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episode of Dragnet. The original air edate December the first of nineteen forty nine,
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and the title is the Spring Street Game. Ladies and gentlemen, the
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story you're about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to
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a protect the innocent drag Net. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to
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Juvenile Bureau. A rash of crimes is broken out in your city. Suspicion
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points to an organized gang of juveniles. Your job stop them. Drag Net
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the documented drama of an actual crime. For the next thirty minutes, in
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cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on
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the side of the law through an actual case from official police files, from
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beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Drag Net is the story of
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your police force in action. It was Sunday, March twenty seventh, was
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windy in Los Angeles. We're working a night watch out of Georgia Street Juvenile
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Bureau. My partner's Ben Romero, the boss, a backstrand Chief of Detectives.
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My name is Friday. I was on the way up from the Juvenile
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Bureau and it was eleven twenty five PM when I got to the receiving Hospital
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room five, the treatment room. Everything happens on Sunday night, said Joe.
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Yeah, I was the kid making out dick. One arm is cut
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up badly, nothing fatal, though, How did it happen? That's what
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I like to find out when I talked to him. If you want,
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don't press him though. He's had a bad shot. All right, officer
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here to talk to you, so I can't tell him. I can't talk.
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Please, just a few routine questions saying we're gonna have to answer him
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sooner or later. Please, can't you see what's happened already? I can't
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tell you anything. Jack Monroe, is that's your real name? Yeah?
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How old are you? There'll be sixteen next July? Where do you live?
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I can't tell you. You know that now? Let me alone?
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Let me alone. You've been running around to that gang of kids on Spring
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Street, haven't you? The big timers? Isn't that what they call themselves.
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I don't know anything about it. Believe me, I can't talk.
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You tipped us off about the burglary they were going to pull tonight? Is
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that where they knifed you? Look? Would you believe me? I can't
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tell you anything, not anything. He's still shaky though. All right,
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well, Jack, we'll talk about it later. When you feel better.
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You see what they've done to me already, they said, next time they
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kill me. Chiven will Bureau Friday, Yeah, yeah, okay, friend,
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goodbye, I have to make out. Joe not very good. Ben,
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Captain Bulling come in yet? You checked him while you were going and
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wants to see it. Okay. I can't tell you who knafed him.
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No, I scared him good. He wouldn't tell me a thing. You
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get a line on the boy's parents Friday. He got ahold of his father.
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He's on his way in. How's the boy? Bad? Knife wounds,
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nothing fatal, you know, the boy? Nothing less? Afternoons camping,
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he tipped herself about a burglary. A gang of young kids were supposed
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to pull to nine go through No. But two hours ago this Monroe kid
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was founding a vacant lot down on the Olympic, cut up pretty bad.
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The gang must have paid him. How long is it going to take you
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to break that up? Were just starting to get a line on him,
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Bob. It must be nearly one hundred in that gang and everyone I'm working
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hard. Take a look at the couldn't map over here, that spot here,
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look at it all the jobs pulled during the last month time, last
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five weeks up to date. Red tabs for burglary must be one one hundred
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robbery's green pins count them at least fifty. There's five more orange ones I
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added for the weekend auto tests. You bet those kids are working hard and
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got a lead on him this morning. We had last week. You have
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to push it harder. Here's the big reason this line of pins brown and
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black purse snatchings first snatching right, twenty six of them in the past five
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weeks. They're pretty well concentrated in one area here, that's right. What's
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the leads you're working on right there on the pin map, gab huh Oh
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these two blocks here, Bob, where Franco Alley intersects Spring Street. What
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about it? Well, it's the only clear area for a dozen blocks around.
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There's not a colored pin on it, you see. Yeah. Now,
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all the rest of the pins, the robberies, burglaries attacks, they
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all seem to branch out from this same spot right here, in definite patterns
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Franco Alley and Spring Street. You figure that's the focal point for the game.
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Man's got all the mark. For instance, Oh, we've been checking
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that neighborhood for a week. We got it narrowed down to one place right
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in the corner of Franco and Spring. What is it? It's a soda
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Funta's pretty typical, only it stays open all night and it gets a pretty
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good play from kids Forregner hang out captain. Pretty tough youngsters, none of
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them over eighteen. Who runs the place? Guy named Eddie Ramsey, small
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time con man. Had a run in with him when we worked Bunco detail.
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I remember the name. Smart mouth tried to give his trouble when we
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talked to some kids in there last night. He's got a place out of
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port in the back of the store, kind of a clubroom. It sounds
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like a good lead. What are you doing about it? Well, in
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just a minute, cott'n bully, Yeah, who, We'll be right down.
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Monroe kid, his father's downstairs cursing every one of us. What's his
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brother can't understand how his boy got into trouble? Come on, Ben,
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let's tell him. What kind of a city do we have when we can't
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allow our children out on the street without being stamped a shop? What's our
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great police force doing when this is going on? I'd like an answer.
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If you got well, I command an answer. We got an answer for
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you, mister Monroe. When you sit down, my boys lying in there
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in that hospital bed cut to pieces, What did you do to prevent it?
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Tell me you tell us, mister Monroe, what do you do to
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prevent him? I'm no cock. That's your job. I pay my taxes,
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lie, I'll pay yours. Hal Ray, we look out for your
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kids, but we don't raise them. Next, talking about just a minute,
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mister Monroe, answer me. This whole is your son Jack. He's
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sixteen. I think, why you know what he does with his spare time
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he spent? Of course I do. He's at home. Some nights he
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goes to the library. Then you don't know much about your son, mister
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Monroe. For the past month, four nights out of five, he's been
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hanging around with a gang down on a soda funtain on Spring Street. He's
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down there as late as two am, he says, he goes to the
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library. How do I know, I'm a busy man. Did you know
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that your son is mixed up with that gang? He's not mixed up with
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that gang. A bunch of small time thieves, but they're growing. I
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started with perse snatching, breaking in park cars, burglarizing candy. Story,
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you don't know what you'll talk Wait a minute, please, And then they
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took up robbery, stealing cars, beating up girls, women, attacking him.
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Oh crazy. Jack's not that car. He's part of that gang,
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and right now we hold all of them responsible. My boy, he wouldn't
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do anything like that. He's a member of that gang. He told us
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they're the ones that knaffed him tonight. That's a lie. Jack's not mixed
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up with anything like that. You believe anything you want, mister Monroe.
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We're gonna protect your boy as much as we can, but don't expect us
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to raise him for you. You better take a free piece of advice.
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You'll keep your advice. Jack's not in this. You can't prove he is.
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We're not out to prove anything right now, but you catch up with
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that boy yours. Keep him off the streets before it's too late. Are
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you threatening me? Ser advising you? Next time? We might meet at
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the Morgue one am Monday, March twenty eighth, a detail of fifty officers
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from Juvenile Bureau and Metropolitan Division were deployed for sixteen blocks along figure Ross Street.
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At five minutes past one, they started to move south over an appointed
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area. In the space of half an hour, eighteen young kids, none
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of them over seventeen years old, were picked up off the streets and brought
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to the second floor at thirteen thirty five Georgia Street the Juvenile Bureau. Four
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of the youngsters were girls. At one forty five am, then and I
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checked the soda fountain on the corner of Franco Alley and Spring Street. Same
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lunch, Joe. It's a huge Yeah. Come on, hey, Teddy
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the pose. They're back again. Same guys, We're back in. Call
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Edny. Hey, Look, why do you guys have to keep tracking us?
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Huh? You think we were crooks or something the last time we checked
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in? Teddy? You ever go home? Sure? When I'm tired.
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I ain't tired. What's the matter? That's your money on the table there?
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Sure, it's my money. Do you want to borrow a buck?
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Twenty eight dollars? That's a lot of money for a boy your a You
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keep pretty late hours, son, You have to go to school in the
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morning. Maybe I can sit here, can I? It's free country?
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I'm drinking coffee. You gotta make me on that you've been drinking more than
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coffee. Where's your driver's license? Every time? The same thing there March
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tenth, nineteen thirty three, sixteen years old. They giving you a trouble.
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Ted Eddie's on his way out. What's your name? Jones? Clyde
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Jones? Ho Ted? Sure he's got money too, rich family. You
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can save the smart talk boys, any of your pals in the back room.
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What's the trouble now, sogeant? How many times a week do we
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get a check? Go ahead, Eddie read them off. We told you
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the last time, Ramsay, clean up your place here, we'll ride.
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You're back to the doo. I told you the last time, Sergeant.
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There's nothing wrong with my place. It's almost two o'clock in the morning.
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You've got a dozen underage kids hanging around here doing nothing. Some of them
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have been drinking school boys. Better to have them in here than hanging around
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outside in the street. I keep an eye on them. You're not to
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Guardian Ramsey this time of night. They've got no business in here or on
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us straight alone. It's your opinion, eh, that's the law of Ramsey.
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Now either you shut down that back room and keep these kids out of
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here late at night, or we'll go after your license. You don't scam
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me, sogiant. You can't prove a thing. A couple of these kids
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have juvenile records, are on probation. We can tag you for contributing.
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You still don't scam me. Now, why don't you leave the kids alone?
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Try Eddie read them off, ben Get Benson and Bell Roger. If
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you won't clean up your place, Ramsey will do it for you. Yeah,
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what are you gonna do. We're pulling these boys in, all of
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them. Two twenty five am Monday, March twenty eighth the Dragonet operation that
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netted thirty juveniles twenty six boys, four girls. Twenty four of the children
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were between the ages of sixteen and seventeen. They were lodged in the assembly
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room with the Street Juvenile Bureau. The other half dozen were thirteen and fifteen
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year olds. They were taken to the Juvenile Hall at thirteen sixty nine Henry
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Street. At two forty three am, we met with Captain Bulling Oh Jack
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Dan thirty eight. All right. In the morning, we filed petitions to
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have every one of these cases brought to the attention of the juvenile court.
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Make a note of it, okay, Bob, But the kids with records
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ask for detention from the probation department. Right we call their parents in the
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morning. Call them now, they've got some explaining to do. By six
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am, all but three of the children's parents had shown up, so most
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of them it was nothing new. Their kids had been there before, they'd
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be there again. They took the lecture from the juvenile officers calmly. As
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long as it didn't mean trouble for them, They wouldn't worry. When they
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got their children home, they would reprimand them, not for running the streets,
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but for being picked up by the police men. And I had seen
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the cycle of the young criminals start before one hundred times over. It had
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a lot of different endings, most of them solur. During the next week
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that followed, we booked an average of a dozen juvenile delinquents every night they
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clamped downtinue. So did the crime wave. Ton burglaries, four umberries,
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eight karthief's, six person matchings, three assaults on women. One week's work
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picked up a new angle on Ramsey to day Captain, he might be fencing
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for the game. Who gave you the tip off? One of our informants.
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Ramsey's brother lives out in the valley. He's supposed to be pushing this
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stuff. You check him out. Yeah, I couldn't get a thing on
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him, and might explain what attracts the kids to that soda funtain. He
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explains those twenty dollars bills. The kids are flashing and they stealing rob and
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then they sell allude to Ramsey for nothing and another thing. Ramsey keeps his
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place open all night. And there's no reason too. He doesn't get that
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much trade. It's only from the young gang and hangs around there. You
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question the kids, how do they account for having all that money? Well,
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most of them say Ramsey lends it to them. They say they pay
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him back a little at a time. I think he's fencing for the kids.
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You try to get his license, No luck, Captain. We can't
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prove a thing against him, and we'll do it the hard way. Sweat
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it out. That night, we drove out to ramsey soda fountain and asked
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him again to clean up his place, to keep the young kid out after
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ten o'clock at night, to stop lending them money. He refused. There
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was nothing we could do. His business was a public place. He could
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not be held responsible for any of his patrons. In the next ten days
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that followed, Ben and I haunted the sidewalk outside the soda fountain. We
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questioned every youngster as they entered and left. We made more than a dozen
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arrests. Many of the kids had been drinking heavily. We found some of
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them under the influence of narcotics, but Ramsey was still in the clear.
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The crime wave continued sporadically. Ben and I waited for our chance. It
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was a long time coming. Thursday, April fourteenth, we had dinner at
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Johnny Kochin's place and it was ten thirty five pm when we checked back in
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at the office. Ought Jock grab at you a terminal in Market Street A
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four fifty nine and shooting a terminal in Market Street A four fifteen. I
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let's go. He was approximately five feet four inches tall, one hundred and
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twenty five pounds, brown hair, brown eyes, white build, fair complexion.
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He was wearing blue jeans and a corduroy jacket. We found him between
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a row of packing cases at the rear of the warehouse at Terminal on Market
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Streets. There was a single bullet hole on his forehead, just above the
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left eye. There was a thirty eight revolver near his right hand. The
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watchman told us how it happened. She broke in the back of the warehouse,
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Sergeant. She wanted to shoot it out with me. Here's his ID
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card fell out of his pocket. Teddy Cameron, age fifteen, A kid.
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I didn't know Sajan. He didn't either. He thought he was grown
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up. You are listening to dragnet for the solution to an actual case.
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From official police files, Los Angeles Police Department formed three eleven dead body report
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type gunshot dr number four three seven six nine five. Victim Theodore Cameron.
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Residence address nine six zero Charter Street. Date and time of death Thursday,
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April fourteenth, ten thirty five pm, Place Terterminaline, Market Streets, South
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State Warehouse. Cause of death, gunshot, motive or reason attempted burglary time
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discovered ten forty pm. Removed to Cowley Morgue. Discovered by Carl Hi,
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a night watchman identified by Barbara Cameron sister. Description of victim mail Caucasian,
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age fifteen, height right so I was a occupation student The Scent English and
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was a witness signed Joe Friday, Surreal Lumber twenty two eighty eight, age
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fifteen. Right at Joe and Cameron boys. Sister, she's waiting in the
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next room. Yeah, let's go. She's taking it hard. Yeah borning,
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Miss Cameron. Good, mind you along. Get a few routine questions,
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Yes, sir as Cameron, how many other in your family? There
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were three of us, Teddy, Mike and me, mother and father.
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Did I work? Teddy and Mike go to school? I mean, Mike,
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how old is your brother Mike, Miss Camra, he's fourteen. You're
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the sole support of your two brothers. Yes. Do you have any idea
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who the boys were? Your brother Ted used to run around with. I
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don't know them by name. I remember seeing a couple of them once or
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twice. Mike could know. I think he and Ted were pretty close brothers.
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Do you know if Ted mixed with a gang of kids down on Spring
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Street, maybe Mike could know that Sergeant Teddy wasn't a bad boy, He
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wasn't a bum, none of us are. I tried to raise the boys,
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like Ma told me, it was neaty. We made out yes,
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I understand Miss Cameron didn't have too much, but we got by. Yeah,
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I figured on getting married. I'm thirty one. Be good for the
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boy, especially Teddy. He's dead, isn't it. Yeah. I couldn't
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be in two places at once, hold a job and watch the kids.
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That's why I thought maybe your husband. I'm sorry to press, Miss Cameron.
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Do you think your brother Mike can tell us about that Spring Street game?
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I'm miked. Now, where can we find him? Staying in a
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friend's house? I got the address in my bag. Yeah, that's two,
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five, one four, I know right numbers too. Well. Thank
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you, Miss Cameron. You've been very helpful. I'll get somebody to drive
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you home. How do I have to go? I wouldn't be all right
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if I just sit here for a while. I'm all right. I'm tired,
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real tired. Twenty five to fourteen west of Ranald Street. That was
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the address Barbara Cameron had given us. Was the home of mister and missus
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Jean Brewer High School friends of the Dead boys sister. We talked to Mike
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Cameron. He told us that his brother Teddy had been running around with a
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gang down on Spring Street. He identified Ramsey Soda fountains to hangout. It
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was two twenty five pm when we got back to Georgia Street. Juvenile Bureau,
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I guy, juven Gurerol Romero. Yeah, hold on our car here,
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Joe, Thanks Friday, Joel. This is Canfield in Burglary. Yeah,
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Homer, you work in that Cameron case, aren't you. Yeah.
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I just got a report on one you might be interested in out of the
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same neighborhood. Distillery, Prowl. What do you got on it? It
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was like a juvenile lamb all they got away with seven cases of Scotch whiskey.
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Expensive stuff. Okay, we'll hop on it. Bu Beck Warehouse Crocker
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at seventh. Miss Elizabeth Rice was the auditor in charge at the Bubeck Warehouse.
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We located her on the mezzanine office row. Was her job to keep
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a running inventory on all incoming and outgoing liquor stock. Our job, well,
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as you know, Sergeant Friday. Each and every bottle of distilled spirits
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carries a United States Internal Revenue stamp, Yes, ma'am. Each stamp carries
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a serial number, together with the name of the firm to whom the stamps
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are issued. Well, Miss Rice and the stuff is missing. The stamp
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on each bottle carries the case numbers. That right, that's right? Now?
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What did I tell you? Oh? Yes, I have it right
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here. Seven cases of high grade blended scout switzkey. Now I have a
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bottle identical to those in the missing cases. Yes, I see. Now,
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if you'll just look here, Yes, ma'am, the number on this
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stamp here three six eight two two, seven, nine nine five six,
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followed by the firm name. Could you give us the numbers of the stolen
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cases? I have them typed out, so you're right here. Seven cases,
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twelve bottles to the case, Canada Dry Incorporated, four of the red
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label and three of the black label. Johnny Walker, all right, thank
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you very much, Miss Ryah. And you think that this it's not be
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a juvenile case, sergeant, Yes, ma'am. We do seven cases as
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close to six hundred dollars, isn't it. We've lost a great deal more
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than that, sergeant. The insurance company makes up for the liquor loss,
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yes, ma'am. Those youngsters who makes up for them. Ben and I
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left the Bubeck warehouse with a list of serial numbers of the seven cases of
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stolen liquor. We headed back for the Juvenile Bureau. We figured that there
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was a strong possibility that the Spring Street Gang was responsible for the warehouse liquor
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theft. How were they disposing of the stolen property? That was the key
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question we had to answer. Ben and I had a hunch and a tip
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from an informant that the Young Gang was operating under the guidance of a fence
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a man or woman whose job it is to dispose of stolen property. The
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gang members were close to Ramsey at the Soda fountain. Ramsey was the logical
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suspect, all right, And I suppose they did steal the liquor. Suppose
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Ramsey's offense. What's he done with his deff I don't think he's turned it
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this fast. If he's turned it at all, he wouldn't give it at
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the soda fountain, no let, and we've been around too much. We
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wouldn't keep it in his house. He lives in the rear of the fountain.
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It's too hot. Only leaves one other location that we know about his
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brother's place in the valley. It was five minutes to ten when we turned
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the left off Ventura Boulevard, on the suppulvitor. Ramsey's brother had a small
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farm. About a mile and a half off the highway was a modest white
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frame house planeted squarely in the center of an acre of ground. An unpaved
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driveway led off to the left of the house to the garage. Pull up
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here. Huh yeah, okay, it looks kind of quiet. And no,
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lie, let's go all right, mud sticks to everything. Where's the
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doorbell? Oh? Here it is. You got your flashlight. Yeah,
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there's a note. Somebody left. Oh it's on the bomb again. Here
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strike them back? Thank you. We hold it a little closer. Can
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you read it? Yeah, Harry, wife and I have gone to the
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drive in theater. Before you put the truck away. Get three Can you
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hold that match closer? Oh not, wait a minute, yeah, get
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three cases out of the garage and take them into town. D is waiting.
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Please try to make it by eleven thirty tonight. Let's see signed George
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the addresses here, and there's a garage. Yeah, come on, three
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cases could be eggs, Joe. If it is, we wasted a trip.
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Oh, I'm out of matches, Joe. Here here's mine. What
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was that checking? Come on? See anything no, there goes a lot
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just to mend us striking you can save your matches. We found it.
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We found five cases of Scotch whiskey on the floor of the garage. We
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checked the serial numbers against the warehouse list. They matched. We went back
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to the car and called communications. We had an immediate stakeout placed on George
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Ramsey's place, and then we headed back for the city. It was eleven
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twenty pm when we got to the address. We found on the note it's
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about time, Harry. Hello Ramsey. We can do without the music.
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What's your problem this time? You're almost out of Scotch Ramsey serial numbers check
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out, Jill. Sorry, I can't offer you a drink. We're too
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old to drink here, aren't we'll Ramsey? Where's your phone? You want
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to invite somebody? You can see we're out of booze? You got a
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phone in the hall Ben Carley office. Yeah, all right, what's it
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all about? We've went out to your brother's place. What happened to the
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other two cases? You drik them here? I gave it to the kids
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and you're looking at me like that for side anything wrong? Any partieskid?
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The story you have just heard was true, only the names were changed to
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protect the innocent. On June fifth, nineteen forty nine, trial was held
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in Superior Court Department seventy four, City and County of Los Angeles, State
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of California. In a moment the results of that trial, Edward and George
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Ramsay were tried and convicted in Superior Court of receiving stolen property. After serving
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their terms as prescribed by law, in the state penitentiary, they will be
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returned to the County jail where they will serve a one year term for contributing
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to the delinquency of miners. You have just heard Dragnet, a new series
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of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the Office
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of Acting Chief of Police W. A. Wharton, Los Angeles Police Department,
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honoring the City of Greenwich, State of Etiquette and the men who make
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up the Greenwich Police Department, another of America's great law enforcement agencies. One
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of these men, Chief John M. Bleieson FBI National Police Academy graduate who
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dedicates his life to making yours more secure. The Team of Cigarettes, the
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best of long Cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet from Los Angeles. Listen to
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Dragnet next week and be sure to hear Martin Downey tonight on NBC Welcome Back.
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You know, there are often little moments in Dragnet that'll stick out to
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me. Second Tom going through and just really nice touches. Probably the one
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thing in this episode that really stands out is when Hoday is new rating the
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dead body report, and it really illustrates the power of voice tone, because
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Friday's voice tone really conveys so much of the feeling over this death. Now
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on to some listener comments and feedback, and we'll start with some comments regarding
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episode fourteen forty two. Pastor Lisa comments, I love dragging at old time
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radio and TV. This was a good episode, a great episode. And
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then I received an comment on the blog, and this was regarding the TV
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version of The Big Little Jesus, but it applies as much to the radio
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version. Raphael comments, a seasonal classic. This show has an unforgettable exchange.
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Friday is interviewing the priest in the church. How long is the church
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open all night? Friday? You leave it wide oat and so any Seve
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can walk in pretty smilingly knowingly, particularly save Sergeant This gives me goosebumps every
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time I hear it, and that is a great piece of dialogue. It's
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one of those things I don't think you would hear in the typical Dragnet episode,
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But this is the exact type of thing that Richard Breen, who wrote
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that episode, he wrote the nineteen fifty four Dragnet movie and he wrote the
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nineteen sixty six Dragnet TV movie. Is the type of little bits of dialogue
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that Richard Breen also wrote. Pat Novak put in to make this a really
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strong episode. I think the power of the episode is really represented by the
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fact that it was redone for the nineteen sixties color TV series. And I
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think the reason it was redone, even at a very different time, I
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think when you're in the midst of the mid sixties, with all of that
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turmoil, this type of story was more necessary and more important than it was
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when it first aired back in nineteen fifty three. And that's why it still
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stands up today now to listener comments and feedback, and Amazon customer just says,
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fantastic app. I listen to it every day. Well, thanks so
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much. I'm glad you enjoy it. We will be back on Monday with
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the Saint, and then be sure and listen to us next Saturday for another
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