police departments, there's
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: a special file in which all known criminals or catalog
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: and cross index according to identifying Marx Marx, which helped
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: the working detective.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Bruno. Alfred Stock was tried and convicted of first degree
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: robbery and assault with intent to commit murder two counts
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: because of his prior convictions. He was a judged and
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: habitual criminal and sentenced to a life imprisonment. He is
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: now serving his term in the state penitentiary. You have
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.
• 27:42
  Speaker 10: Coming up, Duffy Staver next Tuesday. It's Fiber mcgeeaw NBC.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. As a dramatic device. I love the promise
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: of the phone call. It was a good character moment
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: when she offered Friday the change. It said a lot
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: about the family, and then it was also hinted at
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: once in the course of the story before getting paid
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: off at the end. It was interesting and a bit
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: scary how the case was built up against the first suspect.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: It's part of the way that Dragnet didn't portray the
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: police as infallible, but as honest men doing the best
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: they can. That said, if the actual criminal hadn't taken
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: umbrage at the fact they attributed his crimes to someone else,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: they might have ended up sending an innocent man to
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: jail for crime He didn't commit, as points to one
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: of the big problems with eyewitness testimony, which we tend
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: to think of as the best evidence or is very reliable,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: when in fact there are so many things that can
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: throw it off. And as the episode showed, the family
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: went on to identify side suspects who looked very similar
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: to the first person they had chosen. Of course, the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: suspect didn't do himself any favors by expecting his friends
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to back up his phony alibi, which made him look
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: very guilty. Well listener comments and feedback now and Paul
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  Speaker 19: My cousin Ernest. He and I, as far as I know,
• 30:21
  Speaker 19: are the only heirs to our uncle's estate. Would be
• 30:24
  Speaker 19: George Sherman, the industrialist. But yes, yes, that's right, definitely
• 30:29
  Speaker 19: not dimes.
• 30:30
  Speaker 10: No, so it's millions, that's why.
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  Speaker 4: What's the matter.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know, It's just it was funny all of
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  Speaker 10: a sudden. But I'll be all right now.
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  Speaker 4: What was I saying?
• 30:46
  Speaker 10: You were telling me about your cousin Ernest. Yes, yes,
• 30:48
  Speaker 10: he was here a little while ago.
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  Speaker 4: Going to get you a shot of brand name.
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