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Dragnet: The Big Boys (EP1532) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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The original air edight March the sixteenth, nineteen fifty and the title The Big
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Boys. The story you are about to hear is true, only the names
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have been changed to protect the innocent drag Nets. You're a detective sergeant.
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You're assigned to Robbery Detail. Four young hoodlums wanted for a series of robberies
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are headed for your city. They're armed, reckless, cold blooded. Your
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job get them Dragnets the documented drama of an actual crime. While the next
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thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel
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step by step on the side of the law through an actual case, from
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official police fiolence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Drag
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Net is the story of your police force election. It was Friday, December
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tenth, was cold in Los Angeles. We were working a day watch out
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of robbery Detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is that Brown,
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Chief of Detectives. My name is Friday. Was seven fifty five am when
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I got the room, twenty seven a robbery detail morning. A Hi Joe
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wry Hi Joe called out, isn't it Rank What are you doing here this
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early? Can't you sleep? I'm waiting for something special delivery letter for my
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brother went up in Frisco with a police department. Yeah, only up there.
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They don't like it when you call it Frisco. Yeah, he's in
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robbery detail. Called him last night. All three kids are the Tonsos at
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the same day. Thought it'd be nice to call see how they were all
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three at once? Yeah, Tonson's and nothing these days? How they make
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a good home already? What's the letter got to do with it? Oh?
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Well, my brother told me he was sending down some dope on four
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pretty rough characters. Thinks are headed our way. Sending mugshots too. You
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and your brother running a detective agency on the side. Mmmm, it's a
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little irregular. The official correspondence will come a little later. What do you
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know about the guys almost killed him? Man? I didn't get any details.
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It's all in the letter. Ought to be here and the Minute mailed
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it at noon yesterday. How come you moved down here with your family,
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Franklin? You like it up nore like La better, more elbow room here?
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You live in a house and a lot, not just an apartment.
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I get it robbery Friday. It's Wilson. Tony shops that John, Yeah,
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I think so, hold it? Will you Tony here? Huh?
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I didn't see it behind that paper for me. Yeah, he's here.
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What have you not? Bessy asked him to come over with that, especially
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a couple of Mexican girls. You can't speak English. I guess we can
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spare them for a while. I'll tell him what's up. Well, that's
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Wilson and auto detail. He'd like you to go over an nexts interpreter for
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a couple of Mexican girls. Are they pretty? You're not going down there
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to marry him, I'll bet you. While I'm at parties, nothing much
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doing slow day. They don't come often enough for me. They did,
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we'd be out of a job. It was one of those rare slow days.
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I killed a couple of hours going over the daily reports, cleaned out
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the top drawer of my desk, shot in a few pencils. At ten
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fifteen am, the special delivery letter came for Frank. He slit the top
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open with his pocket knife and shook out four mud shots. Here it is
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following four men wanted for robberies, auto thefts and safe Burgnary's in San Francisco
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Bay area. Cliff Small nineteen George Shum twenty, both escaped from Preston Julius
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Carver eighteen, Fred and Malick twenty, both Army deserters. I'm gonna checks
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out with that APB from me saf last week. What are the records of
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a small shot an army captain during an argument at a bar, Capers,
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These men shouted out with us and escaped. Information shows all four left four
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at the signs of several days ago, driving stolen car, blue Chevrolet,
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probably using cold plates. Let me see those lug shots in here. I
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don't know, we know who we're looking for, brother tell us where just
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a couple of nice girls that got mixed up with the wrong guys. Can
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take a look at these pictures. Oh, the Monk's from San Francisco.
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Yeah, says they're in a stolen car cold plates. That's how these girls
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were picked up a hot car HU. They went for a ride with a
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couple of guys they met at a movie. When the car ran out of
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gas, the boys dug the girls got picked up. They have a lead
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on the guy. No, not a thing. The young guys around twenty.
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You think these might be the ones from Frisco. Let's talk to girls.
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Come on, Frank, you want to cover the office? Oh yeah,
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sure. They speak English at all, not enough to make sense.
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That's dolorous. And this one is Marie. The robbery details they say,
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and I said, oh status, He says, they didn't do anything.
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I suppose they told you all I know already. And they're not much help.
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They said they don't know anything about the fellows they were with. I'm
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showing these. Ask them if they've ever seen him before? Says that's individual.
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Mm see, he's see. These are the guys that took him out
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last night. Ask him. Karen asked, are you assume Carver and Melik
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the army deserves? Ask him to describe money, call Myosmas and cart and
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points. That was cool, Parian, we rough for you have love and
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ba. She says. They sat in the car all the time, was
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dark, but they looked very handsome and they talk nice. Where did the
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fellow speck him up? They told me in front of the Jubilee Theater Second
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and Broadway. Yeah, and then what the girls couldn't understand English, but
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they understood when the boys motioned them to hop in, and as thought Maria
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creo a bearl of wisto and like l do mingo. She says, No,
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Marie thought she recognized them from church Sundy, but she was mistaken.
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Must have been some date. The boys couldn't talk Spanish and the girls couldn't
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talk in where'd they go on this ride, Tony. They don't know the
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streets. They just know they got to the beach and then they turned around.
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We're about halfway back on the car and out of gas. That's again
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she didn't get Marie here to talk in my ear. Come in at tomorrow
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and parier I'll apply, you must say I margiea premer paramos esperamos judges your
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in squad. She doesn't know, but she remembers. They stopped in their
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little hotel. The girls wait a while. The boys took a little puppy
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out of the car and put it in their room, a puppy. Well,
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if they don't know where the hotel was, maybe they can tell us
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what it was near. Okay, and nice Tina be a nice Tassi in
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the Gasolina, and she says, there was a gas station on the corner.
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What else can I Tellolo de los Reles PPI, She says. Across
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the car tracks there were two or three big garajis. Hmm, could be
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in west Lake District. That's the garage and second Way hotels around there.
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Reached First Street, maybe Grand Avenue, Picicle, Picko, Pico Pico.
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We took the girls with us and drove out to Grand and Pico, and
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then up and down Pico's slow until the girls pointed out a hotel just south
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of Flower. They weren't sure. Ben and I got out. We walked
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up to the hotel desk. The clerk was just starting to vacuum. We're
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looking for Julius carbon Fred Malick. Did they stand here? Wats the names?
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Can't hey over the vackrum Julius Carver and Fred Malick. No, I'm
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not here. Police officers. You take a look at these pictures. Oh,
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it could have been two of the boys or checked out this morning,
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but they didn't look as tough as this. How many weather? Or here
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are two more pictures? You have a luck? Please could be about the
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right aid? How long did they stay? Just two nights? Did they
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have a puff with him? I said, they have a puff with him?
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Puffy dog yes they did, Yes, a little collie puff. Did
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they pay up? No? They skipped out, owing me two days.
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Can we see how they registered? Please shut off this dang you person can
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hardly hear himself. Think over that dragon. Now, I want to see
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the register. We use cards here. Let me see here they are Bob
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Reynolds, Jack Sharp, Jim Smith, and uh William Grant L's Vegas,
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Nevada. I must to pick those names out of a hat. They say
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where they were going? No, no forwarding address. Do they write these
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cards out themselves? I bet they did. That's the law you matter.
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If we bor them for a while, we'll have them photostat and return to
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you. We're supposed to keep me. You'll get them back. I like
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to do everything legal. Those boys in some kind of trouble. They leave
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anything in their room. They did. It's all in the vacuum for having
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to come back. Give us a ring, will you? Here's our card
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robbery detail who they rob They took you for two days. Then it was
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two pm when Tony Chavis picked h up. He had Frank o'donn Or with
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him. We stopped at a dairy lunch and I called the office and We
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split up into two teams. While Tony and Frank checked parking lots in the
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neighborhood for stolen cars, Ben and I ran down the other hotels. In
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the next three hours, we talked to a dozen desk clerks and roaming house
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managers. I'm always the same answer, no. Five thirty pm, we
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tried the Achilles Hotel on Grand Avenue. We walked into an overheated lobby crowded
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with modern furniture. There were a couple of canary cages in front of the
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faded wall tapestries. The desk clerk was a woman in the early forties.
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Good afternoon, man, Please often police office water water? Would you see
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what these policemen want? Would just take a minute. We'd like to know
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if you recognize these pictures here. No, that's no. We only take
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in honest, hard working man. Sure. I don't like anybody laying around
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the rooms all day. It keeps me from cleaning up. If your rumor's
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got a Collie pup a dog, I'd die before I had allow a dog
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in this house. And if these fellows were the dogs, try to rent
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a room, would you please fool us? Here's a number. Lili get
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them back in there. Worth's nice. More go on there. Nellie's on
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the nest now, Yes, ma'am, we'd appreciate you watching for these man
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for your own protection too. No, I'll let you know. Thank you,
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ma'am. Let's go back. Well, say, before you go with
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you, gentlemen, do me a favor, seeing it's how you're a policeman.
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Yes, ma'am. Mister maryn Ally up in room four teens a week
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behind the rent, would you do me a favor and go out and talk
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to him. I'm sorry, lady, we can't handle it. That's a
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civil matter. I'd advise you to go to room two six oh out the
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city Hall and see the city attorneys. They'll help you. Water what I
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tell you, they won't do it. That's the way the wind. It
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was dark out now and getting cold again. We walked back to Pico and
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Florida pick up Frank and Tony. Tony was there waiting for us. Hike.
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Come on up to the next corner. Frank's up there. We've got
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a hot car staked out, you know, just half a block from the
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hotel where the guys checked out. You had any luck, No, do
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you find anything in the car. He's still in it. Nothing else I
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could have stolen them last night after they left the girls. Huh. I
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called in and checked. He was taking in front of eleven ninety two door
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any drive between two and four this morning we got out a cord for about
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six flocks from where they ditched the car with the girls in it. They
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we're out of gas. It's all downhill. Would have been a natural way
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for him to go. This would be the right car. Better keep a
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steak on. Yeah, ah, Hi, Frank, Hire you do any
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good? No, Frank, If you and Tony want to go, eat
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and Ben and I'll cover the car. When you get back, we'll go
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for chop good. Dude's well, let's sit in the car. Huh Yeah,
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go ahead, Yeah, get the radio on a cigarette. Yea,
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what do you think? I don't know. Maybe it's the same guys,
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maybe not in the same neighborhood. A couple of things might tie in.
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Yeah, you can't be sure they're really making a headway about all we know
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is there in town. Yeah, and it's a good sized town right now,
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it's the biggest in the world. Seven pm. We knew the four
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gunmen were in town. We knew they'd been seen. We figured there was
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no reason for him to skip town until they pulled a job or heard that
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we were looking for them. Time was in their favor. Time to rob,
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time to kill, time to get away. The check on the hotels
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continued. We left Frank O'donnald and Tony Chavis on the stakeout, and Ben
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and I picked up the hotel routine. One place after another. Eight thirty
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pm, we walked down a long, narrow lobby to a little ball headed
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man at the desk and was wearing glasses and reading a magazine called Astrology.
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When we walked in, he tried to hide the bottle. Police officer,
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Oh, would you take a look at these pictures? Please look for see
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if you can identify him. No, no, they don't look familiar to
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me. They may be carrying a collie pup. Collie pup. Let me
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see those pictures again, all right, can look familiar? Now they had
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a pup with them? All right? Yes? I think so? I
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study faces. Yes, the same. Now they here, I don't know,
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I mean they're out for the evening. I don't know. Are they
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registered here? Yes? They are? What room are they expecting? You.
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Well, listen, this is important. Just answer the questions. What
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did they do? What's their room number? Second floor, room twenty two.
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You have the key just a second? Yeah, thank you, Come
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on, bet cover me, yeah, twenty two, give me the key.
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Yeah, watch it. Well, maybe we're home. Glow shoes,
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honor steps here, they'll be back. You are listening to Dragnet for the
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step by step solution to an actual police case. In the files of the
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Los Angeles Police Department. There are countless case histories that never got space in
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the daily newspapers. The case of Cliff Small, George Shum, Julius Carver,
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and Fred Malick was one of these four young hoodlums wanted for a series
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of robberies and petty burglaries. These men were armed, and they'd shown that
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they wouldn't hesitate to shoot. By comparison with the sensational crime headline, the
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news value of this story rated an inch of type on the fourth page of
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the second section. Yet the line separating these four young thieves from banner headlines
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and back paid space is much thinner than the average citizen realizes. The danger
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in a criminal case isn't always determined by the space allotted to it in the
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newspapers. Many a peace officer's name has appeared in the obituary column of the
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same newspaper that allotted one inch of back paid space to the crime story that
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was considered unimportant. I phoned the office and asked for two men to cover
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the stolen car. As soon as the replacements arrived, Frank O'Donnell and Tony
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Chavers left the stake out on the stolen car and joined us at the hotel.
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Was eight fifty five pm. What do they do back any idea?
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No, sir, I told these other officers I did tell you, didn't
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I? Yeah, you said they were out for the That's it. I
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know. I told you something. Was it you two? Or was it
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you too? Was this fella? And I? Oh yeah, I don't
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remember things I say so good, but I know faces things. Are you
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the manager here? Oh no, this place belongs to Claude. Claude who
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Tinny? Then you're in charge now only one Clau's not around. This is
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one of his places where we're going to stake out. Joe enough room to
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turn around this lobby. That's what I've been telling Claude, Tinny. This
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is one of his places. Yeah, maybe you better leave that bottle alone
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when we get this straightened down there. Oh no, I don't hit it
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heavy anymore. Just a little nip nown again, Crafty in here? Any
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idea where we can wait for these fellas and keep an eye on the lobby.
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No, not enough room in this lobby to turn around. And I've
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said that to Clawn. Yeah we know, Hey Clark, where does this
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door lead to? No, don't go in there. They're lighting here.
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I save old bottles. Ragman gives me a penny each for them. Is
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that a storage room? What's that that room over there? Oh, that's
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the linen room. We keep all the linen there. That's about the only
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place where is Joe if we want to wait out in the car? All
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right, we're waiting there. Now. There's a couple of chairs in there.
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I'll send the boys back when they come in. Be better. If
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you tell them nothing, how are they going to know you're here? Will
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tell them you just don't say anything, all right, sir? Now then
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I can just have your names. I'll see that the boys get the message.
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Now, look, mister, you just sit there and read your magazine.
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Don't say anything. You got that. Okay, that's the way you
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want it. Come on, let's go. What's that smell in here?
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Bleach me? Strong? M What time is? I can't see? Frank?
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You got a luminous watch nine twenty eight. They've been my genius.
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Do you give me an eight o'clock called es? Shake? Night? Smells
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giving me a headache? There's a bad in here? Yeah? Is there
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anything I can get you? Gentlemen? No, you just stay at the
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desk? Or do you please say Claude? Tenny's his name? He's the
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manager. Remember you asked me about that? Yeah, yeah, we know.
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What do you want him for? Look, you're gonna have to stay
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away from this door. We don't want him to nowhere here? Okay,
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that's the way you want it. I could use a cigarette? Yeah,
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all we need in here now smoke? What time is it? Frank?
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Oh? Never mind that said. There's two of'em. Ben, you
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come with me, Frank, Tony stay here right all right? We're checking
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out tomorrow. It's Carver and Malick. Let's go, Ben, come,
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I got your hands up. Hey, what's going on? Stan? Still?
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Okay? What's a bee? Frisk hum? There's a three eight automatic
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on Carver thirty eight caliber revolver in his hip pocket another thirty eight on Malick
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hold it, I said, but od your hand, Let me have you
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a cuff. Jo, here you go. We're your pals. What pals?
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Cliff Small and George Sham We know you're running with him. You know
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that you know where they are? How old are you? Eighteen? What's
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your name? Fred Malick? Twenty? Tony? Yeah, you and Frank
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want to take him downtown? Right, let's see you down there. Let's
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go. Frank, say you got him? Huh up two of them.
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We're gonna wait for the other two. Now, you just play it straight
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and stay away from that linen room. How long you're gonna be in there?
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Chamber maids starts making up the beds around seven am. You don't have
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to be getting out that linen in there. It's only ten thirty lots of
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time. We changed the sheets three times a week in this hotel. I'm
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not a worry in the world. Let's get back in there. I don't
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know what that smell is in here? Well I saw, yeah, I
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forgot about that pup. That would be the tip. I'll go get him.
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Come on, little collu here we go. Come on, boy,
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you yeah, but I'll put him down on the floor. Don't step on
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him, right right? Yeah, what do you want? Are you gonna
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wait for the other two boys? Yeah? Well you get away from the
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door. Say I want to help you all I can. Yeah. Yeah.
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That fuzzy little pup of Theirs, he's running all around the lobb.
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Yeah, we've got him in here. Yeah, you better go out there
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and get him. He's barking. It'll tip him off. Yeah all right,
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Now go on back to the desk. All right, then you stay
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in here. I'll see if I can catch him he comes around here.
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Agin't even have to wait in here. You see, your watch must be
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around eleven, said a clerk. Again. Yeah, say listen, I've
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been all over the lobby. You fellas are in the clear. What do
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you mean that dog of Theirs he's gone. You're in the clear. Look,
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he's in here with us. Now. Will you stay away from here
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please? Yeah, it's okay. The dog's gone. Hey, pop,
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come in the keep room twenty two, Yes, sir, that's their room.
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Come on. Yeah, cut your hands up, watching Joe, I'm
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at you, hold it, get your hands get you didn't have to slap
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me. You didn't have to pull that gun. Right over here, standstill,
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thirty eight revolver on this one. Here it is forty five cold.
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What's your names? And Cliff Small, here's George Shum. How old are
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you? Nineteen cops? We weren't. You've been a lot more trouble than
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you are, and so them. Yeah, now let's feed that pop.
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Twelve fifteen am. We took the prisoners out of the City Hall of the
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interrogation room. Tony Chavis and Frank o'donnald were there with the other two,
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Carver and Malick, while Ben helped question the suspects and made out the necessary
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reports. I went across the street to the Federal cafe. I picked up
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two ten cent bottles of milk and a few slices of bread. Looked at
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him, go he was hungry. Yeah, how'd you come out? And
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I got it all here. Let's see four store and cars eight knowing robberies
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and sand Francis good. They copped out too, great jobs in Portland,
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they admitted. You remember that Bakersfield liquor store hold up about four weeks ago
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for Watson job They pull that, Yeah, probably a lot more I haven't
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told us all of it. Jin got out of app You'll probably get a
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lot more wants on him. Well that's it. None of them read them
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old enough to vote yet. But they've committed practically every crime in the book.
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Just one thing more left to work out. What do we do with
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the pup? How about PCA that final home pon No, not this little
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guy. Why don't you take him? Tony, you got kids, You've
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got a deal. And adelante esperopolicia translation, your mother was a colleague.
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But from now on europolice dog. The story you have just heard was true,
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only the names were changed to protect the innocent. On February ninth,
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trial was held in Superior Court, Department eighty eighth, City and County of
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Los Angeles, State of California. In a moment the results of that trial,
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Clifford Small, George Shum, Julius Carver, and Fred Malick were released
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to San Francisco authorities, where they were tried and convicted on eight counts of
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robbery in the first degree. A hold was placed on them by the State
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of Oregon. They are now serving their term in the state penitentiary. You
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have just staired dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files Technical Advice Board.
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Dragnet comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. A. Wharton,
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Los Angeles Police Department. Tomorrow. Here the Ronald Coleman's charming series The
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Halls of Ivy on NBC Welcome Back. This is one of those scripts many
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radio scripts were reused for television. This is one where there was a pretty
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significant difference in a couple of ways between the radio and TV version of the
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same story. First of all, this was filmed with or recorded for radio,
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with Ben Romero as Friday's partner. When it went to television, Frank
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Smith was Friday's partner, and so the extra Frank was cut and Frank Smith
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got this Frank's dialogue and Romero and Friday's dialogue was divided up between Friday and
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Smith. Other big difference is the lead up to the climactic scene and the
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hotel desk clerk. In this original story, it's kind of implied that the
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desk clerk has perhaps had a couple drinks, but his characterization doesn't necessarily scream
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drunk here, more just that he's a little bit of a knot. In
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the TV version, Peter Leeds played the clerk, and he went with a
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characterization that didn't just suggest the guy was drunk, but pretty much showed it.
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He had growth of facial hair and kind of looked like he slept in
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a gutter of the previous knot, And I think that was an attempt to
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gather as much of a comedic field to this last third of the episode as
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they could. Whether that particular approach was better or not is certainly a matter
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for debate, and of course there are many people who would take issue with
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the portrayal of funny drunks, though this is not something that nineteen fifties drag
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net really had a problem with. There are multiple episodes, particularly on the
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radio, where drunk people are used for comedic effect, though it's pretty much
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disappeared when you get to the nineteen sixties television series, but it's never taken
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on in a sort of head on way until actually the last season of Adam
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twelve. There was an episode where Dick Van Patten played a what started out
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as a funny drunk but then when he saw there was something far more sad
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and dangerous behind that facade. But you'll still hear or see that from time
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to time in the classic series, because it was just one of those dramatic
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conventions of the day that people use to add comedy to programs. Now,
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another thing to note again is the reuse of certain last names. You'll hear
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them constantly reuse for different characters. In this case, it's the last name
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Carver. That's a very common name for criminals, suspects, victims in Dragnet.
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There are others, but Carver really stands out because, of course,
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the name of the blue boy from the first color episode or first nineteen sixties
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episode of Dragnet was Benji Carver, so that was a popular surname to reuse.
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And one thing that some listeners may not get is the reference to the
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these these men not being old enough to vote and being dangerous criminals. If
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you were probably under fifty, you're used to the idea that if you're eighteen
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years old you're eligible to vote. In many places, you couldn't vote unless
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you were twenty one. However, a movement in the nineteen sixties led to
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the vote being guaranteed to everyone eighteen years or older when it was actually ratified
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in nineteen seventy one, but at the time of this program, they weren't
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old enough to vote. And one last note. When I actually mentioned on
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Facebook that I was going to play this play a television episode with Leonard Nimoy
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in it, the first suggestion I got as to what I might be playing
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was this was the television version of this episode where me Moy made one of
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the suspects. The reason I didn't choose that one is his role, and
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that was really brief. It's one of those so short you my miss it.
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Pope Roles and his appearance in Lock Up, he played a much bigger
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role even though it was a lesser known series. Now Dragonet was around long
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enough because The Big Boys was a nineteen fifty four episode when it aired on
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television that it survived for Leonard Memore to return in the show's eighth season in
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a much more significant role in an episode called The Big Name. Unfortunately,
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that episode is not a TV episode, is not in circulation. If it
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should come into circulation because it is public domain, if there are no other
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legal restrictions, we'll definitely want to play that. All right, Well,
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now, listener comments and feedback and we go to and Mimi rots in Hi
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Adam listening to your podcast at work and in my car via auxiliary cable.
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I particularly enjoy Johnny Dollar and Dragnet, but have enjoyed every show I've heard.
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I've agree that the new mic sounds really good. Keep up the good
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work. Well, thanks so much, Mimi, and we've added nothing but
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positive feedback about the new MIC. So just incredibly grateful to listener who sent
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us along. The note from Pete and Charlotte reads, thank you for the
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many hours of great radio shows, and Pat says I enjoy the Dragnet episodes
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and you're commenting, great job. Thanks so much, Pat. And finally,
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we have a question regarding the app for Chris. Question, why is
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Humphrey Bogart's picture on the front of the Detectives and I've yet to hear one
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program with him in it. I really enjoyed the programs well, thanks so
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much. In answer, well, a good question. The cover art for
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app was not actually designed by me because I have no graphic design skills.
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It was designed by the great folks at Lipson who sell and distribute the app.
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But I did approve of the art. While it definitely looks very much
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like Bogart, I've looked at it more as representative of the great detectives of
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the era that in many ways was represented by characters like Sam Spain. The
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big challenge with Humphrey Bogart is why he did some great detective roles on film,
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most of those were not adapted to radio, and he never had his
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own radio detective show. He did have Bold Venture, which we played a
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little bit of a sample of, but that's not the same thing as a
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detective show. We did bring you two episodes featuring Humphrey Bogart as well,
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Episode zero one hundred s celebrating our one hundredth episode back in early twenty ten,
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the Screenyild Theater presentation of the Maltese Falcon, and then a little bit
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more recently, back in February, episode fourteen ninety six s an episode of
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Bold Venture. So I hope that answers your question. Thanks so much for
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emailing in. Well, that will do it for today. Monday, we
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will be back with the Saints, and then on Tuesday join us for Man
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from Homicide, and then next Saturday and episode of Dragnet. In the meantime,
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