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Dragnet: The Big Gamble (EP5039) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: your support, Pete. But now, from from May eighth, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty two, here is the big gamble.
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  Speaker 3: The story you're about to hear is true. The names
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  Speaker 3: have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant.
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  Speaker 3: You're assigned a vice detail. A professional gambling ring is
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  Speaker 3: set up operations in your city. Dozens of citizens are
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  Speaker 3: being victimized. The gamblers keep on the move, changing their
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  Speaker 3: locations day to day. Your job get.
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  Speaker 4: Them drag meet The document a drama of an actual crime.
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  Speaker 4: While the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los
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  Speaker 4: Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on
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  Speaker 4: the side of the law through an actual case transcribed
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  Speaker 4: from official police violence, from beginning to end, from crime
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  Speaker 4: to punishment. Dragnet is the story of your police force
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  Speaker 4: in action.
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  Speaker 5: It was Monday, February, light as foggy in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 5: We're working at day Watch out of Vice detail.
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  Speaker 6: My partner's Bill Locke, with the boss lieutenant I think him.
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  Speaker 6: My name is Friday.
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  Speaker 5: Was four twenty pm when I got to the second
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  Speaker 5: floor of the old Central Jail building byce detail.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Joe, all right, Bill you show up yet?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah? I waiting in the next room.
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  Speaker 6: Oh fine, did you talk to him yet?
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  Speaker 8: No, I just came in a couple of minutes ago
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  Speaker 8: figured out wait for you.
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  Speaker 5: When's he seeing sober? He looks like he's off the lush.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It looks pretty good, shaved, cleaned up a little flight, Dave?
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  Speaker 6: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Friday thought I dropped by and see remember you
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  Speaker 2: were talking to me last week about that thing?
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  Speaker 6: Do you hear anything?
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  Speaker 7: Dave?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I think I might have something for you. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's what you're looking for. She tried to get you
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  Speaker 2: on the phone last night.
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  Speaker 6: You want in Well, you should have left the message.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't want to do that, you know how
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  Speaker 2: this guess I shouldn't even be coming up.
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  Speaker 6: Here like this.
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  Speaker 8: And you got some kind of a permanent address, Dave,
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  Speaker 8: phone number, someplace we can contact you.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm still floating around a.
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  Speaker 5: Little now about this thing we were talking about.
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  Speaker 6: What'd you hear?
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  Speaker 2: I picked up a little chatter.
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  Speaker 7: I think it's what you want?
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  Speaker 2: So you thoughts had your coffee?
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  Speaker 7: I haven't had mine? Where you say? Okay, I'll about
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  Speaker 7: the place down.
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  Speaker 6: In the corner. Finally, all right, do you want to
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  Speaker 6: check us out? Bill tell him we'll be back about
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  Speaker 6: ten minutes.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, fine, thank him?
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  Speaker 6: All right, Dave, Well wik this way.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you're looking pretty good. Friday World treating you okay?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I can't playing? I guess go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I guess we better wait for your partner.
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  Speaker 8: Huh, what's his name?
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  Speaker 6: Lockwood?
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, sure, Skipper's got something for us when we
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  Speaker 8: get back to you.
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  Speaker 2: Alright, you're looking pretty good yourself, Lockwood, Yeah, real.
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  Speaker 8: Good, and you seem to be in pretty fair shape.
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  Speaker 8: But Parker Fill of Chaine sounds healthy.
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  Speaker 2: It's not too good. Still got a few dimes to rattle.
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  Speaker 2: Has been coming too fast.
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  Speaker 5: Let you know, he's still setting pins down there at
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  Speaker 5: that bowling alley.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, uh huh. A lot of help hanging around now
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  Speaker 2: that really gotta hustle for it, that's all.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, a lot of the.
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  Speaker 2: Alley's changing over to those automatic machines. You know, quite
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  Speaker 2: a few guys out Elijah. Machines can set pins better
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  Speaker 2: than a man can.
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  Speaker 6: Alright, Matthew's alright.
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  Speaker 2: Alright, Joe, I Bill, let me see John not too much.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, when he's that back who works out of the office.
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  Speaker 2: Wife, nothing, I thought I've seen him around.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, No, down this way, dude, just a couple of doors.
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  Speaker 7: Oh oh yeah.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, do you hear anything about Tony? You
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  Speaker 6: know he's in town.
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  Speaker 2: No, I've been working on it at thirty Tony.
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  Speaker 7: He's knocking his show.
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  Speaker 5: S go ahead there, Yeah, thanks, Why don't you too
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  Speaker 5: grab the back table, I order her up.
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  Speaker 6: I'd find black with sugar.
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  Speaker 8: Huh, cream and sugar for your joe.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's fine, ring a couple of those jelly donuts,
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  Speaker 5: could you okay?
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  Speaker 6: All right? What's the story Dave? When you were here?
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  Speaker 2: I heard about it last night right after I left
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  Speaker 2: the alley. He told me to keep my ears up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, yeah, said, you figured it might be something
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  Speaker 2: on that new bunch hanging around a bar down from
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  Speaker 2: the alleys. You figured they might tie in with a
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  Speaker 2: new bunch of high.
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  Speaker 7: Rollers in time.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, what'd you pick up?
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  Speaker 7: I think you figured right from what I heard. Anyway,
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  Speaker 7: here you go, how don't do? Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Thanks?
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  Speaker 2: You make a fine waiter lock with thanks.
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  Speaker 7: We don't get a lead. Pretty soon I may have
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  Speaker 7: to take it up.
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  Speaker 5: Dave was just telling me that he figures he might
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  Speaker 5: have something for us. He picked it up with the
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  Speaker 5: spot down from the alleys last night.
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  Speaker 2: Well, like I said, after I was through at the alleys,
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  Speaker 2: I stopped by the place and I had a couple
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  Speaker 2: of beers. Can't afford anything else, A few nickelas they'd
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  Speaker 2: pay me lucky to get enough to eat.
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  Speaker 6: The way things are going, Yeah, it's pretty rough.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 6: Well, what's the pitcher got? Dave?
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  Speaker 2: While I was sitting there having a beer and a
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  Speaker 2: couple of those new faces were sitting next to me,
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  Speaker 2: So I put my ear out tried to pick up
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  Speaker 2: some of the tall.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't get all of it, but I did get
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  Speaker 2: enough to make out there's gonna be a big game tonight.
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  Speaker 2: From what I could get, there's gonna be a lot
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  Speaker 2: of scratch floating.
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  Speaker 7: Now you hear what's gonna be there?
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  Speaker 2: I had to play it careful.
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  Speaker 7: You know it couldn't be two nots.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, I uh said, and had another beer in
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  Speaker 2: one of this new monks. Heard the other guy call
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  Speaker 2: him Mike. I think he has the bartender for change
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  Speaker 2: to make a phone call. He got the change, went over.
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  Speaker 7: The wall phone.
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  Speaker 2: I got up and drifted over that way and made
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  Speaker 2: out like I was watching the shuffle board. I caught
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  Speaker 2: some of the tall.
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  Speaker 6: Now what was that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he was talking about some big game tonight. I
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  Speaker 2: heard him say the guy in the other end not
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  Speaker 2: to show up.
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  Speaker 5: Before eleven thirty could get an address.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he said he'd be back of an empty store
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  Speaker 2: building down on Gibbons Avenue, and you get the number
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  Speaker 2: nine one two two.
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  Speaker 6: What was that again? Nine one two yeah, Gibbons.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm pretty sure. As soon as I got out
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  Speaker 2: of the place, I wrote it down. Whin I got
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  Speaker 2: let's see, yeah, nine one two two Gibbons.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's see.
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  Speaker 5: Now, this fellow that made the phone call, you say
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  Speaker 5: his name was Mike, Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I heard his partner call him. He's
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  Speaker 2: kind of a short guy, like thirty five, I've been
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  Speaker 2: six on the fat side, black hair.
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  Speaker 7: Mike Filmer.
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  Speaker 2: No, yeah, we kind of knowing him, thought he might
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  Speaker 2: figure in.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not about the size of a day. That all
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  Speaker 6: you heard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's about it.
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  Speaker 6: Friday.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as he finished the phone, car and his
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  Speaker 2: partner left, I finished my beer.
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  Speaker 6: And left too.
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  Speaker 2: I had to couldn't ford another one.
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  Speaker 6: Really tough these days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, thanks a lot, Dave, really appreciate it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: don't mention it. You've always done all right by me,
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  Speaker 2: though not sure. Tasted great, still hungry, but I feel
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  Speaker 2: I could take on a three inch stick.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry things aren't better for you, Dave. How about
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  Speaker 6: a ten Spottle that helped you.
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  Speaker 2: In Yeah, sure, will Friddy, thanks a lot. I really
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  Speaker 2: can use it.
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  Speaker 6: I'm glad to help you. You're always helping us.
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  Speaker 2: You sure make it nice. I mean you make it nice.
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  Speaker 2: Kneasy on, I guy, what do you mean? Well, it's
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  Speaker 2: always there first. I never have to come right out
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  Speaker 2: and as good though. You always get the pitch, don't you.
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  Speaker 5: Almost a month before we had begun receiving complaints about
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  Speaker 5: a newly established gambling ring which had set up operations
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  Speaker 5: in the city. Of the first few complaints, we succeeded
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  Speaker 5: in identifying some of the men involved in the ring,
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  Speaker 5: and also some of the places they frequented. The nature
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  Speaker 5: of most of the complaints against them was such that
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  Speaker 5: we knew we were dealing with a well.
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  Speaker 6: Organized criminal element.
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  Speaker 5: Even if a player happened to win at one of
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  Speaker 5: the games, after he left the location.
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  Speaker 6: He was beaten and robbed.
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  Speaker 5: Despite the fact that we had some of the suspects identified,
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  Speaker 5: we still lacked sufficient evidence to prosecute them successfully. The
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  Speaker 5: various victims either would not or could not identify the suspects.
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  Speaker 5: We knew the gang was running three or four games
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  Speaker 5: a week, each one of them at a different location,
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  Speaker 5: each one of them at a different time. In the trade,
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  Speaker 5: that's known as a floating game. After we left our informant,
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  Speaker 5: Dave Carter, we headed back to the office and briefed
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  Speaker 5: Lieutenant Bingham. That afternoon, we checked the address on Gibbons
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  Speaker 5: Avenue and found it to be a vacant store building
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  Speaker 5: with a Florent sign in the window. There was an
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  Speaker 5: entrance in front and one in the rear, windows along
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  Speaker 5: both sides of the building, and a plasterboard partition dividing
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  Speaker 5: the inside of the.
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  Speaker 6: Store into two parts. The place was deserted.
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  Speaker 5: At ten o'clock that night, Bill Lockwood and izedaked out
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  Speaker 5: in our car down the street from the store. Sergeant
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  Speaker 5: Fred Taylor and Jack Matthews were staked out in their
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  Speaker 5: car from another point of observation. We were in constant
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  Speaker 5: touch with each other by three way radio. Ten thirty
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  Speaker 5: eleven PM, eleven.
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  Speaker 7: Thirty one K eighty seven to one K.
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  Speaker 5: Eighty Come in, one K to one K eighty seven,
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, Joe.
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  Speaker 7: Did you notice the lights come on on the back
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  Speaker 7: of the store a minute ago?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, two men.
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  Speaker 5: They went in the back way, parked their car just
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  Speaker 5: down the street from us here.
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  Speaker 6: Did you see anything else?
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  Speaker 3: Car just pulled up down the street from us.
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  Speaker 7: Two men getting out heading for the store. Shoe just
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  Speaker 7: a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're going that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I see they're going around the back.
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  Speaker 4: Joe.
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  Speaker 7: Uh, looks like it's going to pay off. Let's sit
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  Speaker 7: on in a while. KMA three sixty seven.
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  Speaker 6: We waited. Eleven forty five.
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  Speaker 5: A blue pickup truck pulled up and stopped a short
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  Speaker 5: way from the front entrance to the store. We saw
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  Speaker 5: two men get out and go around to the back
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  Speaker 5: of the truck and unload half a dozen large boxes,
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  Speaker 5: which they carried around to the rear entrance of the
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  Speaker 5: One of the men came back, got in the cab
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  Speaker 5: with a truck, and sat there.
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  Speaker 6: Midnight twelve fifteen am.
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  Speaker 5: Over a period of half an hour, we watched eighteen
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  Speaker 5: persons arrive from different directions and enter the store from
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  Speaker 5: the rear. Twelve thirty one am. There were no new arrivals.
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  Speaker 7: We waited one K eighty seven to one K eight.
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  Speaker 6: Come in, one K eighty to one K eighty seven.
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  Speaker 6: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Not much activity down here, Joe, looks like it pretty
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  Speaker 2: well set.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think, Yeah, I think we might as
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  Speaker 5: well hit it same way we laid it out.
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  Speaker 6: Huh.
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  Speaker 5: Fred will wait until Matthews picks up the lookout a
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  Speaker 5: man sitting in the truck, right.
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  Speaker 8: Joe, Jack, you want to go ahead and drab and
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  Speaker 8: go away.
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  Speaker 7: He's got his way, Joe.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, as soon as he picks him up, we meet
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  Speaker 5: in front of the place, Bill and I'll take the front.
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  Speaker 6: You cover the back.
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  Speaker 7: You got that, okay, Joe? Oh hold on a minute,
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  Speaker 7: will you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Jack got him bringing him back to the car.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, let's go Cama three to sixty seven. He got
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  Speaker 6: the carking Bill, Yeah, what's going for.
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  Speaker 1: You?
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  Speaker 2: Figured that's the best way.
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  Speaker 7: Joe too, was going in the front.
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  Speaker 6: That's probably where the rush is gonna be.
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  Speaker 5: When Fred goes through the back, they're sure to start
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  Speaker 5: for the front.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, Joe, Yeah, and Jack's got the lookout, narkill wait
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  Speaker 8: for us a right now?
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  Speaker 6: What do you think about this? Fred?
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  Speaker 5: You go around and hit the back door, so as
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  Speaker 5: they hear you inside, they'll probably start for the front.
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  Speaker 6: We'll take care of him there.
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  Speaker 7: It's a good idea. Give me half a minute to
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  Speaker 7: get back there.
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  Speaker 5: All right, to watch yourself, all right, Joe, let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're still going ys to us.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, let's hold it right down, please, we're going to
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  Speaker 5: rest now, all right there, come on, billets in it.
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  Speaker 2: Shot Joe, come on, well, I can please off this.
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  Speaker 2: Come on back against the wall, going out.
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  Speaker 5: The windows, show bight, Brett, let's think. Get back against the.
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  Speaker 2: Wall all here, alright, off over you get back to
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  Speaker 2: what happen to read?
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  Speaker 7: Right?
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  Speaker 6: All right, mister with the rest. I'm on there, back
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  Speaker 6: against the wall, all right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going.
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  Speaker 7: What's the beef about?
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  Speaker 2: Anyway?
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  Speaker 8: Just a turn around.
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  Speaker 5: Facing the wall, puts your hands against the wall.
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  Speaker 7: What's the pitch anyway? Treat this like a bunch of thieves.
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  Speaker 7: You just have a little fun.
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  Speaker 6: No harm done, Joe, as you find Fred, what happened?
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  Speaker 6: He's been shot?
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  Speaker 1: Hurt bad?
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  Speaker 7: Matthews in with him now, I'll call the ambulance. Get
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  Speaker 7: some help on it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, you too, and with the others back against
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  Speaker 2: what's your beef? Sure? A big noise about nothing. We're
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  Speaker 2: to play a little cars friendly games, just a dollar limit.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody ever gets hurt. We're all friends.
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  Speaker 5: Is that why you carry guns? One am the ambulance
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  Speaker 5: arrived and Sergeant Fred Taylor was taken immediately to Georgia
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  Speaker 5: Street Receiving Hospital in a critical condition. He'd been shot
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  Speaker 5: twice through the upper portion of the chest. He'd been
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  Speaker 5: unconscious from the time of the shooting. Who the assailant was.
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  Speaker 5: We had no idea. The crime lab arrived at the
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  Speaker 5: scene and began their preliminary investigation. Meantime, homicide officers had
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  Speaker 5: arrived and all units in the area were assisting in
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  Speaker 5: the investigation, making a house to house canvas and checking
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  Speaker 5: all backyards, alleys, and unoccupied buildings for possible suspects in hiding.
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  Speaker 5: Out of a total number of men president in the
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  Speaker 5: store at the time of the shooting, Bill and I had.
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  Speaker 6: Been able to detain nine of them.
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  Speaker 5: The remainder had either scrambled outside windows or the rear
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  Speaker 5: door and then apparently made their way over back fences.
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  Speaker 5: The nine we did get were taken downtown for interrogation.
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  Speaker 5: All of them had been searched, but no weapons had
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  Speaker 5: been found. Bill Lockwood and I remained at the scene
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  Speaker 5: assisting the homicide officers. Two five AM an additional four
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  Speaker 5: men who had been present at the gambling game that
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  Speaker 5: night were picked up in the area transported downtown and
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  Speaker 5: held along with the other nine at homicide detail two
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  Speaker 5: twenty am. Bill and I were called downtown to assist
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  Speaker 5: in the questioning. We got nowhere where the first three
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  Speaker 5: suspects was the same with the fourth.
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  Speaker 2: Do you expect us to believe that, Mike, Well, that's
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  Speaker 2: the truth out of anything about it now.
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  Speaker 6: I looked like, let's put it on the table. Huh.
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  Speaker 5: We listened to your line of chattered down at the
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: store when we made the pinch.
• 13:45
  Speaker 6: We heard it all. Now let's get out of fact.
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: I told you everything I know, no different than the
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: other guys you picked up. I heard there was going
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: to be a game tonight, so I came.
• 13:51
  Speaker 6: What did you come down with? How'd you get there?
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: I drove, came by myself.
• 13:54
  Speaker 7: Where'd you park your car? About two blocks away? A
• 13:55
  Speaker 7: little aallely there by.
• 13:56
  Speaker 6: Guess day, you're a liar, mister, and you know it. Well,
• 13:58
  Speaker 6: that's the truth, So help me.
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: If I knew there was it's going to be trouble,
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: wouldn't even have showed up. I play a few cards, sure,
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: I don't go in for every stuff, though I haven't
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: got anything to do with the game.
• 14:05
  Speaker 7: You're a liar, You can't say that.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: Now you show me where I've lied. You tell me
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: we were stick out on that place tonight.
• 14:10
  Speaker 5: Mike.
• 14:10
  Speaker 6: It was a little past eleven forty five.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: You drove up in a blue pickup truck.
• 14:13
  Speaker 7: Another man was with you.
• 14:14
  Speaker 6: You were driving.
• 14:15
  Speaker 7: Oh, no, you got it wrong.
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: No, we haven't got it wrong. You parked that truck
• 14:17
  Speaker 5: about ten yards down the street from the front of
• 14:19
  Speaker 5: the store. You got out first, the other man followed you.
• 14:21
  Speaker 5: You unloaded six large cartons from the truck, some of
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: the equipment we found on the store. You took it around,
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: backing into the rear door, didn't you.
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: You got it wrong. It wasn't me.
• 14:27
  Speaker 7: It couldn't have been me. Come off with Mike.
• 14:29
  Speaker 8: The man you were with, we've got him down the hall.
• 14:30
  Speaker 8: The other officers have talked to him. He gave him
• 14:32
  Speaker 8: the straight story.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: I didn't come with any other guy. Now, when you
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: listen to me, I knew some of them there. I'll
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: admit that I came by mysel.
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: Listen to me, mister, You get this through your head.
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: Get it once and for all. This isn't a gambling
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: beef anymore. Somebody's been shot, he's been hurt, bad.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: Well, that's not my fault. I didn't shoot him on
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: anything about it.
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: You no more than you're telling you lied about coming
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: here in that truck. We saw you something else. The
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: truck's been checked out, it's registered in your name. Now
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: you come up with an answer for that one fast.
• 14:51
  Speaker 7: Oh, I don't get it.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: Maybe my truck is down there for this. I don't
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: know how it got there. You're in a jam, Mike.
• 14:55
  Speaker 7: This isn't any misdemeanor.
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: Wrap.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: I think the sooner you realize that, the better it's
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: going to.
• 14:58
  Speaker 7: Be for you. You don't have to tell me it's serious.
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: I know that.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: What do you want from me? And you know what
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: we want? You know the answers, and we want them.
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: You're part of that gambling set up.
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: We know that.
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: We know who was there tonight, everybody. We want the
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: names of every one of them. Now, either you got
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: the answer to that shooting or somebody in that crowd has.
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: We're gonna get the answer, Mike. Don't make any mistake
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: about it. We're gonna get it. Now.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: What do I have to say to convince you you're
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: talking to the wrong guy? Not according to the man
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: they got down the Hall. I wanted a pickup truck
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: with you. He gave us the whole story.
• 15:18
  Speaker 7: You hired him to help you tonight. You were gonna
• 15:20
  Speaker 7: pay him twenty bucks.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: He helped your hall the equipment to the store, and
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: he was supposed to be the lookout at the front door.
• 15:24
  Speaker 7: It tries in all the way.
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: How about it?
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Now, you've been calling people lives huh. Well, he's the liar,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: the whole lousy story. It is nothing but a lie.
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: All right, keep quiet, Friday talking.
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: Oh yes, yah, all right, yeah, yeah.
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: Thank you. Now you listen like here's a piece of advice.
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: You make up your mind.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: How do you mean make up my mind? I'm trying
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: to cooperate. You don't believe me. I'm trying to help
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: you out every way I can. I'm only too glad
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: to give you a hand. I know you got a
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: tough job.
• 15:53
  Speaker 8: You got my child.
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: Don't you worry about us, mister from here and start
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: worrying about yourself.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: You're going to do a lot of it.
• 15:58
  Speaker 7: I don't know what you're talking about.
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: That policeman died.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: You are listening to drag met authentic stories of your
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: police force and action.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: Tuesday, February tenth, five point thirty am. Sergeant Fred Taylor
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: had died at approximately five twenty two am. Cause of
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: death was listed as hemorrhage and shocked due to the
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: two gunshot wounds in the chest. Officers from the medical
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: detail had rushed Taylor's wife from his home to the
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: receiving hospital. She was with him at the time of
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: his death. Unfortunately, he never regained consciousness five.
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: Forty five am.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: While the investigation went on at the scene of the murder,
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: Bill Lockwood and I continued our interrogation of the suspect,
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: Mike Filmer. Another hour of questioning and he still refused
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: to tell us anything. We finally confronted him with a
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: man we'd seen him arrive with at the locate of
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: a gambling game earlier that morning. Another ten minutes of questioning,
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: and he finally broke down.
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: Why didn't you.
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: Tell us that?
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: To begin with? Who believe me? I wanted to I
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: was scared.
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: I was scared of death.
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: I never had anything like this happened.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: To me before.
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: I didn't know what to do, I didn't.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: What to say.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: All right, this is a complete list of everybody you
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: saw there last night. Everybody was in that game.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I covered it.
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: Let me see it right here yet? Uh yeah, yeah,
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: just about everybody.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: These are the only addresses you've got, just these three here,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: got it?
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: Now, I'm not lying.
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: I believe me.
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: Tho are the only ones I know.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: All right, So you had a hand in the game.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: He brought in the equipment, you were working for the house.
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: That's right.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: Then, who's the boss? Mic? Who's running the game? What
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: about it?
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: Who's running?
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Look, I've told you everybody that was there, everybody. He
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: wasn't there that night. He couldn't have had anything to
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: do it.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: Like, we didn't ask you that. We asked you who
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: the boss is? What's his name?
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: How about it? If we want his name?
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: But I told you he wasn't there last night. If
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: he wasn't there, he couldn't have had anything to do
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: with it. Look, he's a nice guy. He doesn't want
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: trouble anymore than I do.
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: He couldn't tell you.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: Let us figure that out. Well, you know who's the boss, Mike?
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: Does it have to be?
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: Is that important?
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: We wouldn't be asking you who is he?
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: George Delano? Now that's all I know about him is name.
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: How does he spell his last name?
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: What do he look like?
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: Well? I guess it's the el ay.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: No, I never saw him write it down though I've
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: only known him about a month.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: Maybe five weeks.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: What's his description when he's taller than I am?
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: About five feet ten eleven, maybe dark hair, a little
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: bit on the heavy side like me.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I guess, man, about forty five fifty.
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: Where does he live? Where do we find him?
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: I don't know where he lives, some hotel downtown. I
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: think the only times I ever met him.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Was at the bar? Which bar?
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: Where about south end of town, down on Vermont. I
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: don't know the address, but I can point it out
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: to you. It's a couple of doors down from the
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: big bowling alley, right.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: Across from a theater. Women's dress shop next door.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right, that's your place.
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: The only place I've ever seen him.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: He always calls me at home, tells you where to
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: meet him.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: You mean to say, you've been working for this Delano
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: and you don't even know where he lives.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: Well, I don't know what else to tell you.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I'm squaring with you. I really don't know.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: Friday talk to him. Yeah, I'll be right back. Now,
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: what do you got to saying?
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: Charlie Hart and I just got back and placed down
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: on Gibbons Avenue the store.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: You know, don't you'd like to know?
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: We found a gun in the back the place, hitting
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: under a lumber pile.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: All right, to check it out?
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I ran through a gun record to tragedy.
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: What's the name? George Delano?
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Seven thirty eight am. With the new lead on the
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: alleged boss of the gambling ring, George Delano, we interrupted
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: our questioning of the suspect, Mike Filmer. We took him
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: down the hall back to the homicide squadron to be
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: held for further interrogation. We checked Delano through R and I,
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: but we had no record on him. Then, along with
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: Sergeant Sam Flowers and Charlie Hart up Homicide, we drove
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: out to the address of George Delano as listed in
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: the gun registration files. There was a small cottage in
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: the Wheelshire area. The woman who answered the door identified
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: herself as Missus George Delano, the suspect's wife. She called
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: her husband to the door. We identified ourselves, briefed him
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: on the reason for our visit and told him we
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: wanted to talk to him downtown. He appeared cooperative, more
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: than willing to come along. He got dressed, We drove
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: him back to the city Hall took him to the
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: interrogation room. He was well dressed and, in his own way,
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: well mannered. After being told of the situation, he admitted
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: freely that he'd been operating games at different locations throughout
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: the city for the past month and a half. He
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: told us that he'd employed Mike Filmer to assist him
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: in his operations, and he also admitted ownership of the.
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: Gun found near the murder scene.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: The gun had since been checked by RUSS Camp and
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Ballistics and found to be the murder weapon.
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: Well, yes, it's my gun, but I like to explain
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: a little bit about it.
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: What's that, Delna, Well, number one, I admit I'm a gambler,
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: that's my racket. I'm new to Los Angeles. I admit
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: I've been working a few games, but I know murderer.
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: I wouldn't have any part if you said you were
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: gonna explain about the gun, and I would about it.
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: Now, look, I'd like to fill you in on everything.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: Officers.
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: I got nothing to hide from you. I'll tell you everything.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: When I first came to this town, as I say,
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: it's been about five six weeks, I made a few
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: connections and I started running these games. For the first
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: couple of weeks, everything went fine, no beats, everything was fine.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: All I had to do is dodge you feller and
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: the trouble started him.
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: How do you mean you mind if I have a
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: smoke a little look carefully, No, nothing. I want to
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: fill you in from the start. I'man to clear this
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: whole thing up.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah that's what you said.
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, as I told you. For a few weeks,
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: everything was fine. Then one night, when the game was
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: just about ready to break, a couple of punks came in,
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: held us up.
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: They cleaned everybody in the place, made a big haul.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: When was this word?
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: It happened down on the east side. Bunks took us for everything.
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: You know it is.
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: Couldn't make a report to you. I just had to
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: take it cover the losses myself. Yeah, now, how about
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: that gun, I'm coming to it. This thing happens and
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: I figured that's the end of it, But no, a
• 21:26
  Speaker 8: couple of nights later they hit again. I still can't squawk.
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: I have to stand the losses. Another couple of nights
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: they knock us over again. Couldn't do a thing about
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: it more.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: I we've heard all that. That's your racket. You can
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: expect it.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: All we want to know is about that gun. Now,
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: what's your story.
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: I told you I was coming to it. After the
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: third time they reached us, I hired a guard, somebody
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: stand watch outside in case of another stick up.
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: The only thing I could do.
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, so I hired.
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: Some guy to stand guard on the games. Wanted my
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: gun in case there was any trouble, and.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: You told them to use it in case there was struggle.
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: How about right from the police you told me to
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: use it for that.
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: No, no, matter of fact, I made a point of
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: telling him about that. All he was supposed to use
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: the gun for was just to fire it up in
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: the air, maybe scare those punks, often warned the guys
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: inside at the same time.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: We'll talk about that later, Delana. We want to know
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: who had the gun last night.
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: Well, the guard did. I told you. I loaned him
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: the gun.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: Who's the guard?
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: What's his name? Where do we find him? His name's Jake.
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: A friend of mine got him for me see Jake Gleason.
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: Of course he lived. I couldn't tell you that. I
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: don't know.
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: I always contacted him at a bar in South for
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: a month place I go quite a bit. Yeah, a
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: little too early to.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: Catch him there.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: Now, what do you know about this glease of what's
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: he look like?
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: I haven't seen him much.
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: I guess you said about thirty two thirty three and
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: light brown hair called x con. I think either he
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: told me or somebody told me the time.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: You knew he was an ex con and you gave
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: him your gun.
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, but I didn't tell him to shoot anybody.
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: I made a point of telling him that dumb jerk,
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: especially shooting a cop. All he was supposed to do
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: is fire up in the air. Those punks came around
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: scare him away to help me. That's the only time
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: he was supposed to use the gun.
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: I told him. I'm much of a story, Delena. Can
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: you prove and.
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: Sure I can prove it. You can ask Mike Mike
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: Filmer and tell you the same thing. You can ask
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: Leeson himself.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: Jerk.
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: Mike said he wasn't too sharp a little punch. He
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: wasn't quite right in my head?
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: What's that?
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: I said? He was a little punchy. He wasn't quite
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: right in my head?
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: You mean you met him in a bar. You didn't
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: know anything about his background. You knew he was an
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: ex con you had an idea wasn't too sharp. Maybe
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: he wasn't all there?
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: Is that right? Yeah? That's about it?
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: And you put this man in a spot where you
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: knew he'd be in trouble, and then you gave him
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: a gun?
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: Is that right? How about it? Delano?
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: What are you looking at me for? I told the
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: dun jerk what to do.
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: I didn't count to shoot anybody, punchdrunk, bloemn truth. I
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: didn't have a thing to do with it. I hired
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: the guy, that's all. It's not my fault. Are you
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: looking at I wasn't even there. I didn't even know
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: about it. I didn't kill that cock, didn't you?
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: Nine twenty three am. We continued questioning George Delano. He
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: told us that he'd instructed Jake Gleason, the ex convict,
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: to stand guard at the rear of the store where
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: the gambling games were held.
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: He insisted that his instructions to Gleason were that.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: If he had to fire the gun at all, he
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: was to fire it in the air and then only
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: as a warning signal in case of robbery attempt. Deleno
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: was detained by homicide officers pending further investigation. We checked
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: the name and description of Jake Gleason through on I
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: and found his record in mugshot. We showed the mug
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: to Delano and he identified it. Gleason's record showed him
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: to be on active parole. Ten thirty am, we contacted
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: the parole office. They gave us his address and villa
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: and I checked it out a second.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: Rate hotel on South Flower Street.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: The manager told us Gleason had left the hotel about
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: seven forty five that morning and that he was not
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: expected back until after six o'clock that night. He also
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: told us there was a chance we might locate him
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: in one of the bars around the neighborhood. Ten forty five,
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: we started making the rounds of the bars in the
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: immediate vicinity. The third place we stopped at was practically deserted.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: A jukebox at the back of the place was turned
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: up the full volume. There was a smell of disinfectant
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: whiskey and stale perfume. There was one customer drinking at
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: the far end of the bar.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: It was Gleason. Stand up police officers, HI shake him
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: down hill.
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  Speaker 5: Queen Joe hands him back to Yeah, I want to
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: kill that joke Boxville.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, you know why we want you.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: Well, there wasn't any sense running.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: I knew you'd be around. All right, let's go.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: Could you do me a favor? I mean, wait a minute,
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: just a minute. It's like to tell you I didn't
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: mean it. I guess it's my own fault.
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: I shot him. I shouldn't have had the gun, shouldn't
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: have taken the job. I shot him. I didn't mean it,
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: all right, Come on, there.
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: Ought to be away, don't you think I mean there
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: really ought to be away.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: What's that?
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: I didn't mean it, No reason to kill him. I
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: didn't even know him. I just keep thinking there was
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: only a way, if I could take it back again,
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: you know, yeah, I mean, if I could go back
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: and change it, make it all different.
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: I mean, right from the beginning, I wouldn't even look
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: at the gun. I'd change everything better.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: I would.
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't even look at a gun.
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: Only had the chance, you know, second chance there ought
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: to be away second chance.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: He started with a gun.
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: Jay, Yeah, you never had a first one.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: The story you have just heard was true. The names
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: On May twenty, second trial was held in Superior Court,
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  Speaker 4: Department eighty eight, City in County of Los Angeles, State
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  Speaker 4: of California.
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: In a moment the results of that trial.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Jacob Allan Gleason was tried and convicted of murder in
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: the first degree and was sentenced to a life term
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: in the state penitentiary. George Delano, Mike Filmer, and all
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: other principles were found guilty of violating the Municipal Code
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: forty three point zero one gambling and received sentences as
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: prescribed by law. George Delano and Mike Filmer were sentenced
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: to six month terms in the county jail. Others received
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: proportionate sentences.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, Mister James Fox, Director on the Executive
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Board of the Mystery Writers of America. Tonight, it is
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: with a great deal of pleasure that I am, speaking
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: for the entire membership of the Mystery Writers of America
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: in all fields, present the Edgar Allan Poe Award for
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: the second consecutive year for the finest radio presentation as
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: his class Dragnet. To you, Jack Webb and your fine
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: group of technicians responsible for the overall production of Dragnet
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: present their statuette of one of them more at holds
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: in the field of mystery, Edgar Allan Poe.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: Thank you very much, mister Fox, and thanks also the
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: membership of the Mystery Writers.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Of America and standing by to receive his award also
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: for the second consecutive year as the outstanding radio writer
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: in his field and for the consistent job he does
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: on Dragnet.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: Jim Mosar, here's your statuette. Thank you very much, mister Fox.
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: Ladies and gentlemen.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: It's seldom, indeed, when the writer of any radio show
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: receives his just and due acclaim. So were the greatest
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: of pleasure that we accept the Edgar Allan Poe Awards,
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: And as it is primarily a writer's award, all of
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: us who have.
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: Had a hand in bringing Gragnet into your.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: Homes each week are proud of our writer, Jim Moser,
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: for as anyone in radio will readily go on record
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: by saying and knowing that you're only as good as
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: the scripture read, So it's with deep gratitude that we
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: receive the MWA Award, which best illustrates and confirms the
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: high opinion which we all hold of our writer, Jim Moser.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Jack, and I'd like to express my special
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: appreciation to our technical advisers from the Los Angeles Police Department,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: without whom none of this would be possible.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office of
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Technical advisors Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Winn, Sergeant Vans Braser.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Heard tonight were Martin Milner, Eddie Firestone with Connor. Script
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: by Jim Moser, music by Walter Schumann. Hell give me speaking.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Now. It's counter Spy on NBC.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Welcome back, the last Bill Walkward episode and doesn't actually
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: get to do a whole lot. The episode was a
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: reminder of the fact that the police can potential of
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: death even on the most unlikely of calls, and certainly
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: enforcing a municipal anti gambling ordinance wasn't a point where
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: you would expect someone to shoot a police officer, but
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: it happened. George Gleeson is yet another one of those
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: criminals who'd have been charged a lot more seriously today.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: He handed a loaded handgun to a felon who he
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: could tell was not right in the head. Now, because
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: he had given explicit orders against this sort of thing
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: and hadn't directed any violence against police officers, then all
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: they could charge him with was the gambling charge and
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: nothing related to the murder. Today it wouldn't be the
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: question of whether he'd be facing felony charges but which once.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: But Friday did the best you could do in nineteen
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: fifty two and made the case in a very Joe
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Friday way that whatever the law says, he was more
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: like culpable. And that's a key part of dragnet. They don't,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: as a rule, imagine heftier sentences or more serious charges
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: than are warranted under existing laws. Rather, you have defendants
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: who are punished in accordance with the laws on the books.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: And if viewers feel a sentence was either too lenient
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: or too strict, they can't really blame the writers, but
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: they can't ask their elective representatives to make changes. We
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: have an email from Carissa who writes good morning Adam.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: The dragoned episode The Big Elevator reminded me of a
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Johony Dollar episode from a few months ago where Johnnie's
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: friend was dying of what they thought was a severe ulcer.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: You pointed out at the time that the nineteen fifties
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: approach to medical emergencies left a lot to be desired.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I'd a similar thought about the dead woman in The
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Big Elevator today. If a person started having severe headaches,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: personality changes, etc. Doctors would probably eventually order tests that
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: would find the tumor before the woman dropped dead. Even today,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: some brain tumors are untreatable, but at least the husband
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: would have known that the drinking and party partying were
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: due to a medical condition outside his wife's control. Love
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: the show and thanks for all your hard work. Well
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: thanks so much. I appreciate the comment, and certainly there
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: would be more potential for early detective today with those
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: sort of medical treatments, though it depends on the person
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: having access to medical care, which can sometimes be a challenge,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: and also taking the potential symptoms seriously and having a
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: sort of support system that encourages you. You know, you
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: got a friend to say, you know, you really ought
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: to go get that checked out. And I don't think
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: she ran with that type of crowd. Now in terms
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: of the drinking and partying. When I went back and
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: listened to what the husband had to say, and what
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: he indicated was that this was a problem from the
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: get go and that she didn't even know how to
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: be a wife, that doesn't indicate to me that anything
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: had changed in terms of the drinking and partying. Now.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: The core did conclude that the tumor was causing her
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of pain and that may have led her
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: to drink even more in order to self medicate, But
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't read it as the tumor causing personality change,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: at least not in this instance from what we have
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: in the script. But thanks so much. I appreciate the email.
• 33:26
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• 33:31
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• 34:00
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• 34:08
  Speaker 1: how what if.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: You mean bust of other man?
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: Who you get a clue?
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Look at that seeking you?
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, I.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Would have commented book thing a drag all the papers
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: last week when we got out of prison over in California. Sure, yes,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: at the end of that same clue they have today.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: Yes me that man.
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: Good good.
• 34:32
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