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The Big Sisters [episode 302], Broadcast 5/31/1955 · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: An elderly woman reports that a man has stolen three
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars from her apartment. She says she saw him.
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  Speaker 7: It was Thursday, May nineteenth, was Sonny in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 7: We were working to day watch out of burgery detail.
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  Speaker 7: My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Bernard.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Friday. Run our way out from the office.
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  Speaker 7: It was three forty seven pm when we got to
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  Speaker 7: a small apartment house in the corner of Olympic and six.
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  Speaker 3: To Peak Arms.
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  Speaker 8: What's that lady's name again?
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  Speaker 3: Joe done better? Martha Dunebetter? Mm see.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, here's your mailbox.
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  Speaker 3: Number eight must be upstairs.
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  Speaker 7: Well how do you figure that only eight mail slots
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  Speaker 7: means eight apartments.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it stands to reason number eight'll be on the
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  Speaker 3: second floor, don't it.
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  Speaker 9: Well, Hey, Joe, I wonder who comes from Kansas. Why
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  Speaker 9: didn't you notice the plaque out in front of the
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  Speaker 9: Peak of Arms. Yeah, that's a city in Kansas, the
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  Speaker 9: Peak of Kansas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Sure, somebody must have.
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  Speaker 9: Come from there, the owner of the builder whiles where
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  Speaker 9: they give the place a name like that, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Well stands the reason, doesn't it, I guess.
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  Speaker 8: So you see, you're not the only one that can
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  Speaker 8: do it.
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  Speaker 3: Do what deduce?
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  Speaker 9: Well, that's what they call it, the way you figured
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  Speaker 9: it out, Number eight's second floor deduction.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I was just giving you an example.
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  Speaker 1: When I proved that somebody connected with the building probably lived.
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  Speaker 8: In Kansas, you know, right down there eight.
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  Speaker 1: Just like you said, deduction never failed jobs there?
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  Speaker 7: Police officers, Oh well, just a second, I'm coming.
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  Speaker 10: I'm coming. My goodness to serving you come back? Oh
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  Speaker 10: or me? You are the same.
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  Speaker 11: Ones, are you?
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  Speaker 3: No? Man, this Frank Smith. My name is Friday.
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  Speaker 11: There were two other policemen here just a while ago.
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  Speaker 11: Shame you didn't know Crusades trick.
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  Speaker 8: That's all right, man.
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  Speaker 7: We knew they'd be here, the patrol car officers. They
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  Speaker 7: were in the neighborhood. So they answered your call.
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  Speaker 3: Oh well, sorry, if we come in?
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  Speaker 10: Oh man, yes, oh yes, please do.
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  Speaker 3: Your missus mart had done better? Is that right?
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  Speaker 11: No, not exactly. Oh it's miss Dune better. I'm still single,
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  Speaker 11: I see.
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  Speaker 7: Man, would you mind telling us just what happened this afternoon?
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  Speaker 11: Oh no, no, I don't mind it tall, It's quite clear,
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  Speaker 11: all right.
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  Speaker 10: Would you go ahead, matress after me?
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  Speaker 3: Les? You go ahead about this afternoon?
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  Speaker 11: Oh well, let's see next. Myself some lunch, and then
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  Speaker 11: I read up the dishes. Must have been about one
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  Speaker 11: o'clock by the time I finished.
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  Speaker 8: Huh.
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  Speaker 11: After once, I put on my hat and I went down.
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  Speaker 10: To the library.
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  Speaker 11: It's only a couple of blocks from here. I'd go
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  Speaker 11: over Cleveland Branch, m M. I took back my books
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  Speaker 11: and checked out two fresh ones.
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  Speaker 3: Alright, what happened next?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I come.
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  Speaker 11: Home there was What's that? I come home and there
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  Speaker 11: he was? Who with that awful man?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 10: Just where was he here in my apartment?
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  Speaker 3: No? I mean which room over there?
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  Speaker 11: The bedroom?
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  Speaker 3: I see.
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  Speaker 11: As soon as I come in, I heard him. Least,
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  Speaker 11: I heard somebody moving around. First I thought it was
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  Speaker 11: missus Parker's manager. I know she sneaks into my apartment
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  Speaker 11: and noses around. Course she says she doesn't, but I
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  Speaker 11: know better. Well, I said to myself, I got a
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  Speaker 11: red handed this time. So I marched into the bedroom,
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  Speaker 11: all ready to give her a piece of my mind. Well, well,
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  Speaker 11: I was never so flabbergast in my whole life. He
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  Speaker 11: was standing in front of the dresser going through my
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  Speaker 11: pocket book.
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  Speaker 10: I see my black bag and letter.
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  Speaker 8: So when I was holding no matter how much money
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  Speaker 8: was in the bag.
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  Speaker 11: Well, I'm not positive, not to the penny.
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  Speaker 10: About three hundred dollars in cat.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, sir, you see I've been saving dimes for the
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  Speaker 11: past fifteen years.
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  Speaker 8: You mean that's three hundred dollar in dimes?
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  Speaker 5: Oh goodness, gracious.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 11: What I do is go through my change every night,
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  Speaker 11: but all the dimes in my dime bank. Then when
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  Speaker 11: it's full, I take it down to a real bank
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  Speaker 11: and change the coins into bills. A dime bank holds
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  Speaker 11: twenty five dollars.
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  Speaker 5: I see.
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  Speaker 11: You'd be surprised how much prisoning didn't save. That way,
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  Speaker 11: it mounts up.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 11: Do you know the denominations of the belt, I guess
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  Speaker 11: they was mostly tens, maybe one or two bigger ones.
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  Speaker 3: What did this man do next? Was done better?
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  Speaker 12: Well?
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  Speaker 11: He found money, my three hundred.
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  Speaker 10: Dollars, stuffed it into his pockets. Then he just strolled
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  Speaker 10: out of.
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  Speaker 11: The apartment, big as life. I was too dumbfounded to
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  Speaker 11: do anything about it.
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  Speaker 3: I see.
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  Speaker 11: I heard him tramp down the stairs, and then I
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  Speaker 11: heard the front door slam. When I was sure he
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  Speaker 11: was out of the building, I managed to get my
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  Speaker 11: wits together in adult Central Central Operator, and she put
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  Speaker 11: me in touch with police stations.
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  Speaker 8: Had you ever seen this man before? It has done better?
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  Speaker 11: No, I'm sure I never did.
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  Speaker 8: Could you tell us what he looked like?
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  Speaker 10: Well, he's a tall man, how tall? Big as you?
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  Speaker 10: I'd say?
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  Speaker 9: What color?
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  Speaker 8: Happy?
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  Speaker 2: Dark?
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  Speaker 5: Very dark?
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  Speaker 3: Nice?
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  Speaker 11: Dark eyes too dark complected, like he'd uh spend a
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  Speaker 11: lot of time outdoors.
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  Speaker 3: How was he dressed?
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  Speaker 10: A shirt and.
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  Speaker 11: Pants and jacket, black collared jackets. I think it was green.
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  Speaker 3: Did you notice any scars?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, come to think that I did.
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  Speaker 10: Across his forehead, thin little zig of his a m.
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  Speaker 3: How old would you say it was?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, he's young, thirty five maybe forty.
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  Speaker 3: You know if anybody else saw him? The other tenants, Well.
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  Speaker 11: I haven't talked to you.
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  Speaker 10: No, I haven't left the apartments since it happened.
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  Speaker 3: You live alone here, do you? Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Mine?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 10: No, My sister Bessy stays with me.
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  Speaker 3: Where is she this afternoon?
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  Speaker 11: She went out of town for a few days.
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  Speaker 10: Visit a grandson and his family.
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  Speaker 11: They come down from ox Now to get her.
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  Speaker 10: This morning. I see Mary's birthday, she'd be eighty.
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  Speaker 11: I spect they're gonna have quiet celebration.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 11: They're all carrying on.
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  Speaker 9: And you think of a such an accomplishment, Well, that's
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  Speaker 9: a pretty ripe old age, ma'am.
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  Speaker 11: I don't see what's ripe about it. After all, I'm
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  Speaker 11: nearly seventy nine myself. Oh I know, I don't look it.
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  Speaker 11: Everybody thinks there's at least ten years between us and
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  Speaker 11: Bessie is failing.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'm there's a couple more questions, But then.
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  Speaker 10: May set the young man certainly. What time was it
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  Speaker 10: when you got home from the library two forty five?
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  Speaker 11: Maybe a few minutes after, No later than three, though,
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  Speaker 11: I see, I just fell.
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  Speaker 3: To get into the apartment. Was the door locked?
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  Speaker 10: Well?
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  Speaker 11: I thought it was all. It's tried to remember to
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  Speaker 11: lock it whenever I go out, but sometimes I do forget. Uh, yes,
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  Speaker 11: I did today.
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  Speaker 3: M You think he'd recognize the burger if you saw
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  Speaker 3: him again.
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  Speaker 10: I'm boast assuredly would nothing out of it with my sight?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's fine.
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  Speaker 7: Would like to take you down to the office with
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  Speaker 7: us and show you some pictures, just to see if
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  Speaker 7: you can identify him.
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  Speaker 10: Well, couldn't go like this.
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  Speaker 11: I have to change my dress first. I'm all right
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  Speaker 11: for walking around in the neighborhood, but not for going downtown.
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  Speaker 8: A few men I same has done better. Well, I
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  Speaker 8: think of it. Who came from Kansas?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I'm afraid I don't understand.
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  Speaker 9: Well, the name of this apartment you see is the
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  Speaker 9: Topeka arms So I figured somebody connected.
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  Speaker 3: With it must have come from Kansas.
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  Speaker 8: Oh you don't know who it was?
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  Speaker 11: Then I let him think, Oh, yes, yes, I remember
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  Speaker 11: that was old mister Hendrickson's iety.
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  Speaker 10: Wow you don't say yes, yes, he was the man.
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  Speaker 11: Who built this building. Well now that was uh oh,
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  Speaker 11: goodness sake, that was almost.
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  Speaker 10: Thirty five years ago.
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  Speaker 11: May how time flies?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, ma'am. How you like that?
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  Speaker 3: Yo? This mister Hendrickson came from Kansas, No.
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  Speaker 11: Minnesota, Minneapolis, as I recollect h But was his idea
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  Speaker 11: just the same? Calling it to Peak arms On kind
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  Speaker 11: of an article he read in the newspaper. While the
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  Speaker 11: building is going up, Matt said there was more people
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  Speaker 11: in southern California come from Kansas and another statement, so
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  Speaker 11: miss Henders configured the name to Peko would attract a
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  Speaker 11: lot of tenants. It's ridiculous nonsense, said so. At the time,
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  Speaker 11: there hasn't been a single solitary one h thirty five
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  Speaker 11: years not sold from Kansas as ever lived here.
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  Speaker 7: Four h five pm Frank and I put in a
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  Speaker 7: call of the crime lab while Miss done Better changed
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  Speaker 7: her dress. We checked the other apartments to see if
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  Speaker 7: anybody else had seen the burger. Only one tenant was
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  Speaker 7: in missus J. T Blade apartment six, informedust that she
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  Speaker 7: had been out marketing at the time of the crime
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  Speaker 7: and had just returned home. Four to sixteen pm, Willy
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  Speaker 7: Jones and the crew from the crime lab arrived. They
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  Speaker 7: began their investigation and we drove Miss Dunbetter down to
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  Speaker 7: the city Hall. We checked the outity file and ran
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  Speaker 7: the suspects description and mo through the Stat's office, and
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  Speaker 7: they came up with seventeen possibles. They pulled mug shots
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  Speaker 7: and showed him to missdune Better. She was unable to
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  Speaker 7: make an identification. Six thirteen pm, Lee Jones reported no
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  Speaker 7: useful fingerprints or other physical evidence.
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  Speaker 3: In the apartment.
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  Speaker 7: Six forty six pm we drove Missdune Better home and
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  Speaker 7: we went off duty the next day.
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  Speaker 3: May twentieth, eleven seventeen. Am I get it? Bur Grey Friday?
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  Speaker 8: Who's that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh sure, yeah, Wendy come in. I see.
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  Speaker 7: Oh well I would know what he looked like. H yeah,
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  Speaker 7: we'd like to right, Thanks a lot. I was chubbed Starks.
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  Speaker 7: Who you know Stark, the bartender over at the Yellow Camp.
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, what's he want?
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  Speaker 7: Guy came into his place last night. He was carrying
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  Speaker 7: a pretty big row. He threw it around, bought drinks
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  Speaker 7: for the house, cut kind of loaded, and did some
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  Speaker 7: talk about how easy he picked up the dough. Just
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  Speaker 7: walked in again this morning. Huh sound like a thing
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  Speaker 7: to you, and Chubb says. He's about six foot, black hair, Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: scaring his forehead.
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  Speaker 3: Can I drove out to the.
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  Speaker 7: Yellow Cat bar and figure off chubb Stark. The bartender
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  Speaker 7: pointed out a husky man sitting in a corner booth.
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  Speaker 3: They went over to talk to him.
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  Speaker 8: Keep your hands on the table and stand up.
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  Speaker 3: Police officers on your feet.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, okay, all right, you can.
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  Speaker 3: Sit down again.
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  Speaker 5: Something meeting you guys?
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  Speaker 3: What's your name?
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  Speaker 10: Come on?
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  Speaker 6: What is it?
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  Speaker 7: Port Long?
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  Speaker 8: Ralph?
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  Speaker 5: Port Long?
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  Speaker 3: Where do you live? Hotel on the corner? How long
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  Speaker 3: you have been staying there?
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  Speaker 5: Since last night?
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  Speaker 3: How about before that?
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  Speaker 10: At east?
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  Speaker 3: They just got in town yesterday? Whereabouts? Back here?
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  Speaker 8: What kind of a ross does this square?
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  Speaker 3: Back east?
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  Speaker 8: All over Chicago, Cleveland, all over? What kind of business in?
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  Speaker 5: Unemployed?
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  Speaker 3: You got any money?
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  Speaker 8: Some?
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  Speaker 3: How much? Look?
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  Speaker 5: I ain't no vague if that's what you're getting.
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  Speaker 3: How much money you got?
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  Speaker 8: One hundred bucks?
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  Speaker 10: Maybe hundred and fifty?
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  Speaker 3: Where'd you get it? I borrowed it? Who from Pyle
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  Speaker 3: in La Chicago? What's his name?
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  Speaker 5: Johnson?
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  Speaker 8: Cliff Johnson?
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  Speaker 3: You got his address?
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  Speaker 12: He moves around same as I do.
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  Speaker 7: How are you gonna pay him back? But I don't
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  Speaker 7: know where he lives.
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  Speaker 10: We'll bump into each other.
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  Speaker 8: Wou'd you say you got in town Portland? I told
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  Speaker 8: you yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: What time?
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  Speaker 5: Six o'clock somewhere in there?
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  Speaker 8: Yesterday morning?
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  Speaker 10: Last night?
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  Speaker 5: You sure? Then?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? How'd you come? Train?
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  Speaker 5: Car?
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  Speaker 3: You own the car? I hitched a ride? Just Where
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  Speaker 3: were you yesterday afternoon? Riding into La all afternoon?
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  Speaker 10: Yep?
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  Speaker 3: What was the driver's name?
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  Speaker 5: Look? How should I and I've been hitching for the
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  Speaker 5: last week. I must throw with twenty different guys.
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  Speaker 3: You don't remember the one you were with yesterday?
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  Speaker 8: Nope? Ever been arrested Portland?
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  Speaker 5: Nothing serious?
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  Speaker 10: We'll tell us about oh drunk, that's all.
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  Speaker 1: Where was that Ohio?
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  Speaker 11: When I was a kid?
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  Speaker 3: Anything?
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  Speaker 5: Else.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I guess I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Speeding to Have you ever been arrested in California? Never
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  Speaker 3: been in California? First trip? Huh yep.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah't exactly make me feel at home.
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  Speaker 9: Either, you know, an apartment house call at the peak arms.
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  Speaker 3: We're about six in the Olympics in La.
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  Speaker 10: Look, can't you get nothing?
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  Speaker 5: Stray? I'd never been here before?
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  Speaker 10: How about giving me an answer?
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  Speaker 5: Why the rest?
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  Speaker 3: Come on, let's go.
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  Speaker 7: We'll show you the science for instance, City Hall, Frank
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  Speaker 7: and I took the suspect into custody for further questioning.
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  Speaker 7: Twelve sixteen pm. We ran the name Ralph Portland through
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  Speaker 7: R and I. They had nothing on him. We put
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  Speaker 7: out an APB with his description, stating that he was
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  Speaker 7: in our custody. The bulletin requested any information about the
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  Speaker 7: suspect and was marked attention Chicago PD and Cleveland Police Department.
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  Speaker 7: To eighteen PM, we again interviewed port Long. He insisted
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  Speaker 7: he had not arrived in Los Angeles until six o'clock
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  Speaker 7: the previous evening and refused to say it anymore. Four
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: h six pm we received replies to our.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: APB on Portland.
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: Chicago reported two convictions for grand theft auto and Cleveland
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: reported one conviction for burglary second degree. We telephone missed
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: done better and arrange for her to attend a special
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: show up at the main jail six seventeen BM. The
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: show up was completed and Frank and I took the
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: victim back to our office.
• 16:14
  Speaker 8: Well, ma'am, you're sure it isn't the same man?
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: Man?
• 16:16
  Speaker 10: Goodness gracious hout to know? Yes, I don't see how
• 16:19
  Speaker 10: you could have made such a mistake.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Well, it fits your description, even to the scar, and
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: I told.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: You it was is that?
• 16:24
  Speaker 10: Yeah, he did this man scar is entirely different.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am.
• 16:27
  Speaker 10: His head is wrong too, is that right?
• 16:29
  Speaker 11: The other man had some gray in it.
• 16:31
  Speaker 10: Right across here.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: Well that you said he was fairly young.
• 16:34
  Speaker 11: But he doesn't have to be old to get gray.
• 16:36
  Speaker 11: I've been grave since I had my appendix out. I
• 16:39
  Speaker 11: was only thirty four.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: Uh uh, what have you taken home? Now?
• 16:42
  Speaker 10: Really ashamed?
• 16:43
  Speaker 8: Ma'am?
• 16:44
  Speaker 10: You rested that poor fellow and he hasn't done anything.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Burglary Friday, Yep, Yeah, that's right. When'd you get it?
• 16:58
  Speaker 10: No?
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Not yet? Were you notifying? Right?
• 17:04
  Speaker 10: Well?
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: I guess we don't need to feel too, sorry for
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: port Long.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Do you mean another answer on our app Yeah? You're right,
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Miss done better. He couldn't have been your burger, you didn't.
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: He was in Needles yesterday afternoon. He hits to ride. Yeah,
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: slugged the driver. Ralph port Long was held pending a
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: rival of authorities from Needles. The investigation of the apartment
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: house burgery continued. Two more suspects were brought in for questioning.
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: Both men succeeded in establishing alibis for the time of
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: the crime. Monday, May twenty third, Frank and I were
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: on our way back to the office from lunch.
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: How was your ply all right? Just okay?
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Huh? I said it was all right.
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: Lemon marangou wasn't it?
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: I don't know, Joe. You should have had apple. I
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: told you stick with apple, you can't go wrong.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: But lemon was good.
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: He didn't finish it. I was full. Yeah, I know.
• 17:57
  Speaker 9: Someday you'll learn learn what apple pie is. Always say
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: if you can't lost it up. Even a bad cook
• 18:02
  Speaker 9: can probably.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Get a little tired of it once in a while.
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: That's all no reason you should.
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: You can switch it around so many different ways, you know,
• 18:08
  Speaker 9: Cheese olim hot sauce, no reason to get.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Tired of apple. Joe, Sure, hey Joe, yeah, California? While wrong? Oh,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: I just want you to call back. Here's the number. Okay, sure,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Bessie Maxon?
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: Who's that?
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know, missus Maxon.
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: There's the police department, Sergeant Friday. Yes, that's right, we
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: were the ones.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: I guess we can a little something wrong? Be sure?
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: Then?
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: All right? Right away? Thank you for calling. Goodbye?
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: Miss done better sister she just got back from Oxtarn.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she says, it never happened.
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: What do you mean the burglary, says her sister made
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: it up. Frank and I drove out to the Topeka
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: Arms and we went up to apartment number eight. There
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: was two seventeen when we got there. Somebody's coming again.
• 19:21
  Speaker 10: Well, well here is it?
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Ms Maxim.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: That's right, that's right.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Well my name is Friday. I just spoke to you
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: over the telephone.
• 19:29
  Speaker 10: No, yes, yes, of course, this is Frank Smith.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: How do you do? Come by along inside?
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: Thank you?
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: I just don't know what to say.
• 19:38
  Speaker 12: I suppose it's all my fault for going out of town.
• 19:41
  Speaker 12: She'd never left Mark alone. Might a known she'd be
• 19:44
  Speaker 12: up to something.
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: Are you positively sure about this? Miss Maxon?
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: That's what?
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: That? What?
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: That?
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: There was any burglary?
• 19:49
  Speaker 11: Oh?
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Never in a million years.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Well, your sister gave us all the details.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Play acting, that's all it was, play acting. She's done
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: it all alive.
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: I see you mean it's done better, isn't.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: My sister is as sane as you are. If that's
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: what you're.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Driving at, Well, why does she tell us that story?
• 20:04
  Speaker 12: You know, haven't got the biggest notion? She simply won't
• 20:06
  Speaker 12: give me any explanation.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Oh, I say the story was true. Why won't she
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: face me?
• 20:10
  Speaker 12: Why is she HYPENI minute I told her I was
• 20:14
  Speaker 12: going to call you. She locked herself in the bathroom, right,
• 20:16
  Speaker 12: been in there for two hours now, she simply refuses
• 20:19
  Speaker 12: to come out.
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: Well, we like to talk to her, if we can,
• 20:23
  Speaker 10: I'll try again.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: Back that you're here, may have some influence.
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: You think we're getting a run around, Joe?
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Sounds that way? Done it?
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Martha, Martha, you come out of there this instant.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: Martha done better? Do you hear me? The police don
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: wants to talk to you. Now, come out. The police
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: are here. I won't I will never come out. I
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: never heard of such childishness. You see, I'm not able
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: to do a thing with her.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: Maybe if you speak to us she'll come to her senses.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 21:00
  Speaker 12: Oh, sister, careing on like this, I don't know how
• 21:02
  Speaker 12: I'll ever be able to hold my head up again.
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: It's scandalous, Miss done Better. This is Sergeant Friday. Miss
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: done Better. Will you come out so we can talk
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: to you? Miss done Better?
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Well, it's about time. Whatever were you're thinking of, Martha?
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: What got into you? Know?
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: I'm speaking to you, Bessy.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Let's going to the other room. Easier to talk there.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Not speaking to me? Hah? Well, two can play at
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: that game, and I assure you I won't be the
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: one who suffers.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: All right, ladies, would you like to sit down.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: I'm Miss done Better? Can we clear this thing up? Now?
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Your sister says there wasn't any.
• 21:43
  Speaker 10: Burger, Tell what she knows?
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: She wasn't here? Was she?
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: I know because I know you, and I know you
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: never had three hundred dollars to your name. I did too.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Where'd you get it? Where'd you get it?
• 21:53
  Speaker 11: None of your business?
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 21:54
  Speaker 11: Now?
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: How about it? Miss done Better? Did you have three
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: hundred dollars.
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: Well, never said it was exactly three hundred, Not to
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: the penny.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Three dollars would be more like it. There happens to
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: be a few.
• 22:08
  Speaker 11: Things you don't know about, including my savings A likely storyer.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: You never saved a penny, and you're lot What about
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: ma dime? I shook it the other day. I thank
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: you to keep your hands off my property savings. Indeed,
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: if I didn't pay most of the expenses around here,
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: you'd starve to death.
• 22:23
  Speaker 11: I man, he's quite little before you moved in on me, Bessy,
• 22:26
  Speaker 11: and I was.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: Perfectly happy living alone. Matter fact, I preferred that arrange.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: But maybe you'd like to try it again. Maybe I
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: would sure i'd be money ahead.
• 22:35
  Speaker 11: Hop don't you harp me, Bessy Maxim not to see
• 22:38
  Speaker 11: the way she eats cobbles up of gobbles and shovels
• 22:40
  Speaker 11: it down.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Stuffing nonsense. I don't have any more appetiten a.
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: Bird, bird, don't nip the cooking cherry.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: What I've done better? How can you say such a thing,
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: cause I know it's true. I'm off the bottle. Well,
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: whatever I do, I don't fib to the police like
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: some people.
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: I could name well, Miss Dunbedy, I made exaggerated respect.
• 23:03
  Speaker 11: You mean to do no harm?
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: I wonder if you know it's against the LATI file
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: of false.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Police report install there you see, you're going to jail.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: I knew what could happen. I knew that sooner or later.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: You disgrace all of us.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Why'd you do it? You must have had a reason, ma'am.
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: I won't tell you, not front of her.
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: I won't.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Let's see, would you mind waiting in the other room
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: for a couple of minutes.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Ms Maxon, I most certainly would.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: We'd appreciate it if you would.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Oh, very well, very well. You think God was the
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: criminal around here?
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: All right?
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Mustern better tell us now?
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: With you it's very difficult to explain.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: We'll give it a try and see.
• 23:50
  Speaker 11: It was all on kind of her, Bessie go ahead
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: started when these little girls, it's because she's older. She's
• 23:58
  Speaker 11: always lording it over me. When Daddy always gave her everything, first,
• 24:03
  Speaker 11: hand me downs.
• 24:04
  Speaker 10: It's all I got.
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: Bessy's hand me down, I see, And when we grew up,
• 24:09
  Speaker 11: I couldn't push myself very much. She's just the opposite
• 24:12
  Speaker 11: there at the ball. She had a pick of all
• 24:15
  Speaker 11: the young gentlemen in town. Only time they take me
• 24:18
  Speaker 11: out was when Bessie was busy. I don't think she
• 24:21
  Speaker 11: didn't let me know that I had second choice. Only
• 24:24
  Speaker 11: reason she married a horace because he took a fancy
• 24:26
  Speaker 11: to me where I had my pride too. Wouldn't settle
• 24:31
  Speaker 11: for her left overs. That's why I stayed single. I
• 24:34
  Speaker 11: see these she could have done. Was named one of
• 24:36
  Speaker 11: her little girls after me. After all, I'm my only sister.
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: I that's done better. You still haven't told us why
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: you reported the burglary.
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: I am telling you, yes, not on account of her birthday.
• 24:48
  Speaker 10: Well that was the last straw.
• 24:51
  Speaker 11: She hasn't talked about anything else for months and months.
• 24:54
  Speaker 10: It's quaw.
• 24:54
  Speaker 11: She's eighty years old. You'd think she's a queen of Romania.
• 24:58
  Speaker 11: A picture and the paper people may going to fuss
• 25:00
  Speaker 11: about her, and I made up my mind that for
• 25:03
  Speaker 11: once in my life, someone was going to make a
• 25:05
  Speaker 11: fuss about me.
• 25:07
  Speaker 10: Tell you the truth.
• 25:08
  Speaker 12: I'm not a bit.
• 25:08
  Speaker 11: Surre, did it.
• 25:10
  Speaker 10: I mean, yes, I should be sorry, but I'm not.
• 25:16
  Speaker 11: I really enjoyed myself all those questions you asked me
• 25:20
  Speaker 11: like I was somebody. My name was in the papers too,
• 25:24
  Speaker 11: the first time it ever happened. Strange when you come
• 25:27
  Speaker 11: to think about it, to live seventy nine years without
• 25:30
  Speaker 11: ever seeing your name in print.
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: Oh but that wasn't the best part, ma'am.
• 25:34
  Speaker 11: The best part was Besty not being able to horn
• 25:37
  Speaker 11: in and take all the credit. I knew you'd find
• 25:40
  Speaker 11: me out sooner or later, but I didn't care. I
• 25:43
  Speaker 11: sure had the laugh on her all the time. She's
• 25:47
  Speaker 11: in Oxnow I'd been partied. I was having a little
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: party of my own.
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, you know you didn't need to put us
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: through all this. Mus done better. You're almost eighty yourself.
• 25:55
  Speaker 11: It's over a year away when you're my age.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: Can't be sure of anything, Yes, ma'am.
• 26:02
  Speaker 11: Even when I'm maybe best, you will still be ahead.
• 26:06
  Speaker 11: Should be going on ninety.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: The story you've just heard is true. The names have
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: been changed to protect the innocent.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: On May twenty sixth, the hearing was held in the
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: office of Perry Thomas City Attorney. In a moment the
• 26:25
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• 26:27
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• 26:51
  Speaker 6: Due to the advanced age of Miss Martha done Better
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: and because of her assurances that she would never repeat
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: her actions, no charges were filed against her.
• 27:00
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