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The Big Bindle [episode 103], Broadcast 5/31/1951 · Dragnet | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: The story you're about to hear is true, only the
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  Speaker 1: names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 1: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to narcotics detail. You
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: receive information that one of your city's most fashionable hotels
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  Speaker 1: is being used as the clearinghouse for high grade heroine.
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  Speaker 1: Evidence points to a narcotics ring, the center of distribution.
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  Speaker 1: Your job break it.
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  Speaker 2: Drag met the documented drama of an actual crime. For
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  Speaker 2: the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 2: Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
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  Speaker 2: side of the law through an actual case transcribed from
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  Speaker 2: official police files, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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  Speaker 2: Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 5: It was Tuesday, October fifth, was foggy and rainy in
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  Speaker 5: Los Angeles. We're working the day watch out in Narcotics Division.
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  Speaker 5: My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Kearney. My
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  Speaker 5: name is Friday. Was eight forty seven am when we
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  Speaker 5: got to four oh one North Avenue nineteen the Maine
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  Speaker 5: Jail Felony.
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  Speaker 6: Section, Arning follers hurry today, Peate morning brings you up.
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  Speaker 6: Here's early.
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  Speaker 5: We want to see Monty Wilkins booked in last night
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  Speaker 5: in narcotics Booking numbers nine oh six, three, five, one.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, let me look, Okay, here it is he's in
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  Speaker 6: one o three.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Free, I'll put it in a book.
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  Speaker 7: Here, Joe, here's my I wanna check it with your Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 6: I'll put him away. Ok Pete, did you check?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you?
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  Speaker 8: Pete?
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  Speaker 9: All set then nine oh six three five one.
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  Speaker 4: That's it.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, let's go all right, all right, we wanna talk
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  Speaker 7: to Monty Wilkins season one O three.
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  Speaker 8: All right, we'll get.
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  Speaker 10: Him Minny walkout one O three, alright, of you, Hello
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  Speaker 10: Friday ben Hire Money, better move out of the way there.
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  Speaker 4: He wants to lock that door. Money.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, let's go around the corner to the interview room.
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  Speaker 9: Money.
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  Speaker 4: All right, man, this is off, no matter. Don't you
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  Speaker 4: feel good? I feel awful, pretty sick? You look bad.
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  Speaker 4: I'll get the lag okay, then.
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  Speaker 11: Set out of money?
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 12: Thanks.
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  Speaker 9: It's been about a year and a half, isn't it?
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  Speaker 9: Money about that long?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: We got you for physition that time too, didn't we.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah that's right.
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  Speaker 11: How long you've been on the stuff this time?
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  Speaker 12: Well, I guess I've been hooked bad about a month.
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  Speaker 11: How much you're shooting?
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  Speaker 12: Oh about two caps a day?
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  Speaker 9: And you were picked up down on the close from
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  Speaker 9: last night. You had seven gaps on you.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah that's right.
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  Speaker 5: Well we checked with the crime lab. They've run the stuff.
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  Speaker 5: It's not the usual Mexican, is it.
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  Speaker 12: That's right?
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  Speaker 11: You wanna tell us about it?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, it's good stuff. It's not Mexico.
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  Speaker 9: We know that money. Where'd you get it?
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  Speaker 13: Haven't had anything like that for a long time, real good,
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  Speaker 13: haven't been cut, real fine. Maybe it's coming in from
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  Speaker 13: the East coast. Can't get nothing like that from Mexico.
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  Speaker 11: I look, money, we ran the stuff through the lab.
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  Speaker 11: We know it's high grade heroin.
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  Speaker 4: We know all about it.
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  Speaker 11: Now, I want you to tell us where you've been
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  Speaker 11: getting it.
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  Speaker 13: Well, you know how it is. You want to ask
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  Speaker 13: the impossible of me. My life wouldn't be worth a penny.
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  Speaker 12: You know how it is.
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  Speaker 9: Queen handles your year and a half ago, didn't you money?
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  Speaker 14: Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: Just telling around, aren't you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 12: I did time though.
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  Speaker 9: You knew that going in. You're gonna do time in
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  Speaker 9: this trip.
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  Speaker 11: Too, So don't shoot us that line.
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  Speaker 4: Huh.
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  Speaker 12: Well, you guys know how it is with us. Guys,
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  Speaker 12: I I can't tell you anything.
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  Speaker 11: No, it isn't that you can't. You just don't want to.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Look, we didn't come up here to spend the time
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  Speaker 5: of day with you, Wilkins. This is the only time around.
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  Speaker 5: If you wanna help us, you can help yourself at
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  Speaker 5: the same time.
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  Speaker 13: To you, you mean you can clear me on this,
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  Speaker 13: you can give me a break, And he didn't say that.
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  Speaker 9: We can't make any promises to you or give you
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  Speaker 9: any kind.
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  Speaker 12: Of a break.
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  Speaker 9: It's entirely up to you how you want us to
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  Speaker 9: put it down my reports. Co operative or uncooperative.
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  Speaker 12: Mm oh, okay, you square with me last time.
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  Speaker 11: You helped us. Last time we made a case.
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  Speaker 12: But I'm not gonna be able to help you very much.
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  Speaker 11: Where you been getting it?
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  Speaker 12: Well, I've only made a couple of buys on that
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  Speaker 12: good stuff. I just got it from some old mule.
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  Speaker 13: I just happened to meet down there, seen him be
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  Speaker 13: pretty well loaded with the stuff.
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  Speaker 9: Where'd you meet him?
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  Speaker 13: Oh, down near fifth in the spring somewhere. What's his name?
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  Speaker 13: I never did know his name. I just knew that
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  Speaker 13: he was pushing the stuff, some old mule. That's a
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  Speaker 13: who's he pushing it for?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 13: You know they never tell us guys where they're getting it,
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  Speaker 13: you know how they do. Yeah, I never did talk
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  Speaker 13: to him very much. I did hear him say once
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  Speaker 13: he was getting his stuff from a new bunch of
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  Speaker 13: guys from the east, said they were really gonna open
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  Speaker 13: up this town. Well, he talked, they're no small time operators.
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  Speaker 13: I got enough out of it to know they're working
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  Speaker 13: out of the Plaza Royal Hotel. Never figured that, would you?
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  Speaker 13: Anything else? Any names mentioned? Yeah, I remember this old
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  Speaker 13: mule mentioned a couple names. I think you talked about
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  Speaker 13: somebody named Kirk and another guy called Smith. Now you understand,
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  Speaker 13: this guy was just talking. I don't know how they
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  Speaker 13: fit in or what the connections are.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we understand.
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  Speaker 11: Where can we get a hold of this ah?
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  Speaker 12: Know, well I don't know where he's at.
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  Speaker 11: How do you get a hold of 'em When you
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  Speaker 11: wanna make a bye?
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  Speaker 12: I just run into him.
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  Speaker 13: That's all down around Spring Street, you know, just around last.
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  Speaker 8: Time I was down.
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  Speaker 12: I couldn't find it.
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  Speaker 8: Is that all of it?
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  Speaker 14: Money?
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  Speaker 13: Know what you can tell us? Well, I don't know
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  Speaker 13: too much anyway, you know how it is. I couldn't
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  Speaker 13: tell you anymore. It's all I know.
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  Speaker 11: All right, let's get out of this five ten.
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  Speaker 12: If that's all you got, that's everything I got. Hope
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  Speaker 12: you fellas will write me up.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 13: I think I helped you quite a bit, haven't I.
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  Speaker 13: One of the best hotels in town, Plaza Royal. Never
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  Speaker 13: would have figured that, would you? Maybe I've told you
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  Speaker 13: quite a lot. The rest ought to be easy.
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  Speaker 4: I know you're wrong. Their money.
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  Speaker 11: Why you haven't told us the name of your mew.
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  Speaker 11: You haven't told us where we could find him. You
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  Speaker 11: haven't made it so easy.
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  Speaker 12: That's all I have. I've told you a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot you didn't tell.
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  Speaker 5: We continued our interrogation of Matty Wilkins. He refused to
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  Speaker 5: divulge any further information. What he had told us, together
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  Speaker 5: with information already compiled, seemed to check out. For the
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  Speaker 5: past seven months, we'd been trying to localize the operations
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  Speaker 5: of what had come to be regarded as a well
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  Speaker 5: running distribution center for high grade heroin. We knew of
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  Speaker 5: the existence of this distribution point through the various users
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  Speaker 5: that had been picked up almost daily. These users would
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  Speaker 5: have in their possession quantities of high grade and narcotics.
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  Speaker 5: Unlike the cheaper, lower grade quality common in the southwest
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  Speaker 5: part of the country, this type of heroin was more
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  Speaker 5: common to the eastern section of the United States.
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  Speaker 4: We had believed the local distribution.
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  Speaker 5: Point to be somewhere in our metropolitan downtown area. The
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  Speaker 5: information gained from Matty Wilkins had strengthened this theory. Ten
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  Speaker 5: twenty five AM met with Francis Kerney, captain of the
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  Speaker 5: Narcotics Division.
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  Speaker 4: Apply as a royal hotel.
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  Speaker 7: What do you think, Well, we've figured what we were
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  Speaker 7: looking for could be in that area, but we've never
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  Speaker 7: put a finger on that hotel.
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  Speaker 14: How do you figure on working.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Driving back from the jail, Ben and I were
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  Speaker 5: just kicking it around, skipper, what do you think about
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  Speaker 5: putting a man in that hotel?
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  Speaker 1: Anything's a great deal better than we're doing now, But
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'd like to give it a try, sure, like
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  Speaker 4: a crack at his giver.
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  Speaker 1: You know how I feel about these kind of assignments.
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  Speaker 1: One man working inside one outside brings the element of
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  Speaker 1: danger up kind of high.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we know it's not going to be easy, but
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  Speaker 4: it looks like a good bet.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes these things are. Sometimes they're not. You know what
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  Speaker 1: kind of a bunch they got to be, and running
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  Speaker 1: their racket just about as smooth as it can be run.
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  Speaker 1: You know the kind of a risk of man it'd
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  Speaker 1: have to take if you try to make contact with
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  Speaker 1: any of.
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  Speaker 4: Them, or we think it's about the quickest way to
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  Speaker 4: get to them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, maybe it might be worth it. You got any
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  Speaker 1: ideas how you'd like to work it.
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  Speaker 7: There's just one thing. We haven't come to any decision.
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  Speaker 7: Who's going in who is?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 5: I think I ought to be the one to work
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  Speaker 5: it from the inside of the hotel, with Ben working
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  Speaker 5: outside as a contact.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know why we can't you just turn that
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  Speaker 7: around last time you had the rough.
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  Speaker 14: End, Joe.
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  Speaker 1: You just got back from your vacation about three weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: didn't you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Did you stayed down in Arizona Phoenix wasn't.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: You know the town very well.
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  Speaker 4: I've got some relatives down there.
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  Speaker 1: You they started asking you any questions about Phoenix, you
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  Speaker 1: could fill them in then, I think, so that's probably
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  Speaker 1: the best way to settle it. Roma Friday here'll be
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  Speaker 1: in a better position knowing a little about Phoenix.
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  Speaker 7: I don't see how you figured that way. I went
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  Speaker 7: on my vacation too. Columbus, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Well, because of the type of stuff that's been coming in,
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  Speaker 1: don't you think it'd be a little safer bet to
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  Speaker 1: have our men come from somewhere out this way rather
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  Speaker 1: than from the east.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, it makes sense. Well you did it again, Joe,
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  Speaker 7: you beat me out.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Let's figure it this way. You're a local
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  Speaker 1: Phoenix hoodlum. Things got too hot for you down there,
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  Speaker 1: and you came up to La to cool. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: how about Joe Edwards.
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  Speaker 8: How does that sound?
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  Speaker 4: That sounds right to me.
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  Speaker 8: We'll get all the.
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  Speaker 1: Necessary cards, identification papers, and a few letters to carry
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  Speaker 1: around with.
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  Speaker 14: You, all under the name Joe Edwards.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I think the best way to work it is for
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  Speaker 1: you to hop right down to Phoenix. When you get
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  Speaker 1: in town, check with Roberts. He's in narcotics down Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know him. Have Roberts filled in on what's been
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  Speaker 1: going on down there, any of their current characters they've
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  Speaker 1: handled recently, any that have been known to pass through
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  Speaker 1: you know, so you can talk about it freely.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I understand, Joe.
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  Speaker 7: Well, when you check into the hotel down there, why
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  Speaker 7: don't you wire a head up here to the Plaza
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  Speaker 7: Royal for reservation.
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  Speaker 4: Might be a good cover.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good thought. It's the way to handle it. You
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  Speaker 1: two have worked these things before. You know what to do,
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  Speaker 1: all the necessary precautions.
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  Speaker 4: Well, how long do you figure out all lay over
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  Speaker 4: in Phoenix?
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  Speaker 1: A couple days maybe I think that's long enough for
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  Speaker 1: you to get filled in what you need.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, that's fine. Well I'll go home and get packed.
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  Speaker 4: I'll start on it first thing in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Ramero'll stand by it all times, day and night.
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  Speaker 1: While you're on this thing. You know enough to call
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  Speaker 1: if things get tight. Sure, soon as you get in
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  Speaker 1: from Phoenix and get located at the Plaza Royal, get
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  Speaker 1: in touch so we'll know which way.
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  Speaker 4: To move right. Anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we want to break this thing, but we don't
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  Speaker 1: want to do it at the risk of a life.
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  Speaker 1: So if it starts getting warm, check out.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I still don't like anybody on something like this, but
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  Speaker 1: it's got to be done.
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  Speaker 14: We don't know enough about it.
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  Speaker 8: We don't know how many are in the gang. We
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  Speaker 8: don't know what kind of.
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  Speaker 14: A bunch they are, so be careful.
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  Speaker 4: I will.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not and I hear about it, this will
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  Speaker 1: be your last assignment like this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't hear about it, well you figure it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, either way, I lose.
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  Speaker 5: I went over to the photo room at the crime
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  Speaker 5: Lab and picked up the identification papers that had been
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  Speaker 5: made out in the name of Joe Edwards. I went
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  Speaker 5: home and removed all Los Angeles labels from the clothing
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  Speaker 5: that I was to take with me to Phoenix, Arizona.
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  Speaker 5: I removed all my personal identification in Los Angeles Police
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  Speaker 5: Department credentials. I left my service revolver home and borrowed
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  Speaker 5: a thirty eight automatic from Ben.
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  Speaker 4: I packed it in my suitcase.
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  Speaker 5: The crime lab also furnished me with a package or
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  Speaker 5: a bundle, made to resemble the usual form in which
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  Speaker 5: a person would carry Heroin.
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  Speaker 4: I packed this in my suitcase.
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  Speaker 5: Before my departure, Ben and I went over the proposed
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  Speaker 5: plan as best we could. I was to arrive from
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  Speaker 5: Phoenix under the assumed name of Joe. I would register
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  Speaker 5: at the Plaza Royal Hotel in downtown Los Angeles and
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  Speaker 5: attempt to make arrangements to participate in a narcotics buy
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  Speaker 5: for the purpose of gaining sufficient evidence to apprehend the
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  Speaker 5: narcotics ring. I was to keep being informed as best
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  Speaker 5: I could of my progress as outlined by Captain Kearney.
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  Speaker 5: I arrived in Phoenix and contacted Sergeant Roberts at the
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  Speaker 5: Detective Bureau down there. He furnished me with all unnecessary
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  Speaker 5: information and assisted me in acquiring local Phoenix clothing store
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  Speaker 5: labels to have sown in my clothing. I obtained everything
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  Speaker 5: possible to make it appear that I was a longtime
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  Speaker 5: resident of Phoenix, Arizona. Several dummy hotel bills were made
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  Speaker 5: up for me to make it look as if I
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  Speaker 5: had lived there for a period of time. I was
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  Speaker 5: furnished with an Arizona driver's license, a membership in the
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  Speaker 5: local social club, and a voters registration stub. These were
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  Speaker 5: all packed in my suitcase. October ninth, ten am, I
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  Speaker 5: arrived at the Plaza Royal Hotel the front desk, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 5: my name's Edwards. I'm in from Phoenix. Did you get
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  Speaker 5: my wire.
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  Speaker 14: One moment, sir, Yes, sir, Joe Edwards.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 14: Would you sign the register please?
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, alright, thank you, but yes, sir. Would you show
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  Speaker 15: this gentleman in room two eleven please, yes, sir, this
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  Speaker 15: way please?
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  Speaker 4: Alright? Thank you, go ahead, sir, Thank you too. Please.
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  Speaker 8: Not very nice weather to arrive in Los Angeles?
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  Speaker 4: Is it's a level not too good?
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  Speaker 16: I see by the stickers on your bags you've been
• 14:38
  Speaker 16: through Arizona. Yeah, that's right, must be nice weather down there, huh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's alright, this.
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  Speaker 8: Way, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: I mean you open the window for you, sir, a
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  Speaker 8: little fresh air in here.
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  Speaker 4: Uh and.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, thanks, here you go, thank you very much, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Help you with your bags? Yeah alright, Oh I'm sorry, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Something dropped out on the floor here.
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  Speaker 4: You better let me have that.
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  Speaker 16: Sorry, very sorry that happened. That's alright, mister Edwards. Uh,
• 15:31
  Speaker 16: while you're in town here, there's anything I can do
• 15:33
  Speaker 16: for you. Don't hesitate to let me know. Yeah, okay,
• 15:36
  Speaker 16: I couldn't help. But notice that little package there that
• 15:38
  Speaker 16: I dropped. Yeah, well, like I say, I know my
• 15:42
  Speaker 16: way around here in this town.
• 15:43
  Speaker 8: I need anything, you know, anything at all, sir.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you what. Now, here's five bucks. You never
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: saw anything fall out of my bag there.
• 15:50
  Speaker 8: Right, anything you say, sir?
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: Okay, thanks a lot, see you later.
• 15:54
  Speaker 8: Huh yes, sir, anything else, sir.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: No, No, that'll be all good.
• 16:03
  Speaker 8: You'll remember what I told you, sir.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just gonna say the same thing to you.
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: I couldn't be sure, but it looked like i'd been
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: lucky right from the start. The bell boy at the
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: Plaza Royal Hotel. I didn't know if I could consider
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: this an opening contact or not, but he seemed to
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: show more than a passing interest in the brindle of
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: narcotics that he had seen fall from my suitcase. I
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: didn't feel it was the right time to press the
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: issue any further with a bell hop, but I figured
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: I'd wait and leave the next move up to whoever
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: he might have been working for. During the next three days,
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: nothing happened. I tried, without appearing to be too bold,
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: to arouse some interest, but without success. October thirteenth, my
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: fifth day at the Plaza Royal Hotel, six pm, I
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: went in the bar off the main lobby.
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: I beg your pardon, Yeah, Kirk Carting's my name. I
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: noticed you hear in the bar the last couple of nights.
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: You appear to buy a little Are you selling?
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: I don't believe a folly arney.
• 16:55
  Speaker 14: Look, boy, we've had.
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: You, tab Sin said first day you hit town October ninth,
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: too long.
• 17:00
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• 17:01
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• 17:03
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• 17:04
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• 17:06
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• 17:08
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• 17:10
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• 17:11
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• 17:12
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• 17:14
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• 17:17
  Speaker 7: from Phoenix. We know you've got some stuff with you.
• 17:20
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• 17:21
  Speaker 7: the social club down there. They're a registered voter.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: I mean, you've been working real hard, haven't.
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: So there's more. You got two pieces of luggage. You're
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: carrying a thirty eight automatic anymore. Yeah, there's telegram from
• 17:32
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• 17:33
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• 17:35
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  Speaker 5: It was a tight moment as Kirk Harding fingered the
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: telegram in the bar the Plaza Royal Hotel. I had
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: spent many hours in consultation with Sergeant Roberts in Phoenix,
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Arizona before undertaking this assignment. I felt sure that we
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: hadn't overlooked anything that might lead to my true identity.
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  Speaker 4: Kirk Harding read the wire to me.
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  Speaker 5: It was from a man with the name of George Ferguson.
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  Speaker 5: He'd done some legwork for Harding and had not been
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: able to furnish him with anything other than what had
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: been found out, and going over my room, I knew I'd.
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  Speaker 4: Found the contact that I was looking for.
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  Speaker 5: I told him that I was in the business of
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: buying narcotics, that I was in Los Angeles for the
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  Speaker 5: purpose of making a pre arranged narcotics buy with agents
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: dealing in Mexican stuff. Harding immediately gave me a strong
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: sales pitch, saying that he could furnish me with high
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: grade heroin fresh from the European market in quantity. At
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: the end of the first week, I was introduced to
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: Kirk Harding's two associates, another man called Smith full name
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: Horace L. Smith and a woman by the name of
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: Lucille Cosgrove. Ben had been unable to find records on
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: any of the three. For the next three weeks, we
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: became more friendly. We went places together, spent a great
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: deal of time together. Monday, November fifteenth, Well.
• 20:36
  Speaker 14: We've had a lot of fun the last few weeks, Emmy,
• 20:38
  Speaker 14: there's no.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: Doubt about that. But I gotta be getting back to Phoenix.
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: Well now, I don't get eager, Joe. You and know
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: how cag you were. You made s waite. Preliminaries are over.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: This is a big buy for you or anybody else.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know all that, but who a.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: Just be patient. You will have something to really set
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: yourself up with down there. Okay, excuse me, Jim, Yeah.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
• 20:57
  Speaker 14: Oh I have a si Hi?
• 21:00
  Speaker 17: Hello jeft alright, hell's see it. It's a matter of Smith.
• 21:04
  Speaker 17: Don't you feel good?
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 21:05
  Speaker 18: It's a hotel food. I guess I think I got
• 21:07
  Speaker 18: an ulcer. My stomach saw all the time. Oh, it's
• 21:10
  Speaker 18: too bad. I don't know what it could be. Baking
• 21:13
  Speaker 18: shuldar don't do any good anymore. I a better drink
• 21:16
  Speaker 18: kill Yeah, fine with me.
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: Let's say you wanna get some ice out of kitchen
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: please here? Skip me, Smith, you wanna go see a doctor?
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: You don't know for sure what's wrong with you. It
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: might make it worse.
• 21:27
  Speaker 14: If I don't know what it is.
• 21:28
  Speaker 12: How could a doctor I.
• 21:29
  Speaker 14: Don't know it works for everybody else might fee you.
• 21:32
  Speaker 12: Hey, I can't get this ice tray up.
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: Joe, would you give me a hand please?
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Sure? Okay? Which one here?
• 21:44
  Speaker 19: I got paint ice. Keep working on that other tree.
• 21:46
  Speaker 19: There something to tell Okay, listen to Joe with big
• 21:51
  Speaker 19: buyes tonight?
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: You sure?
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah? I bought it?
• 21:54
  Speaker 12: You do you need any help?
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: No, that's all right, Kirk. It's come along fine Joe.
• 21:58
  Speaker 19: As soon as you sure your money tonight, they're gonna
• 21:59
  Speaker 19: kill you. How do you know if you don't have
• 22:02
  Speaker 19: time to go into it. I know you won't have
• 22:04
  Speaker 19: a chance. I got a kid.
• 22:05
  Speaker 14: What are you doing? Wait, you're going to freeze?
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: Come on?
• 22:07
  Speaker 14: How about there?
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Ask why right here? At Kirk? I'm sorry, let's go.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, what do you want?
• 22:15
  Speaker 14: Let's see you Joe? Hm co Khai's are Yeah.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: I'll make my mburdment a little water.
• 22:19
  Speaker 14: H huh? Smith? You sure you don't on one?
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: No?
• 22:22
  Speaker 20: I can't do it, Joe.
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: For I mix him.
• 22:24
  Speaker 14: I got something for you.
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Smith tells me tonight tonight.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Well that's good.
• 22:29
  Speaker 17: But why don't you tell me a little ahead of time?
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: I got a date for the night.
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: I think you better break that one and keep this one.
• 22:35
  Speaker 14: Don't you.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I do, but just wish you to tell me
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: a little sooner.
• 22:39
  Speaker 18: Uh, there's the phone you can take care of is
• 22:42
  Speaker 18: it alright with you?
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: You know as much about this business as we do.
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: Go ahead and use it as long as we can
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: hit you.
• 22:47
  Speaker 17: Keep fine, just take a minute, just sit here, Joe.
• 22:52
  Speaker 17: Oh thanks Smith. Yeah, see I wonder if you get
• 22:54
  Speaker 17: my drink for me over there. Sure she's probably gonna
• 22:57
  Speaker 17: be upset. I may't need it, huh, Romero talking alright, honey,
• 23:15
  Speaker 17: this is Joe.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Joe. I'm sorry. I won't be able to
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: make it tonight, Dear.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: You can't talk him.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: That's right, dear, No, I just can't get out of it.
• 23:24
  Speaker 9: I'll do the talk and Joe's a Biden night.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Oh well it just came up all of a suddenly.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Wait do you know, No, darling, I can't tell her
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: where I'm going. You couldn't go along anyway.
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: Okay, we'll be with you five minutes from now, all
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: the way.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Well you're not to hotel. Well that's the way it is,
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: and I can't help. But that's all. Maybe we can
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: get together later. Huh.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: Will you use one card?
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: Joelways, take as close as we can do you one
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: car'll be safe him.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Well that's better, honey. Now that's the way I like
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: to hear you talk. I'm sorry, I'll see you later. Huh,
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: We'll be wait he okay, dear.
• 23:55
  Speaker 14: Ah. She still love you. Yeah, she loves me. Oh.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Fifteen minutes after I hung up, we went downstairs and
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: got into a green Chrysler Sedan. It was parked out
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: in front of the hotel. I looked around. I didn't
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: see Ben or any of our cars in sight. Smith
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: drove and Kirk and I got in the back seat.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: The woman, Lucille Cosgrove, remained at the hotel. I didn't
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: know which of the two men was planning to kill me,
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: but I felt sure Lucille Cosgrove told me the truth.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: Her information on the buy was right, and maybe this
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: other was correct as well. We drove out Figueroa Street
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: for about sixteen miles. At this point it became evident
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: we were heading for the Los Angeles Harbor area.
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: Do you ever see if fog is stick as this
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: to you?
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: No, never have.
• 24:39
  Speaker 20: Can't see fifty feet in front of me.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, just take it easy. Nobody's in a hurry.
• 24:44
  Speaker 14: That's right, I want to pile up anywhere.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Where are we going?
• 24:49
  Speaker 14: We're almost there?
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: This is your car here. I've never seen this one before.
• 24:54
  Speaker 14: No, we run it. It isn't that the way you opening?
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, And I just wondered if you played
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: it as safe as I do.
• 25:01
  Speaker 20: I'm gonna swing in this next valley up here, Kirk.
• 25:03
  Speaker 14: Somebody tailing us? Okay, your lights right?
• 25:10
  Speaker 20: See anything at the back winded?
• 25:11
  Speaker 14: Wait a minute? How they go?
• 25:19
  Speaker 12: How did it look?
• 25:20
  Speaker 14: Two guys in the front seat. Could have been somebody?
• 25:24
  Speaker 14: Who do you think, Jo? Want to look to you?
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: No, whoever it was, we lost him anyway.
• 25:28
  Speaker 21: Yeah, okay, let's go.
• 25:45
  Speaker 20: H who is that clear spot here in the fog?
• 25:56
  Speaker 20: Don't see your soul anywhere?
• 25:58
  Speaker 14: It's fine.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: We almost there.
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, just around the corner, says a break, isn't it?
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: FOG's clear right in here? I was socked in back
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: up there. We as safe as you'd want to be. Yeah, yeah,
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: that's right. This is it over by the storage building.
• 26:14
  Speaker 14: Yeah that's right.
• 26:14
  Speaker 8: No, let's go.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Over this, great Joe, what's over there in that building?
• 26:25
  Speaker 14: We're not going inside.
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: Just over there in that alcove, al right, they said, Joe,
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: let's see the money.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Oh wait till I see the stuff. Huh.
• 26:33
  Speaker 20: You don't trust anybody, do you?
• 26:38
  Speaker 14: What are you trying to prove?
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Well, I didn't like what he said.
• 26:40
  Speaker 14: You're not gonna like what I got to say either?
• 26:42
  Speaker 14: Freeze missing?
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: He ducked in this alcove. Huh. Take care of that
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: one there, alright? Easy? Huh?
• 26:58
  Speaker 14: Yeah you see him.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: No, it's too dark there, he is. All right, throw
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: your gun out ahead of you.
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: He's not gonna throw that gun out, Joe, watch it?
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: Come on there' she's gun.
• 27:21
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I got it.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: You want to shake him down? Yea? On your feet?
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: What'd you get hit? Hi?
• 27:29
  Speaker 14: Sure? Let me see?
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: All right?
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Just grazy.
• 27:33
  Speaker 14: You're a cop, wonn't you?
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah? That's right. Now, come on, let's go. Where's this
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: stuff on.
• 27:37
  Speaker 14: The back seat in my car?
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 27:38
  Speaker 14: You tell me something?
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 27:40
  Speaker 14: Just like Smith, I.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Just wanted something I knew you'd never give me. What's
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: that an even chance.
• 27:52
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• 27:54
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• 27:57
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